Tom turned his gaze to the mountain- side, when something large, dark and freighting, silently loomed out of the shadows of night. The beast’s red glowing eyes starring over him with such intensity that it sent a chill down Tom’s backbone. The beast’s large man-eating, blood stained teeth gleamed beneath the moonlight. The creature’s mighty roar echoed down in the valley like rolling thunder. The creature swung its large paw, hurtling the Sheriff across the hood of his Jeep Cherokee 4x4, and slamming against Frank’s black pickup. Tom’s life seemed to flash before his eyes as he lay slump against the tire of the old pickup truck.