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Doc Vega posted a blog postHalloween Story No. 4 “The Curse”
Arnold Yates had spent 20 years in big city law enforcement. Ten years as a Cop and 10 years as an investigator. As a result he’s lost most of his faith in human nature after seeing what people do to each other. For 3 years after his wife left luckily before his pension would kick in, Arnie, as his friends, what friends he had left, called him, he had searched for some affordable real estate in a quiet setting. Low priced, easy to afford, and a bargain compared to the part of the country he lived in, he came up with East Texas where the population density was low, crime stats were below the national average, and real estate was undervalued compared to much of the US.Losing a wife he had intended on spending the rest of his years with was a blow, but it didn’t change his long term goal of getting away from the cruelty and savageness of the big city! Hortonville had been a lumber town and railroad center for a time in the 1930’s and was now simply a rural farm community center with a grocery store, feed store, gas station, and few shops aside from the sheriff’s office. When a realtor showed Arnold the spacious cabin with a nice piece of land around it with a price that couldn’t be matched anywhere else, he took it! Living on his pension now, he’d always be able to afford it! Now all he had to do was buy some furniture and appliances before he could move in.A local directed him to the Penny Inn off the main drag where he could stay a few nights until he got situated. Mrs. Branch ran the place and was decent enough giving him a weekly rate and letting him know she served basic breakfasts starting at 7:30 in the morning until 9:30 biscuits and sausage gravy, egg and cheese omelets, or bacon and eggs. Since her last checkout she told Arnold he’d be all by himself in room 66 at the end of the hallway.Arnie was waiting on deliveries when a knock came at the door. He answered it and in front of him was a well-dressed portly fellow who extended his hand, “You Arnold Yates?” He asked with a smile.“Who wants to know?” Arnie squinted suspiciously not taking the hand shake.“I’m Ray Hutchison, County Commissioner. Mind if I come in?”Arnie stepped aside and gestured him in, “To what do I attribute this personal greeting to?”“Let me get down to brass tacks. I have an offer for you that I think you’ll like. Being that we have a small county and not a lot of law enforcement here, I’m looking for an experienced lawman that we can depend on. A county detective. You’d answer to the sheriff’s office.”Before he could get started Arnold swung his head back and forth, “I’ve spent 20 years in a big city police force and I’ve had all the crime I can stomach!”“Look,” Ray replied, “I know all about your record. We could use a seasoned man like you. Excellent life insurance, salary, and you get your own vehicle too!” You’d be more like a consultant than a full time detective! Most times our farming and ranch community get along just fine. It’s nothing like where you come from.”“To tell you quite truthfully, I really wanted to get out of this profession.”“Oh, come on now!” Ray insisted, “It’s in your blood! It wouldn’t be long before you miss being involved. You know that as well as I do! Please consider it.”What this persistent man was saying was unfortunately true, “let me mull this over. I’m not sure if I want to jump back into the furnace so to speak,” Arnie sighed.“Look, you’re invited over to the sheriff’s office, talk to some deputies, get a feel for the operation, and if you want, we’ll talk more,” Ray smiled and extended his hand once more which Arnie took.“By the way,” Arnie asked, “Why didn’t the sheriff contact me on this instead of you?”Ray took on a suddenly dark countenance and sighed, “Well our Sheriff Porter, died while on the job of a heart attack. He was a good man! It hit the department pretty hard.”“I see.”“We could really use the help, Sir,” Ray almost pleaded.“Okay, let me go down to the office in a couple of days after I get things situated around here and get the lay of the land, but this is no commitment, understand?”Ray nervously shook his head, “No worries! No pressure! Just come in and tell me what you think!” Ray grabbed Arnie’s hand again and scurried out the door.Three Days LaterThe first chill of fall had begun and a light drizzle had begun to fall as he hit the windshield wiper switch and headed out from the edge of town, onto the main drag, and to the sheriff’s office. It was quiet as Arnold introduced himself to the Marcy, the Dispatcher. “Would you be able to pull up a few weeks of the blotter so I could see what kind of activity has been going on?” He smiled.“Why sure. I’ll put’em in a folder for you!” She replied as she looked over this tall man with brown hair that hung off his shoulders. What an interesting specimen, she thought.“Thanks,” Arnold spoke absentmindedly as he walked through the deputies offices.“May I help you, Sir?” A young deputy asked, thin and wiry, but tough besides his uniform and badge, a pair of well-polished boots, seemed he took his job seriously.“Name’s Arnold Yates. It seems your County Commissioner has been anxious to get me out here.”“Oh yeah! You’re the new guy!” He stuck out his hand. “Glad to meet you!”“Deputy Can I have a minute with you. Where we can talk?”Buck closed the door to the office and gestured for Arnold to have a chair. “Shoot,” he said.“How have things been lately here? I heard your sheriff suffered a heart attack.”Buck’s face become suddenly gloomy, “Yeah that was a tough one. I found him in his truck, deceased. Dispatch had been calling and we were out looking for him.”“What do you think?” Arnold pressed.“Uh, something disturbed me about it.He had this look on his face like something or someone had scared the hell out of him. Like he’d seen a ghost! He was a big man like you, and he had nothing to be afraid of from any man.”“What did the coroner say about it?”“I was not privy to the autopsy, but I did see what the end result was,” Buck explained with is hands folded nervously in front of him. I thought it was unusual.”“How are things? What’s been happening lately?” Arnie squinted inquisitively.“Most of the time, everything is routine, patrols, occasional traffic accidents, cattle falls out of a truck, nothing too big to handle but lately we’ve had a slew of animal mutilations and someone breaking into farmer’s meat freezers.”“Any ideas?”“I have one lead, but I don’t know if it’s related to the Sheriff’s death,” Buck advised, “I got a feeling anyway.”“Tell me about it?”“Well, there’s this widow, and I mean she is a looker too, but a peculiar Gal. She reported a peeping Tom or something that looked scary that she saw in her window! We went out and checked it out. Found some big footprints outside her place. Big ones!”“You get a plaster cast?”“No, it rained the following day and washed them away! But, you should go and check her out,” He said with a sly smile.“What are you some kind of matchmaker?” Arnold frowned.“I’m just saying she is different, mysterious, I’d say. You might find out something from her.”“You playing games with me, Mister?” Arnie growled. “I don’t have time for games.”“No! No!” Buck held up his hands defensively. “She’s an artist.”“Getting back to the break-ins. Are there bears or cougars in the area?”“No bears in years around these parts, but cougars, yes!” Buck explained. “But whatever has been doing this is no damn bear or cougar.”Chapter IIBefore he left the office, Marci, had dropped a folder of blotters in his lap and Arnold went over them. Most of it was all routine uneventful calls and patrol chatter, but the break-ins were serious along with a couple of cattle that had been drained bloodless. That was flat out of the norm! It reminded Arnold of FBI reports coming out of New Mexico years before about cattle mutilations! And he thought things were going to be quiet. Damn it! Arnold decided to go over to this widow’s place and interview her.It looked like a small 2 story house as he walked up to the porch and rang the doorbell. Only the screen door was left open. From the shadowy interior came the figure of a tall woman, slender, wearing a house coat open in the middle revealing a sheer gown she was wearing. In one hand she held an artist’s paint brush and in the other a drink. “Who may I say is calling?" she wavered in a cunning manner as though it were all a joke and she wore a mischievous smile.“Name’s Arnold Yates, I’m an investigator for the county,” He tipped his hat. “May I come in?”She nodded and backed away from the door, “Come,” She replied, leaning her head as she looked him over.“Would you mind answering a few questions?” Arnie asked.“I thought I did all that before when your deputies showed up,” She replied while giving him odd glances as if interested but undecided yet.“Sorry to bother you,” Arnold apologized.“That’s alright, Detective, can I interest you in a drink. It seems pretty late in the day for duty,” She was right about that. He’d spent hours at the sheriff’s office and it was late in the afternoon now.“You caught me in the middle of my daily cocktail hour before I make dinner,” she mentioned as if telling a boring story.There was a scent she gave off faintly of vanilla and musk that was alluring, even arousing! Arnold hadn’t been with another women since his wife had left. “Get your mind out of the gutter!” he told himself.She glanced at him like she knew what he was thinking, “By the way, my name is Amanda.” She held out her hand, the one that didn’t have a drink in it. She was excited by the warm touch of his large hand.“Let me put away this paint brush. I have a small studio in the back. It keeps me busy now that I exist without a man in my life,” She explained with a knowing look in her eyes, “How’d you like to fill the bill?”Arnold cleared his throat as she strolled back into the kitchen, and offered him a drink, “What’ll yuh have?”“Whatever, is convenient for you to make. Do you have rum?”“Oh yes, what is life without rum?” She mixed it with soda and bent over toward him revealing her cleavage through the sheer gown that parted the house coat. Arnold swallowed and tried to look into her eyes.“I’m widowed and so living here alone, I must make life interesting for myself here. I regret selling the larger house my late husband and I shared, but living alone and constantly attending to everything it takes to maintain a place that large was far too time consuming,” She sighed. “Now I must live among these local yokels, who make rumors about me.”Noting that Amanda was a statuesque woman with a willowy figure and seductive charm, Arnold spoke up, “I find it strange that you haven’t found a man that would worship the ground you walk on.”She blushed momentarily, “I’m afraid I’d walk all over him. Besides prospects here among these country bumpkins, no thanks!”“Well, I guess you could always move to where there’s more action,” Arnold replied sarcastically.“Aside from the disappointment. I like it here, but living without someone to share it with is a challenge, and how about you?”Arnold tried not to look too outwardly grim, “My wife of 17 years left.”“Oh, I’m so sorry,” she said as she took a sip off her drink.”Arnold drained the rest of his glass.“How about another?” She offered“Why not?” Arnold sighed.As Amanda poured him another drink, Arnold asked, “Can you tell me what happened? What you saw?”She got a sudden unpleasant look on her face as she recalled, “It was around this time of day. I was about to cook for myself and I saw what I thought was a peeping Tom, until I looked closer and thought I was looking at something like a creature more than a man! Like to have scared the hell out of me! When I screamed, he or it ran off!”“Can you describe in more detail?” Arnold asked.“The head was wide, eyes large and brown from what I could see. A furry head with only part of the eyes, nose, and mouth uncovered, the rest, dark brown. “I’ll do a very professional sketch for you if you like being that I’m an artist,” She offered.“We might need that,” Arnold sighed and finished his drink. “I’m sorry to have taken up so much of your time, but I better let you attend to your dinner.”“Aw, you have to go?” Amanda feigned true regret. “Just when it was getting interesting too.”He couldn’t deny it, this woman who was supposed to be around 50 was definitely well preserved and very alluring. His arousal was undeniable, but he decided this might not be an appropriate time to grab her and taste those wicked lips of hers.