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silverpaw
Posts : 59 Join date : 2008-07-31 Age : 30 Location : Hiding from bees
| Subject: Nightmare (under progress) Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:29 am | |
| My class seemed to have like it... But if you find something overly cheesy or bad, please be honest! This is the second story I have every written so far and I suck at writing Dx
ps: This is the school version so I was suppose to make it a short story... I had to cut the story off at the most randomest place because, it just keeps going! I am still writing, but I had to end it somewhere or I'd get a bad grade, lol.
Also Every time you see a *** is were I cut off many side scenes because I had to cut off a lot of length (Even this, the class period only had enough time for 3 people to read my story, bleh, and the original is well over 40 pages) so yer, I'll get the extended version up soon, I just need to edit the extended scenes.
:Nightmare:
Prologue
Hello. My name is Jack Tyler. I am 18 years old and am currently jobless. I have to move out of my mum’s house but it’s a huge drag to find an apartment, I would need to get myself a job pretty much instantly as well. My friends, Fred (The basic punk of the gang, he seems to enjoy music games and got himself a eye brow piecing not to long ago when he could. He is the oldest but the most childish. Fred is a very bad singer and isn’t good at writing poems, but he seems to enjoy them a lot), Tom (The more intelligent. Tom tries to keep both molly and Fred in control with their obnoxiousness, he is glad he doesn’t have to do the same thing for me. He enjoys card games and reading.) and Molly (the silly and cheerful. She seems to love muffins and for an odd reason love giving people random hugs. I swear, if she tries to randomly hug me again…) all wanted to help me out. I couldn’t really decide what they can do to help me out so I just gave them the job of bringing my stuff down to my car and unloading everything at my new home. I have searched up as many apartments as I could and so far the cheapest is far off to the south within my gas & budget range but apparently there are many bad rumors spread about the people who live there. As long as it isn’t that far off, and it’s pretty cheap for my start on living by myself, I am sure I could handle it, whatever the rumors may be.
Chapter 1 Moving & silly friends
“Hey yah Jack! You need these?” Fred picked up a dusty pair of old shoes that I don’t remember having from the bottom of my closet. “No you dim wit,” I yelled raising a huge box over my head. Fred stared at the shoes and shook them to make sure nothing was hiding inside like a spider molly found under my T.V. Dust lifted off the shoes like smoke. “Can I have it?” Fred responded coughing. Molly peaked out from under a few boxes with a huge load of game cases that made her drop one of the game cube controllers. “Ew! You want Jack’s dusty old shoes?” Fred looked at her puzzled. “why? There’s nothing wrong with ‘em, and knowing Jack he’d throw these away.” Tom grabbed the shoes from Fred and searched them as Fred yelled trying to get the shoes back from him. “No offence Fred, but that’s gross.” Molly added picking up the controller she dropped. “Come on tom! Gimi those back!” Fred yelled completely ignoring Molly’s statement. Tom spun the shoes from the shoe laces and swung the shoes at Fred. The punky 19 year old ducked and the shoes flew and hit the walls making a loud sound that caused me to drop the box I was holding.
“Great going there Tom,” I said sarcastically trying to get a good grip on the box again. “Aw look a’ what you did Tom! And to think I thought you were a smarty goody good with your little playing cards.” Tom made a motion of hitting Fred and stopped right before he reached his nose; Fred made a girlish scream and fell down curling onto a ball at Tom’s feet. “AH! Don’t hurt me!” Fred’s yell was muffled holding his arms around his head trying to protect himself. Tom laughed and gave a light kick at Fred’s side making him give out another girly scream. “You guys… Just get the boxes to my car and then you can worry about hurting each other later,” I said walking up to them with the big box still at hand covering my face. Fred jumped up to his feet and put his hand over his forehead knocking Tom off balance. “YES SIR!” Fred saluted and moved his hand from his forehead and started grabbing the boxes near him in a rush. You could tell Tom wasn’t happy with Fred, he sighed and went back to loading up the car while I, Fred and Molly got the boxes ready and the house cleaned, then we headed out the door to find the new apartment.
