The Story of Dentro

Prologue- A man's first encounter

My friend, Joe and I set up camp for tonight, we had been out hunting all day until night in this enchanted forest, I choose this forest to hunt, it was nothing like any other that we have beheld, the forest was prosperous with different species of trees, oak you name it. The soft green grass glistened under my feet whenever it caught a raindrop or two, the calming sounds of owls echoed as they got ready to take flight and hunt for their next meal, the wolves howled to each other calling to the night sky, in harmony, it felt as if they were singing, .......singing to the moon.

  The lit moon illuminated onto the forest grounds, showing the leaves of shadowy trees and a glimpse of wild dandelions, fireflies picked their partners and danced in the night sky shaking their lights up and down , every creature in this forest seems peaceful, it's such a magical place to be, that's why I insisted to Joe that we come to this forest to hunt and sleep under the skies at nights. Joe he always falls fast asleep though before he gets a chance to see the forest at night, to make sure I glanced at Joe and to my amazement, guess what? Joe has fallen asleep right across from me, using a large tree bark as a pillow. I rolled my eyes and laughed at scolding him in my head, I crossed my arms behind my head, stretching my long black trench coat, and kicked my thick black boots out, I looked up at the moon, filled with thoughts, this forest will soon be torn done and used to build more houses and highways, I thought, construction workers even put out a sign in the entrance of the forest saying "Keep out on May 15th 2030, forest construction", it pains my heart to hear, today is April 2nd it won't be too long until this forest is gone but it doesn't matter right? People need houses to live and highways to get to places so it has to come down someday.

     I was finally at peace and lost in thought, staring into the crescent-shaped moon, I was about to close my eyes when I saw a tiny black figure quickly swoop across the sky, it is probably just an owl, such a majestic creature. I closed my eyes, small breezes tickled against my skin relaxing me much more, my brain began to shut down, a dream was awaiting to take me in again, I can't believe this forest will be all gone I thought again. "ASH get up!" I heard my name, as I was slowly drifting off, I had no idea if it was just a dream or if that was Joe, I ignored it though and just kept sleeping, then the voice called again, "ASH wake the fuck up now!" I finally obeyed the voice, and slowly opened my eyes, I saw the craziest thing, a small child and two large animals, an enormous white tiger stood on the left side of the child and a grey wolf stood on the right side, the child was naked, as well, but she had the most beautiful doll like eyes and face, freckles clustered around her shoulders and nose showing against her pale skin, she had soft light blue pigmented eyes, long gorgeous red orange tinted hair that hit the end of her heels and tiny gradient little red lips, she is beyond a beauty of this world. I grew concerned for the child, an innocent child with two huge dangerous animals? However.......why do the animals seem as if they are with the child? 

"Hey, kid!" I called out to her, "It's not safe to be near those animals, come here we can find you some clothes!" She ignored me, pretending I was voiceless, the child stared dead at a shocked Joe, her eyes widened, her long red locks, whipped around her face and eyes, flowing as if wind had been caught in it, tints of yellow and orange shined in her hair, light up by the moon, in an instant, Joe's head was severed from his body, and his head went flying, slamming into a tree bark, in front of him, the bark was painted in blood, blood splatters then exploded in her face, dripping in down from her neck and inching towards her soft red lips, she remained untouched as if she murdered countless amount of times, it didn't phase her one bit. I was horrified, a scream wanted to run out of my throat, but I was silenced, this just can't be real, Joe's body remained upright still standing, his bones still exposed from where his head used to be. The girl reached her porcelain fingers out towards Joe's decapitated body slowly, I saw several rays of light than his body then began to shake and burst open into pieces, his heart, lungs, and intestines went flying in opposite directions, I could hear the beating of his heart from the side of my hear, it was laying on the grass far away pumping for dear life, just to hold out longer, "thuda thuda thuda", the sounds it made, trying to stay strong. 

The naked little girl walked over to the earth, tilted her head out of curiosity, she crouched down at the heart, "thuda, thuda, thuda" it made, she reached does deadly fingers out and poked it, causing blood to stain her fingers, she pulled back and touched it again, making it squish a little in her fingers, then all of a sudden the heart burst into pieces, she smiled and giggled, causing my bones to rattle in my skin, how could a child? Just a child be so demonic? I kept staring at her until the blue-eyed devil whipped her gaze to me, I started to step back, my whole body covered in sweat, my palms shaking profoundly the liquid dripped all the way soaking the floor. The demonic child pranced and skipped to me, my heart wanted to leap out of my chest and run, when she finally stood in front of me eye to eye, my heart probably had stopped at that moment, such a tiny hauntly fragile thing to look down at, she appeared so sweet and innocent, she smiled at me and giggled, my eyes began to slowly sting, then started to burn like shit, my iris crunched inside my sockets and I wailed in pain, my eyes just blacked out, and warm liquid oozed from my eyes to all over my body, I felt it cover my trench coat and my thick boots, the most chilling part......is hearing that child speak. "I think that trench coat would look so nice on me! If I could see right now, I would probably throw up my entire stomach, she killed Joe and tore out my eyes and all she could say was she liked my trench coat? The world around me was black so dark...... but I felt something rip off my trench coat exposing my bare skin to the cold, I knew afterwards I might have died, I will never forget when I first saw her......that beautiful devil, I will never forget the day I ever did.