The engine roared louder as a black and white converse pushed the pedal to the floor quickly. Trembling pale hands held onto the steering wheel with an iron grip, trying to maintain control of the racing vehicle. The day had began with such promise of happiness. The sun was out and shining with no clouds in sight from the start. It was summer so Alexis' youngest brother; Ryan was out of school and the three siblings had planned to go to the park.

Those plans changed so quickly that morning. Ryan had just finished his pancakes and Alexis was in the process of making Cody his when her little brother screamed. Surprised she turned to see what freaked him out, when Cody brought a knife down towards her. If she hadn't grabbed his wrist out of instinct she no doubt would have had a knife in her skull. One hand catching the wrist of the hand holding the blade and her other hand brushing against the dial of the stove top, before latching onto the edge to prevent being potentially burned. Amber eyes met the wild and crazed green ones of her big brother. He was talking, saying something but his voice was distorted in a sinister, demonic way she couldn't understand. Like if he was speaking a different language entirely.

Poor Ryan was frozen, helpless to help his sister and too frightened to move from where he sat. He could only watch in horror as Cody drove the knife, closer and closer to her face. She was pinned between a blade and a hot stove top. Alexis had to think fast. She was either going to take a blade between her brows or taste the scorching hot stove and blazing red pan with now, well burnt food in it. Her hand trembled as Cody put his full weight into trying to force the silver blade closer. With adrenaline pumping and her fight or flight instinct kicking in she moved her hand off of the stove and reached for the pan. Despite bumping it and burning her hand on the stove top she found the handle and swung the pan as quick and hard as she could, searing hot metal colliding with soft and tender flesh.

Cody roared in agony, the knife dropping from his hand as he clutched the side of his face, digging his nails into the burn and falling back. Taking the oppurtunity she ran to Ryan.

"Move! Ryan run!" She snapped, shocking him out of his paralyzed state as she gripped his arm, and dragged him quickly behind her.

They had made it away from their psychotic brother, had gotten into the car and drove off at full speed without a word. This had all brought the two to their current situation. Driving 90 miles per hour on a lonely road in the middle of no where, woods on either side of them, and the car's gas tank running dangerously close to empty. Both siblings were shaken, terrified of what they had experienced. But despite not knowing what to do, Alexis spoke first.

"Its gonna be okay." She told the twelve-year-old. "He's far away from us, w-we'll find the closet down and go to the police. It'll be fine, okay?" Her voice cracking, shattering any calm facade she was trying to portray.

Ryan nodded, his blue eyes wide with fear, glancing up at his sister. "L-Lexi? Are you o-okay? Y-Your hands all r-red."

She nodded, her eyes darting from the road, to the rear-view mirror, and back to the road. "I'm fine. Its just a small burn, I can't feel it." She dismissed quickly, taking a deep slow shaky breath. It was true she couldn't feel it. Her heart racing at pace she never thought was possible and the fear hell wasn't over with were the only things she could feel. The car fell back into its silence as she focused on driving, just driving and keeping Ryan safe.

The slowly rising hope she felt broke when suddenly the radio came on full blast with static, causing Ryan to scream in horror. She jumped and glanced at the mirror before letting out a scream of her own. Right on their tail was Cody. Cody was driving with that same, deranged look, right behind them. Alexis swerved the car suddenly to try and get away from him, driving between two trees.

Screams filled the car as she slammed on the breaks, trying to avoid smashing into the trees.

BANG!

The sound of a car crashing head on into a tree echoed throughout the woods. The engine instantly stopped, completely crushed in, the hood crumpled up like a piece of paper. The windshield shattered, raining glass all over them, the air bags being the only things that saved them from an instant death.

Groans of agony passed by Alexis' lips. She smacked away the cream colored bag, leaning back in her seat. The steering wheel was shoved forward and down, almost to the point of crushing her chest. Her ribs ached, no doubt a few of them broken. Glass had cut across her brow and tore into her arms, her red tank top doing nothing to protect her. Once snapped out of it she glanced over to her brother who was slumped over, his eyes closed.

"Ryan! Ryan, are you okay!?" She shouted in a panic, shaking her brother's shoulder. Ryan's black hair was hanging in his face, shards of glass littered throughout his hair, and blood sliding down the side of his face from his head.

"No no no no! Ryan please!" She begged, afraid her baby brother had been killed in the crash.

"L...Lexi?" He mumbled, slowly coming too from being knocked out. She sighed in relief and began to unbuckle herself. "Come on, w-we have to hurry. We need to get as far from the car as possible." She said, managing to tug herself free of the seat belt and attempt to open the door. Due to crashing head on the door was jammed shut.

Letting out a few curses she slowly turned to kick the already spiderweb cracked glass of the window. Hissing in pain she backed up enough to pull her knee to her chest and slam her foot to the glass. A few kicks later the glass shattered, allowing an escape route. Turning back around she began to pull herself out of the wrecked car and onto the cold ground with a solid thud.

Taking a moment to bite her lip to prevent a cry of pain shoot out she managed to force herself up to her feet, stumbling slightly. "Come on, Ryan. Your turn." She told the boy as he slowly crawled onto her seat and held out his arms for her to help pull him through. They were both banged up, in desperate need of medical attention, but they were alive and thats all she cared about.

In the corner of her eye she saw something swing towards them, causing her to cry out and fall back, pulling Ryan onto the ground with her. Cody swung the blade and hit right through the broken window. Taking this momentary pause she scooted back, taking this chance to run.

