Chapter 5: Arriving in Crystal Lake

Crystal Lake, New Jersey

They arrived in two black vans into Crystal Lake. The town had seen far better days, what shops there were looked like they needed a fresh coat of paint and most houses they passed were abandoned. Only the extremely stubborn or foolish would dare live in Crystal Lake now. The vans stopped in front of the Sheriff's office, the Sheriff looked like he was forming a posse among the few townsfolk that remained. The CIA agents, Tommy, and Seras all exited the vans and walked over. Agent Louis presented his badge and said, "I am Agent John Louis, CIA. What are you doing?" The Sheriff, an average height man with a large gut and brown hair looked at Agent John Louis and said, "Some psycho thinks he's Jason Voorhees again. We're going to find him, and blow that son of a bitch away!" "What makes you think it isn't Jason Voorhees?" Agent Louis said.

The Sheriff looked, and saw Tommy. "JARVIS! YOU MOTHER FUCKER!" The Sheriff drew his gun, it had a large laser sight on it, pointed right at Tommy. "Nice to see you too, Rick. I see you still got that dick compensator," Tommy said, Tina quickly got between Tommy and Sheriff Rick. "Get out of the way! That psycho killed Sheriff Garris, and a whole bunch of other people too!" Sheriff Rick said. "Sheriff, Jarvis is in our custody. We have reason to believe that it is really Jason Voorhees who is responsible for most of the killings that have been going on in your town," Agent Louis said, then glared at him, "Put down your gun." "You spooks fucking believe that psycho!? Do you know how many years he was institutionalized!?" the Sheriff yelled at him. "I suggest you do as he says," Agent Li said as she stepped forward.

"Yeah? Who's gonna make me!?" The Sheriff said, and the posse along with his deputies all pointed their collection of hunting rifles and shotguns at the CIA Agents, while the CIA Agents responded in kind with their own combat Piecemaker shotguns. "Lower your weapons, all of you!" Agent Louis yelled, "Or you will be arrested under the authority of the United States Government!" Seras saw all this happening and sighed. She silently and stealthily got to Tommy and said, "It appears that I will have to resolve the situation." In a burst of supernatural speed, Seras disarmed the sheriff's deputies and the posse, making sure to toss all their weapons far away from them. Agent Li saw her own chance and grabbed the Sheriff's gun hand, struck a pressure point on his hand to make him let go of it, then kicked him in the groin then head, knocking him out. "Return to your homes now!" Agent Louis ordered the posse, and all of them quickly left the area.

Agent Louis turned to the deputies and asked, "I want answers now. What's been going on here?" One deputy remained silent, but the other said, "Early this morning a couple of kids, Kelly and Joey Fowler, came tearing through the street in their van. They stopped here, screaming about a giant in a hockey mask that killed their Dad, Harry Fowler. Seven other people have gone missing as well. The boy, Joey, said he found their bodies in a makeshift cabin along with a necklace in the woods, before the 'giant' showed up." "Where are they now?" Agent Louis asked. "In the station with Deputy Graham, Rachel Graham," the talkative deputy said. "Alright, Shepherd, Jarvis, Victoria, go talk to them," Agent Louis said. "What?" Tommy said. "You all know what it's like to lose parents. You can relate to them better," Agent Louis said. "Alright," Tina said, and she, Seras, and Tommy all went into the Police Station.

Inside they saw a sixteen-year old girl only an inch taller than Seras, she had dark brown hair and it was clear she was developing into a beauty, while the other child was maybe twelve at most, only five feet tall, very skinny with red skin and a face covered in freckles. They were holding each other closely, the boy, Joey Fowler, was sleeping, while his sister Kelly was holding him close, her eyes still wide with fear and dried tears streaking her face. "Are you Kelly Fowler?" Tina asked. She nodded quietly. "I'm Agent Tina Shepherd, these are agents Tommy Jarvis and Seras Victoria. We're with the CIA. Can you tell us what happened?" Tina asked. Kelly nodded and said, "We-we only went there to go camping, to bond. Dad said that we were too distant… He wanted to bring us…closer t-t-togetherrrr!" Kelly broke down sobbing, waking up Joey.

