The Archer

Prologue

I woke up dizzy and in pain, immediately after my eyes fluttered half-way open my hand went to hold my throbbing forehead. I felt blood trickle down the palm of my hand as my back lie against the rough bark of the tree I was thrown against. I then realized where I was again, as I watched the creature creep towards me I quickly reached over for my shotgun, but it was too late. The creature swiftly swept it across the forest floor with its long sharp claws. As it faces, if that's what you could call it, inched closer and closer to mine, I realized that this was it...this was the end...