Feeding Frenzy: Part 1- "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING"?!

Zachariah eventually found the exit to the cave and was greeted by the forest.

He only had one goal at the moment, He must devour the living!

So he went through the forest feeding on and killing any living beings in the forest until he found what looked like a camp full of bandits.

The bandits apparently had captured a bunch of elves that lived in the forest and were going to sell them at the slave market in the next human town.

Of course none of this mattered to Zachariah as he only had one thing on his mind, 'I must feed'! was the only thing on his agenda, so like a predator of the wild, he started sneaking up on his unsuspecting prey.

*Start of bandits pov*

"Hey Chris get a load of this", the bandit named Ron said, as he hit the cage that was full of elves. The Elves response to this was to cower and tremble. Normally they wouldn't be cowering and would attack using powerful spells. However they couldn't because of the cage that drained their strength and Mana. Once their Mana was drained, they were like wounded rabbits before a wolf and couldn't even create a spark with Mana.

"Yeah that's fun and all Ron, but some us us are trying to... wait did you hear that"? Chris told Ron as they both heard the sound of someone running through the trees. "Ron go wake up the others". Chris said in a low whisper as to not attract anymore unwanted attention. "On it". Ron whispered in reply. Ron started to run as quietly as he could to wake up his fellow bandits.

'It must be the family of these elves, they probably came here to rescue their kin. Good thing we have an anti-mage here to cancel out their magic'. Chris thought to himself as he readied himself for combat. He readied himself and was prepared to defeat some elves, he listened for their location but could hear nothing. There was an eerie silence throughout the whole forest, like anyone who would dare make a noise would die a horrible death.

'This isn't right, there should at least be some crickets or something making noise'. Chris thought to himself when all of the sudden he heard a thud that echoed through the area due to it being previously silent.

He looked towards the area where the noise had originated from, what he saw shook him to his core. It was Ron, or should i say, what was left of Ron.

On the forest floor was the corpse of Ron with his eyes missing, and his intestines hanging out from his stomach, his top half was bent backwards as if he was snapped in half before being disemboweled.

The most horrifying part of it all though, was that even though he was horribly mutilated there wasn't even a drop of blood left anywhere around or in his body. In fact he looked like a shriveled raisin that had been out in the sun too long.

Chris held in his urge to vomit, and started to run towards the inner part of the camp where his fellow bandits were. What greeted him when he got there, was the sight of almost every single bandit in the same state as Ron.

Now he was utterly terrified, 'What kind of monster could even do such a thing to people experienced in combat like us!?' Chris thought to himself as he heard what sounded like fighting. He went towards the sound and found the leader fighting against something so terrifying he actually soiled his pants. Chris then shouted out in utter horror, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING"?!!

The bandit leader got distracted by Chris's shouting and was impaled through the chest by the hand of the monster. The Monster Grinned with a mouth full of razor sharp teeth and ripped out the heart of the bandit leader, as he looked at the monster with utter horror in his eyes. The bandit leader with his last breath looked at Chris with tear filled eyes and uttered one word, "RUN"! So that what Chris did until he felt his world spin and the last thing he saw before he left the realm of the living was that monster devouring his blood like it was a ravenous beast.

*End of Bandit Pov*