Vic?"

"What, these?" Vic fondled the tails teasingly. "I bought these at the corner store."

Sally shot the man a scornful glare. Vic smiled one last time as he opened the door to his trailer.

"Prove otherwise." He hissed before stepping inside and slamming the door shut.

Sally growled and kicked a rock across the street. Eric and Tommy trotted across the road towards her.

"Hi Aunt Sally!" Tommy greeted as he hugged her before turning his attention on the puppy in the car. "Hey, boy! C'mon!"

The pup barked, hopped out of the car and ran with the boy into the house. Eric looked at his Aunt's face.

"What happened today, Sally?" He lowered his voice to a whisper. "Did you get the footage?"

Sally sighed and reached into the back of the Jeep. She handed a very shocked Eric a totally demolished video camera.

"What did you do to it?!" Eric shouted as he shakily grabbed the camera.

"I didn't do it. Some crazy deer did it."

Eric snapped his head up and looked curiously at his aunt.

"A deer?"

Sally nodded and turned towards the park. She pointed up into the deep forest.

"I was in the tower looking out through my field glasses and I saw Vic's dog chasing something. So I jump in the jeep and head to Canyon Road. From up there, I saw that Vic and the dog were chasing the animal into the canyon to trap it. So I grab the camera and just as I get out of the car, BAM! Some huge stag crashes into me!"

Eric listened intently to the tale as Sally continued.

"The camera went flying out of my hand. It just stood there staring at me before taking off towards the mouth of the canyon, crushing the camera as he went. Then he jumped down the precipice."

Eric cocked his head in confusion.

"He was running towards the hunter?"

"Yeah...it was weird." Sally shrugged. "I heard gunshots, too but by the time I got to the top of the canyon, I couldn't see anything." Fustrated, Sally kicked the wheel of the Jeep. "Dammit! I needed that footage! If I got that creep on tape killing an endangered species, we could put him away for a long time." She lowered her head in disappointment. "Now, who knows how many innocent animals he's going to kill before I can catch him." Sally walked up the porch stairs and into the house.

Eric looked down at the remains of his camera, then up at the heavily-treed mountain beyond. The only thing Vic Lester deserved was a jail cell. He was, in essence, an animal serial killer.

And because of the interference caused by the renegade stag, the mad gunman would continue to mass-murder the animals of the forest.

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