Hope you enjoy Chapter Four of "The Creature Within"!
Just to let you know, I have NO idea how long this book could be. It could be 10 chapters, it could be 20. I don't know. Just keep enjoying the book. Hehe!
Happy Reading and Enjoy!
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Slowly waking up, I rubbed my eyes with the back of my hand, readjusting to the sunlight. Everything was so quiet, the wind was blowing, the ground felt soft...Wait, the ground?
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Everything started to sink in again. The crazy trail I had followed, the bloody shirt on the ground, losing consciousness, it all hit me all at the same time. I stood up, slightly losing my balance, but straightened up after a while. I was not in the clearing anymore. I had somehow moved to a damp cave.
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Okay, now I seriously had NO idea where I was. It was just a small, dark and damp cave, nothing special. What really surprised me was the pile of wild grass in the back corner of the cave. "Maybe that's just where a bear lived before.", I thought.
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Hold your horses there. A bear. Wait a minute...A BEAR!? I've gotta get out of here. I ran to the opening of the cave, but something was obstructing my way out. "What is that..."
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Then I noticed. It was a person!
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I fell back, crawling away from the mysterious shadow. Who could this be? The shadow started to walk toward me. Well, more like LIMPING toward me.
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I was still backing away from him. I didn't know what he was going to do to me. He took something from his pocket. A flashlight. He turned it on...but then I noticed that the person wasn't a man. It was a woman, about 20 years old.
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The woman had a kind expression on her face, but her face was covered with dirt and soot. She had raggedy clothes, which meant that she'd been her for a while now.
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She didn't say anything, but waved her hand at me to tell me that she wasn't going to hurt me. I stood up slowly, but was still alert in case she...I don't know, tried to "eat" me. Hey, if you're in a forest all by yourself for a while, wouldn't you start going crazy, ESPECIALLY when you see another human being?
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I walked toward her cautiously. She opened her mouth to show me something. What I saw...would scar me for the rest of my life. Her tongue had somehow been...removed. What was left was a small stub, where her tongue SHOULD have been.
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We walked slowly out of the cave. She reassured me that it was safe outside. She drew out her name with her finger. Her name was...Nathalie.
"Nathalie...Nathalie...Nathalie...", I thought. Why does that name sound so familiar? Where have I heard it before?
She guided me toward another clearing. It was definitely not the same clearing that I had been last night. It was a small beach that was deserted. A beautiful sunset appeared in front of my eyes. It was such an amazing sight after what I'd experienced last night.
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Nathalie and I decided to sit down on the soft sand, and just wait until the sun disappeared. We wrote things in the sand, and she tried to tell me more about herself.
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She told me that she was camping with her family. She had been separated from her family, and had roamed the forest trying to search for her parents. It started to grow dark, and she decided to settle in the small cave that I had been in a few minutes ago. Night came, and no one had found her yet. She decided to settle for the night and gathered a bunch of wild grass to use as a bed. Everything seemed quiet and she decided to sleep, when suddenly a shadow dashed into the cave. It was a big monster, nothing like a human. It had fur all over its body, and it had a deafening growl that would make all of the hairs on your arm stand straight up. The creature dashed into the cave, then ran back out right away. It was the most terrifying moment of Nathalie's life.
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Her story seemed a lot like mine. I had gone exploring by myself, and had gotten lost. I told her my story, and we began to talk about our own lives.
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We talked and talked, but forgot about the time. We only noticed that the sun had gone down after a very long time. We started to get scared, because we both knew that the monster would be roaming the forest once again tonight.
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We cuddled together, not leaving each other's sight. We became instant friends, but we had to save each other too. Would we be able to stay alive here? Would we ever get out of this nightmare?
