Chapter 10: Taken
Eleven days prior
Just as the sunrise was about to rise, Mulder began to inspect what caused Scully's tent to collapse the night before. After thoroughly inspecting the damaged tent, the agent noticed that the poles were snapped in half. "Morning, Mulder," called a sleepy red head as she climbed out of the other tent. "Morning, Scully. Could you come look at these poles? Is it just me or did these poles look something intentionally snap them? I see some nail marks," stated Mulder. Scully went over to the damaged tent and inspected it. After taking a closer look at the broken tent poles, Scully noticed that there was a small hair caught around one of the poles. "Hey, Mulder. Take a look at this. Doesn't it look similar to the hair we found back in town?" questioned Scully. Mulder surveyed the hair and nodded in agreement. "Well, Scully, since we are already out a ways, we might as well finish the hike to figure out what's going on. I can keep watch at night," paused Mulder, "Well, at least continue on with the investigation." "Alright then. Let's get moving." The two agents hurried to clean up camp and head off to search the trail.
After hiking for quite some time, Mulder stopped abruptly. "Mulder, what is it?" "Look at the view! It's…. It's gorgeous!" exclaimed the tall agent. Scully stopped and began to look at the view. "You know what, Mulder? You're absolutely right!" responded Scully. The two found a rock nearby and sat down to enjoy the view. "Hey, Scully!" "Yeah, Mulder?" "Isn't this breathe taking?" "It sure is." "And do you know what else?" "What?" "I see something moving over there in the field!" Scully, caught off from Mulder's comment, quickly looked over to where he was pointing.
Sure enough, there was something moving and Mulder started to chase after it. "Come on, Scully! It looks suspicious. Plus, it might have something to do with the case!" called Mulder. Scully hopped off the rock and began to chase after Mulder and whatever that something was. Mulder ran as fast as he could to the other end of the field, but was able to catch that person. Scully was able to catch up shortly after and at that point, Mulder was already searching the ground. "Mulder, what was that thing?" asked Scully. Mulder, still examining the ground, looked up at Scully and responded, "I don't know about you, but these footprints look oddly familiar. You won't believe me, but I'm pretty sure that we are dealing with Bigfoot." Scully, turned away to try to process what Mulder stated when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Thinking that it was Mulder, Scully was about to respond when rapidly and quietly, she was picked up and being taken away from the creature that was sighted earlier. "MULDER!" Upon hearing his name, Mulder turned to look for his partner. All Mulder saw was a creature running away, carrying Scully. "SSCCUULLYY!" cried Mulder. The kidnapped agent and the creature disappeared into the trees. Mulder dashed after them in hoping to catch up and retrieve Scully. Not noticing a tree root, Mulder tripped over it having his head hit the ground head first and was knocked out.