The Demon Beast

It was a colder winter day, the sun shone lightly through the trees. It was a day Orion wished to never forgot. Hiking up the mountain, he closely followed Samantha. She was a gorgeous red haired girl with soft blue eyes. Orion had been friends with for several years and always had feelings for her and today he had hoped to finally be able to confess his feelings. 

She invited him to go hiking today, saying that she has found the greatest view of your life. As he continued up the mountain he began noticing a slight sting in his chest. 

It's just my anxiety, push through it man.

"Orion, it's just up through these trees. We're so close now." She called towards him as she pushed through a few branches. A clearing could be seen on the other side of the branches and a single bench could be found.

Pushing himself through the branches he could finally see this view she spoke of and it was indeed beautiful. "How did you find this place Sam?"

"Was hiking here a few days ago and stumbled across it, but look in the direction the bench is facing."

Looking over the edge, he could see a small stream cutting through the trees. Further in the distance he could see a clearing with flowers growing. 

"It's beautiful up here. Sam I'm shocked no one knows about here." Grinning slightly, "How about HEOK" Out of nowhere the pain in his chest started skyrocketing. 

"Orion are you ok, what's going on" 

HEOK COUGH,

Spitting up blood, Orion attempted to respond "I-I-I, I don't know COUGH" coughing up blood, the pain kept increasing and his vision started to darken. Samantha rushed over to help support him only for her hands to pass right through him. 

"Help….. Please help" He pleaded as continued to convulse and shake, splotches dotting at his vision. His surroundings began to warp and darken, Samanthat slowly vanished and was replaced only by darkness.

"Hello" he croaked, scanning his surroundings. He was completely engulfed in darkness, a cold hard floor rested beneath him. The air was dry and stagnant, the walls which could barely be seen resembled that of a mine shaft. 

Slowly standing to his feet, the pain that he was feeling up till now had vanished, Orion hobbled to the wall. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out his phone and used its flashlight feature to light up the room. He appeared to be in a chamber, there were three exits out and a small pool of water in the corner. To his left there appeared to be a little alcove that he could climb into. 

Orion began to tear up, "Where the hell am I? Sniff-, Why…. why." An overwhelming sense of dread tugged at him, questioning whether he will ever be able to return home, where the hell he is, and what awaits him. 

As he continued to look around a low growl could be heard behind him. Slowly turning around, knees trembling, Orion looked at what was standing behind him. 

A massive, black furred wolf stood glaring at him. This wolf had two horns protruding from his skull and several spiked along his bag. The beast slowly walked towards him, snarling greedily. In a panic Orion swung his back-pack at the creature and started to creep back towards the alcove within the cave wall. 

The creature, now quite pissed, lunged at him only to be hit by the bag. "Stay away, leave me alone…" However the creature did not let up. Sprinting straight at him and lunging towards his throat, Orion lifted up his bag in an attempt to block it, resulting him to get thrown back. 

Without even giving him a chance, it lunged at him again. He tried to roll away and successfully avoided its gaping maw. The creature locked up in its own momentum collided with the wall lodging one of its horns within it and getting stuck. 

Orion was sitting on the floor, pants as of now feeling quite warm, stared at the creature that nearly took his life, thrashing against the wall. He needed a way to kill this thing but his knife was currently in his bag which was currently near the beast. 

He inched his way towards it, hoping not to be noticed, and grab his bag. However the beast took this opportunity to swing its massive paw and him, and a white hot pain erupted at his shoulder. "AHhhhhh" Howling in pain, Orion dropped to the floor. A chunk of flesh had been ripped off of his arm and the pain was almost unbearable. 

Reaching into his bag, he pulled out his knife. "You bastard... If I'm going to die I'll at least take you with me. He lunged at the creature's back, plunging the knife deep into its hind leg. It howled in pain and tried to kick at him only to miss. Taking this opportunity, he dropped to the floor and stabbed the blade into his stomach. Pulling down on it, he managed to rip a hole in the beasts lower stomach. 

Out of fear the creature attempted to drop on the floor and crush him, but he managed to barely move out of the way. With the creature now mostly on the floor, minus his head which was still stuck in the wall. He jumped onto its back and plunged the knife into the back of its throat. Lifting the knife back up, he stabbed it repeatedly into the side off its throat. "DIE, Die, Please just FUCKING DIE!!!" 

With every stab the creature whimpered, even after it finally died he kept stabbing at it, tears streaming down his cheeks. The creature that could've easily taken his life laid lifeless beneath him.