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A shadow.
A faint, dark silhouette was the first thing I encountered, after taking a short glimpse of the cracked windows. There was something about the enormous building, in front of me, that gave the impression that it doesn't desire any unwelcomed visitors. The house was shielded by a dark, lifeless tree and there were overgrown patches of grass everywhere.
My feet wanted to cower and run away like a distracted hare when it meets its predator, but I was restrained by my own conscience. I was aware that doing this wasn't worth anything, but my pride as a man was at stake.
"All of this, just for a stupid bet I lost?" I asked myself, regretting the decision from the beginning.
Hesitating, I glanced over my trembling shoulder to see my four other mates squatting behind a near-by bush. When they saw me gazing, all they did was usher me forward and give silly thumbs up of what seemed to be useless encouragements. They were there to, supposedly, act as my witnesses.
"You can't back out now, you'll never hear the end of it."
Those were the exact words from my alleged friends, that kept echoing in my indecisive head.
It might've been just my luck, that night too, when the frosty breeze blowing my way, turned into hard, heavy droplets of rain. I had no other choice but to enter the abandoned building, since it was the only shelter in view. The old, mahogany door opened with a deafening creak as I stepped foot inside.
I'd let out a reluctant shiver from being drenched from the rain as I heard the door close behind me with a boisterous bang. My clenched fists slowly loosened as I reverenced at how the mansion sent such an ominous feeling in every cell of my body. I had already came to the conclusion that a promised nightmare was y...
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... on one of its branches. Sprouting out from it were twig-like sticks, a pair at the front and longer ones at the back. I squint my eyes and force them to adjust as I continued on staring at the exotic object.
I abruptly gasped in pure horror, fumbling with the flashlight. When I angled it to the floor, as it finally came to life, I sensed my stomach sink and my throat gagging as I witnessed a reddish substance all over my fingers and on the seat.
The solid dropping on my head, I realised, was a loose screw.
My ears perked up from the sound of little thuds and was then followed by a noisy screech, like metal rubbing onto metal.
I casted the light to the chandelier and I came face to face with something I have never seen before, a blatant scream threatening to escape from my shivering lips.
The light flashed rapidly, as if suffocated, and flickered away, dying.
Filban said the home had a yard that was overgrown. “The trees and bushes were overgrown, and the house was dark,” Filban said. “And the windows were covered.” She and her sister slept in the front bedroom of the house. She remembers the bedroom having a large, floor-to-ceiling window. She said you could look out and see the wra...
The night was tempestuous and my emotions were subtle, like the flame upon a torch. They blew out at the same time that my sense of tranquility dispersed, as if the winds had simply come and gone. The shrill scream of a young girl ricocheted off the walls and for a few brief seconds, it was the only sound that I could hear. It was then that the waves of turmoil commenced to crash upon me. It seemed as though every last one of my senses were succumbed to disperse from my reach completely. As everything blurred, I could just barely make out the slam of a door from somewhere alongside me and soon, the only thing that was left in its place was an ominous silence.
I stood up slowly, not daring to make any noise that would alert them of my presence. I walked quietly over to where I thought I heard their voices coming from. The youngest one was wearing some kind of ridiculous costume that shone in what little amount of moonlight there was, so they
... doors. They were all old, and looked as if they might collapse. The houses have been worn down, by the constant goblin raids. I passed house after house, before reaching the edge of the village. Belophose whinnied, strangely, as if she sensed something coming. I could sense it too. It was too quiet. It was never this quiet. As if on cue, the earth shook, and the mountain began to crumble. Rocks were falling and the villagers screaming.
As we finished packing up our gear and were just about to start to heading back for home I saw something flash through the ferns on the other side of the river. It was hard to make out because whatever it was had kept darting back and forth through the dank, dark shadows that the edge of the forest canopy had created.
"No," everything was coming out in just a groan of pain. I couldn't even move my head. All of a sudden I felt the world move from beneath me, and I felt warmth radiating off someone. I think Soda had given up and just decided to carry me to the car.
I peered around through the rain, desperately searching for some shelter, I was drowning out here. The trouble was, I wasn’t in the best part of town, and in fact it was more than a little dodgy. I know this is my home turf but even I had to be careful. At least I seemed to be the only one out here on such an awful night. The rain was so powerfully loud I couldn’t hear should anyone try and creep up on me. I also couldn’t see very far with the rain so heavy and of course there were no street lights, they’d been broken long ago. The one place I knew I could safely enter was the church, so I dashed.
As we walked through the woods on the dark cold night in October we notice screaming of what we had thought to be the neighbor girl. We creep closer to the large mansion and climb the gates to get in the massive front yard. As me and my friends Kevin, Douglas, and randy reach the front door, we slowly creep open the front door, we hear screams and yells and very quickly leave the situation. We head back to the house for the night and decide that we will make a plan and return to the mansion tomorrow.
When we arrived the door its wood having half of it rotted away hung on its tarnished brass hinges as the wind blew the door swung making this eerie creaking sound. This should have been a fair warning to suggest we continue no farther yet still with our blasted daredevil mentality we paid no attention to it and walked through the
I walked cautiously over, scared that something may lurk in the dark. Just as I entered the door slammed shut! I started to panic! What if I were trapped forever! I walked down the spiralling stairs waiting to find an end and just before gave up hope, I found a single circular room with a cauldron at the centre and I mirror leaning against the wall.
I notice the dark red paint was peeling from the mailbox, leaving behind nothing but old rust. Railings that had once ensured children's safety were now dented and falling apart. The stairs leading up to the main door were collapsed in; splintered wood laying in a large pile. I got a creepy feeling when I looked at it all. Chills ran up my spine.
Attempting to recover from my embarrassment, I was suddenly startled by a cacophony . . . music, perhaps? It must have been music, because I glanced down to find my foot tapping away to a beat long forgotten.
roof and a roar of thunder that was angry and metallic shook me to my
My stomach retched, my throat dry, had I got myself into this mess? A distant thud echoed across the cold, hard floor, ricocheting into my ear. Someone was coming.
This creature definitely did not live up to the comical name I gave it. It slightly resembled an octopus, with a jet-black body, two cold, reflective eyes, and four long, glimmering tentacles, two of which held me prisoner. As I peered closer, I realized that the glimmer came from what appeared to be various articles of jewelry. Perhaps it has a fascination with shiny objects, I wondered, and immediately regretted my recent obsession with whitening toothpa...