By Day I Cry, By Night I Howl

By Unicorn13564 (Kim)

Chapter 7: The Chase

The next few nights, Ren had kept a close eye on Horo, but nothing happened. There had even been a full moon and still nothing had happened… yet… Horo didn't know there was a full moon… also he wasn't out at the time.

Horo had been cadging himself in his tent for the past few nights, making it difficult for Ren to know if anything was wrong with him or not. Ren sighed and decided to pack it in for the night as he stopped watching Horo's tent. But that didn't mean Ren was giving up, Horo's liking for food had changed dramatically. Horo had a smell for anything meaty. Also, he disliked his veggies, but that was normal for Horo, so he didn't look much into that one.

A few hours later, Horo awoke from a dream, the dream still fresh in his mind. Apparently, Horo was being tracked down by hunters, farmers and dogs. He had feasted upon some meat when he raided butchers, and had gotten caught.

Horo was confused, he couldn't tell the difference between dreams and reality anymore… and it scared him. Then an idea entered his mind. Horo knew what he had to do to see if this thing was real or not, he had to find out the truth.

Horo walked outside and looked at the moon, perfect, he thought, it's full.

Ren's eyes shot open as he heard someone crying and shouting in agony. He dashed out of his tent, only to find nothing there… then his eyes widened as he looked in the mud. A hand print, then a monstrous print.

Horo raced through the forest, dodging through the trees. He immediately paused as he spotted something. Horo glared unnoticed at the deer before him. Within seconds the bewildered beast bucked like a mule, trying to escape the clutches of the wolf-like creature that was clawing at it and weighing it down. Horo sank his teeth into its neck, and with its last amount of energy, the deer tried to free itself, but failed. The deer dropped to the ground, its body motionless and its pupils small. The creature of the night began to pick at the deer's flesh, ripping of layers of skin and letting the blood form a puddle beneath him. His attention was suddenly distracted by the smell of decay and rotting flesh. He raced towards the village, following the smell, but when he got on the outskirts of the small village, he paused. Horo raised his head up high and sniffed the cold night air and quickly picks up the scent of another. Horo somehow managed to dodge the arrow coming rapidly towards him. Feeling the Slayer as a threat to him, Horo sped into the village, hoping to both find the rotting meat and seek a hiding place. Whilst Horo darted past houses, he rammed into a cart full of pottery, littering the perimeter with sharp splinters of clay and glass. Horo turned a corner at the last minuet, and so does the Slayer. Unfortunately for the Slayer, when he too got round the corner, the only thing that greeted him was the night's cold air.

"Come on out Lycan!" shouted the Slayer, knowing the beast couldn't have gotten far.

The Slayer held up a large wooden bow and arrow, aiming it in the directions he was looking at. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the huge monster. It was crouching on the roof tops of a house, watching him from the shadows. The Slayer aimed his arrow at him but Horo quickly dived off of the roof and pushed the enemy onto the floor, knocking the wooden bow and arrow out of arms reach and pinning him to the ground. The Slayer was so close to the wretched beast, he could smell the foul breath that suffocated him. Horo suddenly flung his head back and howled into the night, a high-pitched cry of pain spreading into the nothingness. Blood oozed out of the wound were the Slayer had stabbed him, the knife still dug deep into his flesh. Horo leapt off of the Slayer and ran, leaving the Slayer with the slight advantage of this cat and mouse-like situation.

The Slayer dabbed his fingers into the blood that had spilled onto the floor. "Time to die beast." He smirked, before taking to the chase, following the blooded trail.

Horo dug his claws into the wall of a house and scaled up it, making holes in it as if it were made out of mere fome. As he neared the top of the house, he flinched a small hole was made in the brick next to his head. He glared down at the Slayer with the gun and growled fiercely. Then as he climbed higher and jumped on top of the roof, he howled into the night sky, and the chase began once more.

Horo jumped from roof to roof whilst the Slayer, still shooting, followed on the ground. Horo leapt off of the roof and landed unsteadily on the ground, then, with the Slayer still hot on his trail, took off into the forest.

As Horo ran through the trees, he could hear his stalker close behind him.

Horo watched as the Slayer looked around but found no sign of him. Horo stayed well hidden in the bushes, he was so quiet, and he didn't make a sound. The Slayer turned the opposite direction as a twig snapped, not looking in the direction of were he was. The Slayer swiftly hoped through the bushed, and his hiding place Horo stayed, until the faint sound of footsteps could be heard no more.

Unicorn13564: Ok, so what did ya think? REVIEW PEOPLE! –I know people keep practically begging me to make the chapters longer… but I don't exactly know how as I would be going off the plot and stuff, so if you have any advise to a person who wishes to follow the plot but expand the chapters, please give it to me.