Wendigo Rising

By Aaron Pery

The process of becoming a Wendigo, which is aided and accelerated by continuing to eat the Donner Party's dead as they try survive the winter storms.
When Matt stumbles upon the dead body of a young girl and realizes that she is still alive, he nourished her back to life by feeding her the flesh and brains of the dead.
The effect of becoming a Wendigo as well as Matt, delights Virginia greatly since she matures physically and mentally even faster than Matt had, and she becomes his devoted partner and lover.
They are soon joined by escaped Wendigos who had been chased and most of their families killed, by people who consider them demons and monsters.
Matt and Ginny establish a Wendigo settlement in and near their frozen refuge, which quickly grows considerably.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aaron Pery
• Release date: Apr 20, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458139009

Aaron Pery

As most authors might claim, I was always been a natural storyteller and voracious book reader. Somehow, I also knew that some day I would sit down and write a book, which I did quite recently.When I finally sat in front of my computer monitor to do just that, the words literally came pouring out. Before very long, I had written many books in various genres.At first, my prolific writing was mainly for the pleasure and self-entertainment involved, until I discocered Smashwords and ebooks, and here I am, a published author with a long list of books to my credit. And many more to come.

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Wendigo Rising

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Wendigo Rising

Chapter One

October 5 1846, the Sierra Nevada foothills near the Humboldt river.

Mathew Cooper, 14, who was lucky to escape alive from a renegade band of Piute Indians when they raided their camp killed his parents. A month later he stumbled into the camp of the Donner-Reed wagon train and begged for food but was chased away because he looked like a half-breed and they thought him an Indian scout intent on spying on them.

He followed the wagons anyway for the next two weeks, picking up a few scraps of discarded food, mostly what they considered to be too spoiled and inedible and munching on any berries he could find. Because his terribly meager nourishment, Matt was quite afraid of the cold, especially as he followed the group into the Wasatch mountains, where he was sure it would get even colder. His reason for following their wagons was that one night soon after running into them he heard their talk about intending to cross the mountains over to California, which was where his parents had intended to go--a land of sunshine and free land to be had.

Luck was with him, though, this morning when a violent fight erupted between two drovers and one of them killed the other, who stumbled and fell down the hill to come to rest against a fallen tree trunk and no one run after him to aid the man in case that he had survived. To Herbert's delight, the dead man was wearing a heavy buffalo coat which, though quite a bit larger did not present a problem since he had carried a large knife in his belt with which he could fix the coat. Herbert considered everything that the dead man carried on his person to be an item that would help him survive the cold and the rugged terrain, so he stripped him down to his bare skin, stuffing everything into the deer hide pants that he was wearing and tying the leg bottoms.

About to move on, a memory suddenly struck him of a story that his mother, a full-blooded Cree Indian, about some of her tribe's people who in very lean years would raid an encampment of another tribe for captives which they ate. He looked down at the freshly killed man at his feet for a moment before dropping the package he had made of his belongings and, dropping down to his knees he began to dress the carcass very much like his father had taught him to handle any deer he shot.

Matt had not eaten anything substantial in four days, and once opening the stomach cavity and tore out the man's liver and ate it greedily and satisfied his great hunger. Once he stripped all the flesh from the body, which he did as fast as he could since he feared the predators that he was sure were coming since they must have smelled the fresh blood, he chopped the head of the dead man off and attached it to his belt by its long braids. The pack full of his new belongings and survival food was quite heavy but Matt was a strong young man and he felt even stronger after eating the large liver, so he had no problem hefting it to his shoulder and walk away quickly from the scene of the butchery.

Thick clouds were gathering above him all day as Matt trudged along the wagons' trail, and by the time darkness fell it began snowing heavily. His knowledge of woodcraft learned from