"Go! Go!" She urged Ryan, pushing him off. Ryan ran but went to turn to see if his sister was following him but stopped when he saw Cody on top of her, trying to shove the blade into her throat.

"Lexi!"

"Go, Ryan! Keep running!" She gasped, focusing on trying to get the stronger male off of her. Ryan staggered back, tears welling up in his eyes. He couldn't. She was losing the battle and he couldn't let Cody kill her. Looking around, his wide blue eyes searched for something to help with. Leaves, twigs, dirt, and a rock. A rock! That was the best thing he had to work with right now.

"C-Cody please..." She whimpered, her grip becoming weak as she tried to fight back. No begs and cries seemed to phase him. He wasn't himself anymore. The Cody she knew as a child was long dead and the big brother she finally got into contact with so many years later..seemed like a false memory. A dream or an illusion she told herself was really there. She wasn't going to win against him. Her body was weakening and she was going to die. Alexis was going to accept fate, at least Ryan had been given time to run away. Hopefully he would be able to get help and live on with this whole thing just being a bad memory of the past. She stared up at her big brother, whimpering softly in fear. His face was burned. Bright red rings already blistering on the side of his face from the pan.

Just as she was about to give in and rock smashed into the dark haired male's face, knocking him off of her. "Lexi hurry!" Ryan's voice shouted, eagerly tugging at her arm. Alexis scrambled to her feet and took off with Ryan.

Leaves and sticks cracked and snapped under their shoes as they took off like lightning, away from the destroyed car, away from their psychotic brother, and away from the road. Where would they go? Where could they hide? How far away was the next town? What were they going to do about Cody? Would he ever stop? Questions flooded the dirty blonde haired girl's mind.

The questions were jerked away when she felt something roughly grab her hair and yanking it back, nearly tearing a chunk of her hair clean out of her head. Yelping she was spun around and pushed onto the ground, cool metal sinking into her flesh an inch or two to the right of her heart.

"Lexi!"

The blade was removed and Cody slowly got off of her. She was going to die and now it was time for Ryan. Fearful Ryan backed up as Cody swiftly approached, Alexis spitting up blood as she clutched the wound.

"N-No!"

She could hear Ryan screaming, begging Cody to stop. She wanted to save him. Tears appeared in her eyes as blood slid down the corner of her mouth, nothing but icy cold washing over her. She prayed as her life drained away. "Please let this be a bad dream..let me wake up and everything be okay. Please.."

Ryan cried and shielded his face as Cody went to lash out. He prepared for to edge of the blade to dig into his skull. To slice him across the throat and suffer the same fate that had fell on his big sister. But that never came.

Cody let out a grunt of pain as a yellow handled hatchet was ripped out of his gut and with a quick swing of another older hatchet Cody was on the ground dead in an instantly. Ryan trembled as he watched a taller guy with goggles that had blood splattered across them and a mouth gaurd that made it look as if he was smiling pulled the hatchet from Cody's head.

The hooded male turned to look at Ryan, twitching a bit as he cracked his neck.

"P..Please..h..Help." Ryan chocked out, not knowing if he should be afraid of this mysterious stranger or be thankful for saving his life. Blue eyes watered as he choked out a sob. The mouth guard was pulled down as Toby looked at the boy before turning to look at the fallen girl.

Ryan soon followed his gaze and cried harder. "Lexi!" Moving past his hero he ran to the dying girl, kneeling down beside her. Lexi was breathing but barely. She had lost a lot of blood and was out cold. Her darker blonde hair, streaked with lighter blonde was tangled with leaves and some was stuck to the side of her face with blood. Her red tank top was redder now and her skin was turning more pallid every minute.

"Lexi! Lexi please wake up! W-We're okay!" He sobbed, his hands moving to cover the wound in hopes of stopping the bleeding. "P-Please..L..Lexi.." Whimpers escaped him as a crowd began to form around the pair. A man with a white mask with more feminine features, dark brown hair, and wearing a tannish colored jacket stood to the right of a extremely tall man who wore a tuxe, and was very slender. The man with a pure white face that lacked any facial features had another person beside him. This person wore a yellow hoodie and the only other features that could be seen was the full black mask with a red mouth and red eyes.

Ryan whimpered and slowly looked up at the four. "Please...h-help her." He begged.

"Help my sister, p-please! S..She's all I have left..p-please!"

Not a word was said among the group. The tallest man simply turned and seemed to stare at Cody's corpse. He knew what possessed the boy..what insanity sunk its fangs into him. It was horrible..but why? Hearing the boys pleads he looked back at the hysterical child. Why would he go after these two? Was it just being in the wrong place and time, or was there a deeper meaning to why this occured.

Ryan's eyes widened as tendrils appeared from the slender man's back and he felt, tired all of a sudden. He was started to get sleepy. "L..Lexi..." A black tendril wrapped around his sister's waist and lifted her up, placing her in the man's arms, her body limp.

Within moments Ryan fell over, fast asleep.

"What should we do with him?" The one with the white masked asked, gazing up at their leader.

"We aren't going to..just leave him here, are we?" The one in the yellow hood piped up.

"No, I want you to take him close to a town, leave him where someone will see him. When he wakes, he'll have no recollection of..Lexi..or this occurrence." He instructed and turned his back from the proxies, heading back to his mansion, deep in the woods.

With their orders given Toby leaned down and lifted up the unconscious boy in his arms, walking with the other two in the opposite direction.