MAYBE MONSTER-HUNTING WASN'T THE BEST FOR YOUR HEALTH, but they'd been cooped up for way too long. plus, the four teenagers looked totally badass carrying around a bunch of makeshift weapons in the middle of the woods- well, more like creepy, but to each their own. In Hawkins, Indiana, you know what the most exciting thing that'd happened was? Trick question: nothing exciting happened. Ever. So who could blame them for going to hunt the monster that took Will Byers and Barbara Holland? Little did they know, the four teenagers' hunch was more than a weird feeling, and soon enough, they got tangled into a mess much bigger than they thought they'd be in. The only way out: through. (applyfic) (open)