It felt different heading into the forest now, not like in the Jeep, being this exposed to the elements made one truly realise how unadapted human beings really are. Regardless of the extra warm clothes Curt gave them, the cold still came through and made their fingers pain, their jaws clatter. It all looked the same, the only thing that gave them direction was the railroad running to their left, at some points they lost it, either not being able to drive parallel to it due to the trees, or it being broken away so much by time and the elements. Phillip knew all he needed to do was watch the feul needle on the vehicle, if it started getting low, he knew they would start getting close. They crossed the icy rivers, the thick snow, around glaciers, and darn right unforgiving terrain, the witch kept her promise, no wolves came for them, but Phillip could swear everytime he checked his six he saw the glowing eyes of something following them, it was eerie, the noise of the struggling snowmobiles somehow gave them peace, drowning out any sound that might send their hearts racing. When the needle was well below half, Phillip started looking ahead to see if he couldn"t find some sighn of the mine, but it was just trees upon trees. A while longer his engine gave its first cough, signalling its now breathing fumes, not drinking gas. Benson"s snowmobile would still have alittle more gas, him being a heavier set man gave the rear tracks more traction, so Phillip beeped his horn, Benson first glanced back to make sure Phillip didn"t want to floor it, but halted when he signaled to stop."Dont get off" Phillip came in next to him.
"Im going to load my stuff on yours, then get on with you. How much gas do you have left?"
"Quarter tank"
"Good" Phillip loaded his gear over onto Benson"s then without touching the ground jumped over.
"Go" he tapped Benson"s shoulder. They headed on, the tracks of the snowmobile now worked better, and the vehicle didn"t struggle as much, after another half an hour the old spooky mine came into view, it stood in such a way that it seemed built into the side of a steep hill, about two hundred meters away from it the snowmobile died.
"And now?" Phillip asked.
"The feul is done" Benson said, so far, yet so close.
"What now?" Benson asked.
"Now it gets interesting" The voice said and the howles of wolves came out of the forest.
"Run Benson! To the mine!" Phillip yelled and they both dismounted, Phillip grabbed the bags knowing Benson won"t be able to run quick enough with them, but still Phillip overtook him.
"Keep running! Dont stop!" Phillip yelled as he pa.s.sed, he took a quick glance at the mine building and saw doors, he threw the bags towards them and fired at the locks with the AK, then turned to Benson who was screaming his lungs out. Behind the tubby man the shadows of the wolves were hot on his tail.
"Dont stop Benson!" He screamed aimed and fired, the bullets zinged past Benson taking out any wolf that dared come too close, Phillip started walking forward and when Benson approached Phillip yelled.
"Go into the doors, drag the bags with you!"
When Benson pa.s.sed him he switched to full auto and ripped loose, trying as much as he could to count the shots in his head, so he could time his reload. Benson grabbed the bags and fell through the doors "Im in!"
Phillip turned and ran into the open doors, when the two men slammed the doors shut behind them, the noise of the huge pack of wolves was suddenly gone, they only heard themselves breathing uncontrollably.
"What, the f.u.c.k!?" Benson asked backing away from the door, Phillip saw a lever lock and slid it across to lock both the doors, he even found the two rods at the feet of the doors and locked them to the ground, but before he could stand up the doors shattered in the middle, that skinless wolf"s head came through and snapped its jaws at a fleeing Phillip. Benson screamed falling to the ground, Phillip had a grenade pulled and threw it to the monster, it opened its jaws and caught it.
"Grenade!!!" Phillip screamed, both he and Benson dove away to cover. The explosion was a "clunk" followed by the sound of spurting blood and bone scattering everywhere, the monstrous wolf now with no head could still produce noise as its larynx was still in tact, but now the noise came through a collapsed windpipe and it sounded sickening.
"f.u.c.k! What the f.u.c.k is that thing!?" Benson screamed. The wolf withdrew itself from the hole in the doors and ran off.
"How the f.u.c.k is it still alive!?" Benson kept screaming, tears welled in his eyes.
"Come Benson! We must move!" Phillip yelled grabbing the bags, they headed for a staircase and climbed. They went up as high as they could untill they found themselves in a small six by four room, it looked like it was used for storage.
"I saw..." Benson heaved breathless "An opening into the mines, shouldn"t we... Go in there..."
"No, there"s too much dangers there" Phillip phanted "it could collapse, or we could get lost"
"So we are trapped here?"
"At least we"re not dead yet" Phillip took out Benson"s AK and handed it to him, then took out the settle charges and claymores.
"Wait here, im going to set traps" Phillip slowly headed down, listening for movement, nothing inside, but outside, through a window he saw the headless wolf still aimlessly running around. He placed claymores down strategically, then the last staircase he planed the settle charge. Back in the storage room he found Benson sitting in a corner, having the AK ready.
"Now, we wait"
"For what!?"
