The night had been cold, and dreary, typical too. The moon lit up in the night sky, gleaming from the sun's reflection, and beaming its light across the peaceful night. There I was, walking in the middle of the park for no reason, nothing to do, nothing to think about, and certainly eager to waste time. Not really focused to begin with either, letting my loud music beat into my ears; loud as usual too. To the view of one's eye, I seemed like a very odd person, huge, bulky, and walking alone with my head down, which didn't matter much to me anyway.
     "Cold as usual, boring as usual, nothing to ever change in this god forsaken place." I whispered to myself lowly, growing dreary, and impetuous from the dull evening becoming slower. I dipped my hand into my pocket of course, and pulled out my phone - which had been playing music. A song had come on in my headphones, and I didn't want to listen to it anyways, so I switched the song to some chill step. "Come on, you piece of shit, please...?" The phone had finally played the song, Blackmill had filled my ears instantly, giving me something to focus on. With the astonishing music playing in my ears, I stopped in my tracks to embrace the music before me.
       Then it hit me, I hadn't checked my messages yet. I snapped my eyes open, and unlocked the screen, closing tedious things which had been open, and went to contacts. "Nope..Nope.." I thought to myself while going through, some people I hadn't spoken to had popped up, but I didn't feel like texting them. So, after a minute, a name had come up - the sight of it had nearly struck me, it was my ex -, 'David'. A name I hadn't seen in ages, which had only caused pain right after, reminding me of my single, and pathetic life. "Pfff," I said to myself irrationally, and closed my phone after a second of pondering. I set the phone back into my pocket, and suddenly felt a presence looking upon me. My eyes gander around quickly, trying to find the source which had been upon me in the darkness. I remained calm, and the music began to echo in my head slightly. I took in a deep breath, and sniffed the air cautiously, the scent hitting the roof of my mouth. Something wasn't right,the smell wasn't familiar to me either. This alarmed me, feeling out of place in the location I was in. "Where am I?..." I thought to myself, "where is the lurker?..." I felt my heart pound quicker in my chest, only to look to the left, past the opening in the bushes, and over the pond. There was a body, dark, and shrouded by the night, laying on the side motionless, silent as the dead.
   My curiosity had become aroused, and my heart had began to pound quicker in my chest. My head turned in multiple locations, scanning for anything else that might have been around. I sighed nervously, then my head trailed back to the body. Having sudden thoughts, "go check it out, no no... Don't.. It's dangerous.." I was second guessing myself, and finally mustered the courage to take small, and silent steps toward the being. I clenched my fist too, looking around on the ground for a big stick that could defend me. I looked for another couple of seconds, and my eyes stopped on a thick stick: it was about 6 feet long, broken branches upon it, thick as my thigh. I gently kneeled down, and picked it up, feeling it's width, and thickness in my hand. I then stood back up, and took some closer steps to the body of some sorts.
   The closer I got, the more detailed it seemed. It was rather large, about 10 feet tall, and thick with fur, which was black as night. I noticed a long tail, furry, and bushy, it made me nervous too. "What the, hell.." I said, slowly getting closer to it, then the muscle tone had appeared, which had made matters even worse. I stopped in my tracks, and gripped the stick in my hand with a lot of strength. I looked down upon it, the body wasn't breathing, it was too hard to tell - due to the massive size of fur. I gulped, and then looked behind me for a half second. Paranoia telling me that something else was watching, but there was nothing to see. I turned back, and my face went pale of the sudden sight before me. A rather red pair of eyes, red as blood, and shiny as a diamond in the moonlight. They seemed to be getting closer, and quicker by the second, which made me realize what had happened. I was frozen in pure fear, noting my legs weren't moving at all. "...." I was speechless too, the creature had lunged at me, claws unsheathed, muscles flexed with motion, and drool dripping from the chops of the creature. Something that had seemed to be out of a pure nightmare.
A force had pushed me back, sending me back into the thick layer of grass below me. I closed my eyes in fear, and went limb from the creature's unfamiliar touch, almost alien to me. I winched in fear, my heart pounding, my mind blank, only for me to open my eyes to see the red pair of eyes staring into my soul.