Day 20 Mothman

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Mothman is a legendary, winged, humanoid creature from West Virginia folklore that is said to have been seen in the Point Pleasant area from 1966 to 1967. 



The night of terror had only just begun for you.


No matter how fast you ran, you couldn't escape the creature behind you chasing you demanding that you return to him NOW. You weren't going to go back to the thing that kidnapped you out of your open bedroom window.


You awakened with a gasp, bolting up and panting as you pushed yourself up from the bed you laid upon.


The night feeling chilly as your hands came up to your face as you groaned and rubbed it. Man...What a weird dream. That giant dragon looked too real and frightful. Your mom was right. You had to stop staying up so late. Judging by how dark it was, it must've only been a few hours into the night. Well at least you could go back to sleep now-...You paused when your weight shifted and the soft bed was suddenly rough and-....stick like?? Like you were laying upon a bunch of branches and twigs. Opening your eyes, you strained to adjust to the dark surrounding you and suddenly realized with a jolt, you were feeling cold because you WERE OUTSIDE!!! You stared as moonlight seeped through from the giant moon above you lighting up what looked like to be a forest, and you were at the very top of a tree on something flat and made of sticks. ...This was NOT your bedroom. As your mind tried to figure out how you could've possibly ended up in a tree in the middle of no where, your luck instantly got WORSE when something BIG blocked the moon as it's shadow loomed over you. You're blood went cold and body froze as whatever it was shifted above you. As if you were in a horror movie, your body acted on it's own as you turned around and looked up the black body of the winged beast that somehow didn't break the tree top with how BIG it was. And your eyes went small.


A. GIANT. FIGURE. WAS. STARING. AT. YOU!!!


It didn't seem too happy either as it suddenly snapped it's arms out and delivered what could only be described as a mix between a fox shriek and a lion roar. You screamed, both voices echoing out throughout the forest and scrambled back-


"AAAHHHH!!"


Your arms flailed out as you suddenly went backwards and down you went over the edge. Your screams of tumbling down from a tree were cut short as it felt like you hit every single branch on your way down. Pain exploded everywhere your body made contact with the branches until finally with a final thud, your body fell hard onto soft grass. Knocking the air out of your lungs and you gasping for air on your side. Your body was in pain from everywhere your body hit the tree and you were sure it would leave bruises and scratches later. You coughed and gasped for air, lungs burning but you nearly stopped breathing again when the same call came from the thing above making your body feel like it was dipped in ice as your heartbeats sore. Adrenaline kicked in know as your body wobbled and felt so light, not to mention hurt, as you forced yourself to stand and start walk-running away, swaying as you still gasped for air but your panicked state didn't care about the pain or anything as you somehow quickly got your balance back and started running through the dark. The sounds and darkness of the forest blocked almost all moonlight as you blindly ran to try and get away from the giant demon monster, to keep from being eaten. You ran...and ran...and ran blindly in the dark with your hands in front of you barefoot. Branches and other plants hitting your legs and face as you did, the sounds of the bird thing behind you disappearing as you kept running. At one point you had the brilliant idea to look behind you to see if anything was following you-


"AH!"


Your foot once again got caught on something. You screamed as your body went tumbling head over heels down a hill in the dark. Your already sore and hurt body becoming even more so as you rolled and rolled and rolled until you finally came to a stop at the bottom of it onto your back, with your body facing the sky. Your vision swam and your head spun as you stared up dizzily at the sky as your vision blurred. Everything went around and around in circles until something looked down at you blocking out the moon and stars. Red eyes boring into yours.


"This game of chase was quite annoying but I do think you put up quite a bit of a good fight "


Your vision finally refocused until you finally got a look at what was tickling your cheeks. Blood red eyes with nothing stared at you. A lumbering mass in similar build to a fairy but MUCH more evil stared down at you intently with the focus of a hungry lion spotting a wounded deer. Antenna twitching peeked up high end a large smile full of just as scary fangs in a similar style to a Cheshire cat. The large head tilted at you and you discovered that the thing tickling your face was the longer bottom of those fuzzy moth wings as they slowly fluttered back and forth. His entire body was entirely black except where it dipped into greys. The dark black claw that curiously nudged your forehead when you didn't respond to him was an example of that scary appearance. He chuckled as you froze up in fear.


"Don't worry, Darling. You'll have plenty of time to make it up to me later.~"

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