The three of us made our way into the woods quietly, I kept a slight distance away from Jacks so if needed either of us could call each other. I heard the bird call that was our code and I looked over to see Jacks knelt down in the dirt. "Find something?" I asked. He nodded and pointed to the ground. As I took a closer look I could see the tracks of a bear, just like Jacks had said they would look like. when I looked closer something was not right. "It's a mother and her cubs, that's why so many animals have been taken probably." He nodded again.
"This just became a little harder."
We followed the tracks to see where the family was headed and found a cave. It was good size and would easily hold the three cubs and the mother bear. I motioned for Jacks to stay put as I took a closer look, I knew he would come and help if I was in danger.
Inside the cave there was still plenty of light to be able to see what was in front of me and I could almost make out the back of the cave. I stumbled slightly but recovered enough to not make a lot of noise, and I could tell at least one bear was in the cave because I could hear the sound of something crunching. When I looked down to see what I had stumbled on I did not know what to think. It was a bear skull. It was the mother's skull, the cubs were not big enough to do something like that which made me wonder what was eating in this cave.
I took my bow off of my shoulder and knocked an arrow, drawing it halfway and getting ready to fire. As I kept going forward I could see a small framed figured crouched down, gnawing on a bone, what looked to be the mother bear's leg. My heart started to race faster and then the figured stopped moving, almost as if it were listening but there was no way it could hear my heart. I fully drew my bow, aimed for a second and let it loose. A hand shot out and caught it in mid flight before it touched the back of its head. It turned around and I finally saw its face as it hissed and growled.
It was a little girl, no older then seven, half of her face was coated in blood as were her hands, it was even throughout her hair which was matted black and covered the other half of her face.
"Jacks!" I yelled as I saw her starting to run at me. Out of nowhere I saw his blade swoop down inches from my face and almost take off her fingers, she crawled backwards out of the way and stared at us growling. "That was quick."
"I was on my way in, I saw bear bones outside the cave, I take it this little tyke is the cause." I nodded, my eyes wide at what we had found. "Don't worry she's not crazy, just possessed it looks like. She's probably the one who ate the villagers animals too"
"Possessed?" I had heard stories but I never thought I would see someone who was, especially not a little girl who had taken out a family of a mother bear and her three cubs. "What do we do?"
"We're on the job, so we take care of the problem."
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