Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of glee, but I do own the all my original characters and this story.

Moore Info: Yes, I know, another story, but I just can't help it. I can guarantee you that I'll probably have even more stories posted after this one. Though, I can't guarantee how frequent the updates will be.

Anyways, this story takes place before season three. This story will have some OCC'ness going on like always because I can never seem to tap into an established character. I don't know why, it's something I'll just have to work on.

On another note, the reason the title has the word Phoenix in it is because my original character is named Phoenix. Anytime you see Phoenix in a title of any story I should post then that story will have Phoenix; whether for a squeal or just another story all together (hope I didn't just confuse you). It wont always be Glee though. I already have a Twilight one that I'm working on that's in the Phoenix universe.

So, with that being said, I hop you guys find this enjoyable, ad if not then, damn that sucks.


Chapter One

It was the summer before her senior year and Rachel Berry once again found herself at her favorite camp; Camp Kenny, named after the late Kenny Jennings whom crafted young children into award winning actors and singers.

Only the best of the best were able to attend the summer camp, and if it was known that you attended the camp then many more doors that would have been closed otherwise, would find themselves blown open; and one Rachel Barbra Berry was proud to day she was a camper and has been since she was ten—the required age for one to apply to attend.

But sadly, the camp resided all the way in Texas so she wasn't able to see her boyfriend, Finn Hudson, unless she used one of the apple computers in the rec. room that was only open after lessons or on the weekends when they didn't have any classes, but those were always occupied; the reason being that the camp didn't allow the campers to bring electronics besides their cell phones.

So in order to talk to her boyfriend, she had to resort with the use of her cell phone that rarely got any bars out there in the middle of the wooded forest unless you moved all over the camp in hopes of retrieving at least one bar which was highly unlikely.

However, seeing as this was Rachel's eighth and last year at Camp Kenny, she was brought on as a camp counselor (who got paid every two weeks, thank you very much) and in turn, let in on a little secret that was withheld from the regular campers.

Deep into the woods that was behind cabin twelve, was a small clearing where a large bolder lay. If one were to stand on top of said bolder, you would be able to get a decent amount of bars so that you could call out. The only problem was that it was so deep into the woods that there was the possibility she could get lost, and the only time she was able to go was when she wasn't overseeing her assigned cabin, which was while they were (supposedly) sleeping.

The counselors' curfew was an hour after the regulars and they all shared a cabin together. Well, they boys had their cabin and the girls had theirs, but they were fairly close to the other. This meant that Rachel didn't have to worry about the nosy regular campers she oversaw thinking that she was taking late night visits to the boys sector that was to the right of the male counselors cabin of the camp, while the girl's were to the left of the female counselor's cabin.

Currently, Rachel was in the rec. room reading while the other counselors watched the nine o'clock news on the flat screen. The picture showed a small Asian woman staring seriously into the camera while holding a microphone in her right hand as she stood in front of the woods where yellow crime scene tape could be seen.

"Early this morning a jogger discovered the mauled body of what has now been confirmed as forty-two year old high school teacher, Michael Beaker, peaking out of the woods. His wife, Michelle Beaker, thirty-five, said 'he left for his daily jog six this morning, but never came back.' Police have reported that his face was so badly mauled that they had to look at the man's dental records to confirm his identity, while the rest of his body had been covered in large bite marks as wide as a basketball. An Animal expert was called to the scene."

The screen jumps over to a clip from that morning where a white man with a dark beard wearing a Dallas Cowboys hat was standing beside the Asian woman while the police and forensics team moved around in the background.

"Yeah, this whole situation is kinda weird, I mean, the prints that were discovered by the body were too big to be a wild wolf. If I didn't know any better, and I do, I would damn near say those were the prints of some type of lion. Now, if I were able to take a look at the body I would be able to find a better clue as to what the hell kind of animal caused this so we can go out there and hunt it down. I love animals, but when they are out there mauling folks, then they need to be dealt with." The man said seriously with his hands on his hips while he talked down into the microphone the reporter was holding up to his face.

"What advice would you give to the people should they find themselves in the animals path?"

"Well, there's a few things I gotta say to ya'll and that's don't go out there camping or hiking through them woods while this animal is still out there, and if you do, well your pretty damn stupid cause' I just told you what you needed to do to keep your face." he said, saying the last part into the camera with a shake of his bald head that shinned under the morning sunning after he took off his hat to rub at this head.

The scene changed back to present time where the reporter was still in front of the crime scene.

"Officials have told the public that there will be search parties conducted to track down this dangerous animal, and should anyone come into contact with the animal, call the police as soon as possible and do not engage,"

"Why the fuck would anyone want to mess with a vicious animal? They would have to be dumb as hell." One of the counselors piped up. Distracted mummers of agreement ensued.

