Post by Guardian Yoshi on Jan 14, 2011 8:18:20 GMT -5
before you read anymore, this story contains blood and a little gore, i tried to lower it as much as i can without ruining the atmosphere of it, it also might be a bit scary for some viewers.
Only if this becomes popular enough, i'll write about my other 'interesting' dreams
This is my first written story, i would really appreciate feedback and ideas in the future [that is if i ever write another] but anyway, enjoy!
This is just one of my nightmares
I'm lying in bed, awake. Its 4:00AM here and something just doesn’t feel right, odd noises are coming from my kitchen, usually I only hear a scuttle or a buzz, but now I hear a voice and something that sounds like a gurgle.
After a few minutes or so, there is a loud crash, frightening me. Deciding that is enough, I grab my bat and sneak as best I can to the source of the sounds. I creep down my hallway, it’s different, some of the paintings are missing, and others have been defaced and now look scary, the hallway itself is almost pitch black. I reach the kitchen door and now I can hear a lot of other noises now, scratching, choking, and heavy breathing. As I slowly open the door, the thing starts to growl.
“Never heard anything like that before” I think to myself nervously, suddenly the door swings open. In a panic attack, I swing the bat at the creature, luckily I hit it, knocking it down, and out I hope. I go over to the bench which now has a dark blood stain on it and pick up the flashlight. I check the batteries in it and shine it onto the thing. It looks like it is human, or was, its face looks like it’s been stitched on, the eyes are missing, leaving 2 gaping black holes, and its mouth is dripping a strange greasy black substance.
“That thing is really creepy” I think with a confused look on my face. “What is it?” After staring at it for a while, I decide whether to go back to bed, or go out for a while, I look down the hallway, it’s gotten worse, the paintings have fallen off and the walls are turning into something that looks like flesh. The choice was obvious; I grabbed my keys, my wallet, my almost dead flashlight and head out into the streets looking for answers.
As I walk down the broken footpath, I take in my surroundings, nothing, just a dead silence down my street. I don’t see any more of those things, I stop and remember there is construction on this road; they’ve torn the entire road up. So I decide make a left turn into a dark, creepy alleyway when something large and metal falls over behind me.
I turn around and almost go into shock; it’s another one of those things! I think to myself “run, just run as fast as you can” I start running, but oddly, it doesn't follow me, it just stands there, twitching...
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I barge through a dirty fly screen door and push a broken wood table in front of it, “it might try to follow me, better safe than sorry” I think to myself, shaking nervously. I turn around and realise that I’m in a house, all the lights are on, it’s mostly clean, and I don’t hear any unknown noises, knowing that I will regret this, I start to search the rooms, the lounge room is clean, pleasant and has a pipe wrench on the couch.
“Better bring this with me, who knows what else I’ll run into” I tell myself as I pick up the rusty red wrench, it’s oily, but seems sturdy enough. I go out into the main hallway to find that the door is wide open, and the table broken in two, I really start to get anxious at this point, as I stand in front of a different door, this one has that dark blood on it. Better be careful.
I open the door and raise the wrench in case anything jumps out at me. Nothing does, I breathe a sigh of relief as I spot a small table with a note on it, and what looks like boat keys and a map, I walk over to it and start to read it “Its happening, take these keys, and this map, and meet me at the harbour specified, I’ve located a possible island to recuperate at. The locals are not human, but are friendly, I’ll meet you there.”
“Better take these then” I tell myself. I pick up the keys, open up the map and take a look, the island is marked out, but the name has been scribbled over. I can only just make out “***hi* I*l**d” I look up and notice a small window, looks big enough for me to fit through. I attempt to open it, it’s jammed.
Deciding that the name isn’t important, I take this guys word for it, and leave the room with the map and boat keys, when I suddenly freeze in fear and see what broke the barricade, it’s the thing from my house, it must have followed me here! But it looks different, the mark from my baseball bat is still there, but it’s now rather disturbing to look at, some sort of unknown, green fleshy substance is growing on its head and face, and it’s twitching, twitching a lot.
And then, its charges at me, running really fast, with its claws out, I run into the bedroom again and shut the door. I start to really panic as I search for a window to escape out of, I can hear that thing, bashing at the door and making that gurgling sound. I run to the small table again and climb out the window that I noticed earlier; I break the window with the wrench, squeeze through it and continue down the road it leads to with a cut from the broken glass.
