I cringed at the crunch of sand beneath my foot, hoping the black and blue creature didn’t hear me.

Until it growled.

I stopped in my tracks and looked at it. Its long ears cover its body except for its eyes. This thing would hear every movement and action that I did. He breathed slowly from his mouth because it was the quietest. My shoes were especially made for stealth making noise unless something else made the noise, like the sand.

I kept going, either looking where I was stepping or checking to make sure the beast was still asleep. I had come here at great risk, trying get the book, that this creature had taken from me.

I saw it on the floor, at the corner of the cave and slowly went for it. This book was everything to me, it was my life. It allowed me to do everything I wanted to do.

I approached it and grasped in my hands. As soon as I took it, I heard a sound behid me. I quickly looked behind and noticed that the cave got pitch black. I looked everywhere and noticed that there were spots that had light shining onto them.

That is when I realized. I looked up and saw the feral eyes that stared at me. The creature was covering me with its ears making it so that I could not escape.

I tried to open the book but the creature batted me away. I was thrown towards the exit, the book escaping my hands. I crawled towards it, ankle broken. So close… the heavy foot steps of the creature grew closer to me.

If he could only get in the beam of the sun. The book was in the sunshine unreachable for the creature. I took out my phone as the creature on top of him. He put his phone in the sunshine and pointed the light to the creature and it reeled back.

It backed up, paws flailing around trying to hide from the sun. One of the claws ripped a cut through my leg and I screamed. The creature put its paws to its ears and ran into the cave.

I put my hand to my leg and tried to stop the bleeding. I ripped my shirt off and rapped it. I painfully stood up and took the book. I limped towards the town at the bottom of the mountain trying not to fall.

A few hours later, I reached the summit of the mountain and entered the town. I quickly limped towards the bunker for the sun was setting. I saw a few people entering and I yelled at them. One of them came to me and he helped me get to it.

As I entered the bunker, I heard a massive roar and I looked towards the mountain. There standing on its cliff was the creature. It looked towards the town and leaped off flying towards them, spreading it ears to glide.

We quickly entered the bunker and shut it, to wait out the monstrous thing that slashed at the bunker.