[ WP ] You are a volunteer Search and Rescue dog handler . The dog is trained to find dead bodies . While out for a walk while on vacation , your dog starts barking madly .

`` Shadow what's wrong?'' I asked my Search and rescue dog hoping he would respond. Shadow had been on this run hundreds of times. Every day for the last 2 and a half years. But as we had just returned from a 2 week long training seminar. 
 
 But today as we passed that third turn the one with the drop off to river way that led straight into the lake. All of a sudden he pulled me almost off my feet. I took a knee just so I would n't stumble to me face. `` Woof, Woof, gggggrrrrrrrr'' Shadow had just given me a signal that I was unprepared to receive. 
 
 Two barks and a growl ment that he knew that there was a body near. A dead body. After years of doing Search and Rescue for the KCPD I have feared this day would come. I immediately arose to my feet and gave the command `` Shadow Lead'' As shadow led me to the one situation that has kept me awake at night the one thing that has given this grown man nightmares. 
 
 We ran around the drop off and down a very steep hill that was covered by trees and plants. Then I saw it, A small Cove built into the side of that rock formation. And there she was laying there dead. Gone. 
 
 `` Shadow Heel'' He immediately sat down he had to be the best Rescue dog I had ever seen. I tied off his leash to a nearby branch and began to walk towards her. Then that when I heard the voice `` Stay Back'' it said. I quickly pulled my 9MM glock that I always run with you never know what you might encounter down here in the Ozarks. 
 
 `` Get Back! Go Away!... She's.. Miinees.'' Upon hearing the voice again I easily distinguished it as male. But not only that it was low, gravelly. `` Mr. My name is Johnathan I'm a Search and Rescue Officer. I'm just trying to find out what happened to the girl. `` NIKKI! Her name is NIKKI. Is says so right here. Hehehehehehe.'' The man's laugh disturbed me greatly as chills resonated up my spine. `` Sir I'm going to need you to come out here and talk to me'' 
 
 `` Why?. She is dead with purpose is n't that everyone's dream to die with a Purpose?'' The man's voice kept changing pitches almost with every syllable. But even in the darkness I saw him move I knew exactly where he was 
 
 I took aim and said. `` Sir you have the count of three to vacate that cave and present yourself to me.'' `` 1'' I tightened my grip on my Pistol. `` 2'' I flicked off my safety and got ready to shoot `` thre..'' before I could finish the word he sprinted from the cage yelling `` You can take her from me!'' It was hard to judge how tall with his hunched posture. But he was definately malnurished. I pulled the trigger, I saw the bullet hit him right below his left pectoral muscle. But he did n't stop it did n't even phase him. He tackled me and began striking and biting me. 
 
 Shadow was lunging and barking. I heard the branch cracking as I was trying to free myself from this maniac. He grabbed a stone from the ground and struck me just below the eye. In a daze my hands dropped to cover my face but then I heard the sound that will forever change my life. The unmistakable sound of a Blade being drawn from a sheath. I removed my hands from my face to see him with both hands over his head clutching a long misshapen knife. And my blood dripping from his mouth. 
 
 `` I Daniel who worships and obeys your holy word have for you another sacrifice today. This one may not be innoce...'' his sentence was cut short by the crack of a tree branch. And Shadow Pounced on him started biting and scratching. I quickly tried to get up and find my gun as I located it I heard another sound. but this one will forever haunt me. 
 
 A whimper, and a feint growl. I turned to see the crazed man holding a freshly bloody knife over the still body of my dog. `` You Mother Fucker.'' I pulled my pistol and shot him til I could no longer I hit him twice in the head. 
 
 The police said that they found the remains of 4 missing people on that cave he had been murdering then and feasting on there freshly cold Corpses. The police believe that he was sacrificing people to his god. 
 
 That was to be my end the same end that the others faced. The same end that Nikki faced and the same fate that Shadow faced. I owe everything to my partner. My friend. My dog. He saved my life, Gave his for mine. I love that dog.
