Yellow And Black

The car rattled to life and we breathed a collective sigh of relief.  Kay turned the radio to the emergency station but the sound that returned was evil and red.  She swiftly punched the button off with a defeated squeal.  In the rear-view I saw her mouth open questioningly, as if to say "Can this be true?" but no more sound escaped it.

I jammed the stick into reverse and released the clutch.  The small car lurched backward hard and I tried to turn with the moderate curve of the driveway.

THUD!  Kay jumped in her seat and let out a squeal.

the car struck something but did not stop.  Not a tree, I thought.  Kay turned around and strained to see what we hit.  But there was nothing there.  I continued to reverse toward the end of the driveway when we both felt the front wheels climb over something that jolted as if it were a curb.

Kay wrenched her body back around to the front of the car and screamed as loud as a person can.  I hit the breaks and swiveled my head forward.  There in front of the car, laying prone in the driveway, Thick black moss-filled mange.  Too large to be a dog.  A wolf!  Still struggling a little.  Enough to be sure that it was not dead.  Not yet.

"Jason, we need to go!  Now!"  Her sentence was a shivering whisper that rose near a scream at the last word.

"He's still in there, Jason!  And there's no way we killed him!  We have to get as far away from here as we..."

In the chaos, I had inadvertently switched on the left blinker.  Its tick-tocking hypnosis washed Kay's words off into the tempest.

Yellow-black-yellow-black.  In the light of the blinker, twin-reflective discs shone from the tree.

Black- the eyes dissappeared

Yellow- Closer!

Black- Gone!

Yellow- More eyes!

Black- Kay had seen them and was screaming from a million miles away for us to go.  I was frozen and transfixed, wondering where the eyes would be next.

Yellow- Dozens of pairs of glowing bright eyes all just at the edge of the forest.  They possessed no bodily shape, just cool, probing lenses investigating the accident.

Black- I could feel Kay's fists beating at my shoulders and the fierce exhalations of her screams rasped my cheek but there was no sound to my world.  No sound at all until a hollow thud that barely moved the car.  Then clicking and ticking of what felt and sounded like creatures jumping and stalking on the small car.

Yellow- Sets of eyes staring in through the windshield, more through the rear-view!  Something looking down through the sun-roof!

Black- The spell was broken!  I needed to get us out of here!  Kay had already jumped toward the back seat when I finally got the car to lurch backward!

Yellow- The massive creature's eyes blazed and grew larger as its body, mid leap, finally came into the light, inches from my window!  A shattering and the eyes were inside the car!  There was chaos of sound and motion!  And a warm wetness that soon became tranquil.

Black