DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS I USE IN THIS STORY. THERE NAMES ARE BASED OFF OF CHARACTERS FROM "Degrassi", and "Hell Girl (Jigoku Shoujo)".

Well to explain, I used the Degrassi characters, however, I just used A NAME from Hell Girl (Jigoku Shoujo). Hope that clears it up xD.

Eli, Drew, Adam, Clare, Sav and Bianca. Six of them went into the woods. Lets count how many come out.

Eli: "DAMN IT! WHERE IS THE FUCKING MAP?"

Sav: "Would you calm down? Its here somewhere…"

Eli, ballistic, turned his head at him. "HOW CAN I CALM DOWN? THAT MAP HAS OUR ROUTE THROUGH THE MOTHER FUCKING WOODS? Oh! And...NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT ALSO HAS THE ROUTE BACK HOME!" He continued digging through mounds of clutter in their tent, it was beyond obvious he was in a panic.

Clare, who had been searching down by the creek near-by, came running up.

"Did you find anything?" asked a desperate Sav, desperate that Eli wont kill anyone.

Clare nodded her head. "No, I even stuck my hands into that filthy lake to see if it was down there." she said giving a disgusted look to her wet hands covered in black, mucky dirt.

Eli was too angry to say anything. All that came out was a scoff, before he went back to tearing everyone's (including his) belongings to see if the map was hiding under someone's jacket or sleeping bag.

"Hey Bianca, why don't you come help us?" Clare asked, politely as she could edge out to the school "bad girl" aka "whore", or more commonly "slut".

"And get my hands dirty? When emo dude over there will probably find it two seconds after I stick my hands in dirt?" She responded bluntly,… and confusingly…. "No way" she said doing her hair using the reflection on her phone. Clare shrugged, not really caring.

Drew and Adam walked up. Adam was trying his hardest not to laugh, staring at Drew, who was covered in mud.

Bianca snickered. Clare turned the other way, knowing she'd crack up if she looked. Sav rose from his knees to his feet and let out a smile, the kind of smile where you know someone is about to laugh. He held it back the best he could, "Dude, what happened?"

An unhappy Drew, gestured to Adam, who was somewhat able to say in-between his laughter, "We were looking for the map…..and when Drew thought he saw it…..He didn't see the edge of the hill….and rolled into this huge mud pile…." He finally couldn't help it, the image of his jock big brother rolling down the dirty hill and landing in a mud pile, cursing and dancing around to get out came back to him.

The whole gang, except Eli (and Drew) started laughing. Eli finally stood up, "How are you all laughing right now?"

Drew interrupted, "Well, I'm not-"

"You get what I mean! Without that map, we cant get home!"

Adam's smile faded, "Eli, we can just go back to the car, and see if we can get home from there."

Eli walked closer to Adam, in a cold tone, trying his hardest not to yell at him or to slap him. "Where IS Sav's car? Adam? Where is it?"

Adam shot a few confused looks before turning his head "Sav…?"

Sav scratched the back of his head. He truly wasn't sure how to explain what he had done, "Oh, well….yeah, its uhh…..somewhere here…you know…"

Eli walked to Sav so that they were eye-to-eye. "You mean…..YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE CAR IS?"

Eli grabbed Sav by the shoulders, he was about to smack him (as that was the most he could do) but Clare ran to hold him back, yelling words she hoped would calm him down while everyone else became surprised and began looking at each other. Soon the whole gang was in a frenzy; Clare trying to keep Eli from killing Sav while he tried to explain, Bianca kept trying to get them to shut up, while Drew kept trying to make Adam help him get the mud off.

It was late October, when Connor Deslauriers read about it during his technology and computer class. Ms. Oh decided to give the students something interesting to study since it was near Halloween. She told her students that deep, in the woods lived a girl named Ai, and her father. However, when Ai was a teenager her father went missing one day and she went looking for him. It was said that she only found his clothes, and his heart…It is said that the ghost of her father haunts the woods for eternity killing every person he finds, mistaking them for his killer. Most of the class was disgusted by this but Connor found it interesting and began to spread it, the word got out to Adam who was at a science and physics club when Connor was telling Wesley.