"Huh?" Joey said, then saw his sister crying and held her tight. "It was my fault. I found his house," Joey said. "House?" Tommy said. Joey nodded, "There was a necklace…and a lot of d-dead people in it. It looked like it was…b-built from scraps." "Do you know where it is?" Tina asked him quietly. "I-I remember a N-Native American trick Mom showed me. I left rocks to sh-show me how to get back to c-c-camp…" Joey said, then he broke down, "I led him right to us!" "Joey," Tommy said, putting his hand on his shoulder, "Look at me. None of this is your fault. You didn't know what was out there. You just wanted to make sure you got back to camp. Jason knows these woods a lot better than you do, none of this is your fault. I promise you, we're going to get him." Joey nodded, so did Kelly with fresh tears rolling down her face.

Tommy turned around and saw one of the deputies standing close by. He walked over to him and said, "Make sure nothing happens to them. Do you hear me!? NOTHING! If anything happens to those kids, I will rain Hell down on you." "I got it," the deputy said. As Tommy, Seras, and Tina were leaving the deputy followed them, "You seriously think that it's Jason?" "Yeah," Tina said, "What about their Dad?" "I'll take you to what we found," the deputy said, and led them to the back of the station, where the car Kelly drove into town was located. It was a green Ford minivan with a cracked windshield that was covered in blood. "The girl, Kelly, she drove this thing screaming into town, right to the station. It's a miracle no one was killed. Her dad's head was still in the windshield, the kids wouldn't get out of the car until we removed it," the deputy explained, then went over to an old fridge. Inside was the head of Harry Fowler, his face twisted into a silent scream in death.

"We won't be needing you anymore," Tina said as she took the remains of Harry Fowler out of the fridge. The deputy nodded and left them alone with Mr. Fowler's head. "What are you going to do?" Tommy asked. "My abilities are sort of in synch with the supernatural. When we first got to Hellsing Manor, I had visions of the battles that happened there. That's why I wasn't surprised when Seras showed off her powers," Tina explained. "The Agency wanted to see how far that could go, and have tried to experiment with psychometry, basically I touch something and try to get a vision of what happened to it," she said as she opened the bag and as respectfully as possible lifted Mr. Fowler's head out of it.

Tina shut her eyes and focused as hard as she could. Small objects started to float up around her, as did everyone's hair as a slightly electrical smell filled the room. Then the visions started. She saw as Harry Fowler woke up at night to the sound of Joey screaming, seeing blood on him, asking what happened. She saw as Mr. Fowler got ready to leave, only for the Killer to show and try to attack Kelly. Mr. Fowler grabbing a hatchet to try to fight the Killer after giving Kelly the keys to the Ford. Slamming the hatchet into the Killer's chest, only for the killer to not look hurt at all as his machete swung down…

WHAT ARE YOU!?

Tina screamed as she dropped Harry Fowler's head. "What happened!?" Tommy yelled as he stopped her from falling, while the other agents all ran into the room with weapons ready. "Report, Agent Shepherd!" Agent Louis yelled. Tommy helped get her standing and she held her head before saying, "I used…psychometry to see what happened to this man. I saw Jason Voorhees, it's him, and he's killed more people than just Mr. Harry Fowler. But at the end, I heard…something yell 'WHAT ARE YOU!?'. I think I might have made a connection with whatever it is that is giving Jason his power." "Can you keep going?" Agent Louis asked. "Yes, I'm fine now," Tina said as Tommy let her go. "Alright, what about the kids?" Agent Gould asked. "The boy, Joey, he said he found something in the woods, a house or cabin made of scraps, I'm guessing wood. He saw a necklace inside, that might be the source of Jason's power, the bodies of his most recent victims were there as well. Joey left markers, if we follow them we should find the cabin," Tina said.

"Alright people, our objectives are to divide into two teams of four each. Me, Gould, Li, and Fowler will be Alpha Team, go looking for this cabin, while Shepherd, Jarvis, Victoria, Ayala, and Bile will be Beta Team, set up a small communications base just outside the target area. If we find Voorhees, we'll retreat back to Beta Team, let Victoria do the heavy lifting and provide her with backup," Agent Louis ordered. "Yes sir!" everyone said, except for Tommy, though he did nod in agreement. "Move out!" Agent Louis ordered, and they all left the station and headed to their vans, following the trail of burned rubber to the area around Crystal Lake.

The Woods Near Crystal Lake

Jason quietly watched as the black vans went into Mother's woods.

There are more bad people, Jason. Including two of them that hurt you, Mother said, and Jason remembered Tommy Jarvis, and Tina Shepherd. Remembered how they hurt him, how they killed him. Jason would be ready for them now. He quietly went back to the woods, to the cabin where Mother was. He would protect Mother no matter what...