SUMMER FUN CONTEST #3 - SHORT STORY

Please note that the contest requirements specifically state that the story must be 200 words or less.

{This one's kinda dark and violent, with a shock ending. Once you reach the end, all the gore and stuff will hopefully come together.}

Hunger, one of the few things the pup had known in the few months she had been born to a beautiful mother. Of course, she had been grabbed by a monster while her mother's back was turned and threw off to the side like a toy. Was that all she was, a toy? Used by the humans to hurt the ones she loved so they would die a lonely death? At least she had ran away and made it to the edge of the woods without any harm. Then the unnamed pup-or did she have a name?- heard it. A roar, mixed with a high pitched scream to create a nightmare. The noise came again, and again, and again. It hurt her ears so much that she yelped.

Although she was afraid, the pup traveled on, and the screams become louder and louder, until they stopped, leaving only a spooky, mean silence. The silence was explained by a giant den, on a branch, strange. It was not falling off, and the branch seemed fine, however looked weak. With a soft whimper, the unnamed pup did what anybody else would do. The pup, cautious and slightly nervous, slid to the den and bit it. It didn't move.

Instead, something hit her on the head. The pup yelped and jumped back, staring at whatever had attacked her and startled her. What was that large wood thingy attached to the strange vines? Was it something to pull up orphan wolf pups to a nice, warm home? The pup jumped on the first wood thingy and crawled to the second one. At the third one, she had to stop before crawling back up. At the topmost one, a large black space made her enter. It seemed interesting, with its strange newborn pup scent. The pup jumped inside, and sniffed around.

A strange bottle was laying on the cold, hard floor. More sniffing revealed a pup, its neck dangling in the strings, and the head of an hairless wolf pup next to it, and organs all over the place. There was a strange animal that looked like nothing he had seen before, laying on the floor. It had glazed eyes with a strange, thin black pupil and a gash on its stomach. The pup heard a soft whimpering and moved to a pup. It stared at her before it went limp.

The pup heard footsteps, coming up the steps, and a gruff noise. She heard a wail and a screech, and the faint thud of something. What was going on? Was she next in some sick game? A man in a black coat came up, with one of the strange animals in one hand an a knife in the other. The man moved the knife across the animal's neck and moved towards her. He grabbed her by the scruff and pinned her down on a table. The pup whimpered as she saw blood. It was all around her.

The man hit her hindquarters first, and threw them off the table. Then her forelegs. The pain made the pup sick. Then the man aimed it at her head.

The last thing the pup heard was something about her sacrifice being honored.


{For those who didn't understand, the man worshiped the devil.}