Along the drive, Charley handed me his sketchbook, showing us the things that the Shadowyn had loosed on Pampa.

  There was everything from a sketch of The Entity, (tall, no face, wearing a suit and a red tie), to drawings of werewolves, vampires, and several other strange creatures, all depictions lining up with what we knew factually about these things.

  Suddenly, Party 4th smacked the window, making us all jump as we passed the cemetery and we were in awe to see every grave had iron cages over them, "First but not really on our tour of weird is this fuckin place...you can tell our dead don't stay where they belong."

  I looked out the window and back down at the journal, observing a drawing of a walking corpse, "So this isn't just an artistic rendering huh?" I ask.

  Charley shook his head, "Nah all this is stuff we saw....would you mind if I drew you?" He asked, I shook my head, "Sure, go ahead, I don't mind."

  We got to our house and ran inside, Doctor Sharp was watching TV in a blue T-shirt and board shorts, still smoking his churro, "hey kids, how was school?" I looked at him, "We got a lead!" And before he could say anything, we rushed up to our room, got dressed, grabbed our gear, and rushed back downstairs, "well keep me posted on your progress, ok?"

  I nod at him as we leave and shut the door, hopping back into the van and taking off.

  "Holy FUCK." laughed Party 4th, Charley furiously scribbling in his notebook as Hunter drove us towards our first destination.

  "You guys are legit!" Party 4th continued to ogle us, Charley finishing his drawing before sitting back in his chair, "What...erm...what's the name of your Agency?"

  Love winked at him, "Its not that easy, little man." To which Charley covered his face with his journal, making her laugh.

  We're going to skip around a bit, because it gets involved, and it was really just a bunch of silence and driving.

  Stop 1 and the closest location to the school was the old hospital, which lay abandoned, a singular standing 3-story building of what had once been a larger facility, doors lay on the exterior 2 or 3 floors up, going nowhere.

  "This is where Mr. Teeth lives...don't worry, if you're involved in our fight, you'll meet Mr. Teeth."

  As Love and I looked at the building, she clung to my arm for comfort.

  Edge looked at Hunter in the rearview, "Ok, pause, what the FUCK is Mr. Teeth?"

  Hunter shrugged as he kept driving, "Nobody knows...he lives in a 3rd story room that nobody is allowed to go into, he tells the future and eats garbage...nobody has ever seen him except one guy, and he mentioned rows and rows of sharp teeth...hence the name...moving on..."

  The second destination was a patch of scorched buildings, Robyn looked away, party 4th looked on with a grimace, as if he was in pain, "Here we have the scorch...a spot in town where, a few years ago, this entire district of houses just burned to the ground, but there was no fire."

  I blink in confusion, Edge sat forward, "The fuck do you mean?" Hunter interrupted Party 4th as he was about to speak, "The houses and people burned, well, they charred like they were burning, but aside from the blackening and decaying, there wasn't anything to put out, there was no way to help them."

  He took off again, coming to the middle of town where there were bunches of buildings with old advertisements on them from the 70s, several story office buildings, you could see pristine cubicles inside, as if the workers were simply away.

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  "These buildings are still standing for the same reason the old hospital is still standing, in the city books they say they're too dangerous to demolish because of asbestos, but we know the Shadowyn use them for their occult rituals, the guys and I have caught a bunch of Shadowyn cultists coming in and out of these buildings with a key."

  Wolf, grinning crookedly, leaned forward, "What did you do to them?"

  Robyn wordlessly drew a finger across her neck, Hunter nodded enthusiastically, "The only good Shadowyn is a dead shadowyn...its why we're still alive...and how we know about the true purpose of the Lizard Bridge."

  Nobody said anything or asked any questions, we knew they'd take us there eventually, and they did.

  Finally we arrived at the Lizard bridge and it was pretty underwhelming. It was this shambles of an old iron bridge with a cobblestone path down the center, reaching across the river that ran the perimeter of the town, leading to a paved path just beyond. Party 4th gestured out the window as we sat in the van, "Welcome to the Lizard Bridge!"

  We looked at it, there was nothing particularly Lizard like about it, Wolf looked at Edge who shrugged, "You said something about rules?"

  Hunter chuckled, "If you want to cross the Lizard Bridge, you'll have to do it at night, these are the rules you need to observe at that time.

  1. don't make any noise as you cross.

  2. Count the stones beneath your feet. On the third step, pause and listen for "the sound."

  3. When you hear "the sound", look for the mark of the lizard etched in the wood.

  4. Leave a lantern or a flashlight at the entrance of the bridge."

  As he mentioned the last rule, Party 4th pointed to all the discarded flashlights and lanterns at the entrance to the bridge.

  Edge, thoroughly done with the folklore at this point, puts his hands on his hips, "And what happens if you don't abide by these rules?"

  Without saying a word, Party 4th got out of the car, picked up a flashlight, and lobbed it across the bridge where we watched it vanish into thin air!

  All of our eyes bugged as Charley smiled, "I have a theory that THIS is either the entrance to the Shadowyn's lair or their garbage disposal, either way we can't figure it out because anyone who crosses never comes back."

  Before Party 4th could get back in, Team Sigma were all piling out of the van, "hey what are you doing!?" Asked Hunter, "You're not supposed to cross during the day!" Shouted Robyn.

  I picked up another flashlight and threw it, it did indeed vanish again, Edge looked back at the group, "You have demonstrable proof of dimensional anomalies in your town...what's up with that?"

  Hunter, who had disembarked the van, walked up to us followed by Robyn, "Yea, city council won't even hear about it, any video proof we send them is put in the circular file."

  I pick up another flashlight, lobbing it, I hear it hit something as it passes beyond the invisible barrier, it sounded like I beaned a guy in his forehead with that rusty old flashlight.

  "GUYS! I hit something!"

  As I was bending down to pick up another, Edge joined me, and so then did Love and Wolf, just grabbing these old memento flashlights and chucking them hard across the bridge.

  As my squad was going ham bananas with throwing the flashlights, I offered Hunter one and he took it, pitching it across, just in time for a man with a bruised face to walk through the invisible barrier, catching the last thrown flashlight with his nose.

  The man staggered and fell to one knee, clutching his face, Robyn gasped, "Papa??"

  She rushed forward but Hunter stopped her, "Robyn wait...look at what he's wearing!"

  She fought him but stopped as her father stood up, his nose broken, his eye blacked, he was wearing a hooded black robe with red trim.

  As we looked at him in the dim light of the sunset, he began to change, his skin turned pale and his body began to lengthen, Robyn began to sob, "No..."

  He pulled the hood over his head, his hair receding, his face morphing and changing, replaced instead by a pair of sunken black eyes and a maw full of razor teeth, his skin now more akin to an elephant's, wrinkled and literally gray, "No...no no no..."

  "WEAPONS!!" I shouted, drawing one of my two swords, my team each drawing guns as black tendrils began to baloon out from behind the man's back, each of them snapping in the air like whips, emitting a sound like a taser as they did, his hands emerging from his robe covered in silver metal gauntlets, the jointed fingers of which ended in foot long sickle shaped blades, each seemed to be stained with blood.

  It was unmistakable, this was The Creature, from the online horror stories! (Once again, the name has been changed for copyright reasons)

  "RobynnnnnnNnnnn..." it grunted

  "What the FUCK!?" yelled Wolf as she pointed her rifle.

  "NO!!!" Robyn fell to her knees as The creature unfolded from her father, reaching towards her from across the bridge only to catch a Riven bullet directly to the face as Sigma engaged at top speed!