THE ROAR

My friend use to go hunting with two friends with a sickening habit. On the way to their favorite hunting grounds, they would hit any animal that was on the road and bag it. When they arrive to their”spot”, they would put the fresh kill in front of a evil looking mangled tree. Then they burn the animal corpse. It was referred as the “Tree of Death”.To my friend, it look like a blood ritual. He joked to them that he would tell their parents that they were devil worshipers. After the “ritual”, they would go hunting in the nearby woods. They had a bad habit of shooting anything the made a sound in the bushes. But, one occasion they heard a unfamiliar terrifying roar at 1a.m. It happen when they entered the woods that was so familiar to them. They all heard a roar of an unknown animal echo through out the woods. It wasn't no bear! It sounded like a lion near the “Tree of Death”. They didn't wait for it to come out in the open. The hunters jumped in their car and fled. They didn't even fire randomly as they usually do.