“Do me a favor. You can come back any time you like. I enjoy your company,” She smiled once again mischievously.“I will!” Arnold said as he took her hand and kissed it wondering if he’d gone too far, but she accepted it gracefully and nodded to him. With that he walked out of her place.It was just about dark now and he got his atomic flashlight from his car and scanned around. At her window he noted that whoever it was would have to have stood 7 foot tall in order to look into that window! His visual scan took him to a ditch filled with a tree line that extended a mile down the road as they lined the culvert that ran alongside the road! It was dark and tangled in tree trunks and brush, no way was he going to get down into that, but it could be a great escape route for a Peeping Tom or whatever that ape man thing was! He went back to his vehicle, thinking about Amanda, and drove off.That night the dream state was a crushing experience as it seemed Amanda’s presence hovered over him as he slept. Several times he awoke in a dark void convinced he had made love to the bewitching widow who it seemed called out to him in his sleep. It seemed Amanda was haunting his sleep and there was nothing he could do about it! The next morning when he arrived at the Sheriff’s office he called in Buck, who was just about to leave on patrol. “What do you know about this woman who reported the Peeping Tom?” Arnold frowned.“All I know is she’s a widow, she’s pretty decent looking, and I examined the area where she claimed she was being watched from. That’s all!”“Why were you suggesting that I go check her out?” Arnie demanded.Intimidated by the irritation is Arnie’s mood, the deputy shrugged innocently, “I swear, I don’t know anything else about that woman. I just thought you might finder her interesting is all? Why?”“Nothing, but yeah you’re right, she’s interesting in a wicked sort of way. You can go now,” Arnie said dismissively.“I didn’t mean anything by it!” Buck explained.“Okay, fine, just proceed to your duties, Deputy!”Amanda was still weighing on his mind, and it seemed nothing could halt his obsession, Beads of sweat rolled off his temples. What the hell had happened to him? Was he losing his mind? Arnie now regretted he accepted the offer to consider taking this job! But, knowing all this he couldn’t help himself. Arnold got in his truck and drove over to Amanda’s home. Feeling somewhere between being an idiot and a love sick puppy, he walked onto her porch, the screen door as before was the only thing keeping the front entrance secure. He knocked.Amanda approached from the dimly lit interior of her place wearing only a shawl that spit down the middle revealing her nude form, “I knew you would be back! I waited for you!” She hissed with delight and opened the door looking into his eyes with a twinkling of excitement and lust!She grabbed him around his neck and pulled his face down to hers and gave him a long kiss! Arnold was shocked and amazed. It was like the dream he‘d been having simply continued into his waking consciousness. Was he dreaming or what? He grabbed her, carrying her to the bedroom on his right beyond the kitchen not knowing what had come over him. He was seeing red! He was choking with a lust he had no control over! What was he doing? How could he stop himself? The answer was, he couldn’t! They grappled with each other’s bodies tangled in kisses and animal hunger! After what had seemed like hours, Amanda emerged from the bed and put a finger to her lips. She came back with a couple of drinks-some mysterious kind of liqueur, he’d never tasted before, tangy, herbal, sweet, yet unknown to his taste buds.She sipped a mouthful and poured it into his lips then giggled with a girlish yet unsettling laugh. Amanda held him in a trance-like state that had captivated Arnold. What had he gotten himself into, but that question had long since become irrelevant. He was hopelessly under her spell and could not figure out why! “I have something to show you,” Amanda grinned mischievously.She carried an easel to the front of the bed with a cloth covering it standing there in her nakedness and in a formal posture she unveiled a startling portrait. It was a perfect likeness of her Peeping Tom creature-it startled him! He jerked in astonishment! What was this all about, he wondered.“I have a photographic memory,” she explained ignoring the bizarre implications of the moment. “It helps with my art work. What do you think?”Arnie rubbed his face in disbelief, “Why did you choose this moment to show something like this to me? I mean it looks like something Rembrandt would have painted, but why now?”“I wanted you to see my work. Besides, I thought this might help with your investigation,” She offered in false sincerity with the expression of a little girl who had been caught doing something she shouldn’t.Arnie couldn’t resist pulling her back down into the bed and kissing her again, somehow overlooking the awkwardness of the moment! This was not like his careful nature. Something had happened to him that he couldn’t explain! She touched his lips with her index finger and said something unusual. “This painting of him. He said he would never let go.”“What do you mean?” Arnold frowned, sat up in the bed, and started at the bizarre portrait again.“He’s part of my gallery, a captured moment of my past, and instead of just passing away like any mortal husband should, he came back in this form,” Amanda explained as if the explanation spoke for itself.“Are you saying that this thing you painted on canvass has the spirit of your dead husband?” Arnold blurted out disbelievingly.Amanda just stared into his eyes and replied quietly, “I knew when I met you that you were the one. You would liberate me from this-this incarnate from the grave. He feeds on animal blood from the local farms to keep himself in our plane of existence. Now you have intervened.”Arnie was truly bewildered now and turned away from her, though he didn’t want to, but he had to exert his own will sometime. “What the hell are you, a witch?” He muttered.He felt the warmth f her body as she drew close and pressed against him. Her warm mouth gently biting his ear, “If you want to call me that. Then I am. He could never bring out the true lover within me like you do, and after he died, I never knew this could happen, but he told me that he used a curse to tie our souls together and only another outside of the bond could break it,” She whispered.“You’re freaking me out! You know this don’t you?”“Come now Mister big law man from the big city, if anyone should know about the true evil of human nature you should!” Amanda pressed against him with her lustful ways.Goose bumps erupted from his flesh, his hair stood up on his neck, and he was aroused all over again, turned back on top of her and clutched her writhing flesh! He pierced her again! She latched onto him digging her nails into his back and urging him on with her fiery tongue and scorching, provocative, language.“You must stop this entity who refuses to let go of me,” Amanda pleaded with him once they had subsided from their scorching love making. She sat atop him and looked down into his eyes. “You are the only man I have come to for this. Only you. He has come to me before in different forms and I always had a spell to offset his curse, but he always managed to come back in another form, never intending to let me go! Please believe me.”“What other forms?” Arnie muttered.“He once haunted me as a wolf, once as a hawk, another time as fox, but this time he had incarnated as a very powerful and savage being that is willing to battle whoever dares to connect with my body, my emotions, my soul, and you have!”“Do you know how crazy this sounds? Arnie sighed.“You don’t think that you, despite your careful and tormented nature, could end up so passionately intertwined with me in such a short period of time? I did come to you in your dreams, you do know that don’t you?”“Yes,” Arnie nodded, conceding there was something to all of this, momentarily drifting off, fantasizing about what life would be like with this bewitching seductress while trying to hold down his county job. Would this be the bizarre ending to his later years? Amanda massaged his face in her hands with her eyes closed, reading his thoughts unbeknownst to him. Yes, he was the one, she knew.Amanda bent down close to Arnie’s face and stared into his eyes, “You must save me, and you will have me always,” she whispered urgently.Two Days LaterAmanda had told Arnie everything about this spiritual bond that had remained after death. In life he had been possessive and overbearing even if he had been a wizard of investing had provided a lifetime of income. It was still a form of bondage. The plan was set. They would set a trap! Once again the beast would come to her window, perhaps even attempt to get into the house. In this present form, as powerful as it now was, it might have intended to take Amanda with him into death so that there was no escaping the spiritual bondage in the afterlife! Arnie had consented to the plan. Dressed in a tactical uniform, his vehicle hidden from the premises, and heavily armed, he waited. The night air had grown cold. It would be about the same time frame as the last encounter.As he crouched behind some foliage and camouflage, he heard it. The sound of a large and powerful presence emerging from the long row of dark trees that ran along a shadowy ditch. Amanda was waiting inside not far from her the window where she had last been spied upon by that beast! She trembled, contemplating her plan, wondering if Arnold was up to the task, he sure was in bed. She licked her lips on that thought, and held an ancient trinket to her breasts and waited.The massive figure lurked in the darkness and slowly crept in silence but for the occasional crunch of a leaf underfoot. Standing over 7 foot tall as Arnie was already aware, it made its way to Amanda’s window to peer in. It seemed the normal noises of the night vanished in a deadly vacuum! There it was reaching at the window sill. Then the thought occurred to Arnie, what the hell was he going to do? Fire at the ape man creature and hit the wall of the house and wound or kill Amanda with a stray bullet? No way! He hadn’t thought about this at all. His thinking had been unclear. He had been too preoccupied with Amanda to think straight! He moved parallel to the wall of Amanda’s house to get a batter shot, but in doing so gave away his position and alerted the beast.The moonlight illuminated a grotesque human-like but ape face that was glaring at him with a furious expression. Arnold raised his AR-15 rifle and fired, taking care to keep his aim away from the outer wall! At first it was stunned by the blast, it then charged at him with such quickness all Arnold could do was throw the rifle at it which it stopped momentarily to swipe away like a mere nuisance and it kept coming! Arnold back tracked unholstering his 357 magnum and raised the heavy caliber pistol, but as he did so he fell backwards! When he raised his arm to fire, the creature had already grabbed his legs and flung him like a rag doll several feet away from the house and into the yard! The impact of hitting the ground knocked the 357 magnum from his grip! Arnie had no choice but to run, throwing whatever he could find backward, a rake, a neighbor’s trash can. He could hear the ground being pounded by a heavy bipedal impact behind him!Arnie leaped over a hurricane chain link fence on the next door neighbor’s property with his assailant in hot pursuit! Then he heard the voice of a man screaming from inside his house through an open window, “I’m calling the police! You crazy son of a bitch! Get outta my yard!”“Call them!” Arnie answered breathlessly as he attempted to climb a tree branch and scale an old oak tree. The beast grabbed Arnie once again launching him onto the grassy yard that he hit hard! With the wind knocked out of him and grasping for anything he could find. There was a hatchet next to a tree stump he was able to get a hold of. As the monstrous figure came at him, Arnie swung and hit it in the leg above the knee. The ape man screeched in a horrid, ear splitting, howl, and Arnie swung again landing it in the side of his hell bent attacker, but it grabbed the axe and snatched it from Arnie ready to use it on him when the crack of a rifle shot rang out in the air of the night! The neighbor who was seeing the struggle going on in his property responded with force!One shot, and the creature froze in its tracks, two shots, and it staggered, a third report, and the man ape splattered in blood, collapsed with a heavy thud on the ground! Arnie got up and raised his hands, “Don’t shoot! That damn thing was trying to kill me!”