Never ending Search

Start of the sequel yay! Thank you all for being so patient, I just had to get my bearings straight enough to start it, now here it is! Enjoy the first chapter and I do not own rights to Slender! And this fic starts 5 months after the end of Nightmares of the Damned.

I wiped a few drops of sweat from my brow as the setting sun shined its rays of heat onto my face, my footsteps heavy from the long patrol. Todays temperature had been the hottest this week and it was not benefiting anyone, especially someone like me who was stuck on patrol. And just when everything seemed clear and I was about to head back I heard a weird noise, like something eating but more...disgusting sounding. I put my back to the tree beside me and peered around the edge, I spotted a group of those disgusting parasites feeding on something...it was a woman! I slowly pulled out my silenced pistol and my hunting knife before I moved forward carefully, avoiding stepping on the leaves and drawing attention to myself. I stopped about two feet away and took down three out of the five before they charged at me, and I pushed one to the ground and plunged my knife into its head before being knocked aside by the fifth. "Ooof!" The air was knocked out of me as it landed on me with all its weight, but before it could try and bite I placed my gun underneath and without hesitating I pulled the trigger, making dark black red blood splatter onto my arm.

As I pushed the gross body off I suddenly remembered the woman and I rushed over to her to see her gurgling and clawing at the air, she was in obvious pain seeing as her throat had been ripped out and her stomach was ripped open. I watched with sadness in my eyes as the life finally faded from her stare and her head lolled to the side, blood still oozing from her wounds, "May you find peace in your endless sleep..." I looked off into the trees as the setting sun turned the sky a mixture of pinks and oranges, it was so peaceful and out of place in a world so destroyed and crumbling. I exhaled slowly and turned around, eager to get back to camp and get some well deserved rest. As I walked a slight breeze made my now elbow length hair blow gently around my face, tickling my nose and making me wrinkle it. Alot has changed since the day of my accident, but how much? I can't remember anything past that day and John says that I had been missing for a while, but how did I end up so close to camp? Maybe I had found a trail and made my way there, but then I just had an accident...how much did it change me though? That was the one question I was always afraid of, if I had changed. John had said no but I was always skeptical on the whole thing, my personality couldn't be the same if I had amnesia for I could have forgotten something that made me who I was.

(Back at camp, Narrative) The setting sun cast shadows over the few people walking around and by the tents, each on carrying out one task or another to benefit them all. While he watched them work, John sat off by himself on a ridge overlooking the camp, thinking and absentmindedly running his fingers over the few scars that covered his arm and one clouded eye. The ones caused by that wreck that seemed like it was so long ago and nearly cost him his life...but it took what was left of his family away, and that scar would never heal. He chuckled to his self as he remembered how in one split second, his life changed, no, was destroyed. Yes, he saved Charlie and Orella, but it was only out of pity, for he knew that they would die at the hands of that monster...but it seemed that Orella, well Wren now, seemed to get away. And to his luck she had fallen and didn't remember anything from before, now his life could end up the way he had always dreamed, the way it was supposed to be. But what he still didn't understand, and never will, is how someone can look past all they death and despair in one soul and still find something to love?

He was about to ponder this further but all of a sudden his train of thought was broken when he heard a few raised voices below, looked like Wren had returned from patrol but Sarah was arguing with her about something. He smiled as he watched the target of his affections hold her ground and Sarah backed off, he noticed that her personality was different from when he was with her in the cabin, her eyes held a cold that wasn't there before and she did not hesitate to do what was right. But the fact that she actually believed that they were married was icing on the cake, now they could be together...but how long would it last?

(First person PoV) I didn't blink as Sarah approached me with a scowl on her face, looked like she caught wind of what I had found on my patrol, damn that Sam. "Wren, what the hell is this about a group of parasites near camp?" I crossed my arms and had a slightly annoyed tone to my voice as I answered her, "It's ok Sarah, I took care of them. They were just a small group wandering through." "Yes but where there's one group there's more, we need to send out a bigger patrol to scan the area at night now." I shook my head at her absurd idea, everyone was tired as it was with what we did during the day, we wouldn't be able to uphold any night patrols, no one had the energy. "No one has the energy Sarah, we already over work ourselves during the day, I'm sure having a night watch is enough." Just as she was about to open her mouth and reply, we both heard an all to familiar voice pipe up from behind me and I felt a hand clamp down lightly on my shoulder. "Hey Red, Sarah, how's it goin?" Sarah said nothing and huffed as she turned and stomped off, probably going to read a book or something. But I couldn't really blame her, not after what had happened to Mike and the others about two months back. They had been on patrol and a group of the dead had ambushed them...there were no survivors.

