Chapter 1- hoax?
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Avery walked into the room just as her father got ready to leave. Her father's laboratory technician stood in the middle of the room trying to stop a black haired boy from touching the saber-tooth fossil. She thought he was cute but she currently had a boyfriend at the moment. Avery didn't tell her dad though, he never liked her having anything to do with the opposite sex.
Avery Cutter was adopted but that made no difference her father loved her no different.
"Annd, where are we going?" Avery asked standing next to her father who was packing a bag.
"We are not going anywhere. You are staying here until we get back." Nick told her as he started to head out the door. He brushed past his daughter and walked towards Stephen. She turned around and stared at her father.
"I am going where you are going. There's no way you are leaving me behind again. So where are we going?" Avery had a Scottish accent like her fathers, which tended to deepen when she was really excited. She knew that her father would be gone for a while as he was packing some spare shirts into his pack.
"We're going to check out a monster in the forest of dean before the government tries to cover it up." The black haired boy told her excitedly. His eyes gleamed, making Avery believe that he was excited by the weird and unknown. It also made her believe that he was a conspiracy nut.
"Okay… who are you?" Avery said crossing her arms behind her back. She stole a glance to Stephen who stood there with a smirk on his face. So I guess that he is telling the truth about where we are going, oh boy. Avery thought turning back to the black haired boy in front of her.
"Connor temple, and you are?" he replied to her earlier question.
"Avery Cutter." Avery looked Connor up and down taking in his appearance. He was an inch or two smaller than her dad, with pale skin and gleaming brown eyes. In one word he looked… innocent.
"Okay I'm all set let's go." Nick said from the top of the stairs. He had his bag slung over his back and a look on his face Avery could not interpret.
"I'd just finished my rounds when I caught a glimpse of it on the monitor." The Guard told them as they checked out the damaged truck. There were deep gashes in its side that looked like claw marks, but they were too big to be done by any predator.
"Why are we here Stephen?" Avery grabbed his arm and they fell behind the others. "I know dad wouldn't just check out a sighting like this on a whim."
Stephen knew better than to try and lie to Avery. She was too similar to her dad as they gave the same piercing look that could easily make you crumble.
"Where here because Cutter thinks he might find some clues as to why Helen disappeared."
"Mum disappeared 8 years ago. I want to find her as much as you and dad want to, but this isn't the answer." Helen wasn't Avery's mother by birth, but she was in her life for a long as she could remember. Helen never resented her and treated her as her own daughter.
"This is a Goose chase, there is nothing here." Avery said trying to convince him. They once came to the forest of dean a year ago for a sighting similar to this one, but that was a hoax set up by a couple of the students Nick failed.
"That may be true, but we can still give it a look." She let his arm go and they walked forward.
"Can you imagine how much force it took to rip this thing open? If you want my opinion, I think it's…" Connor trailed off as Stephen picked up a dead chicken while Nick and Avery gave him an amused look. "You don't, do you?"
Stephen walked over to the truck and examined the gashes. "Well, if I found these gouges in the wild, I'd be certain we were looking for a large predator."
"But we're in the forest of Dean." Nick said. He walked towards the forest as the guard talks about what he saw. Avery followed and saw something that was very hard to fake.
"Well, there's blood." Stephen thought that the blood belonged to the chicken. It would be easy to fake that the blood came from an animal.
"Stephen. Come and give me a logical explanation for this." Nick said over his shoulder as he stared at the fence that separated the lot from the forest.
"It's a hoax, obviously." Stephen catches up to Nick and stops as he too sees the twisted metal fence. Connor stops behind them.
"Or not." Avery mutters.
"Just a difficult one to pull off." Stephen says skeptically. He shares a confused look with Avery before they looked ahead.
"Can I Say something?" Connor asks.
Nick ignores him and walked closer to the fence leaving them behind.
"Is he alright?" He asks staring at the professor who walked in a daze.
Stephen told him about Helen. "Helen Cutter came to this area eight years ago to investigate a creature sighting. She disappeared in the forest."
"The body was never found. Just a rucksack. No blood, no clues, nothing. She just vanished." Avery continued in a blank voice. She held back tears refusing to look at any of them. She walked forward towards her father and held his hand.
Nick smiled at her before taking a deep breath. Maybe they will find something now.