My Cursed Demon

The Wendigo hunt

"Ok, mom I'm heading out!"

"Ok sweetheart be careful and don't come home late" I opened the door and walked through but ending up in some woods

"What the—?" an inhuman noise was heard in the distance. I walked the other way of the noise I took out my phone and tried to call but I didn't get any service here. "That's weird, it's 3 but it is dark out here," I said looking around seeing that the sky was pitch black. I continued to walk for what seemed like forever but all I could see were trees for days. I heard what seemed to be another pair of footsteps "Hello?" I said looking around I stopped and looked through the bag I had been carrying. I found my knife and kept walking.

It has been about an hour and so far it seems like I've gone nowhere. There isn't service meaning I can't use my phone to find out where I am and the sky still hasn't changed color but has gotten darker. I kept hearing the same inhuman noises as before but still haven't seen anything. Suddenly the noise became really close and a huge creature started running toward me. I ran behind a tree and carefully watched it come closer. It stood at least 6 maybe 7 feet tall with its ribs showed through its skin. It stood on two feet with some monstrous arms with huge claws/fingers. The head of it was that of a deer with antlers. It roared that inhuman noise "Is that a wendigo?" I whisper it stopped and sniffed the air before dashing off somewhere else. I released a breath I didn't realize I was holding in. Then the noise came right beside me "Oh shit!" I said as I ran as fast as I could with it right on my tail. Tt jumped in the air and landed on me biting into my arm "AHHH!" I yelled before stabbing it in the eye. It yelled out in pain as it got off me holding its eye letting me escape. I ran and ran until I couldn't run anymore then started climbing up one of the trees "How the hell did I get here!?! And why is that thing here!?!" I panted

"Oh hello Laura"

"Trozran! Where the hell am I?!" I yelled at him

"No need to be so aggressive I am simply doing what I was told to do," he said

"I would say go to hell but you already go there"

"I see you've met Bendy"

"Did you really just name that thing Bendy!"

"Come on Laura, he is so nice. Once you get to know him"

"Fuck off you satanic demon!"

"As you wish" just then the wendigo's roar came closer. I stood still as it walked through where I was. Again it sniffed the air and then moved on. It came around the tree and jumped up on it trying to reach me. I screamed and climbed higher and higher. The Wendigo couldn't climb up due to it being too big and its claws dug into the tree making the tree bend a bit. It got off the tree and whimpered before running away for good. I stayed in the tree not wanting to get down my eyes became tired from all the running I did. I looked through my bag and grabbed a towel wrapping it around me and the tree to make sure I didn't fall off of it while asleep.

~

When I woke up I saw that it was about 1 in the morning. The sky had not changed from the dark color it was. The Wendigo was nowhere to be seen or heard. Slowly I got down from the tree and started walking the way I had been going.

As I walked I looked around carefully for the Wendigo but couldn't see it anywhere

"Let's hope that it's asleep," I told myself before coming upon a giant cave opening. Carefully I looked inside and saw the Wendigo curled up asleep in there surrounded by a pile of bones and skulls. I shivered at the site "Let's see what I brought with me" I said looking through my bag finding a flashlight, towel, my knife, sunglasses, hand sanitizer, and a phone charger. I got an idea setting my bag outside the cave I used my knife to cut off tree limbs and branches before putting them in the cave around the Wendigo. Then I took two rocks and quietly smashed them together trying to make a spark. A small flame started then grew bigger as it started to catch on the other branches and limbs. The Wendigo stirred and rustled around until it woke up seeing that itself was trapped by the flames. It roared and thrashed around until it jumped through the flames over to me. It charged at me but I slid underneath it and climbed onto its back. It bucked around like a bull as I held onto it before plunging my knife into its neck where it screamed and thrashed even more viciously. I pulled the knife out and kept stabbing the thing until it didn't move. I kicked it and it twitched its limbs but nothing else. That's when I set it on fire. As I watched the flames of the fire consume the monster I suddenly felt terrified.

*I killed something* I thought just then I was taken back to my house

"Laura, are you ok?" I heard my mom ask

"Um I don't know" closing the door I went upstairs to my room. I set my bag down and climbed onto my bed

"You defeated it," Trozran said popping in

"Leave me alone" I mumbled curling my body inwards

"I didn't think you were —"

"Leave me alone," I said more loudly

"Are you—"

"I said go!" I through one of my pillows at him but he vanished before it could hit him. I cried as I thought about the last few hours that just happened. "I killed it but if I didn't it would have killed me. Then why do I feel so bad" I continued to cry feeling bad for what I did but also not regretting it. "Survival that's why".

~

"How did Laura do with the Wendigo?" Lucy asked smirking as she put jars of water out onto her windowsill

"She defeated it" Trozran unemotionally said

"She what?!" she turned around with fury in her eyes Trozran sighed

"I thought you would react this way so I put a camera on Laura. Do you want to see it?" he asked immediately Lucy sat down on her bed waiting to be shown it. Trozran threw his hand upon the wall making a projector like-screen pop up with the camera on Laura's clothes. He moved his finger like he was going to press a button, the video started.

As the video played it showed everything that Laura saw as she was out there. Most of the video was silent as she was just walking through the woods turning around occasionally as she looked for the monster. Lucy intensely studied the video wondering why and how did she defeat this thing. She observed that not once did Laura break down or freak out about the monster until she actually saw the thing. She laughed at the interaction between Laura and Trozran when he went to check on her as Laura was screaming at him for naming the thing. When the Wendigo was trying to attack Laura while up in the tree Lucy chuckled to herself as she loved seeing Laura so scared.

As the video went on Lucy noted that Laura became much quieter than before as the video was nearing where she would eventually kill it. The video was full of silence with Laura just staring at the creature without saying anything besides her breathing. Then the video cut out after a couple of seconds of her staring at the fire of the burning beast.

"Fight or flight. That's how she did it" Lucy whispered "Once she recognized that she was in danger her body went into survival mode. Usually, people would be too scared to actually react to something like this" Lucy told herself "You can go now Trozran. I'll call you back when I need you" she said waving her hand at him

"There's one more thing that I need to tell you. When I teleported Laura back and I went to see her. She was..." he stopped not sure how to tell Lucy

"She was what?"

"She — I think she was crying. She made me get out before I could tell if she was crying" Lucy scuffed at this info

"Weak. She kills a beast like that and then she cries about it. How pathetic can she be" Trozran went away. 

*Humans are a strange creature*.