"You know." Topher said out loud, spinning on his heel to face Shawn. His previous fear and anger seemed to have disappeared completely.

This was the only moment that Shawn bumped into Topher due to not paying attention to looking ahead of him.

"Huh? What?" Shawn asked, taking his headphones out to properly give Topher his full attention.

Topher gave him an eyebrow raise to an arguably confused guy in front of him.

"You never struck me as one to wear headphones." Topher said

"It's surprisingly calming." Shawn answered "Despite them drowning everything out…. Which is probably why they are calming I guess?"

"Look at you, enjoying something for once." Topher said completely amused Shawn only rolling his eyes.

"What is it you wanted to tell me?" Asked Shawn

"This completely feels like this one movie I saw a few years back." Replied Topher "Kinda mad that I didn't think about it earlier."

"You were pretty mad earlier. And a movie?" Shawn asked

"Yeah a movie. You might not enjoy them, but I still can't shake it off. The feeling that I've seen this before I mean." Topher rambled "Just look at us. Four boys, train tracks that are on some way too big of a height to be safe and we're looking for something huge. All we need is a jerkass older brother and equally jerkass gang of friends to be chasing us to seal the deal."

All Shawn did was raise his own eyebrows, wondering why in the world the person in front of him decided now out of all times to talk about a movie in the middle of a train track. Especially if he couldn't even remember the title of the movie in the first place as well as every minor complaint of not being chased by a gang. During this time, over several hundreds of feet behind them that should have taken them several minutes to catch up with the other two were Max and Beardo. Still slugging away at going with a very slow pace due to Max still crawling, Beardo having his patience being very much tested at that moment.

Nothing seemed to have changed at the pace of Max and it also looked like nothing was changing his mind for hurrying up at the time. In fact, it seemed completely possible to some people that Max slowed down to an even slower pace than before. If something like that was even possible, Beardo looking up at and saw that both Topher and Shawn had stopped in the tracks, more than likely assuming that the two of them were waiting for the other half of the team to eventually catch up with them. And Beardo played every mental game that he could think of to occupy his time for the past couple of hours. That included going over some math and a very single person version of I-Spy. Though he did think he saw some smoke behind a bunch of trees that were long behind the group. Out of sheer curiosity, Beardo bent down to feel the tracks to confirm his fears as another look behind him, seeing black and grey billowing smoke coming closer and closer to the group, Beardo standing up very quickly and with a very scared look on his face. With one very large shout in the one and only time that the other three would ever hear him like that, giving them cause to think that something was wrong.

"TRAIN!" He yelled, getting the other two ahead to whip their heads to his position as his voice carried over the canyon.

The train's horn announcing its presence and it officially moved its way around the corner into sight. Topher and Shawn's faces losing a lot of blood as they saw it.

"Oh shit." Max said crawling faster as only an idiot would do in this situation.

"Move it man!" Shawn ordered Topher, who already started his run. Honestly not needing any sort of order or motivation to do so.

"Get up Max, damn it get up!" Beardo yelled very uncharacteristically, dragging the other sixteen-year-old to his feet. "Move!"

It only took a few moments of Max actually running only to trip and start crawling again to the dismay of one very angry Beardo.

"Shit Max." Beardo yelled, getting down to where Max fell in a vain attempt to yank him back up again for a run, having some trouble doing so. "Get up! Run!"

"I don't wanna!" Max whined, the other missing what he had to say next

Beardo turned around to see that the train gained a lot of ground, if the surrounding noise and motions on the track didn't tell that in the first place, and was now very close to reaching the pair. The horn blasting away as it rapidly approached.

"We're gonna die damn it! GET UP!" Beardo screeched

And with that Max finally sprang up to his feet and started running towards to safety with Beardo keeping up with the other with ease. Topher and Shawn practically plowing ahead much farther ahead when they saw that a safe place to move towards was in sight, well away from the fast approaching train. Shawn sneaking a very fast peek at said train and its current location compared to him and Shawn, focusing back to running as he was before.

Taking only less than a minute to reach a good plot of land to rest at, Topher and Shawn wasted no time getting into position to whip around, seeing that Beardo and Max were still running and lagging behind despite the good motivation to go faster looming behind them.

"Run! Move your ass!" Shawn shouted at Max

"Come on! Run!" Topher gritted his teeth as he said it.

