it feels like I've been running for an eternity but in reality its only been less than 20 minutes, the sinister beast has stated to slow down to the point where I could quickly find I place to hide. which brings me to where I am now, I'm currently hiding in a shallow indent in the side of a hill, its kind of like a cave but not exactly. I'm trying to be as quiet as I possibly can but trying to do that and also catch your breath is next to impossible. a few seconds pass by and i can now hear the creatures pass by where I am hiding and head the opposite way. I take this chance to sprint with my dwindling energy, in the direction of where I think I should head to get back to the dirt road we drove in on.
as I continue to run I and start to see a break in the trees and a few beams of light. thinking that I'm safe and out of danger I slow my pace as I descend a dip in the ground that would enviably take me back up to the road after going down. as I'm going down the dip my food gets stuck on a root that was pocking out, making me lose my balance. I fall and roll down the rest of the way heading my head hard on a rock at the bottom of the dip making me come to a hard stop.
taking a second to comprehend what happened i try to stand up, resulting in my vision going blurry. i place a hand to my head and flinch. i pull my hand away to see the slight out line of a wet substance run down my hand. my head starts to pound painfully causing me to topple over and cradle my head. as i try to get control over my injured head I'm ripped from my place on the damp ground and hung upside down by the thing that had been chasing me for over an hour, I let out an ear-deafening scream and struggle in the grasp of the creature's bony hand. this causes its claws to dig into the lower part of my leg, causing me to let out a pathetic whimper in pain.
seeing me in pain the beast bares it sharp teeth at me. as I'm hanging there i could feel the blood drip from my opened head wound and stream through my scalp and drop to the ground below. the creature sees this and lifts me higher, positioning my head over its open mouth. a disturbing sound of enjoyment rumbles from deep in its throat. I struggle again trying to break free from its grasp this like the first time just makes it do its claws deeper into the muscle of my lag indefinably scraping bone.
getting increasingly light headed from being hung up sided down and the continuing of blood loss i start to feel extremely exhausted and weak, though somewhere in the depths of my soul i could feel an increasing heat pooling through my battered body. the heat fastly continues to grow as i start to loss consciousness, the heat turns into a burning sensation. feeling unable to hold it in i open my mouth to scream only for nothing to come out, instead a harsh red and yellow glow devoured my body, the glow is scolding hot and causes the beast to screech out in pain resulting in it releasing me from its grip. I drop down hard on my back and the last thing I see is the glow devouring the creature in the same way it did me though it burns the creature until there's nothing more than a pile of ashes. I lost consciousness, succumbing to my injuries and exhaustion.
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i awake to the sound of muffled voices and annoying beeping. slowly I open my eyes but immediately regret it and close them again, damn why is it so bright. feeling confident I try again and this time it's better but not much, I can't see much as it's super blurry. I try to recall what happened, where I and how I got out of the forest but everything is fuzzy.
hearing the muffled voices getting loader and closer i turn my head towards them and see three blurry figures, one seems to be wearing a long coat the second one is wearing something dark and the last on it lighter than both and is carrying something in their arms. " could one of you please shut off that god damn light." i rasp out, my throat feels light sandpaper. i hear shuffling and than the light goes out, i can finally open my eye fully. i look around to see that I'm in what seems to be a hospital room, i start to freak out i know the inside of one of these rooms all to well. " hey hey Riley, its ok. calm down your safe now." Kit says as he comes to sit by me on the bed, he plops down a sleeping cat my chest. I immediately start to pet her and look up to Kit " thank you." then I look to the other two people and see Silas with a concerned and happyish face and a Doctor next to him.
the doctor was and extremely attractive man, he was tallish. was wearing scrubs and a doctors lab coat, he has darkish brown curly hair, dark brown eyes and a beautifully shaped face. his nose is pronoun, his lips are between full and thin. he also had the right amount of scruff on his chin. his whole demeaner showed years of experience and authority yet also curiosity and concern. " Riley thank the gods your alright, what the fuck happened out there. one second you where behind me the next you weren't." Silas said as he slowly walked over to the end of my bed. " what happened, how'd i get here? did you find the little girl?" i ask looking between all three of them Silas was the first to respond. " i don't know what happened all i know is that i found you unconscious and bleeding out in a dich. i rushed you to the hospital as soon as i could. Riley i was so worried about you i don't know what happened. and yes i found the girl she's alright she's with her parents." i let out a breath of relief and close my eyes for s second before turning to look at all of them again. " I and Kit lost track of where you went we search for hours but got lost, the cat found us when we were taking a break. we found a stream somewhere deep in the forest and this thing started chasing us. it attacked me. and I think I killed it."
i scrunch up my eyebrows in confusion as i try to recall what happened to the beast. " well what ever you did was the right move, what attacked you was a wendigo, its extremely rare for them to travel this far away from the north. your lucky you did what you did when you did it. any longer and you would have dead. your injuries aren't that severe but I do advise you to take things slow and get lots of rest. you have a level two concussion and a stitched-up head wound. your back is badly bruised and you have to broken left ribs, and to tie it together your lag wound is to the bone-deep you stay off that leg as much as possible." the doctor says in a thick English accent, looking over a clipboard in his hands, my chart I'm guessing. " I'm sorry I didn't catch your name doctor?"
" I'm doctor Darian Emerson, I have to go attend to my other patients now but ill be back to check on you later. please get some rest Miss Angeles." doctor Emerson then left the room leaving me with Kit, Silas and my nameless cat.