Three days later, we are in my cabin. We sit there, not talking, drinking fresh orange, my favourite drink. Outside it is dark as it is three in the morning. Inside it is nice and warm, unlike outside, but Elise thinks it’s time to do something else. “Thor, you actually need to help me.” Not again I think. “I know where it lives.”

I find out that Elise has been looking for the past three days for the venox. She says she saw some footprints that looked exactly like the ones we saw at the cave three days ago, but these ones were near the abandoned forest church.

I turn the lights of and lock the door before we leave. This time I take my nice warm forest ranger coat and my head torch. It starts to rain. We go towards the old abandoned forest church, which hasn’t been visited since nineteen fifty seven. When we reach it its surrounded by barriers. It is very dangerous as a bear or a wolf pack could be living in there. Elise just climbs over a barrier. I know I shouldn’t leave her alone. She doesn’t care about cation tape or warning signs and for some odd reason I follow her. We walk along the grave yard, rain pouring down onto us.

I hadn’t actually thought that she found some real footprints. There was a track of foot prints lading into the churches huge closed wooden door. “Come on lets go in” Elise whispers as she pushes open the giant double doors and takes her torch out, but I think we shouldn’t go, I think we should turn, around go back to the cabin and have a nice cup of hot chocolate.

The inside of the church is total darkness. It smells of plants a dampness. We see vines covering pews in the light of my headtorch. My heart starts beating faster and faster as we move closer to the back of the church. I’m just about to say there’s nothing here lets go back, but Elise sees it. On the seat the priest would usually sit on, there is a nest made of logs and leaves. In the nest there is a giant black and yellow egg. The venox has an egg.

When I see it I start to get a bad feeling in my stomach. “We shouldn’t be here” I whisper, pulling Elise away from the egg. But just as we reach the door something steps in and it doesn’t sound happy that we’re here. We’ve heard its roar before, but this time it’s a shriek and a large stomp. I shine my headtorch and it’s there. The venox! Elise goes forward; I go back.