Screech
One day, my friends and I (there were four of us) decided to go camping on the Rocky Mountians in Canada. The next day, we all packed our stuff, got into my truck, and drove off. It started to get dark. I was tired, and I think I had a bit of dog shit on my shoe. I said, "Anybody wanna drive? I'm gonna crash in the trunk". Jhonny said, "I can stay up all night. I'll drive" I pulled the truck over, and got my sleeping bag and pillow. I got into the truck bed, and pulled the tarp over. I also locked the tailgate into position.
I'm not sure how long I slept, but I was jerked to consciousness when my head hit the cab of the truck. I heard the screams of my friends. I heard Kim exclaim, "EVERYBODY, ACT DEAD!". I heard some thumps, and then I heard dead silence. I waited out an hour before opening the tailgate. The sun was just begining to rise. I stood and surveyed the scene. The hood was banged up, the windows were smashed, there were deep slashes in the sides of the cab, and the ground was smeared in patches of blood.
I climbed out, and looked around. The road was nowhere to be seen. I was in a forest, and the truck was smashed into a tree. I looked in the cab, and only Kim was there. My seats were covered in blood. I said, "Kim, hey... Kim, wake up" she woke up and started screaming. I clamped my hand over her mouth and asked, "Shhhhhh! What happened last night?". According to what she said, this is what happened:
We were just driving around when Jhonny suddenly fell asleep for a second. None of us realized this until he drove off of the road, and crashed into a large stone. Soma walked out of the truck, and started pushing it back towards the road. That's when we started hearing the loud screeching noises.
She finally pushed the truck out of the way and woke up Jhonny. She told him to get in the back so she could drive. Everything seemed fine until something large slammed into the tail (which must have been what knocked me around). The force of this impact threw the truck forward into a tree. Massive, leathery wings loomed over my hiding place as a bat-like creature lifted Soma into the air, ripping her coat and rending her skin. This was when Kim had cried out. She fell onto the seat and tried not to move as Jhonny was carried out the window. She lay, motionless and terrified as the things carried our friends off.
I sat, eyes affixed to hers, trying to absorb the insanity of what I had just heard as soft screechs grew closer.
