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By: Patricia Heart💗
I was an innocent girl, I didn't deserve what had happened to me. Let me tell you  my story, I was young, I had just finished high school. I soon later went to move in with my boyfriend, Oliver, after I moved in and got settled I noticed many things I've never noticed before. I got to know a lot more about him, but not in a very good way. My boyfriend worshiped evil spirits. I never really knew or understood Heaven and Hell, God or the Devil. I didn't understand why he was so interested, it seemed a bit creepy to me. It was my first night, I was extremely scared sleeping in the same room with a devil worshiper and different demonic toys.

When I was a smaller my baby brother passed away, I was 12 and he was 4. He had cancer and he couldn't fight any longer, I've always felt his presence. In Oliver's house I felt a stronger presence and I couldn't take it anymore I just had to see my little brother. I went to go see a medium, her name was Delilah, I asked her to reunite me with my brother. Once I walked in her office she was frightened, I don't know why but she just jolted. She felt something too! But she told me that it wasn't my little brother.

I didn't understand, It had to be my brother! Little did I know I opened the door to a demonic realm, and once that happens you invite demons into your life and it doesn't get much easier from there. I was walking to my car and out of nowhere, I got hit by one and ended up in the hospital, soon after Oliver wheeled me to the couch because I didn't want to be in the room. I couldn't sleep, the second I closed my eyes I saw things.

I open my eyes and after a second I get tossed from the room and smash into the wall, both my legs are broken from the car so I couldn't do much. I didn't know who or what was trying to kill me but it was frightening. I screamed and Oliver came but didn't do anything to help me, he actually seemed to be talking with it, soon he took me to the hospital, I had a terrible neck injury from the hits.

I started getting more involved with Heaven and Hell, God and The Devil. I've attended a couple of churches to help me with this "thing" that's going after me. I am now starting to understand that what Oliver is doing is not okay. Once I got home I asked him to come to church with me, he got furious he told me God wasn't real. At night I couldn't sleep again so I started to pray to God, I went over to Oliver's room and put my hand on his head and started to pray for him, as soon as I start he quickly grabs my hand and kicks me out. He told me if I'm going to disagree with his beliefs I could just get out, so I did.

I asked my dad if I could stay with him until I could find a new place. Once I moved in with my dad I thought I left that thing that was trying to kill me back at Oliver's house, but it followed me here. I went to sleep and I open my eyes in the middle of the night, and right there, he was standing right there, I was too scared to scream, I was too scared to move. I didn't know his name, but I knew I've seen him before, I didn't know where he came from but he was right in front of me, he took a step towards me and than another, when he was really close you took one more step and than I couldn't see him anymore, he was inside me.

I started screaming and my dad came, he talked to me and asked me what I saw. I couldn't explain it was just crazy. My dad believed me when he saw me shaking, he thought I was sick but I knew I wasn't. Delilah busted into my house but she wasn't alone, she had her workers with her. She sensed something was wrong with me and when she saw me she held me tight, and that's when he took over.

I've done things I've never done before, but that was because it wasn't really me. I slapped Delilah in the face, I punched my dad so hard he fell to the ground. I broke my casts that I've had on my legs, I almost murdered all the people in the room. They all quickly got up and tied me in rope. They put me in a circle and started to say these words that I couldn't understand. Delilah went to the evil realm to get my soul back from the demon that took it. But she was still holding my hand when she left, she left spiritually, not physically. I've learned that the spiritual realm is much stronger than the human world.

On the journey to get my soul Delilah had fallen into a trap. The evil spirt took form of her dead husband, he tried to convince her to open her eyes. He did that because if she opened her eyes without getting what she needed she would get stuck in their. She knew that her husband would never make her do something like that...she hit him so hard he took form of his own evil self. The evil spirit had my soul in his hand, once she saw it she quickly grabbed it and ran. He got her without moving a muscle. She knew what she had to do, and that's exactly what she did...She opened her eyes.

I came back!!! She defeated the spirit, but she was as well defeated. Delilah gave up her life for me and I am very grateful. It was the worst experience in my life, no matter what I will always have Delilah in my heart she saved me. The next week I go to see Oliver, I took him to church and he enjoyed it. He switched his beliefs and now is saved. We decided to get back together and buy a new place together, he sold his old place and he cleaned it up a bit, he threw away all his toys and masks, but he couldn't clean up all the spirits that are still left in there. Soon later a nice family moved in, but they don't know they had company.

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By: Dankel Bayron
My name is Sam.  The story of the Regency church is not a regular one. It started in the summer of 2007, August. There were rumors that a retired Priest had been possessed. Rumor had it that he cursed an object, no one knew what that object was till that faithful night. We had just finished a service and it was the dead of night. The church was ready to close up then I heard it. It started out as a small creak and grew bigger. Me being curious  followed the sound to its source.

It had led me to the back of the church. We don't use this anymore. More of a self storage type area. Suddenly I got chills. I heard a scream. A human scream. Stopping in my tracks I listened. In a matter of seconds I was right in front of the door where I heard. What I saw haunts me to this day. A dead man lying on his back in the middle of a table. Surprisingly the table was clean, very different than the man himself covered in blood.

A day later the church office called the police naturally to investigate. The police came quickly and an armed search of the church was launched as the police believed a killer was on the loose. Sirens rang, barriers were put outside the church as armed officers entered and watched the church entrance.

orders could be heard as the police stormed each room. After two long hours the search finally concluded.

"How do you feel Sam?" Inquired Terry

She had suggested I get counseling to help me overcome what I saw but I ignored her, I knew nothing would help me overcome what is saw.

"It's fine Terry, I'll forget about the whole ordeal I quickly." I quickly snapped back at her.

Despite this deep down I knew that it would be very difficult to overcome.

Finally I decided that I wasn't gonna crack myself and began seeking counseling. I found a counselor that made me feel at home. I stepped into the room and Immediately felt twice as better as I had before. After the third day I began making great progress and had begun to look past the murder. But last night that all changed in the blink of an eye.

It was about none o clock, and the church was cleaning up form a recent event held in the auditorium.
I was walking down the hall when I heard it, muffled screaming. And then a voice that chills me to the bone. It was not a normal voice. It was more hissing than speaking and I could just make out the words.

"come closer"

I looked around the hallway and spotted it. The empty chair. The same chair in the room if the first murder.

I turned around to walk back when suddenly my legs stopped cold. I tried to move but to my horror, couldn't. A wave of cold sweat washed over me suddenly, and then I felt it. A buzzing in my head that quickly became unbearable pain. Time felt like it had stopped my vision blurred, head in pain, blood red visions in my mind and suddenly like the calm after a storm...as clear as day, I heard voices. Pained voice. Demonic voices....

"It hurts so much"

I suddenly lost control over my legs. They were drawn to the chair. Then it hit me.

This was the possessed object.... With cold sweat washing over my face. The screaming visions stood in front of the chair and it began to lift. I had no idea how high until I hit the roof. The voices were becoming more violent by the minute and suddenly SLAM. the church doors burst open.

Immediately at the height of the action it stopped. My vision coming back and I saw as I slammed into the ground at high speeds.

"Peter, what happened?" I groggily asked as I awoke in the hospital bed

"The chair, it was possessed all along, I heard the yells of agony and burst into the hall to see you floating high off the ground, and suddenly you fell." Peter replied.

"Peter," I began "We have to get rid of these items"

"I agree" he replied.

So we hatched a plan. We would do the only right thing, burn the chairs in prayer.

At the dead of night we took the chairs into the main hall with a marble floor. We began repeating rituals as the chairs were doused in gasoline. We continued this until the chairs were nothing but ash and floating embers.

An hour later we dug a sizable hole in the courtyard and buried the ashes. We vowed that we would never speak of this or mention it as long as we lived.

A few weeks later I was alone in the auditorium, I was storing things in the supply closet i had just at down to take a drink of water, in an old chair that was just sitting there. Something caught my eye and I turned to see, as I turned the door shut and the lights dimmed.

By: Dankel Bayrron

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A Strange Day In July By: Cornelius Pumperdinkle

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A Strange Day In July By: Cornelius Pumperdinkle

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One afternoon Charlie, who is 8, and his sister Scarlet, who is 7, just finished taking pictures for a family photo shoot. After the photo shoot Charlie and Scarlet's family usually have a picnic at the park. As the family walked across the street to get to the park. Charlie then taps Scarlet on her shoulder. Scarlet turns around and quickly says, "What's up Charlie?" Charlie responds by saying, "Instead of playing at the park, let's go to the woods and play there instead." Scarlet and Charlie get their love for adventures from their dad, who unfortunately died a year ago. Scarlet nodded her head and Charlie said, "Great, when the family starts unpacking meet me behind the slide and will go from there."

Once the family started unpacking, Scarlet and Charlie went straight to stealth mood. Their family was use to them sneaking around, but every time they find out they snuck around they will always ground them. Both Scarlet and Charlie ran like if their life depended on it, which it did. Charlie was showing Scarlet the way since Charlie has been there before with his friends. Scarlet was confused, but she trusted her brother. As they were walking Charlie stepped on a big muddy gooey puddle. Scarlet gagged and said, "Ew that's disgusting." Charlie smiled and told Scarlet that we are here. Scarlet looked around and saw that Charlie took her to the most beautiful place ever. There was all kinds of creatures and the scenery looks like they were in a fairy tail. The pond was also glistening from the reflection of the sun.

Then out of nowhere Charlie runs and say, "Let's have a contest, whoever skips the stone the furthest gets a a prize." Scarlet's a very competitive person, and she quickly responds by saying, "Bring it." They both pick up a stone then started the count down. 3...2...1..., Throw!!!! They both threw the stone with all their might, but then something odd happened. The stones came skipping back. They both stared at each other in dead silence. Charlie said, "Let's just try it again but softer." They both threw the stone softer, but it came back. Charlie said to let him try by himself. So Scarlet allowed Charlie to test it out. Charlie tried a smaller stone and threw the third stone with all his might, but it just came skipping back. Charlie said to Scarlet, "Let me try one more time and if it doesn't work then let's just cancel the contest." Scarlet nodded in agreement. Charlie got a humongous stone and threw it so hard that it came pronouncing back in lighting speed. Scarlet yelled, "Watch out!!!" But it was too late, Charlie got hit in the head with the stone. Charlie fell to the ground and his eyes were slowly closing. Scarlet ran to Charlie and tried everything to wake him up. She even tried picking him up to bring him back the picnic, but he was too heavy for Scarlet. Instead, she ran as fast as a cheetah to get help.

Now on Charlie's end, the world seem to be collapsing in front of him. Then suddenly his eyes completely closed. Charlie just laid there with his eyes closed. He felt like he was on a cloud, like if he was back home in his fluffy bed taking a nap. Then all of a sudden he wakes up like everything's fine. He feels his injured head and turns out that he magically held. It quickly looked around wondering where Scarlet went. He yelled for her, but there was never a respond. He decided to go back to the park to see his family.

Then he heard a movement in the bushes. It sounded like if someone or something was watching him. He whispers, "Scarlet…is that you?" There was still no response. Out of nowhere, what looks like an Arctic wolf jumped out of the bush and walked around Charlie. Charlie not knowing what to do stood still studying the mysterious creature. Charlie loves animals, so he doesn't go to attack the wolf he just stares. He wonders to himself, why is there an Arctic wolf in the middle of the woods in California! Charlie read books about wolves and tried to calm it down, trying to make it become his friend. Charlie stuck out his hand and slowly got closer to the wolf. The wolf jumps back and says, "I'm not just some ordinary creature, I am a mythical beast who came here to protect you from harm." Charlie just stares. "My name is Randi," says the Arctic wolf. Charlie says, "I'm Ch-ch-ch-ar-rlie." Randi says, "Don't be afraid young one, I'm the protector of the wolves. And I do no harm." Charlie asks, "Where am I?" "You are in the land of make believe," Randi says. "So I'm not in the real world," Charlie addressed. "No," Randi declared. "Woah…" exclaimed Charlie.

The two of them stayed silent for a while until Charlie broke the silence by saying, "Randi…will I ever be able to come back home?" Randi paused, but later told Charlie, "I have been waiting for you to ask me that, you have to follow me to the cave of doom to go home." "Wait what?!?!" Charlie exclaimed. Randi said in all seriousness, "You have to go to the cave of doom to go back home." "How will I go home by the cave?" asked Charlie. "You have to find the Glistening Apples and take a bite out of it, it will put you to sleep and you will hopefully wake up in your real world" exclaimed Randi. "Hopefully, what do you mean by hopefully," asked Charlie in confusion. Randi then told Charlie that there are three different apples that all look different and only one takes you to your dimension, the others will kill you with no doubt." "Will I be able to find the apples right away" Charlie declared. "Yes," said Randi, "But I won't be able to walk inside with you." Charlie asked, "Why?" "Because my duty ends right after you enter the cave." "So what are you waiting for, " said Randi, "Let's get a move on!"

Charlie followed Randi without doubting anything. Charlie looked around the place and notice that everything looked as if he was in the real world. Charlie taps Randi and ask, "Are you sure this is the place of make believe?" "Yes…it might look as if we are in your world but, trust me were not," Randi told Charlie.

Right after Randi said that Charlie felt like something was breathing on him. He then felt a tap from the back of his head. Which was odd since he was behind Randi. Suddenly, something or someone wrapped its, what its seemed like an arm around Charlie and pulled him to the ground. Randi quickly turns and runs after Charlie. It turns out that a flower came and attacked Charlie. It wasn't an ordinary flower, it was a Chopper. Which is a tiny flower that grows into a live walking humongous flower and eats anything that comes across it. Charlie tried attacking the Chopper but, his moves did nothing. Randi climbs up the Chopper's arm and bites it off. The Chopper squirmed off in pain and Randi runs to catch Charlie before hitting the ground. Luckily, Randi caught Charlie before he hit the ground. Charlie yells to Randi, "Thank you for helping me and what was that thing!?!" Randi explained what the flower was and told Charlie that that's what he is here for. To protect him in every step of the way. Which is why Randi is named that, Randi means protector in Old English.