“I already called the sheriffs!” The older man said as he carried his rifle with him to see who or what he had killed.“I’m with the sheriff’s department,” Arnie answered still winded from his life and death struggle.“What in the hell is that?” The neighbor muttered, looking down at the furry corpse lying on his yard.“I believe this is what has been breaking into farmer’s meat lockers and killing cattle,” Arnie replied feeling his bruised ribs as he began stumbling toward Amanda’s, “Wait for the law!” He called back to the neighbor.“Sure is one ugly son of a bitch!” The older man called back.Where was she? He thought aloud. Had she been hit by a stray bullet, he worried. Wouldn’t that be par for the course, he grimaced. In the distance, he heard sirens of approaching deputy sheriffs as he limped to Amanda’s front door. He opened it and walked in. The house was dark, which disturbed him. He flicked on a light but didn’t see her anywhere! “Amanda, he’s dead! You’re safe now, “Arnie gasped as he held his side.He limped past the kitchen and past the bedroom to his right where he and Amanda had made such passionate love that contained that easel of a portrait of what had died out there in the neighbor’s yard and further toward the gallery, the secret room where she did all her painting. The room she had never bothered to show him what her work was all about in. He flicked on the light to view a disturbing collection of portraits. One, in particular caught his attention. It was a perfect likeness of himself swinging an axe at the very ape-like creature that she had captured on canvass and it was all in the pale moonlight just as on this unholy evening. He gasped. He then saw something else as he scanned the room. It was a doll roughly of his own likeness with a pearl pin stuck through its heart lying on a small table near the portrait of his struggle with the ape creature.A voice came from behind him, “I guess you must know now that I can paint the future and make it come to pass. Do you understand now?”Without turning around, Arnold Yates, in surprise, replied, “I guess that you really are a witch aren’t you?” He turned toward her. What Arnold saw, startled him! It was Amanda, older, grayer, wrinkled, possessing features that seemed to be the classic weathered sorceress of evil depicted in folklore and legend. “Come to me my lover. I am yours forever!” Her moistened lips pluttered!The End See More
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Doc Vega posted a blog postHalloween Story Number Three- “They Came from the Sky!"
Werner was from Westphalia, Germany-the Northwest Region. He had been in America for a few months now as an exchange student. The US was a fascinating mixture of fashion, American self-indulgence, and politics. The Americans didn’t realize just how fortunate they really were, he thought. The abundance they enjoyed was also blinding them to the general condition of the rest of the world, but be that as it may, he had met Jenna, a 2nd year co-ed. They had been dating and had planned on a three-day weekend holiday. Jenna loved the outdoors so they would end up in nature to do some hiking. Since he didn’t know much about American geography so he left the choices up to his little princess.“I was going to make a reservation for a hike in the national parks system, but I was reading about these disappearances that kind of concerns me,” she said with cute little worry lines on her brunette features. At 5 ft. 4in. she was very fit and trim. She was confident most of the time.Being that Werner was amazed at the naivety of Americans, their pre-occupation with trivial subjects, and simply different than Germans, Werner brushed off Jenna’s concerns, “Come on! What are the chances anything could happen in your pristine forests? You have park rangers and your big deputy sheriffs, stop being a superstitious child!” He laughed.“The nearest national park is 30 miles from campus then,” She replied. “That will give us more time to explore!” She added enthusiastically.“Well, let’s get this vacation going!” Werner urged sounding a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That was what initially attracted Jenna to him, his solid physique and sense of invulnerability!One Week LaterBen Diamond was a seasoned park ranger and with hands folded behind his back as he greeted the new arriving hikers as he also instructed them on safety. Sometimes he could be aggravated by some of the self-assured city dwellers who had no idea what they were getting into! Often they were the ones found stumbling incoherently through the woods, dehydrated and disoriented if they were lucky! Sometimes they were found dead? What bothered Ben was that even when some of them had survival gear, their tents and supplies were found intact, but they had vanished, but this was privileged information that was filed away or confiscated by the federal special agents on duty in the national parks. He kept silent on that subject!“I’m going to say this one time so listen up! Ask questions if you don’t understand!” He bellowed! “Do not leave the hiking trials under any circumstance! Is that understood? This keeps you from being the next victim disappearing in dense forests, lost, hypothermic, and prone to die if not rescued in a very short period of time! Is that understood?” Ben asked as he scanned the hikers and campers who were about to enter the interior of the park.Werner smirked thinking that Ben was being melodramatic, “So, does this mean your Bigfoot is on the loose?” He chuckled.“No!” Ben Diamond shot back. “It means that some cougar might just make lunch out of your sarcastic butt, or that some mother black bear might maul you if you get near her cubs! Is that clear?”Werner nodded silently as Jenna jabbed an elbow in his ribs. He had a feeling that the park ranger knew more than he was letting on. These Americans could be very cunning and sly, he thought.Jenna looked up at Werner, “He’s just doing his job!”Ben went on for some time emphasizing how hikers should behave and respect nature as he passed out brochures that illustrated all things he had discussed. Ben was the senior park ranger on site and took his job seriously though some people thought he was dramatizing occasionally. Of course, they had not seen the aftermath of a bear mauling or the body of a careless hiker who had been stalked by a puma and not lived to tell about it! People always thought it could never happen to them!Ben glanced over at Dolly, his dispatcher, “I think we got a green bunch in here this week! We’re going to have to be especially on the alert.”Dolly just raised her eyebrows, “You’re such an alarmist!” she playfully punched him in the shoulder.As Jenna and Werner prepared to go to their assigned campsite and begin their vacation, Ben walked over. “Did you guys have any other questions?” He asked.Ben was about the same size as Werner, broad shouldered, a bit overweight compared to the younger German student but imposing no less. Werner regarded the park ranger calmly as if he were not intimidated, “I think you made us quite aware of all the idiots who fall victim here!” He spoke laughingly.Ben, glared at Werner, “You need to be aware of what you’re dealing with here, okay? I don’t want to have to lead a rescue searching for you two.”Werner nodded his head as if amused, “Point taken,” he replied.“Have a nice day then,” Ben responded almost contemptuously.It was early afternoon as the group of hikers anxious to get started flocked in different directions reading the trail markers and signs as they went. The two headed for their campsite first to get situated! Jenna was the expert at this as Werner hadn’t done any overnight camping though he had hiked in the Northern Region of Germany but not camped. He allowed Jenna to structure their approach! She was a take charge type of lady, Werner thought, so he let her have her way. By the time they ha dup camp with a couple of other sites visible but some distance away it was late in the day. They had gathered firewood, set up their bedding and tent, while clearing the area for rocks or anything that could have caused them to fall or stumble. Suddenly, as Jenna strolled across the sandy forest soil, a ruffling noise like a rush of disrupted air came from overhead as it did a shadow was cast from above! It caught her by surprise but whatever made the shadow was big like some kind of aircraft! Maybe it had hit a tree top, she thought as she squinted up into the sky not knowing whether to duck or dive for the ground, but just as suddenly as the strange sound had been made, it was gone, and whatever it was seemed so far in the distance she couldn’t get a fix on it! “Werner!” She screamed. “Did you see that?”“Whatever are you talking about Fraulein?” He asked doubtfully.“Something just flew overhead! Didn’t you hear it?” Jenna explained.“No, I think you have a frayed imagination!” He replied back impervious to her confusion.She slammed a fist impotently against his huge chest, “You are such a pain!”“I think you could use a shot or two of the schnapps that I brought along to calm your nerves!” Werner offered.She blew her hair out of her face frustratedly, “Maybe you’re right!”Werner grabbed her like a mama bear would grab a cub in her arms and carried her to their tent, then administrated the peppermint liquor that surprisingly did help. She was surprised and then fell into a nap in Werner’s arms. The next thing she knew she was waking up, seeing the campfire flickering and Werner standing near looking up into the night sky. He seemed calm and reassured until she saw a worried look in his eye as he bent over and crawled into the tent as he smiled unsurely. “I’m so glad you got some rest. Apparently you needed it. Now we can enjoy the stars for a while!”“Are you okay?” Jenna asked.“Oh fine,” Werner sighed. “I have some boiling water for tea and some heated up rations for us. Now I think I’ll have some of that schnapps.”“Oh, I feel like I wasted some of our precious time off!” Jenna added ruefully.“What did we come here for? To relax” We’re relaxing no?” Werner replied as he took a mouthful of the schnapps and allowed the blast of strong mint to drain down his throat!A shooting star flashed through the inky blackness illuminated by a cluster of gem-like points of light that glinted against the night sky. Werner kissed her tenderly and rounded up a couple of sandwiches he had at the foot of the fire along with the tea pot. Jenna knew he had something on his mind anyway. She knew him that well. They filled their tin cups with hot green tea and unwrapped their melted cheese and ham sandwiches. Jenna made a satisfied sound as she munched into the toasted treat. Things seemed serene and peaceful as she sipped the tea. “I know there’s something on your mind, Werner. Spit it out!”Werner was sitting upright finishing his sandwich as he gazed at the sky propped up by one arm, and gazed at her momentarily. “I was just thinking about strange articles I used to read about science and mysteries in Der Spiegel, when I was younger that really intrigued me,” He replied thoughtfully. In Oberstufe, high school, as you call it here, I would sit and read about scientific mysteries like flying disks, your Bigfoot, and other strange species not acknowledged by the academic world and some stories originated right here in your state of Maine!”“Oh really?” Jenna clutched his muscle bound arm. “Tell me.”“The Allagash Abduction (1976): Widely considered Maine's most famous UFO case. On August 20, 1976, twin brothers Jack and Jim Weiner, along with friends Charlie Foltz and Chuck Rak, were night-fishing on Eagle Lake in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. They spotted a brightly colored, silent sphere in the sky, tried to signal it with an SOS flashlight beam, and then they were abducted!” Werner recited dutifully. “And then there was this article about this medical experimental facility here in Maine run by the US Army that makes many people living here believe that the Bigfoot sightings have something to do with that center.”“Well, aren’t you the studious one,” Jenna playfully mocked.Werner turned to stare at Jenna when he asked,” What did you think you saw earlier in the air? I’m sorry I did not take you seriously.”“Why are you interested all the sudden?” Jenna asked probing his eyes.“I think there’s something flying around up there that’s not an airplane or meteor. I saw something while you were asleep.”