Hey everyone! This is my first story although I've read multiple others, so just giving my brain some space for creativity. ;)
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In the deep dark woods of Forks Forest there are monstrous creatures that roam the shadows of the large trees and slink around the heavy marshes of dead ponds and small rivers. These creatures are very dangerous and are told to be but mere legends, passed down by a family tree that's been cursed by these beasts for many centuries, but in truth they have gone into hiding faking their extinction to fool all others into thinking that they are safe to walk their streets at night alone. Forks has become their breeding area, for their offspring to walk among other mortals and any possible hunters that still believe in their existence, but it had also become a great place for hunting. The forest is their domain and all who enter are putting their own lives at risk and therefore seen as fair game to who, or what should find them. There are some who accept their fate to become one of these monsters, but there are the few who would rather rise against their comrades and try and protect the people who dare enter the deadly forest.
With such help anyone is lucky to leave Forks Forest alive, let alone with all of their limbs still attached, but as of recent encounters with these beasts there seems to be new information that a few people are able to notice. Between sightings and actual encounters there is a small pattern that people are just recently starting to take notice of. From the beginning of spring in early March people have been sighting large creatures running on four legs throughout the town closest to the forest, then the few who live close to the surrounding area of Forks Forest have been hearing strange noises coming from the woods, particularly howling and a whispering humming noise. For those who dare enter the forests at night are never seen again after they've heard the howling, but during the day when large groups enter the forest they'll usually find the bodies mangled and almost unidentifiable by just a look.
The majority of these found bodies were male, and many of the females who enter leave no traces of their disappearance. The sightings, the disappearances, and the killings have increased tremendously from any of the past forty-eight years, for once it was only two to five people missing every two to three years, now within three weeks eight people have gone missing, but the expert says that –
"Alright Becky, enough of that already." Said an annoyed female voice. "You're starting to get on my nerve with all that book-worm talk of yours." She said again.
Becky looked up from the small book she was carrying with her as she looked up at her friend through her thick, black-rimmed glasses. "Sorry Evelyn, but you know we shouldn't even be here right now." She said worriedly. "I mean we all just arrived here to Forks two days ago and we're already breaking the rules, not only of our supervisors, but the whole town too."
Evelyn gave her friend a skeptic look and rolled her eyes. "Oh, come on Becks. You don't really believe all that garbage about there being werewolves in Forks Forest, do you?" she ducked under a low hanging branch then held it up for Becky so she wouldn't walk into it since she was looking down at her feet to watch for tree roots.
"Well don't you?" she asked. "I mean, I know it's a little farfetched but ever since we got here I've been having these weird feelings, like we're all being watched." Becky looked up at Evelyn. "You can feel it too can't you?"
Evelyn took a quick look around their surrounding area; they were currently two miles off the forest pathway and four miles away from their housing branch for their private school back in Phoenix. It was called the Red Robins Academy of Arts and it was an all girl school that taught the students Art, Music, Dance, Writing, and surprisingly Martial and Material arts. They were on their spring break vacation with their fellow class mates who happened to be in a club the school started to have the girls spend their time more productively when they didn't have school or free periods of the day. They called themselves the Red Hood Society and settled as a club of presidents and vice presidents for other school activities, and they together as a whole would plan events and curricular activities for the school, and because of all the different ages of each president they decided to make the club sound more interesting by naming it after a well known fairytale. The first decision was to call it the Little Muffet Troops, but then someone pointed out it sounded too much like a "snooty tea party" club, and that no one may want to or be afraid to join if they weren't good enough. So the best idea was to think about the school name and pick a fairytale from there; someone thought of Snow White from the Robin, but then someone else pointed out they couldn't get a logo for that so then a few people thought about Little Red Riding Hood, and how they could just have the little red hoods to identify themselves as a group to the school. The vote was unanimous and thus the Red Hood Society was born almost twenty two years in the making, and as tradition each generation of the Red Hoods would pick a new place to go for their spring break for all their hard work and effort within their school.
Evelyn looked back at Becky as she played with a brown bang hanging in her face, while Evelyn had her curly blond locks pinned back from her ears to stay out of her face. She sighed. "Yes, I do, but I have put it off as 'New Kid Syndrome'. Something you should do too, it's just because we're new in this town, and everybody will be looking at you because of it." She then walked farther into the woods when she suddenly stepped in a thick puddle of mud, getting her red cloak ends muddy as well.
She grimaced as she tugged the garment up by her knees. "And it doesn't help that these cloaks stick out like a giant flag." She muttered. Becky still looked nervous.
"But it's not just the looks; I heard the howling and humming last night from my bedroom window, and it seemed to lull me into a trance till I finally fell asleep. But not just that, but when we arrived late that afternoon and the bus drove past the forest entry, I saw three, four legged figures standing there. Watching us pass by." Becky shivered.
