A young boy walked through the forest which was coated in fog. He had been warned by others from his village to stay out of here, but his curiosity got the best of him. His bare feet were dirty from the long walk, but he didn't mind.

All around him though the air was silent. He could barely see where he was putting his feet in front of him and once or twice he stumbled and fell on his face. The sound of a twig snapping to his right caused him to turn his head to look.

"Who-who's there?!" He called, his voice shaky.

"Help! Someone help me!" Came the sound of another voice. It was a little muffled though and he guessed that was because of the fog. Trying to figure out a way to get to the person, at least he thought it was a person, he began to head in that direction.

His foot slipped on a wet rock that was in his way and he fell down, landing on something sharp which crunched under his weight.

As he pushed himself up onto his elbows, his hands touched something solid like bone. Looking down and around at where he had fallen, he noticed that's what it was. A large pile of bones inside a small shallow dip in the ground.

Disgusted by this, he quickly got up and scrambled backwards until he stood up on his feet again. As he looked around at the bone pile, he heard a person yell for help again.

He looked around at the area, but saw nobody. Yet that voice was heard again. He started walking towards it, silently hoping that he would find whoever needed help. The fog began to thin in some parts and he could see a few saplings a couple of yards in front of him. Next to one of the trees, there was a shape.

As he got closer, the shape became clearer. It was the body of a person. Hope flared up in his chest and he began to run to them. His feet slipped on damp leaves, but he kept on running. He was drawing closer until he began to realize something disturbing.

Slowing down until he stopped, he was horrified by the sight. The body was indeed a human's, but it was decaying and dirt covered the face and the body. It's hair was mangled and hung loosely around it's shoulders. Bugs crawled over it.

He turned to leave, but something invisible grabbed his leg and pulled him to the ground. He screamed and started to kick his other foot at whatever had grabbed his leg.

The sound of his foot colliding with something solid created pain up his entire leg. He cried out as he heard the noise of the bones in his foot being fractured.

"Stay quiet, will you?" A voice said in his ear. He still couldn't see anyone though and his fear rose more. Suddenly, whoever was holding onto his other leg, seemed to materialize in front of him.

The person was a woman who had short brunette hair pulled back into a short ponytail. She wore an army uniform and her body was slender. She had high cheekbones and hazel-green eyes. Still, something about her didn't seem to be completely normal. How can a woman suddenly appear out of thin air? He then noticed that the military clothing she wore had some kind of mechanism on it that she must have pressed to make herself appear invisible.

As if she heard what he had mentally thought, she spoke again, her eyes looking around the area.

"I can get you out of here. You must do exactly as I tell you and don't ask me any questions. The fact that you're still alive is surprising." She said, her voice lowered to just above a whisper as if she could somehow detect that they were being watched.

"What? Who-who are you lady?" The boy asked her.

"There's no time for that. We have to go now. Do you understand me?"

The boy nodded his head quickly and tried to stand up, but he collapsed back onto the ground, the pain in his foot making it hard for him to stand up properly. He clenched his jaw and tried again, breathing heavily through his nose.

The woman wrapped an arm around his waist and helped him make his way back to where he had come into the forest from. It was slow moving and they had to stop once so he could sit down and rest his foot.

The woman kept her eyes on every inch of the forest while he sat there on the ground, his back resting against a tree. When a voice rang out again calling for help, she turned to the boy and said "You're to remain here until I'm back."

Not waiting for him to say anything else, she turned and ran back through the forest, seeming to know where to put her feet and where not to. A couple of moments passed by and she came across another person. They were severely injured; one leg broken, ribs fractured, bruises on their face, clothing ripped open and they also had scratches on their chest which had dried up blood surrounding the wounds.

"M-miss can you h-help me?" They said, desperation in their voice.

She studied them though, closely looking and listening to the beating of their heartbeat. They didn't have very long. Something had attacked them though, but it had played with them like orcas do with their prey in the ocean.

"What did this to you? Did you get a good look at it?" She questioned them, the accent in her voice dominant now.

The person struggled to inhale before exhaling and then they spoke. She had to know what did this to them so she could find it and kill it and then take care of the other person. So, she had to make this quick.

"It was-it was too dark for me to see. It's-it's still around here though." The guy said, his breathing slowing down.

Her defenses went up and she surveyed the forest; finding tracks that weren't easy for a normal human to locate. Five hundred yards away, she found some.

"Stay put." She told the second person. Walking away from the guy, her eyes turned a bit darker and she clenched her jawline tightly as she kept on walking. As she walked, her footsteps were light like a feline's; soft and light as they thudded on the ground.

She paused on the trail that she had found which led to where the creature was hiding, her head angled down like a cat’s while she stared up at the trail. Deep inside its den where the thing lived, she could hear it's soft breathing as it slept. She waited another second before she walked up the path to the entrance of the cave. Slowly, she walked down the slope heading into the cave.