In the depths of a vast valley of trees sits a Victorian house on a hill. The man in the hat pulls up to his house in his hearse. He steps outside only to pause and admire the night sky. He smiled and shut the car door and opened his house door. "I'm home sweetheart!" he yelled as he put his hat on the coat hanger. Two girls came downstairs running down the steps. "Eric! Hun your home!" She kissed him and rubbed his shoulder. A little girl hugged his leg "I missed you dad!" He pat her head and kissed her forehead. "I missed you guys too!" He smiled and starting taking off his coat. Eric looked around the room. "Wheres Rosalyn at?" without the slightest clue he walked into the kitchen to look for something to eat after a longer shift then usual. "Shes watching our TV that's finally in color." Hope, Eric's wife, started picking up around the house while their daughter Yoake ran around the house and Eric's sister Rosalyn watched Scooby-Doo. Eric walked out into the living room to see Rosalyn sitting on the floor in front of the TV. "Hey Rosie, how was your day?" She jumped and turned to see her brother. "Eric! Brother I missed you!" She ran up to him and hugged him tightly. "H-Hey now, Your hugging me a little too tight it's getting hard for me to breathe." she stepped back. "I'm so sorry!" She looked down in guilt while Eric bent down to see her face since he was 6.6 feet tall and she was 5.4. "Why are you saying sorry Rosie?" She looked at him and said again "I didn't mean to squeeze you Eric." Eric then pat her head and stood up straight. "You don't ever need to say sorry." A scream then echoed throughout the house. Eric turned back quickly." That sounded like Hope!" Both of them ran to the kitchen as fast as they could. They saw nothing but a broken wall. Yoake and Hope were no where to be found. "We have to follow whatever it is that took them!" They both ran out of the large hole in the wall. A couple hours passed and they made it to what seems to be the destination of a house only 50 miles away from theirs. "This house, its definitely his alright, that bastard." Rosie turned to Eric with a confused look on her face. "Who?" Eric stepped in front of her. "Now's not the time, I need you to go investigate from the back door of his house you understand me?" Rosie said nothing but shake her head yes and ran to the back. Eric approached the door slowly. He walked inside and looked around. A singular candle is lit at the top of the steps and a man is standing there. "Good evening isn't it Eric?" The man in the shadows chuckled. Eric closed his hand and put his foot on one step. "Now that I have a closer look of your face for once, your eye, it looks infected..." The shadow man paused and pointed to his right eye which wasn't visible. "Just like mine was, let me help you." Eric squinted. "I refuse your help Mr. Everbloom." The shadow mans left pupil dilated like a cat. "Very well then you stubborn Bloke. Would you like wine? I would love to hear more about your life Eric." The shadow man chuckled more and clapped his hands. A maid from another room emerged from a doorway with a silver plate with two cups of wine. The maid whispered into his ear while pouring some sort of packet in the wine. Eric suspected something was going on but he kept quiet. The maid walked back through the doorway. "Come up here and grab it will you? I'm very tired of walking today." Eric walked up the steps and got his cup of wine and looked at the mans only visible eye. "I would like to make a toast, to Eric." Eric menacingly looked at the shadow man. "Eric, my brother in law, has made my sister Hope ever so happy, and I would like if he spent some time with me, and we could do some brother things!" The shadow man then drank all of the wine in the cup. Eric drank his and placed the cup next to the candle. "So delicious, don't you think Mr. Bloke?" Eric Smiled. "Definitely." The shadow man grasped his chest and started to choke. He thought to himself "What the hell is going on with me!? wasn't he supposed to be the one to be poisoned !?" Eric chuckled as the shadow man stood there frozen. "So, how does it feel, Arron." Rosalyn took off the layer that was a maid outfit. "Rosalyn, you were the maid the entire time? but how?" Rosalyn took out her ponytail and let her hair drop. "All I did was knock a maid out and wore her outfit, oh and if you were wondering I got this poison from the maid I knocked out and I had a feeling he would try and kill you so I took matters into my own hands." Eric smiled and pushed Arron down the steps and his body hit the bottom finally and he was no longer moving. "Come on Rosie, we have to find Hope and Yoake and get the hell out of here." They then began to venture around the house.
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Iron Bird Genocide & Carnage
Mystery / ThrillerLong ago, the tales of the Bloke family have begun in the summer of 1962 but the family go through a very tough time through the year 1976 when stuff between their family and Eric's wife's remaining family member, her brother, wants to eliminate all...