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We arrived at the apartment; it took over 3 hours to drive there from where we left. (Most of it was driving but we had to stop for gas and went to eat at a fast food restaurant) We left at around 5 PM so the sun was almost down. I looked across the apartment and I noticed that it looked very old; it was still cheap for a complex apartment. There were many duplexes and fourplexes but Tom wanted me to live in a larger complex, I don’t know why, but he made it seem very convincing. Circling around the apartment I finally found the driveway to the parking lot, but it was under the apartment instead of on its side like most places. I set my car brakes a little heavier then normal so I wouldn’t bump into any other car heading out, this place didn’t have many cars at all, but it’s still good to be cautious. It kind of seemed deserted, so I parked in a random spot near the entrance. “Wow Jack, looks like you will truly live by yourself after all,” Molly paused gazing through the huge empty space around her as she got out the car. Tom was the second who got himself out trying not to crush the boxes they had to sit next to. “Looks peaceful to me,” Tom remarked. Fred speared out of the car jumping wildly with my rock band controller he found in one of the boxes dancing in the parking lot. “Yeah, Boyeeeee!” Fred yelled, tossing his head up and down while throwing his hand above the controller like a guitar. “Jack, you shouldn’t let any electronics near Fred, unless you want them to get broken.” Tom added watching Fred spinning around in the empty parking lot screaming at the top of his lungs. “I would take his advice Jack,” Molly laughed. “Yeah, he looks like he is having the time of his life though, maybe I should let him. I am sure he wouldn’t be dumb enough to break a 50$ controller.” Molly and Tom looked at each other, and we all started laughing. Fred stopping jumping around and ran to us out of breath holding onto the controller with a strong grip. “W….w….what are you guys…. Laughing… about?” Fred gasped for air. “You, silly!” Molly hit Fred on the back. I picked up my controller from Fred and pointed to the entrance of the parking lot. “Come on, I still need to unload all my stuff.” I said. “Yeah FRED,” Tom accused. Both Tom and Fred went first out of the parking lot with boxes and they looped to get to the complex apartment main entrance. Molly was taking a little while trying to carry everything all at once. “Molly, you know you can carry less if you’re having trouble, I am not in any rush.” Molly glared at me angrily. “I can carry as many things as I want!” she demanded with an arm full of boxes she grabbed from my trunk. “Fine… Please don’t break anything,” I frowned shaking my head as Molly dropped a huge box on the parking lot floor. “I swear you are just as stubborn as Fred sometimes.” “Oh, that reminds me!” Molly giggled putting the boxes on the ground ignoring what I said and almost tripping. She tumbled forward with something sapphire colored with a silver wire attached to it she grabbed from her coat pocket. “Here, it’s a gift.” Molly shoved the sapphire object in my right hand. “A necklace?” I defined staring at it keeping balance of the box in my other hand against my chest. “Yeah, what? Dudes can’t wear necklaces or something? It’s sapphire, your favorite color!” She was right, but it still didn’t seem like something I would ever look at again and I might throw it in with my junk. “Uh…. Well… Thanks?” I grinned trying to put up a fake smile. “YOU’RE WELCOME!” Molly screamed in my ears and she picked up the boxes she dropped near the car and ran for the exit of the parking lot. I sighed and put the sapphire necklace in my pocket and followed her.