"I'm Chelsea Lang, reporting for Fox four news. Back to you Steve." the woman said with a wide smile that about split her face. The scene switched over to the newsroom where an African-American woman with short hair and a blonde, handsome man sat behind a desk that proudly displayed their network.

"Thank you Chelsea and be careful out there. Let me tell ya' Monica," he said while turning towards his partner as he tap a stack of papers against the desk. ", that was a heartbreaking story." the blonde said with a mask of sympathy painted on his handsome face.

"Yes, my prayers go out to the Beaker family. If you would like to attend Michael Beaker's funeral, it will be held next Friday at noon in the auditorium at Johnson High School where Michael worked." The woman stated.

They both took a small dramatic pause before they both suddenly perked up.

"Well, guess who's coming to Texas? Barry the penguin!" The anchor man said happily as he smiled his blinding smile into the camera, his partner doing the same.

"Oh my god!" Charlotte Moss exclaimed.

"I know, right? You don't see that crap in New York…fucking Texas." Mandy Stewart muttered from beside Charlotte.

"What if that animal enters the camp? I mean, we're all up in the woods!" Benton Torino said fearfully.

"Fuck that! What I want to know is why it's always joggers discovering all these bodies, seriously!" Joshua Cummings said from his spot from behind one of the computers where he was trolling on Facebook.

The whole rec. room once again filled with mummers of agreement upon another one Joshua's wise comments. Rachel shook her head in amusement before she stood with a stretch then walked over to the rec. room's bookcase and replaced the book she had been reading. Once the book was put away she turned around and made her way towards the rec. room door.

"Where ya' going Rach?" Mandy asked.

"I'm going to the cell "tower" so I can talk with my boyfriend before heading to bed." Rachel replied with a sickening smile that made Mandy want to puke. Her boyfriend, Ben, was a fucking guppy and Rachel would not shut the fuck up about the guy. She loved Rachel, she really did. She was a nice person. But, how much does one really have to talk about their dick of a boyfriend?

"Oh yeah?" Mandy inquired indulgently.

"Yes, I haven't really spoken to him since we got here because he's been busy preparing, for what I've been told, a very prestigious tournament." Rachel said excitedly. He had been busy with some tournament called C.O.D for a while now and she was so happy that she finally had the chance to talk to him.

"Huh…exactly what kind of tournament is it?" Mandy asked suspiciously. She had a feeling as to what it was seeing as how Joshua wouldn't shut up about the fact that he wouldn't be able to participate in it because he was stuck at a camp he didn't want to attend regardless of the fact that he was one of the best male actors there.

"Oh, it's called C.O.D; the College Online Debates." Rachel said proudly, "Now, I admit I was a little surprised that he was preparing for such an event seeing as he's never expressed such interests. However, I understand the need to prepare one's self through rigorous training."

There was a pregnant pause in the room before everyone burst out in laughter.

"Col-Col-COLLEGE ONLINE DEBATES!?" Joshua laughed as he fell out of his chair clutching his stomach.

Rachel looked around the room with her face scrunched in confusion. "What? What's so funny?"

Mandy sighed with a shake of her head before jumping up from her spot on the coach and made her way towards Rachel, putting one hand on her shoulder.

"Rach, sweetheart, C.O.D is not the College Online Debates…" Mandy explained slowly which brought on another round of laughter from their peers.

Rachel flushed red. "It's not," Mandy shook her head, "Oh…then what does it stand for?"

"Call of Duty…" Damn, was this whole room filled with laughing hyenas today? "Your dick of a boyfriend has been blowing you off for video games."


Rachel busted out of the room and stormed her way towards cabin twelve while the sound of laughter still poured out from the rec. room. A few second after her swift exit she could her Mandy pleading for her to slow down and to talk to her, but she ignored her and continued on her way. She needed to talk to Finn and ask him if it were true because she couldn't believe he would lie to her like this.

"Rachel, wait up, Jesus. For a midget you really have some long ass legs." Mandy panted out as she finally caught up with the brunette. Rachel continued to ignore her as she crossed her arms against her body when a cold breeze came over them. Letting out a guilty sigh Mandy through her hand up in the air, "Oh, come on Rach! You can't be mad at me. All I did was tell you that your boyfriend was lying to you. I thought you should know instead of having everyone look at you like you were a gullible idiot."

Rachel snapped her gaze towards Mandy, glaring at her as they continued to walk. "Thank you, but no thanks. They still think of me as some gullible idiot," the diva huffed, "I can't believe I even fell for that crap! So stupid!" Rachel scolded herself with a shake of her head.

