Chapter 8:
Lost
Fear fell over them as they looked into the dark woods in the direction of the growl.
Cloe gripped Cameron's arm. "Was that Big Foot?"
Cameron shook his head quickly although even now he was unsure. "Of course not. It was just a story. Right Felicia?"
Felicia nodded although now she was unsure. "I thought so...but I've never heard growls like that here before."
"You guys are being ridiculous, there's nothing there," Ethan said trying to stay calm. "There's nothing there and I'll prove it." He grabbed a flashlight and stood up.
Dana stood up with him grabbing his hand. "Ethan, you can't!"
"There's nothing there Dana. I swear." He headed in the direction of the growls.
"Well...I'm going with you then." She didn't want to go into the woods but even more she didn't want Ethan to go into the woods and turn into another Big Foot...or worse.
Sasha went with them. "I'm going too. I want to see for myself what's out there." She was never one to be afraid so easily and she wanted to prove to everyone that there was nothing to be afraid of. She didn't buy this whole Big Foot thing for one second.
"They're goners," Cloe said once they disappeared.
The three of them went into the woods by the light of Ethan's flash light. Sasha and Ethan walked confidently looking around to see if they'd find anything. Dana however was terrified and she gripped Ethan's arm as tight as she could.
"Don't cut off the mans circulation Dana," Sasha said with a smirk.
"I'm just...trying to make sure I don't trip," Dana lied.
"Baby there's nothing here," Ethan said shining the flashlight in different directions. "It's those damn stories that have everyone worked up."
"I guess we can head back now. There's nothing to see here," Sasha said.
They turned around to go back but didn't end up back at their campsite.
"We should have been back by now," Sasha said.
"Maybe it's that way," Ethan said pointing the flashlight in the opposite direction.
"We just came from that way."
Ethan pointed it in another direction. "That way then."
"Damn it we're lost!" Sasha said.
"Oh no, we can't be lost!" Dana exclaimed.
"Alright, just calm down. I'll get us out of here. I say we go this way," he said pointing the flashlight in yet another direction.
"You got us lost last time genius," Sasha said. "We're going this way," she said leading the way in a different direction.
*WW*
Back at the campsite everyone else was getting worried.
"He have been gone for 15 minutes. What do you think happened to them?" Yasmin said getting very worried.
"They probably got eaten by Bigfoot," Cloe said.
"I think they're lost," Jade said standing up. "Someone's got to go in and find them." She looked at Dylan. "You coming?"
"Me?" Dylan said definitely not wanting to go.
"Yeah you. Are you scared?" She said with a smirk.
He wouldn't let her win the bet that easily. "Of course not. Let's go."
The two of them grabbed a flashlight and ventured into the dark woods.
"They came in this way so they couldn't have gotten far," Dylan said.
*WW*
Ethan, Dana, and Sasha had been gone for a long time and there was also no sign of Jade and Dylan either. Those left at the campsite were starting to get worried.
"That's it, someone has to go in and find them," Yasmin said.
"But we'll get lost too," Cloe said.
"Felicia knows her way around these woods better than any of us. With her I'm sure we'll be able to find them," Cameron said.
"We should be able to. Next time we're not letting anyone go in alone," Felicia said leading the way into the woods.
They walked for a while with no sign of them. "This is hopeless!" Cloe said.
"No it's not," Felicia said. "I think they might have gone this way. It's easy to get turned around right here."
They followed her and then Yasmin spotted something that looked like a footprint on the ground. "Hey what's that."
Felicia shined the flashlight on it. It was a really big foot print.
"Felicia, do bears have feet that big?" Cameron asked nervously.
"No, bears have big feet but definitely not that big..." Felicia said, her voice growing more full of fear by the second. "Guys, we've got to get out of here."
*WW*
Meanwhile Ethan, Dana, and Sasha were still very lost.
"Guys, are we going to die in here?" Dana asked feeling absolutely terrified.
"No one's going to die Dana," Ethan said comfortingly although he was growing increasingly worried himself.
Suddenly Sasha noticed something. "Hey, I see a light!"
"That must be the campsite."
Dana was focusing on something else. "G-Guys..."
Ethan and Sasha looked where she was pointing. In the tree there were eyes that seemed to glow and class gripping the tree. They stared in horror then they screamed.
"Run!" Ethan exclaimed. They ran as fast as they could towards the light.
*WW*
Jade and Dylan felt like they were hopelessly lost. They went in direction after direction but it seemed to get them nowhere. It was like they were going in circles.
"We're never going to get out of here," Dylan said as he looked around at the dark scary woods.
"If I die, my ghost will haunt Ethan forever." Every second she expected something to jump out at them.
Dylan saw something ahead of them. He couldn't tell what it was because it was so dark. "Hey Jade, shine the light over there."
She did and what they saw terrified them more than anything else. It was tall, covered in fur, had claws and fangs, and glowing eyes. It was bigfoot!
The two of them didn't even think they just screamed and ran as fast as they could!