"I don"t know yet" Phillip looked out the small window, he saw the snowmobile still standing with its light on, around it, those corpse like wolves strolled, also seeming to have an aimlessness about them.
"You, made, it" He heard a voice behind him, Phillip flung around and saw the syluette between him and Benson, the violet eyes visable inside the smoke.
"Yes, so? Where are my father and Suzette?"
She gave a giggle "You made it here, but you still haven"t survived the night"
"You b.i.t.c.h!" He yelled and fired at her, but she vanished and the bullets struck the wooden wall right above Benson.
"f.u.c.k! Are you crazy!?"
"She was right there!? Didn"t you see her!?"
"Who!? The witch!?"
"Yes!"
"What the flying f.u.c.k! I didn"t f.u.c.king see her!"
An eerie laugh filled the room, this time they both heard it.
"I have you both now... It was never my intention to target Benson, frankly, he would be too easy... To crack"
"f.u.c.k! Who"s that!?"
"Thats her you imbecile! Isn"t it fokkin obvious!?"
"What the f.u.c.k does she mean i wasn"t her target!?"
"You heard her! You"ll just go crazy much quicker!"
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"So you lead me to my death...!"
"The wolf... That normal one you saw in the cabin... That was your test Benson, and you proved to me you have a weak mind, a strong minded person like Phillip wouldn"t have seen it"
"f.u.c.k you! You f.u.c.king b.i.t.c.h!" Benson yelled, Phillip dove down just in time as Benson started firing the AK in all directions.
"Benson stop!" Phillip yelled "Shes s.c.r.e.w.i.n.g with you!"
Benson stopped shooting, the empty cartridges still klinked on the wooden floor. Then the sounds of the wolves outside started escalating again. The witch laughed.
"Now they know, where you are"
"f.u.c.k! Oh f.u.c.k were done for!" Benson yelled falling back into a corner.
"Its such a shame" The voice was in Phillip"s ear, he swung a fist but hit nothing, instead behind him stood Suzette, still with one arm missing, her eyes teared up.
"Phillip? Why? Why did you leave me in that room?"
"I... I..." He couldn"t believe what he saw, the blood still dripping from her arm.
"You left me... To go be wit Anna!?" She screamed. To Phillip"s shock she turned into a wolf and dove towards him, he screamed and fell but shook awake from the nightmare... A nightmare, he sat up and saw Benson still sitting in the corner.
"What the fok happened!?"
"Nothing so far" Benson said sounding uneasy.
"Nothing!? I was asleep!"
"Yes! You sat down for a while and fell asleep"
"Benson! Stop fokking around! Why would you allow me to sleep at a time like this!?"
"I just thought it best you were rested out! I would have woken you if i heard something!"
Phillip grunted and stood up, but came face to face with a large black wolf, Benson was the first to scream and fire, Phillip backed off and fired aswell, but both men hit nothing, there was no wolf.
"The f.u.c.k!? Was that an illusion!?" Benson bellowed.
"I think shes trying to make us waste our bullets"
"f.u.c.k!"
"We shouldn"t fire at anything we see anymore" Phillip said.
"Then what if we don"t fire and there really is something!? I mean f.u.c.k that looked real to me!"
"I dont know!"
"Phillip" A new voice came into the room, Phillip recognized it.
"Dad?" Phillip asked, in the doorway that led to the staircase he saw his old man stand, but slightly in the shadow.
"Dad!? Is that you!?"
"You should not have come here, now you cant run..." The man came into the torchlight, his eyes bewitched, his teeth sharp "and never will"
"Fok!" Phillip screamed and fired, as he did the large wolf came out of the shadows and grabbed Phillip, shaking him around violently, Phillip felt the huge canines saw through his abdomen, Benson was screaming his rifle also barking away. Then just as it started Phillip awoke again, back in Anna"s room, the fire still crackling, the warmth of the bed around him. He looked to his right, Anna laid watching him with her beautiful eyes, smiling.
"That was great" She whispered.
"How? How did i get here?"
"What do you mean? You came here after i bandaged Suzette up, and we had s.e.x"
Phillip sat up, scanning the room, is this another illusion? Or did he really fall asleep after he had s.e.x with Anna, and dream all that s.h.i.t?
"Whats wrong?" She asked.
"I, i just had a horrible nightmare"
Anna sat up "About what?"
He looked at her, holding her body closed with the blankets, he lifted his hand and touched her shoulder.
"Are you real Anna?"
She smiled "Do i look real...? Do i feel... Real" She came close and kissed him again.
"I, i dont really know"
She pushed him into the matress and climbed on top of him.
"Let me convince you then" She whispered and came down, her warmth again so real, so l.u.s.t inducing, he felt her lips in his neck, kissing him softly. Phillip brought his arms around her and felt her back, her soft skin in his hands felt smooth, and flawless, but a sharp pain in his neck shook him, Anna came up with his jugular vein in her mouth, Phillip could still breath but he felt his strength slip out of his neck, the warmth of his blood rushed down his shoulder and the back of his head, he laid horrified seeing her chew and swallow the meat in her mouth, then her eyes lit up the same violet as what he saw from the witch.
