Mirror: Prologue

"God damn it"

Hunter slams his hands on the dash of his car. His old Trabant had died in the storm. Where did that storm even come from? Hunter looks around, looking for something to do, some way to get out of the storm. The lightning flashes, brightening the white and green of a street sign. The town of Mirror, 200 feet. Perfect. Hunter looks down the road, all he can see in the darkness is a lot of trees and the faint glow of an oil street lamp. Looking around in his car, Hunter finds his umbrella. Grabbing it he starts to get out of his car, but not before remembering his Hudson H9 Handgun. You never know when you might need it. He gets out of his car, opening the umbrella, and rushing down the road. The water, about 2 and a half feet, slowing him down, he slowly makes it down the road, closer to the faint glow. As he approaches someone runs out from the glow, holding a car battery.

"Hey, man!" He calls, the man keeps running through the rain and water. "Do you think I could buy that battery off of you?"

The man looks up, stopping for a second as if he saw something he remembered. Then shook his head and kept running. He pushes past Hunter, running straight for the car. Hunter calls after him before running back to his car as best he can. The man opens the hood, tearing out the car battery. Hunter approaches and tries to stop the guy. The man pushes Hunter to the ground, nearly submerging in the high waters. The man hooks up the new battery and gets in the car. Hunter barely gets up when the car starts to drive away.

"Sorry!" He hears the man yell. Odd, that voice sounds familiar. Hunter turns back to the glow, which seems to have gotten brighter. With nowhere else to go, Hunter decides to head back to the glow. As he walks toward the glow, he sees his reflection in the somewhat mirrored glass of the lamp. Something is weird though. Hunter walks up to the lamp staring into the glass. In the reflection, there is no rain, not water. The road is dry. And it seems that, his reflection is smiling. Something black moves around the edges of the glass. The mirrored version of Hunter moves his hand to his belt, where the handgun rests. It raises the handgun toward the glass. When the gun fires, the glass shatters. Hunter feels the slide on his gun pull back in the holster. Pulling it out, he sees that a bullet is missing. Hunter starts to go back to his car when he remembers it was stolen. He instead decides to walk down the road further into the town. As he gets to the first few buildings, all he finds is similarly shattered windows and street lamps. The town is mostly dry, as if the rain didn't hit the town much at all. He begins to walk deeper into town when he hears a girl scream. Running as fast as his buisness shoes can take him, he follows the sound. Turning a corner, he finds a girl fighting... herself? Hunter pulls the handgun and yells at them.

"Stop right there!" He calls

The two girls stop fighting. They separate. "Don't shoot, I am the real one!" They both say.

"Do either of you have any weapons on you at all?" The girl on the left pulls out a small 4" pocket knife and tosses it toward Hunter. "May I see some ID please?" They both pull out identical wallets, tossing them toward Hunter. Hunter picks up both of their wallets, checking the IDs. Both are perfectly identical, except the fact that the one on the right's ID has an odd black border. Hunter looks up and sees himself with a gun pointed at him. Hunter pulls up his gun again. "Drop the gun!" Both of them say. The other Hunter points the gun toward the girl on the left.

"Wait, don't shoot her!" The shadow looks at him.
"Why?" It says in a boring tone.
"She is your friend, another one of you mirror creatures, see." Hunter tosses him the ID of the girl on the right. The shadow looks at it.
"You think you can trick me that easily." It laughs.

"Yes." The shadow looks up, and Hunter pulls the trigger. The bullet impacts the shadow and it's form distorts, turning in to some form of a monster. The shadow turns to rush at Hunter, but Hunter shoots the girl on the right, who also distorts. The shadow howls at him before running away with the girl. Hunter approaches the other girl.

"How did you know who was who." The girl asks quietly.

Hunter pulls out his phone, hoping it would and wouldn't be similar. "From what I gather," He looks at his phone, seeing the monster version of his shadow, growling at him. "The shadows come from mirrors, you can see the moving black outline around reflections." Hunter drops the phone on the ground before shooting it. "That gets rid of that, what's your name."

"Natalie, I am surprised to see any cops around. As far as I knew they are all dead."
"Dead?"
"Yes," she says, "some of my friends and I had gone to the station, the doors were locked, but most of the windows were shattered, looking inside we saw a lot of dead cops and their shadows. One cop was alive. He looked at us, yelled run, and shot himself. His shadow seemed disrupted by that, but they all turned to us. We quickly ran away. They are all dead."
"I'm not from here, I am a county sheriff. I was on my way to an award ceremony before a storm hit. My car died outside."
"Can we use it to get out of here!" She seems happy.
"No, it was stolen by someone, they found a car battery. installed it before I could get up off the ground after they pushed me. I am stuck here with you. Where are your friends?" Hunter says.
"Dead, most of them anyway. There is still one of us left, but he got separated a while back."
"Let's go find them." Hunter says, handing her the pocket knife.