Hunting the Dark Side

Nightmares Return

Sapphire was walking in the forest it was dark at night. She had been walking around for around an hour trying to find her way out of the forest, she sighed deeply as she finally admitted to herself that she was lost. She patted herself down looking for her mobile, which was when she realised that she hasn't brought it with her.

"Shit." She muttered to herself. She was lost in the forest with no phone, no way of contacting anybody with noises coming from every direction, the birds flying from tree to tree, the wind howling between the trees. She was sure she heard twigs snap every now and then. It was petrifying.

She was cold, very cold. Her whole body was trembling from the cold, her hands were blue, she shoved her hands into her coat pockets trying to warm them up but that didn't help any at all. Her legs were aching as she walked around and around, it felt like she was walking around in circles for hours but Sapphire carried on walking.

After several hours she just gave up and decided to rest her legs, she sees a large tree, she walks towards it and slides down the tree. She let herself rest against the tree, closing her eyes just resting them, she wasn't going to let herself fall asleep. Not that she could, it was so cold, she was sure she was going to get frostbite, but that was the least of her worries.

She heard noises, not the wind or the birds, but groans, human groans. She looked around but nothing was there, so Sapphire stood up faster than she ever has and carried on deeper into the forest. She kept on seeing things out of the corner of her eyes but just thought her mind was just playing tricks on itself until she saw it, standing there right in front her, stumbling towards her, falling over something, it pulls itself towards her.

Paralyzed, she didn't know what to do; she forgot everything she taught herself. She was as cold as a falling avalanche. While Sapphire was stuck she thought, If I run I will end up falling, I know that, if I scream god only knows what the supernatural creature would do but if I just stand here I would be bait.

She backed away from the shadows that moved between the trees when she heard a branch snap. Sapphire looked at her and there was another one, she looked left, then right; there were two more coming but at this point, she was frozen - her hands and legs didn't, wouldn't move an inch. The shadows moved closer and now you could see the faces, they weren't human, they were dead. Sapphire could see on the pale face the cuts that would lose lots of blood and no one would be able to get them in hospital.

Sapphire's legs suddenly came back to her and she started to sprint but these things started to follow her. She didn't know where she was running to. She didn't know if she was heading deeper into the forest or if she was going to safety but her legs kept on running in the same direction, she kept on running till she got to a dead end.

Sapphire looked left then right. These things kept on following her and she knew she didn't have very long till they caught up. She didn't want to go through the trees where there was no light but it looked like there was no choice for her.

Sapphire heard these monsters coming. She turned right and ran and stopped behind a tree, peeping round to see if they were gone. They were nowhere to be seen, she took a deep breath before turning around. This thing grabbed her and bit her on the shoulder. She screamed. As pain rushes through her, she falls to her knees from the pain, her eyes were blurred from the tears that were forcing themselves down her face.

Then the others came to feed on her. Another scream escaped her lips as one bites her side and the other bites her leg. Sapphire could feel her skin being ripped off her flesh, she felt herself drifting into darkness.

Suddenly two zombies were on the floor dead. When two bullets were shot at the monsters. Someone shouted, "Leave her alone you ugly piece of crap." Sapphire recognized the voice straight away, her big brother Jackson. Then she heard a different gunshot and she assumed it was her other brother Leo. When these things were dead she wanted a confirmation it was her brothers.