IM BACK! For those of you reading I apologize for the long delay of chapter 14. The last couple of weeks was crazy in my personal life and I've been going through some things which made it hard for me to write. So I thank you for your patients and continued support. I should be returning to my usual two times a week update. Slight change, I'll be updating every Tuesday and Friday. Also, I haven't just been ignoring this story since I been gone, I went back and fixed a lot of the spelling and grammar mistakes that plague my story. So if you decide to go back and reread from chapter one I'm sure you'll find it a much easier read. Anyway, enough time has been wasted, enjoy the chapter.

"Hello Whisper Wind Falls I'm Charly Caruso, we are live at the scene where we have gone from public indecency to a hostage situation. A group of five men had grabbed two people who were simply out for a walk and dragged them into the woods"

The situation seemed to only get worse, the police had already blocked off the part of the woods where the criminals took the hostages. Becky and Dean had climbed up onto the roof of a nearby shop. From what they could see is the police had "do not cross" tape set up to keep people out and used their police cars to block off entry to the woods. They even had the K-9 unit with them. After seeing how the huge crowd gets denied from going any further, Becky and Dean knew that the police weren't just going to let them through.

Dean then took a couple sniffs in the air "I think I got their scents, they're not far off, but we're going to need to get past the police and we don't have the time to go around".

Thinking as quickly as possible the two tried to come up with a plan. Like Dean said it would take too long to go around, and going underground wasn't possible with the concrete streets. So that left them with going up as the only option. Which made Becky smiled as she finally had the chance to try something.

"Dean hop on my back" Becky said.

"But… why"

"Just trust me" Becky urged as they didn't have much time.

Not seeing any other option Dean got onto Becky's back piggy back style, after securing Dean she looked back "Hold onto your mask".

Without another moment of hesitation, Becky focused all her vigor to the soles of her feet. Dean watched still confused, but soon understood when Becky launched the two into the air in the loud fiery blast. Becky had used her fire to create a blast to fly over the crowd of people and the police. She has only used this one other time and that was during her fight with the Ascension to avoid Viktor's attack. The explosion caused the large group of people to look back just in time to see Becky and Dean fly through the air over them and into the woods.

"Becky!" Dean yelled.

"What is it love!" Becky yelled excitedly.

"How the fuck are we supposed to land!"

Unfortunately enough for Dean the answer would come crashing down on him, literally. As the two descended they landed on the top of a tree and fell through many branches until finally landing hard on the ground. Both Becky and Dean checked themselves for injury and, other than a few cuts and bruises they were fine. Once he got back on his feet Dean sniffed the air again for the scents of the people they were looking for. It would seem that even though Becky's tactics were a little extreme, but not only did she get them past the cops, they were even closer to the hostages and the people that took them.

"Ugh, I'm going to need to get better at that" Becky moaned rubbing her head.

Dean chuckled as he stretched his back "True, but were alive aren't we. Come-on, we need to hurry to those people".

Becky nodded and followed as Dean lead the way. The two were now entering a very strange part of the woods. Unlike most of the forest that surrounded the town, the further and further you walked into this part of the woods the trees become more dead, even the leaves were either brown and withered away or there just weren't any at all. Then when you were in the center of it all, all the trees had no leaves, many of the branches were broken and hanging on by a thread. You could even hear the branches snap under Becky's and Dean's feet as they walked.

Becky did not like the feeling this place was giving off. The trees, lack of life, even the air gave Becky goosebumps. The only sign of life in this part of the forest were the birds and she felt as if they were watching her. Almost as if they were analyzing her and Deans every move. This truly was an evil place.

As they continued to walk Dean noticed something as he walked up to a tree "Well I'll be damned".

"What?" Becky asked.

"Its my knife, from that game we use to play as kids" Dean relayed.

Becky put her hand on her hip, "You seriously played that dumb game.

Dean laughed "Played it, I was the best at it. I was the only one who had any balls to get this deep into the woods, I only stopped here because I was hungry".

Becky then had a frowned on her face "I'm glad you stopped here, or else you may have ended up like Husky".

