THREE HOURS UNTIL DAWN
Location: Washington Lodge Grounds
Time: 0439
Y/N
"So, how many shots until they're down for good?" I ask the man as I follow behind him. "Well, you'd be shooting a long time." He tells me. "So they don't go down easy..." I muttered to myself. "Does it have a weakness?" I ask him as I continued to follow. "They don't like fire. That shotgun will only slow it down." He tells me. We walk away from the lodge and into the woods to the shed.
"They fear it, and it can kill them if you have to...see their skin is like...it's like tough armor, unless you burn it off first." He explains. "So, we burn a patch of its skin, and if we hit it again at the same spot, we might be able to take it down?" I ask him. "That's a way to think of it." He tells me. Another question pops up into my head as we walked on.
"Do they follow any sort of patterns?" I ask him. "They do. They're like any animal...or human." He tells me. "What do you mean?" I ask him. "I didn't ask." He tells me sarcastically. "Oh...well, is there anything else I need to know?" I ask him as we climbed up the hill.
"They can't see you if you're standing still. It's like toads...sight is based on changes of movements in their field of vision. " He tells me. "I already know that. I met one already." I told him as we see the shed. "Heh. Then consider yourself an amateur then, kid." He tells me as I enter the shed. I noticed a tipped over chair and a flickering light. I also saw bloodstains. "Oh no..." I muttered. "Was I too late?" I questioned as I stared at the chair in front of me. I looked around the shed and saw no Josh. "We're too--"
"Shh! Quiet!" The man tells me as I silenced myself. I quietly follow behind me. I then heard the screams of the Wendigo. "We gotta go. Right now." The man tells me. "But, Josh! He's gotta be around here." I tell him as he scoffs.
"Ha! First, the Wendigo, he'll render you immobile. And then he strips the skin off of your entire body, piece by piece. And then he keeps you alive and aware and feasts on your organs, one piece at a time." The man tells me. "So, the Lodge, then." I tell him as he nods. "Let's go now, it might still be near!" He tells me as I follow after him.
"Wait!" He shouts at me as I stop. "Don't...move..." He tells me as I stood frozen in place. "...Be very quiet..." The man checks out the path in front of us. "Run! Go! Now! Now!" He shouts as I ran and follow him. A Wendigo appears in front of us."Back!" The man shouts as he uses his flamethrower and scares it away. I stayed behind him. "We're right out in the open." He points out. "We gotta get out of here!" He shouts as a Wendigo quickly appears and slices the man's neck. I watch as he falls limply to the ground and blood paint the snow. His head rolls off of him.
"Shit..." I muttered as a Wendigo appeared in front of me. it jumps at me as I quickly shoot it. It flies back as I start to run and cock the gun. I saw a tree branch and roll under it as I kept running. I turned back and saw the Wendigo jump at me. I shot it again as it flies back to the tree branch. I turn and quickly made my way to the Lodge. "C'mon...how far is it!" I muttered as I stopped and saw another Wendigo in front of me. 'I'm so close!' I told myself.
'There's more than one?!" I inwardly shout as I shot it before it could jump me. Before I could go into the Lodge, another one appeared and jumped at me. I spotted a gas tank as I aimed at it and fired. The explosion blew the Wendigo back as it gave me the time to head back into the Lodge. I started banging on the door.
"Hey! Let me in!" I shouted as the door opened I rolled inside the Lodge as I heard the door close behind me. "Oh my god, Y/N! What happened?" I felt a pair of arms help me up. It was Sam. "We can't talk here. We have to head down." I told her as I gripped onto her wrist and went down.
Location: Old Hotel
Time: 0447
"Oh my god! Guys! Thank god!" I heard Emily exclaim as we enter the room. "What took you so long?!" I heard Ashley ask us as Mike closes the door behind us. "It's not so good up there right now." I told them as I leaned the shotgun against a table. "Understatement of the night." Mike comments.
"Y/N...where's the flamethrower guy?" I heard Chris ask me. "He didn't make it." I told them. "Oh no!" Emily shouts in disbelief. "What happened?" I heard Sam ask me. "The Wendigo, it got him and sliced his head off..." I told them as I looked down on my hands. "Oh god." Sam comments as she holds onto my hands as she tries to comfort me.
"Alright. These all the doors?" Mike asks. "Yeah." Ashley answers. "Are you sure?" Mike asks again as he goes and checks for something. "What are you looking for?" Chris asks Mike. "Another way out." Mike answers him as he comes back into the room.
"Mike...I really don't think that's a good idea. We should stay put, right here, until dawn." Ashley tells him. "How are people going to find this place if we stay here? We have no service down here and I doubt any of our phones are still alive." I told the group as I walked towards Mike who was staring at tv screens that captured angles from inside the house.
"The Sanatorium..." I heard Mike mutter. "I'm leaving." Mike says as he starts to leave. "Mike...there's no key for the cable care--" '!!!' "Josh. He has to have it." I told Mike as he nods. I walk up to him. "Josh?" Sam questions. "One of his dirty little tricks." Mike says.
"If that fucking thing got a hold of Josh...then...we're shit outta luck." Mike speaks the truth. "I don't know, Mike...it's possible..." Emily speaks. "It's possible yes, but it's also possible that he's still alive and breathing." I say out loud. "It may have taken it down to the mines..." I heard Emily let out.
