It's In Our Blood

Chapter 5

"Ugh...Ty are you sure you didn't pack any bug spray?" Mari asked, swatting away mosquitos from her arms.

"Knowing him? Probably not." Rodrick replied for him. "He thinks mosquito bites can tell the future or something."

"They give you warnings!" Tyrone corrected.

"Same thing"

Mari looked around. "We've been walking around for like an hour, and we still haven't run into ANYTHING. I think this is impressive, actually"

"Impressive, and boring." Tyrone pointed out. "Dad makes monster hunting sound exciting...but I guess the walking part doesn't really make for an interesting story."

"And he had a book about where to find everything"

"That too."

"You didn't pack anything like that either, did you?"

"Nope."

Mari sighed loudly. "Next time, I'm packing. I'm pretty sure you forgot snacks too..."

Tyrone rolled his eyes and let his cousin continue rambling about what she would have packed, and shone his flashlight around the dark trees above them.

Still nothing.

"Also socks. Socks are good..."

Was he looking in the wrong part of the forest? Or was he looking too hard?

Maybe his dad was just exaggerating his stories? No, that wasn't possible.

"Wait you said this was a camping trip...did you even bring anything we can sleep in?

Oh, and grappling hooks can save lives...." Mari went on. "Hey, did you bring anything weapon like at all?"

"No, why would I-" Tyrone stopped, seeing something move from the corner of his eye.

He shone his flashlight around, trying to see what it was.

"Are you listening?"

"Shh!" Tyrone looked around. It had to be close, whatever it was.

"Here we go again. It's probably a rabbit or something like last time...."

"Or a gnome" Rodrick pointed out.

Mari frowned. "I thought we were going with the whole 'the gnomes don't like to be seen' thing"

"Guys seriously" Tyrone looked through a bush. He heard something run out from somewhere behind him.

"I think it just ran off..." Rodrick said.

Mari nodded. "Great! Let's go home. I absolutely refuse to have 'eaten alive by mosquitos' written on my tombstone."

"Fine! You guys go ahead, I'm going after it alone!" Tyrone huffed, marching off after where he assumed the mystery creature ran off to.

". . . should we go after him?" He heard Mari ask.

"Lets just go back. He'll give up eventually." Rodrick replied.

Tyrone rolled his eyes. Everyone was just so uncooperative. His cousin, is own brother of all people, and every single stupid paranormal thing in the forest that refused to make themselves known to him.

But he was going to show them. He was going to hunt down whatever it was that he was going after right now, and he was going to prove it to them. He was just as good of a monster hunter/paranormal researcher as his father.

What was he doing wrong anyway? Why wasn't he finding anything?

"Ugh. Stupid bugs. Stupid Mari, stupid Rodrick-" Tyrone's foot caught on a tree root making him fall on his face. "Stupid me."

He pulled himself up and looked around, just now realising that he should've been looking where he was going.

Tyrone was probably completely lost.

"Well...I'm definitely grounded. But definitely not dead since nothing in this forest is even going to come out and attack me..."

Right when he thought things couldn't get any worse, he heard a faint voice chanting something, not too far away from him.