Predator: FracturedHearts

"They weren't there last night!!! Where did they come from Will? Where the hell did they come from!!??" Fractured stomped her hoof as the bodies of three griffins dangle from one tree. The beaks removed, skin removed, and eyes taken out. Their remaining blood was dripping onto the foliage on the ground below them, Iron Will shook his head and covered his mouth feeling sick. He had no idea where they came from or how they could appear overnight without somepony waking up to see the corpses being strung up like that. The crew didn't know the ancient warning that was displayed with the corpses, Fractured looked around and pulled her pistol off her leg and pulled the slide and began to look around.

"Stop what your doing, right now!" Cranky stomped out of his tent coughing hard as he took off his hat. "Your not looking for anything else, it is very clear too me what is going on" Fractured slowly lowered her gun and placed it back in her strap looking over to the captain with questioning eyes. "We failed the silent part of our mission! The griffins know we are here and they did this to avoid being absolutely destroyed by us! Hoping this would scare us enough to get us to leave the area" Redheart raised a brow and pulled out the map in question of that response.

"That doesn't make any sense, why would they kill their own kind to avoid getting killed?" the medic spoke softly and folded the map sliding it under a strap that was located on her flank. The mare was curious on that kind of behavior. "That doesn't make sense that their own kind is dead and that they would be responsible for it, sir" Iron Will nodded in agreement with the little white mare and stood over at her side. Fractured stepped forward and looked at the medic in disagreement.

"Griffins are mean, that's all we need to know! They hate everything include their own kind" Fractured was agreeing with Cranky not only because she believed it made sense but also because she wanted to look as loyal as possible to the commander. "This body situation makes perfect sense, they would do anything to get their sorry asses out of a slaughter~" Iron Will slowly looked back to the bodies as the argument continued, he was looking for a way that a griffin could have got those bodies up there. He knew it had to be only one griffon because they would have definitely woken up last night if a whole clan of them were stomping through the woods. As he scanned the tree something got his attention, there was two little eyes peaking out of a bush. The Minotaur pretended not too see it, so that whatever it was would remain there and not run away. the eyes continued to stare at him as the rest of them argued. Fractured turned away from Redheart and Iron Will getting annoyed with the arguing. She was done with it and was now ignoring it. Iron Will lowered is gone to the forest floor and set it down, he slowly walked over to Fractured and nudged her lightly. Iron will was her friend so when she looked over to him she gave him a big smile. The two eyes in the bush disappeared but quickly reappeared as a mare took a step out from the bush, Fractured jumped back and so did Iron Will. Redheart stopped her little argument as the mare appeared. Her coat was cream colored and her mane is a fine shade of blue with streaks of a lighter blue running through it, similar in color to Vinyl Scratch. She looked slightly primitive, she could be a native or something. Fractured stepped closer to the mare who was standing under the bodies of the Griffins.

"No! You can't come here! You must not trespass on the hunt unless you want to become prey!" the primitive mare jumped forward and took out a small flint knife pointing it at Fractured. "Stay back!"

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Slinging a gun over her shoulder Sapphire starts to examine the dead Timber Wolf as the other scouts including Gallants brother kept an eye out for pony troops. They all knew they weren't alone anymore after the helicopter news. The wolf showed signs of a very quick death and it was missing a large front tooth from its mouth. It looked like it was cut from its skull, the reason she was examining it however was the fact that they had to cut it down from a tree. They found it like they were finding their fallen brothers, hanging dead, like big game in a tree.

"How could something lift a Timber Wolf up a tree like that? This is strange, very strange...." Sapph looked at it a little longer before taking her gun off its sling and holding it at a ready position as she got up from examining the dead wolf. "Lets keep moving to the Pie River and check for signs of the signal, like we practiced, stay tight and watch each others backs" the female griffin was in charge because of her fathers rank in the field and  she was giving new orders to prevent death on this scout run. As they pushed on through the woods the wildlife got significantly quieter as they were nearing the Pie River. "What the...keep on your toes..somethings not right" As she spoke something in the trees began to copy and translate it. With thermal vision the  griffins stuck out like trees in a open field. A click was heard from up above in the trees as the group continued to move forward one of the scouts started to fall back away from the others. A thin transparent noose hovered in front of his neck and he was quickly snagged and pulled up silently into the trees. His gasps for air were to quiet to be heard, the group pressed on as their friend was taken.

"Help meee~" The griffins all stopped and lifted their guns as a death filled gurgle was heard behind them, "Help meee~" Sapphire looked around noticing now that one of the scouts is missing, the gurgling voice continued and it now sounded like the missing griffins voice, "Help meee~"

"Hold up!!" One of the males raised his talons to the sky before pointing in the distance at a kneeling griffin. He was looking away and the voice was coming from that direction as it continued to say help me. "I'm coming!!" the scout rushed up heading his way to the soldier. Sapphire thought for a moment and watched as the scout went to their friend and the rest began to follow, so did she. As they were about to reach the area the first griffin who made it there  started to rush away. "RUN~!!" A large net then came from the ground bringing that scout flying up into the trees. They all took off running, something was following them from above and Sapphire could hear it.

"Help meee~" a large spear was sent flying through the air and slammed into the back of the fleeing Guerrillas. "Help meee~ please!" Sapphire's sprint was halted as her neck slammed into something bringing her to a dead halt. The other scouts continued to run away as the female was slowly raised into the air, a hand slowly started to materialize out of thin air along with a body and a face. Sapphire stared at her reflection in the glass eyes of a mask as two sharp blades shoot out from the wrist of the other hand of the creature that now had her.