Mandy slug an arm onto Rachel's shoulders to pull her into her body for comfort and for warmth. "Look Rach, your boyfriend lied to you; you can't help the fact that you expected him to be truthful with you. I mean, you trusted him right?" Mandy asked, and at Rachel's nod in confirmation, she squeezed the girl closer to her body in sympathy. "Then he's an ass, alright? You did nothing wrong."

Rachel shook her head, "maybe, but I still should have known something was fishy when he told me C.O.D stood for College Online Debates. Finn is not exactly known for his smarts; I had to practically re-teach him basic math, science, Reading, and writing skills just so he wouldn't be held back again,"

Mandy snickered at that. Really? How was this guy able to enter into high school if he didn't know those basic skills? The education system in Ohio must suck.

Rachel turned her head towards her camp buddy and tired not to smile. "It's not funny Mandy, it really was quite sad. He can't help that it takes a while for him to process things."

"Yeah, Okay, maybe you should have had an inkling that he was lying to you, but it's obvious that he knew what he was doing when he lied just so he didn't have to worry about talking to you while he played video games. That makes him an ass in my books." Mandy said.

Once they finally reached the back of cabin twelve, Mandy removed her arm from the brunette's shoulders and turned to face the shorter woman, putting both of her hands on either side of her.

"Listen, I may only see you when we attend camp, but I do know your worth. That guy you've been seeing? Yeah, he's way below you. You're a pretty girl Rachel. I'm sure there are plenty of guys out there who'd love to date you; hell I would date you if I didn't see you as my sister." That comment caused the brunette to blush as she ducked her head.

Mandy was a very talented and attractive girl who always acquired a boyfriend or girlfriend upon the first week of camp, and this happened every summer. Really, all of Mandy's ex's—at least the ones who attended camp—could all bunk together in one cabin, and the cabins here could hold at least ten people when there were single beds, and over twenty when there were bunks.

Even though Mandy would average at least two relationships each summer, those at the camp still desired to be the next one to date the girl because she was talented, beautiful, and just so dang nice that none of her ex's could really get angry with her when she decided that she wanted to end their relationship.

So when someone like Mandy Stewart said something like that to her, Rachel couldn't help but swoon a little. She couldn't help but to do so. She has always been attracted to those who were attracted to her. Every time someone would ask her out—which was very rare—she would immediately say yes—unless their name was Jacob Be Israel—and then would quickly fall hard for him .

It was what she did with her first boyfriend, Jesse St. James—who had been a camp member—, and what she was doing now with her current boyfriend, Finn. She so wanted to be in a relationship that she tended to give her boyfriends a lot of leeway.

However, if her boyfriend only came up with some excuse just so he could be almost completely summer free of her, then that was something she couldn't ignore. He was placing his video games above her.

He made her feel completely stupid for trusting that he was being honest with her, and humiliated when he camp friends laughed at her for falling for it. But finally, he made her feel unwanted.

She could understand if he wanted sometime to himself in order to prepare himself for the tournament he felt was worthwhile, and yeah she might have felt bummed about it, but at least he would have told her instead of lying to her face, and making up excuses as to why he had not been able to Skype with her.

"What are you going to do about him?" Mandy asked after thy both stood there in a moment of silence while Rachel thought.

The short brunette let out a tired sigh as she lifted her head, and pushed a lock of hair that was in her face behind her ears.

"I'm going to go to the cell phone "tower" and call him and see if he tells me the truth. If he doesn't…well, I think it's time for me to break it off with him." Rachel said reluctantly, yet truthfully as she ducked her head once more. Mandy rubbed at the girl's arms again in comfort.

"This wouldn't be the first time he's lied to me so that he wouldn't have to deal with me." The hands on Rachel's upper arms squeezed at her words.

"Gosh, he really is a dick." Mandy says, making Rachel laugh for a moment. "Do you want me to go with you to the "tower"? It's pretty dark out here.

Rachel shakes her head no. "I'll go by myself; I need to do this alone."

"If you're sure," Mandy reluctantly agreed, "but if you're not back in an hour, I'm gonna send a search and rescue team after you. That attack may have happened miles away from here, but that doesn't mean their can't be others out there like it." Mandy said to Rachel before pausing for a moment when her words sunk into her mind, and the images of Rachel being mauled by some Beast were conjured up.

"You know what, I think that I should go with you—just to be safe."

"Mandy!" Rachel said with a light laugh at her friends worry. "It's really sweet of you to worry, but I'll be fine, okay?" Rachel said with both of her brows raised.

