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Jennifer and her college friend Raphael decided that they wanted to go camping for the weekend. Raphael was going to be marrying his long-term girlfriend next week and this would be Jennifer's last chance to get to spend the weekend with her best friend and just hang out like they always used to do.

Their truck flew down the old mountain road, the trees towering all around them on all sides, when their tires suddenly exploded!

Jennifer cried out, "What the....!?"

"Hold on!" Raphael yelled as he fought to bring the vehicle under control and he managed to slow it down just as it ran aground in a small bank, but right before it struck a tree head on.

The driver and passenger doors opened and they stepped out. They looked at all four tires with perplexed expressions. All four were flat.

"How did this...?" Raphael started to ask but was interrupted.

"There." Jen pointed out. "Look."

She pointed up the road where barbed wire had been stretched across the road intentionally to snare any passer-by's vehicle tires.

Raphael frowned, "Who would do....?"

A sharp whistle blew thru the trees, stopping them short.

From high up in the trees, Lizzy and her friend Todd watched. They and their family had called these woods home for generations. Only their family.

They wore smiles on their disfigured faces as they watched through binoculars at the two far below the hill and on the road. These two were not their first such victims over the years. They had come to be experts at hunting the family meals.

Now all they had to do was capture them and bring them home.

Wait, hold on a sec.

*Raph grabbed his bow and arrows from the truck. He'd hoped there was going to be time to do a little hunting during the camping trip. Careful what you wish for, huh? Now it looked lkike there'd be plenty of stalking game. Just not by him.*

I don't suppose you brought anything? We're gonna have a hard time of it, but . . . whoever's after us is gonna have to work for it, I promise you that.

*There were more than a few people who were actually surprised that Raph was marrying Venus and NOT Jen, the way the two got along. But as much as they were bestest friends in the world, there was never any romantic spark on either side.*

Bastards know this place too well, and they're too close, otherwise, I'd say we should take a page out of Rambo's book and build some boobytraps.

*He paused and thought about it.* Then again, it's not like I actually know HOW to build traps. So . . . yeah. Friggin' hillbillies. I'm not exactly sure what they want, setting barbed wire across the road? But I'll bet you good money we're not supposed to be seen again. Venus is gonna be pissed if we let those rednecks have their way.

"WAAA!" Jen cried out as the hillbilly opened fired. "When did they get machine guns?"

She wanted to talk some more to Raph about Venus, was she really the right girl for him? She had to wonder since she had been warned by her before the trip not to do anything untoward to her fiancé. Jen had asked what "untoward thing" but it had all been huffed away. The girl was super possessive.

"Let's just make sure that we can survive, I really do not want to face a super angry Venus." Jen screamed as she ducked down behind the wreckage of their truck. "I'm sure she'd even hunt down our ghosts!"

The personal drama could wait, for now all Jen wanted to do was run away. She hunkered down and rummaged in the trunk that was smashed open. There had to be more things she could take to escape!

Lizzy grinned wildly at the retreating prey, her eyes were at hungry and her belly!

"Ohh!! Big Brother! lemme go after the girly girl!! She Can be mah new bestest friend! We can play tea party! Then Maybeh we can have her for suppah!!"

Lizzy hopped between branches like it was her own personalty play ground with the athletic ability of a gymnast. This was all a game for her, An huntin was the pick o the crop!

"Her' ah come lil Girly! Whoo WHHO!"

Lizzy cheered then dropped on top of the car that Jen was in! Swinging her legs round she went in feet first into the open window of the truck, passenger side.

With a wide smile on her really bad teeth, the girl looked like a 'mut' of different countries, taking a good look at Lizzy one would guess she was of mixed origin. but whould have a hard time guess which ones.. not that it mattered to her.

"Hi There! Ah'm Lizzy-Mea! And you'll be comin' with me now. Ah'm taken ya to Mah house for Suppah!'"

"Well That Ain't Very NiSE!! That Ain't NIse at all!! Don't go shoo'in mah brother-cousin!" Lizzy got angery now. There people was a family and ya don' go shoo'in at family. And live ta talk 'bout it!

"Now! ya just going hafta pay! Play tames over!"

Lizzy lunged at Jenny like a hungreh wolf pouncing on her in the car, landing in the back seat, she sat on topah her, opened her mouth wide and tried to take a big bite outa Jenny's arm.

"Ah Do love meh some Green wings! Num, Num num!"

Yeah, well, I'm well past angry, yuou cousin screwing scumbag! I just wanted to go camping with my friend! And you can't do this to us! We're human beings!

*Raph hesitated for a moment. He thought if he could get into close range he could beat this sorry redneck down. The problem was getting close when there were firearms in play.*

*He nocked another arrow, but didn't draw it back yet.*

You're a pair of cowards is what you are!

"You ain't shwting nothing!" Jen shouted.

The truck wreckage was slowly catching fire and Jen wanted to get as far back as possible.

"Raph! Take this chance and run now! Don't be a fool!" Jen knew that Raph was a martial arts nut. She understood how he worked and any minute he would be trying to do this by hand to hand combat. They just needed to run away and get help.

Jen was going further down the road getting some distance between the fire and herself. She needed to make some special cocktails. She wasn't going to be tackling these freaks hand to hand.