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 * __The Trap__**

Crack! Crunch! "What was that?" asked Byron. "Could be an animal," stated Dustin. "Probably the popo," announced Tony. They all put their libational drinks down and kept silent for the furtive creature to make another noise. The three teenage boys could not see through the thick group of trees nor beyond the light from the camp fire. All was silent, except for the sound of an owl in the moon light. Byron was really scared he was shaking with the trees but he wasn't getting blown by the wind he was frightened. Byron had a lot of problems with the other kids and he thought it might be someone that heard they were camping out and they were there to get back at him. "We should walk a little faster," suggested Byron. "Calm down it's probably just an animal," muttered Dustin. Dustin was a Japanese boy who moved to America at the age of 9. His long black hair hung in his dark brown eyes. He was pretty emaciated and didn't worry to much. Tony was a boy who had a father obsessed with anything and everything Italian, and without thinking, named his kid Tony. Tony has a buzz cut and is a pretty tall dude. He always worried about getting arrested.

The rustling movements in the woods continued, Tony was starting to get annoyed. He picked up a large stick went over to the bush where the noise was coming from, and started to poke it. The creature made a hissing noise, Tony flew back in fright. Byron screamed and took off running! "Wait Byron, where are you going?" shouted Dustin. Dustin and Tony tried to catch Byron but Byron seemed to be running at the speed of light! The two boys stopped to catch their breathe, and Byron vanished in the distance. Dustin pulled Tony to hide behind a big tree. Tony, breathing heavy stated, "We need to get out of here with the drinks!" The drinks he was reffering to were the ones they stole out of Dustin's dad's fridge in the garage. They had simply come there to have some drinks and have a little bacchanalian party. But it had turned into a nightmare, with whatever or whoever was running around. Dustin replied, " I'm not going back there for our drinks. I'd rather get our friend." Tony responded, "Screw him, he is an idiot for running, lets save our selfs." Dustin whispered in fear, "Are you that selfish?" The conversation took a sudden halt as they heard a loud scream in the distance. "That sounded like Byron!" yelled Dustin. Dustin started to slowly tiptoe towards the scream, Tony dawdled behind with not a care in the world of their friend Byron. So Dustin peaked through the bushes to see a man in a ski mask draging Byron threw the woods. Dustin went off in the woods in search for Byron, making an effort in trying to save him. Eventually Dustin forced Tony to tag along. As they bolted through the woods in terror expecting the worst, Byron's yelps started to fade. As they kept running Byron's screams started to become more and more clear, so they followed the sound of his voice to find an illuminated shack in the middle of the woods. "Thats where Byron is," said Dustin and Tony. They had to think of a plan to get him out of there, and soon.

The kids that dragged Byron into the shack had the same body build as some drug dealers Tony knew from the neighborhood. The kid's name was Matt. Tony didn't know the other kid's name. He didn't really want to know much about them because he wasn't very interested in that kind of thing. He had tried smoking marijuana once or twice, but that was just peer pressure. His kind of thing was drinking he just liked the way it made him feel. His dad wasn't a very good influence on him because they drank together almost every night. So it wasn't a big deal if he got caught with the alcohol. Dustin started into the shack, it had tag names written all over it and it reaked of smoke. Dustin knew he couldn't help Byron by his self, these kids were big but just as he looked back for Tony he saw him shuffling through the leaves looking for the booze. "Some friend," he thought to him self. Dustin started to get nervous, his palms started sweating and his heart started pounding a mile a minute. Just as he was climbing through a busted out window someone must have heard the cracking of the glass Dustin was stepping on the dirt floor. A big guy with a deep voice said, "Oh, whats this kid trying to do?" Then Dustin was pushed to the ground. He couldn't see very well because the only source of light there was is the bright moon and the flickering of the lighter every couple of minutes or so. By this time Tony had heard the scrams of both Dustin and Byron he started to get scared himself. His tough attitude began to go away as he realized more and more that he was going to have to get help for his friends.

Suddenly, the screaming had stopped. There was nothing, but a hissing noise. The hiss was familer to Tony, he recignised it from earlier that night. He bolted for the shack. There was nothing in the shack, but lifeless breathe. He turned into the room where Dustin ran to. He did not see the dealers or Dustin, but he did see a little something in the corner of the room. It was a hand from Byron's body! A human couldn't have done this it was simply to brutal. Tony was tempted to run home. He stared at the hand in fear. The hand covered in blood and looked like it was bit off more than cut off. Blood seeped off the fingers onto the floor. Tony looked closer, and noticed bite marks in the hand! Tony heard a creek, something was behind him in the shadows. Something crashed into Tony's back. He fell to the floor, panting like a dog! He tried to turn himself over to pop whoever was holding him down. His head was being held down to the floor. The feeling of what was holding him down wasnt the feeling of human skin, it was scaly! Like an alligator, Claws started to dig into the back of Tony's head. SLAM! His head was being slammed into the ground over and over again like slamming a car door! He screamed as loud as he could but there was no one.

