The Hunted

It's better to not say Anything

Alice was walking up to me and she was about to kiss me. I knew it had to be a dream but I don't care. Then instead of kissing me she starts shaking me and yelling "Jeremy,Jeremy!" then she slaps me. Then I knew it was a dream because my Dad was the one waking me up and he only does that or comes around us when he wants something. He's one of those dads that spends most of his time at bars and other people's houses.

"Dad? What are you doing?" I yawned at him. Then he through clothes at me, I asked another question.
"What do you want Joe?"
"What I want? Is you to get up and help me son!" he yelled but still trying to whisper.

I slipped on my clothes not knowing what I just put on because it was so dark and the light out on the street was broken. As I was trying to find my shoes I couldn't help but notice that he was nervous. To ask him stupid questions would get you a beat down. We hopped into the car, I just sat there thinking what did my father do this time? Did he finally run over somebody after all these years? One drunk night just like all the others but this night would change his life and mine.

"Where are we going Joe?" I questioned still rubbing my eyes from being rudely awaken.
" You're going to help me with something and... and this is the last time you'll ever see me. I'll stay away from everyone like you asked of me so many times before." Joe stated trying to keep his voice from cracking and trying to stay calm.

Joe was driving a little above the speeding limit, looking at the street lights rushing passed one after another. Then they disappeared altogether, then all at once. I notice that the trees were starting to disappear then it was just land with a pond.

Joe exhales quickly then softly says "get out"
" What? Why? Joe, I need you to tell me! What did you do?" I finally yelled out. Then his face starts begin to turn red as if his face was on fire like on those old cartoons. Then his jaw clicks together his face starts shaking then he bursts out " GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR JEREMY!" His voice made my bones shatter like the windows after slamming a door. Move!, move you idiot and run! He can't catch you if you go through the woods. I said to myself trying to move a finger or any toes, but nothing. I can't do it because only god knows at this point what my father has planned for me. He began to speed walk around the car and I began looking to lock the car but once again I'm paralyzed in fear.

"Joe!" Yelling his name, the only thing I can do right now.
Joe swings the door open so fast and so hard that the door comes back as he tosses me out of the passenger seat. After getting thrown on the floor I regained feeling in my legs, feeling his hand tying around my arm. Knowing that there would be a mark that won't be easily hidden from my mother.

" Seat!" he said as he tosses me once again to the floor.
"Keep your eye on the lake! Do you have it,keep your eyes on the lake?" he stated as he walks closer to the lake and thous a thing into the lake. Then in a bleak of a eye, he starts running to the car and leaves me behind and says "keep your eye on the lake".

As soon as he said that I turned and a black mist appears out of the water and these screams with it. The mist began to take form of people on their knees reaching for something then the fire of hell rose up in between the mist. A devilish demon looking thing appeared to me, it starts walking and trying to reach me. The screams of thousands of people is haunting and that thing, of what appears to be half man and half beast. I got up in what may have seem in slow motion to me but to another's eye may have been just as fast as the man in the world who can run a mile in like 3 minutes.

This beast that came from the mist starts sprinting at me. Began to look like it was just hopping from one foot to another. With that growl that made my legs quiver in fear but I ran into the woods. That is when my eyes carried me to the cave, that me and my friends hide in when the police shut down the boon fires out here in the woods. The cave is perfect to hide in because of the berries that grow nearby that smells terrible so it'll get the police dogs off of you. That's what I'm hoping will happen right now.

"ROAR" the beast snarled, the growl sounds like a million souls burning in hell all at once. The eyes, the red eyes that cut deep within the soul that knows every secret never told. The neon, glow sticks that are the eyes of this beast taking all the air so l can't breath and maybe flinch so it can find me. I'd rather die of suffocation, but still the berries may not hide the smell of my fear. It seems to stand 7 feet tall with Edward scissor hand type claws and horns that are wide and in length of being another pair of arms. But then the break of dawn appeared, the beast rushes back into darkness. Leaving me with some questions.

The Sun rose and I should have the feeling to sprint back home. I didn't notice but I began to walk slowly but surely towards the starting point. Asking myself...
" where did it come from?"
" what was that thing?"
" Did it come after me because of my father?"
And the big one I was afraid to ask myself was " will I be hunted like an animal again?"

The lake, it was solid ash with vines sticking out from the lake that once stood here. The vines takes shape as if they were hands from people stuck in the ash crying for help. The surrounding sand was a gray - black the way the sand always appears after being burned from a fire. Lifting my foot up and slightly pushing pursue down on the ash to see if I could stand on it. Maybe if it would suck me in or just break because looks can always be deceiving. I watch as I put one foot in front of another and I pick my head back up and there's a mark in the middle of the ash. But what is it?