You never would have agreed to this shit if you hadn't talked Ali and Jack into it! Who the hell traipses around in the middle of the night through the woods for a supposed "haunted house"? Now you're lost because somehow you got separated, it's dark, there's a slight chill, and now you don't know which direction to go. Thank goodness it's a full moon and you can navigate fairly through the overgrowth. You spin in a circle, your breath creating faint traces of clouds as it meets the night air, as you try to discern the correct direction to travel in. Beams of moonlight break through the treetops creating shafts of twinkling pale light as motes of microscopic forest debris, and bugs dance through them.
The distinctive pop of a stick breaking underfoot punctuates the unnerving quiet. Your breath catches; you hold it, straining to hear something more, something else. "Ali?" you question the inky void the sound came from. "Stop fucking around, it's not funny!" You call out hoping for a reply as the hair on the back of your neck begins to stand on end. The pressure starts to build up as your heart beats faster. The urge to run rising with rapidity. Eye still squinting, you freeze as you realize that dark patch just isn't darkness, it's something alive, something dark, something big. Suddenly two almost glowing yellow eyes open, finally giving context to the hidden form. With a dread rising up in you, you bolt in the opposite direction; a snarl that grates your bones as you hear the heavy footfalls as the creature gives chase.
Sharp tips of tree branches, the barks, thorny vines, all leaving their marks on your flesh as you desperately flee. The small cuts, scrapes, and pokes unnoticed with the adrenaline pumping through you. You can hear it panting, harsh breaths as powerful footfalls shake the ground. There is a clearing up ahead with something in the middle of it. The rectangular object radiating in moonlight. Without warning the ground in front of you grows dark. The pungent smell of the large animal filling the air, almost like the smell of horses, as it bowls you over from behind. You throw your arms out but it's too late. You hit the ground hard, your head bouncing, air forced from your lungs. You try to scream but there's nothing as you feel a hairy hand grab your ankles, sharp nails digging in your flesh as you're pulled towards it.