A group of bandits roamed the forest in search of escapees.
- Where the hell are they? Said the group leader in full power armor.
Eventually they found two male bodies. One was impaled on a tree branch and the other was lying dead with his head on a stake.
- Something is wrong here ... One of the group said, nervously looking around at the forest ... Who did this to them and where are?
The rest wouldn't admit it, but the question was very good. Suddenly the leader noticed something.
- Where's Jason?
The heavily armored man in the gas mask disappeared. They began to withdraw.
They heard legends that strange things happened in this forest before the war, but now they believed them.
Suddenly they noticed the figure of an old woman with a cane staring at them, her face covered with a scarf.
- Who are you?! Shouted the leader aiming with a wooden carabiner.
The woman didn't answer, just threw something at their feet. It was Jason's head.
The leader took aim and shot without hesitation. The bullet hit the woman in the head. Woman made a sound that was somewhere between the ghoul's growl and the roar of an angry deathclaw.
In response to this scream, hands shot out of the ground and grabbed one of them by the ankles and began to drag him underground.
He shouted and shot and his companions fled.
The forest seemed to come alive as they ran, ghouls appeared out of nowhere, tree roots seemed to crawl like snakes.
One of them stumbled and flew into the hole. After a while, a geyser of blood fired with that.
- Run faster! Shouted the leader to the last companion.
The man sped up and at that moment the tree opened and hands shot out of him. He was caught and dragged inside.
- Save me!
The leader jumped, grabbed him and tried to pull him away, but there was a stalemate until blood gushed out and the leader only held his companion's hand.
He dropped the severed stump and began to run away until he reached the clearing.
The forest has changed, this is where the tree line should be! That clearing wasn't here! And worst of all ... She was here.
She stood there grinning her steel teeth. He opened fire, but the witch created a mini-tornado around herself and sent it at him.
Guy barely jumped back, and the radiation counter chimed as he hit the highest value.
He was reaching for the magazine but the witch was already with him and with one hit of the staff she destroyed his weapon.
He tried to hit her, but she avoided the blow with inhuman speed and hit him on the helmet. The helmet broke like glass.
The man screamed as he tried to defend himself from the wave of blows.
With only a skeleton left of the power armor, human and nonhuman hands shot out of the ground and began dragging him underground.
The man fought wildly but sank deeper and deeper.
- Who are you?! He screamed when he was almost completely underground.
As his head disappeared underground he heard a hoarse voice
- Baba Yaga.