It was the year 2032, three years after the third world war. It was a deadly decade of deaths, cities bombed to the ground, leaving only ancient forests to stand their ground as half of the rainforests in the UK were turned into harvesting farms. Four mischievous kids, all aged eighteen, grew bored of endlessly wandering around in their posh colleges benefited by their wealthy parents and have nothing to do. Erickson, the hyperactive mind of the mischievous group, recommended a tour in The Kielder Forest to pass time and explore the haunted past of Kielder Forest, which was the home of the notorious serial killer dubbed 'Bone Crusher'. They were all reluctant at first but eventually agreed because it was the only thing that could at least entertain them and distract them from the extreme rules the school had placed on them.

The gloomy night of the forest dominated the ground as their deadly touch forced bugs and animals to find shelter and protection as it was like they were warned about the forthcoming commotion of trespassing humans. Strolling together in a group, two females and two males, cuddled up together to have heat run around in their veins while a female with royal blue hair, waving past her chest to be bluntly cut off at the ends, shined a torch from her rectangle slim phone to watch where she was going. None of them was bothered by the fact that the murky forest seemed uncanny and felt phenomenal, they were full of laughter as they revisited embarrassing memories of the past. Only one seemed afraid of their surroundings, that was the hunched brunette boy wearing glasses, he was hugging himself thoroughly like a defensive mechanism. His eyes popped out of his sockets as they kept darting everywhere with every movement representing deep paranoia.

"Erickson, are we sure we should be here?" The boy inquired, grabbing Erickson's attention who dropped his cunning grin and revealed disturbance the soon he faced the startling brunette.

"Seriously, Allen? What is it with you being afraid of everything?" Erickson snapped back with a snarl, stopping in his tracks.

"Just leave him. If he's going to keep acting up, we might as well just leave him." A high-pitched female with blonde hair tied into two pigtails approached the conversation, she stood still with her arms folded into each other, resting on her chest. Her amber eyes exchanged glares with Allen who remained quiet since he had a crush on this girl.

"Or we could just chuck him in that cave over there." The blue-haired girl with baby blue eyes changed the focus onto something the group didn't recognise previously. They all glanced at the blue-haired girl for a second before directing their attention over to the spacious cave barricaded by ingrown veiny grass and branches that had a cone-shaped wooden door imprinted with hysterical symbols outcast by the circling lanky bent trees.

"Go on then, Lucinda," Erickson commended, brushing his luscious medium length blonde hair behind his pointy ears nearly resembling elf ears, to shove his deviant grin into Lucinda's face.

Agitated by Erickson's cheesy charm, Lucinda slapped both of her hands on the side of her curvy hips and strutted tall, puffing hair out of her mouth as she glared down at Erickson with an independent beauty charm. She knew Erickson crushed on her but also feared her, so she used that to her advantage until a strong Erickson backed down and admitted defeat.

"Ugh, fine," Erickson grunted, stomping over the cave to investigate it, as he touched it up, dragging his fingers along the ingrown nature, grabbed onto the knob of the door and began to jerk the door open.

"Wait, Erickson! Let's not do this, we're already trespassing-" Allen attempted to reason.

"Shut up, Allen! Stop being such a fucking wuss and move on!" Erickson yelled.

"There he is," The blonde female hummed a melody.

"You piss off as well, Taylor," Erickson replied, silencing Taylor who had a crush on Erickson. She was dominated by Erickson and she enjoyed it.

Feeling annoyed enough, Erickson jerked the door wide open, feeling the trapped wind come out in full force and shivered Erickson to the bones. Taking the moment in, he checked around inside and was faced with nothing but dreadful darkness; secretly relieved to not have been attacked.

He uttered, "See! Nothing is inside!" with pure excitement and stubbornness before coming to a sudden stop. The sounds of bones cracking echoed from out of the cave, scaring the three students who froze in science.

"Stop messing around, Erickson." Lucinda whimpered weakly.

What they expected wasn't exactly the thing they wanted to see in reality; as Erickson turned around like he was on strings, blood poured from his head as his jaw was snapped wide open, flapping around with bones not securing the lock on the jaw. Traumatised enough, the group of intimidated students started to escape the scene when a black figure stood out from the cave. The figure was pure black and had a liquidy body, its fingers were long sharp claws and it had the body of an average 5-year-old kid, it had swirling horns in the form of a shadow while its eyes glowed deep red with a red flare that flowed out the sockets. It took a quick second glance at Taylor who was far behind the other two, snapped its fingers apart vaporized in the air, appearing seconds after, hovering over Taylor who had no idea how close this black figure was. Once it hovered over Taylor for a few seconds, it positioned itself in a landing posture and descended onto Taylor with the violent speed that ended up ripping Taylor into thousands of pieces as her blood splattered onto the trees and decorated the bland appearance of the ancient forest.

The next unexpected victim was Lucinda, she had a few ten feet under her name as whe was possibly the quickest member of this doomed group, and was seen frantically scrolling down her phone to dial the emergency service as tears streamed down her face. The receiving end eventually picked up after what seemed for ages.

"What is your emergency-" A restless female voice went to phrase but had no chance when Lucinda wept through the speakers loudly.

"H-H-help me-" Just before Lucinda could finish her sentence, a trunk of a chunky tree ripped from its roots sped towards Lucinda, shredding Lucinda into a flat gooey mess as soon as it collided. The black figure hovered over a flattened Lucinda before it concentrated on its last victim, who was Allen, after zipping through the forests trying to locate where Allen was, came to a stop when the figure accidentally spotted Allen behind the cave whimpering to himself.

Allen went completely tight-lipped when he felt a brush of wind and the landing of the figure who crisped across the leaves, it smelt of death and almost made Allen puke for nausea. But, Allen stayed strong and gently locked eyes with the emotionless figure who expressed no concern and had no facial structure. Its eyes were full of emptiness and had no emotions left inside them.

"I did what I requested...I gave you food in return for powers. Please, I'll leave you alone for eternity…" Allen sobbed, feeling the freezing hands of the black figure cup Allen's cheeks to what seemed like a sign of remorse. Then when Allen thought he was saved, the figure began twisting his hands around, forcing his right hand to grab the upper half of Allen's jaw so the left hand could grab the bottom half. Allen tasted stone before feeling a tremendous pain as his jaw began fastening open, stressing the jaw as the figure gave a last tug to pull apart Allen's jaw to loosen the traction of the jaw and make it jump around loosely, revealing the detailed insides of the organs.

Then the figure's stomach grumbled.