The Heart of a Beast: Chapter 2 Waking Dreams

• Posted by Bryn January 23, 2013 - 865 views
  I see a creature sprinting through the woods. It is covered in shaggy black fur, it has amber eyes that lit up the dark woods. While it ran, it snarled. I knew it was after something, but what?...I didn't know. But whatever it was after, it wasn't going to stop until it gets caught. The creature is getting closer, it is crashing through the trees. It is acting more rabid and enraged... The creature eventually catches its prey, a person with a slightly pale complexion, grey colored eyes, and ebony black hair. It is a woman. She is trapped under the beasts' claws which crushed her chest. The beasts' eyes stared at her, growling. It was felt nothing but rage, bloodlust... Hunger. The skies were soon clearing and the moonlight started to shine through the dark clouds, with the new light I could start to see the woman more clearly... She looked familiar... I am looking down at the woman, am i the creature? I howl into the night and feel my hunger increase. As I look down I prepare to feed, I try to stop, but I have no control... Before I kill the woman, she screams out "KORIN!!!"... I wake up, breathing heavily... It was just a dream... But... It felt so real... And then I realize who the woman was... It was Dragon. I need some fresh air. This wasn't the first time I had a dream like this one, I've been having them a lot lately. Every night to be honest. I worry... How can I trust myself to be near her? She's the only person that's ever been a true friend of mine, and I'm afraid that I may kill her one day. I walk down the stairs in my house, a gift from dragon thanks to all of her extra gold. As soon as I reach the door, it opens up. Who could it be? Dragon, enters the house. She jumped at the sight of me. "You're ok?" She asks me, sounding worried. "Why wouldn't I be?" I ask her, she points at my chest and I look down. My chest is wrapped up in gauze. "Oh, right... The arrow." "You shouldn't be up, you're injured and it's the middle of the night." She scolds me. "Why are you even up this late?" "I couldn't sleep, lately I've been having terrible nightmares." I say to her as I sit down in a nearby chair. She sits down in a chair near me. "What about?" She asks after sitting down. "I'd rather not tell you... I'm sorry Dragon." I try to drop the conversation. My heart feels like it is pounding out of my chest. "You can tell me, don't you trust me?" She looks at me with a frown... Should I tell her? Would she run away out of fear? Oh well, I have to tell her. "Well... For the past few weeks I've been having a dream were I'm in a forest..." As I am talking, my pulse increases even more... I take a deep breath in order to calm myself. "... In the forest, I turn into a werewolf and I'm chasing after something... After awhile I catch it and... I see it is you... Right before I kill you..." She sits there, staring at me. There is silence between us. I knew I shouldn't have told her... "So.. I guess you want to stay away from me from now on..." I say sullenly, looking down at the ground. "Why would I?" I hear her say. "What?" I ask her, I was confused. "It was just a dream, weird things happen in dreams. And you think I should be afraid of you simply because of a dream? She answers me. "It's not because it was a dream... It just brought up the thought that... I could hurt you if I turned, I could kill you! How can you trust me?" I question her. "I trust you Korin... I know you have a hard time trusting yourself with being close to people, but I know you." She says as she walks closer to me. I sit there looking at her and think about how lucky I must be to have a friend like dragon. I just told her about my fears of killing her, and she still trusts me... I smile at her and say. "Thank you." As I stand up dragon throws her arms around me and pulls me in a tight hug. As touching as it was I took a sharp pain filled breathe. She immediately let go of me. "I'm still healing I guess." I chuckle to her. She tells me how she is sorry for hurting me, but I tell her it's fine. If I would have stopped being friends with her for simply hurting me, then I would have stopped traveling with her awhile ago. We share our goodbyes, and I head back to my bed. And for the first time in awhile, I had a good nights rest.