A Wendigo is featured in The Monster Attacks 2. In Native American mythology, it's a spirit that possesses humans and turns them into cannibals. In the novel, the Wendigo is a result of college student Petra Williams being bitten by a dog infected with the Rage Virus. The Wendigo is said by some to be the scariest animal in the series.
Biography
The Wendigo is at first an unknown girl that has been infected by the Wendigo virus. However, Nathan Lynn discovers the creature used to be a college student named Petra Williams from Charleston, West Virginia. To his horror, Nathan finds diary entries from April 1, 2012 containing extremely graphic events pertaining to how she became a Wendigo, ranging from eating dead people from previous animal attacks, discussing ways to kill and eat her fellow campers and finally obtaining an elk skull, complete with antlers (the real human face was hidden behind the makeshift "battle helmet"). Petra, now a Wendigo, starts chasing her friends through the woods and pursues Abby Burr's sister Cassie into a cave.
It later becomes disinfected, reverting Petra back to human form. Unfortunately, the rabid dog that bit her (this wasn't shown) bites another victim, spawning a new one in the forest. This one, because of the force of the dog's bite, is almost impossible to revert to human form, so Nathan and his gang have no choice but to destroy it. This new Wendigo makes a new killing spree all by itself. Nathan is the first to run into this new Wendigo, which attacks him with a tomahawk. He takes Petra into the cabin Cassie hid, but finds Cassie gone; she has hidden inside the attic. They work together with Dimitri Mayakov and his assault team when they are assaulted by the Wendigo by hiding in the attic and then escaping to the roof, where they make a break for the nearest river. The Wendigo pursues them there, but after a fierce battle, the Wendigo finally disappears below the river.
This Wendigo isn't destroyed, but it's never seen again...until the epilogue.
Also, the Wendigo is scheduled to appear in The Monster Attacks 3, but this is unconfirmed. In the epilogue, Nathan finds leaked footage of a Wendigo attack aboard an airplane, which may lead to the events of the next sequel, but it's later confirmed to be a fan-made horror movie.
Things come to light at the very end of the novel, where Nathan finds a video camera hidden in the forest during a vacation in the Canadian Rockies, which shows a series of hikers that have disappeared due to unexplained circumstances and one of them is a Wendigo. Nathan turns to Dimitri Mayakov and remarks that "we have a new Wendigo on our hands."
Trivia
- Originally, the Wendigo was supposed to be a guy.
- Cassie was also supposed to be killed by the Wendigo, but this was changed.
- Cassie is the soul survivor of the whole incident, other than Jared, Nathan, Nikki, and Dimitri.
- The Wendigo was orginially going to be just a crazed human instead of a creature with a deer skull for a head.
- The attacks on Nathan Lynn, Nikki Harding and the murdering of the entire SWAT team and half of the entire GRU are the only attacks that happen in broad daylight. The other assaults occur at night.
- The Wendigo was originally supposed to kill Dimitri Mayakov, but this was changed.
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