HELP ME

PARANORMAL FOREST

The route that Joshua the driver used had its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of the route was that it was faster. They would be home before morning. The disadvantage was the route branched through the forest. It was not just any forest, it was a forest that the local people believed to contain awful and peculiar things. They believed that it was a forest full of supernatural things. The local people termed the forest as “paranormal forest.”

A lot of things used to happen in that forest; people would get lost and never be found. Strange sounds were heard. The sounds were a mixture of human and animals. It was like a human was howling, again it was like a wolf was howling. These strange things used to happen during the night.

Joshua was the only one who knew about the stories that the forest had. But as for him, he did not believe in any of the stories. He believed that it was only a myth. He was calm, nothing was troubling him.

Soon, the car was driving in the middle of the forest. The one headlight of the car was shining at full beam. It was very dark and spooky. When anyone looked outside the window, they could see tall trees. The moon was out and was at its peek in the dark sky. It was beautiful, though it was dark, the moonlight provided enough light for someone to see.

George was sitting in front with Joshua. Charlotte and Kimberley sat behind.

George looked at Joshua and asked, “How did you let this car become scrap?”

Joshua smiled, he replied, “This car is older than me.”

“What do you mean?” George insisted curiously.

Joshua explained, “This car was my great, great grandfather's car. Before he passed away, he gave it to my great grandfather. And my great grandfather gave it to my father. And now, it was given to me by my father.”

George continued, “So it's travelling through generations?”

Joshua agreed, “You can say that again.”

“So,” George began to mock, “Are you going to pass it to your son?”

“I have a daughter,” Joshua corrected. “And, I don't think she would like it. This car has served its purpose.”

George laughed, “That's what I thought.”

George and Joshua kept talking and laughing. Kimberley was taking a nap. Charlotte however, was wide awake and listening to the conversation between the two. But something was wrong with her. She kept having strange feelings. The kind of feeling like something or someone was following them. The kind of feeling that they were not safe.

“Joshua, please drive a little faster,” Charlotte suggested.

Joshua replied, “ I'm afraid this is the fastest that this car can go. But don't worry we will reach our destination soon.” The car was driving at 40 Km/h.

Charlotte was not at peace. She kept having strange feelings. She decided to open the window. Something caught her attention as she looked out the window. She saw something on the branch of a tree. It was squatting and looking at them. It had red glowing eyes. Its face was not clear because it was afar. Suddenly, it closed its eyes and Charlotte could not see it anymore. She was terrified.

She turned to Joshua and spoke, “I think I saw something on the branch. Its quite scary. Please hurry up.” Her heart was pounding slightly.

George encouraged, “Charlotte, there are two men here. Don't worry, if at all we are attacked, us men will protect you.”

Charlotte groaned, “Men?” She sat quietly and looked ahead.

After driving for two minutes on the road they stopped when they saw a huge figure standing ten meters in front of them. It was very huge and hairy. Its eyes was glowing red, just like the red eyes Charlotte saw. It stood upright like a man. It had a long tail wagging left and right vigorously. It had long pointy tusks. It stood looking at the car then it growled. The growl was so loud that the ground shook and the birds flew away from their nests.

George yelled, “Start the car! Start the car!”

Joshua tried igniting the engine. But, unfortunately, the car did not start. It only produced a squeaking sound and later shut down.

Joshua announced, “The car won't start!”

Kimberley woke up only find themselves stuck in the middle of the forest and seeing the huge creature in front of them, she started screaming. Charlotte then put her hand on Kimberley’s mouth hoping she would keep quiet. But Kimberley couldn't keep quiet. She kept murmuring.

The creature turned and began walking towards the forest like a man. It was out of sight.

George asked while panting, “Is it gone?”

“I don't know! We have to get out of ...” Just before Joshua could finish his sentence, the creature landed on the roof of the car. The toenails of the creature were sharp they made holes on the roof.

The car was not strong enough to hold the weight of the creature. The roof was breaking and almost collapsing. It was a bad experience. They thought they would die because when they faced up, the roof was coming down.

Joshua exclaimed, “Everyone out of the car!”

Everyone was out of the car with difficult in opening the doors. Without knowing what was happening, or who to follow, they ran in different directions screaming in different tones. Charlotte ran in the east direction, Kimberley in the west, George in the South and Joshua in the North.

Had they not gotten out of the car in time, they would have surely been crushed. The car was in a very bad shape. The car lay flat on the road like an elephant had trampled on it.

The creature was still on top of the car. When it saw that everyone had scattered and ran in different directions; it jumped off the car and ran swiftly in the west direction, towards Kimberley. It ran quickly on four legs while it continued to growl loudly.

Kimberley was running as fast as she could. She heard that the growls were coming from behind her. She decided to take a glance at where she came from.

When she turned; she saw the creature running on four legs, quickly it ran towards a tree, climbed the tree and leaped from tree to tree. Its eyes continued glowing red. And Its growls continued to shake the ground.

Kimberley was very scared as she saw it coming behind her faster than she was panting and screaming. The distance between her and the creature kept decreasing and decreasing until it caught her. She screamed on top of her voice.

Meanwhile, Charlotte continued running in the east direction. When she heard Kimberley scream on top of her voice; she turned and ran in the west direction. This was the direction she came from.

Charlotte was slowly losing energy. She was panting heavily. She began slowing down because she had a sharp pain in the stomach. The pain was so sharp that it interfered with the normal functioning of her body. Several minutes later after struggling to keep running, she finally lost all the energy she had in her, she collapsed.