I was just a boy when the worst thing i ever experienced in life ever happened.my life was full of joy, never a care in the world. I could watch the birds fly away and listen to them sing all day. I was a boy who laughed and had a big smile. We lived in a small village where all you ever needed was given by the land you farmed. Our village grew the best crops in the entire kingdom. Our village leader Klaus was the opposite of myself. He always had a face of a stressed man worried about what was around the corner with a hand on his blade at all times always ready to draw his blade. My father always said, ‘stay near the house boy don't wander too far’. My mother said there watching waiting to strike like a wolf hunting his prey. At the time I didn't know what they were talking about. Why so much caution? I figured it was about the mother and daughter who disappeared a year ago. I had to listen to them, and a punishment would await if I disobeyed my father. But on the night of the first full moon of the year I disobeyed my father and mother. I left the home to leave the village to the river as there were strange sightings of a creature. It was said it ate the livestock shared between the village of west and our village. Me and my friends Noel and Jake Klaus' youngest sons we met at my home were the only boys around my age. They were always wanting to play; they had overheard their father Klaus at the village meeting where only men of the guard were allowed to attend. He had said 2 pounds of gold was rewarded to the man who slayed the creature. Just outside the northern wall a mile away was a river that connected to all the villages of the kingdom. Our village was said to be the most protected in the kingdom to the north, the river to the south and a mountain range to the west and east of our neighboring villages. As I and the Klaus siblings made our way out the village gate into the forest the guards near the gate where no were near in sight. That was odd. I always see a guard at the gate when walking to the market with my mother. As we continued on through the forest it was very quiet night no noises of any animals