“Okay, we will see you later Jack,” Molly yelled walking out of my door. “Yeah, if Fred doesn’t get you guys into a car crash,” I yelled back. Fred looked back at me and laughed. “Haha… very funny Jack,” Fred hissed. “Behave Fred,” Tom hit Fred on the head as they left the apartment building. I looked over my new home. It looks Okay, the place has a huge living room and has a computer room size and another that seemed like a guest area. The kitchen is attached to the living room which looks sort of tacky and the carpet was a light grey. It’s past 12 PM now since we finally finished up placing all the boxes in my new home. I think I should go to sleep, I am pretty tired and I can set all my stuff up tomorrow morning. I set out my temporary bed, took off my shoes and coat and jumped on the bed. | |
| | | silverpaw
Posts : 59 Join date : 2008-07-31 Age : 30 Location : Hiding from bees
| Subject: Re: Nightmare (under progress) Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:29 am | |
| Chapter 2 Dream catchers
It’s freezing, and blackness surrounds me. The air is sharp against my skin. I can see myself, but it was weird, I was watching myself in 3rd person as creatures made up of darkness were surrounding me. I had nothing, I thought of nothing, and was trapped. The creatures of many different forms seem to want to keep me there forever, wherever I was. Strangely it shifted, I found myself in a blank space, with an indescribable creature staring at me in the face with blood dripping down its tongue. It had weird snake like dragon creatures that was attached to the main head which consisted of horrible 3 foot long razor sharp teeth having a shark like appearance yet leaving off a leech feel. It’s what looks to have been bat wings twisted up in a very wrong way and it had a huge crystal embedded on both of its enormous arms. Everything seemed to have been black and white, except for the blood that dripped from the beast’s tongue on the blank surface near my feet. The eyes that continue down the snake like dragon’s necks were all focused on me, and I couldn’t move.
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I woke up with a pile of drool beside me and I was completely off my bed with a drift of a blanket leading to me. I wiped my face and had horrible back pain, my hair was really messy and some of it was wet with drool. “What the hell was that?” I said to myself as I cleared my vision looking at my wrist watch blankly realizing the time, it was 1 o’clock. I looked near where my coat was placed and I saw that my cell phone was lit up from my coat pocket. I don’t normally keep it on, and I actually wouldn’t have one because I never use it, but Fred and Molly demanded I would keep it on if they wanted to call me. Sure enough, I open the phone and it says I had gotten a call from Fred’s phone, he’d sent a voice mail as well. I turned my cell phone’s sound on and checked the voice mail. “Hey... Jack, you there? Well, when yah get to your phone, the gang was going over to Molly’s house. She is making us muffins! We all might go and get some lunch too, so get yer arse here now! Rock on dude, peace out.” I switched the phone off and picked up my coat. The boxes still haven’t been opened and I don’t really have any furniture yet except my bed that my friends helped me get in here, but I should meet my friends at Molly’s house before I do anything. They will be mad at me for being late anyways. I put my hand in my pocket in search of my keys and instead picked up the necklace Molly gave me as well. I grabbed the silver wire of it and swung the sapphire object and threw it somewhere on my bed. I ran out the door and locked it.
* * *
It’s now past 1 AM and I am driving myself home. I couldn’t reject going to the movies with my friends after we had some muffins and late breakfast. It was an Okay movie, a horror movie called Nightmare but it wasn’t really that well done. Molly freaked out along with Fred. Tom just relaxed and kind of fell asleep during the movie. I had to wake him up because he started to snore and I guess I was enjoying the movie enough to find it entertaining. Almost falling asleep on the road, a car honked and startled me. I was driving in the middle of the road and had to loop back to the lane I was supposed to drive on. Taking the passage way to my apartment, I turned on the last traffic light. Looping around for the parking lot it felt a little different than yesterday night. There were no cars, but as I drove to the spot near the entrance, a group of people with black coats were near my spot. I can’t really remember if I was so tired that I might have imagined them. Getting out of my car I tried my best not to pay attention to them. It was hard because I can feel their eyes, kind of like that really strange dream I had with that horrible creature, you know, with the eyes staring at me. They were all holding these really ugly dream catchers that you see in stores, but they had a few unique features to them. I slowly slinked to the exit of the parking lot and then ran for it to get to my apartment door. I unlocked it, twisted the knob and jumped in but a little too fast. I slammed my face onto the side of the door and fell off to the ground off balance holding my face in pain. “Son of a…” I almost cursed but held my last word as I locked the door behind me. I walk over to my bed still holding my face and collapsed onto it without taking my shoes off or changing. I fell asleep instantly with exhaustion forgetting I still had Molly’s gift beside me.
