Chapter Two

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Jo sighed tossing aside what had to be the tenth unhelpful research book that night. She had been researching all night almost and it had to be at least after 3am.

She decided to call it a night; she had to be up early tomorrow if she was going to go away with Billy. Flicking the light off she glanced one last time at the door to the garage, and headed to bed.

Pulling up outside Billy's house, she spotted them all standing in the driveway, all ready to go.

An hour later, they were on the road, heading towards somewhere relaxing and peaceful, away from everything demonic. Or so she thought.

After a few hours of driving, they were severely lost and the car was getting very low on gas.

"Anyone know where the hell we are?" Jo asked flicking through the GPS, deciding now to turn it on and get them out of the mess they had gotten into. Crossing her fingers, they could find a town or a gas station before they ran out and were stranded.

"Nope, no clue. What does the GPS say?" Billy asked. There was silence for a few minutes, Jo frowned.

"This can't be right. The GPS says there was a gas station a couple of miles back, did you see one?" Her companions shook their heads.

"It's been nothing but desert for at least a few hours. Are you sure that's what it says?" Jo nodded. Without warning, the car stuttered and died.

"Oh great, just what we need" Leanne muttered from the backseat of Jo's charger. "Stuck in the middle of nowhere, with a car that doesn't work. In addition, no bloody idea where the nearest gas station is, a GPS that clearly has us in the wrong location, none of us saw a gas station back there, or since the last town. In fact, I am not even sure people if there are any out here even own cars! This couldn't get any..."

"Don't say that!" yelled Jo suddenly. "You never ever say that, no matter how bad you think the situation is, chances are say that, it'll only get a lot worse." Leanne shook her head.

"You can be so weird sometimes Jo, you're so…superstitious. Besides, what more could possibly, happen? This situation could not get any worse"

Suddenly there was a thump as something hard and heavy hit the side of the car, then the rear. Leanne jumped and screamed. Jo grabbed the other woman and clamped her hand over her mouth. Placing one finger over her own, motioning for the woman to be quiet.

There was another thump, as Jo quickly thought over what weapons she had within reach. Most of them were in the boot, which was out of reach of her and meant going out and facing whatever was out there.

She thought about the gun and knife hidden under the driver's seat, and the extra knife in the glove box. There was another thunk, this time on the front left hand side panel. Realizing if she was going to act, she had to act fast Jo reached over and grabbed her handgun from under the seat. Making sure the others were too distracted to notice she slipped it down the side of her boot and looked around the car, trying to work out where the creature was.

Slowly thinking over where the creature had attacked the car so far, the creature had been too quick with each attack for them to get a good look at it, which left one alternative.

"I'm going out to check it out." She told the others. "Stay here, no matter what you hear do not get out of the car" She ordered. The others nodded; she slowly opened the driver's side door and looked around cautiously, and got out, closing the car door behind her.

Pulling the gun out of her boot, she glanced around cautiously, the last thing she saw was a black blur racing towards her, letting off one shot before she saw darkness.

She awoke a while later, to find her car still sitting there and no mysterious creature to be found. Rubbing her head, she got up and opened the driver's side door. "You guys ok?" She asked. They nodded. Jo went around and popped the boot, grabbing her tool box she popped the hood to take a look. After playing around for a few minutes she asked Billy to start the car, it started perfectly and they headed for home.

A couple hours later, Jo was safely back in her own workshop, going over the events of the day, trying to work out exactly what had happened and what the mysterious creature was.

After researching over what she could remember, she decided it was time to make a call, grabbing her cell, she dialed a number she hadn't used in months and waited.

"Hey, I know. But I might need some help…where are you guys? Can you drop in? Cool. See you in a few hours"