The Hunter

The Shooting Star

She breathed the fresh air of the forest, feeling the smell of big pines and white birch of Quebec. It was a great day to go camping in friendly company, the air was cool and no noise connecting to civilization could be heard, only the rustling of the trees and the gentle birdsong could be heard. There was no phone signal or near civilization, they were more than 4 hours to reach the nearest town. A perfect paradise for wilderness camping and hunt game. They had walked for more than one hour to get to the scene of the chosen camp named "Anishnabe plain." It was a place where her ancestors hunted big game such as moose and black bear. Her great-grandfather told her that every year his father would chase a demonic being who hunted men and abducted their daughters, they said it was a Windigo which deprived their daughters to reproduce. He was a tall and strong that be refuse to choose the path of the Great Spirit, they devoured men with cold blood. It was an old story.

It was an old story that he had before dying of old age in his deathbed. Looking back she sighed with sadness, there was so much history she loved being told by his great-grandfather. He had the gift to count stories of ancestors, it kept the ancient tradition of his clan because it was stories that drew from the lessons at the end of them. In short, she drove the thoughts and back to reality, it was time to build the camp. Her friends laughed at full brightness in the plain, their friend named Samuel was screaming in terror after seeing a non-toxic snake, any race were toxic to Canada. She laughed softly.

-Don't tell me that you are afraid of this poor thing! It's harmless! she said with a tinkling laugh. He look at her with large almond brown eyes, then smiled and laughed his big laugh. It was a raw but with a fragile heart, his chestnut hair swinging in the gentle current. He had nothing of a brute like his twin brother named Edmon. Edmon was a brute who brutalized the lower beings than himself as his brother who refused to be like him. Samuel was the youngest, he was the youngest of the family and his brother was the juvenile. Samuel was laughing with his friends, it was like his second family where he felt at home. After a few minutes of the event they decided it was time to climb the aunt to sleep the next night. Each person had his job to do, one went to get water not far from the place brook, one preparing the food reserve for The Week, one was collecting wood, two people prepared the two aunts to sleep and finally Elysia preparing traps for intruders who dare to approach the camp of the six young adults.

After a few hours, they decided to prepare the diner for tonight. they chose to roast a hare which was too near the camp out of curiosity and was killed by the trap installed by the young woman before, Elysia had carved up his bones and his soft fur. Proud of her, she kept the fur to remove the flesh that remained on the fur, she had placed on a support, the stretched skin to scrape the flesh that remained with a special rock given by her grandfather himself. It had taken more than one hour to scrape with her flint after placing some pitfalls round about the camp. Her friends was about to throwing up after seeing her working on the fur. The sun set slowly behind the mountains, the moon rose in turn to take up, darkness was felt in the woods, you could hear the howling of wolves not far away. Fire danced in the plain illuminating the area around the camp, Alicia, a young white female preparing paper plates for dinner. They cut each a piece of meat from the hare, there was little bit of meat but ate without much concern in. It was a good taste.

-Guys! We should thank for the meat! Elysia trap the hare so I thank her for the diner! Without her, we'll eat a disgusting sandwich from Alicia! Said Raphael while laughing after being hit by Alicia who was laughing from his joke. A wave of laugh hit the small group of six young adults, it was a beautiful diner, everybody thank to Elysia who was blushing. She was proud of herself, because she trap a hare by herself with the help of her grandfather who teach her how to install a trap. They were talking of stuff when Samuel look in the sky and saw a shooting star.

-Everybody look up! A fucking shooting star! He said with a big smile, Laryanne, another young adult look at the sky and noticed something was wrong, it didn't seem normal as usual. Her green eyes narrowed to better see the strange star and noticed that the star mentioned by Samuel swelled visibly. The famous star was actually a meteorite was going to crash on Earth, a thunderous noise was heard when the meteor in question entered the ozone layer with a deafening noise. The thing transform into a huge fireball and went crashing not far behind the mountains. The six adults looked stunned by what he had seen, their eyes were wide open. Alec, a young man with blond hair began to swear by what he had seen, he smiled to the fullest. They had all seen the meteor crashing with great noise behind the mountains. All could not believe of what they had seen, it was extremely rare to see a meteor crashing especially as the place was close to the camp, the mountains were not far from the camp.

-Hey! We should go see it! Said Alec excited, Jordan the tallest man of the group respond with his small voice:

-Not tonight, it's dark and predators are chasing, it's dangerous, He said. We should go tomorrow in the morning.

Alec sigh and nooded, he know that it was dangerous to go in the night, they have no weapon to defend themself. Elysia look up in the sky and had a strange feeling that it will change their life, she send a wish to the sky for her ancestors will protect them from what she felt. She know that when she felt something like that, it happens a bad thing like the time when she felt something happens to her father who had an accident with his car, he died in the hopital because one of his rib crush his heart. She chase this thought and her feeling and returned to reality, it's just a meteor after all, it's not like a spaceship like she seen on many science fiction movies. She look at her friends and smile, they were all excited for tomorrow, in their eyes we can see star shining from the excitement. They were talking about to prepare the stuff to bring for the long walk tomorrow, she smile and enter in the conversation.

-Ely! You're the only one who know better this forest than us, so we decided you will be the leader of the group tomorrow! Said Larryane with her most beautiful eyes, people were always dating her because she was one of the most beautiful woman in the school, she was always wearing sexy clothes and underwears. She smile back and nodd.

-Aww! Thanks Ely! She jump on her and hug her. She was kinda childish but have a big golden heart, she seem bitchy but she wasn't. She was always helping and support her friends when they were in dificult. Alicia check the hour and jump.

-We should sleep if we want to be in full form tomorrow, it's almost midnight, She said while hiding the foods for the week from animals who can have luck without being trapped and killed by the trap. Jordan yawned and noded, it was time to sleep, they had a big day and everybody were tired and almost sleepy. They all prepared to sleep when Elysia told them that she will wash herself in the river near the camp, she warned them if someone had the idea to spy her while she was washing herself, they'll had her foot in their face. She took what she need and think about a flashlight, it was dark and the fire was not enough strong to illuminate the river. She took it and walk away the camp to the river, she undressed herself and put her feet in the river. The river was kinda cold and black, the moon was reflected in the water, everything was calm, just the hooting of the owl was heard and the air stream which was rustling trees. There was a fall of three meters high, it was a beautiful night, calm too much calm. The hooting wasn't heard anymore, the air stream stopped. She look around and felt observed, something was wrong.