19 December 2015, 0231.  The snow drifted down, just beginning to cover the frozen ground in  large patches of white.  The sky was black, hidden by a sheath of grey clouds, giving an ominously dark appearance to the town.  The breeze blew loudly through the trees, a sound broken only by the occasional car whisking by.  For the third time in a seemingly unimportant night, the dull out-of-the-way town would become the site of an extraordinary occurrence.  The house on the edge of the town's park lay blanketed in darkness, waiting.  Suddenly, the air turned into a violent twister as a strange gas-like substance appeared and began coalescing into pixels.  A mixture of brightly colored pixels coalesced into larger blocks, and the blocks into a strange figure.  In little more than a minute, three dark claws dug into the freshly fallen powder.  

The wind died back down as light appeared in the house's window.  The creature's ears pricked up at the sound of some incomprehensible noise.  Still dazed and disoriented, it turned and ran.  With a surprising speed it bolted from the house, past a small row of trees, running deeper into the park.  It settled in the cover of a tangle of leafless branches.  Whatever was behind, if anything, would have been lost by now.  After a moment the creature emerged, eyes wide and full of adrenaline.  It's cape swayed in the wind, the crimson-red color seeming as dark as blood in the low light.  After gathering its wits, it headed back in the direction it came, curious.