C2 Luke's cry

A cool breeze rustled in the branches and rippled through the grass. It was very dark; owls were hooting and a few bats circled around in the sky. The moonlight was what paved way for us to see the right steps to take as we kept on moving deeper into the woods.

Luke seemed to be so determined to find my uncle as he kept on moving faster with time. I tried to catch up with him, doubling my steps until I was right beside him.

“Dude. Why do you seem to care so much about my uncle” I asked as we bent beneath a protruding branch.

He sighed loudly; “Now listen, what would a man in his right senses be looking for in this dark woods by this hour” he retorted.

“You seem to be forgetting something though” I replied. “We are in here too! In the freaking dark woods!”.

“Look, this is nothing to joke about man. This town isn’t safe, strange things happen everyday” he said. He walked towards a tree and pointed at something. I went closer and saw what he was pointing at; there were four claw marks on the tree, deep and long. It looked like as if an animal had slashed the wall with it’s long claws. It had to be a wolf, but wolf claws were obviously too small to make marks that were so long and deep.

I was scared, there was certainly a deadly animal in this woods. And not just any normal one, a very big one. I gulped and turned to face Luke who now had a smile across his face. 'Why was he smiling now?' I said to myself.

“Shrug it off, I have seen worse than you can actually imagine” Luke said as he bent down to look at something else. I brought out my phone and put on the flashlight, I pointed the light down to the ground.

“They are footsteps” he said.

“Yeah. Obviously” I replied.

The footsteps were obviously that of Edward and I couldn’t see anything special about that. He was a fully grown man so I couldn’t think of any sensible reasons why we were tracing his steps in the first place.

A loud howl jolted me from my thoughts, our eyes met and for the first time in the few minutes I had been with, I saw fear in his eyes. He turned his head to the left like as if he had heard something. He looked back at me; “I hear footsteps, hide!” he yelled.

We rushed to a huge log and laid down on our flat backs behind it. I could almost hear Luke’s heartbeat, it seemed as if his heart was going to jump out of his chest. The footsteps got louder, something was coming closer and fast!

“Are you scared?” Luke whispered.

I wasn’t as scared as he was, that I knew for sure. I couldn’t speak so I shook my head signifying that I wasn’t.

Suddenly, a fast moving creature jumped high over us and landed. It was certainly human as it had both hands and legs. I fixed my gaze on the human figure- Could it be Edward? It turned around with slow heavy steps and came towards us. It was human, a tall fair man. He had bushy eyebrows and starred at us with a certain lust that I couldn’t explain.

“What are you boys doing out here, all alone in the dark!” he said slowly and smiled wickedly revealing his perfect set of white teeth. He had very sharp protruding canines. My heart skipped a beat- It was a real life Vampire!

“It’s a Vampire! Run!” Luke yelled.

We both stood up and started to run as fast as we possibly could, I hadn’t even taken up to ten steps before I tripped and fell to the ground in a heap of dead leaves.

Luke didn’t stop , he was still running when the Vampire went past me with speed. It was too fast and I knew it would get to Luke any second.

Seconds passed, I couldn’t still bring myself to get back until my feet. It wasn’t because I was tired or injured, but what if the vampire actually saw me.

Luke’s sharp cry tore through the woods, I was scared. What could be happening to him, even though I had just met him I knew I had to help him. I gathered up courage and stood up, I began to limp forward until I got to him. His eyes were shut but his pulse was ok, I shook him violently until his eyelids fluttered open.

“He bit- my shoul-der, fed me blo-od. He said it- was a- gift” he stammered and smiled. I did not understand what he meant, I didn’t even think it mattered but I pulled him unto his feet and flung his arm across my shoulder.

We made our way out of the woods and across the street. I took him to his doorway, he removed his arm from my shoulder and clutched his wounded shoulder. Luke looked at me, thanked me and entered into his home. I turned around and walked towards the brick house, the horrid face of the vampire was still flashing in my head. Luke was right, this town certainly wasn’t safe.

I climbed the ladder unto the garage roof and strolled towards the window, I climbed over it and landed on my bed. I shifted towards the edge and yanked off my slides. Another loud howl tore throughout the woods, I jumped on my bed and fearfully covered my head with the pillow as I drifted off into sleep.