Unnatural

Hit the road!

Stefan walked to the buses stations but turned left insted. He made a phoncall and a man answered almost imediatly.

"I'm here." Said the boy.

"Me too." Replyed the man. "Look more carefully around you." 

With the phone still at his ear he looked around and under a tree he saw a very dark green opel astra 1993 parcked. The boy recognized the car and ended the call. He walked toward it and the man at the wheel got out.

"Stefan!" Said the man while hugging the boy tight.

"Ruck!" Struggled Stefan to say with his face in man's vest.

"How are you doing? It passd so much time since we saw last time." Ruck let go of the boy who took a deep breath and laughed. "How much it was? Two, three years? It seems that now you are ready to face the demons, aren't you?"

"Yes, I'm gonna kill those bastars."

"Let me help you with the luggages." Ruck pointed at the duffel bag lying on the ground and took it to the trunk. Stefan put his backpack in the trunk too.

"Thank you a lot for what are you doing."

"I will try to help you with all I can."

"Thanks. But please don't tell Isaac that you gave my a ride."

"Why?" Said Ruck very surprised.

"I told him that I will go with buses and common transports."

"And why don't you want him to know? We are still in good terms even if we don't talk that much." He leaned his arms against the car's roof.

"I know, but he offered to get me a ride too and I refused. I don't want him to get injured or worser, so I had to say no. Plus it's a chance to see you too. " The boy got in the car after he finished.

Ruck looked with mercy and compassion at the boy when he couldn't see him. He got in the car himself and put his seatbelt on, Stefan already did it.

"So, where are you going and what is your plan?" Ruck started the car and drove.

"First I want to go Salt lake, I've heard that something is happening there and it would be a good start to defend alone anything causes the deaths there."

"And after? What do you want to do with those demons?"

"If they don't find me I will find them and kill them."

"Really?" Said Ruck a bit disappointed of the answer. "Don't you have a better plan?"

"I will improve as I go." He nodded slowley  grimacing realising that he had to work more at the plan.

"If you want to make yourself the bait, and you move, even for them it will take something to find you. To make it easier for them you ought to have something from them, I don't know, like, a ring, a tuft of hair or..."

"A necklace." Continued the boy.

"Yes, exactly, that would be good too."

"Like this one?" Stefan pulled off of his shirt a small pendant. It was made of metal and was put on a simply black string. It was obvious that it was old. Ruck glanced a bit to take a look at the necklace but was confused.

"Is that a pentagram?" Said Ruck grimacing.

"I don't know, I tried sevral times to search for it but I never could find what it means. I even asked Bobby."

"And he didn't know?!" He wided his eyes and inclined his head a bit. "Was it theirs'?"

"They gave it to me some weeks before they tried the sacrifice." Stefan said it very normaly but Ruck tought that he touched a sensitive chord. " Please don't tell Isaac this either."

"But I see that you have a lot of secrets from Isaac." Said the man amused and ironical.

"It's not that, I just don't want him to think that he send me off-handed."

"It's ok, you are a good hunter, even for your age. You can do this!" Stefan nodded slowly looking forword. "So what's in Salt Lake?"

"Some person are missing, but not in the way that they got lost in the foresrt and God knows where they are, but that they all have gone to swim and never came back." The case semed to catch Ruck's attention. "They even found a body. They just have to find the last four." Said amused and sarcasticaly. " But what it's strange is that the body was completly naked." Stefan sighted.

"What, does it seem hard?"

"Nooo, but I really want to end this thing with the demons and have a life as normal as possible."

"Like? A wife? A job? Kids?"

"Ew, no, just not have to hunt something in particulary. And maybe some friends, That would be good." Said under his breath.

"How you say kid. Where will you stay in Salt Lake? Another hunter?"

"No, I already saved some good money from the transport so I can afford to stay at least in a cheap motel. I hope I will find one."

The rest of tha road Stefan did researches on his smartphoneof who or what could make this disapearences and a cheap motel near where he could stay. He took some notes in his small notebook.

"I found a legend that could match the crimes. It's about a gravedigger, Jhon Baptiste, that have been exiled from Salt Lake on an island from the lake. Few weeks later a lawman came to see him but no sing of the man. There were singh of a fire but no Jhon's remains. It was like he vanished. The legend says that he haunts the shores. He must be pretty angry because it says that he seemed to be a good man and after they discoverd what he did they branded him with a hot iron before sending him away. It's strange why he did it just now, I mean, this happened in 1800."

Ruck lifted his shoulders, Stefan continued to look trough the recent deaths to see if he could find something in common.