Iris'' body began to feel all her suppressed bodily functions hitting her at once. Thirst and hunger stood out the most.


    Iris'' stomach started begging for food; all she could think of was satiating her hunger. Her cracked lip and dry throat need water.


    She had to first get rid of her thirst, as there was no possibility of her surviving another day without proper hydration. Now her challenge is to locate a clean water source in the forest. She knows that there has to be a close river.


    Her mother always told her that plants need water to grow beautifully. With that idea in mind, she, with the remaining strength she mustered. Stumbling forward, her legs heavy all in a fight against her exhaustion.


    She began walking past massive, colorful trees. The clouds in the sky covered her from the sun''s rays. The sounds of chirping birds and the rattle of the leaves and branches she stepped on.


    Iris continued walking, seeing the beautiful marvels of nature. A beautiful blue bird passed her; many different insects appeared, staring at her as she carefully positioned herself as far away as she could. Insects always scared her; the sight of bugs petrified her.


    Iris’ body began to slow down; the thirst was too much for her body to act naturally.


    “I am thirty. I want food!” Iris’ spit became difficult to produce; she is becoming more desperate.


    Iris continued walking until the sun began to set. Her hope diminishes with every step. Her only hope is that she survived for so long; she can’t give up just now.


    Iris’ face began to tear up; she heard the sound of flowing water. She immediately ran with all of her remaining energy.


    The moment she arrived at the river, she was stunned to see many different animals she only read about in books drinking water together.


    The unicorns, wolves, zebras, and lions are all far away from each other but not hostile; they are calmly drinking without any worries. This eventually led Iris, consumed with thirst, to carefully try her best not to act like a threat and approach the river.


    The atmosphere felt wrong, the air became denser like an external creature caused it.


    Iris took a step for every second; she wanted to appear just like another thirty creatures, without making anyone aware of her or acknowledging her as a foe.


    Iris arrived at the river and tearfully began drinking the sweet water. When the water touched her cheeks, it was such a euphoric experience. She began drinking to her heart''s content; she suddenly, in her peripheral vision, saw how the unicorn she was beside looked at her, then did a double take.


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    Iris calmly turned around, her face petrified but trying her best to smile. She and the unicorn began staring; they both just blankly stared at each other. Iris'' face began to profusely sweat, her face turning redder.


    Neigh! Neigh! Neigh!


    All the animals simultaneously look at Iris, their faces ready to hunt her. She tries to slowly remove herself from their area; however, they all begin to run towards her. Her slow walk immediately transformed into a full sprint.


    She began running at such a speed that it resembled her speed in the flower room; she looked back and saw how the animals began to close the distance. Her small legs are no match for an adult animal. As a last-ditch effort, she launched herself at a tree and began to climb it just as the wolf reached her and was a step away from reaching her leg.


    Pant, pant, pant.


    Iris looked down at the animals all trying their best to climb; however, they all quickly decided to leave her as the sun finally settled down.


    The animals shook in fear as the sun settled, which left Iris with many answers and an increased hunger. Luckily the tree she climbed had many apples on the higher branches. She climbed them and took five bright red apples.


    She cheerfully went down to the lower branch and began eating; her first bite was the most delicious thing she had ever eaten.


    She looked down and saw a deer eating grass without a care in the world. This only increased her curiosity about why the other animals looked so afraid while this one was eating as if they ruled the forest.


    Iris'' question was soon answered with a dark, low, terrifying whistle.


    Phwwwwwht


    A loud whistle shook Iris to her core. Her body began to tremble; the once noisy forest suddenly became silent. Iris could hear her heartbeat increase as, on the ground level, a white fog appeared.


    Iris'' body remained paralyzed, her body shaking in fear. The fog increased until a dark black creature appeared walking.


    Thump! Thump! Thump!


    Each of its steps caused the ground to shake. Iris holds herself in the tree to not fall into the mysterious creature''s fog.


    The mysterious creature found prey; it walked up to a shaking deer.


    Iris saw the innocent deer trying its best to run away, but its legs gave up. The creature raised its hand and swiftly cut the deer''s head.


    “...”


    No animal produced a sound; Iris''s fear increased as she saw how an innocent animal cruelly died, its head rolling to the tree where Iris rested, looking up at her with its sad and lifeless eyes.


    The creature leaned over and began ripping the deer''s body into smaller pieces. Blood and bone began flying everywhere. Iris got stained with the blood, which almost caused her to scream, but in the last second, she covered her mouth and bit her tongue to not produce any sound.


    "I need to survive. I need to survive. I need to kill them." Iris whispered to calm herself.


    The creature began eating the deer, it grabbed its legs and in one bit ate an entire deer leg. The next legs suffered the same fate. There were no remains of the deer''s legs. The torso remained and the creature began to eat the torso, his eating resembled that of a rabid dog.


    Iris looked petrified as the deer''s body became no more. Clutching herself to the tree branch, her breathing growing shallower.


    The creature began sucking the blood from the ground until there were no remains of the deer; only the head remained.


    The creature stood up and began walking to where the head was. At this point Iris began to weep; she had never experienced such a deep amount of fear for her safety.


    The creature grabbed the deer''s head and ate it in one bite.


    Iris began praying for the creature to leave; however, its following action left her dying in fear.


    The creature''s head tilted upwards, its glowing red eyes locking into Iris''s fearful eyes. Blood dripping from its grotesque smile. Slowly, it raised its hand a thin, grey hand pointing directly at her.


    The air grew denser, and the fog thickened. "You are next," it coldly spoke. Then with a bone-chilling laugh dissolved with the fog, leaving behind a faint whistle sound.