"Faster! Go faster!" Beardo yelled at the top of his lungs.

The train at that point was practically breathing down the other two of the team members' necks. Pretty much drowning all of the yelling and orders to move faster as the scene continued its course. More horn blaring the usual warning to get out of the way, as much good as it could really do at this point if anyone was going to be honest with each other. Beardo only having a split second to move into action, when he saw the opportunity to save the both of them when he grabbed Max and flung the two of them off of the train tracks and down on some very rocky terrain as the train flew right by them. Topher and Shawn's hearts freezing as they saw what happened on the other side of the tracks. Once the train moved out of the way, the duo ran to check up on the damage only to see that the others were only coughing from the dust that was kicked up. Other than that, they were unharmed. The hearts that were in the pits of their stomachs were quickly rising to their proper places. The four were quiet for a few seconds to catch their breaths when Topher was the first to speak and break the silence.

"Well we should have taken the train. Could have made the trip faster." He said giving a small, weak and very awkward chuckle.

The guy getting a well-earned glare from the other three after he spoke. Only making the chuckling a lot more worse than it already was.

After several minutes of the four catching their breaths, they decided that they may as well camp there for the night. As it seemed like a better choice due to what happened to the four of them minutes earlier, two of them especially. The next morning started as normally as it could have been and for that they wished for. They woke up around the same time for once, going to their bathroom duties, ate and made their days game plan. Something simple and straightforward; keep on going with their chosen path, keeping off the train tracks this time around and updating Chris or Hatchet on what just transpired the day before, in a couple of hours maybe. Especially the train and the near-death experience that two of them found themselves in. With the quick meeting over and done with, the four decided to go on and start the long walk.

None of them really felt like talking to each other at the moment. The group having a very straightforward walk through the woods. Most of their morning was spent doing this as there was really not too much for them to do at the time, or even to talk about. The line was pretty much like it was on the train tracks. Topher led the way, followed by Shawn, a non-crawling Max and then Beardo. Much to the gratefulness of the other three that Max was on two legs rather than hands and knees, not holding up anyone that would potentially be behind him. The hours went by and the four kept on their hike. The sun though was still blazing in the sky, as much as it can be seen in the woods and the trees. At least it seemed that way to Beardo when he looked around from at one point, then it seemed like a blink of an eye it was night. He then blinked, stopped where he stood and looked around as best as he could. It was still the woods, the same one that he and the others were walking through just a few minutes ago. Except for the very obvious lack of obvious light.

It also looked like the other three stopped in their tracks to look around in confusion at the sudden darkness that they found themselves in, it only took a few seconds before the four decided to take action. Shawn whipping out the radio in order to call Chris to tell him about the situation that they found themselves in. During this time, Topher took out his flashlight first with Beardo and Max following suite with theirs. Mainly pointing them in several directions to double check their area to see that it was truly the same place they were previously in, minus the daylight. When their location checked out, Max and Beardo concentrated on Shawn and Topher. Shawn seemingly nearing the end of his update with Chris.

"All right, will do. Spade out." Shawn replied, putting away the radio before looking over at the rest of the group. "Chris says that we should camp out here for a bit until this thing clears over. If it clears over."

The other three nodded in unison and pointed their flashlights in any potential directions that will take them to some sort of place to camp out and wait until the sudden night leaves. Eventually finding a place in the woods that looked like it resembled a path and took it. Only having a few minutes for them to walk down it and finally finding a decent place for them to stay for the time being.

During the meantime Chris was making a frantic call to his partner in crime Hatchet. Where he was it was broad daylight, which obviously made the call from Shawn that much more frightening for him to hear as an update on top of that there was a tone in Shawn's voice that told Chris that there may have been something else that Shawn wanted to say but for whatever reason did not say it. Which made him a lot more worried than he thought he could actually get.

"Eagle One to Little Wolf. Come in Little Wolf." Chris said

A few seconds passed before Hatchet's voice came over the radio.

"This is Little Wolf, what's up?" Hatchet asked

"Shawn just called for an update and it's possibly a bad one." Chris said

"Really? What in the world does Shawn consider bad?" Hatchet said "Zombies?"

A brief pause passed, then Hatchet's voice came over the radio again with a more straight forwards tone.

