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I stood there frozen knowing that I would probably die because of
this wretched creature. All of a sudden I saw the quick movement of an arm
bringing down the point of the knife slicing towards the large creature’s
skull. The animal’s enraged screams ripped through the woods around us. My
brain tried to analyze what was happening before me I stood as still as a
statue and watched as the monster started crumbling away. That’s right, I said crumbling.
Like something that had been burnt from the inside out and then fell apart, it
was just disintegrating into nothing. This can’t be real. I looked up from the
ashes into the face of an angel. No, he’s not an angel, he’s just a guy right?
He was staring at me like he had just seen me sprout a second head and I was
staring at him like I was about to scream again and that’s when I fainted. At
least I didn’t scream again, right?
When I opened my eyes to see his two ethereal blue eyes staring back
into mine my head felt like it might split in two from a raging headache. “Are
you okay?” his strong but sweet voice whispered.
But before I could stop myself from saying anything ridiculous I
replied, “Are you an angel? Did I finally die and go to heaven?”
He
bellowed a laugh and I blushed a shade that was more than likely lobster red. I
really just didn’t say that did I? Stupid, stupid, stupid Kay. I smacked myself
in the forehead and tried to hide my face. That’s a great way to make a first
impression to an extremely hot guy. Let’s just faint like an air headed girl,
which I am not, and then wake up asking stupid questions. And then that’s when
it hit me. The past few moments of events flooded my brain again and I started
to panic. “Wait, wait a minute! What was that thing and how in the world did it
just, just…”
“The
dog? I’m sorry to tell you I had to cut it with my knife to scare it away. It wasn’t
a mortal wound though. He took off through the woods in an escape. Sorry if you’re
one of those animal lovers, but I was afraid it might kill one of us.”
I
shook my head to try and clear it. “No, no, no, no. That was no dog. Well I
mean, it was at first, but then it became something else. It was black, and
huge, and had those red eyes…” And before I finished my sentence I looked up at
him to see complete shock and amazement on his face. I had never seen anyone
look so bewildered. “Don’t look at me like that! I know what I saw! Now what
was that thing and what happened to it at the end. It didn’t run off, I saw you
kill it. And I would point to the body to prove it, but it; well it fell apart
or something.”
And
in just a split second the shock had disappeared from his handsome face and was
replaced by something more masked and calculating. “I’m sorry. You’re quite mistaken.
I didn’t kill it. I only wounded it. And it was a dog. Are you sure you didn’t
hit your head or something? I’m afraid you might be having some kind of
hallucinations of some kind.” Somehow, when he said it, it didn’t seem as scary
or grotesque as it did when I played what I thought I saw back in my head.
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