Prologue
“I’m so hot!” said one of the two 8 year olds walking in the woods. It was about 4:00pm on a summer day, the woods were very hot at this time of the year and a very dangerous place for children; they were well aware of this but felt like exploring and had run off before their parents knew anything about it. As they kept on walking through the woods the second kid grinned and looked back at the other. “Cheer up Sammy, we’re almost there!” he said. “But I’m really hot Jim!” said Sammy. They kept on walking as Jim said “Be patient, you’ll like what I’m about to show you”. Sammy had no choice but to keep on going, he was almost 8 years old and a little chubby, he was wearing his favorite pair of trousers and a white shirt. Jim was 4 months older than Sammy and thought himself to be the bravest kid of their village. He was dressed in a blue T-shirt and some black pants.
“Eww, what’s that?” Sammy had spotted a black lump sitting at the bottom of a tree. They both got closer and Jim said “It’s just a raccoon.” But before he kept on going Sammy said “But…why is it dead?” with a hint of terror in his voice. “Don’t worry about it, it probably just fell from the tree.” Jim said calmly, but he had noticed it had been ripped apart on one side of it’s body and couldn’t have just died by falling of a tree.
However, Jim said nothing to Sammy so as not to scare him. They paused for a moment by the tree to rest just a little, but then kept on going.
After a few minutes they started spotting some more dead animals, Jim ignored them and kept on walking straight but Sammy, on the other hand, was beginning to get scared and started sweating and breathing heavily. They passed about 10 animals, all ripped apart, slaughtered by someone; or something…
“Yes!” said Jim as they reached their destination. It was a small crystal clear river about 3 meters wide and 10 centimeters deep. “Now we can refresh ourselves” said Jim happily to his friend. Sammy was so glad to get the heat off of himself that he immediately forgot all about being scared and took off his trousers and T-shirt and got in. The river was very shallow so only his feet were in once he got in, but when Jim got in as well they started splashing around and having fun.
As they were splashing around, one of the trees overhead shuffled, but they were having too much fun to notice. They only realized that something was in the tree when they heard a soft growling sound coming from it. They both looked up and saw nothing, so they kept on playing. Suddenly “Wooa!What the…?!” Said Jim as something fell on the river. As they got closer to the thing and inspected it, they saw it was a dead sparrow, it had fallen from the tree and was covered in blood…
“That’s it” said Sammy now really scared, “I’m getting out of here!” but just before he got up he heard Jim’s blood chilling scream behind him. He turned around and there it was, climbing down from the tree like a black panther, it was the Creature.
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