CRACK! The dry twig snapped and he quivered. He turned suddenly only for the little glimer of hope he had to be squashed.
The night was dark with a eerie cold wind blowing in the midst making the trees dance . It was silent and serene but he knew better,something lay in the endless darkness... waiting,biding its time.
A cricket chirped to his side and he turned,a mistake.Nothing to his side and he knew it,he could feel it. A cold shiver snaked its away in his body from behind and he trembled like a feeble twig in a storm of winds,scared to look back.
it pounced,he yelped and jumped to the side. A stroke of luck he was alive and he instantly took to his heels running.A few metres away a sharp pain tore from his shin as blood trickled to the ground.He wouldn't stop, he kept on running,so long as he heard the thundering steps of the beast behind him.
He turned to a tree and quickly sidesteppped to his side quickening his pace.The beast cut through the tree like butter and it fell in a thud.Sharp claws,he noted.
He perfomed the same stunt severally pretending to take cover behind a tree and then moving away at the very last moment.Despite doing this many times the beast never changed tact and went around the tree after him but just blindly cut the obstacle.Dimwitted or blind,slow for it had not yet caugh up to him.
Taking all that in to consideration, he had an idea of how to survive this. Perfoming the same stunt again, he took cover behind a tree and instead of moving to the side he went behind it meeting the beast head on.He quickly stabbed it with a knife ,the creature shrieked as its eyes shot a pierce gaze at him with irises.The creature was humanoid and feminine with long fluffy ears like that of a rabbit, reptilian scales and long sharp nails size of a kitchen knife.
He dug the knife deeper but it did not budge to move.He pushed with all his strength but the knife could't move any deeper.
The creature gave an ear piercing scream and he jumped away from it and took out his gun and fired shots at it severally. The bullets bounced off cooly drom its scales.He continued untill he emptied his magazine. A dread came to him as cold sweat dripped from every pore in his body and it too knew.
He tried to raise himself from the ground but the pain from his leg stopped him.He had bruised his leg from the fall.
The creature came at him and he noticed it. The slight oddness in its movement ,it was injured or so but there was nothing he could do about it but close his eyes.
He noticed one thing before the creature slashed at him....