Tony finally got the strength to push whatever it was off. He got a quick image of it, the creature was something he had never seen before! It had a head in a smaller version of a crocodiles' head. Its snout was much smaller though. It had a muscular dark blue scaly body. and claws over 3 feet of length. It's horns going down from its head down its back, down its tail. Its tail must have been as long as a tiger's. It had a long slimy tounge, and teeth as sharp as razor blades! It had a blue and red pattern of scales through out its body. The eyes on the creature were pitch black, dark as night! Tony ran as fast as he could and hid around the creek. He finally stopped in belief that he lost it. He looked down at the green water. "Green?" questioned Tony. The polution in this lake was pretty bad. Tony often had his hangovers in that creek, throws trash in it all the time, and goes to the bathroom in it. He put anything he could in that lake without a care in the world. He saw a dead fish afloat to shore. it had something familar about it. Its scales! They were dark blue and red. The same color as the creature. Tony looked over in disbelief, maybe it was just a coincidence he thought. It wasn't! He noticed dead fish all down the lake the same colors as that creature. He had a flash back, Dustin, Tony, and Byron were all by the lake drinking, " Tony you shouldn't throw your beer bottle in there, and oh god don't puke in there!" said Dustin. "you shouldn't dump everything in there it can do bad things, how would you feel if you were in there and someone did that to you?" He got out of the flash back and realised this was all his fault! He had to fix this, he hadn't been the best person or friend before, but it was time to change!

He noticed footprints, Tony started to hyper ventalate, he started to panic again. Took a closer look and realised that it was human footprints, the drug dealers with Dustin he thought! he followed the steps for a few minutes, and began to hear moaning, he looked over and the over hung by his feet from a tree was handless Byron, Tony ran over, untied his feet and asked Byron if he was alright! "i'm not gonna last much longer", Byron muttered, Tony said, "No dont go i'm here buddy", for the first time Tony said something caring. "where are the dealers"? asked Tony, " Byron replied " It wasnt them" then he started to fade and fell into a forever slumber. Tony started to cry. He got on his knees and cried like a baby. He heard a rustle in the trees and looked up, and two bodies fell out of the trees nearly hitting Tony! he looked and the ski masks gave away who it was. The dealers! It wasn't them who tied Byron to the tree, they were trying to get them and him out of the woods but that monster got to them before they could. Tony had to find Dustin! He got up and noticed that the dealers body were cut open and all the intestins were eaten out of it. Tony ran, he ran home! He wanted his dads help, despite how he didn't help him before he had to now. He bursted through the door yelling and crying for his father. He found his father, just not alive he had beer bottles shoved down his throat. Tony walked out his front doors in sorrow. Then someone tackled him and started punching him repeatedly! It was Dustin who had escaped the dealers when they grabbed him! Dustin punched repeatedly with power and force, he struck Tony again and again! "This is all your fault!" Dustin screamed, "I warned you!!" Tony's face was covered in blood, the blood was flowing off of his face! Dustin felt his fist, not only was blood all over it but it was wet.. from tears, it was at that moment Dustin realized Tony had some heart, some care, and some concern. But then all of a sudden a loud snap noise was heard. Tony stopped sobbing and just stared. Dustin stood still his neck flung forward, his neck had been snapped. Standing behind Dustin in the shadows was the creature.

Tony was now all alone. He was scared. He wanted the lord to take him. He wanted to die! He just started to crawl slowly, he crawled a few feet, but a large foot stomped on his back crushing him into the ground. Tony gave up, stopped trying and just took the pain. He screeched in pain! As the foot was pounding down and down on him again! There was a fairly large tree right next to Tony and the creature, the tree was shaking from all the stomping and pounding, it was an old tree and looked ready to fall! TIMBER! It did. The creature out of fear moved his foot off of aching Tony, he quickly rolled over with the tree just missing him, he looked back to see if the creature had survived, and there it was.

Under the tree was the dead creature. Tony stood up in an awkward fashion. He started to laugh and cry tears of joy. He was like a little girl after getting a new toy! He started to limp away for help. He heard a loud roar. Tony turned around. And there was the creature lifting up the tree and throwing it over it's head. It started to slowly walk towards Tony. Tony backed up a little and stumbled to the ground. The creature stood in front of Tony just staring at him. The creature pulled its arm back like a catapult getting ready to swing at Tony. But it tumbled to the ground landing right before Tony's legs. Now it was dead. Tony now limped into the distance.

When he got to the nearest town he looked around. Everything was empty, abandoned, nothing, the air was empty, there was not a sound of anyone or anything near by. But there was a hissing sound. But not just one, about one hundred thousand! Tony circled around and all over the buildings were those scaled creatures, EVERYWHERE! Tony looked down he saw bodies all over the streets. Tony didn't move, he didn't run, he didn't even scream. He had no feelings anymore, knowing that this was all his fault. He just stood, as those things started to crawl for him, he waited for his death...

The End!