The ancient hunt22:04 Jul 24 2021
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It was a cold autumn morning in the small town of Red Woods West Virginia. The town itself was small and practically a ghost town. It consisted of a few houses, a general store, liquor store, a barber shop , a church and a cemetery. The church was near the edge of town, the cemetery behind the church.
The sun was just rising, slowly filling the dark sky with a soft pink glow. Shadows crept through the cemetery, making it look as if ghosts were roaming among the gravestones. The sound of running footsteps coming from the woods by the cemetery filled the air, along with the sound of heavy desperate breathing.
A young frightened woman ran out of the woods through the cemetery towards the church. Her eyes were wide with fear, and stained with tears. Her clothes and body were tattered and bloody. The closer she came to the church she saw there was a light coming from the window,meaning someone was inside.
A spark of hope filled her fearful eyes as she picked up speed. “Help! Please someone help me!” She cried out the closer she got to the church. Just as she thought she was going to make it, she felt something wrap around her ankle and pull her to the ground. She cried out in shock and turned to see what had tripped her.
Coiled around her ankle was what appeared to be the tail of a serpent. The scales were a glistening silver, with slight hooked barbs on them cutting into her skin. She started clawing at the tail hoping to break free,but the coils just tightened. Her eyes scanned the tail, slowly looking up at the creature it belonged to.
Looming over her was a tall human-like snake. It had the torso of a man, and the lower half of a snake. But the torso was covered in scales, its eyes were yellow with slit pupils, and its mouth shaped similar to a serpent's snout, filled with sharp curved fangs. Where its nose should be was two slits.
It appeared to lack any ears, and instead of hair it had spikes running down its head and back. Which gave it almost a dragon-like appearance.The creature was lean but muscular. Its hands had unnaturally long boney fingers tipped with sharp black claws.
The young woman’s eyes widened in terror as she opened her mouth to scream. The creature’s tail began to coil all around her body, slowly tightening to crush her. It then lifted her closer to its face. The crushing pressure of the coils made it impossible for the woman to scream, or even breathe. She squirmed as much as she could, but her bones began to crack from the coils.
The creature began to unhinge its jaw much like snakes do to eat their prey. The last thing the woman saw before the coils crushed every bone in her body killing her, was a large fang filled mouth about to consume her head.
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LordEirik
15:09 Aug 03 2021
I enjoyed this story