It was dark and it was cold. That is all I could process as I was being dragged mercilessly by two men. My pale skin was littered with cuts and bruises from slamming against the surrounding trees and rocks.
Is this the dark forest? Why would they bring me here?
As if the gods had heard my thoughts a bone chilling howl pierced the night sky.
Werewolves. I am bait for the werewolves!
Oh no. Please no!
"Don't! Please! I don't want to die!" I shrieked.
"Shut up wench!" The man to my left spat.
These men had me locked up for days with no food or water. Although there were others like me, imprisoned and unaware of where we were or how we got there. No one spoke a word, not even once. Almost as if we were already dead.
My train of thought was broken when my leg bashed against a massive root from one of the trees. Realizing my terrifying situation all over again. I had no strength to fight these men off. My body is running on fear and fleeting hope, my muscles are weak, my throat feels as if it is on fire. In this condition I can't fight off these men let alone a werewolf!
Oh god...I'm going to be ripped apart. The rest of me will be picked off by the other foul beasts that live here. Bile rose up into my throat and anything else that could have been in my stomach came up with it and out onto the forest floor.
"Bloody hell! Just drop her here!" The man on the right hollered.
Both men released me and with a resounding pop they were gone and I was alone. Left to die like vermin.
Get up! You have to get up!
I willed myself to stand every movement causing my joints to pop and muscles to pull.
Another howl rang out closer than the last. It's beyond those trees...it knows I'm here.
Run!
Adrenaline shot through my system and I took off, my feet carrying me as fast as they could. I kept going deeper and deeper into the forest hoping there was a way out.
The werewolf was right on my tail, I could hear it snarling and the pounding of its massive paws against the earth.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" I yelled.
With one foul swipe of its paw the werewolf knocked me down to the unforgiving earth. Coming face to face with the beast put me in shock, I couldn't move. The beast loomed over me, growling hungrily, its eyes a fiery red, its leathery skin lined with wiry fur, and its gaping jaws equipped with the sharpest teeth I had ever seen. As quickly as it knocked me over, it latched itself onto my leg.
I screamed in pain and horror as it tore into my calf easily ripping the muscle and breaking the bone. The soil beneath us was soaked in blood. My eyesight began to leave me but the pain was shooting through my entire body, I could feel my heartbeat beginning to slow down. The beast released my leg and started to circle around me readying to place the final blow.
This is it. My life is over.
"Incendio!" A voice rang out and flames separated the beast and I.
"It's over," I whispered.
Then everything went dark.