“Oh!” Well now I’m not so full of shit, huh?” Jenna reacted.“I don’t know, but whatever it was it wasn’t natural!"Are we going to tell boogey man stories now, Sweetie?” She said with a nervous laugh.“Maybe these experimental labs can pull off genetic tests making man apes or even prehistoric giant birds,” Werner speculated with an ominous tone in his voice.“What did you see, Werner?” Jenna demanded as she stared into his eyes.“I-I don’t know what it was. I was thinking it through when you woke up. I saw something big and black up in the sunset sky with a huge wingspan! At first, I thought it was a small plane but then it flapped its wings and it made like a rushing sound like it was pushing air,” He frowned but she couldn’t see that in his face at the moment.“Yes-yes,” She agreed. “A kind of whooshing sound!”Werner nodded as if he got confirmation of something he didn’t want to believe. He was not easily startled but was curiously cautious over what he was seeing in his mind, “I’ve seen very old photos of hunters holding these huge birds that look nothing like what we consider predators like eagles or condors, or even owls! These were much bigger.”“And you’re telling me that’s what you saw?” Jenna insisted.“I have no other explanation,” Werner quietly admitted. “I think we should be careful.” He said slowly as though something had made an impression upon him.“Whatever you say, Captain,” Jenna playfully replied as she grabbed the back of Werner’s neck and pulled him down on top of her as their lips met.The night morphed into black infinity and into the mystery of dreamscapes. A veil of a Maine forest night fell like the ceiling of an unlit cave and the tent became still. Only their breathing disturbed the nocturnal wilderness. From above there came a strange rattling noise that echoed from a huge pair of lungs belonging to an ancient raptor that only American Indian legends had hinted at. Against the background of stars and the pale light of the moon, it drifted to a tree top and perched as its heavy weight caused a rustling of branches and leaves. The couple did not stir as they succumbed to the need for rest there at the edge of the unknown and the waking world of denial.Bruce Fletcher had rotated to early morning duty on this day and had left the park ranger office in the jeep, headed for the campsites on routine patrol. The morning was crisp in the lower 40’s and he could see his breath inside the cab. Light was barely making its way over the horizon as the clouds would not burn off for hours if at all today. The coffee had helped give him some stimulus but the chill still bit through his green, light, park ranger jacket as he made a left turn on the sandy gravel road headed for the outer campsites and a steep fall off to the right side of the road from an angled slope that bordered one side of the trail. He glanced over the horizon wishing he’d gotten more sleep when it happened!A large airborne shape moving in a peculiar way, seemed to head straight for his jeep head on! He could not make out clearly through his frosted windshield just what the hell it could be! He squinted through his glasses then slammed on his brakes! Whatever it was had been flapping huge wings and smashed right into the auto-glass! Trying to dodge the weird mid-air collision, Bruce swerved to his right and inadvertently skittered into the edge of the shoulder and over the steep slope that only led to a steep drop off and an end over end tumbling ranger jeep! Park Ranger, Fletcher screamed in disbelief, still trying to hold onto the steering wheel as his world violently rolled in a cloud of dust down the hilly face of rocky out cropping! The huge shape that had crashed into the Jeep flew up into the air and glided over the unsettled dust of a fatal wreck. The Jeep laying on one side, crumpled, wheels still spinning, partially hiding the broken body of Bruce Fletcher. The windshield was collapsed, and a huge bloody claw mark seemed painted on the front edge of the roof!“Did you hear something?” Jenna yawned as she stretched out her arms.Werner listened intently, sensed something was wrong, but lay still without a world just looking at the tent ceiling trying to understand what might have happened. “What did it sound like to you?” He sleepily groaned.“Was like something metallic crashing. Maybe a wreck,” Jenna yawned as she crawled out of the tent to look around. Then she saw it up in the air above the tree tops, a huge flying form that cast that same shadow she remembered from yesterday!“Werner quick!” She yelled.Werner hadn’t had time to straighten up and was on his hands and knees, “What?” He stubbornly muttered still trying to wake up. Glanced into the sky where Jenna was pointing and saw something that reminded him of a dragon or flying dinosaur of some kind. ”Oh my God!”Jenna also spotted a cloud of rising smoke not too far from their location rising up from the opposite roadside further down from their campsite. “What in the hell is going on?” Jenna wondered aloud. Is this some kind of nightmare?”Werner grabbed her and pulled her down into the tent, “Don’t give this damn thing a target! We don’t need to attract its attention!” he hissed. The two of them clutching each other backed away from the open end of the tent now keeping very quiet and still. Werner closed the flap to the tent and held Jenna hoping the creature would not see them. Every once in a while they heard the rush of air over the top of the tent, telling them that something big and powerful had just passed over them! It was unnerving! They waited in silence, listening for any possible inkling of danger. Finally, Werner hearing the sounds of vehicles, lifted the flap of the tent opening a watched as a line of park ranger jeeps stood at the should of the road where Jenna had seen the telltale signs of a cloud of smoke not knowing about ranger Fletcher’s jeep crashing over the slope.Checking up into the sky, Werner got up and began walking toward the small convoy of vehicles followed by Jenna. Park Ranger, Ben Diamond was standing over what was left of Bruce after having been rolled over by his capsized Jeep. The paramedics were clearing the body and loading it on a stretcher. “Please stay back!” Diamond warned Werner and Jenna, this is an accident scene!” Ben moved toward the two startled campers with his arms outstretched.“I think we may have seen what might be responsible for this earlier, “Jenna stammered.“What did you see?” Ben asked, “Or may I say, what did you think you saw?”Just then, what appeared to be US Army personnel drove up in two Humvees, camouflaged, and appearing armed with 50 caliber mounted machine guns. One of the soldiers, face covered in a green mask, walked over, “Have you secured the site?”“Just now arrived. We have one body being removed,” Ranger, Diamond replied.“Then what are these two civilians doing here?” The soldier asked.“We haven’t gotten the areas fully cordoned off yet!” the park ranger replied defiantly.“No matter! My men and I will take over from here!” The soldier replied forcefully.“And who are you with?” Ben asked.“US Army experimental lab division! We have federal jurisdiction please disburse!”“Does anybody give a damn about what we saw and how it could have been responsible for the death of this park ranger?” Jenna huffed back at the ranger and the soldier.“Care to tell us?” The soldier coldly replied.Werner silently stood aside not knowing what these Americans might do to a foreigner, not trusting them. He listened carefully and eyed the soldiers who were clearly taking charge.“My boyfriend and I were just getting up this morning when we first saw a cloud of smoke coming from this location,” she said pointing to the camp. “We were sleeping over there but when we got up we saw this flying creature of some kind and it threatened the two of us. We stayed down on the ground trying to keep from being snatched up by that thing!”“When was this? What time?” The soldier replied.“I don’t know! I was too freaked out to check my cell phone! We were trying to keep from getting attacked!”“What did this thing look like?” The soldier asked as two of his men brandishing weapons approached.That was when Werner broke in, “I thought it was a dragon at first, huge like a lizard or maybe like one of those Pterodactyls! It was a giant flying predator!”The soldier nodded to his men, “How long ago would you estimate?”“A good guess would be 2 hours ago I’d say,” Werner speculated.“From what direction did this thing come?”Jenna pointed, “That’s where I saw it first before it began flying overhead!”“You sure this wasn’t a drone of some kind or other airborne vehicle?”Jenna glared at the soldier, “I know what I saw!”“There!” One of the soldiers pointed. “There it is!”“Mount your weapons men! Prepare to fire!”“Yes Sir, Sergeant!”“What the hell does this have to do with the US Army labs?” Jenna shouted.“Corporal get these civilians the hell out of here! Ranger, withdraw your people! We’ll handle this!” The sergeant barked more orders to his men.“What are you going to do?” Werner shouted as a soldier grabbed him.The flying monstrosity came swooping down on the sergeant as the others moved away. “Fire!” he yelled just before being snatched off the ground.“We can’t fire with the sergeant in the claws of that thing!” One of the gunners cried out!“We have our orders! Now fire!” Another gunner mounted atop his Humvee called out as a loud burst of automatic ordnance flared from the muzzle of his weapon!The flying beast dropped the body of the sergeant and dodged the streams of bullets fired at it with incredible agility! Everyone but the two gunners ran from the scene. The paramedics drove off. Werner grabbed Jenna and they crouched behind one of the ranger’s jeeps, but the park ranger who jumped in, drove off leaving them stranded! Werner took Jenna by the hand and led her to her car. Jenna fumbled for her keys and the loud rattle of machine gun fire continued! Like watching flak trying to knock a fighter plane out of the sky, orange tracers of bullets followed the flying beast as it rolled and dived toward the ground. Werner and Jenna watched in horror as the aerial monster sheered the top of the gun mount and its gunner right off the Army Humvee, but the other gunner revolved into position and fired a burst that struck the animal directly and sent it to the ground as a horrid and shrill screech pierced the air. The huge body thumped onto the forest floor, torn by the bullets that had raked into it. Jenna watched the huge body spasmodically breathing its last breaths, blood spurting from its beak.“Let’s get the hell out’ve here!” Werner screamed as Jenna finally steadied herself long enough to insert her keys into the ignition to start up her car.As Jenna sped away, Ranger Ben Diamond tried to wave them down, but Werner lowered his window and extended his arm with a middle finger clearly visible like the sale on a boat into the air! Jenna watched as the sky seemed to erupt with more dark flying figures from the unknown as they descended upon the soldiers and park rangers who were unable to escape! Werner had his head cranked around watching the rear, “Keep going they are all goners!”“Do you think we should go to the authorities to tell them what we saw?” Jenna’s voice quivered.“And get interrogated by your American police and military? No way! Just keep driving! They’ll figure out a way of covering all this shit up!” Werner sighed resolutely.Tears streamed for Jenna’s eyes, “That was horrible! I can’t believe what we saw!” She stammered.“Get a hold of yourself!” Werner tried to reason with her. “Be thankful we got out alive.”Little did Jenna or Werner realize that a large shadow was hovering above them pacing the speed of their runaway vehicle and slowly descending upon it. Jenna was too freaked out to realize it and Werner was much too distracted trying to console her! Just seconds later the eerie telltale sound of a claw scraping against the sheet metal atop the car began! As she pressed her foot further against the gas pedal.Ten O’clock EST“This is Roland Pearce with the late night news reporting from our Portland affiliate! A bizarre chain of events has led to the deaths of several US Army personnel, park rangers, and civilians. Details are scarce at this hour, but local sheriffs are reportedly asking residents to remain calm and realize that all efforts are being made to normalize the situation! One local resident claims that a wild animal incident was responsible but further proof has not been released at this time. Now, we are returning you back to regularly scheduled programming. I’m Roland Peace and that’s the news for this late evening.” The EndSee More