“I’ve never been to the harbor before, must find out where it is soon if I have a hope of getting out of here” I think to myself in the dark as I walk up to a town map, with my flashlight dead it takes me a while but eventually I locate the harbour, and myself, turns out I don’t have far to go, and there are 2 routes I can take. If I find my way into the shopping mall, I can get a very short trip, but who knows what will be in there, or I can go around it and into some more dark alleyways and sewers.
After some quick thinking, I decide to go through the shopping mall, I start to walk down the path again when I’m tackled to the ground by another one of those things, I scream as it grabs my arm and bites me in the shoulder, I shove it off with my free hand, knocking the twitching zombie thing off me, I grab my wrench and slam it into its head, it falls onto the pavement and lets out a loud roar.
“That thing must be alerting the others, must get out of here really quickly now!” I turn around and run as fast as I can, holding my now injured shoulder, while that thing eventually dies on the side of the road. I make my way to the mall and start bashing at the grate, it eventually gives way and I enter what looks like a food court.
“Don’t see anything unusual, maybe somewhere I can restore power, my flashlight is dead” I think as I begin to explore the closest “authorised personnel only” rooms, these places are turning too, the walls are growing something, everything that is metal has completely rusted, and when I poke the walls, I puncture it and that black stuff seeps out. As I look in the 4th room, I find a door labelled “power generator”
“It’s exactly what I’m looking for!” I say in an excited mood, I try to open it, but it’s jammed, that stuff must be blocking it, looking around for a different entrance, I spot a vent high up, after a while of thinking, and I start making holes large enough to fit my feet in the wall and use them to climb up into the vent. Now I have that stuff all in my shoes and socks.
After about 10 minutes of crawling and getting lost I finally drop into the generator room where I see that the door is jammed by that unknown substance, I take a look at the rest of the room, nothing else unusual. I locate the lever, it’s rusted, like everything else, but I pull it anyway.
I look around me and nothing happens for a moment, before suddenly, the lights turn on and a large, deep roar echoes through the hall. I freeze in fear for a few moments. Whatever I just woke, it is not good. I ever so carefully creep out to the main part of the mall, I take a look, and I am shocked, to see maybe hundreds of those twitching things, wrecking the mall, but none are on the second floor from what I can see, and there is a working escalator within reach from where I am. I look around them and see the mall starting to deteriorate, like its rotting.
With time running out, my shoulder bleeding, and my stamina low, I take the risk, I sprint to, and up the escalator, to make things worse, it alerted every one of those thing to my position, they are now trying to get up to me, on the walls and the escalators. I ignore them for now, and take a moment to think on how I’m going to get to the other side. I look around the creatures and see the mall starting to deteriorate, like its rotting.
“I can see a pathway through them, its narrow, but I’ll go for it, it’s my only option for now” I say to myself in a instant, I walk as calmly as I can to the stairs on the other side, I go down them and run like the wind through all of them, enduring a few small cuts I make it to the other side, the power restore must have opened the roller shutter things, I bash through the glass on the door and run out into the street.
I look around and spot the harbour, and a corpse those things must have got him, there are a lot of bites and scratches on him. I walk up to him and take a look, those things must have got him, there are a lot of bites and scratches on him, he was another survivor, just like me, , I crouch beside him and notice a crumpled piece of paper in his right hand.
“If you are reading this, well done, very well done, I tried to hold out to wait for you, but it was too much, if you want to escape this living hell, go to pier 3, you boat will be there, all fuelled up and ready to go, the island won’t be expecting you, but, believe me, I have done my research. They won’t kill you on sight, good luck with your trip and your future endeavours. [If any] Farewell.”
I turn around after reading the note and see that all the creatures are chasing me. I franticly search for pier 3, it’s not far away, I run to it and I start to feel dizzy, I must be losing too much blood. I spot the boat. i jump on to it, it’s a small boat, I put the key into the ignition and turn it. It started. I max out the throttle and drive away from the city.
“I made it! I cannot believe I made it!” I think to myself, with the best smile I can muster on my face. With the time I had now, I took a good look at the boat I was on, it was in pretty bad condition, the hull was damaged, some parts were rusting and breaking off, and the motor in it was spluttering and choking as it went along. I walk to the back of the boat and look at what was once my home.
The boat ride was long and, oddly relaxing as I stare at the sunrise. After a while see I something in the distance under the sun, it must be the island that man was talking about, I walk up to the front of the boat and cheer, before I slowly pass out.
