Prologue
Prologue
One Year Ago
Last Halloween
The full moon shone very bright up on the night sky. It’s reflection could be seen on the surface of the lake. If it weren’t for the owls hooting, it would just have seemed tranquil, rather than haunting.
But what also made it more haunting was that it was also the scariest night of the year.
In fact it was the scariest night for every year.
It was the night of all nights.
It was the 31st of October.
It was All Hallow’s Eve.
It was Halloween Night.
Tonight some high school kids were behaving crazy, drinking and smoking. Expensive-looking cars were parked by pine trees, as the lake itself was situated within some woods.
But they weren’t just high school kids.
They were the the top dogs of high school.
They were the kids everyone else worshipped.
They were the kings and queens of prom night.
They were the envied.
They were also the respected.
They were the popular kids.
Right now they were teams of couples making out on the forest ground, not far from the banks by the lake.
Right now they were drinking, filling their surroundings with empty can litters.
Right now they were excited careless teenagers, coming back from their skinny dipping.
Right now they were just making noises and screaming at the top of their lungs, as if they owned the world.
Right now all they just wanted to have a good time.
Right now they just didn’t care, of whatever the consequences that may arise from their actions later on.
These kids, after all, were spoiled. Very often.
They cared about nobody.
Except themselves.
They always did what they wanted, because they knew they could get away with it. In fact they always got away with it. They didn’t care about other people’ feelings.
Especially other students’ feelings.
Especially those who weren’t popular.
To those who despised their popularity, they had many names.
Jocks.
Airheads.
Cheerleaders.
One particular jock named Aaron was making out with his Blonde cheerleader girlfriend Kris. Aaron had a good future ahead of him.
After all, he was a quarterback. As they were making out, he instinctively pushed her away from him.
He detached his lips from hers.
“Do you hear that???” Aaron asked Kris.
“Hear what????” Kris asked in a confused manner.
“I keep on hearing all these sounds, like someone is popping up balloons!!!” complained Aaron.
“I don’t hear anything!!!” whined Kris.
Aaron had very sensitive ears, and often heard things very well.
Even from afar.
“Aaron what’s your problem???” Kris cried angrily, being extremely confused and annoyed at the same time.
Aaron was looking around, surrounded by darkness in the woods, in the same woods all these high school students were in.
Something caught Aaron’s eyes.
Something that made his heart boil, with anger.
“Hey you there. What do you think you’re doing????” Aaron screamed angrily.
Aaron got up from the ground, moving away from Kris.
He was rushing with quick athletic speed towards a certain direction.
He was headed towards one of the their cars, a BMW, that was parked by a tree.
A stranger, all dressed up in some kind of hood, was kneeling and bending by one of the front tires.
Aaron could see what the hooded stranger was doing.
He was slashing that particular car tire.
As Aaron was nearing both the car and the hooded stranger, he could see and hear the slashed car tire making a loud whooshing noise.
Aaron could see the BMW’s tire slowly flattening up.
Aaron’s heart was raging. He was boiling.
I am going to pounce the crap out of this weirdo!!!!, Aaron thought.
He figured that this was one of the losers from high school, who was probably spying on them the whole time.
“I am going to give you one Halloween night you’re never ever going to forget!!!” Aaron threatening the hooded stranger.
Aaron clenched his right fist really tightly.
The hooded stranger started standing up straight.
Kris was watching everything from where she was.
Kris quickly got off the ground.
Kris stared at both her boyfriend and the hooded stranger.
She couldn’t see the face and the figure reminded her of some kind of robed monk.
She felt something didn’t seem right.
About this hooded figure.
She could sense it.
Kris looked at the rest of her friends.
Kris looked at all the other ‘popular kids’.
They were oblivious to what was going on, just making out, drinking and deeply engaged within their own small world.
She wanted to tell the rest of them what was going on.
She then turned to look back at Aaron and the hooded stranger.
But as Kris turned back to face the direction where her boyfriend was, her heart froze.
She was, all of a sudden, mesmerized.
On the air, she saw something flying towards her.
Instinctively she grabbed it, knocking her backwards to the ground, as if a football had been thrown to her.
What she was holding in her hands, was causing her to scream at the top of her lungs.
It was the severed bloodied head of her boyfriend.
It was the severed bloodied head of Aaron.
All eyes were now turned to Kris.
And the hooded robed figure.
The hooded robed figure was walking towards them.
Towards all of them.
Kris kept screaming, instantly dropping the head, and shifting her gaze instead to Aaron’s killer. Kris, and the rest of her peers, had their eyes glued the person who had just murdered Aaron.
But no one was doing anything.
Despite the fact that they heavily outnumbered this hooded murderer, they were all scared.
As to why they were scared, was because the figure had just removed the top part of the hood.
They all saw the true face of Aaron’s murderer.
Aaron’s murderer was not a ‘ person.’
Aaron’s murderer was some kind of monster.
It was a monster, that started growling and snarling.
It and snarled so loud, that the entire forest would hear its roaring.
It’s eyes.
They were full of malice.
They looked evil.
And Kris was no longer screaming alone.
The rest of her friends were screaming as well.
They started screaming........and running.
Running for their lives.
Before Halloween Night would be over, the forest pine trees and nocturnal animals would hear the sounds and screams coming from those kids who were out on the woods that night.
They would spend the entire time before dawn, trying to save their own necks, running and hiding.
Whatever it was that was stalking them, was a professional hunter.
It was a professional predator.
It was a professional killer.
No one would hear their screams.
No one would come to save them.
And not one of them would make it out alive, before the night is over.
After all, none of the town adults would know they were even there.
The town adults were busy with their own Halloween parties, dressed up in all kinds and sorts of costumes.
The parents from these kids were so busy having such good time, that they did not even bother to check their cell phones.
They did not bother to see if they had gotten any calls or text messages from their own kids. They did not see the missed calls and text messages.
They did not see the cries for help.
But on the 1st of November, and the days to come, the entire town would know what had happened to the most popular kids from school.
Their bodies would be found all over the woods.
