Carter moved stealthfully through the trees towards the glowing beacon not far from where he now stood. His heart beginning to slowly hammer in his chest once more as he grew ever closer, the red glowing aura fading as Carter finally laid eyes on the man himself. Watching as he hung from a rusty hook that stuck through his shoulder, dripping blood. Carter didn't even pay any heed to how handsome the man was when he noticed the strange black tendrils that began to surround him.<br/><br/>Within a blink of an eye, one leg lashed out, daring to impale the man but he resisted. Carter watched him struggle for a few seconds to hold back the strange spiked spider like leg.<br/><br/>Slowly glancing back the way he had come, debating if it was worth the risk. He could escape now, but there was something inside of him, telling him it would not be right, leaving this man to die when he had just saved him. He had to do something, and it was those thoughts that guided him out of the trees towards the figure, rushing forward quickly as to beat the black entity before it killed the man.<br/><br/>Stepping right in front of the man, hands reaching up to grab his sides when he heard a familiar sound.<br/><br/><i>SNAP</i><br/><br/>Followed by a very familiar pain. His eyes jerking down to the trap as it bit into his other leg, crippling him as he fell down to his knee. He began to try to pry the jaws open once more but he didn't even get the chance. A red hot pain slashing through his back as he heard the sickening crunch of bones as something smashed into him, causing him to collapse onto the ground flat. His existence pure agony, crying out as he looked upwards at the man hanging above him, just as the black leg stabbed through him like a hot knife through butter. The sounds of his bones snapping as it began to pull him upwards.<br/><br/>Carter looked up into the pulsating black smoke that now covered every inch of the sky, pulling the man into its depth as a wave of energy exploded across the land. But Carter didn't get to see what finally happened to the man as he was pulled off the ground, the jaw around his leg falling away.<br/><br/>Carter now found himself upon the shoulder of a true brute of a man, a twisted mask on his face, strange metal spikes sticking out of his flesh. Carter panicked, trying to free himself from the man, kicking and punching at his neck to no avail, but he wasn't strong enough. Within moments, he felt his body being lifted before slamming down onto a hook. The blood red metal cutting through his shoulder, gleaming.<br/><br/>Carter reached upwards to try to see if he could somehow pull himself from the hook, but he didn't even get the chance, the black tendrils immediately manifesting and stabbing directly through his chest. He felt every bone severing, he felt his heart coming to a stop at long last. He didn't even get to struggle as he was pulled upwards into the sky above, the writhing mass of darkness seeming teeming with excitement at its newest sacrifice. Eyes open wide and empty, he watched helplessly as the darkness consumed him.