Grizz: Pine Barrens (Ranger Dreams)

A Story by Abishai100

Isaac Satan is a new ranger in the Pine Barrens forest, engaged with the calamity caused by a lethal grizzly-bear of ditches.

A nice natural-horror vignette to retire with, inspired by my fanfare of the iconic American film Grizzly, starring the great Christopher George. Enjoy (and stay safe!),

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The world of men was filled with tech, gadgets, TVs, and toys. This was a world of advanced thinking and socialized daydreams and computerized networking.

ISAAC SATAN: I was a thief and then became a born-again Christian and then a forest-ranger, and I gave up drinking.

It's true, Isaac was a bank robber who's never caught despite his numerous heists of diamonds belonging to corrupt barons who stored blood-diamonds from South Africa used to finance terrorism, and Isaac acted like a North American Robin Hood, stealing these warlord gems and helped Interpol crack down on some of the warlord-traffic stretching from South Africa to Europe. However, he got tired of this life and became a born-again Christan.

ISAAC SATAN: I'm a forest-ranger now working for the Pine Barrens area in New Jersey (USA).

When Isaac joined the National Forest Ranger service in North America, he's registered as an official armed protector for campers and animals and wildlife and security official for anti-poaching monitoring as well as for the welfare of campers threatened by rabid wildlife.

ISAAC SATAN: I don't mind working in the cold, since I have these great wool work-gloves my girlfriend gave me.

The forests of the Pine Barrens in New Jersey are dense and deep, and they draw in lots of adventurous campers every year, and the ranger service provides them the ample security and welfare measures they require for healthy visits to the forest areas, even in times of great national turmoil.

ISAAC SATAN: Sometimes, you get random campers who just visit in from the city to sit in the woods alone and meditate.

All was not well in the Pine Barrens this year, because a terrifying rabid grizzly bear, that Isaac named GRIZZ, was terrifying campers and travelers. GRIZZ exhibited a terrible growl and razor-claws and a blood-drenched ravenous jawline which the beast used to scare the hell out of humans. Isaac and his fellow rangers were now on-call to deal with this modern Earth menace!

Isaac drove around in his handy-dandy ranger truck with his handy tranquilizer-rifle in search of GRIZZ, and meanwhile, there were numerous campers that week when the bear was wreaking havoc, and it was almost impossible to get to all the campers in time or safely before GRIZZ reached them with its beastly frown, nevertheless, Isaac Satan was speeding around frantically with his fellow servicemen armed and hopeful.

The camping was otherwise festive at day and night, as numerous travelers/campers decided to put up loud and fun campfires into the late-night hours, completely unaware that the terrible grizzly was on the prowl now. After all, despite the numerous handy-dandy cell phones on-hand in the tents of these Pine Barrens forest visitors, they'd not kept regular contact with the forest ranger office to check for any warnings or notices.

The Pine Barrens rangers sent out notices on the Internet, declaring a state-of-emergency and forbidding more campers from wandering into the forest with GRIZZ prowling and just hoped one of the current spread-out campers in the wide area in New Jersey just might check these notices in modern media-tech and become aware of the ghastly circumstances on Earth!

Two campers, a romantic couple, were visiting from California, and they'd decided to set up a nice romantic campfire in the Pine Barrens that week, unaware of the horrors created lately by the grizzly bear. This couple, Sheila and Shiloh, were thinking this was the perfect escape from their regular duties at the LA hospital where they worked as ER doctors.

Isaac knew GRIZZ was on the attack and sent a helicopter with one of the rangers, armed with a tranquilizer-rifle, to spot and sedate the haunting beast, ravenous with bloody murder on its darkened mind.

RANGER OFFICE: We simply can't keep up with all the campers who trek in while these rabid creatures rise out of nowhere!

One of the rangers, the one Isaac sent in a copter, spotted GRIZZ growling at the blue sky and decided to land his vehicle to try to sedate the modern monster.

GRIZZ walked up to the ranger after he landed his helicopter and gave the man some horrible frowns and stares, while he scrambled to load and aim his handy-dandy tranquilizer rifle. This was the ultimate stand between man...and myth.

When the rifle failed to shoot, the horrified ranger simply had no choice but to hold his rifle in an offensive stance and just try to use it as a battering-club if GRIZZ ran up to him, which he did, scratching and biting him to pieces before decapitating the poor ranger. Isaac and his fellow rangers held an impromptu funeral prayer service for this horribly fallen heroic ranger, Rick Dartmouth.

RANGER: We're doing our very finest to keep all panic reduced and ensure that this grizzly-bear is caged with right heat.

Another camper wasn't lucky either. This young woman was an Algerian-American camper who lived in Princeton, New Jersey. Kate Winston wanted to just have a private solitary camping experience in the Pine Barrens that week. She'd come with her handy-dandy iPhone and entertaining tape-cassette player for her loved Enya music tapes.

GRIZZ ran up to her campsite and began scaring her to death, and Kate just ran into the deepest part of the woods to flee and found an abandoned cabin and decided to lock herself inside the shed to just pray for a miracle while trying to call for help on her handy-dandy iPhone.

ISAAC SATAN: Kate was damned, and it was too late when she finally reached us on her iPhone, and we found her dead.

Finally, the heroic Pine Barrens ranger Isaac Satan, managed to use his tranquilizer-rifle artfully to track down and shoot GRIZZ swiftly about 3 times in the head and chest and stomach, rendering it totally unconscious before more rangers arrived to help him tie up the beast and eventually haul him off to an animal-care and caging center outside the Pine Barrens. The miracle came.

Many campers who thought their experience in the lust forest that week would simply be heavenly instead came face-to-face with the stark realities of hell on Earth. For them, their encounter with the horrible and large GRIZZ was one of folkloric darkness rather than natural exploration in Earth's woods that week. Sad stories often remind us of the value of vitality, right? Sometimes, they do not.

One of the survivors of the horrifying incident, the young ER doctor-woman Sheila, remarked that someone should make a nice comic book story about the heroic Pine Barrens ranger Isaac Satan, for his ability to fend off the forces of non-human terrorism in that otherwise peaceful forest.