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My friends never thought I wouldn’t go into the woods alone. We saw symbols on the trees the day before. The symbols have long since been teased from my mind. I remember my friends saying “man you are to much of a pussy to go in there.” I had to show them up. I brote my ipod I always like music. I needed to just walk. I needed a break from the peer pressure of the night anyway.
It has been three or maybe five minutes, maybe an hour. I can’t tell. The symbols have started to fill my vision. But I can’t make them out. They are all blurry and out of focus. But the world was ok and perfect. I could see fine. So i thought nothing of the things filling my vision. So i walked on. They won’t care if I just stay out here. I was that friend that was there because they felt bad for me. Hated me for the rest of the time. Who needs me?
So my legs just keep going and going. There is no need to stop and wait. If they worry they can run. But, it was dark and eerie things started to fill my vision along with the symbols. But they darted around like animals. I walked to a near by tree and then decided I would rest. A voice to dark and twisted to be human. But almost brotherly said “go to sleep.” I wanted to obey and sleep. But as I dozed off I see the thing walk up to me.
He was the one who said go to sleep. human strange did not seem that way. Then a large tentacle thing connected with his side. It jolted me awake. The crash and the sudden static in my ear. I look over to see a large 10 no 11 foot silhouetted in the figure in the moon light. Too tall to be human. The symbols now clear and crisp right in the center of my vision like a cross hair in a video game. A circle with a X through it.
A tentacle started to come my way. Long but strong. It slithered around my neck slowly. It was warm feeling like it would burn me. I could only move my eyes. As the thing picked me up 10 feet to its white face or what is supposed to be its face. All I could make out was the cheekbones and were the nose might be. But no holes for eyes mouth or breathing. It was strange. right as my good look at it ended quickly.The too white teen barreled into the figure and I dropped. All the way from 10 feet to laying on the ground.
The teen that I now get a good look at. white too with big almost black eyes and a cut up his cheeks. He hunched over and said “Staying awake is not an option.” As he went to slide his blade over my throat. It was cold metal. the opposite of the other being. A trail of fire rushed up to the boy and caught his pant leg on fire. As he patted it out I felt the sensation in my body go back to normal. But the drop really had messed up my leg. So I crawl to a safe distance and look back.
I look back up and see the teen point his knife at the thing and says “Why do you always fuck with my kills? This is not a game anymore. I need to get you away from me.” The thing made its tentacle copy the teen acting as a mouth. Making fun of him. My eyes could not even track the teens movement. He was too fast. Unhumanly fast. The thing had no time to react and took the hit. Full force. But the being did not move a inch.
Acted as if it were a wall and stood perfectly still. One large hand the fingers as long as a guitar neck. Grabbed the teen and chucked him. Almost playfully like a cat playing with a mouse. The teen took a moment too long to recover and the figure was on him. Its hulking fist smashed the teen’s body into the ground. Any normal person would be dead. But as the thing lifted it hand. The teen darted out from underneath it. Right by the things legs and stabbed it right in the knee. A grown of sorts escapes the figure. With no mouth and working jaw it could not scream. It must have never felt pain.
This was not a game anymore. As it picked up the teen fire burned the forest it walked over to me and picked me up to. From this height I could see that it was the crosshair symbol. the operator symbol was burned into the back of my mind. I had never heard or seen the symbol before today. But its seemed like it needed a name and operator fits for some reason. The thing’s face was to close to the teen and he lashed out and caught the cheek of the thing. A black fluid flowed from its cheek. Thick like syrup.
He set me down slowly not wanting to hurt the prize of the fight. That is it. I was the prize. I saw as its tight skin pulled away to reveal bone. its other tentacles went up to cover its face. The thing thrown the teen as hard as it could. I heard a crash but it was faint. The thing moved its legs. It had not done this the entire fight it had teleported. Its steps was clumsy as if it did not walk often. I crawled after it. I did not know why but I did. (too be continued...)