Chapter 1. Bella
Looking down upon the lifeless body, Bella bend down to her knees. The white plastic gloves on her hands as she then touched the pulse of the young boy's neck. She felt the boy's skin cold and colorless; his white-pasted face brought no life into the boy, "Dead," Bella brought her hand back.
"I knew him," Charlie's voice saddens.
"How many have died?"
"This is the third person to be missing and now found," Charlie too bends down next to Bella. Pointing his finger on the other side of the boy's neck, "See there?"
Bella followed the direction he was pointing. The other side of the boy's neck became visible to Bella's attention. Placing her fingers onto the small holes where the now dried blood probably came out of the boy's neck, "An animal?" she looked to her dad for an answer.
Charlie shrugged his shoulder, "I don't know. As a matter of fact no one knows what kind of animal could have killed this boy."
"Not even the samples from the blood couldn't be identify the attacker?"
Charlie shook his head from side to side, "Not even the blood samples solved the problem."
Bella stared down at the boy once again. If an animal didn't kill the boy, then what did?
"There's nothing we can do for the boy. Let just hope we can figure this out," Charlie stood up and Bella too stood up after him.
The evening was about the turn dark, as the other police officers were doing their part in the job. A couple of them were taking pictures of the dead boy for evidence and to solve. Others were taking notes down on their notepads. Then a stretcher came up behind Bella and Charlie. Making the stretchers come their way to the bod. The boy was picked up and placed onto the stretcher gently. The white cloth came over the boy's body, strapping him to the stretcher and took the body away from the scene. Soon the sound of the ambulance drove away until the sound faded away.
"Too clean for a person to kill a child."
"I agree too Bella. I want to thank you for coming down here. I know you weren't to thrilled about coming down here."
"Dad," Bella turned to face her father and hugged him, "You asked for help. I only came down here because you're my dad."
From the right of them, a scream came near from the woods. Bella and Charlie quickly turned their heads and saw a woman officer came running out of the woods. Bella touched her gun, ready to pull it at any minute.
"What's going on!" Charlie was the one who came forward to the cop who was running.
"How the hell should I know!" the policewoman out of breath as she bend over.
"Where's your partner?"
"My what?"
"Your partner!" Charlie's voice louder to the policewoman.
The policewoman turned her back. Her eyes widen as she then gasp, "Josh?" the policewoman looked back to Charlie, "I don't know. I don't know!"
"My team will handle this, get back," Charlie drew out his gun. "Come on!" Charlie called for his team and he run into the woods.
"Dad! Wait! You heard what he said," Bella too drew out her gun and run after her dad. Her fellow police group followed her afterwards.
In the woods, all what Bella could see was fog and the tree branches blocking her views, "Dad!" she called out. Still running and also looking around.
Look up to the now night sky, the moon wasn't out to shine her way through the thick woods, "Dad! Where are you!" her voice called out in desperate.
A scream echoed in the woods. Bella stopped of where she stood. So did the rest of her officers. Bella quickly looked around, up and down of the woods, "Dad!"
"Charlie!" an officer man called out.
"Mr. Swan!" an officer woman louder.
The scream came back. Bella looked to left and took off in a run. Pushing the tree branches out of her way. A tree branch got her foot in way, she tripped, but got up. Even at times struggled to move them out of the way to see where she was going. "Dad?" she again stopped and looked around her surroundings.
"Bella!" Charlie's voice didn't seem to far.
Bella quickly took a right with out thinking. Another tree branch caught her footing, she lean to forward and once again tripped. Please don't this now! Focus! Within seconds, she looked up and saw her dad up in a tree. However there was someone else up on the tree too. She couldn't tell though. The tree branches were in the way and couldn't tell if the figure was a shadow of a human or something else. Bella could easily tell her dad was on a thick tree branch, "Dad!" she runs towards the tree.
Kept on looking up and saw her dad struggling. Racing through her to towards him, she heard some loud grunts from her dad and someone else. Looking up again, Bella halted.
"Dad!" Bella looked up at the second she saw her dad fell off from the branch.
A loud thump was heard. Bella came into view from where her dad fell down to, "Dad?" Bella bend down and placed her dad's head onto her lap. Shaking him gently at first, "Dad?"
No response.
"Dad!" Bella jerking him to get up. She heard a snap near her. She gripped hold to her guard, held her gun in her hands, stood up and looked around. "Where are you!" yelling out. Where are you damn it! Another sound came by and she took her shot. Nothing and all there was the echo of her gun's sound. Lowered her gun down and quickly went back to her dad's side.
Lifting his head, she felt something wet on the back of his head. Bella stared down to her left hand. Thick, dark and red blood, Bella gasped, "Help! Somebody help me!" she called out as loud as she could.
"Bella!" one of her officers came into view.
"Aaron! Come and help me!" Bella pleaded.
Aaron came in running fast, "What happened to him?"
Bella looked at Aaron and then back at her dad, "I don't know."