The wolf barked and tried to jump at Zoey and Sky from below them. The two girls sat on the tree branch and planned out how they would escape. Meanwhile, Topher was still bleeding from the shot, Dave was pacing back and fourth and wondering what to do, Ella, Cody and Noah were tending his wounds and Dawn and Mike were tending Scott's wounds. They all heard the wolf howl in the distance.

"Wait a minute, didn't Sky run off into the forest a couple minutes ago?" Dave asked.

"Yes, I don't know why though," Dawn replied.

"Why hasn't she come back…?" Dave said. He looked at Topher and back at the forest. "I'll be right back, I'm going to go find her," he told everyone. He ran off into the trees and called Sky's name. The reply he got was not what he wanted. The wolf had leaped out of the bushes and landed on top of him, stabbing it's claws into Dave's shoulders. He screamed out in pain.

"Dave!" Sky screamed from the tree.

Then a bullet shot out from the trees and hit the branch Zoey and Sky were on. It cracked. Another bullet hit the branch again and Sky lost her balance. She shrieked and slipped off of the branch, pulling Zoey with her. They both landed with a thud and the wolf spun around towards them.

"Who's shooting?" Zoey whispered.

The wolf growled and looked from Dave to Sky and Zoey, deciding which one of them to kill first. Blood oozed out of Dave's shirt and turned the nice blue color on his shirt a rusty red. He breathed hard, trying his best not to scream for help or get up and run. Sky squeezed Zoey's shoulder and carefully got up.

"Sky, what are you doing?" Zoey whispered.

The wolf barked at Sky and leaped at her. She shut her eyes and used all her courage to lift her leg and kick the wolf square in the chest. It whimpered in pain and fell to the ground. Then it turned back to her, angrier then ever. It howled into the air. More howls replied to it from a distance. Were there more wolves out there?

"Sky…" Dave whispered from behind the wolf.

The wolf heard him and spun around. It started to walk over to him but Sky screamed and tackled the wolf down.

"SKY, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?" Zoey screamed as the wolf tore part of Sky's shirt off and started biting her arm. Sky started to scream and cry for help. Dave threw a stick at the wolf and it turned to him and barked. Dave shrieked and started to sprint away, the wolf ran after him. Zoey crawled over to Sky. She wasn't moving. The bottom left half of her shirt was gone, showing the wing of her bra. Teeth marks were left on her left arm and blood pooled the grass under her. Zoey cradled her head in her lap.

"Sky…" She teared up.

Sky suddenly coughed and opened her eyes.

"Sky!" Zoey cried.

"That wasn't a good idea…" Sky whispered.

Dave sprinted as fast as he could through the trees as the wolf howled behind him. He felt a cramp form in his stomach but he ignored it. A branch scraped his cheek and he ran right through a cobweb, but he still kept running. The wolf was gaining on him and Dave thought this was it. He was going to be torn into shreds. There was no point in running anymore, the wolf would eventually catch him. So he stopped and turned around to let the wolf get him, but the wolf wasn't there.

In fact, the wolf wasn't anywhere. He couldn't hear it or see it, it was like it vanished into thin air. Or maybe Dave was already dead. He put his hand onto his chest and felt his heartbeat. Nope, he was still alive.

"What the hell…?" He whispered and looked around.

All he heard was the nice chirps from the birds flying by. All he saw was oak trees and bushes as far as the eye can see.

"Sky? Zoey?" He called. How far had he ran?

He didn't know which way was the way back. Dave finally gave up on trying to figure out which way was right and made a wild guess. He started walking to the right and was calling Sky and Zoey's names. No one replied. He kept wondering what happened to the wolf until he felt something wet sink into his shoe. He shrieked and jumped back. A trail of blood ran down the grass and into a patch of trees. Suspicious, and a bit grossed out, Dave quietly walked over to the patch of trees and peered in through the branches. There was the wolf, it's throat torn open and all of its legs ripped off. Dave suddenly felt a twist in his stomach. He bent over and puked his guts out onto the grass.

"What the hell did this?" He asked himself. Was it the man? No, the wolf could have easily killed him. Was it another animal? He didn't know, and frankly didn't want to know.

Suddenly Dave got an uneasy feeling. There were no sounds. No birds. No wind. He felt like something was out there, watching him.

His body went stiff all of a sudden.

He couldn't move. Dave could hear soft and quiet footsteps coming closer. His mouth trembled and tears stung in his eyes. His body felt cold. He was scared out of his wits right now. Then he could hear the low, deep breathing of the thing. He felt it coming closer. Chills went down his spine. He wanted to scream and run, but he couldn't move nor talk. He was frozen in place. Dave could suddenly feel the breathing on his shoulder. It was right behind him.

"DAVE!"

