Dark Changes// Creepypasta

Chapter 5

We had been walking for around 2 and a half hours now and the adrenaline and excitement from before had gone. We were all bored and just wanted to get back, we had stopped talking a couple checkpoints ago and we were all happy to be silent for a while.

We were heading towards the forest now that we had to go through in order to get to our next checkpoint and I could see it in the distance. Out of instinct I stopped. Something about it terrified me yet drew me to it at the same time, "What's wrong Jess?" Mark asked looking tired and concerned. My eyes darted side to side at the forest, something was there, it wanted me there. "I think we should go around..." I said in a dangerously low voice, I wasn't too concerned about myself per-say but I didn't want the others hurt I would do anything for them. "Jess don't be stupid, if we go around we add a extra hour to our journey now come on we haven't got all night." Will snapped obviously groggy and annoyed at my paranoia. "It's your funeral." I said knowing no matter what I did they would go through whether I was with them or not, so I decided to go considering what they didn't know was that I brought my butterknife with me that I had in my room. I can protect them.

I sighed and took my backpack off telling the rest to take a break, they reluctantly agreed and i dug through my bag until I found it and brought it out. "Jess what the actual fuck!" Rebecca asked seeing the weapon in my hand, I simply shrugged putting it in my pocket and I also decided to take out my lighter and my vape. I don't usually smoke, but I felt like it was needed in this situation.  I started puffing on it like it was oxygen and after about 5 minutes we started heading towards the woods, Will out the front, me and Rebecca in the middle and Mark slightly behind us.

Once on the edge of the woods I looked forward, shit this forest was dense, if something were to happen it would be so easy to get lost.

We ventured forward, we will be walking in these woods for a while taking about 2 hours and this was just the start, I had a gut wrenching feeling we were being watched.

We had been walking for about half an hour now I looked at my phone, 3:03. There was no service in here and I cringed at the thought of being in the situation in which we would need to run an hour either way just to get a connection. I was on edge at this point, we were truly in the forest, there was no turning back from here.

Everyone was silent, you could feel the tension every noise making everyone flash their lights in every which direction trying to find the source. I was trying to be as calm as I could but when I shown my light to my left I couldn't help but panic, "G-guys." This caught all of their attention as I rarely ever stuttered, only when I am panicking or shocked. My light fixed to the tree everyones flashlights joined as we all saw it.

A page.

It had black scribbles all over it. "No, no, no, no, no this must be some sick fucking joke." Will was trying to reason as he walked towards the tree. "Don't you dare fucking touch it!" I practically yelled. He stopped and turned to look at me with wide eyes, "If you touch it we are in the game you fool did you never read the stories!" I said in a slightly lower tone.

We all were on edge now, completely shitting ourselves, we decided to continue ahead because as I said early we had no easy way out. We were all walking cautiously making sure we were quiet, we decided to only have one flashlight on as all of them would draw way too much attention to ourselves, it was going well for about half an hour until I heard it.

That static sound, no one else seemed to notice it or hear it but it started to hurt my head so I stopped grasping my head. "Jess, shit are you okay?" I was wincing in pain and unable to figure out who out of the three said it but I managed to reply, "Static." They all were in a panic but then they just left. They sprinted away. They left me behind...

I felt sick, I was alone with this static noise filling my ears.

Why was it so painful? I couldn't see either everything was just static.

After a couple of minutes it all went silent. I regained myself from my curled up state and sat up snapping my head in every direction till my view landing on someone. It was the boy from the cafe?

I stared at him confused for a second. Wtf was he doing here, then I noticed it, standing just behind him.

Slenderman.

My eyes widened and a deadly chill ran down my spine. I turned and bolted, there was no fucking way I was going to wait to see what was going to happen next. I ran and ran my adrenaline pumping through my veins, my lungs burning just gasping for air. I looked over my shoulder and saw no one but nevertheless I continued running.

It felt like I had been running for hours until I finally reached the edge of the forest, I continued running until I was far enough away from the forest and I turned. There were many people all standing at the edge of the forest, they varied in size but he stood out the most being miles taller than everyone else, head tilted just staring.

Who are these people? What do they want? Why did they let me go? They could have easily got me I mean jeez there were loads of them! All these thoughts filled my head as I just stared. "Jess!" I heard from behind me, I turned to see Rebecca, Will and Mark all sat there.

They had cuts and bruises all over them and Mark even had a knife in his leg. I looked back to the forest line to see no on was there I darted my eyes all around making sure no one was there before realising it was just us then ran over towards them. "Do any of you guys want to tell me what the fuck actually just happened and why you fucking left me!"