1 Opened My Eyes

It was a dark and silent night. Both the MOONS were hidden by the dark clouds. The sky was painted in the color of the ashes of hell. Underneath the sky were forests. As far as you can see there were forests spread throughout the region. The trees of the forest stood arrogantly, ready to pierce through the heaven. Leaves of the trees were reflecting the reddish-black color of the sky, which looked like they were dyed with the blood of millions. There were no stir in the air. It was dead calm. It was like the wind was a spectating from the sidelines as the heaven and earth fight. It was chaotic and calm at the same time.

On this very night, a child, whose age is about three years, opened his eyes in the middle of the forest. His brownish hair were disheveled, his blue eyes were tired, clothes were torn, there were slight injuries and scratches all over his body. He tries to look around but could not see anything as it was very dark. Perplexed he looked around his surroundings. There was pin-drop silence all around. There was no fluttering of leaves, no chirping or squeaking or buzzing of the insects, no howling or growling of beasts. No sound at all. Just silence. He could not hear anything except of his increased heartbeats, and heavy breathing. He was terrified. He hesitantly stood up and unsteadily starts proceeding. But after two steps he tripped over and fell down. He was unable to comprehend what was going on.

"uuaaahhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh uuaaahh ah aaah uaaaah"

He started screaming on top of his lungs, hoping someone will come and help him. Tears were running down his face. He has exhausted most of his energy screaming. He was sobbing while lying on the ground. He cried and cried. Nobody was there to hear him scream, nobody was there to help him. The feeling of terror and insecurity had overwhelmed him.

" Papa, Mama...uhh Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle.....uuumfuhh, Elynne, someone....anyone, please save me ...help me.....please, ple...uhh, please"

He had fully tired himself. His eyes were slowly closing down. Just when they were fully closed, one of the moon came out of the clouds and he saw a huge shadow on the ground. Startled he opens his eyes and tries to catch sight of the figure. The creature was only about 5 feet away. The petrified, startled, confused and exhausted child could only see the shadow of the creature on the ground. Creature was making no sounds of the footsteps. The child slowly lifts his head up to catch sight of the creature, but he only saw the afterimage of the creature, who was standing behind him all of a sudden. He was way too fast.

The sudden appearance of the creature made the child faint out of shock.

"Grrrrrrrrr........Screeeeeee...."

It was an ANT shaped seven feet tall creature whose mandibles were 19 inches long, two eyes focused on the prey(child) while other four were scanning the surroundings. It picked up the child and held him in his long and sharp mandibles where it was already holding an another prey.

After that it swiftly left in the direction of its den. It covered a great distance in a very short time, stealthily and taciturnly. After some time, when it had covered a long distance, it suddenly came to halt. It inspects its surroundings again and,

"Screeeeeeeeeeech..............Ssccreeeeeeeeecccccchhhhhhhhhhhh"

It lets out a screeching sound.

" Rustle ...... Rustle...... Swwweeeeeesssshhhhhh.......sswwwooooossshhhhhh"

Within ten seconds, hundreds of ant like creatures, which were six to seven feet tall, assembled in an orderly fashion. All of them were holding onto one or two preys. Without wasting even a second, they started marching towards their den.

Some time passed and the child wakes up and he notices the fox-like creature which was being held next to him. It was unconscious, but it was not in too much of a bad condition. The child moved his hand and petted the fox's head. Suddenly the child stopped patting abruptly and moves his head around reluctantly. What he saw made the child wet his pants. He was looking into the eye of the creature which was as big as his head, which was observing him. Then he noticed the marching of hundreds of such creatures, who were treading their way back to their den stealthily, there was almost no sound to their collective footsteps.

The child was horrified. He tried to scream, but his voice won't come out and by this time he was out of tears as well. He couldn't do anything, nothing at all. He could only see the creatures capturing him. Just when he had lost all his will to live, the child fox woke up and starts retaliating. It tried its best to get out of the grip of the creature. It started biting the mandibles of the creature

in order to break free. Now the creature was getting annoyed by this futile retaliation, so it tightened its jaw grip and......"BOOOOM".

A deafening explosion was heard throughout the area. It was the body of the child fox which had exploded. Blood spurted out like fountain. The child who was closest to the explosion, fainted again.

Finally the marching stopped and they had reached their den.