"There better not be any zombies on the island." Hatchet stated

"No, it's not zombies." Chris replied "The found themselves in perpetual night."

"Not good." Hatchet frowned

"Nope." Chris agreed "I told then to find a place to hunker down and see if this whole thing blows over."

"That's a pretty big if Chris."

"I've got a feeling that this one is gonna pass."

"If you say so."

"Anyways, that's the major update. Though I have a feeling that Shawn wasn't telling the whole story."

"Huh. You'd think that Shawn would be the honest one. Oh well."

"Yeah. Eagle One out."

"Little Wolf out." Hatchet said, his side going out.

Chris put away his radio almost immediately on his ATV. Somewhere that was of course easily grabbable if he ever needed it for whatever reason, and revved up his ATV that was his best companion for the past solid week and a half, other than Hatchet's voice that came over the radio whenever they needed to talk. As the ATV motored down the chosen path, his thoughts of course had to go to the past day's events, what Shawn told him and what he didn't tell him, overall frustration that the Bear had not been found as fast as they could find it.

"Is that Bear planning something?" Chris thought "That would be new. And worrying."

He furrowed his brow with worry and anxiety. "Maybe I'm over thinking this. I hope."

Back with the four, the darkness still loomed over them. Thankfully they managed to put up something that resembled a camp site, despite the limited amount of light the group had. Making a decision that two of them would prove light from the flashlights at any time as to not waste all four batteries at once, while the other two made the camp, making the already tough job go a little bit faster. Shawn trying to do his best in this situation, snapping at him and Topher on occasion to stay on track. Eventually the other two flashlights went off and the four of them decided to at least get some sleep, if not some sort of rest if they couldn't drift off and wait this darkness as Chris suggested they do. Topher and Max made attempt to entertain themselves as best as they could think of.

"I spy with my little eye..." Max started

"Darkness. It's darkness, it's always gonna be darkess!" Topher snapped "Because we're suppose to be conserving our battery power!"

"Oh God, shut up!" Groaned Shawn, tired of the argument and snapping from Max and Topher.

"Geez, sorry for trying to entertain myself." Max said completely hurt and offended.

Beardo just gave a sigh that he wanted to keep to himself. For all that they went thorough several hours ago, one would think that they would be closer for it, but he thought wrong it seemed. So, he just closed his eyes and tried not to listen to the three others arguing with each other, as hard as that was to do. Attempting filter out the other three to focus on something else to listen to, despite what silence that surrounded them at the moment, it was almost unnatural when nothing else was going on he thought. What could be heard could be the occasional late-night sparrow going from tree to tree, crickets that came out of nowhere and even bats flew by the so-called campsite, Beardo falling asleep despite it all.

The next morning was full of daylight for the joy of all four, it also brought a very big surprise for the group, it started normally, as much as for what the four had experienced compared to the last couple of days. They downed some berries that Shawn found in the forest and after that the pretty much immediately made their way to clean up the camp to move out. It was when the four decided to take a few minutes to chat when they saw it. The Bear was the one thing that the four mostly talked about, the one thing that they were looking for the past couple of days, potentially staring them down and analyzing them. Something that was quite worrying to the group in all honesty. Until it showed up a second time in front of them in a few days.

"Radio first." Shawn suggested first

"We should try and catch the Bear first." Topher said

"Are you crazy?" Said Shawn "It's a Bear, a mechanical Bear, but still a dangerous one."

"There are four of us and one of it." Pointed out Topher "I say we go for it."

"Well whatever we do we should we have to do it fast. That Bear does not have infinite patience." Max said. Both he and Beardo the only two ones who hadn't taken their eyes off of the Bear since it first arrived.

Beardo glared at the three as they devolved into an argument about their next move. Max being the only one that hade a major point of the three, surprisingly. The first thing that Beardo did after having enough of the arguing, was the dumbest thing in his sixteen years of life. He ran at the Bear. At first the three teammates didn't notice what he was doing at first, until he was clear from the group, the others finally yelling at him to get back at the group and safety. Beardo eventually tuning out the three others out as he got closer to the Bear. When he finally got several feet to the Bear, it opened its mouth and roared, and that was it. A small bit of red colour light 'hit' Beardo and that was it for what he saw if his current position and his teammates, the last thing he heard of them was scared screams.