Girl Power - Rebirth of The Heroine writing contest Its night, I’m on the ground next to a lake, the lake we always drove passed to go home after work, I hear in the distance people calling my name but I can’t answer, it feels like fire in my throat and chest every time I breath, let alone answer them. When I try and move excruciating pain shoots from my head, shoulder, my side and my legs. I can feel my clothes are soaked but not from the water I was pulled out from, its soaked with blood, I can smell the blood and I feel very weak, sleepy. As painful as it is I’m trying to move, fighting my urge to just fall asleep, I know if I do I won’t wake up again. I already know the extent to my injuries, I just never thought I would be on the receiving end of it, I’m used to being the one rushing to people to save their lives. Which leads me to my next question, who saved me? And why save me from the water, just to leave me next to the lake to die? While I’m lying there trying to figuring out what’s going on, I hear something moving next to me, something BIG not human big but bigger, ‘S…t, I can’t remember that there are any wild animals in this area, or dangerous ones for that matter’ I think to myself. ‘There is something here with me, and its close’ and just to confirm what I thought, that’s when I heard a low growl. I’m no longer tired and weak, my adrenaline kicked in fully, now my body is in its fight or flight mode. ‘If this is a predator, like I think it is, I’m going to have to fight and flight’. As painful as it was I turn myself around, I’m on my stomach now, trying to crawl away from what made that growl. I didn’t get far, that’s when I heard it again but this time I could hear its breathing around me, its circling me, I feel my heart beat in my chest, and then I saw it, a Big black wolf with shiny red eyes staring at me, teeth bared. I quickly look around me for a weapon, anything will do at this point, I grab a long thick pointy stick to try and defend myself, ‘I’m NOT going to be dinner without a fight’ I think to myself. As I pull the stick closer to me, the wolf lunge forward at me. I place the one end firmly on the ground and point the sharp end at the forward lunging wolf, I don’t have the strength to jab at the beast so I’ll just have to position the stick properly so it will penetrate itself or hurt it enough for the wolf to go away, ‘I hope this stick is strong enough’ was the last thought I had when I moved the stick just enough to penetrate the beast shoulder, it yelped and pulled back, limping on its one leg, ‘It worked, the stick worked, now I just need to keep it away from me, and hopefully its pack isn’t close by’ as I’m in thought I notice the wolf circling me again, It lunges at me again and I position the stick between myself and the wolf, the wolf stops before the stick and moves back, like its testing me, and then all of a sudden the wolf bites down on the stick, ripping it out of my hand and throws it to the side, ‘S…T’ ‘no, no, no, I don’t want to die, not like this’