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Arnold Yates had spent 20 years in big city law enforcement. Ten years as a Cop and 10 years as an investigator. As a result he’s lost most of his faith in human nature after seeing what people do to each other. For 3 years after his wife left luckily before his pension would kick in, Arnie, as his friends, what friends he had left, called him, he had searched for some affordable real estate in a quiet setting. Low priced, easy to afford, and a bargain compared to the part of the country he lived in, he came up with East Texas where the population density was low, crime stats were below the national average, and real estate was undervalued compared to much of the US.Losing a wife he had intended on spending the rest of his years with was a blow, but it didn’t change his long term goal of getting away from the cruelty and savageness of the big city! Hortonville had been a lumber town and railroad center for a time in the 1930’s and was now simply a rural farm community center with a grocery store, feed store, gas station, and few shops aside from the sheriff’s office. When a realtor showed Arnold the spacious cabin with a nice piece of land around it with a price that couldn’t be matched anywhere else, he took it! Living on his pension now, he’d always be able to afford it! Now all he had to do was buy some furniture and appliances before he could move in.A local directed him to the Penny Inn off the main drag where he could stay a few nights until he got situated. Mrs. Branch ran the place and was decent enough giving him a weekly rate and letting him know she served basic breakfasts starting at 7:30 in the morning until 9:30 biscuits and sausage gravy, egg and cheese omelets, or bacon and eggs. Since her last checkout she told Arnold he’d be all by himself in room 66 at the end of the hallway.Arnie was waiting on deliveries when a knock came at the door. He answered it and in front of him was a well-dressed portly fellow who extended his hand, “You Arnold Yates?” He asked with a smile.“Who wants to know?” Arnie squinted suspiciously not taking the hand shake.“I’m Ray Hutchison, County Commissioner. Mind if I come in?”Arnie stepped aside and gestured him in, “To what do I attribute this personal greeting to?”“Let me get down to brass tacks. I have an offer for you that I think you’ll like. Being that we have a small county and not a lot of law enforcement here, I’m looking for an experienced lawman that we can depend on. A county detective. You’d answer to the sheriff’s office.”Before he could get started Arnold swung his head back and forth, “I’ve spent 20 years in a big city police force and I’ve had all the crime I can stomach!”“Look,” Ray replied, “I know all about your record. We could use a seasoned man like you. Excellent life insurance, salary, and you get your own vehicle too!” You’d be more like a consultant than a full time detective! Most times our farming and ranch community get along just fine. It’s nothing like where you come from.”“To tell you quite truthfully, I really wanted to get out of this profession.”“Oh, come on now!” Ray insisted, “It’s in your blood! It wouldn’t be long before you miss being involved. You know that as well as I do! Please consider it.”What this persistent man was saying was unfortunately true, “let me mull this over. I’m not sure if I want to jump back into the furnace so to speak,” Arnie sighed.“Look, you’re invited over to the sheriff’s office, talk to some deputies, get a feel for the operation, and if you want, we’ll talk more,” Ray smiled and extended his hand once more which Arnie took.“By the way,” Arnie asked, “Why didn’t the sheriff contact me on this instead of you?”Ray took on a suddenly dark countenance and sighed, “Well our Sheriff Porter, died while on the job of a heart attack. He was a good man! It hit the department pretty hard.”“I see.”“We could really use the help, Sir,” Ray almost pleaded.“Okay, let me go down to the office in a couple of days after I get things situated around here and get the lay of the land, but this is no commitment, understand?”Ray nervously shook his head, “No worries! No pressure! Just come in and tell me what you think!” Ray grabbed Arnie’s hand again and scurried out the door.Three Days LaterThe first chill of fall had begun and a light drizzle had begun to fall as he hit the windshield wiper switch and headed out from the edge of town, onto the main drag, and to the sheriff’s office. It was quiet as Arnold introduced himself to the Marcy, the Dispatcher. “Would you be able to pull up a few weeks of the blotter so I could see what kind of activity has been going on?” He smiled.“Why sure. I’ll put’em in a folder for you!” She replied as she looked over this tall man with brown hair that hung off his shoulders. What an interesting specimen, she thought.“Thanks,” Arnold spoke absentmindedly as he walked through the deputies offices.“May I help you, Sir?” A young deputy asked, thin and wiry, but tough besides his uniform and badge, a pair of well-polished boots, seemed he took his job seriously.“Name’s Arnold Yates. It seems your County Commissioner has been anxious to get me out here.”“Oh yeah! You’re the new guy!” He stuck out his hand. “Glad to meet you!”“Deputy Can I have a minute with you. Where we can talk?”Buck closed the door to the office and gestured for Arnold to have a chair. “Shoot,” he said.“How have things been lately here? I heard your sheriff suffered a heart attack.”Buck’s face become suddenly gloomy, “Yeah that was a tough one. I found him in his truck, deceased. Dispatch had been calling and we were out looking for him.”“What do you think?” Arnold pressed.“Uh, something disturbed me about it. He had this look on his face like something or someone had scared the hell out of him. Like he’d seen a ghost! He was a big man like you, and he had nothing to be afraid of from any man.”“What did the coroner say about it?”“I was not privy to the autopsy, but I did see what the end result was,” Buck explained with is hands folded nervously in front of him. I thought it was unusual.”“How are things? What’s been happening lately?” Arnie squinted inquisitively.“Most of the time, everything is routine, patrols, occasional traffic accidents, cattle falls out of a truck, nothing too big to handle but lately we’ve had a slew of animal mutilations and someone breaking into farmer’s meat freezers.”“Any ideas?”“I have one lead, but I don’t know if it’s related to the Sheriff’s death,” Buck advised, “I got a feeling anyway.”“Tell me about it?”“Well, there’s this widow, and I mean she is a looker, but a peculiar Gal. She reported a peeping Tom or something that looked scary that she saw in her window! We went out and checked it out. Found some big footprints outside her place. Big ones!”“You get a plaster cast?”“No, it rained the following day and washed them away! But, you should go and check her out,” He said with a sly smile.“What are you some kind of matchmaker?” Arnold frowned.“I’m just saying she is different, mysterious, I’d say. You might find out something from her.”“You playing games with me, Mister?” Arnie growled. “I don’t have time for games.”“No! No!” Buck held up his hands defensively. “She’s an artist.”“Getting back to the break-ins. Are there bears or cougars in the area?”“No bears in years around these parts, but cougars, yes!” Buck explained. “But whatever has been doing this is no damn bear.”Chapter IIBefore he left the office, Marci, had dropped a folder of blotters in his lap and Arnold went over them. Most of it was all routine uneventful calls and patrol chatter, but the break-ins were serious along with a couple of cattle that had been drained bloodless. That was flat out of the norm! It reminded Arnold of FBI reports coming out of New Mexico years before about cattle mutilations! And he thought things were going to be quiet. Damn it! Arnold decided to go over to this widow’s place and interview her.It looked like a small 2 story house as he walked up to the porch and rang the doorbell. Only the screen door was left open. From the shadowy interior came the figure of a tall woman, slender, wearing a house coat open in the middle revealing a sheer gown she was wearing. In one hand she held an artist’s paint brush and in the other a drink. “Who may I say is calling she wavered in a cunning manner as though it were all a joke and she wore a mischievous smile.“Name’s Arnold Yates, I’m an investigator for the county,” He tipped his hat. “May I come in?”She nodded and backed away from the door, “Come,” She replied, leaning her head as she looked him over.“Would you mind answering a few questions?” Arnie asked.“I thought I did all that before when your deputies showed up,” She replied while giving him odd glances as if interested but undecided yet.“Sorry to bother you,” Arnold apologized.“That’s alright, Detective, can I interest you in a drink. It seems pretty late in the day for duty,” She was right about that. He’d spent hours at the sheriff’s office and it was late in the afternoon now.“You caught me in the middle of my daily cocktail hour before I make dinner,” she mentioned as if telling a boring story.There was a scent she gave off faintly of vanilla and musk that was alluring, even arousing! Arnold hadn’t been with another women since his wife had left. “Get your mind out of the gutter!” he told himself.She glanced at him like she knew what he was thinking, “By the way, my name is Amanda.” She held out her hand, the one that didn’t have a drink in it.“Let me put away this paint brush. I have a small studio in the back. It keeps me busy now that I exist without a man in my life,” She explained with a knowing look in her eyes, “How’d you like to fill the bill?”Arnold cleared his throat as she strolled back into the kitchen, and offered him a drink, “What’ll yuh have?”“Whatever, is convenient for you to make. Do you have rum?”“Oh yes, what is life without rum?” She mixed it with soda and bent over toward him revealing her cleavage through the sheer gown that parted the house coat. Arnold swallowed and tried to look into her eyes.“I’m widowed and so living here alone, I must make life interesting for myself here. I regret selling the larger house my late husband and I shared, but living alone and constantly attending to everything it takes to maintain a place for too time consuming,” She sighed. “Now I must live among these local yokels, who make rumors about me.”Noting that Amanda was a statuesque woman with a willowy figure and seductive charm, Arnold spoke up, “I find it strange that you haven’t found a man that would worship the ground you walk on.”She blushed momentarily, “I’m afraid I’d walk all over him. Besides prospects here among these country bumpkins, no thanks!”“Well, I guess you could always move to where there’s more action,” Arnold replied sarcastically.“Aside from the disappointment. I like it here, but living without someone to share it with is a challenge, and how about you?”Arnold tried not to look too outwardly grim, “My wife of 17 years left.”“Oh, I’m so sorry,” she said as she took a sip off her drink.”Arnold drained the rest of his glass.“How about another?” She offered“Why not?” Arnold sighed.As Amanda poured him another drink, Arnold asked, “Can you tell me what happened? What you saw?”She got a sudden unpleasant look on her face as she recalled, “It was around this time of day. I was about to cook for myself and I saw what I thought was a peeping Tom, until I looked closer and thought I was looking at something like a creature more than I a man! Like to have scared the hell out of me! When I screamed, he or it ran off!”“Can you describe in more detail?” Arnold asked.“The head was wide, eyes large and brown from what I could see. A furry head with only part of the eyes, nose, and mouth uncovered, the rest, dark brown. “I’ll do a very professional sketch for you if you like being that I’m an artist,” She offered.“We might need that,” Arnold sighed and finished his drink. “I’m sorry to have taken up so much of your time, but I better let you attend to your dinner.”“Aw, you have to go?” Amanda feigned true regret. “Just when it was getting interesting too.”He couldn’t deny it, this woman who was supposed to be around 50 was definitely well preserved and very alluring. His arousal was undeniable, but he decided this might not be an appropriate time to grab her and taste those wicked lips of hers.