It was a cold, overcast night. There was a soothing melody emanating within an abandoned graveyard. On top of a hill overlooking the graveyard was a young woman with short brunette hair playing the violin underneath a yew tree. With one last note, she lowered the violin to her side before opening her eyes to stare off into the distance with a content smile plastered on her face.
A swift breeze pricked her skin whilst she kneels to put away her violin in its case. She stood upright, casting one final glance at the graveyard before retreating into the woods. Every step she took the dried-up leaves would emit a soft crunch from underneath her brown heeled bootie. Walking down the dense forest with confident stride until the thin fog that covered the ground had begun to thicken rapidly. There was an eerie feeling that accompanied it. She stopped, clutching the violin case close to her as she glanced around the area cautiously. Her eyes couldn't see past the fog, making it rather difficult to see who was lurking around.
The sound of a twig snapping caused her to whip her head around in the direction of the noise. She was getting an awful feeling down in the pit of her stomach. Suddenly there was movement circling around her, and she couldn't tell where it was coming from with this thick fog, however she did manage to catch a glimpse of two giant silhouettes before it disappeared back into the fog. She knew that these unwanted guests weren't exactly human.
Rumor has it that there had been sightings of shadow creatures lurking in graveyards late in the night. Those who had encountered these creatures were slaughtered on sight and only a very few were lucky enough to survive the attacks and lived to tell the tale. Lately, the attacks were becoming frequent in the dead of night and the townspeople were becoming fearful that a serial killer was on the loose. Previously attacking men before changing its target to women since they were more vulnerable than the men.
All the color was drained from her face and her heart was pounding hard against her chest. Her breath began to become shallow and was overwhelmed with sheer panic from the realization. These creatures were going to kill her. Then, there was a growl right behind her. She whipped around to see a large Komodo dragon, its body emanating a black smog-like effect and its glowing red eyes staring at her hungrily before leaping into the air to pounce on her.
She jumped out of the way in the nick of time as she scrambled back up on her feet and ran for dear life. Their thundering footsteps were slowly gaining up on her and she was running as fast as her feet could carry her, yet it wasn't enough to outrun these fast-moving creatures. She looked over her shoulder to see the two Komodo dragons chasing after her. A regrettable move on her part because at that moment her foot got caught in a stump and she fell forward. The violin case flew right out of her grasp as it landed a few feet away from her. In a panic, she desperately crawled towards the case with her hand outstretched. Her fingers grazed the handle of the case for a split second before being dragged back.
"No, no, no!" She cried out and attempted to grab on to the same stump she tripped on, but her grip easily slipped as the Komodo dragon continued to drag her with force.
She tried to escape but was forcefully held down by its mighty grip making her gasp for air. Her lungs were beginning to burn and opened her eyes where her face contorted into horror at the sight above her. The creature's mouth was wide open as it showed off its blood-stained fangs to her. Its tongue whips from side to side where the saliva drips down onto her woolen green coat. Then it let out a loud screeching roar—she screamed—it pulled back, preparing to kill her off right beneath its grasp.
However, the creature never got the chance to attack when it was suddenly tackled to the ground by a tall unknown figure. Once she was freed from its mighty hold, she scrambled to her feet in search of her violin case. She spotted the case and sprinted towards it but the case was knocked away by the creatures' tail. The young woman chased after it but her endeavors proved to be futile when it was knocked away more than once it was infuriating to say the least.
Eventually the one of the creatures' tails whipped the case into the air, kicking up a layer of dust in the process, as the case fell with a loud thud. She squinted her eyes and coughed after mistakenly inhaling the layer of dust before dashing towards the overturn case. Midway into her run across the uneven field when she was suddenly struck on her ankle by one of the creatures' tails making her fall over hard on the ground.
A groan slips through her lips as she slowly sits up only to be greeted by a wave of pain making her hiss. Her ankle was badly sprained and to avoid hurting herself further, she began to crawl until she reached the velvet violin case. Unbeknownst to her that the case was overturned and opened.
There was metal clattering across the dense forest, and she turned to look but the thick smog was impairing her sight. However, she was able to distinguish three silhouettes, although one of the silhouettes belonging to the creature was lying motionless on the ground meanwhile the other was battling fiercely.
The tall armored figure was circling the creature with a shield on his left and a fully drawn sword on his right. With one swift movement, the tall figure charged impaling its sword right into the creatures' chest. There was a gurgled whine and then it fell to the ground with a loud thud. The armored figure stood victorious.
She squinted her eyes to get a better look at the person's' back and examined the armor this person wore. Concluding that this person that saved her life was in fact a male knight. Then her armored savior turned to face her, and she instantly froze. She wasn't certain if it was because of the fog or her mind playing a sick trick on her as her "supposed savior" was glowering at her with his singular functioning red eye.
Not even giving it a second thought before she scrambled up to her feet and had subconsciously closed the violin case in the process and then hurriedly left the grotesque scene. While running through the forest she could've sworn she heard a muffled voice calling out to her. Yet, she disregarded the voice and kept on running, eventually losing the knight and safely getting away from the forest.