Randi told Charlie to stay to his right so Randi can watch every move that Charlie makes. They walked over to a cliff and Randi said to just jump. Charlie said, "Are you crazy!?!?" Randi didn't answer and just jumped. Charlie ran and looked over to see Randi but all he saw was fog. Charlie was about to jump then Randi comes out of the fog and screams in excitement, "Woohooooooo!!!" The fog starts to clear and Charlie peaks down. There was nothing but giant bouncy orange mushrooms with red polka dots. Randi said, "Just jump, it's amazing!" Charlie jumped and it felt like he was bouncing on a super bouncy trampoline. Charlie asked Randi how are they going to get off. Randi told him it's simple. Randi then howled and many fairies came.

They fairies were so graceful, beautiful, and had white and pink sparkles around them. They lifted both Charlie and Randi. Charlie couldn't stop laughing because it felt like as if they were trying to tickled him. When the fairies dropped off Randi and Charlie, Charlie asked "Why didn't he call them in the first place?" Randi answered back by saying, "It wouldn't be as much fun would it?" Charlie nodded in agreement.

They walked for an hour more, but to Charlie it felt like seconds. Randi was introducing Charlie to all of the other mythical creatures. Charlie meet the singing two headed bunnies, cute but, scary sea lions, silky silly snake, and a…. Randi stopped and Charlie bumped into him since he was looking at the scenery. Charlie asked why did we stop. Randi didn't answer but sniffed the ground, he quickly told Charlie to move to the side. Charlie yelled, "Why!!??!" Randi whispered, "sshhh!!!" "There is another wolf pack here." Charlie did what Randi told him to do and stood quite behind a bush. Randi was right another wolf pack approached them. It wasn't the good pack, it was the rebels. "Oh look here fellas, I found the reject of the pack," said one of the rebels who goes by the name of Aka. Randi then says, "I'm not a reject, your the one who killed my pack, so now it's my duty to take you and your what you call "friends" down." Charlie just stares at the wolves and notice that Randi also lost his family, but Charlie's wasn't as bad.  Randi tells Aka to move and he won't have to fight them. Aka was about to agree and then he smelt a human. "Randi....you have a human with you," says Aka "Is this your next victim?" Charlie looks at Randi and Randi glances back at Charlie. Aka sees Randi look at Charlie and runs after him. Randi yells, "RUN CHARLIE!!!" Randi attacks Aka and bites him on the neck before Aka had a chance to lay a paw on him. Aka's pack ran after Aka noticing that he is hurt. Randi again yells at Charlie to keep running straight and he will get to the cave. Charlie screamed, "What about you Randi!!!" Randi yells back, "I'll catch up with you."

Charlie runs as fast as possible to get away from them. After he felt like he lost them Charlie stopped to take a break. He wondered why Aka killed Randi's pack. He just keep going till he eventually got to the cave. The place didn't seem as magical anymore, it felt like a dark and gloomy place. Then Charlie tripped on a rock. He looked up and noticed that there was a cave in front of him. Charlie wondered if he should wait for Randi or just go by himself. Charlie decided to wait for Randi. Charlie felt proud of himself for waiting for his buddy, but later he felt bad. He left one of his friends behind. He thought to himself, I should of helped him, I'm a bad friend, what if he doesn't come back.

Charlie heard the same sound of when him and Randi met. Charlie noticed that there was a bush beside the cave and it was moving. He ran to the bush and screamed, "RANDI!!!" But Randi wasn't there. Charlie sat back down and said I have to wait for him, I need to say goodbye. Charlie has been waiting for what has seems like hours. Charlie said he is not coming back. Charlie was about to enter the cave, then heard a familiar voice. It said, "Good luck Charlie." Charlie turned and right behind him was Randi. Charlie ran up to him and gave him a big hug. Charlie asked, "I'm happy your alive and how did you escape them." Randi replied bye saying, "It's not important, what's important is that you go back to your world." Charlie was still curious, but he listened to Randi. They said their last goodbyes and Charlie went in.

The cave was exactly how Charlie imagined it. It was dark, spooky, quiet, and scary. Charlie looked back for Randi, but he was no longer there. So Charlie kept on moving. He then saw three lights shining over three red objects. He got closer and it was it! The three glistening apples, just like Randi said. Charlie studied the three apples. One looked very new, it's a really bright color, the perfect stem, and shape. It looks to good to be true. The second one looked as if it was an ok apple, the color was just red, it had a curly stem, and it's shape was tall on one side and short on the other. The last one, well it didn't look good, it was brownish red, stem was droopy and its shape was umm…well let's just say it's not even a shape. Charlie decided to go for the nicest one. He was about to reach for it then, he heard Scarlet's voice. Charlie could of sworn that Scarlet was right next to him. He look for her, but she wasn't there. Charlie followed the voice of Scarlet and it led him to the ugliest apple, it wasn't even glistening it was that bad. Scarlet's voice was saying, "This is our home." Charlie didn't want to eat the apple, but he did anyway. It smelt bad, looked bad, and tasted bad.

Charlie fell to the ground and his eyes were closing, all he saw was black now. Charlie then heard some mumbling and what it look like as if he was in the hospital. Everything about the scenery reminded him of it. After Charlie's vision clears up he ask "Did I eat the right apple?" Instead of hearing a yes or no he heard cries. He sees Scarlet, his mom, and a nurse. He asked "Where am I?" They just hugged and kissed him. His mom told Charlie that he was in the hospital. "Why?" asked Charlie. The nurse ask Charlie, "What was the last thing you remember Charlie?" "The last thing I remember was that I ate a rotten apple to get back to Earth with a help of a Arctic Wolf named Randi"  They all just stared and laughed. They nurse asked again, "Charlie what's the last thing you remember down on planet Earth?" Charlie said, "Oh, umm…I was throwing a heavy stone to see why it came back and it hit me in the head." Charlie then touched his head and it was covered in a bandage. Charlie's mom said that, "Scarlet ran from the woods crying saying that you are bleeding everywhere on your head. I ran with your guy cousins and the rest of the family called 911. Then your guys cousins and I carried you to the park while Scarlet showed us the way. The ambulance took you to the hospital and we have been worried ever since." "I love you guys, " said Charlie. Charlie thought to himself and said, "I love and thank you Randi"

The End...

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The 7 Chairs
"Thanks for the house warming gifts mom."  It was July 24th the day I finally moved into a condo in Great Britain. My mom gave me these chairs, they were all unique and had these carved numbers in them, 1-7.
"Your welcome honey, but-,"
"I know, I know beside I already know where I'm going to put them,"
"Honey-,"
"Mom calm down, I'll be fine,"
I started loading up the bubble wrapped chairs in the van. I don't know what she was trying to tell me but I never saw these things, I know they're family heirlooms but they should be displayed.
Well that was it for the night, I just set up my bed for the night and I was exhausted, I was going to sleep.
"What was that." I was woken up in the middle of the night by thumping and the sound of my door opening.  I went to the living room to find the chairs walking on the ceilings and flying around, they all faced me and broke for the door.
I just stood there dumbfounded by what happened. Is that what mom was trying to tell me? What the heck was all of this? Why did our family have this? How am I going to together the chairs? What am I supposed to do?
The best option I could come with is to call my mom. All she told me was to look for them with those who you trust the most. I called Jack, Scott, Layla, and Olivia.
"THEY WHAAAT!!!" Layla exclaimed.
"That's what is saw." I said.
"Really?" They all said in unison.
"Mom told me I had to look for them with the people who I trust the most."
I was scared, I was hugging a pillow being hugged by Jack I was scared that I wouldn't be able to get these chairs, or whatever they were, back. They seemed to have their own minds making everything harder for me.
"You need to get sleep, we'll start looking for them tomorrow." Jack told me. Then I drowsed off to sleep only then realizing how Olivia and Scott didn't say a single thing while they were there, they just made hot chocolate and listened, and I was grateful.
It was morning and we all slept on the couches and now I was packing my stuff so that I'll be able to last out of the city for a while. We then stopped by all their houses to do the same, and then we were off.
We decided to look on the news to see if any one had reported the chairs, and low and behold we found one, causing a ruckus on the London Eye. The camera was following it going on top of the capsules with people taking pictures and seeing if they could pound on the glass to make it fall off, it worked, eventually it fell and so did my heart I though my mom would kill me but it just floated there and it tapped the glass scaring the people inside. We went outside thinking it would be madness trying to go through the streets. We finally got there passing security and I started yelling.
"HEEEY GEETTT DOWN HERE NOOOOOWWW." I started rubbing my throat that hurt. It started descending and it landed right in front of me, I didn't know how to restrain it so, I sat on it.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" I yelled. It started flying past the people fast. "PUT ME DOWN, NOW!" It stopped slowly and landed on the floor, then I picked it up to look at the number.
"What number is it?" Olivia yelled. I looked to see her coming out of the sunroof of Jacks car.
"#3." I said when they pulled up the curb I was sitting on holding the chair, but it looked different on how it did when they ran off. It was slumped over like someone had made it wrong. It looked as if were a sad person. I then got up and sat down on the chair.
"Go slow, please," I told it. "Take me to the others." It got up about five feet up the air and it started going. "Follow me." It headed down the street.
"Where are going," I asked. One of the front legs pointed out. We were headed towards the beach. "But what about them." I said pointing to Jacks car. It did what I assumed to be a shrug and it kept going. I got out my Nokia and started dialing Layla's number.
"What is that thing doing?" She asked.
"I don't know but it's taking me to another chair I'll see you when I get back."
"Okay we guess." They said on speaker. Then I hung up. We passed a few buoys and I started seeing some land mass in the front of us. We landed on the beach, realizing my legs fell asleep, I almost fell. I started walking around to see a chair lying propped up on palm leaves.
"Hey!" I yelled. The chair flew up about three feet and came back down all slouched, looking defeated. I picked it up to look at the number. "#7." I mumbled walking away. Two down five to go. "Okay time to go...uhh-" I turned around to see the chairs running through the sand and flying like the wind. It was enjoyable so I watched for a while smiling. The chairs slowly faced me and ran toward me seven, with it's front legs and starting to float dragging me along with it and it dropped me in the water.
"I regret everything." I said with a frown on my face. I was soaking wet and I was headed to 3 to get 7. We caught up fast, I like this chair it's obedient and I jumped onto it, I almost fell but I got it and I rode it back to shore. I got back to see all of them in a 99 cent store getting water guns and water balloons. Then I went in and scared them.
"You scared us." They all said.
"This was supposed to be a surprise," Scott told me,"we wanted to surprise you and like drench you in water but it seems someone beat us to it."
"Well let's get back to looking then." Olivia finally told all of us."
We then continued following the news, and this took us all over England. We found #1 climbing on Stonehenge. We found #4 at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. #2 was at The Colosseum. We then found some people trying to fight off #6 and they decided to help us out. Their names were Ellie and Justin, they were a couple touring Europe and we took them along with us because we were traveling through Europe the same way.
"Hey guys help me out over here yeah?" Ellie asked. She #6 and it was running out of her reach. Then she caught up to it and it tried to scramble away but she was able to hang on to it long enough for me to get over there and calm it down.
"Hahahahaha," Ellie laughed, "this is awesome I've never been on such an adventure I'm glad I was able to tag along with you guys this is the best trip I've been on in my life."
"So does anyone know where #5 is?" Jack asked.
"The fifth one ended up in France." I told them.
"Onwards then." Scott yelled.
We found it bad to take the car so we all rode on the chairs headed towards this cathedral that the chairs were going to. We all walked in the front door to see three nuns. One was on the chair the others were watching.
"Hello there, um I have to ask for my chair back please they got loose and ended up here." I told them.
"Oh my what a handful these are, well the thing is my sister up there hasn't been down from that height since it got here weeks ago." The nun told me.
Wow, I just realized how long we've been on is journey to find the chairs. It's been fun and now we can start heading home.
"#5 please put her down." I asked it and it started coming down then when she got up it came to me. I can now go home and start to look for a place where these things won't get out again.
We were passing the sea to get back to England and Ellie standing up on #6, she kept messing around.
"Be careful," Justin told her, "your gonna fall."
"You're being such a worry wart." Ellie responded.
And that's when it happened. She slipped off the chair and fell down all the way to ocean where I doubt she survived because we didn't get to see. All the chairs at sped off even six without running away. Then we ended up at my apartment, torn up, we just lost someone because I didn't listen to mom.
And that was it everything was solved with the chairs locked up and my friends back to themselves, but we will always remember Ellie and how much she helped us.

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The Curse of the Abandoned Church: By Fedex Dieaz

It was a dark and stormy October night when Jimena, a nun, was starting to hear some scratchy noises near the church. She got very frightened and told the nearby nuns who were also reporting the sounds. They all described it as a teacher running her long nails through the chalkboard. They all went on to go check, but from the words of the nearby townspeople, they never came back.
Five years later, people were getting very worried and decided to get the problem off of their chests.

"Ok guys, we need to go in fearless or less we will die," rallied Jimena.

"She's right, if we show this 'demon' fear it will take advantage." Agreed another nun by the name of Juanita.

"Let's go everyone!" Exclaimed Jimena.

Everyone went onto the abandoned church feeling very nervous, but they felt as if it was an important event in order to keep the whole village safe.

They slowly entered a doorway into a dark, creepy room with statues that looked over you as you walked in. They looked around and saw nothing but darkness until they heard a chilling demonic scream.

"What was that?" Quivered Jimena in fear.

"I have no idea, but I want to go home." Said Juanita.

They knew nothing nothing of what was going on, but they decided to keep going in order to see what was behind the very last door.
All the nuns went into the very creepy door only two find another nun curled up in a chair  in the corner... with cuts. She was talking to herself as if the demon inside of her was giving directions. One of the nuns seemed to recognize her as one of the forgotten nuns that were never found.

"Oh my goodness, Deborah is that you?" Asked Jimena with joy.

"No, I am not the Deborah you used to know," whispered Deborah with a demonic voice.

The demon started to rise up into the air with the chair and started spinning in place. After a few seconds of spinning, she completely disappeared. A few moments later, Jimena started to feel something drip down her head. She slowly looked up and saw the demon again. However this time, she was on the ceiling and her head was turn backwards and her hands were the other way around.

"We might need to perform an exorcism, as well as backup before we all die!" Shouted Juanita.

"No, all of the nuns went on vacation. For some reason though, the fifth one ended up in France. Why did she choose to go to France?" Rambled Jimena. "whatever, our only hope now is the priest to perform the exorcism."

Juanita immediately called the priest and he came fairly quickly. He question the demon and then immediately started.

"The power of Christ compels you!" Shouted the priest.