Dave gasped and collapsed to the ground. He couldn't feel anything on his body. He blinked several times and breathed hard and fast. The chirping birds were back and a soft breeze brushed by. He felt strong arms wrap around his chest and hug him. The air came back to him and he could feel his body now.

"Oh my god, Dave, you're shaking," Mike said. He held him to his chest. "What happened to you? Dawn and I came looking for you and we saw you frozen in place."

Dawn then kneeled down beside them. "There's something different in his aura…" She said.

Mike looked at her. "What?"

She gently placed her hand on Dave's head. "Almost something spooky about it, like he's just been haunted by some sort of paranormal activity."

"I couldn't move…" Dave mumbled. A tear rolled down his cheek. "I couldn't talk…" Mike hugged him closer and rubbed his arm.

"Whatever it was, it's gone now," he told him, "you're okay."

Mike noticed Dawn had stood up and was looking around. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Something's not right…" She replied. "I can feel someone's presence, but it's not… Human…"

"So it's an animal," Mike stated.

She shook her head. "No, I know what an animal's presence feels like, this isn't it," she scanned the area. "It feels like it's not alive…"

Mike raised an eyebrow. "What?"

Dawn closed her eyes and listened to the area around her. She could feel the presence getting closer, but there was no one around besides Mike and Dave. The bird's stopped chirping and the breeze went away. She opened her eyes. There, in front of her was a tall, black ghostly figure.

She let out a blood curling scream and moved backwards, tripping over a twig. She collapsed on her spine and looked up. The figure was gone. The chirping and breeze was back. Mike was on top of her.

"W-what happened!?" He cried and lifted her off the ground.

Her heart was racing. "A-a thing! A ghost?" She yelled. He body started to shake and Mike grabbed her shoulders. Dave had managed to stand up and walked over beside Mike. He wiped the tears from his cheeks. "Are you ok?" He asked.

Dawn nodded and let a tear of her own slip down her cheek.

"Dawn, what did you see?" Mike asked her carefully.

She calmed down a bit. "I-it was this tall, shadow figure, in the shape of a human, but had no face or hair…" She told them.

"A shadow person maybe?" Dave suggested.

"What?" Mike and Dawn asked at the same time.

"Shadow people, they're like these ghostly people who are all black and have no faces," he told them, "they make you unable to move or talk and they go on top of you and like… haunt you," he stopped to take a breath, "I thought they were just myths, but Dawn and I just had an encounter with one I think."

Mike and Dawn blinked at him.

"I read about them on Wikipedia…" Dave said quietly.

Dawn took a deep breath. "Well, whatever it was, it didn't feel alive."

Mike let go of her shoulders. "You ok now?" He asked.

She nodded.

"We should get out of here, this place is creeping me out-" Dave suddenly gasped when he remembered what had happened to Sky. "Shit! Sky! She's hurt!" He yelled.

Mike grabbed his arm. "It's ok, Dave, she's fine," he told him, "we heard Zoey screaming for help and rushed over to see what had happened. We took them back to where everyone else was. Sky's healing, don't worry."

Dave let out a breath. "Thank god, and what about Topher and Scott?"

"Scott's leg is better," Dawn said, "and Topher is still bleeding fast, he's not going to make it much longer, we need help and fast."

Suddenly, someone burst through the bushes and crashed into Mike. The two fell to the ground and Dave and Dawn pulled the person off of Mike. It was the man who had brought them here. He was missing some of his teeth and blood was covering half his face. Dawn also noticed that some of his finger nails were gone and he had deep scars in his arms.

He gasped for breath. "T-take it!" He cried and flung a cell phone onto the grass.

"What? You're helping us?" Dave asked and grabbed the phone.

"That t-thing! The black shadow figure you were talking about! It got to me…" He gasped for air again. He was dying.

"How do we know this isn't a trap?" Mike asked, suspicious.

"You think I would rip my own finger nails off and pull my teeth out!?" He shouted.

"Ok, ok, we'll call 911-" Dave started but Dawn interrupted him.

"Look," she said, "he looks a lot like Chris."

Mike and Dave stared at him.

"Yeah… He does," Mike said.

The man coughed. "Chris? H-he's my younger brother…" He told them.

Dave, Mike and Dawn stared at each other and then back at the man.

"We should get you some help-" Dawn started to rip a piece of her shirt off but Mike stopped her.

"No," he said sternly, "why should we help you, the man who kidnapped us, tried to drown us in a sinking boat, created zombies to eat our brains out, and played with nature to make the ground collapse under us several times!? You tried to kill us!"

The man coughed again. "I-I know… Honestly I don't regret it, I still hate you guys, but-" he coughed again and wheezed, "I saw what that thing did to the wolf… It tore it apart… And then it got me…" He looked up at them, "I want you guys to die, but I want to be the one to kill you, and w-with that t-thing around, I won't be able to!" He started coughing hysterically. Blood came out of his mouth.