Adam told Eli how cool it sounded and said he'd like something interesting to happen for once. Eli told him that they would go hunting in the woods over the next break to find this 'ghost'. Drew, immediately tagged along, just so he can "protect" his brother if something goes wrong. Adam, to Eli's dismay invited Sav at the last minute. Clare immediately wanted to come, hoping it would inspire a new story for her to write. And somehow Bianca heard about this while Drew was bragging during class and invited herself, wanting some action over her break.

The six of them took Sav's (father's) van, having gotten the permission he wouldn't have got if his dad wasn't so happy with his promotion at the time. They took about 5 hours on the highway, which is why they got up about 6:00 in the morning, just to get to a woodsy area. They ended up driving through a small, old-fashioned town. They asked locals about "Ai" and her father. Many people told them about there strange encounters while camping; hearing voices, getting chills ect.

One woman, an old woman around 50-60 years old, told them about her camping trip when she was younger, she and her mother and father had brought their dog with them in case they needed protection. Suddenly while they were roasting weenies, their dog stood up and stared out into the dark woods at something only HE could see. He started barking ferociously, like it was trying to seem threatening, trying to scare something off. Her father immediately packed their things and they drove home. She said she never dared to go back to those woods again.

That only interested them more.

Sav parked his car and rented a vehicle, finally heading out into the not-as-attractive as they thought woods.

The first night, all they did was complain how small the tent was for this many people. Eli blamed Bianca, saying if it weren't for her hips, there'd be plenty of room, which earned him a slap.

They traveled deeper into the woods. Sav before parking his car bought a map of the trail to remember where the car was. He parked it by a log, which they used as a bridge to cross a lake. That night, wasn't as bad, only they heard cracking noises outside there tent. Sav and Adam walked around outside, saying it was probably an animal saying there was no one out there.

That's what they THOUGHT

When they woke up to that bright blue, foggy dawn morning, they found that the rocks and sticks they used to make the camp fire from the night before were gone.

"The locals from that town are trying to scare us I bet," Clare told everyone.

On the way there while the 4 , Eli, Clare, Sav, Bianca, all talked together, Drew pulled Adam to the side to show them his "discovery".

He held up a rock "Check this out bro, its got something written on it."

Adam looked into the rock to try and read the tiny print. It was hard to walk and read at the same time, he said aloud "go home?" His eyes widened, his stomach turned a bit. "Where did you find this?" he looked at Drew with tension in his bright blue eyes.

Drew leaned in to whisper in his ear "Dude, it was right next to where my stuff was." He saw Sav looking back, giving them a 'what are you guys talking about' kind of look. Drew stood upward hiding the rock, trying his best to slip it into his pack.

When Sav turned around he looked back at Adam, "I didn't show anyone 'cause this is creepy fucking shit".

"And for me, that's a reason TO show them." Adam said as quiet as he could so only Drew could hear him.

Drew leaned in so all Adam could see (mostly) were his eyes. "Adam, don't speak of this. In fact, I'm throwing this rock into a lake when we settle camp."

Adam remained quiet, he walked a little faster to keep up with the crowd. He took out his iPod from his pocket and put on Dead Hand. It was comforting having rock music in the background of a 'haunted' forest.

The next morning was the morning they had lost the map. Everyone was in a frenzy.

About 15 minutes later, Eli accepted Sav's faulting and calmed down. Bianca didn't have to scream at everyone to shut up, and Adam agreed to help Drew wash his clothes.

This time it was Adam looking Drew in the eyes. He wanted to ask but he felt like an idiot.

"C'mon man, your 15 years old and your afraid of ghosts? That's for friggin 5 year olds! Five year old GIRLS!"

He had the battle with himself for 5 minutes until the words slipped from his lips, "Do you think the ghost of the woods took the map?"

Drew turned to him, which he didn't mind, until the whole group was looking at him. They looked at him like a little kid has just told a cute story and they were adoring him. He could tell they were trying not to laugh hysterically.

Once again he felt like an idiot. He looked down helping brush the mud off Drew's jeans. "Forget it." he muttered, adding a deep blush.

Eli chimed in ,"Maybe."

Now all eyes were all him,

"That's the reason we're out here. We're on a hunt. And if there isn't anything, The most we can do is believe in the reason that brought us here."

The six built a tent and all squeezed on top of each other as they had done for two nights so far. They all had an uneasy feeling in their stomachs. They weren't ready for what would happen next….