"Actually, they kinda do," Dib pointed out, but he grabbed a flare anyway, and tossed it at the kids after lighting it, and checked the time on the saw. 30 seconds. He kicked one of the kids who came after him in the face and glared at the rest, who were more or less running away and to the larger beast, who had sunk to its knees.
He'd known they'd already won, but he kept the one faceless freak under his boot until it dissolved into nothingness, and the tree creaked and fell. "That was way too easy," Dib pointed out. "I wouldn't doubt if there was another one in the woods, but I'm not dealing with it tonight. We got rid of the offending one."