A Brand New World.... Part 4

As Valentina fearfully watched the gleaming eyes of a hungry predator glare at her and as she listened to its menacing growl, she began to feel like she was going to die that night.

The terrified girl struggled to remember past camping trips with her late grandparents and what advice her grandfather had given her if she had ever came in contact with a wild animal.

The first piece of advice that she remembered was that in the event that she encountered a predator, one of the most important things to remember was to absolutely not run away from the predator because the action would incite the animal to chase her down and attack. She forced herself to calm down and remembered more advice that her grandfather had given her.

The next piece of advice that Valentina was to maintain eye contact and to slowly back away. Valentina locked eyes with the gleaming red eyes of the beast that was still growling and coming closer while the girl was trying to back closer towards the trees in effort to get close enough to climb them.

Within a heartbeats, the beast fully emerged from the woods and Valentina had to stifle the scream in a desperate effort to stay calm.

"Grrrrrrrrrrr"

What had begun to emerged from the woods was a wolf-like creature that was about the height of a small pony. The beast was covered in shaggy dark gray fur with with silvery scars on parts of its large body and a long inky black tail. The wolf beast had a pair of large devilish looking horns, sharp white teeth, and demonic glowing blood red eyes.

"Oooowhoooo"

When the large wolf-like beast drew closer to Valentina, it cocked its massive head back and it let loose a deafening bloodcurdling howl which nearly caused the poor terrified girl to faint. Valentina clenched her jaw and refused to give in to the fear that was growing stronger and stronger inside of her.

The young girl steeled her nerves again and she continued maintain eye contact with the beast's bloody red eyes and continued to back away until her back hit a tree that she could try to climb to get away.

Aaaagh!"

What Valentina had not counted on was stumbling backwards on a large tree branch that had been lying on the ground where she ended up lying on her back with with the beast coming closer and closer while constantly snarling at her. In a desperate attempt to put some sort of distance between herself and the growling wolf creature, she began to crawl backwards scraping her hands and arms on low-lying branches.

The effort was in vain, and all Valentina had managed to do was put a large painful gash on her left arm which began to seep blood.

"ROARRRRR"

When the beast caught the scent of the young girl's blood, its pupils dilated and it began to roar excitedly in a manner similar to a shark in a feeding frenzy.

The last scene that Valentina saw before blacking out from the sheer terror of being unable to escape the large beast was the sight of the creature leaping at her, poised to kill on the first strike.