I sat on my porch enjoying the cool afternoon breeze that Fall brought. Gary, my dog, sat in the shade of a large maple tree. I walked to him and said "Isn't this the best bud, we are free of all the stress that society brings". Gary opened one eye to take a glance at me, afterwards he let out a puff of air and he quickly fell to sleep as i laid next to him. “That’s right nothing could ever ruin this paradise”.

After some moments of relaxation we both heard one of our traps go off in the distance. We snapped to our feet, I raced to the porch to grab my rifle while Gary bolted to the direction of the trap. After a few minutes later I arrived to the trap only to be caught by surprise. There was blood everywhere and the trap was in tatters. “What the nothing in this area could do a thing like this”. I quickly began to worry, “Gary!” I said in a hushed whisper “Where ya at boy?!?”. There was no response.

I began searching the area until I found dog tracks. As I followed the them I felt a strange presence watching me. The trail stops with a puddle of blood. A liquid dripped on my head, when I looked up another drip got in my eye. I jumped back and everything in that eye was red. I wiped it out and say Gary hanging like a hog in a butcher shop. He whined when i got him down, I could sense all the pain Gary was in.

I got up aiming the gun at the base of his head “You won’t be in pain much longer bud” then I fired. I spent the next hour gathering stones. I formed a pyramid around Gary. I left home with a feeling of emptiness. When i got home I locked myself in the house.

A week has passed when i finally felt good enough to to go out. I went to the spot where i noticed there was a heavy feeling to the air again. When I arrived I saw a long slender figure crouched next to the stone pyramid. “Hey you!” i shouted “Get away from there”. The thing tuned its head as far an owl would have. I began to fill ill as i saw its dark eyes stare right into my soul.

It got up and turned its body towards me. “St-stay back, I’m warning you”. It walked to me and clamped its mouth shut causing Gary’s head, which was originally in its mouth, to splatter. I started to back away to when i fell. It was right over me when i shut my eyes and shot. I heard the thing let out a ghastly sound and went limp.