The Hunt

Chapter 2:
The Nightmare

Complete darkness surrounded Daniel. He was standing in a black void. He looked ahead, and saw from a distance a naked man fall from the top of the void, and hit the floor. The man laid down on his side, facing away from Daniel. From underneath the man a puddle of blood was beginning to form. From the right, a pale looking tiger walked to the man in a jittery way, half limping and half shaking. Each step seemed to hurt him more than the last, but the tiger kept eye contact on the fallen man. Daniel began to study the tiger, and noticed that it didn't seem like a tiger at all; it had just a similar shape. This tiger had shorter legs, with its back legs shorter than its front. It's mouth was constantly open, and it had no eyes or ears. It had no fur, and instead parts of its body were skinned and revealed flesh. Its claws were unnaturally long, and were covered in blood.
The beast made its way to the man in its deformed way, until it finally reached him. It sat down for a moment. Then, it jumped up a couple of metres, stretching its short back legs, and extending its front legs up like a crazed monkey. It came back down, slashing its claws down on the man's stomach. He tore open like paper, revealing six gaping holes, from which bathtubs of blood gushed out and exploded all around him. Daniel was drenched. The creature jumped up again and again, slashing every time, cutting up the man and disembowelling him. His body was now so mangled that he wasn't recognisable as human anymore. He was now a lump of flesh, yet the beast kept jumping up, landing on his back legs, and smashing his claws down on the flesh.
The tiger suddently stopped in its craze, and sat down. It sat there for a moment. It turned slowly. It gave a last jolt of its neck and looked at Daniel. He looked back at its gaping mouth. The beast's head twisted with a crack, and Daniel awoke screaming.
He sat up on his bed and looked out of the window for a while, then noticed that he had a nosebleed. He got up, shakily, and walked to the bathroom to cure his nose.