"What?" Mike queries. "I saw some horrible stuff down there...I think it's where that thing lives...and...huh." Emily stops as she found something. "Em? What?" Sam calls out to her. "Fuck it." I heard Mike say. "I'm gonna get that key. Right from that thing's goddamned bedroom, and then I'm gonna get us all the hell out of here." Mike tells us.
No one replies as Emily and Sam continue to look at something. Mike and I walk over to the girls. "Em, what is all of this?" I heard Sam ask Emily."It's that old guy's bag." Emily answers her. "Is that a map?" Mike asks them. As I look over Sam's shoulder. "The guy was prepared for anything." Sam commented.
"Not quite." I let out as I looked at the contents of the bag. Sam looks at the map. "What is this place?" She queried as I looked at the map. "Oh my god." Mike started. "Wait wait wait. What is that?" Sam asks again as she points at something.
"I was down there. It was horrible." Mike tells us. "You were?" Sam asks Mike. "There had been a cave-in. In the fifties, I guess, and these miners got trapped down there." Mike explains. "Oh my god..." Sam lets out. "Some of them survived but...like...fifteen of 'em didn't make it. There was this report and I think he figured out there had been some, like, big cover-up going on. I found these plans -- they knew the mines was a death trap, but they let the miners keep working anyway. And...I'm not sure what it means but I found this chair with dried blood all over the place...like somebody's been tortured." Mike tells us.
"Michael. I'd like to maybe focus on how we're going to get the fuck out of here please?" Emily tells him. "I'm just saying it's weird how much crazy shit's gone on up here..." Mike tells her. "What's weird is that there's a tunnel leading from the Lodge to the Sanatorium, see?" She tells him as she points at the tunnel.
"That's how I got back here." Mike tells her. "I saw this. When I was down in there. That's where it lives." Emily tells us. "Em..." I heard Ashley call out as we turn to her. "Em, what is that...?" Ashley asks her as she backs away from her. "Huh?" Emily lets out confused. I looked at Emily and saw a huge gash on her shoulder.
"What is that?" Ashley asks her again as Mike and Sam started to peel off of Emily as I walked closer. "Y/N!" I heard Chris shout my name as I ignored him. "Emily..." I started. "Em, oh my god oh my god oh my god! Oh no, oh no, oh no!" Ashley shouts. "It's nothing. I just -- it bit me, and --" "It bit you? What bit you?" Ashley asks her.
"The ah...The Wendigo." Emily tells her. "The what?" Mike lets out. "It's nothing, really, it's not a big deal -- " "You okay?" I heard Sam ask her. I watched as Mike grabs his face and let out a sigh. "Shit." Mike says. "It doesn't hurt anymore. Really. It's not that bad." Emily tells us.
"Em..." Mike starts. "If that thing bit you..." Mikes starts again. "I know what you're thinking. And I'm fine." Emily steps towards him as he takes a quick step back. "Are you?" He asks her. "Yes!" She cries out.
"Emily. Let me, at least, check it." I tell her. "Emily...if the Wendigo bit you...you could turn into one of those things." Mike tells her. "Oh, that's ridiculous." Sam tells him. "He said it was from eating each other -- remember, he said that!" Ashley tells us.
"Wait is that how it worked?" Sam asks her. "Yes-!" "No!" I shouted. "There's the Wendigo curse. The curse will activate and turn the victim when they resort to cannibalism. And is Emily eating my arm right now?" I ask them. "I can't take any chances. She can't be down here with us." Mike says out loud. "What?!" Emily lets out. "Mike!" Sam shouts at him. Mike shakes his head.
"You gotta go." He tells her. "Are you kidding me?!" Emily lets out. "You're putting us all in danger!" Mike tells her. "Like hell I am!" Emily tells Mike. "Emily...you can't stay here." Mike tells her.
"Mike...just cool your head, okay? We don't know if it works like that. Maybe it's just a bite." Sam tells her. 'Are they just disregarding what I just said...' I thought in my head as I stayed quiet. "Y/N. You've seen what those fuckers can do. And I know you don't want to see it again." Chris tells me as I fisted my hand.
"What is this. Guys. What are you doing?" Emily asks them. Mike then motions the door. "Door's right here. I'm letting you do this voluntarily." Mike tells her. "Oh no you're just making yourself feel better about sending me to my death since you know there's a Wendigo out there ready to rip me to pieces like it did with --"
"Okay! Oh my god! Will you just go?!" Ashley shouts at her. "Go! Get out of here!" Ashley shouts at Emily. I watch as Mike pulls out a revolver and aims at Emily. "...Okay..." Emily mutters. I step in front of her and glared at him. "Mike. Don't do it. We barely know anything about the Wendigos. Don't do it." I tell him.
"Y/N, please get out of the way. We can't risk anything." He tells me. "I'm staying here whether you like it or not, Mike, because I still believe that Emily won't turn on us." I tell him as he cocks the revolver and he looks down the sight.
"Mike! Cool your head! Don't do it!" Sam tells him as he pushes her away. "I'm going to ask again, Y/N, step out of the way, or I shoot both of you." He tells me. "Emily is not going to turn on us. By my words, if she turns on us, then it's my fault." I tell him as he takes a step forward. "Y/N!" Mike shouts at me.
"Do it. I dare you, Mike."