Timmy's flashlight was the only light
source, only a thin stream of light had to make a light source for
three people. Samantha felt uneasy, the surrounding them looked alive
in the wind, and one looked off color, black, and she could have
sworn he saw a little bit of red too. But she disregarded it, she was
tired, and felt like it was most likely her mind playing tricks on
her. Timmy's light started to flicker, “No, no SHIT!” yelled
Timmy as his only flashlight went out and the darkness shrouded them.
Nick closed his eyes and took a deep breath “Dammit Tim, I told you
to bring an extra!” yelled Nick. Timmy looked back at Samantha and
Nick, “Come on, it's only a mile or so away, we can make it.”
said Timmy and continued walking. All that could be heard was the
crunching off leaves below them, and of course the wind, the wind was
howling, not loudly, but howling, ever so softly. Samantha still felt
uneasy, and even more so now. The trees again seemed to be alive
again, and again she saw another oddly colored tree, but this one,
this one seemed oddly shaped. And this one, it was most definitely
black, and it's branches, the moved so strangely, like tendrils. And
then she started thinking, why could see this tree, and nothing else.
“Hey.” she said trying to get the others attention, “Guys!”
she yelled, and the two looked over at her, “Look.” she said and
pointed in the direction of the tree. “W-where did it go?” she
said, and the two just looked at her “Where did WHAT, go?” said
Nick, feeling impatient “The tree.” she said “There was a tree
over there.” she said “You stopped us... to look at a tree?” he
said and cocked one eyebrow. “It wasn't just a tree, it was really
weird.” Nick and Timmy looked at each other, “Look, Sam, I get,
it's dark and it's scary, but you know what? I want to get out of
here, so let's get moving, okay?” Said Nick and walked away from
Samantha.
They continued to walk all night, but
never seemed to get back to the road, they where lost. “Great
Timmy, we're fucking lost!” said Nick angrily
“It's not my fault!” yelled Timmy
“Look, it's gonna be light soon, so lets just sleep here, okay?
Till it gets light, then we'll leave and go back to the car.” said
Timmy
“Fuck you, Tim.” said Nick, then
walked away
“Where you going?” yelled to Tim,
“I'm going to find the car!” yelled
Nick, “Then I'm leaving!”
Samantha just sat there while the boys
yelled at each other, a buzzing sound in her ears, and she stared out
into woods in front of her, as black filled her eyes, she fell
asleep. Her dreams where filled with that tree, but it was no longer
a tree, it wore a black suit, and a red tie, it's legs were
impossibly long, as where it's arms and torso, but worse off all,
it's head, it was white and hairless, and no face, just a blank and
featureless head.
The sun was just breaking over the
mountain top, not yet illuminating the ground where Timmy and
Samantha lay. Slowly Timmy awoke, and there was a slight whining
sound mixed with a buzzing. “Nick?” yelled Timmy and was
responded to by a loud scream “NICK!” he yelled again as the
screaming continued. Samantha was woken up by the screaming, “Timmy?”
Samantha looked around, and met her eyes with Timmy's. “What the
hell was that?” she asked “I don't know.” said Timmy as he
looked back into the direction of the scream. “We need to get back
to the car.” said Timmy and the two sprang up and started walking.
Samantha thought to herself about her
dream, about the tall, thin, slender, man in the suit. About how he
morphed from tree to man, he seemingly unraveled himself, tendrils
unwrapped around him as he turned into a man and the tendrils slipped
back into his back. As Samantha slowly slipped back into reality
Timmy started talking “...so when we get back to car we'll call the
police, tell them that he left in the middle of the night, and we
couldn't find him in the morning.” and looked back at Samantha.
“Uh, yeah, yeah, right.” she said “Are you okay, Sam?” asked
Timmy, and quickly a shadow came over them, and Timmy ran into
something and hit the ground. Samantha's face quickly turned to
terror as she realized what it was. A few tendrils came from it's
back and slithered across the ground toward him. It picked up Timmy
and held him up to it's featureless face. “It-it's you.” said
Samantha, and the tall slender thing looked to her, and even though
it had no face, Samantha knew he was smiling. “Put him down!” she
screamed and The slender man looked at Timmy and turned him over,
head to the toward the ground “Put him down!” she screamed again
and Timmy fell to the ground, his neck broke, along with a few ribs.
“No!” screamed Samantha as she looked down at Timmy's limp body.
Samantha slowly made her way back, as the tall man reached out, and
torrent of black inky tendrils shot out of it's suit sleeve. Samantha
ran as fast as she could, but it was no use, the tendrils grabbed
her, one on each limb, dragged her across the ground toward him.
Samantha now limp on the ground below the man, screamed as a wave of
tendrils came from the man's back, and rapped around her, like a
mummy in rapping. She was suffocated, as tendrils went into her mouth
and filled her lungs. She stopped struggling, as her pulse stopped,
and her body became like a rag doll. The tall man dropped Samantha
and slipped away into last little amount of darkness, as the sun rose
and filled the forest...
