Infected

*OK Jonathan, you had a wild dream that a monkey picked you up, you also never messed up your leg, none of this is real,* Jonathan thought, closing his eyes and wishing that when he opened them he wasn't in a monkey's hand. When he opened them he was still squished in the palm of his hands, "NOOOOOOO!" he yelled, his right arm was over his chest and his left leg was bent weirdly. Clayden had the better position in the hand and was rolled up in a ball, the giant ape's movement swelled in their minds as all they would hear was the booms of the footsteps. "Dude, what is even happening?" Clayden asked, at this point neither of them were scared but rather ticked off, "Dude this is all just annoying," Jonathan yelled out. Suddenly the steps of the ape stopped and they got dropped in a cage-like area, trapping them.

The ape started walking away, "Hey shit stain, don't leave us here," Jonathan angrily yelled out but the ape paid no attention and soon they could only hear the steps. "Well isn't this nice, trapped in a prison," Clayden said trying to look for any way to get out, Jonathan fell to the ground sitting as he started feeling sick. The pain in his stomach wouldn't go away and he soon followed with barfing, but he didn't barf liquid, it was slugs. "Yo what the hell," Jonathan said wiping his mouth weakly to his knees, unable to get up, he felt around the area where he got bit by that one slug and it had blistered, spreading over his back. *Shit this is bad I can't tell them about this, wouldn't want them to worry* he thought as he got up and started helping Clayden to look for an exit. While they were looking Clayden noticed that the bushes were rumbling outside of the cage, circling. "We could climb the walls pretty easily," Jonathan said, pointing out the impurities in the walls of the cage, "Yeah but we would have to deal with the things around this cage," Clayden responded.

Jonathan got closer to the walls trying to see what was out there, the rustling continued but got more aggressive, he just kept looking hoping to catch a glimpse of what was out there. As he was about to give up a small goblin creature jumped out at him, "AAH, what the heck man?" Jonathan yelled backing up, the rest of the goblins had also jumped out and were on the cage walls. "Shit can they climb," Clayden asked, "Well, two arms, two legs, intent to kill, or maybe that's erotic behavior, I'd say yeah they can climb," Jonathan said as they started ascending the cage walls. "Oh this isn't good," Clayden said as they started hopping the cages with their fingers jittery, tongues hanging out, and a crazy look in their eyes. "Yeah they definitely want you sexually," Jonathan said looking at Clayden, "Wait, no, dammit where's that ape," Clayden said as he ran away from the goblins chasing him. One saw Jonathan not moving and started running at him, it ran then jumped out at him but was caught by its neck, "Yeah little shit, you're dead," Jonathan said with a smile.

As Jonathan took the goblin slamming it to the ground, opening its mouth and breaking its jaw from its face. The other goblins mortified by this ran away, Clayden was confused and looked at Jonathan covered in the purple blood of the goblin, his eyes were blood red with no distinct pupil, "Dude are you ok," Clayden asked. Jonathan stared at him then ran towards him, "BLOOOOD," Jonathan screamed as he tripped on his hurt foot, when he was on the ground he threw up another slug. Covered in a cold sweat he got up his eyes normal, "What the fuck," he said tears starting to flow down his face, "Dude what is wrong?" Clayden asked going up, Jonathan lifted his shirt revealing the blistering all over his back, "The things with the weird kink of throwing up in my face could have done something too," Jonathan said covering himself. "Listen we can fix this, we can find a cure, we just need to get out of here," Clayden said, holding out his hand. Jonathan reached out standing to his feet, "Let's get back," he said with a smile on his face.

"What are you doing James?" Kymani asked, raising an eyebrow, "I'm making a bow duh," James said as he continued to carve a stick with a plastic knife. *Well looks like someone went insane* Toby thought to himself as he shrugged and walked to the fire pit, he grabbed a flint n' steel they found in Jonathan's backpack and started a quick fire for the night. "They've been missing for almost two days now," James said, "do you think they're dead-," James was stopped in his tracks when the other two boys looked at him with frowns. "I think they're alive, and I think they'll be back within time, but I don't know how everyone feels," Kymani said looking at James with aggression, it was evident Toby was on Kymani's side on the account that he too shook his head at James. "Ok, I think they are alive as well," James said with slight sarcasm, *I want them to be alive, but I have to face facts they are probably not with us* James thought as he put down the stick and started walking back to camp. The sun started to set and the boys went to sleep, but in the middle of the night James was awoken by a strange sound coming from the bushes, "The hell is that?" James said aloud, waking up Kymani, "Dude, go to sleep," Kymani said. Then the rustling continued alerting Kymani who quickly stood up, "Ok maybe don't go back to sleep," Kymani said getting in a fighting stance, suddenly a deer popped out of the bushes, "Oh that's not that bad," James said calming down. The deer looked at the boys and stood up on its hind legs, its arms extended and grew claws, and its face expanded showing a distorted human. "Oh shit, so it's literally just a skinwalker?" Kymani said backing up, "Why the hell would it kill a deer?" James said, the skinwalker then leaped out at them.