The Chupacabra

Chapter 3: Arrive to Help

The Tortuga begin to lower down to the sandy ground of the warm desert of Mexico. The force of the aircraft made the wind below the sand away like a sand storm. It finally landed among the ground with a soft thump, setting itself to stop for the Wild Kratts arrival. The Tortuga settle down a bit like a turtle stopping for a pause from a walk on an isolated land.

At last, the large metal door opens with the floor panel lowering itself to the ground. Among this, Chris and Martin ran out of the Tortuga. They both exit through the door and on the floor panel to the sandy ground to inhaling and exhaling the fresh air of the desert of Mexico. It's actually been quite sometimes they ever have an adventure since the incidents they have pulled through. Behind them were the rest of the crew, giggling in humor to the Kratt Brothers for these ventures behavior, but there was no time to waste to head to Miguel.

From 60 feet away from the Tortuga's camping spot, there was a small wooden house with a large steel cage on the right side of the house, and a large empty space in a wooden boarded fence at the back of the house. The small looks two floors high, considering a circled-shaped window under the roof. There was a porch with a brown wooden door and two squared-glass windows on each side of the front house. It didn't took long before the boy named Miguel has exit from the front door with a smile on his face.

"Hey everyone!" he said in joy as the crew was walking close to him. "It's good you guys have finally came. I thought you guys be here later on. The Tortuga must be pretty fast for you guys to arrive in a quick time."

"Well Miguel, it's been a long time since we have gone away to adventure," said Chris in amuse. "We have to take care some technical problems when we were visiting South America."

"Now we're back action, defending every creature on the planet to be safe and keep creaturing on!" said Martin in a superhero expression, making the crew and the boy laugh with his triumph excitement. "Plus, we would like to help the Wild Kratt kid who need our help to save the creatures aground the world. So what's going on with the animals your family have?"

The young 14 year old boy look at them with a concern face that's not sure for them to see what they want to see. He knew that they help creatures around the planet, yet the animals he and his family has are in danger from not pollution, not animal diseases, but something far more dangerous the creature world have ever known. He did not want to have the crew see something from a horror movie. He hope they could bare the scene of the dead animals.

"Alright you guys, but you ain't going to like the site of the animals," said Miguel. "This predator of an animal as really use these animals as snacks. Are you really sure you guys could handle it?"

From the crew, Jimmy Z was the only person who gulped in fear to see something that might be stuck in his natural life. He want to say something, but he didn't want to be rude to the crew. He won't want to see dead animals, yet the rest of the crew nodded to agree to witness the site. He shook his head to try to get Miguel's attention that he doesn't want to join, but it was too late.

"Alright then, the bodies are in the shack."

As they begin to walk forward, Jimmy Z was trumbling in fear to see the animals, but he then felt a hand on his shoulder that made he get spook.

"If you don't want to see the animals, then you can stay on the Tortuga to make sure nothing bad happens to it," said Koki with a pleasent tone.

"Yes, that would be much nicer to get to playing video games than to see dead animals," said Jimmy Z nodded in agreement and start to head back to the Tortuga HQ.

Several yards away from the house was a small wooden shack that doesn't have windows. There was only a wooden door with boards nailed on the side of the door. Miguel pulled out a small hammer from his side and begin to grip on the nails. He would pulled each small nails out, being watched by the crew who were wondering if his animals aren't decomposed yet.

The boy pull out the last nail and the last board to finally open the door. As the door was open, it reveals cows and goats laying down lifeless. They were relieved the bodies hasn't decomposed, yet the bodies look so weak, so drained out, so helpless. The boy begin to drag the body of the goat first, for the goat was lighter than a cow. The crew begin to exam the body, yet they didn't see any sign of the body. The body look fine compare to the crew, but how did it die?

"I don't see anything that shows how this animal died," claimed Aviva as she didn't understand how an animal would suddenly die. "Are you sure the animals are well care here Miguel?"

"Yeah, we take very good care of them," claimed Miguel. "We always take very good care of them. I don't understand why they begin to die?"

"Hold you guys," said Chris as he pull out his green creature pod.

Chris then held the creature pod towards the body. In a few seconds, the device begin to scan through the whole body of the corpse of the goat. It took a minute before the creature was done scanning the body, which it begin to analyze the corpse. When it was analyzing, it finally found out what happened to the animal.

"This... doesn't make sense," said Chris in confusion while looking why the goat was dead.

"What is it bro?" asked Martin to see how his brother was stunned to see the results. "Is something wrong?"

"Well Martin... the creature pod says the goat lost it's blood," answered Chris. "It also says that the creature was bitten by another creature. I don't know how, but it appear the second creature drain all the blood out of the goat."

"What kind of creature did this?" asked Koki in surprised like everyone else.

"We don't know Koki," answered Martin as he took a look of the creature pod's data himself. "It appears there not a clear identification to what creature that might cause this. Maybe this is something serious about this. We need to take the bodies for to exam more. We need more data to see further causes of this goat's death."

While everybody was looking at the body, Aviva slowly back away from the group and walk to the Tortuga HQ.

As she entered the aircraft, she head to the main room, but she dropped to her knees at the corner of the doorway. It was relevant that something was wrong, Aviva has know for a long time. There was nothing but something far beyond fear itself that's causing the animals to lose their blood. This was no ordinary animal hunger that killed those goats and cows. That was something else she has thought in mind.

She then rose up to her feet slowly. Trembling from the fact she didn't wanted to know. She close her eyes and breathe calmly, but she was then spooked as she felt something touched her shoulder. She back away from the unknown figure in fear that touched her shoulder. She didn't know where but to back away from the figure. She opens her eyes to find Jimmy Z creeped out on what just happened.

"Are you alright Aviva? Was it the bodies that scared you?" asked Jimmy Z aware for his friend.

"Not, it wasn't the animal's bodies," said Aviva. "I was surprised from your appearance to me, that's all."

Jimmy Z understand as he nodded to her and walk away with his gaming controller. She was lucky that he didn't asked any further about her reaction. She then walk up to a empty chair, where she then sat down, close her eyes again, and breathe out in relief.

'It can't be it... Is it?' she thought in her head. 'I hope it's not for my friends' sake.'