Took forever to get this done, didn't really like leaving it in an unfinished state.

ACT 1

Panel 1 - In this world, humans and monsters coexist together, completing tasks and taking care of jobs. Monsters acting like protectors of human beings.

Panel 2 - These monsters represent our inner selves, a mirror image that can be a visual representation of who we truly are on the inside.

Panel 3 - When a human child is born, the monster begins to manifest, taking a physical form that may match the traits of the persona deep within the human. That monster’s physical characteristics may reflect how that individual truly is.

Panel 4 - The monsters of this world are essentially the shadows of the human characters. Constantly in the same area as us. Reflections of who we are as people, personality wise, and what we truly are when we remove the mask.

Panel 5: Our monsters will always reflect that part we keep hidden from the world. The part of us that we keep inside trying to hide it away.

Panel 6: But also in this world exist creatures, called Shades. They seem to portray the worst of humans in horrible ways, committing acts of violence on both monsters and humans in any way possible. These Shades seem like they desire something from both monsters and humans but nobody knows for sure.

Panel 7: So some humans decided to create a job known as Slayers, that would fight against Shades. Together with their monsters they slay Shades that attack humans.

Panel 8: One day, in one of the human cities. A human started to transform into a Shade, what was the cause? A virus? a sickness slowly spreading? It sent people into a panic.

ACT 2

Scene 1 - The transformed human now a Shade starts attacking humans and monsters, our main focus character now along with his monster companion take on the Shade. It rushes towards them, with intent to strike.

Scene 2 - our protagonists are able to get on the offensive, able to take on the now rampaging Shade without anyone getting caught in the crossfire.

Scene 3 - With the Shade now subdued, our protagonist looks over at the transformed body, confused on how this occurred. Questions are now rising in both of their minds. How did a human transform into a shade?

Scene 4 - All of a sudden, two members of the High Council (members of the city’s government, and considered to be of a high chain of command.) arrive on the scene coming to see what the commotion is.

Scene 5 - The two members investigate the fallen Shade in front of them, confused on how this transformation occurred, how can a human transform into the thing that attacks human and monster kind in the first place?

Scene 6 - With questions and fears now arising, the two council members decide to assign our main character with figuring out the cause of this, what is causing humans to transform into Shades and how can we stop it?

Scene 7 - Departing from the city, and waving the council members off, our two heroes head on out, now aiming to head into areas where Shade population is high, if the population of them are high there, then more than likely the answer can be found on their journey.

Scene 8 - now venturing out, our two heroes, now deep within Shade Territory keep themselves on guard as they don’t know when danger can strike at any moment.

Scene 9 - All of a sudden, our two heroes are attacked by Shades, arming themselves, our heroes ready for the shades to charge forward!

Scene 10 - our human protagonist goes on the attack!, charging towards one of the Shades.

Scene 11 - slicing the Shade in half with his sword, our protagonist was able to defeat the Shade easily

Scene 12 - our monster protagonist is engaging in combat as well, charging forward with a strong punch.

Scene 13 - defeating the Shade with an uppercut, knocking the creature out, the protagonist monster survives the fight.

Scene 14- while fighting other shades, our human protagonist is unaware of the present danger leaping towards him from behind.

Scene 15 - Thankfully, a loud bang is heard as another human shows up with a cannon, firing upon the Shade that was going to attack our protagonist, a large hole is shown on the shade’s back, that goes through its torso.

Scene 16 - We see this hulking human figure, welding a cannon like weapon, decked out in armor, this is the person that saved our protagonist from danger, but he’s alone, where is his monster is, we don’t know yet?

Scene 17 - the two humans and the monster companion form a triangle of defense, standing back to back ready to take on the incoming Shades.

Scene 18 - It seems like our three heroes have finally taking care of the threat that surrounded them.

ACT 3

Scene 1 - Checking one of the fallen bodies of the Shades, our human protagonist notices something in their possesion.

Scene 2 - It’s an identification card of a human who registered as a Shade Slayer, someone who hunts down Shades for colonies. Why is this on a Shade’s body?

Scene 3 - “Why is this on the body of a shade?” asks the protag, confronting the lone soldier who had no monster companion with him while he was out of a colony.

Scene 4 - the soldier then starts to explain, saying that while he was traveling with two of his friends, the three of them hated looking at their monsters, it was a constant reminder of the ugliness that was hidden within their hearts, but for the world to now see due to their monsters taking a physical form.

Scene 5 - so the three of them decided to abandon their monsters, leaving them behind. Thinking that they would be better off without them, without the constant reminder of their imperfections being shown to the world.

Scene 6 - Days later, two of them started changing, transforming, becoming monsters. The hunter noticed this was happening due to them leaving their monsters behind. The darkness in their hearts, were now in full view due to their transformations, becoming shades, shadows of their former selves.

Scene 7 - the two transformed hunters now charge towards him, leaving him with no option to defend himself!

Scene 8 - Now distraught and filled with grief over the fact that he had to put down his friends, his mind now goes to the fact that even he will soon transform into a hideous creature like them.

Scene 9 - Looking down at his hands, the hunter remembers what he had to do to his friends once again fills him with grief.

Scene 10 - His hands start to tingle, they shake, he feels a shiver.

Scene 11 - His hands start to transform into claws. Becoming more hideous, monsterious.

Scene 12 - The hunter, halfway through his transformation, turns to face our two heroes. Now growling.

Scene 13 and 14 - now transformed, he charges towards our hero, aiming to attack, our hero prepares for the attack.

Scene 15 and Scene 16 - Dodging the attack by the transformed hunter, our heroes prepare themselves, knowing that the transformed hunter’s skills may still be active even while he’s transformed.

Scene 17 and Scene 18 - Our heroes charge forward, the transformed hunter blocking an attack from the monster companion of our hero.

Scene 19 and Scene 20 - Attacking the monster hero, our human hero jumps behind and tries to strike with his sword. Aiming to take the transformed hunter by surprise.

Scene 21 - The transformed hunter catches the sword, surprising our hero.

Scene 22 - Luckily, his monster is able to save him in time, letting the transformed warrior drop our hero.

Our hero, seeing no choice, picks up his sword and rushes towards the transformed warrior, plunging his weapon into the back of the now monstrous warrior. A moment of pause, as if the world almost froze for a second. The warrior’s humanity seems to come back, as tears slowly fall down his face. Our hero starts to shed some tears as well. Stumbling forward, the transformed warrior then turns his head towards our hero. “We can’t hide who we are, the inside part of ourselves that we try to hide will come out sooner or later.”

We cut to a grave of the fallen warrior, a reminder that we shouldn’t be afraid our own inner self, for hiding it away, sooner or later it will come out and we may try to hide it but we have no choice but to accept it, because its part of us.