The shadow around the trees grew darker as the evening descended on Dakota wrapping Virgil Hawkins and Richard Foley in darkness. Only a faint green glow surrounded them. Animals of the night were starting to emerge as diurnal animals were finding their ways home, much as Virgil and Richie were trying to do.

Both teens were currently worn out; they had been walking since 4:30 pm and it was now nearing 8 pm.

The dark haired teen paused for a moment. "Hey, Rich. You have any idea where we're heading?"

The bi-spectacled boy stopped next to his best friend and sighed. "I can tell you where we're trying to go, but I have no idea where we are going."

"Uh-huh." Virgil slumped down leaning against a tree. "That's what I thought. So how we getten out of here?"

Richie took a seat next to his friend. "What are we going to do when all the wild animals come out? Or what if we never find our way out? Or some bang ba-?"

"Rich." Virgil grabbed his partner's shoulders. "Calm down, bro. It's cool. There isn't anything out here."

"Yeah. You're right, V. There couldn't possibly be any wild animals in a forest at night." Richie replied dripping with sarcasm.

"What's your problem?! I was just trying to calm you down!" Virgil crossed his arms and turned away from the other.

Richie stood up and walked away from where Virgil was sitting. "Excuse me for not wanting to get eaten!"

"And excuse me for not wanting to get panicked!" Virgil said walking away in the opposite direction.

"Get panicked! V, if you haven't noticed we're lost in the middle of a dark forest at night! How can we not get panicked?!" Richie threw his arms up in a questioning, angry manner.

"We," Virgil said as if to emphasize he was only talking about Richie, "could start by not talking about wild animals and rouge bang babies!"

"We'll if that's the way you feel." Richie turned away from Virgil.

"It is. In fact," he turned towards the blond boy, "You can get out of here by yourself!" Face burning with rage, the dark teenager pushed past his (former -for the moment) best friend.

"Fine! I'll be out of here before you can... can find a tree!" Richie screamed extremely flustered.

"That didn't even make sense!" Virgil shouted over his shoulder still walking away.

"It doesn't have to!" Richie huffed and walked in a 90 degree angle from the direction Virgil was heading.

"I don't need him. I'll show him I can get out of here without his help." Richie started mumbling to himself. "I'm a genius after all. I'll be out of here before night fall."

Ignoring night fell half-an-hour ago. Richie picked up a stick and started whacking at trees with it continuing to mumble to himself.

The forest was pitch black making it very difficult to see as he attempted to navigate through the dense trees. This was a task the blond boy was failing at. He ran into every tree in his path and the fact that he had dropped and stepped on his glasses ten minutes ago did not help.

An owl hooted in the distance startling the teenager. "Ah, what was that?!"

There was a shuffling in the bushes. "V, is that you? If it is, that isn't funny."

Richie sat down on what he assumed to be, or really hoped to be, a fallen tree. Sighing the young genius started reprimanding himself. "Some genius. I should never have made Virgil mad. He, at least, has electric powers where he could shock the creatures. Or use the electricity as a light. I really am an idiot."

He put his head in his hands, elbows on knees, closing his eyes and once again sighing. "Virgil, where are you?"

A pair of dark green eyes was watching him from the top of a tree. The eyes only vaguely resembled something human and were certainly malicious.

For a moment the forest grew dead silent. The moments to follow would be hectic.

a/n This isn't really the dirction I planned on it going, but I really more or less just planned on it going. There will be some action in the next chapter followed by what I hope will be fluff. Thank you for reading. Please review and tell me if Virgil and Richie are OOC because I really don't want them to be. BTW if you have any ideas as to where you want this to go, then I'll look at suggestions. Gladly. :)