They were lost. They didn't know which path to turn down. Stuck out here, in the woods, in the cold damp of night, with no shelter, no light and no food. They weren't going to last very long if they didn't find a place to hide and soon. And the moaning behind them was getting louder.
"Kurt," Blaine whispered into the dark forest of trees surrounding them, trying to keep his voice low to not be heard by those monsters, "this isn't working. We're lost, what are we gonna do?"
"I don't know," Kurt reached out to hold Blaine's hand, he couldn't really see his friend in this darkness, "but we have to keep moving, they'll catch up to us if we don't."
Kurt went to move forward again, but Blaine remained standing and tugged his hand out of Kurt's grasp, forcing his friend to stop and look back at him, even though he couldn't really see him that well in the dark.
"But we don't even know where we are." Blaine hissed out and made to gesture effortlessly around them, unfortunately Kurt couldn't really see what he was doing but he heard it.
Kurt huffed out a sigh and crossed his arms, standing and staring at his friend incredulously, which Blaine also couldn't see but he knew Kurt well enough by now to take a guess at how he looked.
Blaine shook his head and reached out a fumbling hand to clasp the front of Kurt's jacket gently, not comfortable with even a foot of separation between them in the dark right now, and pulled himself closer to his best friend. The moaning behind them only growing louder the longer they remained unmoving.
"Kurt, we need a plan," Blaine said quietly, as his friend grasped his arm with his own hand, "we can't keep just wandering around hoping for the best."
"It's worked so far." He answered in a quiet and stubborn voice.
"And look where we are right now," Blaine said almost frantically, "we are lost, and any minute now we're going to be eaten."
Kurt gestured for Blaine to hush and he looked around wildly as Blaine raised his voice a little, worrying that his best friend's slightly raised tone would attract those monsters straight to them. Hands shaking a little he moved a closer to Blaine, his friend doing the same.
"Kurt we need a plan right now." Blaine said in a hushed voice but it was still pretty demanding.
Kurt didn't know what to say, he remained silent until he heard his friend sigh and start moving, pulling Kurt along this time by the sleeve of his jacket. Kurt still looked around as they moved, stepping up beside Blaine to walk with him instead of behind him, they had more chance of getting separated if they weren't together.
They appeared out of the trees into some kind of clearing, able to see around them a little better once the trees weren't blocking the moonlight anymore. Blaine dropped Kurt's sleeve as they looked around for some sign of where to walk to next, but everything around them was all the same, trees lined everything.
Blaine stood thinking for a little while, then made a decision of which way they should move and gestured to Kurt to follow, as they headed through the trees directly in front of them, the dense shrubbery became even thicker, blocking out even more light than before. All they had to count on now was their sense of hearing and touch.
They had reached for each other's hands again, best way to keep track of the other when you couldn't see a centimetre in front of your own face. The moaning behind them was still a ways off but they would prefer to be out of this wood so that they had some kind of directions on where to go.
They couldn't run here, it was too dark and too dangerous, they could run in to one of those things, they could trip and fall, they could run into something and knock themselves out. So all they could do was try to keep a steady pace, hands stretched out in front of them a ways to feel for trees just so they wouldn't bump into any.
There was a rustling and a loud groan in a bush to the right of them, but they didn't stop they kept walking silently, just picking up their pace a little, to put that groaning behind them.
Just when they thought they would be stuck in those trees forever, they came upon an opening that lead to a little clearing just before a field of grass. They could see now that they were out, but still that groaning was behind them so they kept moving until they reached the grassy field.
Blaine turned to look behind them, at the dark woods they had emerged from, seeing one of those rotten creatures come stumbling out of it, the cause of the loud groans following them the last few yards, he grimaced slightly at the state of this one.
The decay seemed to take fast with these creatures, skin starting to turn a sickly pale green shade with black edges to it around the extremities, skin beginning to soften and loosen, some peeling away to reveal decomposing flesh and muscle underneath. It was the smell that was the worst thing about these awful beings, the smell of rot and decay almost choked the air when they were around, even the strongest of stomachs wouldn't be able to stand it for long.
It stumbled over a little verge on the edge of the wood, and went crashing down to the floor. Trying to right itself to stand back up looked like quite the task for this one. Kurt was frowning at it too, Blaine could see Kurt's mouth twist into a snarl in disgust.
They didn't have anything to kill it with, so they couldn't get rid of it right then. It seemed like a slow one though, easily lost at the pace they had been walking. Blaine turned to Kurt and gestured to keep walking out in this field, but Kurt shook his head quickly, pointing out over the grassy expanse to something at the back of the vast field. There were more of them up there, easy to see now with the moonlight.
He shook his head in defeat, shrugging his shoulders slightly in Kurt's direction as he watched his friend's mind start working to formulate another plan.
They still had nowhere to go.
Blaine kept his eye on the creature behind them as Kurt stood thinking for a minute or two, they would have to move soon, if they didn't want the disgusting monster to catch up to them.
He was just about to tell Kurt that they had to move, when some kind of explosion sounded in the distance and they saw light flood over the area quickly, watching some flames appear over the trees they had just escaped from. The flames seemed pretty far away, but the explosion could only mean other people were around.
Blaine and Kurt watched as the rotten creature that was following them turned back around at the noise and started following the light back into the trees. Blaine turned to see across the field to the other horde to see if it had attracted them too. There were a few starting to move across the field in their direction so it probably had.
Kurt and Blaine glanced at each other quickly before deciding to go investigate the explosion sight too, but not through the woods this time, they didn't really want to come across any of those creatures in there. They decide to walk the long way around the trees, trying to see if there were any more little shortcuts they could take that didn't involve traipsing unarmed through the darkness again.