“Do me a favor. You can come back any time you like. I enjoy your company,” She smiled once again mischievously.“I will!” Arnold said as he took her hand and kissed it wondering if he’d gone too far, but she accepted it gracefully and nodded to him. With that he walked out of her place.It was just about dark now and he got his atomic flashlight from his car and scanned around. At her window he noted that whoever it was would have to have stood 7 foot tall in order to look into that window! His visual scan took him to a ditch filled with a tree line that extended a mile down the road as they lined the culvert that ran alongside the road! It was dark and tangled in tree trunks and brush, no way was he going to get down into that, but it could be a great escape route for a Peeping Tom or whatever that ape man thing was! He went back to his vehicle, thinking about Amanda, and drove off.That night the dream state was a crushing experience as it seemed Amanda’s presence hovered over him as she slept. Several times he awake in a dark void convinced he had made love to the bewitching widow who it seemed called out to him in his sleep. It seemed Amanda was haunting his sleep and there was nothing he could do about it! The next morning when he arrived at the Sheriff’s office he called in Buck, who was just about to leave on patrol. “What do you know about this woman who reported the Peeping Tom?” Arnold frowned.“All I know is she’s a widow, she’s pretty decent looking, and I examined the area where she claimed she was being watched from. That’s all!”“Why were you suggesting that I go check her out?” Arnie demanded.Intimidated by the irritation is Arnie’s mood, the deputy shrugged innocently, “I swear, I don’t know anything else about that woman. I just thought you might finder her interesting is all? Why?”“Nothing, but yeah you’re right, she’s interesting in a wicked sort of way. You can go now,” Arnie said dismissively.“I didn’t mean anything by it!” Buck explained.“Okay, fine, just proceed to your duties, Deputy!”Amanda was still weighing on his mind, and it seemed nothing could halt his obsession, Beads of sweat rolled off his temples. What the hell had happened to him? Was he losing his mind? Arnie now regretted he accepted the offer to consider taking this job! But, knowing all this he couldn’t help himself. Arnold got in his truck and drove over to Amanda’s home. Feeling somewhere between being an idiot and a love sick puppy, he walked onto her porch, the screen door as before was the only thing keeping the front entrance secure. He knocked.Amanda approached from the dimly lit interior of her place wearing only a shawl that spit down the middle revealing her nude form, “I knew you would be back! I waited for you!” She hissed with delight and opened the door looking into his eyes with a twinkling of excitement and lust!She grabbed him around his neck and pulled his face down to hers and gave him a long kiss! Arnold was shocked and amazed. It was like the dream he‘d been having simply continued into his waking consciousness. Was he dreaming or what? He grabbed her, carrying her to the bedroom on his right beyond the kitchen not knowing what had come over him. He was seeing red! He was choking with a lust he had no control over! What was he doing? How could he stop himself? The answer was, he couldn’t! They grappled with each other’s bodies tangled in kisses and animal hunger! After what had seemed like hours, Amanda emerged from the bed and put a finer to her lips. She came back with a couple of drinks-some mysterious kind of liqueur, he’d never tasted before, tangy, herbal, sweet, yet unknown to his taste buds.She sipped a mouthful and poured it into his lips then giggled with a girlish yet unsettling laugh. Amanda held him in a trance-like state that had captivated Arnold. What had he gotten himself into, but that question had long since become irrelevant. He was hopelessly under her spell and could not figure out why! “I have something to show you,” Amanda grinned mischievously.She carried an easel to the front of the bed with a cloth covering it standing there in her uncovered body and in a formal posture she unveiled a startling portrait. It was a perfect likeness of her Peeping Tom creature-it startled him! He jerked in astonishment! What was this all about, he wondered.“I have a photographic memory,” she explained ignoring the bizarre implications of the moment. “It helps with my art work. What do you think?”Arnie rubbed his face in disbelief, “Why did you choose this moment to show something like this to me? I mean it looks like something Rembrandt would have painted, but why now?”“I wanted you to see my work. Besides, I thought this might help with your investigation,” She offered in false sincerity with the expression of a little girl who had been caught doing something she shouldn’t.Arnie couldn’t resist pulling her back down into the bed and kissing her again, somehow overlooking the awkwardness of the moment! This was not like his careful nature. Something had happened to him that he couldn’t explain! She touched his lips with her index finger and said something unusual. “This painting of him. He said he would never let go.”“What do you mean?” Arnold frowned, sat up in the bed, and started at the bizarre portrait again.“He’s part of my gallery, a captured moment of my past, and instead of just passing away like any mortal husband should, he came back in this form,” Amanda explained as if the explanation spoke for itself.“Are you saying that this thing you painted on canvass has the spirit of your dead husband?” Arnold blurted out disbelievingly.Amanda just stared into his eyes and replied quietly, “I knew when I met you that you were the one. You would liberate me from this-this incarnate from the grave. He feeds on animal blood from the local farms to keep himself in our plane of existence. Now you have intervened.”Arnie was truly bewildered now and turned away from her, though he didn’t want to, but he had to exert his own will sometime. “What the hell are you, a witch?” He muttered.He felt the warmth f her body as she drew close and pressed against him. Her warm mouth pressed against his ear, “If you want to call me that. Then I am. He could never bring out the true lover within me like you do, and after he died, I never knew this could happen, but he told me that he used a curse to tie our souls together and only another outside of the bond can break it,” She whispered.“You’re freaking me out! You know this don’t you?”“Come now Mister big law man from the big city, if anyone should know about the true evil of human nature you should!” Amanda pressed against him with her lustful ways.Goose bumps erupted from his flesh, his hair stood up on his neck, and he was aroused all over again, turned back on top of her and clutched her writhing flesh! He pierced her again! She latched onto him digging her nails into his back and urging him on with her fiery tongue and scorching, provocative, language.“You must stop this entity who refuses to let go of me,” Amanda pleaded with him once they had subsided from their scorching love making. She sat atop him and looked down into his eyes. “You are the only man I have come to for this. Only you. He has come to me before in different forms and I always had a spell to offset his curse, but he always managed to come back in another form, never intending to let me go! Please believe me.”“What other forms?” Arnie muttered.“He once haunted me as a wolf, once as a hawk, another time as fox, but this time he had incarnated as a very powerful and savage being that is willing to battle whoever dares to connect with my body, my emotions, my soul, and you have!”“Do you know how crazy this sounds? Arnie sighed.“You don’t think that you, despite your careful and tormented nature, could end up so passionately intertwined with me in such a short period of time? I did come to you in your dreams, you do know that don’t you?”“Yes,” Arnie nodded, conceding there was something to all of this. Momentarily drifted off, fantasizing about what life would be like with this bewitching seductress while trying to hold down his county job. Would this be the bizarre ending to his later years? Amanda massaged his face in her hands with her eyes closed, reading his thoughts unbeknownst to him. Yes, he was the one, she knew.Amanda bent down close to Arnie’s face and stared into his eyes, “You must save me, and you will have me always,” she whispered urgently.Two Days LaterAmanda had told Arnie everything about this spiritual bond that had remained after death. In life he had been possessive and overbearing even if he had been a wizard of investing had provided a lifetime of income. It was still a form of bondage. The plan was set. They would set a trap! Once again the beast would come to her window, perhaps even attempt to get into the house. In this present form, as powerful as it now was, it might have intended to take Amanda with him into death so that there was no escaping the spiritual bondage in the afterlife! Arnie had consented to the plan. Dressed in a tactical uniform, his vehicle hidden from the premises, and heavily armed, he waited. The night air had grown cold. It would be about the same time frame as the last encounter.As he crouched behind some foliage and camouflage, he heard it. The sound of a large and powerful presence emerging from the long row of dark trees that ran along a shadowy ditch. Amanda was waiting inside hear the window where she had last been spied upon by that beast! She trembled, contemplating her plan, wondering if Arnold was up to the task, he sure was in bed. She licked her lips on that thought, and held an ancient trinket to her breasts and waited.The massive figure lurked in the darkness and slowly crept in silence but for the occasional crunch of a leaf underfoot. Standing over 7 foot tall as Arnie was already aware, it made its way to Amanda’s window to peer in. It seemed the normal noises of the night vanished in a deadly vacuum! There it was reaching at the window sill. Then the thought occurred to Arnie, what the hell was he going to do? Fire at the ape man creature and hit the wall of the house and wound or kill Amanda with a stray bullet? No way! He hadn’t thought about this at all. His thinking had been unclear. He had been too preoccupied with Amanda to think straight! He moved parallel to the wall of Amanda’s house to get a batter shot, but in doing so gave away his position and alerted the beast.The moonlight illuminated a grotesque human-like but ape face that was glaring at him with a furious expression. Arnold raised his AR-15 rifle and fired, taking care to keep his aim away from the outer wall! At first it was stunned by the blast, it then charged at him with such quickness all Arnold could do was throw the rifle at it which it stopped momentarily to swipe it away like a mere nuisance and it kept coming! Arnold back tracked unholstering his 357 magnum and raised the heavy caliber pistol, but as he did so he fell backwards! When he raised his arm to fire, the creature had already grabbed his legs and flung him like a rag doll several feet away from the house and into the yard! The impact of hitting the ground knocked the 357 magnum from his grip! Arnie had no choice but to run, throwing whatever he could find backward, a rake, a neighbor’s trash can. He could hear the ground being pounded by a heavy bipedal impact behind him!Arnie leaped over a hurricane chain link fence on the next door neighbor’s property with his assailant in hot pursuit! Then he heard the voice of a man screaming from inside his house open window, “I’m calling the police! You crazy son of a bitch! Get outta my yard!”“Call them!” Arnie answered breathlessly as he attempted to climb a tree branch and scale an old oak tree. The beast grabbed Arnie once again launching him onto the grassy yard that he hit hard! With the breath knocked out of him and grasping for anything he could find. There was a hatchet next to a tree stump he was able to get a hold of. As the monstrous figure came at him, Arnie swung and hit it in the leg above the knee. The ape man screeched in a horrid, ear splitting, howl, and Arnie swung again landing it in the side of his hell bent attacker, but it grabbed the axe and snatched it from Arnie ready to use it on him when the crack of a rifle shot rang out in the air of the night! The neighbor who was seeing the struggle going on in his property responded with force!One shot, and the creature froze in its tracks, two shots, and it staggered, a third report, and the man ape splattered in blood, collapsed with a heavy thud on the ground! Arnie got up and raised his hands, “Don’t shoot! That damn thing was trying to kill me!”