The game they were talking about was one from their childhood. Before when they were younger all of the kids use to gather up just outside of where this part of the forest was. They would each bring a knife and would use that knife to mark how far into the forest they could get before getting scared. They would do this one at a time and usually after a couple minutes the person they went into the forest would come running back screaming. Dean was known as the only kid able to go far into the woods. Then one day, a young boy named Husky, brand new to the town had taken on the challenge. He was given his knife and set off into the woods. At first many of the other kids were amazed, the young boy was in the woods for over an hour, surpassing Dean by ten minutes. The kids were even preparing a hero's welcome for when their friend would return.

However, one hour turned into two, then five, then a whole day, a week, a month, then an entire year went by and without anything to go off of the police of the town called it a lost cause and gave up looking for the boy. Ever since that day the kids never played that game again, in fear that they may get snatched up next. The result of the kid's disappearance still played heavily on their minds. Some however were able to pushed it out of their minds completely, forgetting that day.

Dean sighed as he looked at his old pocket knife "I guess you're right".

Dean then puts the knife in his pocket "C'mon, we're really close now, and from the way the hair on my arms is standing up, I'm sensing a lot of high level vigor".

Becky then punched the palm of her hand "Then what the hell are we waiting for".

Dean smirked "Let's go".

After about another half mile of walking Dean and Becky crouched behind a bush, up ahead was an old log cabin. The cabin was poorly constructed and looked as if it could collapse at any moment.

"You sure that hunk of junk is their hideout?" Becky asked.

Dean sniffed the air a few times just to make sure "It has to be, the place reeks of vigor".

He then took another sniff of the air "It's odd though, I can smell the two hostages. But it's the group of five men something about them, isn't normal."

"What do you mean?" Becky asked.

"I don't know? I can tell if someone is human or mutant from their scent and based on that these five guys are definitely human, but something about their human energy seems… tainted".

Becky wasn't completely sure what Dean meant by "Tainted" but she didn't need to, if Dean was this concerned about it, it could not have meant good news.

Just then the two heard a scream coming from the cabin. Dean was hoping to come up with a plan rather than barging right into enemy territory, but it seems as if he wasn't being given much of a choice. He looked over at Becky and gave her a nod before the two hopped out from the bush and ran towards the cabin. The two got about halfway to the front door of the cabin when Dean had got a whiff of something in the air.

Dean stopped running "Becky hold up."

She did so and looked back at Dean "Why, is something wrong".

Dean once again surveyed the area with his nose "I know you're hiding in the woods, come out now".

A few seconds went by before you could hear some shuffling coming from the trees and bushes surrounding the cabin. The five men came out and circled Becky and Dean. They didn't look too dangerous, they seemed like your average joe's but Becky had a feeling that wasn't the case.

Dean took note of all the men's positioning before speaking "Alright, let's cut to the chase. Are you the group of men who kidnapped those two people tonight and if so where are they".

The five men said nothing for a moment. They just stood there and stared at the two. When something finally did happen, it was when each man took out a small dagger from the waistband of their jeans. Becky and Dean could tell this wasn't going to be as easy as asking these men what they were doing so the two stood back to back in preparation for a fight.

"A bludgeoning is coming" One man finally said.

There was that saying again. Becky had taken note of this. Could this saying somehow connect these men to the man who went crazy just last night and cut 30 people. After all, they even had small daggers like the man from last night. With all of this in mind, Becky also noticed one more thing.

"Dean" Becky said, getting his attention "Have you noticed their eyes yet".

Dean grunted "Yeah, they're just like that guy from the news".

Becky was surprised she thought she was the only one who noticed. Each of the men surrounding Becky and Dean had bloodshot eyes and with their pupils fully dilated. They really did look lifeless, but there was something about them that made Becky feel off. Almost like she knew what they were but she just couldn't put her finger on it.

Then to make matters worse Becky had a sharp pain run through her head, signifying she had an unwanted visitor "Not now, you said you wouldn't bother me".

"Becky, are you ok?" Dean asked.

Now Becky was holding her head in her hands "You fucker, I don't need this right now".

