From amid the bushes, a piercing cry arose.  Millford spun, sensing
danger, as the bushes began to rustle.  The huge fronds were parted, and
from the darkness emerged a thing out of his worst nightmares.
    A head, fully six feet long, pushed into the light.  Large, glowing
yellow eyes peered at him.  The head resembled a giant wolf, yet distorted.
It contained reptilian features as well.  The long snout was hidiously
deformed; brown scales covered by patches of black fur.  The creature looked
like it had been pieced together from other life forms.  As Millford stood
watching, the powerful jaws parted, rows upon rows of eight inch razor-sharp
teeth glinted in the moonlight.  The beast's foul breath filled the night
air.
    Millford's hair began to slowly stand up on the back of his neck.  "Oh
shit, oh shit," was all that escaped his lips.  Before he had time to react,
the animal was upon him.  His torso was immediatly ripped in two by the huge
claws, and blood splurted up, covering the leaves of the rainforest.  His
cry was silenced as the jaws clamped on his neck, severing his head in one
bite.

Creeping Death '93