A Hunter's Tale (Wiki Contest: August 2012)

I burst through the doors of my school and jogged along the side walk towards my foster parent's house. It was the last day of school and I was so lucky that I could walk home. I felt kinda bad for the kids who were stuck riding the bus home. The house was only a mile from my school and it became part of my daily routine to run home. I walked into the house and dropped my bag.

"Laura, I'm home." I called.

I walked into the kitchen and my foster mom was sitting at the counter on her laptop grading the last of her students papers. Laura is my foster mom. She works at the local college as a Foregin language professer. I had been living with Laura for five years. My mother had died when I was very young and I never knew my father. I had been moving from foster home to foster home since I was four but none ever lasted long. Laura was different, she and I seemed to connect on a deeper level. I had been diaganosed with ADHD and minor dsylexia and I always seemed to get in trouble. But Laura never really cared what I did she would just help me get through it.

"Hey Taylor." She got up and walked over to the fridge. "How was the last day?" She asked.

"Oh pretty good. Two girls started a huge fight in the lunch room but I manged to stay out of it." I replied.

"Good." She replied handing me a glass of iced tea. "Were any of your friends in the fight?" She asked.

I snorted. I only had a handful of friends and none of them would ever be in a fight. I was the one who usually got in fights or in trouble. I mean I wasn't one of the bad kids in my school but the principal and I should've been on a first name basis by now.

"No they weren't." I said taking a sip of my tea.

Laura rolled her eyes. They were a weird gray color that looked like two full moons. Her blond hair was curled slightly and since she was done teching she wasn't wearing that much make up.

I put my drink down and slid off my seat. "Alright I'll be out back if you need me." I said. Laura's back yard borderd a large part of state woods and I spent most my time out there.

"Okay be careful and be back by five I'm grilling chicken for dinner." She replied.

I went into my room and put on a tank top an old pair of jeans over a bikini. I grabbed my Ipod and ran for the door.

"Be back later!" I screamed. I rushed into the woods and as soon as I couldn't hear any noises I stopped and stood there listening and breathing. I finally came out of my trance and started walking torward my tree fort... well it wasn't really mine.

I had found it abandoned a few years ago. I managed to fix it up and make it my own. It was 30 feet in the air and had a large wrap around deck. There were four seperate parts to the fort a main hub, and three smaller parts. There was no ladder instead there were a series of hand hold to grab on to climb up. The whole thing had been made out of branches and vines deguised to look like a normal tree.

I climbed up into the fort and took in the view. The fort was built in a tree that was in the center of a clearing and a few yards away was small pond fed by a river. I walked into the main part of the fort and plugged my Ipod into my speakers. There were shelves built into the tree, there was also a table and a few chairs. I walked outside and checked out the other three parts that were bedrooms. Each had an initial on it an A an L and a T. I didn't know who the initial's belonged to but i could tell the A and T were girls and the L was a boy. And A was younger than the other two.

I climbed down and walked over to the pond and stripped into my bikini. I looked at my reflection for a minute, I tied my brown hair back and took my contacts out of my light blue eyes. I dove in and let the cool water refresh my body. I swam for about an hour and decided to get dressed and head back to the fort. I climbed out and let the sun dry me off. I sat up and reached for my stuff.

Suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw something moving in the woods. I looked up and a shiver ran up my spine three large black objects were watching me a the edge of the clearing. They were larger than black bears and had menacing red eyes. They walked closer into the clearing and I saw what they really were. Large black Mastives with huge fangs.

They moved closer as I slowly stood up. When I got to my feet I bolted for the tree fort. The hounds were on the other side of the pond which gave me a good head start. I reached the tree and scrambled up the hand holds just as the hounds reached the base. I looked over the side and they began circling the tree and trying to jump up. I was trapped.

(WIP)