Nice contest! =) Here's my story.
Midnight was coming and me,
Didi Hadid, and my guild mate from
Bloodcrest could feel the air getting thicker as we were entering deeper and deeper in Tiquanda's jungle. It was cold but we were sweating, perhaps because of the tension, but all we were thinking was to find the panther.
We were trying to find her for days without success, but on that particular day the sky was darker and there were different sounds echoing all around us on that jungle. I had a feeling it was the right day.
My friend was always in front of me leading us, yea he was a natural born leader and I was good following orders, so we made a great team.
Then suddenly the fog came, and with the fog, disorientation. We knew the way, we had gone there so many times before, still after the fog came we knew nothing, the jungle just didn't look the same.
I started to get nervous and a bit desperate, I admit, but my friend was calm. He told me to just keep heading east and we would find the river, and then we would follow the river until we find the spot, we were not going to give up!
That's when everything fell apart, in a blink of an eye my friend was not in front of me anymore, I didn't see him disappearing, I just heard his scream. I froze right there, it was so hard to think straight, how could he vanish in front of me?!
Suddenly I started to smell fire... something was burning but I couldn't see any smoke... and then I heard a low sound, it seemed to be music, with only drums and voices, like a ritual.
I had to find where that sound was coming from so I could ask for my friend. As I began to focus I realized the sound was coming from underground, so I laid on the floor and started to listen carefully. After a little while I finally saw it, there was a hidden hole, more like a trap on the ground and my friend must have fallen there.
I put my head inside the hole very carefully to see what was down there, and I couldn't believe my eyes. There were many Dworcs around a fire, a voodoo doll was tied up next to the fire and they were singing and dancing around it, everything was so weird and frightening. But it got worse when I saw my friend, they had him tied up also, in a corner.
I got desperate just to think what they were going to do to him, I had to save him fast. But how? They were hundreds and I had no time to go ask for our guild to help.
So I had a moment of clarity, I could create a distraction and run to get my friend! I left a rope hanging on the hole so we could get up fast. Then I proceeded to search in my backpack and I found the perfect distraction, because dworcs like to make black magic, I was sure they would all be intrigued by a mysterious voodoo skull, they would think it was their magic who brought it there!
I threw it in the middle of the fire and indeed they all stopped to see it, then I got down, untied my friend and we got up in light speed.
We didn't find the panther but I saved my friend that day, nothing feels better.
Then we went for a drink to celebrate life!