BLOODLINES

CAPTURED

SAM

It took around twenty minutes for Aiden to take us through the most unsettling journey of teleportation but miraculously, we were in the AMAZON RAINFOREST.
I was too sick and surprised to look at the dense cover of trees along with the rhythmic chirping of birds.
"This feels like a dream" I said in an astounded tone.

We started walking in the wilderness of the rainforest cover surrounded by several tall trees, shrubs and everything that forests have. There were multiple sounds of different birds and snakes. This reminded me of my last trip to a forest for camping with my school mates, when I was probably ten...but that was quite different.
We started following Aiden's commands. He kept raising his wand every now and then to detect the charms protecting the door. He didn't really detect them, but we kept following the instinct of the wand which was "bringing us close to the blinder" according to him.

After 3 or maybe 4 hours of cutting bushes and walking constantly into the forest, we actually started getting tired. Water wasn't a concern beacuse Aiden could make it using his wand, but food was. I and Ronan fed on animal blood, so we could survive but we did need the extra nutrition from food for tiring journeys like this one, while Aiden was getting extremely hungry and pale. We already finished the snacks we bought with us.

"Come on guys, We will continue the walk after 10 minutes. Now, we need to be more cautious about animals and obviously the zealus and also, Sam you need to keep this" said Ronan while handing me a silver knife.
"Silver causes maximum harm to Bifurs" he explained.
"Yeah you told me" I replied.

We continued the journey after the 10 minutes short break. A few more hours passed and the hunger started taking Aiden.
"How far is this place!!" I asked exhausted.
"I can sense it...but not strong enough. Maybe it's even deeper into the forest" answered Aiden.
"Are we even getting close to it??" I asked annoyed.
"Yes! I believe we are going the right way and I understand your annoyance, I'm hungry!!" Aiden practically whined
"Its-"

"Do you see that too?" Shrieked Aiden with excitement, cutting me out while pointing towards something.
For a moment I thought we reached the blinder but, when I followed his hand, I saw smoke coming above some trees.
"What exactly is exciting here??" I asked.
"There are people here!!! and also I smell the most amazing burger." Answered Aiden with the same excitement.
Then, the smell hit me too. The smoke was from barbecue and someone was making burgers.
Aiden started running towards the smoke before we could plan anything.
We can't really blame him, he was extremely hungry. On following him, we ended up meeting three people. There were tents and other stuff required for camping. The three men looked extremely strong. One of them was flipping delicious looking contents on the barbecue while the other two were setting up the place.
"Hey, kids!! What are you doing here??" The man on the barbecue asked.
"They seem lost, whom did you come with!! It's not safe here" added the other one.
"Umm..uh..yes, we're lost" was the best excuse Aiden could come up with.
"Yeah! We came here for camping then, all three of us went to get some food but, we got confused and lost our way." Ronan added to the made up story.
"Oh! Yes, food!!" said Aiden hungrily.
"Poor children!! I think we should feed them" Whined the third man.
"Come on have a seat, these burgers are almost ready." Announced the man by the barbecue.

Once we were all seated, Aiden hurriedly started eating the burgers.
"So, where are you from?" I asked the strong guys.
"Oh! We're from nearby, and we come here for camping every weekend. I am David, this is Finn and that is Noah" replied one of them.
"That's great and also thank you so much for the food!" I said with a smile.

We decided to continue the journey after a small 10 minutes break.
"Those were the most amazing people." Commented Aiden.
"Yea!! They were way too nice to offer food to strangers. Weren't they?" Said Ronan with a doubt
"I guess" I said. When, suddenly Aiden started losing consciousness. He was fainting. Ronan and I freaked out.
"What's wrong Aiden!!" we both screamed. But, he blacked out. Before I could reach him, I also started feeling dizzy. My eyelids became heavy and all energy drained out of my body.
"What was in the food" I managed to whisper as I fell on the ground.
I could see the same happening to Ronan with my partially open eyes.
"We're sorry kids" said one of the men
The last thing I saw before closing my eyes completely, was the three men turning into inhumanely scary dog-like creatures....They were werewolves....the Zealus Werewolves.