The Forest

Chapter 11 Just the Beginning

The sun was getting low in the sky casting an orange glow over the forest behind the park, several cars stood parked in the parking lot. In the center a group of hunters gathered around Jermen who was perched up on a wooden box they had placed there, everyone was chatting and asking questions.

"Listened up everyone!" Jermen raised his voice and everyone fell quiet and looked at him. "First of, thank you for coming out here on a short notice. As the call stated we have a missing person, most likely severely hurt out here in the forest." Jermen fell silent as his radio crackled and Tinas voice came through.

"Jermen, are you there?" Jermen took out his radio and pushed the button to answer her back.

"I'm here" everyone stood in silence and listened.

"The man you are looking for is Tim Richards, age 41, Caucasian, blond hair and brown eyes"

"Thank you, Tina" Jermen looked at the hunters around him "Did you guys catch that?" everyone answered with a yes.

"I don't wanna scare anyone and I would not blame anyone if they chose to back out now, as we all know there has been a string of strange deaths in this town and our two neighboring towns. No one knew who was killing until a few days ago when this video was taken" Jermen paused and nodded to Mark to play the video. Everyone's eyes fell on to the laptops screen and as the video played loud gasps could be heard and eyes grew big, all at once began talking.

"What the hell is that?" "Is that real?" "It's a monster!"

"Please everyone calm down!" Jermen raised his voice "this video was taken by one of our cops and we have gathered enough evidence that proves this is real!" Jermen took a deep breath.

"As of right now we know there is two of them out there in the forest and they are the ones responsible for all the mysterious death we have had. As I said before I will not blame you for backing out, but I do know this, we need to stop them before they get closer to our homes and worse our children!" Jermen finished talking and got down from the box and walked towards the park entrance. Behind him Nat, Mark and Jessie followed him, he turned around and looked at the hunters who were talking and nodding.

"We are with you" one of the hunters stepped forward and said and the rest either answered or nodded.

"Good, Nat you are up" Jermen placed a reassuring hand on Nat's shoulder and he stepped forward.

"I'm gonna keep it short and simple, there is at least two of them, they are clever, fast and strong. They will kill you if they get a chance so stay together and stay alert, these things knows they are on the top of the food chain and the forest is their home they know it better then we do. Don't run of on your own and don't try to play hero, the only thing we are doing to night is going out there to find Tim and out we will come up with a plan to get these creatures but for now it's a search and rescue" Nat took a step back as Jermen stepped forward.

"We are gonna split up in to four teams with us in each group" he gestured to his subordinates. They began splitting up in to four teams and then walked out in to the park, as they reached the forest line they stopped. The forest was dark and creeping feeling made its way up their spine, no one made a move not wanting to be the first to step in to the forest and be the nights first victim.

"Stay with in shout and light distance of each group" Jermen shouted out and took the first step in to the forest.

To the far left was Jessies group then Jermens followed by Mark and Nat to the far right, they all followed Jermen's move and walked out into the dark forest not knowing what was gonna happen or what they were gonna find.