Echos: 1

Its been months, likely years maybe, since ive seen someone. Ive been dreaming while awake. I see the vast forests that never end. The winter approaches, i feel it in the air, i feel it in the water that runs wild through the land. I hear it call, the voice that heralds the cold, her sweet yet stern call leads me to my prey. I run, dashing from tree to tree, a shadow, a hunter. I stop, as my ears pick up the faint sound of a small creature moving several feet away from where i was. I crouch down and begin to make my way to where i heard it. My breath softens as I approach, I know where it is, I dont need to see it to know. I jump and sink my claws into the small animal. My fangs make small work, I savor my prey, and honor it by eating it all. No sound was made, it was fast, one moment alive the next dead, just as it should be. I finish my meal and continue on my way. I have no real place to go, i go everywhere and see everything, i live in the dream of the wild. I lay down near a slope, where a small crevice is formed, i take shelter for the nigh. I curl up and close my eyes hearing the cacophony of sounds of the night. My dreams are always strange, i am always in the forest but there's someone with me, I can never recognize her. I do feel peace with her at my side. I wake up from a sudden change. The wind begins to pick up and i feel each strand of hair prickle up. I sensed something else, different, a presence that was familiar yet stranged. I come out from the crevice, and it hit me. the forest for once was silent. There was no longer a single sound, no insect that sang their soothing night song. I sniffed the air and i felt it,some was right behind me.

I dash forward as the creature lands right were i was. A hairless, big eyed beast, several large protusions line its back, sharp and solid. It looked at me, its yellow eyes amber and bright. it opened its mouth showing several rows of sharp, needle like fangs, its tounge sliddered out as a snake. Then i heard it, a shrilling high pitch shriek. it launched at me, i saw the four claws on each hand, long black as obsidian. I leaped to the side as the creature landed next to me. I placed my hind legs on the ground and turned with force, my fangs sunk into its side. I felt its blood in my mouth, like an acid it burned me. The creature shrieked in pain and hit my body with a claw. I realeased the creature and fell on my side. The creature was quick to recover and launched at me again. I leaped to the side once more and aimed for the creatures head. My fangs sank in its neck and i placed my claws on both sides of his body as I bit down hard. The creature began to flail trying to force me to release it. It flung me to the side and made me hit the ground. The pain coursed my back, i let go of the creature again. it backed away a few feet. I lift myself up from the ground, i looked at the creature as it yelps in pain at the wound. My mouth burns from the blood, i hurl from it, blood from the monster mixed with my scent.

The created then did something unexpected, it howled. Then i heard how his cry for help was answered by several similar howls. Soon yellow eyes began to surround me. What were they i knew, i had seen them before, but i could not remember their name. I fled.

One creature i could fight and win, againts a pack, hardly would i come out unscathed. I made my way down the slopes into a more even ground. I could feel the creatures make their way down the slope along with me, I could feel their unnatural claws hit the ground. I felt the pain of the land, this creatures where not welcomed in the forest and the land itself was hurt by their presence.

I made it to a clearing. As soon as I made it, a creature launched at me from the side, its body crashed on me, we both tumbled to the ground. I lifted my self up quick but soon had another creature launch at me. I dodged it, and tried to flee. something landed next to me, a rock. Two of the creatures began to hurl rocks from behind the tree line. They missed several times, i made my way to the other side, three of creatures had come out to the clearing and made chase. I dodged a creature as it waves its claws trying to grab me, then the second one, I jumped over sinking my claws on its back as i used it to jump onto the third creature and bashed it. It fell flat on its back with me over its flobby body. I bit his neck and ripped it with my fangs. I fell of the creature i was on, and felt the others began to surround me, circling like vultures.

Things went dark for a moment, and i felt a sharp pain on the side of my head. this was it, the hunter became prey.