The escape

I looked down. It was coming up. For the first time I got an idea of his figure. It seemed like a lean bipedal creature, moving a just a bit slower than us. Its fur appeared to be brownish-red, A dull blood colour. It was absolutely huge, quite bigger than a bear. And it had sharp fang-like teeth.

I started to freak out. I saw no way of escape. I waited for it to come closer, for death to come closer. It was nearly over for me when I heard a gunshot. The next moment, a bullet hit right above the creature. It realised that it would be killed so it dropped of the tree and scampered off into the bushes.

I climbed off the tree to be thrown down by Supernova. She knew that I had had a close call. She got off as I got up to see my rescuer the same man I had met at the inn. He grinned at me told his bit of the story.

He was roaming near the edge of the town when he heard someone panting heavily behind him. He turned around to see a massive golden retriever. He recognized her and figured that I must have ran into some trouble with the beast. He hurried back home and brought his hunting rifle with him. He hurriedly drove off on his car and reached the beginning oh the jungle trail. He ran forward and reached to save me in time.

He inquired where my friend had gone. He saw a tear form in my eye so stopped then and there. He offered to drive me home and explain to my parents of what had happened. I agreed.

On reaching home, he explained to my parents of the beast. He seemed to know quite a lot about the beast, much more than I did. He suggested that I should go to my friend's house to comfort his parents. As I reached his house, a taxi parked up in front the house and out of it came the one whom I had thought dead for so long. He paid the bill and turned around to see me come up to him. He smiled and told me that he felt relieved that I was save. I felt confused over him and asked him his story.

He had followed the noise from the camp till the clearing. He felt a sickening feeling as he looked up to see a dead body. On it was a hideous creature tearing his flesh apart, the same that had terrorized me for so long. He slowly backed up when all of the sudden the devil looked up to see him. He panicked and started running hurriedly. The creature followed him. He ran till he reached back to the campsite, unscathed except for a small cut of the demon's claw. He looked around to find my tent empty so considering me lost, escaped the jungle on his cycle. He had nearly reached the edge when his cycle fell in a ditch. He had nearly fell along with his cycle into that deep ditch. Finding his cycle no longer usable, he ran on till he reached the main road where he was able to hitch a taxi.

For now this story ends, but the mystery doesn't. I will go again and unravel the mysteries that lie in that godforsaken forest and that hideous creature.

.................To be continued