Chapter 3 The Little Girl and the Beast
What ever it was, it felt quite soothing and made me feel kind of blank inside. It felt like I had nothing to worry about in the world. Everything was somewhat hazy, the sky was painted with a light shade of soft blue, I was in the middle of some endless field of grass and a slight breeze pushed past everything making a wave across the blank area like a wave of water. The endless field was so beautiful, something you can hardly describe. My clothes were going wildly to the direction of the wind and my hair was trying to get itself in my face. “Where… am I?” I whispered but the sound of my voice couldn’t reach my ears. Sound of bells and something really calming drifted past the field and the wind started to pick up. Staring blankly at the field it was hard to think, not anything in specific, it was just hard to have any thought at all. I hadn’t realized it, but my legs were already carrying me across the field. Whispers… I hear them everywhere, no one was around but it feels so normal it’s a little strange. I can hear a girl’s laughter behind me, I twist myself around to look but I saw nothing, just more fields of grass as far as I could see. It kind of scares me, but the feeling dies out and I catch a glimpse of something small and furry in the corner of my eye. “Jack!” the figure yelled out and attacked me from behind with enough force to knock me over, my face was pushed down to the long grass with my mouth still halfway open. “I can’t breathe!” The words escaped my lips in a muffle. The weight suddenly lifted of me and I had a chance to get up. Coughing up grass and dirt I catch a view of the creature. It looked like a mix between a bird and a cat, but it had huge eyes with a chain brace across both wrists and a scar spread on its back. I looked at it confused, but it didn’t seem to appear to me that it was abnormal in any way. “Hey Jack!” The creature shrieked in a sweet voice. “… hey?” I said in confusion. “Aw Jack you remember me!” The bird like cat lunged and jumped on my head grabbing onto my face and covering my eyes as it tried to balance itself on my forehead. “Hey! What are you doing up there!” I spat blindly being choked by the bird like cat’s long tail across my neck. “What do you mean buddy?” The creature sang spreading its little wings to the breeze of the wind. “I want a better view!” I swiped my arms up trying to grab the creature and finally found the scruff you find on kittens on the neck of the creature. I gripped onto it and pulled the cat like bird off my head and in front of my face to get a better view. “What are you talking about?” I exclaimed. The creature looked at me saddened. “Mew? You don’t remember me bro?” The eyes of the bird like cat’s face seem to have widened in huge let down expression. “No… Why would I?” I responded. “But-but-but… I thought we were… How could you forget me? Mew?” I glared at the creature puzzled by its response. “What are you exactly?” I questioned. The creature got even sadder with my response. “I like muffins!” its expression changed to a more happier and cheerful mood. “What does that have to do with anything?!” I yelled frustrated. The bird like cat whipped its head up to look at the sky. It looked worried and panicky now. “It’s coming… It’s coming!” It speared out of my clutches and forced itself forward not letting anything slow itself down. It folded its wings and then the bird like cat was fading out of view of the endless field. “Fine... I didn’t need your help,” I sighed. It didn’t feel right, the breeze had stopped and the clear blue sky started to darken dramatically. The grass started to fade and only darkness surrounded me. I heard that girl’s laughter again behind me, but I saw her this time. She had a very sweet look, but had a glare that gave me a chill down my spine. She had crystal black eyes and long white hair and was most likely less than 5 years of age. A dark shadow was waiting behind her and crystal shards were spreading across the air. “I finally get to meet you,” The girl said politely with perfect grammar. The shadow shifted sharply and its claws stretched out reaching near me. It looks like nothing I could have ever imagined, but it was very familiar. The girl glazed at me and turned her head sideways sweetly. “Is there something wrong?” She sang. “Eh…n-no,” The words didn’t come out as well as I wanted it to come out as I looked at the creature behind her. I tried again, “what do you mean; you finally get to meet me?” The girl looked down and swirled one of the crystal shards across her hands and the shard shattered. The girl pet the creature’s head and she started to walk closer to me, but it was really specific it would be very hard to describe. “I have a favor to ask you Jack.” She blinked softly and opened her hands as if she wanted something handed to her. A dream catcher appeared in the palm of her hands and it floated across her fingers. “Remember these?”
