Dream interpretation help please.......?

I had a dream the other day where me, my friend, and my grandpa ran along a beach to a mangrove, and the water was grey and it was really windy, and we got in there, and my friend was adding pepper and salt to the bushes, and i said i would do it for her, so i ran along one side and suddenly i saw a flash of something that didn't seem to belong in the place, and i stopped and saw a spotted cat that was really small but with big ears and a really long tail, and so i went back to where my friend and my grandpa were standing, and told them about it, and then, suddenly, we see another one coming towards us from the opening by the beach, and the first cat-thing i saw is creeping out of a hole in the bushes and both are advancing steadily towards us, and i grab my grandpa and my friend and i hug them and turn my body outwards to face the cat-things and protect my loved ones and the one coming in from the beach claws my thigh and i have 3 foot-long wounds and then I die, with my arms still around my friend and my grandpa