• Hunt on Washington Lodge •

- Prologue -

"Hannah..." Beth said quietly as she walked over to her twin sister. Hannah had been crying so much, Beth had swore her sister's tears had turned into ice from the freezing temperatures.

"They humiliated me, Beth." Hannah said between sobs. Beth quickly took off her jacket and put it around her sister. "They're horrible, Han." Beth said. Hannah sniffled a bit as she slipped her arms through the sleeves of her sister's jacket.

"Come on, Han... Let's go back to the cabin." Beth said as she took her sister's hands in hers, and helped her stand up. "I don't want to see them again, Beth. They embarrassed me! Set me up and humiliated me, Beth!" Hannah shouted as she wiped her tears from her face.

"We'll get Josh to wake up. He'll take care of them. I promise." Beth says while hugging Hannah.

"He's black out drunk, Beth... I don't think he would even be in his right mind to process it." Hannah cried into her sisters shoulder.

"He's our brother. He'll stand up for you. Drunk or not." Beth says as Hannah pulls away from the hug.

Beth holds Hannah's hand and begins to walk back to the lodge. However as they walked there was a suddenly shriek. They both froze and looked around in panic.

"What was that.." Hannah mumbled as she clung to her sister's arm. Beth shook her head in repsonse. "I don't know.."

The same shrieking was sounded again, but only closer. "Hannah run!" Beth said as she began to run in the opposite direction of the shriek. The direction that lead away from the cabin they planned to go back to.

The shrieking seemed to only get louder as they continued to run in fear.

They ran, and ran, and ran until they got to the edge of a cliff. "shit..." Beth mumbled as she turned around, Hannah standing behind her, a look of pure fear on her face.

Both girls looked left and right for the source of what shrieked that horrible sound. They didn't know what they were seeing, or what.. or who was there watching them, making those ear bleeding screams.

They saw shadows, jumping in between trees. Hannah backed up even more out of fear. She bumped into the railing which caused the railing to break.

Hannah began to fall but she still had a firm hold on her twin sister's hand. Beth fell with her. They both shouted as they fell off the edge of the cliff.

With fast reflexes Beth caught the cliff. "Hannah!... Hold on, Han!" Beth shouted as she held onto both the cliff and her sisters hand with as much strength as she could.

Hannah began to cry again. She was terrified, and so was Beth. Beth was just trying her hardest to focus on keeping her strength up. So she could try to keep her hold on her sister.

The shrieking continuously got louder until they saw a shadow. The shadow looked human. The figure seemed to lay down in the snow and reach their hand down towards Beth. Beth didn't know if she should trust the figure. For all she knows the figure could be someone trying to make her let go of the cliff and fall to her and her sister's death.

Beth began to panic as the figure only moved their hand closer to her.

She thought too fast and let go of the cliff. However the figure quickly caught her wrist, and began to pull her up. Beth soon realized that the figure didn't seem to want to hurt her, but to in fact help her and her sister reach safety.

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They had ran too far from the cabin to know their way back, and the figure seemed to not trust their surroundings to take them back to the cabin. The figure said something along the lines of it being "too dangerous".

The figure promised to take them back to the cabin the next day, but nobody was there when they arrived. They had been left there without the keys or anything.

They were left there, with a mystery person, and creatures within the mountains.