The monster was screaming in pain and agony while the body of the nun was flying everywhere. Finally, there was a pause and they assumed the demon had left and they immediately called the paramedics to take the nun to the hospital. All was good in the end, and nobody was killed.

"Let's go home guys, our job here is done." Said Jimena."hey, where's Juanita?"

"I'm right here." She said in a creepy demonic voice.

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The Seven Chairs: The Demon, By-Mike Hawk

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The Demon
By: Mike Hawk
It was a very dark and stormy night in an old church in Mexico on June 6, 1656. There was a priest named Joseph and a little girl named Jennifer. There were nuns besides the priest helping him out. The little girl was sitting down in a chair with her mother crying next to her. The priest asked, "What's wrong with her?" The mother responded, "Padre por favor ayude me, mi hija tiene un demonio dentro de ella y no se que aser!" The priest walked towards a room near the back and brought back a wooden cross and a rosary. He told the mother to walk out of the room and lock the door. The mother confused and scared did what the priest had told her and left the room. The priest put the rosary on the cross and held it up in front of the little girl and recited," Padre Nuestro que estas en el cielo santificado sea tu nombre...Amen."
The little girl started to shake, the chair she was sitting on started to rise and everything started to spin around it.The scared nuns ran towards the bathroom to hide. After about the 4-5 time saying it everything stopped and fell to the ground. The girl was in the floor upside down, the priest asked," Are you ok?" He walked towards the girl, every step he took made him doubt his actions. He was about to touch the girl one more time, then out of nowhere she gets up and grabs the priest from the neck and says," I am going into your body now!" A fog like steam was coming out of the girl and going into the priest. The girl fell to the ground and was finally free from the demon. The priest was besides the little girl, he grabbed her from the arm and sunk his nails into her. The little girl started to cry and scream, the priest exclaimed," Don't cry everything is gonna be fine." Then he grabbed her from the throat and put his hand inside of her mouth and pulled out her heart. In the porch of the church was the mother trying to peek inside. He rushed towards the door, grabbed the women and dragged her into the back room. The priest squeezed the women till she wasn't able to breath, her eye balls popped out and she was all dried out. While the priest was trying to hide the bodies he dropped a candle and created a fire, the fire got out of control and the church burned down with everyone inside of it. The bodies burned down but the demon was still out there.
Ten Years Later...
It was June 5, 1666 they were having the grand opening of a new Catholic school. The Catholic school was being built over the old church that used to be haunted. A little boy named Anthony was talking to a boy besides him named Adrian about the old church, Anthony asked Adrain," Do you know what happened to the people that used to be in these very lands?" Adrain curious and confused answered," No,"  "what happened?" Anthony answered," They say that they all died because of a scary demon that lurked around the nights."" He comes back for more victims every tenth year on June 6," said Anthony. " You mean tomorrow" asked Adrain, he past a huge chunk of saliva down his thought and left. Adrain went home that day and couldn't think of anything else but what Anthony had told him.
Meanwhile in the Catholic school...
A janitor was cleaning the floors of the school because when the morning came it was going to be the first day of school. He heard a grumble and though someone was inside the building then remembered that he hadn't eaten. He went outside to see what food was available and close so he could eat. Luckily there was a man across the street selling tacos. The janitor asked, " me puede dar dos tacos para comer?" The man named Juancarlos asked, " Are you the one who is working in the school?" The janitor answered," Yes, why?" " They have told me that anyone who enters that place doesn't come out, they all get caught by it," said Juancarlos. Who is it," asked the janitor". They say he comes back in the morning of June 6 and leaves at night, said Juancarlos. "Just be carful," said Juancarlos. The janitor was scared and about to cry went back inside the school. He turned on his music so he could calm down. When he was in the last bedroom he was happy because he knew that he was almost going to get out of that place. Then scratches were being heard from the door, the janitor was scared and hid under the bed. He started to here footsteps getting closer and closer to him. When the footsteps finally stopped he tried to take a peek out. There was the demon inside a little boy's body waiting for him to come out. The janitor went back under the bed and recited the Holy Mary. The demon grabbed the man from the legs and pulled him out, he got a hammer from on of the tables and hit the old man with it. The man was unconscious, the demon dragged him to the bathroom.
The Next Morning...
Police men where gathered around the school because they were called from the store next to it reporting loud noises from inside. Juancarlos asked one of the police men," Aye what happened?" The police men answered the women from the store next door called us because she heard some weird noises coming from inside." "Have you seen anything," asked the officer. "Yesterday an old man came to buy some food, he told me that he worked inside the school," Juancarlos responded. I warned him no to go back inside because of the monster that comes out in the morning," said Juancarlos. Two other police men where inside the school trying to look for some clues that they could use to find the janitor. They were getting closer to the bathroom door and saw the blood on the floor. They went inside the bathroom to check if the man was inside. Then the bathroom door closed on leaves the police men with no way out. A foggy steam started to come out of the toilet, the police men started to back away from it. They went inside the tub and covered themselves with the curtain. The fog goes inside of one of the officers and blows up his entire body to pieces leaving nothing but an eye ball on the floor. Then it goes inside of the other guy, since the demon is inside the man he can control what the man does, he grabs the back of his head and his jaw and he tunes it as much as he cans till his head snaps off.
Fifteen Minutes Later…
Another cop goes inside to see what they were doing, he realized that the bathroom door was locked and that blood was dripping from it. He grabbed his pocketknife and decided to stab a whole so he could unlock it. He saw his two men nearly decapitated and the body of the old janitor. He screams out," Everyone come over here!" Everyone rushed towards the man and saw the bodies in the floor. They closed down the school and decided that it wasn't their problem anymore and they were gonna hire someone else to take care of it, someone like inspector Marc Stewart.
Meanwhile In France...
"Inspector please help me" yelled a women who appeared to be running away from a monster. She was at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and the demon was catching up. The inspector didn't know what to do since he was all the way at the bottom. He says," Alex, pass me one of your arrows and dip it inside the holy water." The inspector grabs his crossbow and grabs the arrow and aims it at the monster. He was thousands of feet away from him, he had to rely on a miracle for it to hit. He launches the arrow towards the beast just as he was next to the women. The arrow goes through the monsters eye, the monster gets close to the edge and falls over. When he hits the floor he vanishes completely. " That wasn't the last one," said Dimond(the inspector's wife). We got a call from Mexico saying that they had a demon problem. "I guess we have to take care of it" said John.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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By Katey pary

One day when I was walking home I saw my friends talking, and I decided to see what they were talking about. When I walked over to them I saw something that I had never seen before in my life. It was a square no bigger than a binder with a old type writer keyboard on top of it. I came closer and it had a small screen on it with a date. "What's that for?" "We don't really know we just saw it in the Alleyway and decided to pick it up. Why do you want it?" At first I didn't really know if they were being sarcastic or serious, but when I saw the look in my friends eyes I knew that they were being dead serious. " Well I guess if you guys don't want it." " Ok we were starting to get bored of it, really it doesn't do much. Well here you go." " Well thanks, got to go bye" I said

Later that day when I got home I started to investigate the machine. It had a date on the small screen, at first I couldn't see it then I saw the date was November 7th 1982. I looked at my calendar and realized that was 3 days from now. I waited a few hours for my mom to go home which is longer then usual. " Hey mom where were you?" " Sorry I'm so late I had to take your sister to the super market and pick her up from school. " " Oh ok, so what are we doing on the seventh is there anything special that day. " I asked " No why?" "Oh no reason." I responded. I went back to my room and put the machine under my desk.

On the sixth I came home and my mom said that there was a beeping noise coming from my room. When I went to my room I noticed that the noise was coming from the machine. It said on the screen " type 1 " so I did and it stopped beeping. Then the screen had "24" on it and it kept going down by the minute. I realized it was counting down a day. I didn't really think that it was special so I left it alone, and I went to sleep.

The next day I woke up at 1 pm witch is surprising for me because I usually wake up pretty early. When I woke up I looked at the thing again and it had 2 hours left on it. I went eat breakfast and then I played games for a while. Then all of a sudden everything froze. Nothing was moving anymore, everything around me was frozen and there was no people anywhere that I could see of. I ran outside to see if there was anyone out there, but there wasn't. Everything I new was gone.

I started running around the town there was no forms of life anywhere and everything else was frozen. I ran out to the lake I always went to with my friends, I saw nothing there so I just sat down. When I did something weird happened the waves started to move the direction my arms were moving in. Then I started moving other things around me soon I learned how to control it. I started moving more and more things then I saw someone. I ran out to the person, I didn't care who it was I just kept running. When I got closer I realized it was a girl I came closer and saw it was my sister.

"Where were you at." I asked " I don't know I just woke up I think, everything was black before, but I don't know why I woke up here in the middle of the street." She responded.  " look at what happens when I point to the rock and move it up. " the Rock started levitating " woah that's cool"  my sister responded. Then when I looked back my sister was gone. She wasn't anywhere, then I saw it. In the sky there was a mirror, but when I moved I could see everyone. There was another town right above me and when I looked closer I saw that there was a hole there where my sister fell through.

I saw a latter and started to climb it, when I got to the top I was back in my town. I started to walk and accidentally stepped on something it was the mechanism. I yelled out " This is all your fall!" And I kicked the mechanism as hard as I could then everything went black. I opened my eyes and realized that it was a dream. When I got out of bed I walked over to where I put the mechanism, but it wasn't there. Then I came out of my room and turned on the tv, when I turned it on the news was on saying they found a mysterious mechanism that was in a ancient ruin, when I looked at it I realized it was the same thing mr friends gave to me.  To be continued...

By: Katey Pary

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“Are you sure this is safe? Are we even supposed to be here?,” Brandon asked, continuing with the questions. He kept giving the others and I such a worried look. “ Don’t worry,” I said, trying to calm him down,” I’m sure it's just some junk left over.” Peter opposed saying,” Yet, it is still intact and very much looks comparable for use.” We have been arguing on this for over an hour or two now.

Brandon, Peter, Isabel, and I were staring at what looked like a mash up of a boat and a train. We kept on asking questions like ,”Where did it come from?” and “Who put this here?”, for over two hours. There was no one nearby to get information from of what has happened here.

After a while, we finally came to a conclusion… We would ride this thing and find out for ourselves where it would take us. If there was an answer, we’d find it there. As soon as we got on, we had already felt regrets. Right when everybody got it, the mechanism starting going on its own, heading to a place none of us have been to before. Surprisingly, the ride was pretty fast fast considering how it was probably made, and the fact that is was moving by itself.

So far there was nothing going wrong until I heard a very strange screeching sound. The last thing I heard was Isabel screaming. When I turned to look for her she was gone and nowhere to be seen.

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"Welcome to the 6th annual boat race! Our prize this year is a grand amount of $1! Get ready because in 1 minute our race will start!" announced the judge. Captain Satan was ready, he went onto his ship and called his crew to come aboard. The race was starting...
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, GO!" yelled the Announcer! The ships started off, the race would last many hours because it was a 5 mile race.
Captain Satan was driving his ship but 1minute into the race ships were already hitting obstacles. Satan made sure his ship went at a top speed of 1 mile per hour but he was very careful with his driving making sure he didn't hit any mines or icebergs in the water because every captain knows there are dangerous hazards in the water.
"Captain, Captain, enemy ship up ahead." yelled one of the crew members.
"Where is it located at?" asked Satan.
"It's behind the ship." the crew member responded. At that very moment the captain pulled out his RPG and shot it down in 2 seconds. Possibly killing many people on board.
"Sir I don't think that ship was racing, I think it was a cruise ship." the crew member said.
"To bad." Satan responded.
2 miles into the race 3 other ships had already sunk from obstacles. Ship 1, Titanic, was driving so fast it hit an ice berg causing it to sink as well as killing an estimated 1,500 people or more. Ship 2, USS Liberty, was driving into enemy territory being shot by jets and also being shot by torpedo boats, this attack killed 34 crew members as well as injuring 171 crew members, the boat still lays in the sea today. The last ship attacked was ship 3, USS Stark, this ship was also attacked by jets, the jets kept firing missiles at it killing 37 crew members injuring 21 others. (Keep in mind these ships were real)
3 miles into the race and the rest of the boats had already past captain Satan's ship. "Satan," a crew member shouted, "the other ships are ahead of us we must catch up!" "No we don't have to catch up." Satan responded with clear sarcasm. Satan knew he must take a short cut to win, he saw a pass right through the city big enough for his ship to fit through. He thought his ship could fit but clearly wasn't sure so he decided to take a chance and go through it anyways.
"Alright crew, I have decided to go through a short cut, we will pass through that canal over there." Satan announced.
"But sir we won't even fit, our ship is to wide for that narrow pass." the crew responded. "I don't care, I want to win and if we destroy the city we destroy the city!" Satan yelled. That is exactly what happened.
"That's the 7th building we have destroyed now, we will have to pay for all of this captain!" The crew yelled. Already the ship had destroyed 7 large buildings probably killing hundreds of people.
"Captain go in reverse!" yelled the crew.
"It won't work." Satan responded. Even with the ships mighty engines in reverse, it was pulled farther and farther into the canal.
"Sir, pirates incoming!" the crew yelled.
"Why are there pirates inside of a canal!?" Satan asked.
Satan never got a response. The pirates stormed the ship trying to steal loot and kill. Captain Satan again, pulled out his RPG, and shot down pirates by the hundreds, that battle lasted 2 seconds many pirates died but the ship had taken critical damage.
"Whoah, what happen to the ship?" Satan asked.
"Well, you did kill the pirates but your weapon of choice sort of wrecked the ship, I mean a rocket launcher? What did you expect from a rocket launcher? You literally shot the ship with a rocket launcher, and your seriously asking what happen to the ship?" a crew member yelled.
"Boy you don't talk back to me, kill him at once!" Satan yelled.

A few moments later...

