In that momemt, a sough ripped through the canopy of the wood, while all of a sudden the entire forest came to life; bringing alongside with the heavy noise of branches being ripped, a stale odor. It was like rotten meat that made my bile rise in my throat. It hit me straight in my face like a heat wave, making me gag.

Olly started to struggle in the kidnapper arms. He was a guy named Jack, well built, but with a sadistic glee in his brown eyes. Yves went silent and, as Jack looked toward me then up, his body froze while his eyes widen and his jaw lost its sturdy line.

I couldn't move. I was paralyzed with fear, freezing as I became aware of the heat caressing my skin. Fearfully I turned, as my shoulder was jabbed by something sharp. A sting, then followed by a burn that made me scream.

My body was suddenly washed in a warm liquid and thick from which felt from the forest canopy. It was mixed with flesh and organs, making me bend and spewing forth the contents of my stomach, but only half way, as my body was pierced and was kept still above the ground.

Olly fell into the pile of blood and human remains from what looked, grunting in pain, while Jake pulled his gun and started aiming aimlessly, making more noise, as roars echoed through the forest followed by a bellowing that made my heart to race.

The light was fading now, as a lighting was piercing the bleakness of the forest. Yves looked at me as his face slowly disappeared into the darkness. The shadows were around us, shrouded in a thick veil of smoke, while all of us became blind.

"Natty!" 

Yves stuttered my name, while suddenly a noise was heard. It was like bones were pierced and the gunfire stops. A sultry noise is heard followed by a soft gasp; I open my mouth to shout only to be sealed by a slimy hand shape, smelling of putrefaction.

My shoulder felt on fire as I was slowly pulled in the air only to be stopped, as Olly with a last breath grabbed my leg, pulling me to the murky ground. I gasped as I fell face down as a nasty taste entered in my mouth making me spit, and feeling what pierced me remaining in my body.

"Olly!" Shaking I hold of his arm and jolted his body but wasn't a single reply, we were face to face now, and could only hear a weak breath escaping his lips, while his eyes remained wide open, staring into mine.

I could not move as my shoulder throbbed but I knew if I stayed I would be dead.

 "Yves, where are you?" Weakly I called for him, afraid he might of had same fate.

Standing on my knees blindly I started to look for him in the mist, hearing above me the agonizing sound, those beast were coming back .

Frightened, I peeked fast to my shoulder, only to see blood oozing out, as the torn flesh was mixed with mud and the sharp tip of something that looked like a sliver.

The other side seems like a back jagged end of a broken bone. I winced as I touched the wound, feeling a hot pulsation that slowly flowed through my veins, making me grip my chest with my right hand as a strand of saliva fell on my chin and, then I dropped on my fours.

I felt between my fingers the remains of a person which made me cringe badly as my body twitched in horror, but something in me, made me go further, driven by my will to live and get out from this hell hole.

I passed nearby Olly, while a suppressed sob slipped through my lips and slowly stood up, feeling my body crumbling with each step. Cold and pain I could no longer feel. I was numb.

But I wasn't prepared to see him, the guy who took us and tortured three innocent boys for money alongside his partner. A fragile smile blossoms on my lips. I felt sick to my stomach but thrilled at the same time.

He was chained by the trunk of the tree while his body was folded by thin lianas, which looked like they were pulsating. My body was trembling but could not take my eyes from him.

From both of his eyes blood was oozing out and a pool was forming in the cavities, he looked like he shared bitter crimson tears. The strands of lianes gripped around his body like blades cutting his skin and muscles, tearing him apart.

"Enjoy the ride in hell..." I whispered as he let a gasp. He was being cut into pieces still being alive, as from his mouth blood started to pour, as water on a riverside.

A rustling is heard and I twitch as a presence loiters behind the bushes. Red eyes burning in my mind, two candle light which viciously feels like drips hot wax straight into my wound, making it throb and kneeling me to the ground.

"Host..." whispers echoes and I quiver.

Before my eyes Olly dead body was pulled as his flesh was cut by the branches lying on the ground and sharp rocks. It was odd how I could see all so clear as the smells of the blood, sweet made my entire body jerk, as I licked slowly my lips, feeling thirsty and hunger.

My shoulder burned, as I watched Olly body being dismembered violently but I could not see the beast, was like became one with the darkness, like soon we all be.

I know what they wanted, more humans and hosts to carry their offspring's. This forest was the inferno and we're only pawns...