Chapter 4

Fear engulfed my heart as I stood frozen like a rabbit. The dog's growls grew louder by the second, almost deafening my ears. When it licked its chops and started to walk towards me, I bolted like an idiot, dropping my soccer bag in the process.

I cursed myself for wearing sandals instead of my cleats.

I rounded a corner and smacked in to the men I had encountered earlier. I should NOT have been grateful, but I was.

"Oh, thank God!" I screamed out, while trying to catch my breath. "Look, there is a dog back there--"

"Where the hell did you think you were going, bitch?" the leader hissed at me. I rolled my eyes at them as I continued to crouch down, trying to slow down my rapidly beating heart.

"Hey, I am talking to you bitch!" the leader yelled at me, completely drunk. What I didn't expect him to do was kick me, straight in the ribs. I could hardly breathe before, but now I couldn't breathe at all. The kick wasn't hard enough to break any of my ribs, but it surely knocked the wind out of me.

I lied in a fetal position at the three men's feet, trying to gasp for air. "Now look what you made me do," the leader laughed as the other two joined in, as well.

"What we gonna do to her, now, boss?" The bigger man laughed with lust filled eyes. The skinnier man to his right took a long swig from his beer bottle.

I was frozen with fear on the ground. 'This can not be happening,' I screamed over and over in my mind. I tried to stop the tears that built up in my eyes, but I couldn't. They flowed freely on to my cheeks and on to the dirty pavement beneath me.

"Please," I gasped, still trying to catch my breath. "Don't..."

The men laughed again as they started to crouch down around me. The leader punched my side hard, while the other man started to tie my hands with a rope. The third man started to spread my legs….

"Please!" I screamed. "Don't do this!"

The leader punched me in the face. I cried out in pain. "Look, little girl, we want some. It's been like what….since yesterday?"

The other two men laughed. I started to cry and scream, but the leader put duct tape over my mouth, silencing me. With all the stuff they had, it seemed they raped idiot girls like me all the time.

When the leader started to unzip his pants, I squirmed even more frantically now. My vision blurred and I became nauseous. I was going to faint any time now….

Then I heard screaming. I opened up my eyes in shock when the leader was suddenly gone from above me. The other two men looked around, confused. "Boss?" one of them asked.

Then another scream could be heard from one of the men. I looked to my left, but he was no where to be seen. The man to my right shot himself straight up and started to bolt for it, but was immediately stopped. I looked to the place he was staring and backing away slowly from, and fear pierced my heart more heavily then before.

It was the dog, but it was completely different from when I had seen it, moments before. Its coat was splattered with crimson and its eyes were now glowing bright blood red instead of the golden-amber fire I had just seen before in its depths. And right under each bloody eye were single purple stripes….

The sight and smell of blood made me nauseas and I just wanted to vomit and faint right here and now. But I couldn't, like before, take my eyes away from the beasts eyes. When I looked more closely, the beasts pupils were teal….

The man screamed as the dog vanished before my eyes. When I looked to where the man was supposed to be, since it was too quiet now, he was in pieces against the nearby building. I felt something wet and sticky cover my body, and when I looked down at myself in my side-lying position, the man's blood was all over me.

I struggled against my bonds, trying to free myself, but it was of no use. I needed to vomit, but with the duct tape on my mouth, I couldn't. Finally I was able to release my wrists from the poorly tied knots the now dead man made with the rope, and rip off the duct tape. I vomited all over the pavement, including myself.

When my stomach was completely empty of its contents, I slowly tried to stand up. My legs were extremely weak and shaky, and very, VERY numb, so I fell right back down. I cried pitifully as the dog crept closer. My vision started to grow extremely blurry and dark, but I fought the faintness. I didn't want to die, even though it would have been better to faint then this dog to eat me while I was still awake.

Suddenly, red and blue lights pierced the darkness. The sirens grew louder and louder by the second. The dog whipped its head in the direction of the sound and growled ominously. The beast turned its red glare towards me again as my eye sight grew even more blurry and darker.

'Next time, then,' it growled to itself. I blinked in surprise, not quiet sure what I just heard.

"Wha--?" I gasped out. The dog jumped in front of me, obviously very surprised. We stared at each other, and something passed in between us at that very moment. The animals eyes slowly started to turn to its original; the color of fire….and its purple strips seemed to be melting in to his white fur...

But before anything else could happen, the police rounded the corner with their sirens blaring, and the animal completely vanished from my sight.

I fainted immediately as the police ran towards me.