"Captain Satan how would you like our 'Accepting new recruits' poster to look like?" the designer asked.
"Right now we need to get out of this canal," he responded, "we must have like $10 in damage and possibly have killed thousands of people by now, and we don't need a poster we're only looking for one recruit."
"Ok as you wish." the designer said back.
The race was coming close only 1/2 of a mile left to go but the canal proved to be the most efficient short cut as Satan was now in 2nd place, only one ship was ahead of him and that was ship 6, The Jesus Ship. Satan saw the ship going very close to finishing the race he had to do some thing quickly but before he did he noticed something, he noticed that ships 5 and 6 were gone, but he didn't care and acted quickly as The Jesus Ship was coming close to finish.
"Alright men set up that hook launcher, were about to hook that ship and reel it in!" Satan yelled at the crew.
"Ai Ai captain!" the crew yelled.
The hook launcher was set up and was shot with mighty power at the Jesus ship. The ship was so close to the finish but luckily the hook reeled it in before it got to the finish causing an all out death match between the two ships. Satan saw as their crew came running into his ship and his crew defending, it was a clash, his crew would attack but their crew would attack back, Satan knew this battle would be a tie. He acted quickly and grabbed a life boat clearly abandoning his crew to die as he paddles his way to victory.
"Their captain is escaping!" the enemy crew yelled.
"Go captain go!" his crew cheered on.
Satan knew he would win but 5 feet from the finish he was shot, by the other captain, Jesus. The race ended, Captain Jesus and his ship, The Jesus Ship, were the winners of the race winning the grand prize $1. The race had lasted only 20 minutes thought and a lot of things happened, many ships died and many random things happened but all in all it was all worth it for the $1.

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It was late one evening, when his mom told him it was time to go to sleep. He knew never to disobey his mother, otherwise there would be consequences, these consequences were horrible and life-threatening. His mom had choked him so hard that it almost killed him, he survived but at a price. He lost his voice ever since that day, he was left there on his bed never to talk again..

He started to go up to his room, to brush his teeth and prepare for bed. Once he got to his own personal bathroom he started the shower, then he got in after about 5 minutes doing what he had to. After he got out of his shower he brushed and flossed his teeth. He finished brushing and flossing so he went to his bed, and pulled the sheet over his cold body. He soon fell asleep, hoping he would soon wake up from his horrible nightmare called life.

“Is he the one?” A delicate and low voice said next to the boy. He soon woke up to see a couple of shining life forms that he thought were fireflies. He went to the other side of his room, because he had always hated bugs. He started to panic, as they came closer. They then came so close that he fainted.

He had soon awoke from what he thought was a nightmare, but it was only the start. “Get up, get up that's no way to introduce yourself to the kingdom!” A hairy man with decent clothing on was yelling to me. I got up and saw a pentagram under my feet, and some weird gold objects on each side of the 5 points. “Come on now lad” The man said grabbing my wrist and taking me into a hallway. The hallway was covered in Quartz, and decorated with red gems. He took me deeper into the hallway, and soon we arrived in a throne room covered in a blood red paint job. He stopped, “we'll go ahead, they’re waiting for you” He says exploding into mud and bugs. I freaked out and ran into the throne room, and as I entered everyone was laughing. “Well hello there young sir” a maid said licking my neck. I pushed her away, and everyone came closer and closer. They pushed me down and started to nibble on my flesh. I tried to kick them off, but I failed.

“STOP IT NOW!” A fat hairy man said as the people got off of me. “Sorry good…… It's you! We've been awaiting your arrival! Everyone pull up some chairs, we must talk to him!” A woman said getting up from a throne, I guess she was here the whole time. The people who were trying to eat me soon got chairs, put them at a table and then left the room. Then suddenly someone pushed me and forced me onto a chair. “Well champ, what are you waiting for speak!” The man said. I used sign language and asked for paper and a pen/pencil. He rung a bell and someone brought it, and then I wrote I can't talk. “So it is really you!” The man said, he then grabbed a knife and struck the table and left it there. “Take the knife and kill her” The man said as he punched me in the stomach. I could feel my eyelids getting heavy.

I woke up, and my stomach hurt so bad. I got up from my bed and noticed a knife on my little table. I got it, and played with it. I went down stairs, since it was still dark out. I went into her room, I stabbed her and stabbed her. Her blood went nicely with her red colored bed sheets. “Y-you d-dem-mon ch-hild!” She says trying to move. Then her arm falls, and her eyes seem soulless. Suddenly one of the life forms appears on my shoulder. “You did it! Long live the last of his kind! Long live the King! Long live the Time Terror!” It says biting my neck. I can feel my body getting heavier.

I wake up. I still feel the warm knife in my hand, and the old fat dude in front of me. “Well done sir! I am but your humble serving now!” He says scared but also with excitement. He gives me a gold wand with a red gem on top. “Please don't hurt me or my wife sir…” He says. I give him a pat on the back. We walk down the hallway to the throne room. I sit on the throne, and the blood red room turns even darker. I can feel my soul merge with the room. Then the room explodes with light. The room still is a dark reddish black, but I feel different. “Sir your eyes, one is clear and the other is black!” He says, I get my knife and murder him. He falls to the ground, and I hear the applause of the other servants. “Don't worry you're next!” I yell at them.

Fín

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"Do we have to move to a new state?", said Marc.
"Yes son, there are too many gangs and violence in the cities of Chicago nowadays, we have to move states for us to be safe.", said Mr.Castle
"Your dad is right Marc, we don't want you getting shot when you're walking home.", added Mrs.Castle
"Alright then, I get it." Marc said.

My name is Marc Castle. I'm thirteen years old and live in the south side of Chicago, or I used to. We had to move to California because of all the gangs and crimes in Chicago and cause my dad got a new job. I don't know how I feel about us moving though. I don't know how people will judge me and I also have a hard time making friends. I also have a nickname, "Money", people in Chicago called me that cause my jump shot in basketball was Cash Money Wet Water Splash. . I hope I could make friends this year though.

"Alright class, today we have a new student, do ahead and introduce yourself.", the teacher announced.
"What's up my name is Marc, I used to live in Chicago but we moved to California."
"Thanks Marc, go ahead and take your seat next to Wilson."

So I went to go sit down to next to Wilson and he immediately greeted me. I didn't really want to talk to him so I just nodded and sat down. At lunch he sat down at the table I was at and we spoke.

"Sup dude" Wilson asked.
"Uhh sup fam?" I replied
"So how your day so far"
"Alright, why you so interested?"
"I'm kinda new too, so I thought maybe we could be friends?"
I replied,"Okay then, that's cool."

After school i found out Wilson lived near me so we walked home together. I told him about my backstory about how I had to move out of Chicago and everything. Then while we were talking I noticed someone was following us. He was really suspicious and sketchy and I got curious.

"Hey Wilson, how about we try following this guy he acting weird."
"Why would you want to do that? What if he's dangerous?"
"Come on bruh let's just follow him see what he does."
"Alright bro, better not get killed."

So we followed the guy to some weird house. It looked elevated from the ground and I was really curious at this point. Wilson started to tell me that whenever he's seen this house, no one seemed to live here or it seemed extremely empty. So as the kid walked in I decided to follow him to see why the house was so weird. He locked the door but luckily from living in Chicago I learned how to pick locks. So I pick the lock and we entered the house. At that exact moment I knew I messed up. The house started to fly and it felt like I was in a rocket. It felt like a perfect liftoff of the ground. I looked out the window and everything was so small. I realized we were already thousands of feet in the air. Wilson and I turned to each other and turned around. There was the kid standing there and he said one word.

"Welcome."

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Under The Rug
By Tyrone Magnum

2003,May,5
"Open up,"I shouted as I knocked on the door. My partner, Kevin, tried kicking down the door but eventually gave up and said"breach the door". I planted the bomb on the door embracing myself for the explosion and then I took cover. BOOM the door flew open as we busted in with our  Ar-15s loaded. "This rooms cl- POW" before finishing his sentence I heard a gunshot followed by "HELP ME!" It was too late the terrorists escaped and the mission was a failure.

"What happened" I said while carrying him outside. He replied with"nothing too bad I just got shot in the leg but it hurts". As I called for backup I applied pressure to his leg. Soon enough I heard the SWOOSH SWOOSH of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook. They then took us back to Marine Base 00115 where he was recovering but I had to keep working.

I was then in charge of defending the control room just 1/4 of a mile outside of base. I had to inspect the perimeter and make sure nothing suspicious was going on. Armed with an assault rifle and full armor I laid on the wall of the control room. I was so distracted by what happened to my partner and that's when I heard it. BOOM. The explosion rattled my bones and intrigued I ran into the room ,assault rifle aimed. That's when I remembered that I didn't check the perimeter, someone must've planted C-4s. As I ran inside I saw papers damaged and computers broken, that's when the siren rang.

"What were you thinking!" shouted my Master Sergeant "Data,Computers,Property,Papers all damaged!"
I was discharged from the marines that day and was forced to leave base 00115.

2009 June 10

I got a letter from a mysterious stranger. The letter said to meet them at an address, they were interested by my past and offered me money. I of course, was foolish and listened

One day later I arrived at the location at the exact time. It was a broken down building that looked like its on the verge of collapsing. Suspiciously I entered and saw one man, siting down on a chair. He then asked me questions that seemed to include illegal subjects but I made the error of answering yes. The man then said" My name is John Loyd I am part of the AIP how would you like to be a "professional mercenary", it pays very well". I agreed not cause I knew what he was talking about but because I heard the words"pays very well."

Soon I learned that John is part of a group of corrupt government officials, and by "professional mercenary" he means a hitman. However he was not lying about being a wealthy man, the job was dangerous and I would never recommend it but I stayed in the business and eventually I had a house,car,motorcycle, and even my own private pilot.

2016 September 10

BOOM. I rappelled down the broken glass into the top floor of the building. My objective was different this time, break into the AIP agency building and delete any information that another group of corrupt officials want to use against John. The database was in the top floor and all I had to do was go there insert a chip,wait, then leave. I raced down the hall, and around the corner was a bodyguard in full armor guarding the door armed with a carbine rifle. I had no weapons because they informed me that I couldn't murder anyone, since they work for the same agency. I put my mask on and threw tear gas in his direction. Before fainting from the shock, he rang the alarm so I knew I had to go to work quickly. I got out my backpack and took out the chip,then I inserted it. My heart was racing knowing that any second the police could come. That's when I heard it, a helicopter right above the roof, the swat. There was 15 seconds left, then I heard"This room over hear!". 10 seconds where left when I heard "I'm breaching the door." I took out my parachute. Even though I only had one lesson on how to use it, I would have to jump.  Four seconds where left when I heard BOOM! It was too late I took out the chip and got ready to jump. Then I felt it, a stinging pain in my ankle, I didn't feel it that much due to the adrenaline but I realized I got shot. I fell and activated my parachute I was in great pain and landed in the mountains.

This was my last mission, I managed to lose the cops and hide from the corrupt group.

2025 April 5

I was on my way home from a regular trip to the grocery store. I went inside of my house and heard it. BEEP BEEP BEEP. I then saw it, a proximity mine. I ran outside immediately jumping to conclusions in my head I was about to go into my car when I heard it again. BEEP BEEP BEEP. I saw another proximity mine on my car. I called a taxi and went as far as I could.

2025 April 19

Two weeks passed and it happened again
I was heading home again for the first time in two weeks. I noticed that the proximity mines were gone. I just came to get money so I could leave. I opened my door and to my surprise there was a bump in my rug. Realizing it was not a proximity mine I out down the chair I picked up in a moment of worry. After analyzing the object for a minute I heard sirens outside and helicopters swirling around my house, I must've accidentally pressed something. That's when I knew I was trapped and there was no way out. They came in through all doors and even busted down one of my doors which was unlocked.

Now I'm in prison writing this and getting ready for my escape. I was sentenced to life at prison and I knew ever since the first day I can't live like this forever, so tomorrow I'm breaking out and going back to what I do best.

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The House On Maple Street By: Lord FijiWater

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The House On Maple Street By: Lord FijiWater

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"Wake up Travis you're going to be late for school!" My mom yelled.
I looked at my alarm clock. 8:30. Late again.  I was already late, so I stayed in bed for a little longer. I was about to close my eyes but my mom started yelling again. I got up out of bed, took a shower, ate breakfast, and began to walk to school.
"Wait up!"
I hear from the distance. A familiar voice. My best friend Alex Roberson. I knew him since preschool.
As we were walking, we stopped by the house abandoned house at the end of the street.
"You ever notice the lights are always on," I said, "who even lives there."
"We should check it out after school, I don't have anything to do and my mom wants me out of the house."
I agreed, and after school we did just that. We stopped by my house made two sandwiched and left. When we got to the house we saw a kid on his bike staring at it. I recognized his face. Cameron Payne. The best basketball player in the school. We saw him walk in. We waited a couple minutes, but he never walked out.
"I'm having second thoughts about this."
I looked at him and said, "Well. We're here. Plus, we can't just leave Cameron."
"We've never even talked to him before, but whatever. I'll stay."
Alex and I walked in slowly and carefully. Every step we took, we heard the floor creak. My heart was racing. When we turned the corner I saw a set of controls. I slowly walked towards it. Then, I tripped over something and fell. I realized who it was. It was Cameron. He was unconscious. I heard feet shuffling. I looked at Alex, he wasn't moving. I walked over to the control panel and turn on a switch. I pressed a random button and I felt the ground shaking. Out of nowhere, I hear a loud thud. I turned around Alex was unconscious too. I started panicking. The house started to rise.
A perfect liftoff. Then, I saw a cloth wrap around my face and everything went black.
I woke up feeling dizzy. I saw the mysterious man sitting in a chair. I couldn't make out his face.
"WHERE ARE WE!" I yelled.
"See for yourself." The man said.
I looked outside. We were in space.

To Be Continued...

