Chapter 1
The sun peers over the horizon to reveal the beginning of a dreadful event but everything seems tame and controlled. But this small group of adventurous and curious tourists has absolutely no idea what they are getting into. A small apartment is revealed through the screen of a camera that was recording. Whatever was holding the camera was moving slow toward the front door of this apartment and looks down at the door knob revealing a human hand grabbing the knob and twisting it open.
The same hand would push the door open and reveal all the lights are turned off. The person would walk down a hallway passing by several picture frames but the camera never turns to look at them. At this point the only sound that could be heard is faint footsteps; slow and quiet but hearable in such a quiet house. The camera would turn to the left to show a staircase and would continue to move towards the stairs.
Step by step the person makes their way up the stairs as quiet as possible with a creak in the stairs occasionally but nothing loud. Finally making it to the top of the stairs and walking with stealth to the end of another long hallway. The hallway steadily got darker as the person made their way closer to a door. Once they finally make it to the door, the person's hand carefully reaches for the door knob and opens the door making sure it doesn't squeak as it opens.
The camera points to several mattresses and sheets spread out all over the room. Garbage and leftovers from a party are lying around in this game room/den-like room. The camera is set down on a pool table and set up at just the right angle to catch the entire room and everyone in it including the person behind the camera. This dark haired male looks around the room making sure that there is not light making it into the room at all. He places a strobe light up in the center of the room and then plugs up his iPod into a mobile speaker system.
He fiddles with the iPod for a moment and then looks over to the camera saying the words that would ruin any kind of relationship he had with the people, "Check this shit out". He giggles and turns on the strobe light and the music at the same time. "Twist" by Korn begins blasting from his speakers immediately startling everyone else in the room. A couple girls jump up noticing the light flashing and then screamed seeing the man stand up seemingly out of nowhere and looking at everyone with an evil smile.
As he steadily got closer to the girls the lights come on and one of the other guys jumps on the camera man throwing fists as they were all convinced he was some kind of demon. Hearing "ouch! Fuck! Cut it out!" made the other guy stop as he seemed to recognize the voice.
"Eddy?" the assailant asked shocked.
"Yeah, you asshole! I was trying to get your sorry tails up! God… It's like 9:30 in the morning. We've got a plane to catch at 11!" the prankster said pushing the other guy off and holding his, now, bloody nose.
"Well you got what you deserved", one of the girls said as she was still covering herself with a comforter from her mattress. The girls weren't wearing much of anything except underwear and apparently weren't comfortable with Eddy seeing them. Eddy walks over and turns the strobe light and his music off and then runs out of the room to clean up his nose. The other guy walks over to Eddy's camera and picks it up off the pool table and carries it to the bathroom to check on Eddy.
Eddy's nose was gashed open but not broken and he had some bruises on his arms and cheek, "Shit… How am I supposed to go to Germany looking like this, Matt?" He held up a handful of toilet tissue up to his nose to try and stop the bleeding.
"Look, I'm sorry dude. You just scared the ever-loving crap out of us. You can't honestly say you weren't expecting to get jumped for that one, Ed", Matt replied, "I mean… Think of how scared Jenny and Ariel were when they heard that fucking song".
"Yeah… But I still think it was completely worth it", Eddy said as he started to laugh only to stop because it hurt his nose to laugh.
"Are you gonna be alright, dude?" Matt asked walking towards Eddy.
"Yeah… I'll just put some alcohol on this and take care of it. Just y'all get dressed and make sure you have everything packed for 2 weeks in Germany", Eddy said taking the tissues away from his face. Matt takes the camera back to the room where the girls are starting to get dressed and already had their mattress put away.
"You two hear Eddy?" Matt asked them as Jenny was putting her pants on.
"Yeah… Pack enough stuff for 2 weeks", the brunette Jenny said as she finished buttoning up her black skinny jeans.
"Why are we going to Germany again?" the red haired girl asked as she reached over the pool table to grab her shirt.
"Well… We were gonna go hiking and camp out in one of Eddy's cousin's vacation cabins maybe go sightseeing", Matt said as the camera started zooming in on Ariel's behind. He zooms back out when she has her shirt and starts putting it on.
"Who is Eddy's cousin? Would I know him?" Ariel asked straightening out the shirt once she put it on over her head.
