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A 17 year old named Dan is waiting for a train late at night, when he begins to get suspicious of a hooded figure. After being chased off the platform, the mysterious man kills an older boy who got in his way, while accidentally revealing his identity. The killer then runs from the scene, and on the way, somehow changes his appearance in a matter of seconds to match a woman he passed in the street.

Dan rang his dad and told him what happened, and his dad picked him up 20 minutes later. He took Dan to the police station that night but before told Dan not to mention anything about the man shapeshifting. News headlines were already been shown on the TV in the station of the older boy who had been killed.

His dad his took him home and Dan went to bed early but didn’t sleep all night. Why did the man come after him? Was it because he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time or was it something else? A week went by and both his mum and dad were getting sick and tired of hearing the ‘made up’ story of a shapeshifting killer, and decided that Dan had been mentally affected by the event and decided to send him to therapy to see if he can get some help. Session after session of therapy went by of being told he made it up in his head, and with no sign of the shapeshifting man, Dan started to belief he was actually going crazy.

That was until one day when he was at school, and life was finally starting to seem normal again, Dan got a text message from his mum saying it was an emergency and he needed to come home. This was strange, because his mum was a very ‘unaware’ when it came to technology, his mum didn’t like texting and at a push would ring, otherwise his dad would do all the contacting. So this must have been an emergency.  

Dan got the next bus home and ran to the front door. He got his keys out, opened the door and ran into the front room. Silence. He called out for his mum and there was no answer. He ran into the kitchen and his ‘mum’ was stood at the sink. ‘What the emergency?’ Dan asked. ‘Oh sorry dear, false alarm.’ Dan knew his mum was acting strange, from the way she moved, talked, even how she pronounces her words, something was different. Then she went to put one of the clean plates and turned to Dan. “Could you just get some bread out of the pantry?” Dan left the room and went into the hall to go into the pantry. When he went to open the pantry door, a sudden bang came from the broom cupboard. He slowly went to the door and hesitantly reached for the handle. He swung open the door and there was his mum on the floor, hands and legs tied and mouth taped up. Dan looked at his mum in disbelief, he backed up astonished, and the mirror in the hall caught his eye. Behind him a tall black figure was getting closer, with a sharp shadow in its hand.