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By:Darnoc Taylor

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I walked up the drive way to find my house door wide open. I was sure I closed it, maybe Michelle is home, Michelle is my best friend and sister.
"Michelle you home?" I called from the door way but got no answer.
As I  walked through the door I realized I was not alone. When I saw the shadowy figure I quickly hid. As the intruder walked through the door I ran through other door around the corner just in time to run into Michelle.
"What's happening? Who's here?" Michelle inquired. As we ran to the small closet at the end of the stairs.
"I don't know, I think we should call 911." I said.
"Okay give me your phone."
"I thought you had yours." I spoke in a low voice.
"How about we skip the phone call so I can get to kidnapping you?" A voice spoke from the now opens door. Michelle and I both looked to see two guys, we were quick to run but the guys were just as quick. They grabbed each one of us and drug my sister and I to the car. Once we were in the car we just sat and waited for what seemed like an hours. We were both worried and shaking in the car. Michelle looked at me and nodded.
"Who are you? What do you want with us? What are your names?" Michelle finally blurted out. One of the men in the mask turned to look at us.
"Shut up." Was one of the kidnappers short reply.
For the rest of the ride Michelle and I were quiet not wanting to upset the kidnappers even more then they already were. When we arrived to the huge white mansion with a fountain in the middle it was night time. I noticed the weather matched my state of mind, cold, dark and scared. It didn't help that fact that we were already trembling with fear but now with it being so cold. We all walk up the few stairs, well me and Michelle were more like dragged.
"Jack take the brunette up to your room," The other capturer said to Jack, "I'll take the other one upstairs." He spoke with so much confidence.
"All right Grey, no problem." The kidnapping know as Jack said.
Then Jack took Michelle Grey took me. I got dragged upstairs and thrown into a room. It was dark till he switch on the lights and the room lit up. It had black walls, black sheets, black chairs and basically black everything; classical bad boy. I looked up at Grey for the first time after he took of his mask and saw that he was around my age. He grabbed me and throw me on the bed and tied my hand together along with my feet.
"Wait, wait, calm down we can talk about it." I said trying to get free.
"No shut up, I have to do this it isn't like I want to." He said as he grabbed towards his belt. Once he grabbed what he was looking for he pointed the gun towards me and looked away from me. I slow reached up and grabbed his jaw and turned it towards me.
"Greyson?," I said slowly and unsure, "But you moved."
"Yeah Tay its me." Greyson said.
Me and Greyson have been friends since Pre-K until he moved in Freshmen Year. I knew he looked like him but it wasn't till he turned his head and showed a scare on the left side of his face that I gave him with a broken ruler. I reached up and hugged him tight, not wanting him to leave again.
"Why?" I choked. "Why didn't you tell me you were back?"
"Because I was ashamed of my job Tay, I kill people for a living."
"So you were going to kill me even though you knew who I was?" I asked a little hurt.
"No," Greyson spoke, "I had a hunch but never thought it was you."
I sat up right on the bed and Greyson sat next to me and we were staring at the floor. I can't believe after all these years he was back. Although I had guessed he'd come home I just didn't think under these circumstances. Grey and me alway were best friends and when we were little we thought we could never be separated, until Greyson's dad got a new job.
"Oh My Gosh, Michelle! Is he going to kill her too?" I yelled trying to run out of the room.
"Considering the fact I hear no gun shots I think one of them recognized the other." Greyson spoke with out a hint of panic.
"What do you mean? Who is that?" I asked.
"That's Jackson, yeah I know he looks different but that's because I turned him into a man. But he also got dragged into this job. We swear we didn't know it was you or we would have never taken their job in the first place. We love you guys."
Jackson is Greyson's brother, I know they have very simulate names but whatever. Jackson is younger that Greyson by two years. The same with Michelle and me. The weird thing is that she had this huge crush on him. She used to get all embarrassed when I talked about him and she once tried to convince me I liked Greyson but I don't, do I? But that doesn't matter know what matters is that they're back.
I run across the hall following 'Grey' to get to them. When we walk in the room I see them sitting and talking. Pushing past Grey I run to Jack and launch myself to him, crushing him into a bear hug. We stay like that for a minute then until I speak.
"It's nice to catch up with you guys but there is one thing I need to know. Who told you to kill us?" This had been on my mind once Grey told me he 'took the job'.
"Well about that," Jack was the first to talk, "It was your father."
"What?" Me and Michelle both screech out.
"All we knew about this job was that this guy wanted to 'eliminate' his two daughters for leaving and not following in the family business. So we said okay, we swear if we knew it was you we would have done this so different." Grey said sincerely.
"So what are we going to do about my dad? I mean we can't kill him that's ridiculous, but will he keep going after us?" Michelle said on the verge of tears.
Through the night we all stayed up and planned what to do, we were going to fake me and Michelle's death. Grey and Jack were going to go to my father and tell him 'the job is done' then we all hide from him forever. I just hope it works.
It's been a week since the fake death and everything was okay for everyone except for me, I had dreams of becoming a doctor and now it's just up to the guys to provide for us, this is not how I wanted to live. So I left a note and ran away. When in my car I drove to the super market to pick up a few things before leaving. You would think 'what's the harm in grocery shopping' but trust me in this situation there is lots of harm.
My dad and a few of his goons were there talking to the manager, probably another one of his sabotages to get what he wants. Trying to run out of the store but I trip over something and cause a scene. Getting up and running was my first option until I felt a arm grip my arm. On instinct I elbowed the person and tried to run again, but like the last time it didn't end up happening that way. Once my dad got a hold on me he took me to the back of the store and throw me against the brick wall, I was out like a light after that.
When I awoke to a bright light, at first I thought I was dead until I heard beeping from a heart monitor next to me. The door was thrown open and in came a distraught looking Grey. He throw him self at me and crushed me with a hug. Which of course I accepted until I felt a throbbing pain in my stomach.
"What happened?" I asked in a horse voice.
"When you left, which was a stupid Idea. Your dad found you, which you know and shot you in the stomach. But you okay now, it all over. After he shot you the police arrived because someone called them when they saw you being dragged away. The police had a shoot out with your father and he died. Your free." Grey said with a sad smile.

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J.Cole
The Seven Chairs

One day there were eight nuns at a fundraiser for a church. The nuns were best friends for life. Their names were Mary, Anna,Sara,Rose,Mia,Gwen,and Tina." Come on guys let's go over there and play musical chairs, it looks like the church is trying to scare people by making them move around," said Gwen.
"No,let's stay over here and not go over there. I don't think that they're playing around," said Sara.
"Come on!" said the others,while dragging her towards the musical chairs booth.
"Guys please don't make me get on one of those chairs!" said Sara trying her best to get away for them. While in line they saw others playing the game. At first commoners were playing a round and nothing happened. The next group played a round and when they tried to get out of the chairs, they couldn't. Things got weirder when they had to be yanked out of the chairs. Then the nuns were next."Really you guys can go I'll just stay outside and wait for you," said Sara.
"No you can't," said Tina,"Now come on."
"Fine," said Sara madly. So the eight walked up to take their turns. Then out of nowhere the chairs started spinning on their own. They started their game as the music was playing they were laughing and running around the chairs. When the music stopped, everyone but Sara sat down. The other nuns were always so competitive. But then a couple of seconds later, the chairs started spinning around the church and went their separate ways. The first chair went to Gwen and she landed in Italy,  screaming "Help me!!!!!" Chair two went to Mia and she went to China. Chair three went to Anna and she went to Mars. The fourth chair went to rise and she flew to Mexico. The fifth chair ended up in Italy with Gwen. Chair six went to Tina and she went to Dallas. Chair seven went to Mary and because that chair was broken she was never seen again. Sara was the only one who survived. She found all the others that were on the first six chairs expect Anna because she went to Mars.
Earlier in Gummy Bear Land, Mary landed and was turned in to a red gummy bear. Years later the others landed on Gummy Bear Land and all they seen a red gummy bear and ate it all together.

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By Carson Reed
Have your parents every told you that monsters aren't real, better yet do you believe in monsters? Well they do, like it or not, but that's the truth. People that are so sinister that they lose their sense of humanity, their regard for human life, those people are monsters. Fortunately, with monsters there are hunters that hunt them. I'm going to tell you a story about a monster and hunter, a story about light vs dark.
It was the 13th of January, winter time and there was more snow this year than usual, but that didn't make the lives difficult for the citizens of Kalispell, Montana. Kalispell was a quiet small town with the population roughly 21 thousand, but the quiet town is about to get loud with fear.
The sun was falling beneath the horizon, welcoming the moon to takes its place. Even in the dark cold night, a jogger was still exercising his usual routine in the forest east of the city, despite the harsh weather. Unfortunately, the jogger was unaware of the danger that lurked in the forest that consumed him. The danger was a wild animal, not like a bear or a wolf, but something worse. It was a human, a human so sinister that it lost its classification of human and is now considered a wild animal. The wild animal knew that jogger was oblivious to its presence so it took the opportunity. The wild animal stalked behind its prey, but the prey was alerted and spun around to see what was behind him. Sadly, the last thing the jogger seen was a deranged person in a yellow hazmat suit wielding a machete. The animal thrusted the blade multiple times until it mutilated the poor jogger, the animal lefts its victim in the path and vanished into the looming forest.
A person walking their dogs discovered the gruesome site and notified the police. Within the hour the police had multiple police cruisers and officers scattered around the scene. A graphite colored unmarked cruiser stood out from the rest of the cars. A detective wearing a black winter coat with the word Police slapped on the back and left front chest area. The detective was wearing a black being also with the word Police that stretched from right to left, the detective also wore black jeans that met boots.
"The body was found about 10:30 by a guy walking his dogs." An officer informed the detective. The detective had a disgusted face because of seeing the horrible murder.
"You guys found a wallet or some type of ID?" The detective asked the officer.
"No, we waited for you." The officer replied. The detective bent his knees to get a closer look and he covered his mouth.
"Murdered with a blade, multiple slashes around the body." The detective said while he pointed at the wounds.
"That's what we figured, hey Lassen, have you ever seen this type of murder before?" The officer asked detective Lassen.
"Never, can you call for a coroner?" Lassen asked while reaching into the pocket of the deceased man and retrieved a wallet. He identified the person as Michael Case, a 23 year old. The body was took picked up sent to the morgue. The police notified the family of Michael and detective drove his unmarked cruiser to the house that belonged to the family of Michael Case. He felt bad for disturbing the family in their time of mourning, but he knew that time isn't on his side. The family told him to talk to his best friend Rick for any more possible information, so he went to speak to Rick. Rick told him about a strange person name John. Rick described John as a creep, always talking about how humanity was evil and that he disliked Michael at an exceeding level. Rick also gave Lassen a picture of John from high school and his current address.
It took Lassen about 10 minutes to reach John's house, the house was located at the far end of the city near a forest. Lassen parked his unmarked police cruiser on the street across from John's house. He stared for a moment at the lonely house at the corner of the street. He exited his cruiser and walk across to the house, he knocked aggressively three times. No one answered, Lassen knocked three more times even more aggressive. He reached for the door knob to see if it was open, to his luck it was. He quietly opens the door just a enough for he could glance around and the living room and saw nobody. He stepped into the room while he retrieved his handgun from his holster. He noticed a hunting rife above a fire pit, he stepped closer to get a batter look at it. He checked every room throughout the house and found nothing of interest, except this one room. There was a door at the end of a hallway, Lassen's suspicion was that it was a basement. He quietly opened the door with his gun raised and once enter the room, closed the door behind himself. In the room was a rolled up carpet, a,pair of ice skates hanging on a nail and a small door in the center of the wall.  A bloody hazmat suit was in a laundry hamper, besides the hamper was a bear of black boots. Lassen picked up the boots and observed them, he matched the pattern of the sole to his memory of the picture that he took as evidence back at the crime scene. Then, a noise of a door knob being toyed with broke the dead silence. He quickly spun around with his finger on the trigger ready to fire. The sound stopped causing Lassen to grow even more with fear. His heart was pounding. He was sure that he seen the doorknob turn. He slowly walk back to the door, he quickly opened the door with his gun ready to be fired. There was no one on the their other side, a sound of door being slammed heard startled Lassen. He ran into the living and saw that the hunting rifle was missing. He ran to back door and saw a person running out into the woods, it was John. Lassen began to chase after John into the forest.
"Code 11-99, I need back up immediately. The suspect has a firearm, I need back up now, over!" Lassen lightly yelled into his radio. He was was focusing on John running through the tall trees. John stop and faced Lassen approaching him and raised his rifle and fired two shots, both missing Lassen. Lassen returned fire with three shots firing from his handgun, once of the shots grazed John in the left side of his head.
"Dispatch I need back up now, shots have been fired!" Lassen shouted into his radios sounding annoyed because of there was no back up. Lassen followed the spots of blood in white snow, but he lost track of John.
"Unit 536 reposing code three, eta 5 minutes. Unit 491 responding with code three, eta 6 minutes." The multiple units notified Lassen that they will soon be there to aid him. The detective looked in all directions with his gun raised. A bullet ripped through Lassen's chest, an echo of a gun shot filled the air. Lassen quickly turned around a fired his gun multiple times, one of the bullets struck John in the stomach. John fell to his knees and held his hand over bleeding wound, but he managed to get back up on his feet. Lassen pushed down on his open wound to ease the blood pouring out with his left arm while he holding is handgun with his right.
"I'm hit, I'm hit, whe—where's my backup." John spoke into his radio with labored breathing. He noticed the footprints left by John were getting closer, indicating that John was becoming more weak. The footprints and the blood led Lassen to a small creek. Lassen stepped into the creek, but couldn't keep his balance, he fell to his knees. He looked up and saw John aiming his rifle at him, he quickly readjusted his pistol to aim at John. John fired his rifle causing Lassen to fire his handgun. Lassen's bullet tore through John's forehead causing John to fall back on to the soft white snow, a puddle of blood formed around his head.
Lassen let out a deep breath and lowered his handgun. Lassen was still on his knees as the water passed around them like impatient people on a busy city street. Lassen looked down at the flowing water and notices that that clearness of the water changed into a crimson red. He looked down at his chest and saw a new gunshot wound with blood pouring out like a weak sink faucet. Lassen's vision became blurry and he started to feel dizzy, he knew that he will soon meet the same fate as John if he doesn't get help soon.
"Suspect down, officer down." Lassen notified the other officers on his radio for the last time. John fell face first into the water, he right arm still grasping onto his pistol. There were two dead men in the forest, one good the other bad. That's how the story ends, both the good guy and bad guy die. The painful truth is that the world is a dark place and that monsters do exist. The evil people that walk the face of the earth are not welcomed by functioning majority of society and are simply uninvited guests of the world.