* * *
I jumped up from my bed the next morning with pain in my neck and a horrible headache. I scanned my surroundings and slinked back onto my pillow breathing heavily. I slept with my feet on the side of the bed and my head resting only partially on my pillow. I remember the parking lot incident yesterday after the movies and my strange dream I had about that girl and all the weird things that came along with it. I had never had such a strange dream before I moved into this apartment. Moving around trying to find a comfortable position to rest, I can’t seem to fall back asleep, tossing and turning I decided to get up, but a light ringing sound hit from the side of my bed. I looked over and I found the sapphire necklace on the floor. “Maybe it might not be that bad…” I whispered to myself. I grabbed the silver wire part of the necklace and put it around my neck. The floor was messy with half opened boxes from packing and clothes spread across the ground. I glance at my wrist watch like I normally do and found that it was 11 AM in the morning, I should eat something. I picked up one corner of the blankets on my bed and started to fix it up. It’s frustrating; the sheet was partly off too. Slipping the last sheet corner to the edge of the bed, a knocking sound that came from my door started me. “I hear someone at the door...” I whispered to myself. Dropped the corner of the blanket and walking to the door, I turned the knob. “I can sense a dark presence among you,” A weird dressed guy spat at a harsh tone as I opened the door. It’s him, one of the guys that were watching me. I guess I really did see them. “Meaning?” I questioned. The man glared at me and said nothing. He grabbed something from his long black coat, it was those dream catchers. “I was ordered to give you the cure for the darkness that follows you. She’s watching you Jack Tyler.” Ouch... He knows my name and is completely mental. The old man waved that dream catcher at me and wouldn’t let me move. I tried to walk back inside but he latched on my arm and twisted it to the point it wouldn’t go any further. “If you give in, you will be devoured by the darkness!” and he squeezed my wrist, shoving the dream catcher in my face somehow pinning my other arm. I got one arm loose and threw my fisted at the old man’s aged face and knocked the guy off balance. In shock he ran off leaving the dream catcher behind. I heard a pained whimper across the hallway and it faded into quietness. I think I might have broken his nose. I remained there; staring at the dream catcher he left and looked at my arm that was twisted. That guy’s good for an old geezer, my arm was red and hurt, but I don’t really care. “The darkness? That girl and the dragon…” I whispered quietly to myself.
* * *
I was putting away a few of the game systems I had sitting in one of my boxes, and I looked over to glare at the dream catcher I threw on the kitchen floor after that crazy old bat came at me the other day. I felt tired and went to go take a nap. I woke up to another knocking sound at my front door. “Go away crazy bat man!” I yelled out, and then I heard a familiar voice yell back at me through the door. “Hay that’s not nice yah know! That kinda hurt meh feelin’s…” Fred shouted. I immediately hopped off my bed and ran to open the door. “Oh, sorry Fred, I though you were someone else,” Fred looked at me confused. “Whoa man, yah look horrible, what’s with yer arm?” I glanced back at my arm and noticed it was still red. Molly jumped forward from the hallway and pushed Fred out of the way. “Jack? You’re wearing the necklace I gave you!” Molly screamed excited. Fred sunk on the floor and sat down. “Yeah… I am.” I said quietly. “Everybody is hatin’ on Fred these days.” Fred whimpered on the floor. “A necklace? Now that’s unusual, for Jack. I would expect this more from Fred.” Tom teased stepped beside Molly to get a better look at it. “It’s from Molly, I didn’t get this myself, and besides, it’s sapphire.” I grinned looking at the necklace again and taking it off. “Aw don’t take it off Jack! Ignore Tom, he’s just jealous he doesn’t have one.” | |
| | | mahjong
Posts : 644 Join date : 2008-07-18
| Subject: Re: Nightmare (under progress) Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:10 pm | |
| Silverpaw, I was so intrigued by your story. Do you have any more of it ready to post? | |
| | | silverpaw
Posts : 59 Join date : 2008-07-31 Age : 30 Location : Hiding from bees
| Subject: Re: Nightmare (under progress) Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:57 am | |
| Sadly I don't ^^; But thankyou so much! I'm still working working on all those scenes that I never editted for school perposes, but I'll definitely post them when I finish =3
Thankyou =D | |
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