All of us knew that Mike and Sarah had a thing and she was devastated when she heard the news, it took us about two weeks to get her to leave her tent for something other than using the bathroom and getting a drink. "So...she seems angry." I shrugged and turned towards Sam with a smirk, "She'll be fine, she's just overreacting. So are you here to harass me some more?" He shrugged as well and chuckled as we began to walk towards mine and Johns tent, "Oh you know, just making my rounds and making sure everyone is all fine and dandy. So how's it goin with you and John, I've noticed you've been a bit distant lately." I felt myself retreat back into my emotional shell and my shoulders tensed a bit at the question, even though I was close to Sammy I didn't usually tell anyone about my personal life, so I just made an excuse and avoided the question. "I'm fine, we're fine, just tired lately. So, what's for dinner tonight?" He stopped and looked at me with a knowing look, of course he could tell I was avoiding the question but he seemed to choose the smarter decision and just shook his head, letting us continue our walk. The rest was spent in silence and by the time we got to my tent I had relaxed from his question, "Well, I uh, should get ready for bed and what not. See ya tomorrow Sam." He smiled and hugged me close, it was loving but more in a brother/sister kind of way, he's always been like a big brother to me. "Alright Red, get some good sleep. And dinner tonight is a few raccoons and some squirrels."

I waved to him as he walked off and turned to enter my tent when I bumped into John, he had a sort of stern look on his face and he motioned for me to follow him into the tent, probably wants to have a 'talk' again. "You alright hun? You seem on edge." He turned to me as I sat and began to take my boots off, "Well, for one you tried to hide the fact that you found some of those dead about 2 miles from camp, and second off, you seem to be getting a bit too close to Samuel...I don't like it." I Rolled my eyes as I took off my shirt and threw on a more comfortable one, he was always so damn protective, "You know better than to think that something is going on between us, he's like a brother to me and nothing more. But I'm glad to know that you trust me so much." He glanced at me as an irritated tone crept into my voice and sighed heavily, running a hand through his hair and over his face, weariness now apparent on his face, "Look...I didn't mean it like that I just...I don't want to lose you again." My eyes softened and I moved over to the man who held my heart, softly running my fingers over his scarred eye and down to his neck, I leaned in and kissed his cheek before laying my head against his chest.

"I''m sorry it makes you uncomfortable, and I promise, I won't leave you again. But you have to trust me a bit more John, please." He nodded and bent his head down to rest it in the crook of my neck, inhaling and exhaling slowly as he closed his eyes peacefully. "Ok, I promise Wren, I'll try...I promise." And for a moment everything was almost perfect, peaceful almost, and I really felt as if I could just sit here to the end of my days with the man who cared for me, and I for him.

(At the Cabin, Narrative) The wind blew leaves around the silent cabin, the slight creak of the trees the only noise at the moment, making a feeling of erieness settle around. A young woman opened the door of the cabin and slowly walked out along with her dog, carrying a rifle and machete on her back and a small book bag with supplies. As she began to walk through the silent woods a tall faceless man in a black suit appeared in front of her, "Charlie, you agreed to wait until I returned." "Well I have been waiting around for hours and I was getting impatient." He said nothing as she brushed past him, the dog following behind, and he followed at a slower pace, knowing that if he got to far behind he could always port next to her. She knew that he could here her so she began to talk over her route for the day, "We haven't checked the woods to the south very well so I'm going to do a more thourough check. Where are you going to head?" The Slender man tilted his head and thought for a moment, a very human gesture he seemed to have picked up, and gestured in the opposite direction, "I believe I will check farther that way." "But we agreed that she didn't even go that way-" But before she could finish, he had vanished, "Figures." She muttered to herself before hitching her bag up a bit further and walking off, hoping to find some trace, anything, to prove that her friend was out there somewhere.

Slender man moved silently through the woods, as silent as a ghost and as deadly as a bullet, skimming over every tree and every piece of open ground, he couldn't afford to miss any clues. As he walked and observed he let his mind wander to the last day he had seen her, his young hunter, (Flashback) "Can you please say something?" "What do you want me to say?...how can I know you'll always be with me and not realize your mistake?" She chuckled darkly, "You know what...I just...I really thought I loved you. But now I see I was wrong, and I was wrong to ever think that you would feel the same way..." (Present) A frown formed on his face as he remembered the hurt and pain etched on his face, the way she just let it go and walked out that door...it was his mistake and now he had to fix it...he promised her. But he was pulled out of his thoughts as he stepped on something metal, and he looked down to see a rusted and bent bicycle. He ran his fingers over the bent spokes and tried to think of a reason for this being here, but then he froze as his fingers brushed cloth. "It can't be..." It was just a piece of gray-brown fabric poking out from under a good but of earth, but as he continued to pull it up he gasped at what it was...Orella's button up shirt.

She was here...she was alive, but she could be anywhere by now. He held the shirt close to him even though it was caked in mud and turned to head back to the cabin, he had to let Charlie know so that they could begin to search farther out from this point. He would find her no matter what it took, and he would bring her back home.

I know I know this took way to long, I've just been busy working and going to school so I haven't had much time. But I finally got the first chapter and here it is! Please leave me reviews on what ya think!