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It's long face and dark red eye. Fangs as long as shark teeth. A black long tongue. As pale as a ghost with its tall thin body. in the depths of the forest . say he's out for Revenge because of the man that killed his daughter. he would kill anyone that gets in his path for finding the man. he eats what he can find, some time to even eat his own victims.

After his wife died by falling off a cliff, his two-year old daughter was all he had left. until she was brutally murdered by a man in a cafe while she was getting her father a slice of pie for his 30th birthday. when he found out he was given a card his daughter made for herlem moments before the incident. he put it in his jacket he wore during the cold months. he was the only one at
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He left everything behind. He was suffering depression. Everyday became worse and worse. He wasn't a lonely thing. He didn't understand why he was brought into this world of hate. With none else like harlem he was forced to be alone forever.

One day while walking he saw a road leading to the city. He decided to follow the road to the city. When he gets to the city he sees a standing in the distance, the exact man that killed his daughter. harlem starts to follow the man from behind. The man was wearing a blue sweatshirt and black pants.
His skin was as dark as harlem's tongue. He started to walk faster when the man turned the corner.

But then harlem sees a woman and a little girl with curly blond hair. harlem stops at the corner and watches. The little girl leaps into the man’s arm. He hugs her and gives her a kiss on her forehead then says “ I’m back. And don’t worry i’m back on my medications so I won't do anymore damage than what's already been done.” He paused to look up at the sky then ended with “ I’m sorry for that little girl I killed, I will never forgive myself for what I have done.” After the thing harlem heard he walked away and thought to himself “ It’s time to move on and what happened…
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Its as if she saw a ghost of herself. harlem walked with her to where she lived in the city. harlem looked at her in the eyes and asked befor she went inside “What’s your name?” she responded with “Shek. Um want to meet up again sometime?” harlem's smirk on his face became a small smile “Sure.” and shek went inside and harlem walked away.

The next morning when harlem was entering the building where his work was he was greeted by a man and he was acting as harlem was getting a reward. Then his boss walked up to him “Good you made it! Now we can get started!”

“ wait what are we doing anyway!”

“Well we are filming a movie of

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