I went to go and climb the mountain, the one that nobody has ever successfully got to the top of. It’s rumoured to have an animal living at the top, waiting to kill whoever dares to go near it. I don’t believe this is true, there is no monster that could possibly kill somebody that gruesomely. So I started walking.

I saw some weird things on the way up - trees with red stuff on, 6ft deep holes, dolls with no head on - but I just ignored them and kept walking.

All of a sudden, I heard a growling noise.

‘There’s nothing there, there’s nothing there.’ I kept telling myself, even though I knew it wasn’t true. I’m sure that I saw something running in the trees a couple of times. It’s probably just birds flying really quickly.

The next time I looked in the trees, I stopped dead in my tracks. There was a monster waiting in the trees. It looked like an oversized rat with the tail of a horse and the face of a dog. It had eyes smaller than a strawberry. It was fur-less and had midnight black skin. This thing was obviously not human.

Then it starts running at me. It knocked me over onto the floor, so I just played dead. If I get up it will probably kill me.

A few hours later it is gone. I got up and ran as quickly as I can down the mountain.

05/09/21