The Siren

((This story is purely fiction, any similarities in anyway is just coincidence. I own this story and the storyline including people.)) ((Gerwald is a 41 year old man that looks like your stereotypical officer, mustache and greying brown hair, in shape.))

Two months, that’s how long I have been running. That /thing/ has been hunting me ever since I found out what it was. I must warn you of this being, before you fall under its spell. If you hear it RUN and leave the area, before he chooses you as a target.

My name is Gerwald Mince, I am head of the Raven wood Police Department. I’ve always loved my job, and the respect that comes with it. The town of Raven wood has always been a quiet one; it has a population of around 1000, and there is very little crime or things of the such. The worst crime in this town within the last year was a teenage boy vandalizing the church.

In this town if something happened on the west end, everyone on the east end would know by the next day, word gets around quickly. So, when a few people starting talking about something like a giant bird or a big shadow going around in the sky at night, it reached my ears fairly quickly.

Almost everyone was at least a little scared of this ‘shadow.’ If they weren’t then they were people who hunted in the woods that surrounded this town.

I heard about this thing from a caring old lady that I visited almost every day, she was talking with her friend when she saw me and called me over, she then asked me if I knew anything about the thing that’s been flying around. I didn’t know anything about and she had started explaining. While she was walking her little dog at night near the woods, she saw a shadow cross the ground where she was walking. She then looked up into the sky to see what it was. It was, according to what she saw, a thing with wings, like a bird, but was so much bigger. She told me that it was about 30-35 feet wide, but wasn’t too long, maybe around 6-7 feet long.

I had listened to humor the old woman, she wasn’t the best in the head, she has seen /things/ before. I told her that it was probably just a migratory bird, since it’s autumn there would be several different species of bird that stop by the town to take a break.

She and I had talked for a few more minutes about this, then I got a call from the office. When I answered it, it was one of the officers that were on patrol and had asked me to come to the northern end of town near the woods. As he said he would fill me in when I got there, I said goodbye to the old woman, and got in my squad car, and headed to the area.

When I got there, I saw what I was wishing not to. Three other squad cars, and a small crowd. The area in front of the cars was taped off and there were four other officers within the taped off area, which was about 30 feet from the tree line, and two officers outside trying to get the crowd dispersed.

The officer that had called me started a jog over to me and led me under the tape. I had asked what had happened and he just pointed to what the other four officers were looking at. The officer said that the woman’s friend is the one who called crying and begging for them to come and help, that a giant bird had killed her friend.

I walked forward and knelt down to investigate. It was a dead woman, around the age of twenty-five or so, long brown hair. She was sprawled on the ground on her back, spread eagle, and her skin was a pasty white, her eyes rolled back into her head. The weird thing that I saw is that, she was not cut, had no bruising, and there was no sign of a struggle. She looked like her life was sucked out of her.

I looked around the area and I saw something shine for a second. I got up and went over to what it was, a camera. It was facing the woman, and was still recording. I figured that the video from it might have some evidence so I kept it. After the area was cleaned up I went back to the PD and went into my office to review the video.

It was a normal, average, recording. It was late at night, maybe early morning before light. She was speaking with her friend having fun and talking about a friends party they were coming home from. They got to an area in front of the woods, when the woman stopped and looked towards the woods, her face in the cameras view.

At this time, there was faint static on the video, she asked her friend if she could hear that. Her friend just looked at her before replying that she did not. The woman then started walking towards the woods camera facing in front of her, she kept walking towards the thickening woods, and then she stopped. It was quiet for a few seconds, then there was a rustle, the static appearing again.

The camera quickly turned upwards as /something/ came down and tackled her knocking the camera from her hand, it landing in the position I found it. All that could be seen after it settled was the woman’s dead body, her friend screamed and there was the sound of flapping and footsteps.

I could deduce that the footsteps were from her friend, the flapping had to be from whatever it was that attacked the poor woman. I paused the video and thought. Then I realized something, the old woman I was talking to earlier today, told me about a bird like thing. I put the information together, flapping and a big shadow. It had to be some kind of bird, but there was no bird in existence that had a wing-span of 30 ft. I had to get more information.

It was late at night and I was taking a walk to relieve myself of some of the stress that this murder has brought about. I couldn’t think of what or who could have done that. There was no bruising even after death, but she was killed almost instantly without any wounds whatsoever. It wasn’t heart attack, I have seen what people who have died from heart attacks look like, she didn’t look it. I looked towards the woods and saw a figure, it was about 6’11 maybe 7 feet tall. It looked like a man so I spoke out to him, I asked him what he was doing out so late…silence. I asked a little louder, thinking he didn’t hear me.

Then, I heard a song, it was like a person was singing but I couldn’t find where it was coming from. It sounded like it was coming from everywhere, like it was just in my head. I looked towards the figure, and I could feel myself slipping from consciousness, all I could focus on was the song. It was beautiful, and it was coming from the figure, I wanted to hear more, so I started walking.

As I got closer I saw something sticking out from the person’s back. It was two things, one on each side. This allowed me to come out of my trance when I realized…those were wings. The song stopped and the thing moved, I heard an extremely loud screech that knocked me from consciousness. I wasn’t fully out though, I couldn’t move, but I could hear and see, even if there was a ringing in my ears.

I saw the being start walking towards me. It looked like a young man, only around 19-20, he had jet black hair, red eyes, wore black combat boots, dark pants, and a black turtle neck. The wings he had matched his hair and what he was wearing, pure black. I heard a shout and the boy turned, bark shot off from a tree near his head, I saw that before I heard the bang. As soon as the boy realized he was being shot at, which was quickly, the wings unfolded… it was a 35 foot wingspan.

He took off into the sky, he looked down at me and took something from his pocket and threw it at me, it hit me in the neck, felt like a dart, then took off flying just above the trees deeper into the woods. My co-head was the one that found me, after the male had gone ha came up and I allowed myself to become un-conscious. I woke up in the hospital, which was another town over.

I had bandages over my ears and neck, though I still felt something there, under the skin. A doctor came in there and introduced himself, he told me I had been asleep for about two weeks, and that my inner ear on my right ear, was completely destroyed is how I am putting it. I could not hear out my right ear, and that was the explanation. He said that the damage caused to my ear comes from an extremely high pitched and loud noise. Maybe close to the equivalent of standing next to a jet as it’s taking off, but no one in town heard it except for me. I withheld the information about the winged man, and let myself relax at the hospital.

I saw him through the window and I nearly screamed. He was on the roof of the building across the hospital, I could see him and his wings clearly. Why I was terrified, I don’t know, but I realized something. He was singing the song, and I couldn’t help myself from listening, and I felt that feeling…He was trying to draw me in. To eat me…my soul…that was how he killed the woman…and why. He eats souls.

I have heard of beings like this, they are called sirens. They have wings like birds and heads of humans, they sing songs that lead in people and after that, no one knows…I do…I will not give in. I won’t listen.

Two months after this, I am hearing it. The song. The one I heard from that boy. It has been playing in my head. I have seen him. Several times. He is always near me, even if I can’t see him. He never really takes his eyes off me. I know what he wants. He wants me to succumb… He wants me to listen… To the siren’s song………

The siren is here