"I want you to do a recon for me. It should be simple, go in take a peek, and high tail out of there. You'll have a week to learn as much as you can." He says.

Sure. Simple.
Not.

After getting debriefed my team and I got ready to head out to a forested area. Why there? Well as you heard, recon.

The most simplest thing can go wrong with a snap of a twig in the deathly silence of the woods, making the animals head turn towards it from a mile away.

With the trees tightly knitted together made it hard to see past them, so when we heard the snap, we all turned our head to the left instinctive to spot what or who made that loud noise. Signaling to go left where the vibration came from and the three men followed me, till we heard another blow of a snap closer and to our right this time.

Startled we raise our guns and point to where the resound was located, only to see a teenaged boy around 15 with pale pearl white skin and blood red eyes.

"Oops," the teens bell like voice whispers as he stares at us, "They did say no witnesses... so can I? No I probably shouldn't, but I'm hungry so I'm sure one would be fine..."

He gracefully steps forward, one foot in front of the other, and approaches a shaking Jack who was at the end of the line. The gun trembles out of his hands as the boy slowly starts speeding up, eagerly awaiting for something that we didn't know till he put his mouth on Jack's trembling body and bites hard.

Jack screams in pain as Tom, who was in front of Jack, jumps away in fear of being the next victim of the bitter. We rush to a semi-circle around the boy as he drops the body to the ground and glances around with hunger clearly in his eyes.

"Stop or we will shoot you kid," Fred says evenly as we all point our guns to the bitter.

He just smirks, "You can't kill me with those, I've invincible since I've been turned."

"Turned?" Tom whispers in question.

"What do you think I am? Hm? Is it a werewolf? Or a tooth fairy? Oh, or a vampire?" the pale boy questions as he looks at all of us.

"No fucking way! They are all fucking myths. Fairly tales! Your not alright kid, lets get you back to your parents to let you sleep-" Fred starts only to be startled at the fact the boy just disappeared in plain sight.

"What? Where did he-" I call out glancing in every which way that my head will let me only for me to look at where Fred was when I heard a scream.

Where Fred was, he was now gone, leaving his gun on the ground with a tint of blood surrounding the area. Hearing another scream further into the trees, Tom and I turn to it hopping to see our brother-in-arms, but we only heard a bell-like chuckle ringing in every direction.

Suddenly Tom starts shooting at something to his left. I veer to look at my last brother only to see him collapse to the ground with the demon with red eyes behind him with blood around his mouth and all over his clothes.

"Wh- Who ar-are yo-you?" I stutter at the red eyes who was creeping closer to me.

"Arthur Garrick at your service, but it is rude not to introduce yourself first," the now proclaimed Arthur 'greets' as he stops a meter away from me. "Well what is it? What's your name?!"

"Lieutenant Alexandra," I whispered taking a step back.

Arthur chuckles and takes a step forward. Opening my mouth to question what he is going to do to me, a female came out of the shadows looking just as pale as Arthur. They even have the same eye colour.

"What are you doing Arthur? I found three other bodies just lying around, you know we don't feed out of dinner time." The female's voice chimes as she glides straight to the male she was talking to.

"Interrogation. They wouldn't tell me why they are in our forest," the male pouts as he looks at the female who was now beside him.

The female looks at me sharply and speaks directly to me, "Well? What were you looking for in our forest?"

"I-I don't kn-know wh-what y-your t-talking a-about," I whisper to the female trying to at least lie my way out.

The female sighs and shakes her head then she looks directly into my eyes and was suddenly at the right side of my neck. Feeling pain where her teeth were I gasp to try and control my breathing so I don't pass out quickly.

Suddenly the female is off of me and both are gone, like a leaf in the wind.

All I could feel was fire.

Fire where she bit me.

Fire going to my right arm.

Fire going down and around my body.

Opening my eyes , I see the forests' little insects, hear the distant sound of a bird whistling to another. I don't know how long its been, but all I remember was the fire going throughout my whole body. One limb at a time. Looking around some more I noticed the gun that Fred dropped before he was killed with the little splash of dried crispy blood.

Narrowing my eyes onto the blood I quickly went on to my hands and knees and crawled to the gun. Once there I brought my head down to the spot of cracked blood feeling a force bringing me there, and licked it.

The crazy thing about that... is that I liked it.