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Deuce and Fernando decide to try to fix the bus while they wait. As they work on it, the rest of the group stands in a cluster nearby. After a bit, Perry has to take a leak and wanders a short distance in to the trees to take care of it. As he pees, his eyes wander the trees. Suddenly, he sees a flash of movement nearby. His eyes widen as the Chupacabra appears in front of him. His scream is cut short as the beast's razor sharp claws slash his throat.
The group hears Perry scream. Noel and CC go to investigate and find a camera lying in a pool of blood and urine.
As Noel and CC return to the group to report their findings, morale drops even lower than it was. A piece of the engine snaps off in Deuce's hand and is chucked against the hood in frustration. "We're fucked." Deuce reports.
Fernando decides it may be best to try to make it to the ruins since there may be another tour group there that will take a different route back to civilization. They all agree and decide to remain close together as they make the four mile trek. CC takes the flare gun.
JUNGLE - LATER
The bus is miles back now and the group is in the middle of the jungle without any protection. Fernando is leading the pack, rifle at the ready. Mrs. Nyberg is having trouble keeping up, despite CC trying to help her along. Mrs. Nyberg stumbles to the ground. CC tries to help her up but she tells him to go on without her. She can't make it and she's slowing them down. CC refuses and tries to help her up again. Meanwhile, the group is getting further and further ahead of them. The bushes rustle. CC freezes in his tracks. Mrs. Nyberg urges him to leave her. He doesn't know what to do. The Chupacabra appears in a blur, bats CC aside, knocking him to his ass then makes off with Mrs. Nyberg, who is too worn out to even muster a scream. Shocked, CC backpedals on his butt and then gets to his feet and sprints to catch up. He informs the group that the beast got Mrs. Nyberg. The group stops as Fernando aims the rifle in the general direction of where she was taken. There is nothing but the eerie stillness of the jungle. Fernando tells them they need to keep moving and they resume their journey.
At that moment, the trees ahead of them begin to rustle. Fernando raises the rifle just as the Chupacabra appears about ten yards in front of the group. Screams and panic. Fernando stays calm, fires two shots right in to the chest of the beast before it reaches. The shots don't seem to slow it down at all as it pounces on Fernando and eviscerates him. The group scatters into the jungle. Kristen, Amanda, and CC go one way while Heather and Noel retreat down the path in the same direction they just came from. Deuce stands his ground and grabs a thick branch from the ground nearby. He brings it down across the Chupacabra's head as it feasts on Fernando. The force actually knocks the beast to the ground. Deuce clubs it again as it tries to get up, and again, and again. Deuce shouts for assistance, but no one is around to hear him as he pummels the beast continually, but it won't stay down. Deuce sees the rifle lying near Fernando's body and grabs it. He puts it to the Chupacabra's head point blank and pulls the trigger. Click. No ammo. Deuce quickly dashes to Fernando and begins looking for the rest of the ammo. The Chupacabra gets back to its feet and lunges for Deuce as he fumbles through Fernando's pockets for the few remaining shells. Deuce braces with the gun as the beast lands on him. He struggles to keep the Chupacabra’s teeth away from his face but the weight of the creature is slowly draining his strength and the beast inches closer. Deuce begins to yell for help, but there's still no one around. Snap! The beast's teeth gnash at his face, peeling skin from bone. Deuce screams as his elbows buckle and the beast begins to devour him alive.
JUNGLE – A SHORT TIME LATER
Noel and Heather stop running down the path to catch their breath. They listen closely but all is quiet. Noel questions whether or not she thinks the others are okay. She says she’s not concerned about the others, only herself. Just then, branches start cracking as something big moves rapidly through the jungle in their direction. They sprint down the path. Noel gets ahead of her and she yells for him to wait. He slows down and turns around just in time to see the Chupacabra bolt from the trees and snatch her in mid stride, disappearing into the trees on the other side of the trail. Noel resumes running.
JUNGLE – A SHORT TIME LATER
Kristen, Amanda and CC arrive at the Mayan Ruins only to find there are no other tours present. Despair sets in. CC tries to keep a level head as they scan the area for any ideas, then he remembers the flare gun. He shoots it straight up. This flare actually works, sending a distress signal high in to the sky.