After Mandy gave a reluctant nod in reply, Rachel gave her a smile before turning around to disappear inside the woods that were behind cabin twelve.

Hopefully she won't get mauled. Mandy thought with a sigh in defeat before turning around to head back to her cabin so that she could wait up for Rachel.


Rachel entered the woods and began to walk in a straight line until she came across a neon glow that was from a glow stick inside a hole that was on a tree's trunk; something that the counselors made sure to change out regularly. Once she stood directly in front of the glowing stick, Rachel took five wide steps to the right before continuing on going straight.

After two minutes of walking, Rachel came across another tree with a glowing stick inside it's trunk; only this time, instead of taking five steps to the right, she took eleven before walking in a straight line once again.

A minute later, Rachel finally saw, under the moon's natural spot light, the boulder that the counselors called cell "tower", resting in the middle of a decent sized clearing.

Just as Rachel was about to exit the woods and enter the clearing, she pauses when a snapping of twigs sounded out from behind her and in the woods. Rachel nervously turned around and stared into the dark woods with squinted eyes that tried to make out the cause behind the noise.

As Rachel scanned the woods with her eyes, Rachel's mind flashed with the images of a vicious animal. However, she quickly shook those images from her mind as she scolded and called herself silly. She blamed Mandy for her paranoid thoughts.

Once satisfied that nothing was going to pop out and eat her, Rachel began walking out from the woods and over to the boulder that was about as tall as a one story house, and was wide enough for six people to lay side by side on.

Just as she got into position to climb up the boulder, she hears another snapping of twigs that causes her to freeze once again; it was closer this time. Much closer.

Rachel swung her body around and hesitantly stuttered out, "Is there anyone there?" like any stereotypical girl in any horror movie would. When a reply was not given, Rachel quickly turned back around to the boulder and began to climb it speedily, as if she has been rocking climbing for years.

Once she was high up on the boulder, Rachel scanned the grounds and the dark woods again, hoping that she would come across something by being at a higher altitude. However, the moonlight only provided so much. She wasn't able to make out anything because of how dark it was.

She was beginning to think that maybe she should have taken Mandy up on her offer.

Taking a deep breath with her eyes closed, she let's the air leave her lips . Okay, Rachel. There is nothing out there. You are just imagining things. Rachel thinks to herself before giving one firm nod of her head in confirmation with her thoughts.

Rachel opens her eyes and takes her phone from out of her pocket. She wanted to get this call over with so she could get the heck out of there.

She unlocks her phone after waking it up then brings up Finn's name from her short list of contacts. She then raised her hand up high in order to gain a few bars after realizing that none were present. When that didn't work she began to move around on top of the large rock.

As she was doing this, she didn't take notice of the glowing pairs of lime-green eyes that slowly crept it's way from the edge of the woods and into the clearing towards the boulder Rachel was shuffling on. When the brunette finally found a position that granted her a couple of bars, she pressed the green call button her phone and then put it on speaker.

As she waited for her boyfriends to answer his phone, Rachel brought her attention away from her mobile and out towards the woods where she came upon a startling discovery; a pair of glowing lime-green eyes that began to charge towards cell "tower" as soon as Rachel gasped out a fearful, "Oh my Barbra!"

Rachel backed up on the boulder as soon as the glowing eyes disappeared, Knowing that whatever it was about to climber up the boulder.

"Look Rach, this is not a good time right not. The debates are getting really intense and—" Finn answered his phone as his greeting to his girlfriend.

"Finn!" Rachel yelled out, cutting him off. "There is a Beast out here that is about to eat me! You have to call 911 and have them send help to come and save me!" she rushed out desperately as her heart hammered in her chest.

She stood at the opposite end of the boulder from where she could hear the menacing growls coming from the Beast, and the scratching sounds that it's sharp claws made against the boulder as it struggled to climb up the rock.

"What? A beast? I don't have time for your dramatics Rachel. It's just a dog. Stop ex-exa—stop making it a bigger deal than it is." He told Rachel with annoyance clear in his uncaring voice. "Look, I gotta go." Finn said just as Rachel could see the glowing eyes of the Beast make it's way over the edge of the boulder and on top. It's eyes were mere slits now, and they were locked on the shaking form that was Rachel.

"No, wait! Finn—" Rachel cried out desperately with tears now streaming down her faces because of the intense fear she was feeling at that moment, but it was all for nothing; he had hung up.

Screw him! I'm so breaking up with him if I survive this. Rachel thought as she stared at the Beast in front of her, and right before the Beast attacked her with a loud growl as it's battle cry.


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Next Chapter: The Beats attacks!

Rae Out!