[authors notes: the cause of this was probably how much i play afraid of monsters, a half life one mod. This really was one of my dreams, happened last night. I made no description of the island because frankly, that's where I woke up from it, and it may be open for a sequel.]
Only if this becomes popular enough, i'll write about my other 'interesting' dreams
This is my first written story, i would really appreciate feedback and ideas in the future [that is if i ever write another] but anyway, enjoy!
This is just one of my nightmares
I'm lying in bed, awake. Its 4:00AM here and something just doesn’t feel right, odd noises are coming from my kitchen, usually I only hear a scuttle or a buzz, but now I hear a voice and something that sounds like a gurgle.
After a few minutes or so, there is a loud crash, frightening me. Deciding that is enough, I grab my bat and sneak as best I can to the source of the sounds. I creep down my hallway, it’s different, some of the paintings are missing, and others have been defaced and now look scary, the hallway itself is almost pitch black. I reach the kitchen door and now I can hear a lot of other noises now, scratching, choking, and heavy breathing. As I slowly open the door, the thing starts to growl.
“Never heard anything like that before” I think to myself nervously, suddenly the door swings open. In a panic attack, I swing the bat at the creature, luckily I hit it, knocking it down, and out I hope. I go over to the bench which now has a dark blood stain on it and pick up the flashlight. I check the batteries in it and shine it onto the thing. It looks like it is human, or was, its face looks like it’s been stitched on, the eyes are missing, leaving 2 gaping black holes, and its mouth is dripping a strange greasy black substance.
“That thing is really creepy” I think with a confused look on my face. “What is it?” After staring at it for a while, I decide whether to go back to bed, or go out for a while, I look down the hallway, it’s gotten worse, the paintings have fallen off and the walls are turning into something that looks like flesh. The choice was obvious; I grabbed my keys, my wallet, my almost dead flashlight and head out into the streets looking for answers.
As I walk down the broken footpath, I take in my surroundings, nothing, just a dead silence down my street. I don’t see any more of those things, I stop and remember there is construction on this road; they’ve torn the entire road up. So I decide make a left turn into a dark, creepy alleyway when something large and metal falls over behind me.
I turn around and almost go into shock; it’s another one of those things! I think to myself “run, just run as fast as you can” I start running, but oddly, it doesn't follow me, it just stands there, twitching...
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I barge through a dirty fly screen door and push a broken wood table in front of it, “it might try to follow me, better safe than sorry” I think to myself, shaking nervously. I turn around and realise that I’m in a house, all the lights are on, it’s mostly clean, and I don’t hear any unknown noises, knowing that I will regret this, I start to search the rooms, the lounge room is clean, pleasant and has a pipe wrench on the couch.
“Better bring this with me, who knows what else I’ll run into” I tell myself as I pick up the rusty red wrench, it’s oily, but seems sturdy enough. I go out into the main hallway to find that the door is wide open, and the table broken in two, I really start to get anxious at this point, as I stand in front of a different door, this one has that dark blood on it. Better be careful.
I open the door and raise the wrench in case anything jumps out at me. Nothing does, I breathe a sigh of relief as I spot a small table with a note on it, and what looks like boat keys and a map, I walk over to it and start to read it “Its happening, take these keys, and this map, and meet me at the harbour specified, I’ve located a possible island to recuperate at. The locals are not human, but are friendly, I’ll meet you there.”
“Better take these then” I tell myself. I pick up the keys, open up the map and take a look, the island is marked out, but the name has been scribbled over. I can only just make out “***hi* I*l**d” I look up and notice a small window, looks big enough for me to fit through. I attempt to open it, it’s jammed.
Deciding that the name isn’t important, I take this guys word for it, and leave the room with the map and boat keys, when I suddenly freeze in fear and see what broke the barricade, it’s the thing from my house, it must have followed me here! But it looks different, the mark from my baseball bat is still there, but it’s now rather disturbing to look at, some sort of unknown, green fleshy substance is growing on its head and face, and it’s twitching, twitching a lot.
And then, its charges at me, running really fast, with its claws out, I run into the bedroom again and shut the door. I start to really panic as I search for a window to escape out of, I can hear that thing, bashing at the door and making that gurgling sound. I run to the small table again and climb out the window that I noticed earlier; I break the window with the wrench, squeeze through it and continue down the road it leads to with a cut from the broken glass.