"SHUT UP YOU IGNORANT FOOL" The voice said, only this time there was no laughter or mocking, for once the voice seemed serious.

Becky fell down to her knees as the pain worsened "LISTEN TO ME GOOD GIRL, THIS FIGHT IS BEYOND YOU. YOU ARE NOT READY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS. NOW GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE YOU GET US BOTH KILLED".

"Oh fuck off" Becky said slowly getting back on her feet "I call the shots here and I don't take orders from you. If you really want to survive leave me alone and let me work".

Becky had waited for this for too long just to let some voice in her head stop her. There were two peoples lives at stake in that log cabin and it was up to her to make sure they got back home safely. She knew good and well about the dangers when she decided to do this and wasn't about to run now before she even had the chance to do anything.

The voice growled "STUBBORN BITCH. VERY WELL, BUT ALLOW ME TO LEAVE YOU WITH A PARTING GIFT".

After that the voice had once again disappeared, Becky had no idea what the voice meant by "parting gift" and quite frankly didn't want any help from it, but she wasn't about to risk the voice coming back by asking. Instead, Becky got back into position standing firmly behind Dean to protect his blind side.

"You ok?" Dean asked.

Becky nodded "Yeah, sorry about that. Now let's get down to business".

With that said Becky looked in front of her where she was about to face off against three of the five men. She knew she was at a disadvantage, not to mention she couldn't use her fire at full effect without seriously injuring or killing the men. They wanted them alive, that way they could be questioned.

Finally, after a long stare off, one of the men made their move. He was the one right in front of Becky and charged after her with a knife in hand. Becky watched him carefully, trying her best to remember the hand to hand combat training Dean had taught her. She knew she would only have one chance to take him down so the second the man came in thrusting his knife at Becky, she would use that as an opportunity to grab his wrist and drive him to the ground.

The man was closing in fast and Becky was ready for him, once he was only a few feet away Becky locked eyes with him for a brief moment. However, it was in that moment that Becky had noticed something, when they had made eye contact the lost bloodshot look in the man's eyes had disappeared. His eyes had returned to normal and fell down on the ground face first.

Becky watched him carefully as he then sat up and looked around "Why is my head killing me, wait a minute. Those two men are they still here! You need to help us their keeping us captive in that cabin and killing us. Please!".

This was shocked at this turn of events. Not only with the man sudden change of heart but now it seemed that even more people were being held captive in the cabin.

Becky then turned her attention to the other two men she was up against and not long after making eye contact with them, the very same thing happened. She looked over at the men on Dean's side just for the same thing to happen. Neither Becky or Dean could make sense of it, it was as if looking at Becky broke them out of a trance.

It wasn't until one of the men looked up at Becky terrified, did they get some answers "L-L-Look at her eyes. They're even worse than his. She has to be one of them".

"My eyes? What are you talking about?" Becky asked.

She looked over at Dean to see if he could explain what there were talking about, but as soon as she did his eyes had widened "Becky your eyes, their glowing red and your pupils are purple."

Becky touched her face, Dean had given Becky his phone so she could see what he was talking about. She was going to use the front camera to see what they meant, but she didn't need to. She could see the glow of red and purple reflecting off of the blank screen. As Becky studied her eyes, she couldn't help but remember Liv's description of her eyes after the first time the voice had talked to her and it matched exactly what they looked like now.

"Could this have been the gift the voice was talking about" Becky wondered.

She then looked over at one of the men, she had a theory as to what was going on but she needed answers "You there, do you have any memory of tonight."

Dean watched as he was interested to see where Becky was going with this.

The man cowered as he was still a little afraid of Becky "N-No, the last thing I remember is being chained up in some strange room. There were a couple other and some of them were dead".

"So you don't remember kidnapping two people earlier tonight" Becky asked.

The man frantically shook his head "What no! I would never. Look, I already told you what I know but... There was also this guy, he was big with greasy hair and a nappy beard. While I was still chained up he came up to me and grabbed my face. Then, before I passed out he looked at me with these cold bloodshot eyes and the next thing I knew, I woke up here".

