Category : Stories

Sub Category : Suspense/Mystery

I was already feeling numb, I should've listened. But no as always I had to be stubborn amd bull-headed and get myself into trouble.
This time I was out in the woods during a blizzard. Of course there wasn't a blizzard when I first went out but there was one now. Typical. I could hardly see my hand in front of my face. At least I had brought winter gear with me.
So I hunkered down in a little shelter I made out of the snow and waited for it to clear enough so that I could see. I ended up falling into a deep sleep. When I woke up it was the next morning but I wasn't in the forest anymore, well I was in a forest but not in the forest I had been in. I must have been transported somewhere new. This forest looked to be in spring instead of winter and there wasnt even a single snowflake on the ground.
I got up and looked around me in confusion. That was when something stepped out from the trees, it was a tall raven-haired man but he didn't look like a normal human, he had elven features.
"Hello dear child, you have finally come home." He said. He had a beautiful voice, rich and melodic. "Do not worry you are safe here."
He motioned for me to follow him and then he turned into the forest. I followed him almost without thinking. He led me to the most beautiful waterfall I've ever seen and then he motioned for me to stop. He the went behind the waterfall and disappeared from view. He came back about fifteen minutes later carrying in his arms a large leather bag, he walked to where I was sitting paitently waiting on a small boulder.
"This is for you dear child." He said.
I took the bag and opened it, inside was a beautiful blue flowing robe made of the softest material I ever felt, a well-crafted longsword with runes etched into the blade and a leather sheath, a longbow made of yew wood and expertly carved with a quiver holding several steel tipped arrows, and a signet ring with my initials engraved into it.
I looked up to find there stranger bowing before me.
"The prophecies foretold that you would come here chosen one, you will save my people. It is no mistake or coincidence that you came here this day." He said.
I slipped into the robe and put the signet ring on my finger, then put the sword on my belt and slung the bow and quiver onto my back. He turned and motioned for me to follow him again. We walked for hours it seemed until we reached a large clearing with a large stone in the middle. We went to the stone and he pushed on it revealing the entrance to a cave, motioned for me to step inside and the he followed after and then placed the stone back over the entrance.
We then went farther into the cave with torches to light our way until we came to a large cathedral-sized space with a hole in the ceiling letting light through that was filled with people similar to the man that had led me here that were seated around huge tables. They all looked up when we entered, many pairs of eyes fastened upon me. They all rose and bowed.
And then...
The cave grew dark and everything dissapeared but me and the strange man. He stepped in front of me and smiled with an unnatural grin. And then he laughed a harsh cackle and changed into a great shadowy beast. He roared at me with teeth bared.
"The spilling of your blood will be what saves my people." He said in a coarse voice and then cackled again.
He lunged for me and I pulled out the sword and swung it at him. It clipped his ear and he bellowed in rage. I ran to the far end of the room and shot and arrow out of my bow that stuck deep into his shoulder. By then he had caught up to me again and swiped at me with a gigantic and sharple clawed paw. The claws grased my cheek and it stung. I yelped in pain and stepped back a few paces then tripped, twisted my ankle, and fell onto my back. The beast raised his paw and then brought it back down. My last thought was that I wished I had stayed in the blizzard. All was darkness.
Until...
A bright light shone in my eyes and I heard several worried voices hurredly talking above me and someone kept calling my name, asking me if I could hear them. I moaned out a reply and then passed out again.
I woke up in a hospital room with bandages covering my face and chest and wrapped around my ankle. It hurt a lot. A nurse walked in and when she saw that I was awake came over to me and told me how bad my injuries were.
"It looks as if you were attacked by a wild animal, you have several claw marks on you face and chest and you also fractured your left ankle." She said.
She checked my bandages and then left. A half hour later she came back in carrying a syringe.
"This is to help with the pain." She said as she stuck it into my arm. My vision grew blurry but the pain didn't go away, if anything it increased. "Actually it's just poison, he warned you that you had to die chosen one."
As my vision grew dark I could swear I heard the beast cackling as I fell into oblivion.