“I’ve never been to the harbor before, must find out where it is soon if I have a hope of getting out of here” I think to myself in the dark as I walk up to a town map, with my flashlight dead it takes me a while but eventually I locate the harbour, and myself, turns out I don’t have far to go, and there are 2 routes I can take. If I find my way into the shopping mall, I can get a very short trip, but who knows what will be in there, or I can go around it and into some more dark alleyways and sewers.
After some quick thinking, I decide to go through the shopping mall, I start to walk down the path again when I’m tackled to the ground by another one of those things, I scream as it grabs my arm and bites me in the shoulder, I shove it off with my free hand, knocking the twitching zombie thing off me, I grab my wrench and slam it into its head, it falls onto the pavement and lets out a loud roar.
“That thing must be alerting the others, must get out of here really quickly now!” I turn around and run as fast as I can, holding my now injured shoulder, while that thing eventually dies on the side of the road. I make my way to the mall and start bashing at the grate, it eventually gives way and I enter what looks like a food court.
“Don’t see anything unusual, maybe somewhere I can restore power, my flashlight is dead” I think as I begin to explore the closest “authorised personnel only” rooms, these places are turning too, the walls are growing something, everything that is metal has completely rusted, and when I poke the walls, I puncture it and that black stuff seeps out. As I look in the 4th room, I find a door labelled “power generator”
“It’s exactly what I’m looking for!” I say in an excited mood, I try to open it, but it’s jammed, that stuff must be blocking it, looking around for a different entrance, I spot a vent high up, after a while of thinking, and I start making holes large enough to fit my feet in the wall and use them to climb up into the vent. Now I have that stuff all in my shoes and socks.
After about 10 minutes of crawling and getting lost I finally drop into the generator room where I see that the door is jammed by that unknown substance, I take a look at the rest of the room, nothing else unusual. I locate the lever, it’s rusted, like everything else, but I pull it anyway.
I look around me and nothing happens for a moment, before suddenly, the lights turn on and a large, deep roar echoes through the hall. I freeze in fear for a few moments. Whatever I just woke, it is not good. I ever so carefully creep out to the main part of the mall, I take a look, and I am shocked, to see maybe hundreds of those twitching things, wrecking the mall, but none are on the second floor from what I can see, and there is a working escalator within reach from where I am. I look around them and see the mall starting to deteriorate, like its rotting.
With time running out, my shoulder bleeding, and my stamina low, I take the risk, I sprint to, and up the escalator, to make things worse, it alerted every one of those thing to my position, they are now trying to get up to me, on the walls and the escalators. I ignore them for now, and take a moment to think on how I’m going to get to the other side. I look around the creatures and see the mall starting to deteriorate, like its rotting.
“I can see a pathway through them, its narrow, but I’ll go for it, it’s my only option for now” I say to myself in a instant, I walk as calmly as I can to the stairs on the other side, I go down them and run like the wind through all of them, enduring a few small cuts I make it to the other side, the power restore must have opened the roller shutter things, I bash through the glass on the door and run out into the street.
I look around and spot the harbour, and a corpse those things must have got him, there are a lot of bites and scratches on him. I walk up to him and take a look, those things must have got him, there are a lot of bites and scratches on him, he was another survivor, just like me, , I crouch beside him and notice a crumpled piece of paper in his right hand.
“If you are reading this, well done, very well done, I tried to hold out to wait for you, but it was too much, if you want to escape this living hell, go to pier 3, you boat will be there, all fuelled up and ready to go, the island won’t be expecting you, but, believe me, I have done my research. They won’t kill you on sight, good luck with your trip and your future endeavours. [If any] Farewell.”
I turn around after reading the note and see that all the creatures are chasing me. I franticly search for pier 3, it’s not far away, I run to it and I start to feel dizzy, I must be losing too much blood. I spot the boat. i jump on to it, it’s a small boat, I put the key into the ignition and turn it. It started. I max out the throttle and drive away from the city.
“I made it! I cannot believe I made it!” I think to myself, with the best smile I can muster on my face. With the time I had now, I took a good look at the boat I was on, it was in pretty bad condition, the hull was damaged, some parts were rusting and breaking off, and the motor in it was spluttering and choking as it went along. I walk to the back of the boat and look at what was once my home.
The boat ride was long and, oddly relaxing as I stare at the sunrise. After a while see I something in the distance under the sun, it must be the island that man was talking about, I walk up to the front of the boat and cheer, before I slowly pass out.
[authors notes: the cause of this was probably how much i play afraid of monsters, a half life one mod. This really was one of my dreams, happened last night. I made no description of the island because frankly, that's where I woke up from it, and it may be open for a sequel.]