Dave raised an eyebrow. "Wow, you're one fucked up man…" He said.

"Just call the fucking police!" The man spat out more blood.

Dave began dialing but stopped. The chirping was gone again. The breeze was gone again. "No, no, no, no, no, no!" He stepped back and bumped into Dawn, "It's happening again! The shadow person is back!" He cried and looked at Dawn. She was as white as a sheet, staring at something behind Dave.

"No…" Dave whispered as he could feel the breath on his shoulder.

Suddenly, the man got up and started swinging his arms at the shadow person, making it disappear and reappear. "NO! You don't get to kill them, I do!" He shouted. The shadow person then dove into the man's body and started pulling him under ground. The guy was screaming as his head was pulled under.

Dawn, Mike and Dave stood there in shock and fear. Dave finally came to his senses and pulled Mike and Dawn away from the scene. "RUN!" He shouted. Mike and Dawn then came back to their senses and the three started to run through the trees.

"I can feel the shadow person coming!" Dawn shouted as they ran.

"How come we can move, though!?" Dave shouted and asked.

"Don't give it any ideas!" Mike shouted back.

The three kept running as fast as they could. Dawn could feel more of the shadow people coming towards them. She looked to her left. There was one in the distance catching up to them. She looked to her right. There were two more in the distance catching up as well.

"There's more coming!" She shouted.

"What do we do!?" Dave cried.

"Try to find the beach! It's an open space, maybe they'll go away!" Mike replied.

Dawn looked to her right again. The shadow person was running right beside her and turned it's head to look at her. She screamed and scrambled away from it, causing her to back into a tree. The shadow person lifted her off the ground and flew with her into the tree branches. Mike and Dave had stopped running and turned back to Dawn. They ran over to the tree the shadow person had flew her into. All they could see was a spot of blackness. They could hear Dawn screaming though.

"DAWN!" Mike screamed.

Another shadow person then went right through Mike, which made him get pinned to the tree. Vines crept down the trunk and tied his hands and feet to the tree. Dave tried to pry the vines off of him, but they wacked him away. Another shadow person then lifted Dave off the ground and hung him upside down above one of the tree branches.

"Leave us alone!" Mike cried. A vine crept around his mouth, which made it impossible for him to speak. Dawn was still screaming and Dave had started screaming too. A drop of blood dripped down, onto Mike's nose. He tried to look up but the vine's prevented him from doing so.

Someone shouted something and Mike heard a large stick hit the tree trunk. It landed beside his feet. The vines loosened their grip on Mike's wrist and feet. More shouting and more throwing of the sticks.

Scott, Noah and Cody had found them and were chasing away the shadow people. Scott noticed the one holding Dawn and threw his stick at it. It vanished and dropped Dawn. She got tangled in one of the branches. Scott ran under her and caught her when the branch broke. Her eyes were wide with fear and tears stained her bloody cheeks. There was no color left in her skin. Her sweater and shirt under it were ripped and the side of her stomach had a huge, long cut in it. Her tights were torn and blood ran down her legs. A couple of her finger nails were missing and her whole body was shaking with fear.

The shadow person holding Dave had vanished as well and dropped him. Luckily, Noah had managed to catch him before he hit the ground. One of his teeth were gone and two scrapes that were bleeding were left on his cheeks. His shirt had also been torn, leaving a long cut down his chest and stomach. His arms were all scraped and bleeding and he was also shaking with fear.

The vine loosened completely on Mike and he pulled away from them. He ran over to the rest of the group and knelt down beside Noah, who was holding Dave. "Dave, can you hear me?" Mike asked.

Dave just closed his eyes and squished his face into Noah's chest. Noah soothed him and wrapped a part of his shirt around the cuts on Dave's arms.

Cody was helping Scott with Dawn's wounds. Scott was cradling her and trying to calm her down while Cody tended her cuts. "What were those things?" Cody asked.

"I don't know," Scott replied. He held Dawn closer and kissed her head. He stood up with her in his arms. He turned to Noah, Dave and Mike. "We need to get them back to the group."

"Wait…" Mike said, scanning the floor.

"What?" Noah asked.

He began walking around and searching the grass. "The man who captured us… He gave Dave a cell phone to call the police, then he got p-pulled underground by the shadow person…" He shuddered at the thought, "Dave must of dropped it when he got lifted into the tree branch."

"Here," Cody said and held the phone in his hand.

Mike took it. "Great, thanks." He turned on the phone then smacked himself in the face. "Oh my fucking god, there's no signal here!" He groaned and threw the phone to the ground.

"Wait…" Cody said.

"What?" Scott asked.

He pointed to something approaching the island in the sky.

"A helicopter!" Noah cried.

There was still hope for them.