It was all starting to make sense for Becky, the look in their eye, the complete change in personality and these men having no memory of their actions from tonight "Dean I think I have an idea as to what's going on here. I think these guys have been put under some kind of mind control. I'm sure you noticed now that the moment the look in their eyes change so did their personality."

Dean rubbed his chin, Becky had a point. He had thought the same thing as well, but he also didn't just want to let the men go "Seeing as I don't have any other explanation I say that's our best lead, I don't think these guys were under control of their own actions but that doesn't change the fact that they did what they did. Besides, who knows when they might lose it again."

Personally, Dean didn't want to turn these men into the cops. Then they would have to do time for a crime they had no control in, and it's not like the cops would listen to what Becky and Dean had to say. On the other hand, if he did let them go and they had lost it, then someone else would likely get kidnapped or hurt. It was a tough call to make.

Which one of the men had no interest in waiting for Dean to make "Fuck this. I'm not about to wait around here for them to come back."

He stood up and slowly began to back away visibly shaken "I know you're one of them, with eyes like that you have to be. I'm getting out of here while I can."

The man made a run for it into the forest, Becky and Dean wanted to go after him, but they still had the four remaining kidnappers and now they also have a basement full of innocent people. It wasn't likely he would get away, with the police scanning the borders of the town. So the moment he made it to town the cops were sure to intercept him. The main issue was deciding what to do with the remaining kidnappers.

Not many options Dean sighed "Ok listen up, whether you remember it or not you kidnapped two people. So for right now you are going to have to stay with us until we can figure out what to do with you."

All of the men wanted to protest, after all they were kidnapping victims not too long ago either. However, it was the way Becky's eyes looked currently that made the men keep their mouths shut. Dean had brought along some rope just in case a situation like this presented itself.

"Don't try anything stupid unless you want to wake up handcuffed to a hospital bed" Dean said as he approached the group.

Then, right when Dean was about to tie up the men, a scream could be heard. It didn't sound too far off and came from the direction that the man ran down. Dean quickly stood up and sniffed the air. It didn't take too long to find a scent and as soon as he did the hair on his arms began to stand up and he began to feel his entire body shake, not out of fear but by the huge mass of vigor that was steadily making its way towards them.

Dean had to act quickly "All of you, if you know what's best for you stand behind us now".

There was no protest as the men followed Dean as he made his way to Becky "What's going on".

Dean got into a fighting stance "There are two guys coming right at us, and their vigor level is something I have never seen before."

"E-Even more than yours" Becky asked wide eyed.

After Becky experienced Dean's own vigor for the first time she found it hard to believe someone had one so great it made Dean serious. Now the two were watching the part of the forest Dean smelled their scent coming from. From what he could tell there were two men, and they also had the man who ran off from earlier.

As the men got closer the magnitude of their vigor only became more apparent. Dean's body began to sweat and now even Becky's body could feel their presence approaching. The two could see the leaves start to shuffle and hear twigs snapping in the background, they thought they could hear something being dragged as well. It wasn't long after that when two men stepped out of the forest, dressed in red and black. Becky clenched her fists as they came into full view. She couldn't quite see their faces as they were covered by the hoods of their trench coats. The one man even had on a mask that seemed to resemble some kind of demonic lamb.

What was most noticeable was the huge mallets each man carried over their shoulders. The massive mallets were covered in blood and all kinds of matter that Becky didn't even want to imagine. They also had one more thing, a body they were dragging.

"It's the man from earlier, so that scream was him. These two got to him" Becky thought.

"No" Dean said "It can't be."

Becky turned her head "Dean what's wrong."

Dean didn't hear her, he was lost in his own mind "What are they doing here, it's not time yet. Why would they show up now."

"Dean! What are you talking about, who are they!" Becky said starting to get frustrated.

Dean then stood up straight and narrowed his eyes at the two giant men "There, The Bludgeon Brothers."

Feels good to be back, can't wait to start updating regularly again. Sure sounds like Dean's knows more than he's letting on. See you guys real soon. Thanks for reading!