Evelyn looked at her friend warily. "Okay fine, the howling and the shadow could easily be mistaken for just maybe some bears or a pack of wolves too close to the forest edge, but not werewolves, they don't travel in packs. You were probably just seeing things from your exhaustion of the trip. As for the humming, your roommate is Angela isn't it? She was probably just practicing her singing in the shower or something, which is why it sounded so faint to you. Besides she isn't called the Angel Voice for nothing, it must have helped you sleep from the trip." She snorted, but then saw Becky was still shaking and she looked panicked.
Evelyn sighed again and took pity on her friend as she walked back to where she was standing and put an arm around her."Becks, if you were so freaked out about this, why did you come with me." She said gently.
Becky hung her head and didn't give Evelyn eye contact. "I didn't want you to go in alone and at least with the two of us together we won't get into too much trouble." she murmured quietly.
Evelyn smiled at her and giggled then Becky started giggling too so Evelyn took her hand and started tugging her back in the direction they came. "Come on scaredy-cat let's get back. Besides, it's starting to get dark out, they'll be wondering where we are since dinner will be ready about this time." She smiled.
Becky smiled back and nodded. "Ok, let's try and-"there was a shuffling noise to their left and they both froze in place. "D-did you… h-hear that?"
Evelyn looked around with wide eyes and shook her head slowly. "No. It was probably nothing, let's keep moving." She tugged Becky forward but then they heard a branch snap, but this time to their right.
Becky started whimpering and Evelyn pulled Becky to walk in front of her as she gripped her shoulder. "Just keep moving Becks, and don't look back, I'll be right here to move you forward." She merely whispered. Becky nodded meekly as she took slow steps forward.
They didn't hear anymore noises for a while as it continued to increase in darkness, and both girls started to relax again and walked a little faster than before. They had finally reached the path and as they were about to step onto it there was a figure standing on the edge of the trees before they hit the dry dirt. Before either girl could say anything the figure covered in shadow started emitting a low sound from its being, which eventually increased volume.
"Is…is that…humming-g?" Becky asked as her shaky hand adjusted her glasses onto her face. They both began to feel woozy and their legs were beginning to weaken every second they stood there.
Evelyn gripped Becky's shoulder tighter and pulled her back. "Slowly move to the side and we'll walk a few feet from here back onto the path." She whispered harshly. "Get moving." She said through her teeth desperately.
Becky got her wobbling knees steady and followed Evelyn's instructions, slowly moving to the side as the figure kept humming. Then the humming dropped to a deep tune, and before the girls could take another step onto the path they heard howling, and a larger shadowy creature on four legs ran right across their view to cut them off from the walkway to freedom. Becky yelped and fell back onto the ground in front of Evelyn's feet as she stared wide-eyed at the dirt path where the figure should have been standing. The low humming was still there but the figure was gone.
"Ev…Evelyn…" Becky stuttered as she shook on the spot. The howling now came from their right.
"Move!" Evelyn cried as she grabbed Becky off the ground and dragged her by her hand to run back the way they came, running blindly in front of her, Evelyn started to panic as she tried to run from the sounds of heavy panting, branches being broken behind them, and the howling coming from both sides of them. They were being hunted now.
They had ran past their stopping point before heading back and now one of the beasts had cut them off in front again, so they ran to the left and Evelyn fell over a large log, with Becky following suit and as a result her glasses fell off her face and off into the clearing just in front of them. Evelyn tried to get up first but she froze when she heard the growling right next to her ear, then suddenly something caught her red cloak and it dragged her away from Becky.
"Becky!"Evelyn screamed, jolting Becky to look in the direction in which Evelyn was being dragged out of her sight.
"Evelyn!" Becky called as she watched half-blind without her glasses as her friend was taken away from her. All became deadly silent as Becky tried to crawl out onto the open field as she searched around for her glasses helplessly; enough to drive a hunterinsane as they readied for the kill.
Becky couldn't see the up-coming danger but she could feel it, it was surrounding her and she could the deep rumbling sounds of people laughing at her, but in her panic it may have been the rumbles of an animal growling. The humming commenced once again, but much more clear in pitch and tone, and as she stood up on shaky knees her whole body wobbled and her poor vision wavered dangerously. Her body felt calm but her mind was in overdrive trying to get her body to move faster in her disoriented state, and that's when the creature struck. She fell to her knees as she started hyperventilating and crawled as fast as she could as the beast gained on her, and she had almost reached the forest edge out of the clearing when something grabbed onto her cloak tail and pulled her back. Another then grabbed her hood and flung her on her back, and she yelped in surprise, then the last stood before her in as crouching manner over her legs. The dark figure that was humming stopped and stood next to the creature on her legs and reached towards her face.
"Wh-who are you…what a-are you?" the last thing Becky saw in her blurry eye-sight was a clawed hand reaching to close her eyes as Becky let out one final scream, before the darkness settled in and the still night carried her scream through the trees as a silent wind blew by.
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