Arbor Demon Page #3

They need a dad, right?

I mean...

They're supposed

to have a daddy.

Even if it's

a shitty one, you know?

Do you have any kids?

No. What are you doing?

Can't blame a guy

for trying, right?

Yes, you can.

Man:
Help me!

Charles:
One of your buddies.

Sean:

Describe him to me.

Charles:
Dressed like you.

He has a beard.

Oh, that's Howard.

- Howard:
Help me!

- Charles:
We have to get him.

Please wait!

Howard!

Howard, we're coming for you!

Howard:
Help!

Is it setting a trap?

Howard, hang on, buddy!

Howard!

Well...

Howard was pretty high

all the time

so he probably didn't feel much.

Sounds like he felt everything.

Yeah, meth makes you fearless.

Right.

Fearless.

What do you know about it?

Tell me what you know about it.

I know you know something.

Why hasn't it attacked us?

Is it afraid of something?

Why is it waiting?

What the hell is it?

I guess you could say

I've heard about it.

My whole life growing up,

I heard tales

about what happened out here.

People not coming back.

My friends all thought

they were bullshit stories

just to keep us fools

from wandering off, but...

I had a crazy grandma, Millie.

Millie ray.

She used to tell

some crazy stories.

All kinds of crazy stories.

She said she knew the truth.

The truth about what happened

out here hundreds of years ago.

Before everything went white.

I believed her.

I mean, I was a kid.

I believed anything, but...

She told me a story

about a gullah woman.

These warriors went and captured

a teenage girl

from a rival village.

Course, she had to be beautiful.

But the young thing,

before she knew it,

was tied up to a...

Wooden frame stuck

in a bear den.

See, there was a drought.

The sacrifice was to cause

as much blood as possible

to rain down upon the earth

and fertilize it.

But this girl was pregnant.

She survived long enough

to deliver the baby.

But she didn't last very long

in that bear den.

And a few years later,

some women from that tribe,

some pregnant women...

Disappeared.

Legend has it that anyone

who goes out there

and tries to find them

doesn't come back.

Grandma Millie says her spirit

still lives out here

and it still happens

to this day.

I know it sounds pretty crazy.

I mean, grandma Millie

was pretty nuts.

She convinced the taxidermist

to stuff grandpa.

Now, he sits

in the la-z-boy chair

watching reruns of jeopardy!

With her all the time.

I don't know.

So here we are.

Here we are.

Hey.

Hey.

Can you... Scratch my back?

I got an itch in my back.

Can you scratch it?

I can't reach it.

Right in the middle.

No, come up, get closer.

Yeah, there you go.

Not so hard. Yeah.

The book is not mine.

It's not your book.

And I suppose

those horse pills aren't...

mind your own business, ok?

So, does he...

Please.

Stop hitting on my wife.

Thank you.

It's all good.

We were just talking.

Just having a little

conversation about life.

Oh, nails, you're gonna

make a great...

oh, wife.

You're a lucky man, Charles,

to have such an honest,

compassionate woman.

Much better than mine.

Rare.

Very rare.

Hey!

- No one's trying to be a hero!

- Dana:
Are you insane?

No. I'm just gettin'

out of here.

You son of a b*tch,

we saved your life.

No, he saved my life, remember?

Come on.

What do you mean?

You think the tent is

some magical safe zone?

No. You're my ticket

out of here.

What?

That thing's not attacking

us because it knows...

What are you talking about?

It's not the tent, you idiot.

The thing knows you're pregnant.

She's not f***in' pregnant!

Are you?

Charles:
Are you?

I'm sorry, baby,

i was gonna tell you.

I knew you didn't want it and...

F***.

Ok, good.

Now that everything's

out in the open...

You a**hole.

We'll send somebody

back for him,

but right now, you're my

ticket to ride, mama.

Ok, look, I'll come with you,

but Charles has to come.

He can fit on the back.

He's only gonna slow us down.

Please! There's

safety in numbers.

Do you want me

to shoot him right now?

Ok!

Good choice.

Nails...

Sean:

Get going.

Sean:
Ow!

Dana:
What do you

wanna do?

Dana:
What do you

want to do?

We're gonna tie him up.

Outside.

We're gonna use him as bait.

I'd be quiet if I were you.

You don't have

to do this, you know.

You left me no choice.

You always have a choice.

Why didn't you tell me?

We're not those people, right?

You made it very clear.

Just wasn't in the cards for us.

We're the cool ones, right?

So, you were just never

going to say anything?

I didn't know, Charles.

Dana.

You know, I'm having it.

We can get out of here.

If you can just get to it.

And him?

That thing will have something

to chew on while you run for it.

Oh, sh*t, Charles.

Look.

Good, now I don't

have to feel bad.

You think he got...

no, we would have heard it.

He's on his own. Let him

protect himself out there.

You think he's gonna

come back for us?

He won't last long

in his condition.

Neither will I.

Oh, sh*t.

I'm gonna do it.

I can't let you do this.

I have to try.

We're no good to him.

That thing's staying

away from us.

We gotta try, baby.

I won't let you do this.

Baby, we have no choice.

Come on!

Come on.

Ahh!

Ahh!

Sean may still be out there.

Get to the four-Wheeler.

Go!

Come on!

Goddamn it!

Ohh!

Dana!

No!

Please!

Dana!

Run!

Dana! Run!

You're...

Oh, my god.

What the f***.

Dana, gasping:
Oh, god!

I think something happened

when it touched me.

Are you ok?

No, I'm not ok!

Baby!

We need to get out of here.

Yeah, we will...

Can we get out?

I don't know.

It was stuck in the dirt.

I think we need

two people to move it.

My leg and...

Your...

You mean our baby.

Your hand.

Oh, my god.

Oh, baby.

What's happening to me?

Oh, god! F***!

Aaah!

Oh.

I'm so sorry.

I could be a good dad.

I could.

I'd figure out the whole

dad thing, you know?

Charles, please.

We're gonna get out of here.

Together.

Sean:
Peekaboo.

Sorry. I hate to interrupt

a touching family moment.

But I need my ticket

out of here.

What the f***?

Hey! Easy there, daddy.

We just wanna get out

of here alive, ok?

Come on, let's go

before it's too late.

Too late for what?

I think you know what, honey.

So let's go!

It wasn't a search party

for your brother,

that was for your wife.

One of those things

was wearing that ring.

Ah, so you met my old lady, huh?

What the f*** are you

talking about?

I bet she looked pretty pissed,

huh?

What happened to her?

She started hearing voices.

In her head.

Crazy voices.

Something calling her

out to the woods.

I called bullshit on it.

I told her to take care of it.

Take care of what?

The baby.

Jesus, wake the f*** up!

Go ahead, tell Charles.

You hearing the voices yet?

Hmm?

Yeah. You didn't pick

this spot,

your little romantic

honeymoon rendezvous.

This spot picked you.

I don't understand.

Grandma Millie wasn't full

of sh*t after all, huh?

Charles:
Dana!

Enough of this bullshit,

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