Chapter 5: changes 2
He turned around and saw something that caused his mind to go blank. His sister, who had been right next to him, was now four meters away.
A giant white, cat-like creature stood above her; it had white fur, razor-like claws, and teeth, it body 6ft long and 4 tall. The creature pressed his sister to the ground, its monstrous jaws clamping her entire right arm. Her terrified screams echoed throughout the forest. The creature then placed its right paw on his sister's chest, then it pulled.
RIP!
The sound of her flesh and bone ripping echoed in his ears, and blood sprayed like a fountain from the area where her arm used to be, staining the snow. His sister let out one final agonizing scream before falling unconscious...
CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!
The creature lifted its head in delight, savoring the taste of her flesh as it chewed her arm.
He struggled to comprehend the horror that unfolded before him.
'What's happening? This creature is eating my sister, why? She is not grass, right, so why is it eating her? Stop, she is not grass! Stop, stop, stop, STOP!' he screamed in his mind. It was his first time seeing one creature eating another, plus it was his sister.
[The brutal reality of prey and predator]
He couldn't just stand there; he had to do something, and at that moment, as if sensing his desperation, his eyes started emitting some type of force that allowed him to break free from the creature's pressure.
The moment he broke free from the pressure, his body acted on instinct, his hind legs propelling him forward. Almost instantly, he reached the creature, but the creature ignored him as if he were air.
He pulled his right foot back and kicked the creature with all his strength.
"BAP!"
His foot connected with the creature's right shoulder, the impact causing it to stagger back six feet.
Pain, he felt as if he had kick one of the giant trees from the forest and not a living being.
Ignoring the pain,
he Immediately he turned and reached for his sister, desperate to grasp her and escape, but right as he was about to hold her, he heard a whipping sound and then a gust of wind.
"Whoosh-crack!"
then his sister's head was gone, her blood splattered across his fur.
NOOO!
His mind went blank; the horror of what had happened crashed into his mind like a tidal wave.
A second later, he snapped back. He then turned to the creature only to see a mocking expression on its hideous face.
Rage surged throughout him, consuming him. He could no longer think; he wanted to take the life of the monster in front of him, he wanted to rip it apart, piece by piece. With a primal roar,
"SCREEEEEEEE!"
he lunged at the creature, and his claw aimed at its neck...
Unlike the last time, the creature didn't ignore him; it reacted with ferocity, swinging its left claw at him, intending to slice him in half while he was midair. It was fast, too fast for him to do anything, and right when he was about to be bisected, something happened: the world in front of him slowed down,and everything became bright, he could now see the monster's attack clearly, but he still couldn't dodge it; it was too fast.
Suddenly his body moved on its own, twisting at an odd angle, dodging the creature's lethal attack.
He then landed on the ground, but not a second later another claw came swooping down, intending to split him in half.
The claw four inches from the top of his head. His body moved on its own again, weaving to the side, narrowly escaping the deadly strike.
Seeing him dodging its attacks, the creature became enraged; it roared. Its claws slashed through the air endlessly.
Swish! Swish! Swish!Swish!swish!swish!
His body became a slight blur as he twisted and weaved through the creature's onslaught; the snow beneath them vanished , evaporated by the heat emitted form their body, as they moved between the forest trees.( he's standing on his hind legs)
Soon he started to recognize the creature's attack patterns. Seeing an opening, his body leaped upwards, he soared above the creature, surprising it. He raised his right foot, then swung it down with all his might, aiming to strike the creature's head with his heel.
But right as his heel strike was about to land, the creature somehow vanished, reappearing above him in an instant, its claws poised to slice mid-air.
His instincts screamed and somehow, his body managed to dodge, but right then he heard a piercing whipping sound, then he felt an intense pain sear across his chest,
BOOM!
His body crashed into the snow a few meters away. The impact knocked the breath out of him. The creature then landed on his body, sending him deeper into the ground; he vomited blood. Most of the bones in his had shattered.His mind felt dazed. What happened? The scene replayed in his mind.
'I see, the tail.' At the last moment, the creature had used its tail to attack. It also had the ability to vanish from one place and reappear somewhere else. It's tail was originally aiming for his head. Thankfully his body managed to turned in that split second or his head would have exploded….
Opening his eyes, he saw the creature; it had the same mocking expression on its face.
He could tell that it didn't went all out. They were in a different league.
The creature raised its paw to deliver the final blow. He felt a lot of things at this moment: hate. he hatedthe creature with all his heart for killing his sister, he also felt sad that he was about to die...
But
Some where deep inside, he felt content. This was the natural order of things: the strong kill the weak. Just like how he had killed the squirrel-like creature before.
Did he blame the creature? Yes. but he also blamed himself for being weak. If he was stronger this wouldn't have happened, his sister wouldn't have died, and he would be the one standing on top the creature, with a mocking expression…
Right when thought it was over, a piercing screech echoed through the air, shattering the tension, then a brown blur colliding with the creature,
Boom!
The creature was sent flying, its body tumbling through the air, then crashed in a tree, few meters away.
what just happen. He blinked, his blurry eyes and saw what it was. Mother.