Things that go Bump in the night

It is dark, what happened! I can feel my lungs and chest expand but nothing, nothing is entering my throat. I panicked, I remembered what happened before and slowly lost all my energy and lay effortlessly in place as my breathing slows down. I open up my eye to look at the night sky, wondering if what I know to be somewhere amongst the sea of countless stars. I look but nothing looks familiar and the many moons in the alien sky doesn't help. The weird shaped ones are probably some captured asteroid  but that is not important. It is night and I wonder if I am still safe here in my little nest. 

  I noticed that there is a red glow coming from below me and I push my hand through the leafs imitating a snake to take a better naturalized look. I see red fluorescent lights scattering bellow. It reminds me of sea life in the light-less depths of the ocean. The lights flash and blink in patterns. Some seem to move around like fireflies while others are blurs of light that engulf the others. Almost as if stars with the minds of children are playing back and forth. My moment of peace leaves me as I hear clicking and whistling sounds coming from down below. Although I wonder where my ears could be I can leave it for another time. 

  I continue to look into that abyss down bellow that seems to stretch on into a bottomless pit, only to reassure myself that it is only tens of feet bellow me. The sense of reason doesn't seem to be wining this battle. I am now starting to be able to see some shapes on the forest floor. I can only say that I wished I wasn't so daring and only decided to sleep in ignorance during the night. What I saw was truly a disgusting sight. The lights came from the backs of the creatures that couldn't be better described with my lack of words as insects the size of cats. I would better describe them as a mix between a shrimp and a millipede scurrying around. The lights that snatched up the creatures were some abomination with the body of a ferret the head of an eel. It would use the florescent tip of its tail to lure pray into its sharp jaws. 

  What truly made all of these mad creatures more terrifying to me was they had no eyes or facial features but only mouths to devour one another. It made me ponder what other terrible creatures were out there and if they too were all faceless creatures like my self.

  It didn't take long for the next abomination to show up. It might as well be a headless owl. It dived out of the darkness only appearing in the red light for half a second. It grabbed the ferret creature for its pray but not with talons but with a barb stinger as a stingray from its tail; leaving a spatter of blood on the tree. It is my displeasure to see that owl creature open up its chest as white teeth ensnared the pray into its chest as a Venus flytrap would snap its incest shut before being buried underneath the black feathers. I wish I could look away but the more that I see the more that I know that I had to find out if I wanted to survive.

  I couldn't handle watching the madness down below. Seeing the dancing lights made me think that I might go mad. The hypnotic pulses moved like a beating rhythm of a beasts heart, so pulled my arm back in and curled my arms around my knees.

  This is insane, what is this place! Is there any chance that I should make a run for it? No I need to stay out of sight. Those headless birds might not be the apex predators here. I haven't been spotted yet. I need to keep calm an stay put for now. Should I continue to look, it might be better to not but I have to know what dangers are out there. Only the ignorant don't survive.

I stick my hand out out one more time to see these monsters. They continue to move about in swarms, I let my mind wonder as my eye looses focus for a moment. I see a new figure wonder among the chaos of creature and monsters. It looks humanoid but I get an uneasy feeling when I see it. I wander if we are the same species.

It's lowly figure continues to walk forward. I notice an owl creature swooping down to take it as a meal but as the barb came down the humanoid grabs it like a vine and swings past the mouth and onto the creatures back. Only then do I see the owl loose flight and crash into the ground having its wings pulled up. The owl struggles back and forth in a drunken motion as white spines extend from the humanoid creature's body skewering the owl held in place until its body stopped moving. 

Other owl monsters circle around the humanoid creature while releasing ghastly little chirps from thier serrated mouths. The white spikes grow and extend from its body much would an sea enemy waving in motion. Whenever the owls dived towards the foe the spikes would follow and welcome the new prey before pulling up. The standoff continues for several minutes until the owl monstrosities fly away; maybe to the east. I wish I could tell.

The humanoid figure retracts its spine like tendrils except for those on its back. They harden in place like quills. To my horror I witness how this beast feeds. The hands elongate and teeth barbs form on its fingers. when ever the hand passes a bloody chunk of flesh would be missing from the carcass. I watch until only a bloody stain on the forest floor and the owl remains. It stands still in place as if waiting for something. One of the millipedes wonder close by and starts to eat the stained dirt. Two more draw near as the tendrils on the humanoid creature's back move stabbing into the insects until they helplessly struggle on its back as the creature walks away into the dark and dancing lights. 

I pull my hand back in and wonder if I could be able to do the same. Would I be able to fight and live the same way as that beast? It is a terrifying thought. Though, how would I survive otherwise? It would be best to see in the morning when the night terrors are back from where they came. 

I continue to hide, wishing my little nest with light poring in whenever a monster of the night raced by. I need sleep even if it is scares me. I feel I will lose more than my mind otherwise. The lights and noises fade until darkness took me into its embrace before I woke again.

I stick my hand out again and see the light filling an empty forest with little mist passing through the forest floor without a creature or monster in sight. I feel a strange emotion well up in my chest. Rays of light cutting through the forest so too is determination to live through a feeling of uncertainty.