Author's Note:Hello new readers MCNicholas1172 here and I've been wanting to get these fanfiction ideas of mine published for a long time. Each of my stories has gone through many revisions and it was time to put them to paper so to little information on this story I had come up with the creature/main character from a smudge on the table in my 9th grade physical science class at Ocoee High School(AKA Hell),the smudge had reminded me of a mutated Halo Elite and from there I started working out a whole story based on a smudge. As well,the story is not set in the halo universe. The main character just happens to be similar to an Elite if it was 25 feet tall, had a tail, breathed fire and could fly. So with that out of the way on to the stories prologue and no more long Author notes.
Hell's Forest:Prologue Chapter
The Year is 1866, In the forest outside the town of Granville, Ohio you can normally hear the sound of birds singing and squirrels scuttering about during the day. While, on a normal night in the forest you can hear bats flying about and the occasional howl of a grey wolf...normally. But this is no normal night, no instead of hearing the howling of a wolf the howls of bloodhounds, foxhounds, other assorted hunting dogs and the commutative shouting of men of the Andersmith family can be heard.
The Andersmith men were currently out hunting for a creature that has been seen countless times and has been scaring the local townsfolk including the various loggers, miners, and hunters of the indigenous area. So gathering up as many weapons, torches, dogs and family members they could the 343 men of the first 3 generations of Andersmith's set out to hunt, trap and or kill the creature plaguing the town. What they didn't know however was that the creature was stalking them.
However, all of the men are either split up or in small groups save for one Jeremiah Andersmith. For him, this will not only have been a bad idea to not have been in a group, but it will change the course of his life and the lives of his entire family and descendants forever.
(Jeremiah's P.O.V) As I came out here with my 6 brothers, their seven sons as well as my seven sons to hunt the creature that has been terrorizing everyone in the town. People said it was 25 feet tall, with razor sharp claws and teeth, scaly lizard-like skin black as the night sky and bright red eyes that burned into your very soul. I wasn't afraid though, I had been through hell during the war. I had seen brothers in arms, as well as friends, die out there or return to live with guilt and the horrors of what was seen and done during then. Surprisingly though, none of my kin had died.
Although given that myself, my brothers and our sons all signed up to join the war it wasn't a surprise that we were all placed in the same company. A few other men had joined the company bringing our numbers to 400 but sadly almost half of them perished during the battle of Gettysburg or at Antietam. Lord knows that so many souls were lost during those battles. So now all that was left were the other men of my family as we're out here tonight hunting this creature whatever it may be.
I moved along my designated pathway while still maintaining earshot of my sons and eyesight of their lanterns. I realize, that the forest is too quiet for its own good. There were no owls, squirrels, chipmunks, deer, wolves, coyotes, not even the occasional bat. At this realization I started to become worried, even though there are three hundred and forty-three men out here in the forest there should still be some animals making some sort of noise or investigating us, but there's nothing just dead silence. The only thing that would cause this is a larger creature.
I continued on, My mind started to wander but I was suddenly pulled out of my deep thoughts when there came a loud whoosh! It had sounded like the flapping of giant wings, I then begin to search around and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a black silhouette dash across the forest in a flash.
As I continued to scan the area I had heard rustling and the crunch of branches being broken. These sounds we accompanied by heavy footfalls which caused the ground beneath me to rumble and shake. With this, I begin to worry. Could this be the creature? I ask myself. Then suddenly, the rumbling ceases and I wonder what it could have been. With my guard back up I slowly started to walk backwards, but as soon as I did my journey abruptly stopped due to backing up into what I hope was a tree. Sadly, my hopes we squandered. I felt what I had backed up into and it felt scaly.
I slowly turned around and raised my lantern and my head up to where its head would be. As my lantern illuminated its head I came face to face with the face of the devil that the townspeople spoke about. It was just as they described twenty-five feet tall with blackened scaly skin and sinister bright red eyes and I then not only feared for my life but the lives of my family.
As it got closer and bent its neck down towards me and I fell and dropped my gun and lantern, I crawled backward in fear and it got closer. I then backed up against a tree and it was right next to me I could smell its breath and as it opened its mouth to eat me, my assumption was wrong as it just looked me straight in the eye and scoffed. It then began talking to itself which both surprised and scared me, it narrowed its eyes and asked me with a heavily irritated tone "What are you all doing in my forest!?"
I hope you all like the prologue chapter sorry if it is a bit long I will try to make them shorter in the future. Review if you want just message me cause Idk how on works so if someone can tell me that be great.