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【Ｃｈａｐｔｅｒ １】

The bright yellow moon, the red sky, and the redder clouds. The dull trees and empty houses, streets, and buildings.

The silence, it was so eerily quiet, no one made a sound.

No one was there after all, no one was here. Just 8 teenagers running restlessly for their lives in the forest. Dark, dull, tiring, and empty forest, filled with screams and sounds that could not be heard.

Running, running, running

For their lives.

Thud

Thud

Thud

M/n's breathing was shallow and short. His footsteps were loud against the forest floor as his heart beat against his rib cage.

It was loud and fast.

The thing that was chasing him, no- it was chasing them. The group that his friend made.

His friend?

When was the last time he had a friend?

"Time?!" Ashlyn yelled at Logan. That had snapped him out of these thoughts as his (not blood) cousin ran beside him, panting. His legs ached and his body was sore but he wasn't unique. He was like everyone else. He was always like everyone else.

Everyone was tired.

Logan quickly checked his watch, yelling out "8 minutes!" Despite his voice usually being soft-spoken. "Just a bit longer!" Yin tried to motivate the group as they continued running. His <eye color> eyes were restlessly scanning the forest as he desperately tried to keep up with everyone else.

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The sound that M/n heard from the monster was indescribable but he kept his eyes ahead, searching for something. "The graveyard!" He called out. They continued to run into the graveyard's gates, a square section surrounded by thick concrete borders filled with unused school buses.

The heat was getting to him, it was making him dizzy and even more tired. '[Not now! To the stars and moons, please!]' begged the boy in his mind. '[Not now!]' tried and restless as he was, he needed to continue moving.

How unlucky was he, running from monsters while his mother was on an unexpected trip and sick with an unknown disease?

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[That damn sound!]' that sound that only he and Ashlyn heard, was so irritating. M/n ran ahead of everyone, skidding on the ground to the button. '[Hurry, hurry!]' thought the |hair color| male. Everyone quickly ran into the graveyard, the phantom growing closer and closer.

Ben and Tay...

Ashlyn and Yin...

Logan...

Aiden...

and-

"Close the gate, close the gate!" screamed Tyler who came in last. M/n slammed the red button, closing the gates as Tyler said. Everyone stood together, just in case the phantom decided to go charging at them, Tyler and M/n gripping their weapons.