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By: Dakota Snow

"Get out of my house and don't ever come back you pig!" she screamed. My mother always said that to my dad, but she always let him come back. Honestly, I'm over it, I'm done trying. They've been doing that for as long as I can remember anyway.
Honestly, I just wish I had a normal life, a life where I'm not around so much negativity and hatred. But like I said, I'm done trying. What are the odds of that ever happening to someone like me. Anyway, it was time to come back to reality from that day dream, it was time for school.
I arrived in the student parking lot of Marshall High School, parked my motorcycle, and caught a glimpse of a girl. Which was weird because, I've never seen her or anyone like her before. I can't even put words in to describe her.
"Caine," Christy the most popular girl in school hollered at me, "get over here mr new captain of the football team!" That seemed as if the only reason she wanted to talk to me. Most guys would be all over this opportunity to even make eye contact with Christy, but I wasn't. She was just an attention seeking mess who was just as bad as my family when it comes to being truthful, they're not.
"So, the dance is coming up and I might have an idea of who you are gonna ask."
As I was about to respond, I saw her again. The mysterious girl from earlier. For some strange reason, I felt as though I had to go and talk to her. So out of my first instinct, I pushed aside Christy and started towards the mysterious girl, no regard to my classes or anybody in my way. But as I got closer, she ran into the woods, since our school happened to be connected right next to the woods. Confused by what I just witnessed, I went back to class, no words, nothing.
It was weird, all I could think about the entire day was her. So, right after school I bolted outside and looked for her. But when I realized she wasn't there, I got on my bike and headed to the place I normally went after school, a rusty old playground  right by the side of the end of the road and the woods, because I was not going to go home if I didn't have to, trust me when I tell you that. As I was riding this abandoned road, I saw her. She was standing at the side of the road, leading into the woods. I immediately stopped at her presence and walked up to her.
"Who are you?" I exclaimed with mostly confusion and eagerness.
"My name, well, it's Jax. By any chance, could you help me with something in there?" She pointed towards the darkness of the woods.
"I don't see why not." I added, "But first, you have to tell me more about yourself."
"There's really nothing to know," she said.
"Everyone has something they want to share. Come on, just try it out."
We ended up talking for hours, sitting on that huge rock by the pond, but for some reason, anytime she seemed she was going to smile, she seemed like she had gotten stabbed straight through her heart. You could see the pain in her eyes.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"Really, you can just tell me."
"Honestly, nothing is wrong. Anyway, so about that thing I needed your help with, it's just up that hill. Here come on." For some strange reason I followed.
Just as we had barely made it up the hill, it was slowly becoming sundown and the colors of purple, pink, orange, and yellow filled the sky. She looked at me again, looking like she is in the most pain anyone could ever feel.
"Umm, Jax?"
"Damn it!" she said, looking angry only at herself.
"What?"
"I can't do it!" She fell to the ground and clutched her chest. "But it hurts so much! What did you do?" She pointed at me dead in the center of my face.
"I don't understand. Are you alright?" I leaned closer to help her up. Then, she burst.
"I can't feel emotion. Or, at least I'm not supposed to. The real reason I brought you up here was because I..."
"You, what?"
"I was supposed to kill you."
"WHAT?"
"I'm not a human, Caine. I'm immortal, that's why I can't feel emotion. I was supposed to take your soul, but whenever I look at you, or you give me the slightest smile, I just get an awful pain like I'm being ripped apart. This has never happened before."
"Wait, so you expect me to believe all of that. I really feel like your just messing with me. What was this, some kind of sick game?"
"No, well, not really. Look, I can prove it to you. I'll be back." She walked deeper into the woods.
Being who I was, I was not the type of person to just sit and wait, so I got up and followed her, except I got a little side tracked. From the corner of my eye, I saw something shine from the moon's light. I turned to see what it was to find a harp sitting on the edge of a little cliff. The moon shining right on it as if it were a spotlight. I got closer and my first thought was probably the same as anybody's. Why on earth was there a random harp in the middle of  the woods on a suspicious hill. But like, being me, I went up to it. I placed a thumb on a single string and played it. I instantly fell onto the floor, barely being able to hear or see anything. All of my senses were fuzzy. Then I heard her voice.
"Caine, no!" She ran up to my side and fell on her knees next to me. She grabbed me and held me. She slowly put her forehead on mine. I felt a single tear drop on me.Then, everything went black.
"Caine?" I was slowly gaining consciousness.  "Oh my God, Caine?"
I opened my eyes and looked at her. She squeezed me in her arms in soft quiet sobs.
"What happened?"
"The harp, that's what I wanted to show you. I wasn't lying. It was meant to put you into eternal sleep so that you wouldn't be dead, but gone just enough for me to remove your soul. I don't understand, how did you wake up? Wait, no heartbeat. Caine, your dead."
"That can't be. I'm, I'm..."
"Like me. Oh Caine I'm so sorry."
"Wait, you said you can't feel emotion, then how did you cry on me?"
"I don't know. I've never felt this way before."
"Honestly, I don't know, and I don't care. All I want is to be here with you."
She looked at me with the most confusion I've ever seen on anyone's face. And who could blame her, I don't even understand it.
"But I know that this happened for a reason, and I'm glad it did."
We glanced at each other.
"Really?" she asked.
"Really."

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By Rowena Avenir
Flames, followed by the thick veil of smoke. I didn't know where to run or where I was. I began to panic. The night sky was lit by the faint glow of the stars. I couldn't explain why I felt like this place was familiar to me and why the screams sounded so far.
It was a summer morning, I woke up with a sudden jerk, realizing that I had had that nightmare again. I knew that it was probably connected to the war that had taken my parents from me. Now all I had left was a mere memory of that winter night in which the strange women had woken me, only to tell me that my parents had perished in war. I clearly remember that after receiving the news I could no longer sleep, only thinking of the last time I had talked to my parents, not knowing that this would be the final time I would ever see them. As a result, I was taken to an orphanage where since then, I have lived a very miserable life and today seemed just like any other day.
As I made my way to the dining hall, I noticed other children shooting dirty looks at me as I walked by them, but by now it was very common for me, as I was always isolated from the day I came to live in this prison, but this rejection still affected me at times.
"Oh look, the little mouse has finally came out of her cave and she looks like she's finished crying for her dead mommy and daddy," Marina said, mimicking a baby's voice.
I began to feel the urge to respond and somehow brought out the courage to reply to her.
"Well, I don't think that you should be judging me, when you and I both know that you were abandoned by your parents when you were a toddler."
Marina's expression turn from laughter to rage and I immediately knew that I had gone past the limits. Just when Marina was about to respond with another mean comment, Sister Susan interrupted us.
"I hope you girls aren't fighting, but of course if Amy is involved, what could I expect," snickered Sister Susan.
"No we aren't fighting, Sister Susan," I answered.
"Well then what are you waiting for, finish your food!" she shouted and stormed out of the dining hall.
After Sister Susan left, I swiftly grabbed my plate of food and head to an empty table, on which I ate alone. When I had finished my food, I headed out into the forest near the orphanage. Ever since I could remember, the forest was the only place where I felt welcome. With its towering trees and music from the birds all around, I wouldn't prefer to spend my days as an orphan anywhere else. As I enjoyed my comforting stroll through the forest, I noticed some caterpillars on the forest floor. I was surprised by the fact that they looked so plain and alone, almost as if the rest of the animals living in the woods didn't care about these poor creatures. As a result, I decided to collect the caterpillars and place them in one of the pockets on my skirt. Then, I decided to return back to the orphanage with the caterpillars still in my pocket, before the nuns discovered my disappearance.
As the days went by, I noticed the slow change of the caterpillars, which I could relate to how my days in the orphanage slowly went by. Unfortunately, deep in my mind I knew that I would have to let go and sure enough, that day did come. It was another one of those sunny and warm summer mornings, when Sister Susan unexpectedly decided to check our dormitories. I knew immediately that I was in trouble and I had no way of hiding the caterpillars. Therefore, when it came to my turn, I knew I was completely trapped. Sister Susan initially checked that my bed was organized, which as I expected "needed improvement" according to her. Then, she moved on to checking the drawers next to my bed. To my luck, she forgot to check the last drawer, where I kept the caterpillars, but somehow as she was making her way to the exit, she suddenly realized that she forgot to check the last drawer.
"Amy! explain to me what these horrendous insects are doing in your dormitory?" exclaimed Sister Susan angrily.
"They are caterpillars and they are mine!" I shouted back, trying to sound as fearless as I could.
"Well, you better throw them out before I step on them and in addition to that, I would also like to tell you that as of now, if I see you entering the forest one more time, I will personally lock you in your dormitory. I've discovered that you have been sneaking out to the forest and I will not tolerate that from you, young lady!" she exclaimed, as she thundered out of my dormitory.
At that moment, I just absolutely hated Sister Susan and was in pure shock. How dare she not allow me to go into the forest? I could only think of one possible suspect that might have told her about my adventures in the forest and that person was Marina. The reason for this was because shortly after the argument I had with her, I noticed that Marina saw me when I came out of the woods. At first, I tried to assure myself that she hadn't seen me come directly out of the woods, but I knew that judging by Marina's personality, my secret would come out eventually.
As soon as I left my dormitory, I raced to the forest, careful that nobody found out that I had left the dormitory, but at this point I didn't care anymore, all I cared about was the anger and hatred I had towards living in an orphanage. When I got to the spot where I had first found the caterpillars, I immediately broke out crying, as I thought about all the events that had happened the past few weeks. I especially wondered how my life would've been like if I actually had a family that cared about me. Subsequently, when I finally stopped crying, I pulled out the caterpillars from my skirt pocket and looked at them sadly on my hand. I knew it was time to send them back. The caterpillars softly wiggled in my hand spelling out "goodbye." I gently placed the caterpillars down on the forest floor, which resulted in another wave of tears. I decide to just sit down on the grass for awhile and enjoy the peacefulness of the forest.
I was woken up by a loud crack and I realized that I had fallen asleep in the woods. I stood up and found that the trees around me were burning in flames. At first, I was frozen by the panic rising inside of me from being surrounded. The truth came to me as a splash of cold water and the reality that I might never be able to get out of the woods alive, looked me straight in the eyes. To my luck, just as I almost gave up, a girl who looked in her early twenties came out of nowhere and took my hand. As we struggled to get out of the area, I noticed that I had left the caterpillars behind, but I was forced to choose between my life and the caterpillars, sadly, I chose my life.
A week later back at the orphanage, I found out that the young woman that had rescued me was a new nun at the orphanage, Sister Sophia and to make things better, I also found out that Sister Susan had been moved to another orphanage. Sister Sophia and I soon become very close friends due to our abilities to understand each other perfectly. Our stories were very similar, Sister Sophia was also an orphan that had taken shelter in this particular orphanage. While she told me about her adventures after leaving the orphanage, I told her about how I was always being treated unfairly and why I was in the woods when she had found me. Additionally, I explained the story of how I had befriended and saved a group of caterpillars, but was forced to return them to the woods when Sister Susan had found them in my drawer.
The next few days were amazing, I finally felt like someone knew that I existed and understood the hardships that I have had to live through. However, I never thought that I would have to say goodbye to those days as well and it all began when Sister Sophia gave me the news that she was going to leave her duty as a nun to pursue a better future. On one side, I felt very happy for Sister Sophia, but at the same time I was crushed inside. I couldn't imagine going back to those miserable days where I was constantly being bullied by Marina.
"Can you please excuse me, Sister Sophia?" I said calmly even if I was crying inside, "I will return momentarily."
I made sure that no one was around and I began to run as fast as my small legs could take me. I didn't know where I was going, but I just ran. Eventually, I arrived at the same spot where I had left the caterpillars during the sudden fire. Wondering what had happened to them, I got closer to one of the few trees that had survived. I began to cry, thinking about how I would become lonely again, but when I least expected it, I saw a small creature moving in the branches. Eager to see what it was, I abruptly walked up to the branch and to my surprise I saw not one, but many butterflies coming out of their cocoons. I began to cry once again and this time I wasn't crying because I was sad, but instead pleased to see that the once lonely and unwanted caterpillars had become beautiful, free butterflies. Then, it came to me that not only had there been a change in the caterpillars, but I realized that I had changed as well. I was no longer the naive, isolated girl I was before, but had met a new friend, Sister Sophia, who although she was leaving, had given me the courage to stand up to my enemies. Thanks to Sister Sophia, I had become a stronger and more confident person, because I wasn't the caterpillar anymore, I now was the butterfly.

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By: Lilo
Inside the Evans household lived only a seven year old boy named Henry and his mother who's name was Amelia. Everybody in the town of Walthamstow took pity on Henry because his mother insisted on having him stay in the house all day while the tiny amount of kids went out and played. So all he did was sit in that room of his, surrounded by an enormous pile of toys which he had no interest in. He would always think, What good is a pile of toys if you have no one to play them with?
That whole day Henry sat inside staring out of the window painting pictures of the clouds in his mind. He was used to this type of weather in London. The skies looked as if the clouds were about to open and shed a thousand tears. It would seem to distract him from the thoughts about how lonely he was. Henry absolutely hated his new house, but his mother seemed to love it. The emptiness of the house didn't even bother her because she was too busy swimming in all the money she had recently inherited. She was too busy thinking about all the things she would buy that she almost forgot that it was three days away from Henry's birthday.
"Mother, do you know if Penny is coming this year?" asked Henry later that day.
His mother replied, "Why would Penny visit us?"
"For my birthday, duh."
Penny was Henry's grandmother from his dad's side, she would always insist on him calling her Penny instead of grandmother because it made her feel younger. Penny had started to visit every year on his birthday ever since his father died.
Before his mother said anything else she looked at him with sadness in her face, "Penny will not be able to come this year and please don't ask me any questions as to why. She will send you a gift and a card, but that's all." His mother quickly walked out of the room and went back to fantasizing about all the stuff she can buy with the billions of dollars she had.
A few days after Henry was awoken by a knock. He looked outside and saw his birthday package. He opened it and saw a card. When he pulled open the card he noticed a bunch of writing.
"What does it say?"
"It says the usual birthday card stuff, but it also says that whatever she gave me is not to be played with at all and that if it was played something bad would happen. Oh and something about me having to take extra care of it because it belonged to her great grandmother."
Henry picked up the object and unwrapped it, eager to find out what lies inside. He saw something shiny and he beamed with joy.  By the time he was completed done taking off the wrapping paper, he was disappointed. What had seemed like a cool shiny object was just a boring old harp.
"Wait a second, what am I supposed to do with this piece of junk?"
His mother just looked at him annoyed by his idiotic remark about the gift, "Set it down by the fireplace and don't touch it at all!"