"I don't think so. His name is Jonas (J is pronounced as a Y) and he native to Germany but seems to be very attached to Eddy", Matt explained, "They act more like brothers then cousins". Matt turns around and Eddy is all cleaned up and has a bandage over his nose since the cut wasn't that big.
"Let's go guys! We still have to go pick up Zoey and Greg!" Eddy would then walk over to Matt and take his camera back and would mess with it and turn the recording off and turn off his camera. After a while, the camera comes back on with the two girls talking in the backseat of Matt's SUV. The camera points out toward the road as the car goes down a small neighborhood.
"So, how are Zoey and Greg doing?" Matt asked as they pulled up to a house.
"Well… They broke up a while back since Greg started smoking again but I wouldn't be surprised if they end up all over each other during the trip", Eddy explained and the car turned into Greg's drive way. Matt honks the horn and then a voice is heard faintly from inside a trailer.
"Hey! I told you assholes to get off my- Oh! Hey Matt…" a skinny man with brown dredlocks down to his behind walks out with a bong in hand and waddling around like he's drunk.
"Sir… Have you been smoking today", Eddy asked from the passenger side and Greg manages to make it to Matt's window and blows smoke into the car.
"Hell yeah man… So what y'all up to?" he asked tilting his sunglasses down to check out Ariel and Jenny. Matt grabs Greg's jaw and turns his head toward him.
"We're going on that trip to Germany with Eddy and his cousin, remember?" Matt asked lightly pushing the stoner.
"Oh yeah! Hold on… I'll be right back", Greg said stumbling back to his trailer.
"Thanks for the warning…" Matt mumbled under his breath. The group of four waited for the stoned man to come back out and watched as he tripped on his own feet carrying a backpack and a bag full of food and probably drugs. He opens the SUV's trunk and chunks his bags in and jumps in the back. The camera turns to the back seat to show the two girls move to the very back seats to avoid having to sit with the smelly and dirty pot head.
"Alright! We ready to party now?" Greg asked kicking his feet up on the other chair in the 2nd row.
"Not yet, Greg… We still gotta go get Zoey, bro. Then we leave to go to the airport", Matt said backing the car up to start heading for Zoey's house. Greg froze up and took his sunglasses off as if hearing her name snapped something in his head… or… broke it. Not sure…
"Why are we going to get her?" Greg exaggerated. He started rubbing the sweat on his palms off on his blue jeans he was sagging.
"We promised we'd come pick her up for this trip. It wouldn't be the same without Zo", Eddy explained, "Surely you can understand that". The man with the Rastafarian beanie on slid down in his seat now not quite sure he's going to enjoy the trip. Eddy turns around and records the way to Zoey's house and the camera reads 10:39 am. They finally make it to a 2 story house and they honk the horn. A blonde girl wearing skimpy and revealing clothes like a mini skirt and a tube top skips out carrying a few bags.
She walks around back and opens the trunk and carefully places her bags with everyone else's. She closes the trunk and opens the back door on the passenger side and sees Greg. She grunts in disgust and crawls in the back with the other girls. Greg lets out a sigh and starts to get comfortable to try and get some sleep. The camera points to Matt and then back at the girls in the back.
"Alrighty then! Looks like we got everyone, Matt! Let's get going to the airport, son!" Eddy said starting to get excited. Everyone cheers and they roll on to the airport where the camera would yet again, cut off. The camera would cut back on as they finished gathering their bags and walk into the airport. The camera now reads 10:50 am and they are running to try and catch their plane. As the group runs in they fret and freak out but Eddy already purchased their tickets so all they had to do was go through security and get on their flight.
This process required that the camera be turned off and put in the trey to go through the checking system. When the camera comes back on, Eddy points at the schedule showing that they caught a break and their flight would not dispatch until 11:45. They got all their carry-on bags together and they all got to board their plane. Eddy records them walking down the aisles to get to their seats and occasionally Jenny's behind as she swayed her hips. Luckily enough they also got seats close to each other so no one gets lost on the plane.
More people get on the plane and they get seated. Once the plane is done boarding passengers, the flight attendants tell the passengers to turn off all electronic devices during the take off and Eddy decides it would be best to do so to save battery so he can get the good stuff later on in the trip. The camera shuts off at exactly 11:47 am.
