The Symbiotes.
Appearance: A small worm-like creature with small sharp legs. It has no distinguishable eyes that one may see but when its head turns toward you, you would still feel it’s looking at you. They come in multiple faded grey colours. Its mouth is circular with multiple sharp razor teeth. It has a tail that glows a gooey green colour when trying to insert itself into a human’s orifice.
Once in a human, the person’s eyes will change to black and wouldn’t really seem to be focusing on anything specific and would just seem vacant. The person’s body movement will be almost supernatural with twitches and erratic behavior.
If one of the Symbiotes are killed, they would ooze green blood and gradually melt into a puddle.

Skills: The Symbiotes is an infective alien parasite that inhabits humans. Once one is within a person, after a few hours it will have laid eggs within the person and the babies will escape to find their own hosts. Thus the infection spreads throughout the population. If someone was to challenge the parasite, it will use the host as a meat shield in order to escape. Self-preservation is of paramount importance. Especially since they are a hive-minded as well! So if the last of them are killed then they would all be dead.
Inside a human’s body it practically takes over the mind of the host, basically taking complete control of all motor functions. This includes the use of firearms and other weapons, however they are not so proficient in using them. If one was to extract the Symbiote from a body one will find the person to be in a vegetated state.
On their own the Symbiotes are rather slow moving and usually prefer taking over their hosts at night when they are sleeping.

Personality/Instincts: I briefly touched upon this but basically their instinct is to spread the parasite and that is it. Each individual Symbiote has a strong need for self-preservation and thus even though they may be hostile if one tries to end their life, there will always at least be a couple of Symbiotes trying to escape if things go badly.
In their original form they wouldn’t be able to speak and merely sound like something spitting the whole time. If they were in a human they would attempt communication through the person but it would just be an unintelligible mess of splutters and murmurs.

Whereabouts: In a small village in the middle of nowhere. One rock fell from the heavens and nobody noticed. The first Symbiote entered the head of a small girl. While everyone slept the offspring spread from home to home. By dawn almost everyone was infected. There were only three people unaffected by the infestation. One was the town drunk who fell asleep away from the village, the second was a hunter living in a cabin outside and the last was a woman who came to the village that next morning to visit her family. The hunter decided to remain to fight off the parasite, the drunkard went insane in the next town over mumbling about it. The woman refuses to give up on her family and tries to find a non-violent way to rid them of the Symbiote.

About: Things the survivors will tell you:
The Drunkard: 1. They are beginning of the apocalypse. (False) 2. They are demons from hell. (False) 3. They consume your brains (Half True) 4. They turn people into zombies (Not really true).
The Hunter: 1. The people and monsters dies if you shoot them in the head. (True) 2. If you kill a person make sure that you kill any worms around (True) 3. The people are no longer themselves and are beyond saving (True)
The Woman: 1. The people can be saved from the parasite (False). 2. You are most vulnerable if you sleep (True). 3. They want us to kill our loved ones because God is punishing them (Err, not true) 4. She swears her family recognizes her (False).

Appearance: While the rumors say some ridiculous things about this creature, even going so far as to claim that he's the Devil himself, The Shadow's actual form is quite surprising. It appears to be humanoid in shape, standing about six feet tall, but has no distinctly human characteristics besides his humanoid form. It is, however, masculine in shape. His body is completely black, no matter what angle you view it from, and his eyes, when you do see them, are tiny, blood red spotlights on his otherwise featureless face.

Skills: As his name suggests, The Shadow is extremely oriented in all things related to the dark. As long as he is within an area somewhat lacking in the light department, he can do a variety of things with the shadows already present. Tendrils, weapons, camouflage, shape shifting, booby-traps, you probably get the idea by now. As well as this, the Shadow is completely untouchable when in the shade, only becoming vulnerable when exposed to the light. His attacks however, are not, only his physical body. His attacks can be countered and defended against.

