'Hey, wait up!' shouted a voice from behind her.
Aria jumped, startled.
Lucy jogged the rest of the way to catch up, 'Where you going?' she asked. She was glad she had managed to follow the trail that Aria left. Her best friend hadn't travelled very far but the forest was dense and near impossible to navigate through.
'Just for a walk. I can't just sit at camp waiting for everyone to wake up.' Aria shrugged, brushing past a particular thick bush.
'Kay.'
They walked in a comfortable silence for about fifteen minutes before something disturbed the peaceful quietness.
'Can you hear that, Lucy?' Aria asked, stopping dead in her tracks.
Her companion also stopped, tilting her head to the noise. 'Yeah, it sounds like voices.'
The voices sounded male, husky and loud, definitely a man's voice. There seemed to be two of them, from the difference in the voices.
'Come on, let's check it out.' Aria smiled largely. She was a daredevil all right. Trudging through the woods towards some unknown voices was definitely something Aria Winchester would do.
Lucy shook her head, 'You go ahead. I'm gunna head back. It's not far back to camp.'
'Spoilsport.' Aria huffed, with no real malice in her voice. 'Okay. Tell Julie that I'm okay, please.' With that, the girls went their separate ways.
The voices began to get louder, as she hiked through some think trees. Aria stopped herself as she nearly tripped over a large branch. 'S**T!' she shouted and then hastily covered her mouth but the damage had already been done.
The two men stopped in their tracks, 'Dean, did you hear that?' the taller man asked.
'Yeah. COME OUT. WE CAN HEAR YOU!'
'Dean, do you think that's such a good idea. You know what's out here.'
The shorter man, Dean, smirked. 'Probably not.'
Aria attentively walked out from behind the tree, right in the sight of the two men. She normally wouldn't have one that, but something about these men made her feel like she could trust them. They seemed very familiar, like she had seen them somewhere before. 'Maybe in a dream?' she thought, smiling meekly.
Both of the men were very handsome in their own ways. The smaller man looked older than the taller man. He had moss-green eyes. 'The same as mine.' Aria noted. He also had spiked dirty-blonde hair and the thinnest layer of stubble covering his chin. The taller man, however, had a mop of dark brown hair that almost covered his equally dark eyes.
The taller man smiled nicely. 'Hey, what are you doing out here?'
Aria was hesitant to tell these men who she was. They seemed nice enough. 'I'm on a camping trip.'
'By yourself?'
Aria shook her head, 'No. I'm here with some friends.'
She noticed that the smaller man had yet to speak. He was staring at her, not in a creepy way, but as if he had seen her before.
He finally spoke up, 'What's your name?'
'Aria.' she said simply.
'I'm Dean, this is my brother Sam.'
The tall man, now known as Sam walked a few steps closer. Aria fought the urge to back away.
'Why are you out here, all by yourself?' he asked in concern.
He had an inkling feeling this Aria was with the people they had found at the wrecked campsite. He didn't want to tell her, in case she, in fact was. They had found four bodies, but enough tents for another two people, possibly girls by the colour of one of the tents.
'I got bored, so I decided to have a walk.' Aria shrugged again. She didn't think it was that big of a deal. For two men that she had just met, Aria talked to them as if she had known them for years.
'It's dangerous.' Sam said.
Aria scoffed, 'What could be out here?' she paused for a second before continuing, 'Except for the occasional bear?'
Sam and Dean shared looks before turning back to the seemingly fearless teen.
'A lot of things,' Dean replied vaguely causing Aria to look at him like he had suddenly grown an extra head.
'Right.' She drew out the word, slowly backing away. 'I'm gunna go now, but, uh, nice meeting you.'
'Help!' a voice shouted from within the trees. 'Help me!'
Aria jumped and walked closer to the large men. 'What was that?'
Sam and Dean never replied they just shared knowing looks.
'That sounds like Lucy.' Aria shouted, charging in the direction of the cry, only to be held back by two arms.
'You can't go out there. It's too dangerous.' The owner of the arms said, struggling to keep a firm hold of the squirming teen.
'That was my friend. You can't just expect me to stand here while she's in trouble!' she shouted.
'Shhhh!' Sam held a finger to his own lips to silence her. She opened her mouth to speak once more, but the look of slight fear in the tall man's eyes was enough to keep her quiet.
'Run.' He mouthed. Aria nodded, not needing any more instructions and took off into the woods, away from the sound. 'It sounded like Lucy,' she thought, but something told her it wasn't, she just couldn't place what the feeling was deep inside her stomach. 'Instinct, maybe?'
She couldn't hear Sam or Dean behind her and feared the worst. She stopped, heaving breaths. A branch snapped behind her made her freeze in terror.
'Sam! Dean, is that you?' she whispered loudly. No answer.
An inhuman growl echoed through the woods, making her jump in terror. She turned and cried in shock
It was massive, the thing in front of her. It didn't look human. It looked dead, like a walking corpse or zombie. She opened her mouth and let out a loud scream, when she was hit with one of its giant hands, effectively blackening her world.
The creature knocked her out, with a swift blow to the head by its large hands. It picked her up, just as she was about to hit the ground, not to save her, no, he just didn't want more work to do to get his meal.
The trek up to its lair didn't take long with its super speed. The cave looked to be a mineshaft, an abandoned on at that. Boards looked as if they were clinging onto their last lives to try to hold the ceiling of the cave up. Large spider webs littered the walls and floor, along with the bones of small animals, something it had to live on when human didn't visit the forest for months on end. They were satisfying enough, but nothing compared to the juicy flesh and blood of a young human. It regularly liked to prey on younger humans, due to the fact that they had tastier, sweeter blood.
He/It carried the tiny human deeper and deeper into its sanctuary, until they reached the end, after winding through series of complicated tunnels that were like a maze.
It dropped her to the floor, unceremoniously, before tying her hands together with some old rope. He lifted her again and hooked the rope onto one of the hooks that hung there.
The girls head was tilted down, causing the blood to run down her face. The cut was small, not deep enough to need stitched, but enough to leave a small scar.
A small moan emitted from the girl and the creature turned towards her, head cocked in curiosity. Something odd, this human didn't seem… human. She gave off a very different smell to other humans. Her aroma was sweet. That was what drew it to her.
It watched as the girl opened her eyes slowly and raised her head, slightly wincing the discomfort of having her head down for too long. Her eyes didn't take long to adjust to the pitch darkness.
Aria's eyes quickly zoned onto the gigantic shadow in the doorway of the cave. They widened in fear. Her mouth opened, emitting an ear-piercing scream that seemed to make the shadow wince slightly at its pitch.
The creature raised a hand and whacked her on the head once more, effectively cutting the scream off short.
