We Should Have Died Chapter 1, a teen wolf fanfic

Tree leaves rustled. The moon glowed overhead, looking majestic and beautiful. I shivered as the wind picked up, wrapping my cardigan tightly around my body. "Matt… maybe we shouldn't be out here. It looks like it's about to pour."

"We need to set up our tents," Matt insisted, pulling off his backpack, and then turning to Brian, Jenny, and me, seeing our concerned faces. He sighed. "Look, I swear I saw something in the woods during the last full moon. It was something I can't explain. I need to find out what it was."

Brian rolled his eyes. "It was probably a bear or something. You are taking this way out of proportion."

A rumbling howl ripped through the wind as if on cue. Matt eyed Brian. "Now do you believe me?"

"Okay, so it was a wolf," I said, being reasonable. "Can't that be an explanation?"

"We don't have wolves around here last time I checked," Matt claimed. "They haven't been seen in over a century."

"So what do you think it is?" Jenna asked, her voice dead-serious, her brown eyes locking with Matt's. "A werewolf?"

We all started cracking up. Even Matt's mouth curved a bit to the left. "Well, we'll find out soon enough," he said, pulling out the tent and such. Brian helped him put up the tents, one for them and one for me and Jenny.

Jenny tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear. "So Rachel, are you excited to see this 'werewolf'?" She chuckled.

I laughed a little bit but felt a bit timid. I didn't let it show, but I had a bad feeling about tonight. Something howled… And it wasn't a wolf, so what was it?

As soon as that scary thought passed through my mind, I brushed it off, thinking my intuitiveness was just keeping me from having fun.

"We're done!" Brian yelled.

"Okay, I'll go find some firewood," I said, willing to face my fears.

"Nice," Brian replied. "Hey, Jenny, come over here I want to show you something!"

Jenny turned to me, looking slightly reluctant to go over to Brian. We both know that he has had a serious crush on her for at least a year. Heck, even Matt could tell, and he was incredibly oblivious.

"Just go. He just wants to hang out with you. Don't ruin the camping trip," I said. "Don't worry. It'll be fun!"

I walked into the woods, using my iPhone flashlight to see in the darkness. I slowly, but surely, picked up wood along the way. My heart raced even though my pace was sluggish. I tripped over a surface branch, falling flat on my face. I shrieked, heart pumping blood quickly through my veins. I sighed heavily, realizing I was fine and nothing bad had happened and picking up my phone. I got back on my feet and dusted my jeans off. There was a sound of a twig breaking to the back of me. I didn't dare turn around, nor even peek. I just started running. Which was probably one of the stupidest decisions I could have ever made.

I ran all the way back to the site where we set up camp. I wiped sweat off my forehead once I arrived back. My friends stared at me. "Uh, you okay?" Matt asked, placing a hand on my left shoulder.

I gasped, trying to take deep breaths to calm myself down. "I – um –there was a…" I turned around looking at all corners of the woods around us. "No – I swear, I heard something…"

I felt like an idiot. For all I knew, it could have been a bunny… I felt my whole face heat up out of embarrassment. "I'm fine. Let's just – um – get in our tents."

Matt nodded. "Okay, we can make a fire later."

We all climbed into Matt and Brian's tent just to hang out for the first hour or so. It was only 9 pm so none of us really expected anything to happen yet. However, my stomach churned and my pulse rose every time I heard any noise outside of the tent.

"Okay Rachel, truth or dare?" Jenny asked.

I heard a twig snap. My eyes darted to the tent's slight opening. "Truth," I muttered subconsciously.

"Have you ever… cheated on someone?" She asked.

Another twig snapped, though this one was much closer. "Uh – yes," I murmured.

"What?!" She shrieked.

I turned to her, oblivious. "Huh?"

"Ugh, are you even paying attention?"

"This is stupid," Matt complained. "Let's go out and search for werewolves."

My eyes widened. "No!"

"What? Why not?"

I shivered. "We could die!" I paused, knowing I sounded way too melodramatic. I took a deep breath and gathered my bearings. "What I mean is… I don't know… I just have a really bad feeling about this…"

"UGH, you're such a scaredy-cat sometimes!" Matt complained.

I shrugged, knowing he was right.

"Just for a few minutes. If we hear anything strange, we will come right back to the tent. I promise." He pulled out four flashlights, handed one to each of us, and crept through the tent's opening. Brian and Jenny followed closely after him. I took a deep breath and went out behind them.

Matt shined his flashlight around the trees, inspecting for creatures. All of us swiveled as we heard a loud crash in the bushes to our left. Whatever it was scrambled away quicker than we could turn our flashlights on it.

"You guys…" Jenny mumbled. Her eyes were glued on something to her right, but, from where I was standing I couldn't make out anything.

Brian pointed his flashlight towards what she was looking at. "Oh my God…"

Matt's eyes nearly popped out of his eyes. I tiptoed to get a better view and what I saw standing before them was not a wolf. Nor was it a bear or anything I have ever seen before in my entire life. It looked like a very muscular human in stature, but with red, glowing eyes and deformed face. And long, razor-sharp claws. And long, vicious fangs. I gulped as it turned towards us, looking hungry. Another creature that looked slightly similar but a bit smaller followed behind it.

We were frozen in time. Everything after that happened in an instant.

The beasts were on top of us within milliseconds. Clawing at our skin, biting us, beating us up.

There was so much blood.

We should have died.

But we didn't.