The Deer Haunting
“Mom,” said Basle, “when will this train finish?” Basle is a 12 year old girl who is very creative and responsible. Basle lives with her mom and her 2 little siblings. Basle’s siblings’ names are Tommy and Emma. Emma is Two and Tommy is five. Her dad died. He died from a car accident. Her dad was driving home from work and a deer hit his car.
“Basle, hold your horses. The train should be done soon.” Basle’s mom said. And sure enough the train was gone.
“Hey mom, do you see that deer in the brush?” asked Basle.
“Basle I need to keep my eyes on the road.”
“But mom it is staring right at us.”
“Not now Basle!!” her mom yelled. Right the second when Basle’s mom yelled a deer ran right towards them. Basle noticed the bright red eyes with dark black circles around them. ”See what happened! You almost got us killed!!!”
Two days after the ‘almost’ accident Basle started writing for some odd reason. But she liked to write any way. She wrote about her life, other’s life, and about her dreams. One night she had a horrible dream. The dream started out pleasant but took a turn for the worst. It was fall with the leaves orange and red. They were on the top of a hill with her dad driving her home after a swim meet. They were talking and having a good time. When a deer pops out of nowhere and stands in the middle of the road. Her dad slams on the brakes stopping so he won’t harm the creature. Basle looks at the mysterious deer in disbelief. The deer has the exact markings as the deer that almost killed her and her mom! Bright red eyes, black around the eyes, the same body figure and scowl. Basle wakes up and finds out that she is safe and at home. She feels that the bed is wet as well as her. She checks on Emma finding out that is also safe. The next morning Basle writes in her journal about her dream. She figures that writing will help her get rid of her dream.
The next night she has the same dream but in a different setting, time, and reason they were driving home. One thing stayed the same; the deer was the exact same size and shape, with the same exact markings. Basle figures since the dream won’t go away on its own she decides to tell people about it. She tells her friends first, that didn’t help. Next she tells her family, that was hope less. So she told Suzie, Billy, Bob, Middy, the Bucher, the Pharmacist, the Zoo Keeper, her Teacher, the Mayor, her Sociologist, Tommy and Emma, the Monkeys at Zoo, the children she baby sits, and practically every one in town and nothing worked. Since all hope was gone she goes and tells her dad at his grave. She almost started to bawl when she saw his grave. She brought her journal with her so she could read right off of it. Basle never needed to use her journal instead she read right off the top of her head. When it was time to go Basle was crying her eyes out. When she got home she took a shower thinking of her dad then went to bed. She had another dream. This dream was about her dad and her; they were sitting at an edge of a pool talking. After a five minute conversation a… a… a… bunny came out and Basle’s dad said they could keep it. They named him Tex. So Basle’s bad dreams had disappeared. Or have they? That morning before school Basle went to the cemetery to thank her dad for getting rid of her nightmares. But when she got there the grave was gone. She went to look to see if she got the right cemetery. She did. Basle went back up to where her dad’s grave and a deer was sitting up fiercely.
“What do you want from me and my family?” She ask trying to hide the fear.
The deer replies, “Oh sorry, I just starve… starve… starve… oh what was it called, oh ya, I starve, of human demise. That is why little girl I’ve come for YOU!!! See I have been rummaging around to find the perfect victim to sink my teeth into. See I’m a carnivore not a herbivore. I eat people.”
“So you killed my father!”
“Oh look who caches on fast.” The deer says as he walks around Basle’s dad’s grave. Soon he stops and stares at me and asked, “What was left at the seen of the car crash?”
“Uh…” Basle says trying to remember.
“Well, do you know?”
“Mother never told us.”
“And why’s that?”
“ ‘Cause there was no body.”
“Correct. And that’s why?”
“You ate the body. Gross.”
“Well… no, but I gave it to High Lord D. to…”
“Who is High Lord D.?”
“I said too much!! No, I said too much!!!!!” The deer ran for the woods in a scurry. Basle felt a pinch on her neck. She started to get dizzy .Everything turned pitch black. Soon Basle fainted. No one could find her. No one knew were she was. Basle was lost.
Basle awoke confused. She didn’t know were she was. Then she heard a faint voice. “Pa, I thing she wakin’ up!”
“Billy I think you ‘en are right. She is wakin’ up” said another voice. This time it was deeper and more man-like.
“Wha’ ” Basle was too tiered to speak.
“Morn’. How you all doin’?” Said the man’s voice.
“Where am I?” Basle asked.
“You ‘en are at me cabin in me woods behind the cemetery.” The man said
“Who are you?”
“I’m pa, this is Billy.”
“Hi yawl.” Billy said
“Hi” said Basle
“Now you all was past out in cemetery so we all took you in.” Said pa.
“Do you hunt?” Basle asked.
“Why yes, we do.”
“Then I have a job for you.” Basle had an idea. She would have some help from pa and Billy to shoot that blood sucking monster. Soon everybody goes out to hunt.
Basle tries to lure the deer in by saying, “Come deer, deer, deer.” Sure enough the deer comes into shooting range. She shoots, zoom, flash, buzz, vroom, crash. The bullet misses and crash lands into a tree. Pa shoots and hits Basle in the neck. Pa runs over to Basle looking at the damage. Billy shoots the deer and it is a direct hit. The deer drops died.
After a month in the hospital and ten months in rehab Basle is fine and living with her family again. Basle is happy knowing the deer is died and everyone is safe from the blood sucking monster. Or are they…