“I already called the sheriffs!” The older man said as he carried his rifle with him to see who or what he had killed.“I’m with the sheriff’s department,” Arnie answered still winded from his life and death struggle.“What in the hell is that?” The neighbor muttered, looking down at the furry corpse lying on his yard.“I believe this is what has been breaking into farmer’s meat lockers and killing cattle,” Arnie replied feeling his bruised ribs as he began stumbling toward Amanda’s, “Wait for the law!”“Sure is one ugly son of a bitch!” The older man called back.Where was she? He thought aloud. Had she been hit by a stray bullet, he worried. Wouldn’t that be par for the course, he grimaced. In the distance, he heard sirens of approaching deputy sheriffs as he limped to Amanda’s front door. He opened it and walked in. The house was dark, which disturbed him. He flicked on a light but didn’t see her anywhere! “Amanda, he’s dead! You’re safe now, “Arnie gasped as he held his side.He limped past the kitchen and past the bedroom to his right where he and Amanda had made such passionate love that contained that easel of a portrait of what had died out there in the neighbor’s yard and further toward the gallery, the secret room where she did all her painting. The room she had never bothered to show him what her work was all about. He flicked on the light to view a disturbing collection of portraits. One, in particular caught his attention. It was a perfect likeness of himself swinging an axe at the very ape-like creature that she had captured on canvass and it was all in the pale moonlight just as on this unholy evening. He gasped. He then saw something else as he scanned the room. It was a doll roughly of his own likeness with a pearl pin stuck through its heart lying on a small table near the portrait of his struggle with the ape creature.A voice came from behind him, “I guess you must know now that I can paint the future and make it come to pass. Do you understand now?”Without turning around, Arnold Yates, in surprise, replied, “I guess that you really are a witch aren’t you?” He turned toward her. What Arnold saw, startled him! It was Amanda, older, grayer, wrinkled, possessing features that seemed to be the classic weathered sorceress of evil depicted in folklore and legend. “Come to me my lover. I am yours forever!” Her lips spluttered!The End See More
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Werner was from Westphalia, Germany-the Northwest Region. He had been in America for a few months now as an exchange student. The US was a fascinating mixture of fashion, American self-indulgence, and politics. The Americans didn’t realize just how fortunate they really were, he thought. The abundance they enjoyed was also blinding them to the general condition of the rest of the world, but be that as it may, he had met Jenna, a 2nd year co-ed. They had been dating and had planned on a three-day weekend holiday. Jenna loved the outdoors so they would end up in nature to do some hiking. Since he didn’t know much about American geography so he left the choices up to his little princess.“I was going to make a reservation for a hike in the national parks system, but I was reading about these disappearances that kind of concerns me,” she said with cute little worry lines on her brunette features. At 5 ft. 4in. she was very fit and trim. She was confident most of the time.Being that Werner was amazed at the naivety of Americans, their pre-occupation with trivial subjects, and simply different than Germans, Werner brushed off Jenna’s concerns, “Come on! What are the chances anything could happen in your pristine forests? You have park rangers and your big deputy sheriffs, stop being a superstitious child!” He laughed.“The nearest national park is 30 miles from campus then,” She replied. “That will give us more time to explore!” She added enthusiastically.“Well, let’s get this vacation going!” Werner urged sounding a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That was what initially attracted Jenna to him, his solid physique and sense of invulnerability!One Week LaterBen Diamond was a seasoned park ranger and with hands folded behind his back as he greeted the new arriving hikers as he also instructed them on safety. Sometimes he could be aggravated by some of the self-assured city dwellers who had no idea what they were getting into! Often they were the ones found stumbling incoherently through the woods, dehydrated and disoriented if they were lucky! Sometimes they were found dead? What bothered Ben was that even when some of them had survival gear, their tents and supplies were found intact, but they had vanished, but this was privileged information that was filed away or confiscated by the federal special agents on duty in the national parks. He kept silent on that subject!“I’m going to say this one time so listen up! Ask questions if you don’t understand!” He bellowed! “Do not leave the hiking trials under any circumstance! Is that understood? This keeps you from being the next victim disappearing in dense forests, lost, hypothermic, and prone to die if not rescued in a very short period of time! Is that understood?” Ben asked as he scanned the hikers and campers who were about to enter the interior of the park.Werner smirked thinking that Ben was being melodramatic, “So, does this mean your Bigfoot is on the loose?” He chuckled.“No!” Ben Diamond shot back. “It means that some cougar might just make lunch out of your sarcastic butt, or that some mother black bear might maul you if you get near her cubs! Is that clear?”Werner nodded silently as Jenna jabbed an elbow in his ribs. He had a feeling that the park ranger knew more than he was letting on. These Americans could be very cunning and sly, he thought.Jenna looked up at Werner, “He’s just doing his job!”Ben went on for some time emphasizing how hikers should behave and respect nature as he passed out brochures that illustrated all things he had discussed. Ben was the senior park ranger on site and took his job seriously though some people thought he was dramatizing occasionally. Of course, they had not seen the aftermath of a bear mauling or the body of a careless hiker who had been stalked by a puma and not lived to tell about it! People always thought it could never happen to them!Ben glanced over at Dolly, his dispatcher, “I think we got a green bunch in here this week! We’re going to have to be especially on the alert.”Dolly just raised her eyebrows, “You’re such an alarmist!” she playfully punched him in the shoulder.As Jenna and Werner prepared to go to their assigned campsite and begin their vacation, Ben walked over. “Did you guys have any other questions?” He asked.Ben was about the same size as Werner, broad shouldered, a bit overweight compared to the younger German student but imposing no less. Werner regarded the park ranger calmly as if he were not intimidated, “I think you made us quite aware of all the idiots who fall victim here!” He spoke laughingly.Ben, glared at Werner, “You need to be aware of what you’re dealing with here, okay? I don’t want to have to lead a rescue searching for you two.”Werner nodded his head as if amused, “Point taken,” he replied.“Have a nice day then,” Ben responded almost contemptuously.It was early afternoon as the group of hikers anxious to get started flocked in different directions reading the trail markers and signs as they went. The two headed for their campsite first to get situated! Jenna was the expert at this as Werner hadn’t done any overnight camping though he had hiked in the Northern Region of Germany but not camped. He allowed Jenna to structure their approach! She was a take charge type of lady, Werner thought, so he let her have her way. By the time they ha dup camp with a couple of other sites visible but some distance away it was late in the day. They had gathered firewood, set up their bedding and tent, while clearing the area for rocks or anything that could have caused them to fall or stumble. Suddenly, as Jenna strolled across the sandy forest soil, a ruffling noise like a rush of disrupted air came from overhead as it did a shadow was cast from above! It caught her by surprise but whatever made the shadow was big like some kind of aircraft! Maybe it had hit a tree top, she thought as she squinted up into the sky not knowing whether to duck or dive for the ground, but just as suddenly as the strange sound had been made, it was gone, and whatever it was seemed so far in the distance she couldn’t get a fix on it! “Werner!” She screamed. “Did you see that?”“Whatever are you talking about Fraulein?” He asked doubtfully.“Something just flew overhead! Didn’t you hear it?” Jenna explained.“No, I think you have a frayed imagination!” He replied back impervious to her confusion.She slammed a fist impotently against his huge chest, “You are such a pain!”“I think you could use a shot or two of the schnapps that I brought along to calm your nerves!” Werner offered.She blew her hair out of her face frustratedly, “Maybe you’re right!”Werner grabbed her like a mama bear would grab a cub in her arms and carried her to their tent, then administrated the peppermint liquor that surprisingly did help. She was surprised and then fell into a nap in Werner’s arms. The next thing she knew she was waking up, seeing the campfire flickering and Werner standing near looking up into the night sky. He seemed calm and reassured until she saw a worried look in his eye as he bent over and crawled into the tent as he smiled unsurely. “I’m so glad you got some rest. Apparently you needed it. Now we can enjoy the stars for a while!”“Are you okay?” Jenna asked.“Oh fine,” Werner sighed. “I have some boiling water for tea and some heated up rations for us. Now I think I’ll have some of that schnapps.”“Oh, I feel like I wasted some of our precious time off!” Jenna added ruefully.“What did we come here for? To relax” We’re relaxing no?” Werner replied as he took a mouthful of the schnapps and allowed the blast of strong mint to drain down his throat!A shooting star flashed through the inky blackness illuminated by a cluster of gem-like points of light that glinted against the night sky. Werner kissed her tenderly and rounded up a couple of sandwiches he had at the foot of the fire along with the tea pot. Jenna knew he had something on his mind anyway. She knew him that well. They filled their tin cups with hot green tea and unwrapped their melted cheese and ham sandwiches. Jenna made a satisfied sound as she munched into the toasted treat. Things seemed serene and peaceful as she sipped the tea. “I know there’s something on your mind, Werner. Spit it out!”Werner was sitting upright finishing his sandwich as he gazed at the sky propped up by one arm, and gazed at her momentarily. “I was just thinking about strange articles I used to read about science and mysteries in Der Spiegel, when I was younger that really intrigued me,” He replied thoughtfully. In Oberstufe, high school, as you call it here, I would sit and read about scientific mysteries like flying disks, your Bigfoot, and other strange species not acknowledged by the academic world and some stories originated right here in your state of Maine!”“Oh really?” Jenna clutched his muscle bound arm. “Tell me.”“The Allagash Abduction (1976): Widely considered Maine's most famous UFO case. On August 20, 1976, twin brothers Jack and Jim Weiner, along with friends Charlie Foltz and Chuck Rak, were night-fishing on Eagle Lake in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. They spotted a brightly colored, silent sphere in the sky, tried to signal it with an SOS flashlight beam, and then they were abducted!” Werner recited dutifully. “And then there was this article about this medical experimental facility here in Maine run by the US Army that makes many people living here believe that the Bigfoot sightings have something to do with that center.”“Well, aren’t you the studious one,” Jenna playfully mocked.Werner turned to stare at Jenna when he asked,” What did you think you saw earlier in the air? I’m sorry I did not take you seriously.”“Why are you interested all the sudden?” Jenna asked probing his eyes.“I think there’s something flying around up there that’s not an airplane or meteor. I saw something while you were asleep.”“Oh!” Well now I’m not so full of shit, huh?” Jenna reacted.“I don’t know, but whatever it was it wasn’t natural!"Are we going to tell boogey man stories now, Sweetie?” She said with a nervous laugh.