Chapter 6 - Out of the Woods

Just as the hairy beasty creature slowly approaches Alicia, the moon disappeared behind a blanket of dark gray clouds. Realizing the moon has disappeared behind the blanket of dark gray clouds, the creature moved at an accelerated speed. It moved faster than a human speed which made it invisible for Alicia’s naked eye to perceive its movement.

Alicia gave a sigh of relief and quickly rushed to check on Lucas. “Lucas!” she yelled. She quickly went on her knees and lifted Lucas by the shoulder. “Please stay with me!” she said.

Lucas’ breath is fading away and he is bleeding out real fast. She didn’t know where to begin in stopping the bleeding. At this time, Jack and Philip have regained consciousness. They both approached Alicia who at this time is covered in Lucas’ blood.

“Oh my God!” Jack cried out. “What happened?” he added. He didn’t expect anyone to get hurt. He just wants to scare Lucas and nothing more. From what he has seen, Lucas’ bleeding isn’t a result of the accident. There must be a logical explanation for this.

“This is your fault, stay away from us!” Alicia cried out.

Jack might be a jackass but he isn’t a killer. He might be a bully but never wanted to stain his hands with blood. Philip rushed back to the truck and pulled out his cell phone from under the passenger’s seat. He often keeps an emergency phone there in case he got robbed. He quickly dialed 911.

There was a quick response from the service provider. They didn’t waste any time in responding to the emergency call. “This is 911, what’s your emergency?”

“We need an ambulance, my friend is hurt!” Philip cried out in a devastated tone. He’s damn scared of what will be the outcome of their actions. He advised Jack not to scare Lucas by forcing him to the truck. ‘It’s just a teenager plank,’ Jack replied insisting he wants to put fear in Lucas by driving miles away from his home and then dropping him off at the nearest bus stop to his house. Philip however, disputed this but later gave in to Jack’s persuasion. Now the whole plank has gone wrong and there’s no way they will ever escape from this.

Jack draws closer to Alicia. He was still bleeding from his nose due to the rough crash on the tree. He bends down and said in a calm voice. “Help is on the way.”

“Just stay away from me.”

“I am truly sorry and never meant for all this to happen.”

“Can you just listen to yourself? Because of you, Lucas is fighting to stay alive. His breath is fading because you led us here for us to be attacked by a hairy beasty creature!”

Jack was shocked on hearing they got attacked by ‘a hairy beasty creature.’ He didn’t know what to believe but he’s certain that Lucas didn’t sustain his injuries because of the rough crash. He narrowed his gaze on Lucas and was able to pick some deep scratches on his chest down to his abdomen. He glanced at Alicia frightfully and swallowed a lump and then spoke in a quivering voice. “Whatever that attacked him might still be here, we need to go now.”

“I can’t leave if we are not going to save him.”

“There’s nothing we could do, just let him be. We need to get to safety, he’s already…”

“Will you shut your mouth?” Alicia rudely snapped back at Jack interrupting him. “This happened because of you and you have the gut to voice out trash!”

“You don’t understand, we…”

Jack’s words were pushed back to his dry throat by the sound of sirens. Finally, help has arrived. The police department just arrived at the scene with ambulances as they pulled over by the roadside and hastily made their way into the woods.

SOME HOURS LATER: ST LEO’S HOSPITAL

The doctors of St Leo’s Hospital, New Orleans were able to save the life of Lucas but he’s still unconscious. The minor injuries of Jack and Philip have been attended to but Detective White is really on their ass after gathering some report from Alicia on what happened. He described the actions of Jack and Philip as a kidnapping case and he wants his department to press charges or he’s gonna do it personally as a father of the kidnapped victim.

Detective White was about to lead Jack and Philip out to proceed to his precinct for further questioning. As he was about to open the door of his car, Congressman Styles walks in on him, accompanied by Sergeant Shark and Captain Harris from Detective White’s precinct.

“Detective, I’m taking these two off your hands,” said Captain Harris. He’s the precinct commander of Detective White’s precinct.

Detective White weirdly stares at Congressman Styles. He knew this was his doing to get his son, Jack of the hooks. He then switched his focus on the captain and spoke in a harsh voice. “And why would you do that?”

“Listen, Detective, this is a direct order.”

“Are you trying to drop this case just like that because he’s the son of a congressman, huh?”

“We are not dropping this case neither are we turning a blind eye to it. However, you will not be handling this case yourself to avoid your judgment being clouded because your son is the victim.” Captain Harris switched his gaze on Sergeant Shark and ordered him to take Jack and Philip away.