Your True Tales
November 2004 – Page 8

Sabretooth Monster
by cjlethal

When I was 10, my friends and I decided to play hide and seek and to go outside in the night darkness. I was picked to go hide, and went into the woods, thinking no one had enough courage to follow in my footsteps. Maybe I had a little too much courage.

As I entered the woods on that chilly autumn night, I heard the rustling of the leaves as I approached a tree. Once I reached the tree, I hid behind it, but the rustling of the crunchy, dead leaves did not stop. I checked to see if my feet were somehow moving. Unfortunately, they weren't. I looked for anything, any kind of sign that someone else human was in the woods. No one.

Then I looked over to see an eerie creature that had to tower at least seven feet! He turned around and looked at me with glowing yellow eyes. He looked like a mutated being that took the form of a lion. At first, I thought it was one of my friends playing a Halloween prank on me, so I tried to laugh it off, but it held no laughter, no remorse.

As it started to approach me, I threw rocks, sticks, branches, anything I thought would stall him. I then ran as fast as I could to the building, where my friends and I were previously. I never looked back, but I could hear the creature from behind gaining. I jumped off the small cliff and landed awkwardly on the concrete parking lot.

I told my friends, and some believed me, some did not. It was my first creature sighting, and to this day I know the creature by the name Sabretooth.

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