How It All Began: The Pack

BajanCanadian (Mitch)

I panicked and dashed into the woods as he started to count down from twenty really fast and ran behind the lumber mill panting and curling into a ball the darkness making me on edge.

"READY OR NOT I'M COMING!!!!!!!" Connor screamed and I smirked.

He was always afraid of the lumber mill, said there was monsters out here he even said he saw a bear once.

I chuckled silently to myself when a little growl echoed around the lumber mill and I froze no daring to look around...But stupid me I did look up...

My head poked upwards to see a baby brown fluffy creature squealing and roaring happily as two other baccas chased after him.

My stomach flipped into knots as the two larger baccas pinned him down but something dawned at me when they rubbed noses with each other..

They were a family.... The parents stopped and sniffed the air looking at me with curiosity and protectiveness over their child

When Connor ran past me screaming tripping and falling on the male larger bacca. I got up slowly as the larger bacca held Connor on his back and placed him down gently with his paws.

The little bacca padded towards me and stood on his two back legs becoming the same height as me...He was probably the same age as me two.

He pawed my chest giving me a bit of a playful shove then went back to sniffing flowers only to sneeze when the dust puffed off of the flower..

That was the cutest sneeze I have ever heard....I walked towards the bacca and kneeled down petting his ear when the other baccas circled around me in case I tried anything.

I stood up brushing the dust off my pants as the bacca walked in and out of my legs in a figure eight style.

I laughed as he fell onto his rear and stared at me his big brown eyes gazing into mine. The two other baccas ears perked up and roared at the little one warning him about something and they all ran off.

Connor ran the opposite direction screaming how he knew bigfoots existed all along while I shook my head laughing and walked the direction Connor ran in.

Connor ran through the trees and I chased after him knowing I would lose him if I didn't when I came across this lake area and Connor was pointing at a boy swimming in the lake dark at night.

"M-M-Mitch?" Connor quivered pointing to the boy as he got out of the water and walked towards us.

"Yeah Connor?" I replied not afraid of this boy.

"Wh-Who is h-he?" Connor trembled still looking wide-eyed at the boy.

"He, has a name you know...And it's Vikk..Hello!" The boy named Vikk introduced.

"Hey sup? This is Connor and I'm Mitch!" I introduced and he nodded smiling.

"Well hello Mitch and Connor I was just going swimming when I heard a growl so I went out of the water and walked towards you guys...So what are you guys doing?" Vikk questioned tilting his head curiously.

"We're playing hide and seek in the dark!" Connor piped in his shyness completely gone.

"Cool can I play? If you don't mind of course.." Vikk asked sheepishly his foot tracing in a circle.

"No we don't mind..come on..It's still Connor's turn since he cheated counting down too fast!" I spoke loudly at the end causing Connor to yelp.

"NUH UH!!" Connor insisted.

"YEAH HUH!" I replied back.

Vikk chuckled shaking his head walking beside me as Connor ran off in the opposite direction as us until he tripped on a log and fell face first into dirt.

Me and Vikk looked at each other trying not to laugh but we failed and ended up rolling on the floor, laughing out of breath.

"IT'S NOT FUNNY MITCH!!" Connor screamed but I saw he was trying not to laugh also.

A gunshot silenced our laughter as roars of panic and fear echoed through the trees, then there was another gunshot and only one little roar was heard through the forest...

The baby bacca......I ran past Vikk and Connor afraid if the baby bacca was in trouble and stopped to see a boy around my age running into the forest where I just came from.

His blonde hair whipped past my face and his red sweater bounced around obviously too big to fit him as he jogged into the forest following something red that quickly disappeared.

Weird.... I ran a little further to see a boy around my age staring at his hands wide eyed as they had a tinted red sort of glow to them.

I turned around looking back at where that red sweatered boy went when I saw a hunter dragging out to very familiar corpses towards his car.

The wide eyed boy noticed what I was looking at and called someone on his phone as police rushed by to take away the hunter.

He killed them....I stared at the corpses as people started to drift away from the scenario now calmed down.

The bacca's.......Realization flashed across my face as I recognized something...He was in the forest all alone....And that red creature the boy was chasing....

I was about to start running when someone spun me around and grabbed my shoulder and I looked up to see the boy who was no longer wide eyed.

"Hey sorry didn't mean to scare you.." He said sheepishly.

"Nah dood it's alright." I accepted his apology.

"I'm Rob what's your name?" Rob questioned curiously and I put on a fake smile.

"Mitch.... Did you see that creature?!?!" I said trying to drift away the topic from the poor bacca's.

"Yeah it was a demon, it jumped right into my arms then screeched and flew off...It was beautiful..Do you think there will be more of them?" Rob pondered outloud and I thought for a moment before replying.

"Yeah I'm sure...It looked like a hybrid though..Not a full demon...And yeah...There is probably more..." I nodded deep in thought.

What if it found the bacca?.....