The Killer Barn Owl

There once was a small village, a quiet village. The villagers loved to sing and dance during the nightly glowing bon fires. Like any village the people had to go to the river every day to gather water and hunt for food, but what they didn't know is that deep in the darkest areas of the forest lived a monster. This monster was no normal creature of horror but a vampire barn owl who flew the skies at night hunting for its prey.

You see the first victim encountered the owl 10 years earlier. The boy had wondered into the forest to hunt, too deep into the forest and didn't get back home before darkness fell. When it was dark the owl emerged from its lair and chased the poor boy for hours. Eventually the boy became exhausted from the chase and the owl caught him and sucked the blood out of the boy to the very last drop!

Now one might ask, how did this owl become a vampire? Well you see there used to be an evil witch who lived in a run down old barn and the owl had landed in her window late at night. The witch had been working on a spell and the spell went horribly wrong violently killing the witch and transforming the owl into what is known as the vampire owl.

The vampire owl would hunt its victims by chasing them for hours, toying with their emotions and fears until they were too tired to carry on. The second the owl's victim collapsed the owl would latch onto their body and plunge his beak deep into their fleshy veins and suck all the blood out of them until there was nothing left. The more blood the owl consumed the bigger and stronger he grew in size and power, the thirst overwhelming his senses and leading him to kill more and more. Through the years the villagers heard of this frightful tale and became fearful of the nightly activities which quickly diminished.

Many years passed and the village quickly became a town and the townspeople had heard the legend of the vampire owl however many people laughed and mocked this tale. Especially a certain group of teenagers who often made jokes about it so one day this group of friends decided they wanted to go out that night and see for themselves. All the parents told them no but the teens would not take no for an answer.

Later that night the teens snuck out and met in the deepest part of the forest right next to the old barn and started a game of truth or dare. The teens were enjoying their evening, while from far above the owl watched from the barn window, his red eyes glowing in the darkness. He spread his wings and ventured into the night sky swarming around the teens.

One of the teens noticed the barn and suggested they go check it out, the teens wandered into the barn and started messing around, just then the owl swarmed in and started trying to attack, the teens screamed and started running, they would get close to the door but the owl would dive down and drive them the other way.

At one point one of the teens was running when the floor underneath him collapsed and he fell, as he hit the ground getting knocked out the owl dived down landed on the teen just as he was coming too and slit his throat with his claw and plunged his beak into the freshly slit wound and sucked all the blood until there was nothing left increasing the owls power and size.

Now while the owl was enjoying his fresh kill the rest of the teens ran out of the barn not thinking about where they were going! The fear set in even more as they got further and further into the forest. The owl finished his deluctable meal and then set out to find and feed on his next victim.

As the teens were running one of the girls was getting extremely tired and struggled to keep running, her friends literally had to carry her as she could no longer run, but as they were just starting to move again they heard the owl flying above them and they couldn't run as fast so they had to make a drastic decision.

The girl was so weak and faint causing them to slow down, so they did the unthinkable act, they fed her to the owl. The owl swooped down and stabbed his beak into the girls gut and sucked all her blood till there was nothing left and his strength and size grew even more powerful, but while he was enjoying her blood the teens ran the opposite direction back towards home.

The remaining teens made it home and just barely managed to run inside their homes and just collapsed from fatigue and could not believe what had happened, they cried knowing they had lost 2 of their friends and began to regret going against their parents rules.

Years passed and the teens grew old with age and never spoke of what happened, but the owl was still out there and he remained in the minds of the only survivors of the vampire owl.