The remaining members of the group were dashing through the trees to where they had heard Raven's scream coming from. Jess and Gemma were the most panicked of all, sprinting full speed to find the source of the scream.
When they arrived, they saw Raven's lifeless corpse laying on the ground with blood pooling around her and coming from her mouth too.
Jess let out a pained sob, her injuries were hurting badly from the sprinting and she couldn't wrap her head around the fact that her best friend was laying on the ground a few feet in front of her, dead.
She fell to her knees by Raven's side, taking her hand into her own as she started to sob. "Raven, no. This- this cant be real" On her left she felt Gemm join her by Raven's side, sobbing just as much as Jess was as she placed her hand on the older girl's shoulder.
Gemma had lost her girlfriend, the person she loved and two of her best friends in a matter of a few days. Jess placed her hand on top of Gemma's, her hand was covered in Raven's blood but neither girl cared about that right now.
Jess turned to Gemma, pulling her into an embrace as she sobbed into her shoulder. Gemma returned the hug as Lisa and Vi looked upon the scene with saddened expressions. This only gave the girls more motivation to kill whoever had done this to someone who had mattered so much to them all.
As Lisa watched the two girls embrace, a thought passed through her head. "Where's Henrik?" She asked, turning to look at Vi.
Vi looked up at Lisa, a confused look on her face for a split second before the realization dawned on her.
Henrik was the monster.
"Guys!" She shouted, causing Gemma and Jess to look round at her. "I know who did this"
Jess looked at her in confusion as she wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve and wiped the blood onto her sweater.
"It's Henrik" She said.
"No way, Henrik didn't do this " Jess quickly dismissed the idea. She trusted her friends with her life and regarded it as the height of dishonour to believe they would break that trust in any way. She was just a trusting person, sometimes way too trusting.
Vi sighed, she knew that Jess would be hard to convince of this but she was almost 100% sure she knew it was Henrik that did this. She squatted down next to Jess who was still on her knees beside Raven's body. "Listen, I know you trust Henrik with your life and I know you don't like thinking your friends aren't perfect but I'm telling, Jess. It was Henrik who killed Raven."
Jess let her gaze shift from Vi's face to Raven's lifeless eyes. She let out an aggravated sigh, wanting nothing more than to wake up and this all be a dream. The more that she thought about it, it did make sense that Henrik did this. His injuries matched up with the hyde and he was conveniently not there when either Luna or the hunter's bodies were found. Plus he was the last person seen with Raven before they found her.
But what if Henrik wasn't the killer and he just watched Raven get brutally murdered and ran away, scared for his life. She shuddered to think about Henrik being out there alone with a killer on the loose.
"But what if he ran away? What if he's dead too?" Jess asked, panicking for her friend despite what Victoria was telling her,
"Will you fucking listen to me?" She snapped at Jess, annoyed with how trusting and frankly idiotic the other girl was being. "Henrik just killed your best friend and your worrying about him?"
Jess didn't want to believe it, and part of her was hoping that Vi would be proven wrong even if it did mean Henrik being in danger, but the likeliness of that was low. Jess nodded. "I'm listening" She said, finally coming to terms with the fact that Henrik had brutally taken the lives of two of her friends. And now that Jess was thinking about it, if it wasn't for Henrik, Caitlin would still be alive too.
Jess and Gemma stood up along with Vi, they all looked at each other, Lisa looking at the three from a distance. Here they were, trapped in the woods with a killer who used to be one of their best friends on the loose and no weapons to be seen.
"What do we do?" Lisa asked, fidgeting nervously with the sleeve of her shirt.
"We find that fucker and we kill him" Gemma said, wiping her tears with her blood covered hands.
"Kill? How are we going to manage that, we don't even have a weapon" Jess exclaimed, throwing her hands up in frustration.
Just as the group started to plan their next moves, they heard a rustling in the trees behind them and shot around to face the source of the noise. All four girls stood rooted to the spot but after a few seconds of rustling, Henrik emerged from the trees.
"Stay back, you fucking psycho!" Vi yelled out to him. They were screwed, they didn't have a single weapon in sight besides the stick that Raven had been using which was too far away for any of them to reach.
"Oh so you already know? That'll make this easier" Henrik said casually which only came as a shock to Jess. This time, instead of his whole body transforming, the only thing that happened was Henrik's hand started to grow huge, his claws piercing through his knuckles and emerging.
He reached forward, stabbing Vi directly in the mouth as his claw reached down her throat. She let out a muffled scream as blood started to sill her mouth, pouring from the side of her lips as everyone watched in shock and fear. Then Henrik pulled his claws from her throat, her hands making her way up to her neck to clutch her wound when another attack came, one claw went into each of Vi's eye sockets, causing Lisa, Gemma and Jess to scream out in fright.
"This is what you get for being fucking stupid. You should've known it was me all along." He screamed in her face, pulling his clawed hand upwards to tear Vi's head clean off. Her body dropped to the ground but her head remained stuck to Henrik's claw.
The rest of the girls gasped in fright as they just watched their friend get brutalised right in front of them, they would never get over that for as long as they lived. Which didn't appear to be very long.
"Who's next?"