As the days went on Henry was becoming insane with boredom. He couldn't handle it anymore, he needed to try something new for once. He glanced around the room looking for something then he realized that the old harp was just sitting there. He ran to the harp and sat down on a chair getting ready to try and play. Don't do this, Penny said something bad will happen if you do! He was in a war with his thoughts about whether he should play it or not. Who cares what Penny says, she couldn't even make time to see me on my birthday so why should I listen to her. She probably made up that something bad with happen, I'll be fine. Henry sat up straighter and began to place his stubby and short fingers on the strings. He strummed two chords that sounds terrible and then it happened. The weirdest thing that could possibly happen to a little boy Henry's age.
Everything was spinning and he felt like he had just been on a ride with loops a thousand times in a row.  Swirls of purple and blue flashed in front of his eyes. He seemed to be floating through a freakishly bright tunnel. Then his feet hit the ground.
The impact of his tiny feet landing on the ground had stunned Henry and he fell back a little.  Once he regained his balanced he stood up and looked around. So it's true he thought, it's really true. Something bad did happen. He had been transported into some world that was just woods that monsters lived in. Henry was terrified and didn't know what to do. For the first time in a while, he actually wished his mom was with him. He broke down on the damp floor and cried until there were no more tears to cry.  Then he heard it. It was a terrible sound that pierced through his body. He then began to run.
He ran through the trees. It was starting to get dark out so Henry could barely see a thing. The newly sprouted branches reached out from every direction. He was running out of breath when a branch smacked against his skin that had been wet from crying. The last thing he heard was the branches snapping under his bare feet, then he saw the darkness.
Henry cringed when he felt the stings in his body as he tried to walk the next morning. The only thing he remembered was crying because he was all alone and scared in some woods.
He studied his surroundings and noticed that right beside the him was a big tree, it looked as if something had been carved into it. Once Henry finally stood up, he could clearly read what was carved into the tree. Then the tree spoke the words that were on it. The tree recited, "You are in a different world if you want to return home you will have to find the harp that brought you here and strum the same chords. As far as I can tell the harp is located 50 miles ahead hanging above a waterfall. Just follow the stream and you will be on your way home, but be careful for monsters." Henry let his information sink in for a while and started on his journey.
A day later Henry had arrived at the waterfall and above it was his harp hanging off a branch. He was extremely tired from his trip to the waterfall, but he was eager to go home and not have to face the horrid monsters that he had ran into on the walk over.  So he started to climb up, thinking of a way he was gonna be able to get the harp back.
Henry had finally made it all the way to the top of the waterfall and was standing on a rock that was next to a tree where the harp was located. He slowly started to climb onto the branches of the tree, getting closer and closer to the harp. He was so close he could practically feel the fuzzy carpet that was placed in his room between his toes. He reached his arm out to grab the instrument but his arm wasn't long enough and if he tried to get any closer the branch would snap. Henry realized that the only way he could get the harp was if he jumped off the branch and tried to play the instrument in mid air. It was very risky because the edge of the waterfall was just feet away with sharp jagged rocks at the bottom. It was a risk he was gonna have to try. Henry counted to three and then leaped forward. His fingers grasped the harp lightly but it was close enough for him to grab it. The next few moments happened in what seemed like slow motion to Henry. He was flying through the air only seconds away from hitting the water and falling to his death. He quickly played the two chords on the harp and nothing happened. Henry knew he was done for, the tree was just fooling with him and he was about to die. Memories of him with his mother and father at their old farm in Kansas flashed through his head. These were his happy memories so he was gonna die a happy boy. His blond hair swished through the air as his body drifted off the edge and he was headed towards the rocks. But then it happened.  A blue flash appeared in front of him when he was just seconds away from hitting the tallest rock. It opened up a portal and he fell right into it. He smiled to himself, happy to be back in his world. But then he noticed this wasn't his world, it was far more different...

In the story Henry thinks he's alive and the readers may think that too, but in reality Henry had died in a crash with his father. He pictures his mother like this because he wants her to be happy with them gone and he thinks that her having money will do that. The town wasn't taking pity on Henry, they were for his mother because she was all by herself now. The other world that he travels to is actually just him being stuck before he passes in into heaven or hell. The bright flash at the end of the story is Henry finally going to heaven.

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The Portal
By: Hi Biscuits
It was almost midnight, the skies were dark, the clouds were gone, and the moon was high up shinning bright. There were three separate roads located over a huge river, it separated the car's ways. Almost everyone knew not to take those three roads, because they were best known for their unexplainable car crashes. There was only one man who had survived 4 car accidents, who was best known as "the lucky one," every morning he would get into his car and drive towards the three separate roads, until one day he wasn't that lucky. As his wife and him were driving towards his work, a car was heading towards their way. Driving at full speed knocking their car out of the way and into the eating river. As the ambulance came to rescue them, it was too late the injured man and his wife were slowly dying every second the ambulance waisted. No one had survived this car crash, that same day those parents decided to enter the dangerous roads, they left a girl on her birthday as an orphan. Since that day Abigail, the little girl, would every night look at the night sky and blame herself for her parents death. She was held in an orphanage until someone could finally reclaim her or simply take care of her. Abigail had always hated her birthday because seeing how other parents celebrated their children's birthday simply made her eyes fill with tears. Every night on her birthday, she wished she could see her parents one last time, no matter what. Thankfully, a family had finally adopted her, taking her home with them. There she was able to learn many things and was able to make only one friend. His name is William, his parents were best friends with her adoptive parents. William and Abigail have been friends for a couple of years and he has always been trying to cheer her up. William wanted to help his friend forget the nightmare she lived in but never accomplished it. However, there was something about him that made Abigail feel safe and comfortable.

July 22, 2003
Today was the third year since the car crash, plus Abigail's 8th birthday. William had discovered a large, beautiful, and mysterious pond located in a center of the forest, he thought that maybe if he showed the pond to Abigail for her birthday, it will make her smile and happy. That same night William took her hand and guided her into the forest. As he was standing, William saw pebbles, he took a couple. As he showed the pond to Abigail, he threw the three pebbles into the water. When suddenly, he noticed that not only did the pebbles hit the water but only the third pebble came back to him. That is when they both discovered something very incredibly mysterious in the pond. William and Abigail decided to discover why that third stone came back. As their feet touched the water, the whole pond started to form into a portal. They were both very frightened but decided to jump in. Slowly Abigail opened her eyes, and realized that she woke up because she heard the laughter of a woman and a man. Scared, Abigail asked, "Who are you...Why did you....How come....what?!!!!" and those mysterious people answered, "Honey what do you mean we are your parents we've known you since you were little." That's when she realized that she had landed in the same time period were her parents had died. Abigail suddenly shouted, "STOP THE CAR!!!," you could hear the tires squeaking into the rough road. Her parents had asked what was this terrible behavior of hers, then a car right in front of them tumbles out of the road, and then is driven by a ferocious river, Abigail had stopped her parents from crashing. As the days passed, everything was going well for Abigail everything was better for her because she had her parents with her, everything that had happened to her was lost, was re-written. Abigail's mom decided to take her to work so she could learn what she did in her job. As she was exploring the halls, a door flew open and running nurses with a serious injured person, it seamed be a family who got into a car accident. She decided to see for herself the injured people, that's when Abigail was able to spot William really injured. She was starting to wonder if she was the cause of his accident because of her stopping the car crash of her parents. From outside the window of the hospital room, she could see how badly injured he was, until suddenly the beeping machine stops, forming a straight line. "NOOOOOOOOO, William you can't die" she said desperately in pain. Her mom came running towards the infirmary to see what she can do for William. Abigail kept on whispering to herself, "Please William you can't die......common....please" as her mom hardly shocked his heart trying to bring him back to life, but gave up when she couldn't do anything no more, William had died. With tears Abigail ran out of the hospital without telling her mom anything, she decided not to look back no matter what happened. As she exited the hospital, her mom was shouting with fear, "Abigail come back.....I can't run after you....Abigail wait." But Abigail kept on running as fast as she could, and continued even though her legs started to hurt. Abigail decided to stop this nightmare and fix what she had done. When she reached the pond were they were both able to time travel. She hurried and started to touch the water but the pond didn't seem to form a tunnel, she tried everything, she threw the three pebbles and then touched the water, but nothing returned to her. So, she tried again and threw the three rocks but nothing returned. Until she realized that only William had the opportunity to open the portal. There was nothing she could do to return him back, she stared to cry as hard as she could and fell asleep. When Abigail opened her eyes, she was able to see the nurses rushing in with her into the infirmary but her eyelids kept on falling like bricks. The next day she woke up to know that she wasn't in the hospital no more, she was sitting in the pond, she decided to touch the water, once again the portal opened. As she jumped in the portal she was able to see William and both of her parents, Abigail had died.

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By Donald Trump Jr

"Umm yes? I would like to file a complaint, I keep hearing strange noises in the abandoned church, and I feel like something strange is in their."

"We are sending some of our priests to investigate don't worry."

It was cold, cloudy morning, when Natalie, a nun, decided to go to her church before opening hours. It was her daily routine, but today was different, someone, no something was in the church that would change her life forever. As Natalie arrived at the church she noticed John, a priest, heading towards her way. "Natalie, why are u here so early."

"I have something to take care of."

"Okay, but while your here could u check up in the basement?"

"What's the occasion."

"Oh nothing much really, we got some complaints from the townspeople that there was a weird noise coming from the basement, so if u check that out for me that would be great."

As Natalie walked into the church she noticed something disturbing. "What is all of this!" Natalie exclaimed.

"Has it really been a week already?" Michael stated.

"It's all my fault Michael, if I just would've stopped her on that day she still would've been here."

"Look John, Natalie disappearing had nothing to do because of you, it was all just a coincidence, and the only way you can help her now is by helping us look for her.

With no place to start looking, John and Michael began to search the town. With no luck whatsoever, the priests realized something, Natalie could be in the old church, now abandoned. As they headed towards the abandoned church, they saw strange signs along the way such as, turn around now or you shouldn't be doing this.

Upon arrival, John and Michael experienced a frightening sight. Natalie was visible sitting a chair floating in the middle of the room. "Natalie... is that you?" John asked.

"Natalie? Natalie was long gone." stated Satan.

"Well whoever you are we will free Natalie from your intentions." Michael said.

After managing to get Natalie/Satan off of the floating chair, Michael and John spent hours performing their exorcism. Satan had been shouting in his Latin tongue, while terrifying things happened around the room, such as objects flying everywhere. Once the exorcism was over, Natalie was sent to the hospital for her condition and the church has been closed down to to its circumstances.

As many years passed more and more siteings of people disappearing happened. The first one ended up disappearing forever, and the fifth one ended up in France, which goes to show that no one is safe.

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Captain Tory and the Strange Day in July

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Captain Tory and the Strange Day in July

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By Mosquito Man Loves Mama Noodles
He threw as a hard as he could and the stone came skipping back.
"My magic is stronger than yours", the girl said.
She threw the rock at his forehead.
It was love at first assault.
Now if only the river wasn't there.

He waved his lantern three times and a tiny schooner appeared.
Archie watched in wonder as the magic unraveled in his eyes. Captain Tory was his grandfather, a full blooded werewolf and very enigmatic character, and only parental figure. When ever Archie asked why weren't his parents alive, he always responded that "They were too weak to fight off the pitchforks." Archie never asked if his grandfather had killed a man.
As Archie hopped on the S.S Grimm, he saw the same girl, waving at him in the distance. He turned away pretending not to look.
"Archie aren't you a little too young to have a female admirer."
"Admirer? Pfffffffttt. She's the reason why I have this scar on my forehead"
"That's how I met your grandmother"
"Grandaddy, but you have them all over your body"
"That's called love, child."
"But Grandmother left...."
"That's enough. Your little lady lover is heading this way. And we don't want to scare her away from your little honeymoon boat."
"I heard that, old man!", the girl said as she stomped as she boarded the ship and rocked it a little "Don't you have any respect for the younger generation?"
"No. I. Don't"
"Yes. You. Should."
"You....."
She stared at him with her stormy grey eyes. Somehow it silenced him. Archie wished that he had that kind of power.
"I came here to say sorry about what happened last week, Archie.", she blushed a little.
"I accept you apology, uhhhh..."
"Lorielle"
"Lor-I-Elle"
Another rock came flying straight towards   Archie.
And that's how it was for the rest of the summer.

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By Dah Feep
Mr. Linden's Libary
They warned her about the book. Now it was too late.
Celia died doing what she loved, cooking recipes from cookbooks that she collected from all over the world. Much to her husband's chagrin she stored all of them onto one bookcase, in which he argued could've been used for more 'productive' uses, and had once dumped out a good amount of them in order to have more space for his collection of old Latin scrolls. In reality however, the real reason why Mr. Linden was not so keen on her hobby, was the fact that she could make any dish unappealing to the common mouth.They'd had been married for over 17 years, and they've never felt any happier.
On a fine August day, Celia was in the library looking for her Pie cookbook, craving pumpkin pie. However, she got sidetracked, and instead began nosing around the book self with the label "Do Not Read".
Celia picked out one that had a ornate binding, that was titled "The Comprehedium Aformendely Is Inclined To Extripate You"
She flipped several pages and found one recipe for Haggis. A kitchen knife slid out from the from the pages of the book. She grabbed and slit it on her fingers, she felt the glare burn out her eyes.
How convenient, considering that that last week, Mr. Linden broke the last one after when sharpening his fighting skill on the neighbor's pet bear.
She spent the rest of the day reading the book. She didn't understand most the things that were in it.
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She lowered the knife and it glowed even more. The meat pie looked like it was peirced by a blinding white lights. Celia reasoned that it was appearing like so because of her current lack of glasses. She ignored the fact and began to serve the meal to the night's guest, along with the one happy camper.
"Celia you did not do this"
"Sooooooo much better than the chicken Alfredo"
"Pure witchcraft"
"Celia which cookbook did you get this out of this time?"
Celia in an attempt to impress her guest, did so. She grabbed it and lifted it into the life. She expected the shocked faces.
"I thought that I burned that book many years ago", Mr. Linden said, "But if I didn't then I must of placed it in the 'Do Not Read" bookshelf"
Celia stuttered for a moment. But then her body started shaking. She yelped in pain and every muscle in her body began flaring up. Then her brain. In a few seconds, her heartbeat ceased. She was dead.
"Friends. We must hide the book before the neighbors call the hospital. If any of them asks you how she died tell them it was a heart attack."
Mr. Linden dragged her body back into her bedroom and tucked her into sleep one last time.