JUNGLE – AT THAT MOMENT
As he passes the broken down bus, Noel looks up in the sky to see the flare several miles in the distance. He knows someone is still alive, but there are too many miles of jungle between them so he continues in the direction he was heading.
JUNGLE – A SHORT TIME LATER
Dusk is approaching as CC, Amanda and Kristen sit at the base of one of the Mayan pyramids trying to build a fire.
JUNGLE – AT THAT MOMENT
Noel rounds a bend and finds total carnage. Blood everywhere, Bach’s tattooed arm rests in the middle of the road, tatters from Laura’s shirt are a short distance in front of Bach’s arm and beyond the tatters Nicole’s once beautiful head lies in the center of the road. Noel drops to his knees and pukes. As he finishes heaving, a shadow falls over him. He slowly turns around as his face pales. The Chupacabra pounces on him.
JUNGLE – A SHORT TIME LATER
It is night time now. Kristen, Amanda and CC sit in silence around a small fire in the midst of a pitch black jungle. Kristen breaks the silence with an apology. Amanda questions why she’s apologizing and Kristen says it was her idea to come out here. Amanda tries to console her telling her they all agreed on the deal to which Kristen breaks down. Through tears, she tells Amanda that she didn’t even live up to her end of the bargain and that she and CC didn’t have sex the night before. CC’s ego is dented by this admission but he can not deny it. He just says “You promised you wouldn’t tell.” Kristen explains that they both agreed to lie about it once they got in the bedroom so they wouldn’t disappoint their friends. Amanda doesn’t know what to say. Eventually Amanda says it’s her that should apologize because they shouldn’t have tried to pressure her into doing anything she didn’t want to do in the first place and they should have been willing to allow her to select an activity once and while without stipulations attached. Just then, there is a rustling in the trees nearby. Amanda and Kristen clutch each other in fear as CC stands to face the intruder and act as a skinny, pale shield to the girls. Two glowing red eyes appear in the darkness. CC draws the only weapon he has, the flare gun which is on the last flare and aims it at the eyes. Before he can shoot, the eyes vanish and a large black mass passes through the moonlight as the creature lunges for them. CC fires the flare gun, but the shot misses, sending a bright red flare high in to the air. The Chupacabra lands on CC as it’s claws tear into his flesh. Kristen and Amanda retreat up the steps of the ancient pyramid as CC is devoured at the base. Once it’ has feasted, the Chupacabra begins to ascend the pyramid as well, almost toying with its prey as it moves slowly and deliberately. As it nears the top, the two girls split up and each runs down a different side. The creature crests the top, the leaps halfway down, pouncing on to Amanda’s back from behind. She screams as she falls, her spine cracks as she is bent in half before the Chupacabra tears in to her jugular and feasts on her blood. Hearing the sounds of her friend being killed and realizing the futility of her situation, Kristen stops and turns to face her fate. A second later, the Chupacabra reappears at the top of the pyramid. It eyes her curiously from afar and then leaps in to the air. BANG! A loud gunshot shatters the silence of the jungle and sends the Chupacabra sprawling backwards with a gaping hole in its chest. It lands with a lifeless thud on the pyramid steps. Kristen turns around to spot an elderly Mexican man carrying an elephant hunting gun. It is the same man who had his granddaughter snatched at the start of the film. She runs to him and thanks him. He tells her in Spanish that he doesn’t speak English and then he makes a hand gesture that lets her know he saw the flare and came to help. Just then, a bright white spotlight is shined on the two from above. A helicopter search party has found them. The pilot speaks through a megaphone and says there is nowhere to land so they will need to climb up a rope ladder. As the ladder descends, there is another rustling in the trees. The old Mexican man reloads his elephant gun and helps Kristen to the top of the pyramid while he keeps a watchful eye on the trees. She begins climbing the ladder. As she gets half way up, she hears another thunderous shot. She turns to see another splattered Chupacabra on the pyramid steps. As the man reloads the gun again, he is pounced on. Seeing this, the pilot begins to ascend as Kristen crests the ladder and is helped in to the chopper by the co-pilot. As the spotlight moves away from the pyramid, dozens of glowing red eyes are visible in the dense jungle nearby.
THE END.
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