Hunted

Jay

Two hours pass as the day comes to around 4:30pm. The sun begins to set over the horizon. Jay and Tameron are STILL WALKING in the woods looking for this "creature". It's about now that Jay needs a break and stops. "Tameron, can we chill for a sec? We've been walking for at least 2 hours and it's starting to get dark." Jay complains. Tameron stops and turns over to see Jay slumped over and rapidly catching his breath. "We can't stop. Imagine the amount of publicity we'll get from this. We'll be famous. A moment in history. Wanna let that all go?" Tameron glances at Jay as he says no. Jay gets up. "Since it's getting dark, wanna set up another camp here?" Tameron smiles. "Yeah. That's fine." He replied. Jay grabs the bags and starts to unpack when Tameron suddenly stops and stares at something in the woods. Both men were tired and wanted to sleep so naturally, Jay looks at him and asks "What are you looking aaaaa?" His words trail of as he gazes upon the sight before him. He was terrified to see a large, scaly creature was coiled around a dead tree trunk. It's head was resting on the very top of the trunk staring with scary, reptilian eyes at the men as if it was deciding whether the men were worthy enough to devour them. An entire five minutes goes by before Tameron taps Jay and signals him to slowly move back. As the two start to move back, Jay turns incredibly clumsy and steps on a twig, causing it to snap. This, of course, attracted the attention of the creature. Jay darts away while Tameron stands still as it lunges forward and misses him. Instead of turning around like it should've (because Tameron was closer to it), It continued to chase after Jay. In shock, Tameron looks back to see Jay pinned against a tree with the creature right in front of him. Jay glances at him and mouths "Tam, help. me. please." Tam turns, grabs a rock and throws it in a different direction, causing the creature to be distracted and go after it. Tam runs to Jay and the two run off the base camp.