Personality/Instincts: The Shadow's nature isn't entirely understood, only explained through a few lucky eyewitness accounts who managed to escape their pursuer. These people described the creature as relentless, ruthless, and most of all, vicious. The Shadow showed no signs of stopping it's pursuit of its victim until they had made it back into an area with artificially produced or natural light. Animalistic describes it pretty well. One unfortunate soul remembers when he and an accomplice of his were chased. The victim was only able to escape because his companion got caught and dragged back into the dark, followed by the sounds of bones breaking and flesh tearing.

Whereabouts: Any dark place, but usually a forest.

About: The Shadow is extremely dangerous, through and through. While not hostile every second of every day, it will attack whatever comes into its vicinity if it stays there for too long. Rumors have arisen around the Shadow, usually from terrified survivors, and while they are written off as hysterical, most of them are surprisingly true. About how the creature can attack from anywhere in the dark, is completely untouchable,
and never stops chasing.

Appearance: Its name is the Skull Walker. It walks on four legs that are made entirely out of the skulls of the victims it has killed. Each leg is covered in hundreds of skulls and an eerie green light can be see shining from each skull as it walks about and the legs are about ten feet long each. Above its bony legs can be located a mass of dark green writhing tentacles that covers its torso and it has two massive black serpentine arms that end in large maws that are filled to the brim with teeth. Each of the serpentine limbs are about twenty feet long and the mouths are constantly drooling. On top of its torso is a maroon colored gigantic beak that sticks straight up. The beak is wicked sharp and about three feet long. On each side of the beak is a single gigantic grey eye that stares into nothing but when it sees you the eye comes alive and locks onto your location. The beak can open up and a long purple multi-tendril tongue will pop out flinging drool everywhere. The thing is in total about fifteen feet tall with most of its height coming from its legs.

Skills:


Fog- the creature can emit fog from the skulls on its legs and can quickly cover an area of about one hundred feet in a thick fog.

Mouths- the mouths can grab you and take huge bites out of flesh in an instant.

Drool- if any of the drool hits its victim, they will start to feel drowsy. The more drool that hits its victim the more it will affect them.

Tentacles- these tentacles with shoot out of its body with a range of about twenty feet to try and capture its victim. It has no shortage of tentacles and will constantly grow new ones.

Eyes- As soon as the eyes lock onto its victim it will track it where ever they go. Even if the victim disappears into the fog or hides behind some rocks or trees. The eyes will still see the person no matter where they go.

Tongue- the tongue has the ability to shoot out with a range of about twenty feet. It will attempt to wrap around the victim and pull towards its razor sharp beak where it will disembowel its victim.

Mobility- It can use its tentacles to hang from branches in trees or to get around quickly if it loses its legs. Also it is surprisingly fast for a being that only has skulls for legs. It can “walk” at a speed of about ten mph.

Taste- the tongue in its mouth can taste a person’s heart and can sense how quickly it is beating. This is another way that it can track its victim.

Instincts: The skull walker is quite clever in that it is able to understand what humans are saying even though it can’t speak for itself. It needs human souls to sustain itself. The longer it goes without a human soul the more daring it will become. It will stalk its victim relentlessly and attack them when they least expect it. It will use the fog it creates to its advantage. Usually the thing will attack at night but if it is starved enough it will attack a village during the day time. The average human soul will usually last it about three months.

Whereabouts: It is usually found in forests with lots of trees. Occasionally it may be found near a cemetery digging into recent graves to see if there are any souls for it to eat.

About: The only information that people know about this thing are from the phones and cameras that were found near the mutilated corpses of the victims that it has killed. Each victim was missing their head. It is believed that this thing will kill anyone who wanders into its territory. This is false because there are a couple eye witness accounts of this thing actually showing up in the day time and slaughtering whole villages. The eye witnesses though usually do go missing a few days later however. So no one has been able to confirm if this is true or not. It is said that this thing has been around ever since the medieval ages judging from a couple of books that were found containing children’s nursery rhymes. The exact rhyme was missing from each book but each had a grotesque picture showing the monster ripping the head off of a man and swallowing it.