The camera opens back in Frankfurt, Germany at 3:30 am in their time zone. Back in America it is 8:30 pm and the group of 6 is completely exhausted and wants to relax and sleep because the jet lag was too much for them. They decide to go and check a couple rooms to rest until the morning and so they check into a Hilton nearby. They check out a couple rooms and walk up to their rooms. By this time, Eddy shuts the camera down for the night and will continue this whole crazy experience in the morning.
The next morning, the camera is turned back on at 8:18 am and is carried to the door connecting the girls' room to the guys' room. Eddy walks in and gives them the wakeup call and tells everyone that they need to be ready to head out by 10:00 am to meet up with Jonas. The girls slowly get up and get ready while the guys were steady getting up and starting showers and making coffee to wake them up. The camera stays on as Matt and Eddy have a conversation about one of Eddy's crazy ideas.
"Dude… What if we had a camera that everyone could use to record where they are gonna get to go?" he said looking over at the camera and then back at Matt.
"Do you have a camera like that to give to 6 more people, Ed?" Matt asked sarcastically as he sipped on his coffee.
Eddy simply replied, "Bitch please! I'm a videographer and a photographer! Of course I have enough cameras for everyone". Matt looked at Eddy like he was stupid and set his coffee cup down.
"First of all, if you call me bitch again, I'm going to kick you in the balls so hard they come back up your throat and then I'm gonna make you eat them. Second of all, I was being sarcastic! I'm not going to carry around one of your cameras", Matt said looking over. The bathroom door can be heard opening as Greg takes a step out to ask the guys if they can toss him some clean clothes. Matt looks over to his bag and grabs the first thing he sees and throws it to Greg in the doorway.
Greg goes back into the bathroom and Eddy gets up to get one of his POV Cams. He fights with Matt about putting it on him and it takes several fast-forwardable minutes to finally get Matt to let him put the Cam on him. Matt thought it would be uncomfortable but in honesty it wasn't. He said it was like wearing a light pair of shoulder pads in football and decided it might be pretty cool idea to try the cameras.
Eventually Matt and Eddy get everyone suited up in working POV Cams and everyone walks out with their bags and returning the room keys. They call up Jonas and find out that he is waiting on them at Black Forest in Vöhrenbach, Germany. So they all rent a van and drive for 3 hours in German traffic all the way to Black Forest. The POV Cams picked up everything they were doing at all times and would be able to record everything that happens within a 12 hour period before needing to have the batteries charged again.
The group rolls up to where they were supposed to meet up with Jonas only to see German military police stop the van. Matt rolls down his window and asks what the problem is and the German officer replies that the forest is currently under serious military observation due to a few disappearances and sighting that have occurred in the forest. A red BMW rolls up behind the rented van and a taller male with blonde hair and blue eyes walks out to greet the officer.
"Offizier D.J. Sie können beruhigt sein. Diese Leute sind mit mir", he said to the officer.
"Jonas! Es tut mir leid, Sir. Ich hatte keine Ahnung waren sie Ihrem Unternehmen für die nächsten paar Wochen. Tausend Entschuldigungen", the officer said signaling the van to move on. Matt rolls up his window and starts forward Eddy looks into the rear view mirror and notices that Jonas was shocked by something he was looking at and dismissed the officer and quickly bolted into his car. Jonas's car rolls up beside the van and he tells them that they will have to park the cars up ahead and will have to walk up to the cabin since there are no roads leading up to it.
Matt agrees to this and they drive up to the parking lot, park and gather all their bags. They climb up a few hills, pass a massive tree and later a dying tree, all leading up to this luxurious cabin that Jonas owns. Once the girls see the cabin, they start running towards it and can't wait to see the inside. The guys half ass jog to catch up to them except Jonas which Eddy notices and turns to see Jonas acting suspicious.
"Are you alright, Jonas?" Eddy asked taking a couple steps toward him. Jonas would quickly turn around with a smile and reply that he's fine and that he's just keeping a careful eye out for anything suspicious. They all walk to the cabin and the girls found the key to open the door. They immediately bolt in and start checking out rooms. There are plenty of rooms in the house for them all to sleep in and there are already cameras set up to monitor the whole house inside and out.
Jonas seemed a little nervous or unsure about bringing them to the cabin but he seemed happy to get to see all of Eddy's friends happy so he was slowly becoming less worried. He shows everyone around and they pick rooms and open a few drinks to celebrate finally making it to the cabin in Black Forest. In one of the other rooms a television cuts on showing the outside monitors and it seemed that the camera facing the front of the house was having a malfunction of some kind…