"You"re in deep Phillip, you will never escape me now"
He screamed and tried to push her off, but she was too strong, too strong? For him!? How could such a small figured woman be able to pin him down!? He could easily bench almost three hundred kilograms! Yet here she had him! Pinned like a baby! She started laughing, her teeth turned to fangs, the white in her eyes turned black, two wolf ears grew to the top of her head and not long, her body also shifted, bigger, black fur grew all over, Phillip lied watching stupefied as she grew into a huge wolf, so big in fact her back touched the roof, one of her fangs longer than his arm.
"Good bye... Soldier" The jaws opened and as it went dark, the light of the torch in the storage room came back as he flew up again, Benson was trying to wake him the whole time.
"f.u.c.k son! Are you ok!?"
"What de fok!?" Phillip yelled breathless.
"You pa.s.sed out son! Then started thrashing around like a madman!"
"I pa.s.sed out!?"
"Yes"
"When?"
"Right after that illusion of the wolf"
"Fok! So its all just one big fokkin nightmare"
Phillip yelled flying up.
"Get to the point witch! Enough of this bulls.h.i.t!"
"Aah, but i was just starting to enjoy myself"
Phillip"s blood boiled over, he took out his phone and sat down in a corner. His mind shattered and his will to go on depleted, what ever comes now, can be the end of him, he didn"t care, he had no more patients for these games, but before he gave in, he decided to book some s.h.i.t for this witch. Phillip opened a voice recorder on his phone and started talking.
"Yes boet, Phil here, im not sure if im going to make it"
As he started talking the first of the claymores detonated downstairs, Benson panicked and ran to his chosen corner. The roar that came after the bang told them something big just entered the mine building.
"I couldn"t save dad, even Suzette was taken by this witch, i came to this location on a lie, hoping I"d find out the truth about what happened to dad, but it was all for nothing"
The second claymore tripped, another roar. Benson started crying but Phillip held the detonator ready for the settle charge.
"This witch plays with your mind Piet, she f.u.c.ks with you untill you"re mentally unable to take more, im physically able to go on, but i feel like im going mad! I cant go on"
The steps kreecked close to the entrance of the small room and Phillip pressed the b.u.t.ton, one h.e.l.l of an explosion lit the room, blast residue came into the room anlong with the whining roar of whatever"s out there. Phillip held his eyes closed, the dust was overwhelming.
"Dont let her get to you boet, she turns you into a wolf with a kiss, thats after she mentally grinds you. Focus Piet, and give her h.e.l.l!" He stopped the recording and mailed it to Frits" adress, the signal was bad, so it took time to send.
"Oh... f.u.c.k..." Benson whimpered and Phillip looked up, the skinless wolf slowly came into the room, its eyes fixed on him, he could clearly see where the explosives damaged it, but it was still comming like an unforgettable nightmare. A bang from Benson"s rifle made it flinch and look, but the rifle barrel rested flush to his chin, the smoke emitted from the hole in the top of his scull... He took the easy way out.
"Now you are truly alone"
"Oh spare me b.i.t.c.h" he sighed watching the phone "message sent" He started laughing.
"It seems you completely cracked now?"
"That may be true, but dont worry, i made sure someone will come, and finish you off"
Thistime she laughed, the wolf in front of him stepped aside and revealed her behind it. She slowly came stroling to him, hips confidently swaying.
"No mortal man can stop me, soldier" she grabbed his foot and dragged him out of the corner, then pinned him to the ground with a foot.
"Ive been doing this for centuries, i cannot be defeated at my own game" She said and sat down on top of him.
"Interesting, my older brother has been through alot more of h.e.l.l than i was, hes seen s.h.i.t only nightmares can produce, hes already mad, i wonder if you can break someone"s mind, who has already lost it?"
She lied down on top of him, now face to face he could see she looked exactly like Anna.
"A, Anna?"
"No, i am the undying flower, some might consider me a weed, but i bloom all year round, i cannot wither, unlike Anna the rose, who might be more beautiful, but only blooms for a short while..."
She smiled at him "My name is Amarinth" She whispered and kissed him.
Phillip felt her lips just as soft and warm as Anna"s, but a diffrent sensation came into hos mouth, a heaviness like syrup but flavourless it found its way down his throat, and suddenly his entire body felt heavier. Pain shot through his intestines and he grunted, Amarinth lifted herself from him, he balled up, not knowing fully what to make of the situation, but before he could comprehend his mind was lost.
"You will be my king, the one who cannot wither, the strongest of my pack. I give you the curse of the undying flower, and with it none who face you will succeed in killing you, you will live forever, and kill all in your way"
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