Story 1 - Rain

"It's rainy out." The man said looking out of an old wooden framed window.

"So does that mean you will stay just a little longer? Until the storm passes of course." An old woman said, sitting on a small brown leather couch by a small fireplace.

"I really must be going, my wife will be worried if I stay much longer."

"If you wish... well. Before you go, have you ever heard of the legend of the forest?"

"A legend? Though my wife is waiting, it wouldn't hurt to listen till the storm passes."

"Yes, yes." The old woman waved, "Come sit." The man walked over to the old woman and took a seat on a wood stool directly in front of her. She started, "Long ago, it was a stormy night and a man came to the door of an old woman. The woman had been living in a small cabin, due to her small stature. The man looked disheveled and had come running from the forest. He talked of death spirits and woman with long claws that could shape-shift. He said that he and his friends went to the forest to camp and drink. After awhile some of his friends started getting dragged off by something. That thing then fell from a tree, and he came face to face with a spirit. It had a creepy smile, bloodied sharp claws, its teeth coming to a point, blood dripping from each one, its eyes were completely black, and its skin cold to the touch, but its feminine features made it beautiful in a way, he explained. He said he felt the touch of death along his back, he was frozen in fear, sweat running down his face. Then one of his friends had grabbed a knife and jumped on the back of the spirit. Lookong over he saw one of his other friends had come running over but soon started turning into the spirit, he took off running the other direction through the forest..." The old woman paused pondering.

"What happened next?" The man asked intrigued, scooting the stool closer to the woman.

"Hmm," the old woman placed a finger on her lips, "I forgot what happened after but he ended up dieing." As she said that the man looked up in shock. "How did you say you got here again?" The woman asked.

After a second the man responded, "Oh well, I was driving through the forest and I thought I had hit something, so I got out of my car. I went to check and nothing was there, so I went to start my car back up, but the engine wasn't working. Then I saw this cabin and walked up here for help."

"Is that all? I thought..." The woman turned around.

"Uhh," The man walked over to the old woman worried, he put his hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright ma'am?"

"Oh now I remember how that young man died in the legend," she said. A bloody hand with sharp claws grabbing the man's hand.

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