Under the Rug
Two weeks and it happened again.
This time thing had found its way into Mr. Linden’s Library. Mr. Linden cursed it and his allergies, as he started placed mouse traps among the bookshelves that were as dusty as himself. When he heard the window break, he began cursing the neighbor’s kid and their late-night games. He wished he could shoot them, like what he should of done with that one that got away.
“This is the only darned reason why I wished Celia hadn’t bit the dust”, he said as he began to bend down to try to reach a work-warned broom that was on the corner.
“Bloody broken spine.”
Mr. Linden stood up in attempt to rearrange his posture, but he heard something crack. It wasn’t his back. It was the frame of his favorite painting.
Then it was the clock, the trash can, Celia’s prized chamber pot collection, and then he saw it approaching his work desk. No one touches his work desk.
“I have 6 years of military experience in the gosh darned world war and I have shot my fair amount of Allied soldiers. I’m not afraid to BLOW A BLOODY BULLET THROUGH YOU NOGGIN TO SHOW IT!!!”
Mr. Linden grabbed his prized pistol from his war trunk, began loading a single bullet into it and aimed it the thing. The thing then went into the wrapped rug that was stood on the wall and made it wall. At that moment he made his shot.
It missed by mere millimeters, and the rug knocked him down to the ground. He got back up and thing was moving under the now unraveled rug. He began stomping like a madman on the lump, shaking the wooden floor like an earthquake, making leg movements that would’ve made a Russain dancer proud. Then on instinct he grabbed his work chair and raised to the air. He was ready to make his kill.
“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
The light bulb shattered. The room turned dark. Mr. Linden fell and couldn’t get up.
The last he saw of the night was a bird flying away with one of his books, the one that killed Celia the other day. He tried shooting it again.
He should of really saved his bullet

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By Asterisk
It's true he thought it's really true.
He could finally prove to all the boys in the schoolyard that he had talent worthy of the Muses of Music.
The boy strummed the Harp, using his very oddly wiggly fingers, and felt the tiny bit sleepy.
He decided that his next piece would be titled, "The Hymn of the Revenge of the Retard, In Which It's Nighty, Night For You Losers"

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By Enigma Penguindox
Another Time, Another Place
Maybe he could find the answer there.
Once a year the ferryman of the dead, sailed through the sands of time on the S.S Ironbolt. His passengers, were the souls of those who wished to live their life anew, whoever they might be. Each rail they passed through brought them back an hour of time, regressing their mental and physical age along with it. One by one he dropped them off, wiping away any memory that they had of their past. Until there was one passenger left. He was a Jewish boy, and his destination was a small German village bordering the Polish boarder.
He was 85 years old.
He claimed that he was on a mission and didn't want to let his memories go.

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By Rythalos
His heart was pounding. He was sure that he had seen the doorknob turn.
"Open up criminal! We know that you are in there. Resist, and we'll open fire on your house and it's inhabitants"
He decided to deal with the problem as diplomatically as possible. He was too scared to meet them head on. As he heard the door burst 2 floors underneath, he turned on the radio transceiver, and took a deep breath.
He was not going to end up like he did last time.
"Hello, this is Chio"
"And this is the Uracetti Mafia Family"
"I thought we made a promise. Old friend."
"You, sir are speaking blasphemy"
"I want to ask you what...did...you...do...to...my..."
"Daughter? She's in the living room"
"Bring her to me"
I'm sorry but that is not an option. You'll have to come here yourself"
"Sir...You are really a monster"
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"I kept my promise Chio. I didn't harm you or anyone in your family, as required by magical law. But that doesn't mean that someone else could do for you. Say. Police Officer Hamlet. How long have you've been trying to hunt him down?"
"Ever since he took away my own daughter from me"
"Can I do the honors?"
"No"
"Why?"
"I came for you too"

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By Boi I. Lucky

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By Boi I. Lucky

"Are you ready," asked Captain Tory. A little boy sitting on the couch nodded and yawned, "Yeah, I'm ready." "If your too tired, you shouldn't go," scowled his father. "No, no! I'm good!" "Then get dressed." Ten minutes later, both Captain Tory and Jimmy walked to the docks. Unfortunately, they had to make a few "pit stops". "You done, Jimmy?" asked Tory in the bathroom. Phttttttttttttt! "No, not… yet!" yelled Jimmy. They finally made it to the docks and then just stared at the ocean and the boats. Jimmy asking his father the different names of the boats.

"Why is there a sunken ship under the water?" asked his curious and terrified son. Captain Tory didn't answer for a long time. Jimmy asked again, "Dad, why is there a sunken ship under the water?" "Come, son," he finally replied, "let's go see if they can let us in the boat." They started walking and Jimmy looked at his father, puzzled. His father looked worried and started muttering things to himself. Jimmy asked again, "Dad! Why is there a sunken ship underwater!?" "My God, Jimmy!" yelled his father, "Fine, I'll confess, but you'll regret it!"

Captain Tory lighted his lantern and they sat at the table. A deep fog entered and Jimmy was freezing. The captain gave him his coat and started, "One day, at night, I was about your age and my dad took me to the docks, too. He took me on his boat and then…" "OH, NO!!!" yelled Jimmy terrified. "I want to go home, now. It's freezing." "NO! We stay here until we finish the story!" Ring! Ring! "Oh no. It's Molly." Ring! Ring! "Uhhhhhhhhh!" RING!!!!! RING!!!!! "Fine! Yes, dear? Mm-hmm. Okay, bye. Love you. She said we have to come home now. I just sent her a text that we'll be staying for a little while."

It's gotten darker and the fog has gotten thicker. If it was cold enough, it could've been the coldest state. "Okay, where were we? Oh, yes. My father took me on his boat, it was big, old, and rusty." A small breeze came by and Jimmy was shivering. "Dad?" "Yes!" replied his father. "Nothing!" squeaked Jimmy. Captain Tory continued, "It was also this very day and night it happened. George, my father, told me this very story also. He told me that there was a ghost ship." "Liiiiike, in the movie Peter Pan?" "Yes," commented Captain Tory. "Anyway, the ghost ship and it was a schooner, a type of boat…." "Like the Jolly Ranger in Peter Pan!" "Quit interrupting! The schooner would abduct people and they would disappear forever."

"They say that if you swing your lantern three times, the schooner would appear," taunted Captain Tory. It was as if you can hear voices in the fog saying, "Schooner, schooner, schooner!" Jimmy, wide-eyed and terrifying, whimpered, "I…I…Is it r…r…real?" "You to find out!?" screamed the terrifying old man of a father. He swinger his lantern and then the fog cleared away as fast as a roadrunner. There was the sound of a fog horn and then the water splashed and sloshed around and…there it was. It was huge and way scarier than the Jolly Ranger. It didn't especially fly, but it floated over the water. It was as though, it was a ghost. Jimmy was too terrified and….

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June 6, 2016
by Kennith Morn
Tick tock, tick tock. The clock's hands slowly crept closer to ten o' clock, nearing the end of Detective Allen's shift. "Time to go," he muttered to himself, glancing at the clock, then the paperwork on his desk. He had been working late on a very sensitive case, concerning a serial killer known only as "the Bookworm," due to the way he left his victims. People thought it was clever, but Allen just thought it was plain old dumb. He decided that he wasn't going to make any progress like this, called it quits, and left the station.
When Detective Allen arrived at his house, it was just nearly ten o' clock on the dot. However, something didn't seem right to Allen; it was quiet, quieter than usual. "Honey?" Allen called out. No reply. A bad feeling began to settle in his stomach. Allen raced up the stairs, to his bedroom shared with his fiancé, Alice. As he thought, though, his wife was nowhere to be seen. Just as the clock hit ten, Allen got a call on his phone. He slowly pulled it out his pocket, and answered. "Hello?" he asked.
"Greetings," a voice replied on the other side, "I know you're on limited time, so I'll make this quick; I have your fiancé, and if you do not find her in the next, oh, two hours or so, she'll die. Good luck, Detective. You'll need it." The voice hung up the call, and Allen immediately began calling numbers on his phone.
One hour, forty-six minutes, and thirty-four seconds. That's how much time had gone by and they weren't any closer to finding Alice than when they started. The stress was starting to get to Allen. He checked his watch, again. As it hit eleven forty-seven, he received a second call from his phone. "Detective Allen," he said, perhaps a bit too harsh.
"Nice to hear you, too, Detective." The voice paused to let who was calling settle into Detective Allen. "I see you and your friends haven't made any progress, and what better time to give a hint than at thirteen minutes left? Here it is Detective: She'll die in the one place where she loved to work." It hit Allen like a speeding truck. The library, she was at Mr. Linden's library! Allen got in his car, turned on the siren, and drove as fast as he could to Mr. Linden's library, all the way on the other side of the city.
One minute and twenty-six seconds. That was how much time Detective Allen had left. He slammed his car door open and ran up to the library door. He kicks it opens and breaks into a sprint. He looks down at his watch. It was thirty-three seconds until midnight, and his fiancé's personal office was at least a good minute away. He ran faster and faster. He checked his watch again. The hands clicked again and again, almost laughing at him. Five, four, three, two, one. It was midnight. Detective Allen kept going, despite how pointless it was now. He reached his fiancé's office and saw her there, lying lifelessly on her personal bed, and next to her was the signature book and plants left by the serial killer Bookworm. He was too late. A figure came out of shadows from behind the now weeping Detective Allen. "What a shame, Detective! So close, and yet so far. If only you were just a little faster. Alas, you just couldn't do it. Oh well." The voice was extremely calm and cynical about the whole situation.
"Why?" Allen responded. "Why did you do this? Why did you kill her?!"
"My word, Detective. Inside voice, won't you? As to your question, you're asking the wrong person. I am merely the brains of the operation, my associate does all the heavy lifting."
The gears began to click in Allen's head. "Bookworm isn't just one person-"
"It's two." The figure continued. "However, I don't stick to one operation for long periods of time, so my work here is done. Don't come looking for me or my associate, Detective. No one else needs to die."
Allen was filled grief, anger, confusion, and a large number of emotions. He asked, "Who are you?"
The figure stood there, with not a hint of emotion behind his sickly white mask. "I'm just a phantom," he responded, "See you soon, Ben." The figure disappeared back into the shadows, leaving Detective Ben Allen with only his sorrow and confusion as his company.

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By Sammuel Jeff

"The fifth chair is in France" Ben said as he read the head lines. Henry had just been assigned to a case about floaty nuns and he had just heard about the past four chairs that were all in different places but they all happened in Church. The past four nuns were all clueless about what happened. They had news that the next possession would happen in France again in a Church nearby because the fifth nun admitted that she heard a man dressed in black say that he will do seven chairs before the heist. The detective Henry sat and thought for a little thinking about what he would do next.

After thinking he said, "we need to get security around all nearby churches. The next evening was Palm Sunday and the priest objected to letting the detectives check all the people that came in the best that they could do was look for suspicious people. Later that evening the detectives surrounded the church.

"We have him," Henry exclaimed on his radio "he is behind the Church." After that two officers found a person dressed in black running away from Henry. After a long chase they caught the man his name was Jack and he said that he knew what he did. Ben thinking that he stopped the robbery went to the station to celebrate with Henry. The next morning he looked at his news paper and was disappointed to find that one more possession has happened.

"We got the wrong guy," Henry said with a dissatisfied look "the guy we caught was guilty for not paying his car ticket."

"Why nuns?" Ben asked.

Henry replied, "It could do with his past or what he his going to steal."

The men just sat silently and tried to figure out what the man will do or why he is doing it they went over the clues and asked witness what they saw most of them said they only saw a floating nun in the crowds of people but a few say that they saw a guy in black drive off in a white van. The more clues they got the closer they got to catching this guy. They had a look at how many people had cars that fit that description near the church and was surprised to find such a low number as 10.

The first five that they searched had nothing that helped but the sixth one had looked like it had been abandoned and had one lonely note that stated "stop looking or else."

Ben was thinking about what they need to do next when Henry started to run back to his car's trunk. When Henry finally came back he brought a small gray box that he use to find the man's finger prints he ended up being a man named Diego he was a magician that had been sent to jail twice already for trying to rob the bank. They decided to not tell anyone and to go by the bank he was recently trying to rob. After about a hour of standing near a bank it payed off the robber was caught right outside the bank.

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1982
The mother said, "If there was an answer, he'd find it there." The little boy responded, "Is that the end, mother or is that it for the day?"The mother responded saying, "Yes, but I'll ask questions later make sure you understood it. Have a good night sleep, kiddo." He responded, " You too, mom." As he fell asleep, he woke in a boat stranded alone with a book. He had thought that his mother must have left him since it was April Fools the next day, so he thought to get out and call her to stop her plans. As days past, he finally got out of the water and went on to the mysterious land.
He came along a dirt path to a candy hut and thought since he was hungry, he should ask if they had any food left over. He knocked on the door, but nobody responded, so he thought that nobody was there so as he was leaving, he heard something screaming like a girl having a panic attack. He went inside to a mysterious lady that looked like a witch with a girl inside a pie. The witch said surprised, "Do you need anything, child?" He responded, "Do you have any food I could eat?" She laughed and said, "Do you think that ai have food? Of course! Now it is by the freezer darling and GET OUT!" He got the items and left. He thought to himself, These people need to find a hospital and cure there lives.
Now a new problem occurred, the boy needed to sleep, so he found a hut with 7 little "kids" and sleeping girl. The "kids" stated that the girl fell into a dangerous sleep and they have no help of what to do. As it turns out, the boy had heard of this story but forgot about some parts of this (which gave suspicion) but he didn't really care, so he stated that he needed to get back to his mother, so they made a deal. The "kids" would tell him where to go if he tells the way to break the curse. They exchanged the information needed for both Andre "kids" got her husband, and did a true loves kiss, while the kid went to go find 3 other kids near a beach.
Days has since he went exploring for the beach when finally, he found it. Another day has past to find the 3 kids taking him to a different place, when he found them, he had realized that they looked rich and that there was a sailboat that goes with rails. He asked, "May you take me to a place called Oz, I believe?"
One responded, "Sure thing, mate. Just give your name to begin with and will take you there."
"My name is Ezra and I have one question before we go. How do we get there?" Ezra stated.
"We get there with the rail boat ship thing." He stated.
"Oh okay!" He responded. They "sailed" off into the distance to get back to his home and to his mother.

To Be Continued......

Present Day
"Daddy is that it for the day?" says Sadie.
He responded, "Yes and may you have a pleasant night."
"You too, Father."says Sadie and she fell asleep

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