The Faceless Forest

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"You guys ready?" Zoey asked taking in a deep breath and then exhaling it a little to quickly.

"I think so," the rest of them replied

"Ok, then let's go," Zoey said as she took the first step into the forest, she knew at once this was going to be much more difficult, then the last time.

The rest of the group stepped in to, they felt the strange power it emitted but only Zoey and Steph could feel it the most. It was the first hallucination that threw them off, it was Zoey to see it first. She looked around and saw a bunch of Emily's all a different death, one was her dismembered, one was with a bunch of stab wounds, scratches, face peeled off, so on and so on, they were horrible. For Steph, she saw Zoey getting killed in all these different ways, for Zach it was Steph, for Ethan he saw Zach, he tried so hard to help him but he couldn't he was stuck on the spot.

Like always by the end they were all on the ground but this time it seemed a force had compelled them to the ground and not just like it normally felt if you lost your balance, this felt like someone physically pushes you towards the ground.

"Did you guys feel that?" Zoey asked trying to get up but it was like her legs were tied to the ground, and that's when she started to freak out even more.

Her friends tried to ask her what was wrong and why she wasn't getting up, but then they tried to pull her up and realized even they couldn't help her to get u0p. This freaked her out even more because at that point she knew she wasn't, hallucinating, she wanted to scream her lungs out but not a single sound left her mouth.

After hours and hours of trying to get up, the force that had kept her on the ground flung her forwards onto her feet. She let out a gasp of relief that she could actually stand again but her legs felt weak like she couldn't do much walking without falling over.

But she managed to walk for a couple of hours before she collapsed and with no force pushing down on her she could stand up perfectly which was a relief. It soon turned dark and it was time to go to bed and get a good rest, the thing was that they didn't feel comfortable to be sleeping out in the open of the forest, but there were no buildings near them so they decided what harm could it do to sleep in a forest with very powerful evil in your presence.

The night was horrible, it was like you went into a haunted house and slept their. The noises were awful, wolves howling everything happening. Needless to say nobody got much sleep that night. Even if they heard a owl hoot it would make them jump.

In the morning Zoey as always was the first to awake, but she wasn't the first one for long shortly after, everybody was awake. They got up and stretched and began to walk, it felt like Zoey's legs had gotten stronger but not as strong as normal.

Unlike when they walked across the village when they walked deeper into the forest they found more of the faceless creatures. It was like the creatures came from a vampire book, it was like they stayed in the depths of the woods and in the shadows, but they weren't vampires and they usually went out during the day, only this day was different. That day they were going to win Steph's grandma back, head to head battle with their dear old friend Lilly.

It was a windy day, making every noise even more deadly. They stopped in front of a old abandoned looking shed. It was as if the builder knew that someday they were going to need a shelter from whatever had been following them.

Emily went to find somewhere to sit, but in doing so she bumped into her dad, she could see anger in his eyes, but they softened when he saw her, so clearly that his anger wasn't meant for her but someone else held captive.

Her father looked like he had a ruff day, which was the truth in his eyes, he had to deal with his wife who so desperately wanted to see her daughter after all the years they had been apart. But he hadn't let her, he threatened to kill his daughter if the wife wouldn't be quiet. Of course he wouldn't kill his daughter right yet. He would kill his wife before anyone. And it was settled, he would kill his wife soon rather than later.

"Oh hey sweetie I didn't see you their," he said pulling her into a hug

"Where are you off to?"

"I just want to find somewhere to sit daddy," she said giving him puppy dog eyes