“Maybe these experimental labs can pull off genetic tests making man apes or even prehistoric giant birds,” Werner speculated with an ominous tone in his voice.“What did you see, Werner?” Jenna demanded as she stared into his eyes.“I-I don’t know what it was. I was thinking it through when you woke up. I saw something big and black up in the sunset sky with a huge wingspan! At first, I thought it was a small plane but then it flapped its wings and it made like a rushing sound like it was pushing air,” He frowned but she couldn’t see that in his face at the moment.“Yes-yes,” She agreed. “A kind of whooshing sound!”Werner nodded as if he got confirmation of something he didn’t want to believe. He was not easily startled but was curiously cautious over what he was seeing in his mind, “I’ve seen very old photos of hunters holding these huge birds that look nothing like what we consider predators like eagles or condors, or even owls! These were much bigger.”“And you’re telling me that’s what you saw?” Jenna insisted.“I have no other explanation,” Werner quietly admitted. “I think we should be careful.” He said slowly as though something had made an impression upon him.“Whatever you say, Captain,” Jenna playfully replied as she grabbed the back of Werner’s neck and pulled him down on top of her as their lips met.The night morphed into black infinity and into the mystery of dreamscapes. A veil of a Maine forest night fell like the ceiling of an unlit cave and the tent became still. Only their breathing disturbed the nocturnal wilderness. From above there came a strange rattling noise that echoed from a huge pair of lungs belonging to an ancient raptor that only American Indian legends had hinted at. Against the background of stars and the pale light of the moon, it drifted to a tree top and perched as its heavy weight caused a rustling of branches and leaves. The couple did not stir as they succumbed to the need for rest there at the edge of the unknown and the waking world of denial.Bruce Fletcher had rotated to early morning duty on this day and had left the park ranger office in the jeep, headed for the campsites on routine patrol. The morning was crisp in the lower 40’s and he could see his breath inside the cab. Light was barely making its way over the horizon as the clouds would not burn off for hours if at all today. The coffee had helped give him some stimulus but the chill still bit through his green, light, park ranger jacket as he made a left turn on the sandy gravel road headed for the outer campsites and a steep fall off to the right side of the road from an angled slope that bordered one side of the trail. He glanced over the horizon wishing he’d gotten more sleep when it happened!A large airborne shape moving in a peculiar way, seemed to head straight for his jeep head on! He could not make out clearly through his frosted windshield just what the hell it could be! He squinted through his glasses then slammed on his brakes! Whatever it was had been flapping huge wings and smashed right into the auto-glass! Trying to dodge the weird mid-air collision, Bruce swerved to his right and inadvertently skittered into the edge of the shoulder and over the steep slope that only led to a steep drop off and an end over end tumbling ranger jeep! Park Ranger, Fletcher screamed in disbelief, still trying to hold onto the steering wheel as his world violently rolled in a cloud of dust down the hilly face of rocky out cropping! The huge shape that had crashed into the Jeep flew up into the air and glided over the unsettled dust of a fatal wreck. The Jeep laying on one side, crumpled, wheels still spinning, partially hiding the broken body of Bruce Fletcher. The windshield was collapsed, and a huge bloody claw mark seemed painted on the front edge of the roof!“Did you hear something?” Jenna yawned as she stretched out her arms.Werner listened intently, sensed something was wrong, but lay still without a world just looking at the tent ceiling trying to understand what might have happened. “What did it sound like to you?” He sleepily groaned.“Was like something metallic crashing. Maybe a wreck,” Jenna yawned as she crawled out of the tent to look around. Then she saw it up in the air above the tree tops, a huge flying form that cast that same shadow she remembered from yesterday!“Werner quick!” She yelled.Werner hadn’t had time to straighten up and was on his hands and knees, “What?” He stubbornly muttered still trying to wake up. Glanced into the sky where Jenna was pointing and saw something that reminded him of a dragon or flying dinosaur of some kind. ”Oh my God!”Jenna also spotted a cloud of rising smoke not too far from their location rising up from the opposite roadside further down from their campsite. “What in the hell is going on?” Jenna wondered aloud. Is this some kind of nightmare?”Werner grabbed her and pulled her down into the tent, “Don’t give this damn thing a target! We don’t need to attract its attention!” he hissed. The two of them clutching each other backed away from the open end of the tent now keeping very quiet and still. Werner closed the flap to the tent and held Jenna hoping the creature would not see them. Every once in a while they heard the rush of air over the top of the tent, telling them that something big and powerful had just passed over them! It was unnerving! They waited in silence, listening for any possible inkling of danger. Finally, Werner hearing the sounds of vehicles, lifted the flap of the tent opening a watched as a line of park ranger jeeps stood at the should of the road where Jenna had seen the telltale signs of a cloud of smoke not knowing about ranger Fletcher’s jeep crashing over the slope.Checking up into the sky, Werner got up and began walking toward the small convoy of vehicles followed by Jenna. Park Ranger, Ben Diamond was standing over what was left of Bruce after having been rolled over by his capsized Jeep. The paramedics were clearing the body and loading it on a stretcher. “Please stay back!” Diamond warned Werner and Jenna, this is an accident scene!” Ben moved toward the two startled campers with his arms outstretched.“I think we may have seen what might be responsible for this earlier, “Jenna stammered.“What did you see?” Ben asked, “Or may I say, what did you think you saw?”Just then, what appeared to be US Army personnel drove up in two Humvees, camouflaged, and appearing armed with 50 caliber mounted machine guns. One of the soldiers, face covered in a green mask, walked over, “Have you secured the site?”“Just now arrived. We have one body being removed,” Ranger, Diamond replied.“Then what are these two civilians doing here?” The soldier asked.“We haven’t gotten the areas fully cordoned off yet!” the park ranger replied defiantly.“No matter! My men and I will take over from here!” The soldier replied forcefully.“And who are you with?” Ben asked.“US Army experimental lab division! We have federal jurisdiction please disburse!”“Does anybody give a damn about what we saw and how it could have been responsible for the death of this park ranger?” Jenna huffed back at the ranger and the soldier.“Care to tell us?” The soldier coldly replied.Werner silently stood aside not knowing what these Americans might do to a foreigner, not trusting them. He listened carefully and eyed the soldiers who were clearly taking charge.“My boyfriend and I were just getting up this morning when we first saw a cloud of smoke coming from this location,” she said pointing to the camp. “We were sleeping over there but when we got up we saw this flying creature of some kind and it threatened the two of us. We stayed down on the ground trying to keep from being snatched up by that thing!”“When was this? What time?” The soldier replied.“I don’t know! I was too freaked out to check my cell phone! We were trying to keep from getting attacked!”“What did this thing look like?” The soldier asked as two of his men brandishing weapons approached.That was when Werner broke in, “I thought it was a dragon at first, huge like a lizard or maybe like one of those Pterodactyls! It was a giant flying predator!”The soldier nodded to his men, “How long ago would you estimate?”“A good guess would be 2 hours ago I’d say,” Werner speculated.“From what direction did this thing come?”Jenna pointed, “That’s where I saw it first before it began flying overhead!”“You sure this wasn’t a drone of some kind or other airborne vehicle?”Jenna glared at the soldier, “I know what I saw!”“There!” One of the soldiers pointed. “There it is!”“Mount your weapons men! Prepare to fire!”“Yes Sir, Sergeant!”“What the hell does this have to do with the US Army labs?” Jenna shouted.“Corporal get these civilians the hell out of here! Ranger, withdraw your people! We’ll handle this!” The sergeant barked more orders to his men.“What are you going to do?” Werner shouted as a soldier grabbed him.The flying monstrosity came swooping down on the sergeant as the others moved away. “Fire!” he yelled just before being snatched off the ground.“We can’t fire with the sergeant in the claws of that thing!” One of the gunners cried out!“We have our orders! Now fire!” Another gunner mounted atop his Humvee called out as a loud burst of automatic ordnance flared from the muzzle of his weapon!The flying beast dropped the body of the sergeant and dodged the streams of bullets fired at it with incredible agility! Everyone but the two gunners ran from the scene. The paramedics drove off. Werner grabbed Jenna and they crouched behind one of the ranger’s jeeps, but the park ranger who jumped in, drove off leaving them stranded! Werner took Jenna by the hand and led her to her car. Jenna fumbled for her keys and the loud rattle of machine gun fire continued! Like watching flak trying to knock a fighter plane out of the sky, orange tracers of bullets followed the flying beast as it rolled and dived toward the ground. Werner and Jenna watched in horror as the aerial monster sheered the top of the gun mount and its gunner right off the Army Humvee, but the other gunner revolved into position and fired a burst that struck the animal directly and sent it to the ground as a horrid and shrill screech pierced the air. The huge body thumped onto the forest floor, torn by the bullets that had raked into it. Jenna watched the huge body spasmodically breathing its last breaths, blood spurting from its beak.“Let’s get the hell out’ve here!” Werner screamed as Jenna finally steadied herself long enough to insert her keys into the ignition to start up her car.As Jenna sped away, Ranger Ben Diamond tried to wave them down, but Werner lowered his window and extended his arm with a middle finger clearly visible like the sale on a boat into the air! Jenna watched as the sky seemed to erupt with more dark flying figures from the unknown as they descended upon the soldiers and park rangers who were unable to escape! Werner had his head cranked around watching the rear, “Keep going they are all goners!”“Do you think we should go to the authorities to tell them what we saw?” Jenna’s voice quivered.“And get interrogated by your American police and military? No way! Just keep driving! They’ll figure out a way of covering all this shit up!” Werner sighed resolutely.Tears streamed for Jenna’s eyes, “That was horrible! I can’t believe what we saw!” She stammered.“Get a hold of yourself!” Werner tried to reason with her. “Be thankful we got out alive.”Little did Jenna or Werner realize that a large shadow was hovering above them pacing the speed of their runaway vehicle and slowly descending upon it. Jenna was too freaked out to realize it and Werner was much too distracted trying to console her! Just seconds later the eerie telltale sound of a claw scraping against the sheet metal atop the car began! As she pressed her foot further against the gas pedal.Ten O’clock EST“This is Roland Pearce with the late night news reporting from our Portland affiliate! A bizarre chain of events has led to the deaths of several US Army personnel, park rangers, and civilians. Details are scarce at this hour, but local sheriffs are reportedly asking residents to remain calm and realize that all efforts are being made to normalize the situation! One local resident claims that a wild animal incident was responsible but further proof has not been released at this time. Now, we are returning you back to regularly scheduled programming. I’m Roland Peace and that’s the news for this late evening.” The EndSee More
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