It was September 4th 1943 and it was the day after Germany dropped bombs and the whole town was destroyed, people were laying in the streets dead as they couldn't get away fast enough. There were a few survivors that hid in underground bunkers or vaults or even tube lines but half of them were destroyed, one in particular that got hit by a bomb people were heard screaming down there but then their screams would disappear as if they were being taken further and further into the tunnel nobody knows as nobody comes back out alive. If your wondering who I am, I'm a skeleton well half skeleton, I still have human skin on me but my hands and arms are bones, it's nothing I can run from. I got hit by a radioactive gas that caused my skin to dissolve but since it didn't destroy my insides I'm still alive.
I hide myself away by wearing baggy clothes and a hoodie with my hood always up and my face is covered by a mask, I long to know though what happened down in that tunnel? Is there something living down there? What is it and why is it here? These questions would circle my brain for ages but they never get answered, the police have cut off the entrance to the tunnel from Everyone but it doesn't stop the thoughts from expanding more and more, what is living underneath our feet and what does it want? I will say I'm a very curious skeleton, I'll draw whatever comes to mind of what I think is down there and it would change every day, sometimes I'll draw a octopus human or a human killer or a hand merging from the dark which would grab victims and pull them in, my favourite one is a eye that would kill anyone who looks at it. I've always been told I have a creative mind and I take pride in it, my parents think my ideas are strange and unusual but I don't doubt them but it's what I think is in the tunnel, I'd love to go down into the tunnel and find out what it is.
The only person to go down and come back alive is a man called Tony Grey who lost an eye while trying to get out and he was covered in Ink, I begged my parents to let me visit him but after days and days of begging they finally agreed and I went with my dad to visit Tony who was a good friend of my parents, I use to spend a lot of time with Tony when I was a kid as he use to baby sit me whenever my parents had to work late that I started calling Tony my uncle. When we got to his house he was sitting on the porch in a rocking chair "you alright Tony?" Dad yelled to him "yeah yeah" he said sounding all groany but when he saw me he smiled "there's my favourite niece" I went ahead of dad and gave Tony a hug "what can I do for you lil one?" He asked with a smile on his face "she wanted to ask about what you saw when you were in that tunnel" I noticed Tony's smile slowly disappearing "I don't know of such thing" he said looking away "please uncle, I'll listen I promise" I pulled out my notebook as Tony opened one eye and looked at me "if I tell you will you never ask again" I nodded about 5 times as he sighed and looked at me "fine I'll tell you" he said as I got my pen and notebook ready.
I sat in bed reading over what Tony said and looking at my Drawings to see if anything Tony said goes with any of my drawings but so far non did but after reading the notes over and over again something clicked as I saw the word 'tentacles' and then I picked up my drawing of a man with tentacles coming out of his mouth and ink dripping down his face from his eyes as if he was Crying ink. I smiled at the drawing as I have drawn the thing that lived underneath our feet but then I read the rest of the line 'the man turned into a creature with no eyes, just a mouth full of tentacles and a stitch up his face with ink all over him' I thought about that line over and over again before deciding to draw the creature Tony described. I was up late sketching and sketching and sketching the same drawing 5 times, when I fell asleep I was standing in the middle of a train track, all I could smell around me was blood and acid as my body started to burn like hell as my body was decaying. I woke up and saw my body was fine and my arms were the only skeleton part about me.
I wanted to just stay in bed but just as I was about to close my eyes again I heard a groan so loud it shook the ground as if it was a earthquake, it was 3 in the morning and I went over to my window to look out to see what was happening and it's then I saw tentacles coming out of the ground and Police holding two buckets of eyeballs and leaving them by the entrance and then running away as the tentacles grabbed the buckets and pulled them down into the tunnel before throwing the buckets back up then they disappeared. I couldn't move as I was full of shock, I stood there looking out my window onto the dull lit road that stood below. Let me just say no one is supposed to be up at this time, the rule is 'sleep at 12 or anytime before and wake up at 8 or anytime after, anyone up between these times unless it's for work will be found and taken away' no one knows what happens to the people that get taken away but I feel like they get killed or something. I saw one of the police officers look up at my window, I turned and slammed my back against my wall and my room lit up by their flashlight shining through my window I put my hand over my mouth and stayed still before the light disappeared as I ran straight to my bed and hid under my covers before falling asleep. In the morning it was dull as always and I had woken up half off my bed before falling out of bed "you okay dear?" My mum said opening my door "need help?" She said as she looked at me "I'm fine mum, I may have skeleton arms but I can get up" I got up as she stood there watching me "how can you cope?" She asked and this was the first time she's ever spoken about it "I don't notice it half of the time" I said putting my hoodie back on I was about to head for my door but mum stopped me "mom?" I said looking at her confused "don't think your going out looking like that!" she snapped which is something I've never seen her do before so I took a few steps back. My dad came in to see what was going on but mom just smiled at him and left, my mum acts all innocent around him but with me she completely changes but as soon as she left my dad turned to me and checked my arms and face to make sure I was okay "you okay sweetheart?" He asked as I sat on my bed "yeah I'm fine" that was a lie, I wasn't okay and as I looked towards my drawing of the creature everyone fears so much I could feel anger rushing through my body as I heard dad sigh "why don't you go out today and get to know the other childen okay?" He asked me with the face of worry but with his weak smile on at the same time but I had no choice but to agree, I got ready and headed outside and walked towards the group of children playing in the playground.
The playground was big and the town children come here to hang out, there were groups of 4 or 5 people in each corner except the bottom right corner where I decided to sit and I just hugged my knees until I got nudged from behind and a familiar voice spoke out "look who's all by herself again" I ignored it until she fully kicked me in the back which hurt my spine "don't ignore me damnit" I got up and turned to look at the snobby Isabelle Flower, she was like the popular girl in the local school and boys would drool over her and girls would follow her around like a stalker. I looked at her as she grinned and her "subjects" giggled behind her "why do you always look like a fricking slob anyway, what are you hiding?" she asked as she started to walk around in circles around me then stopped in front of me again and nodded to what looked like someone behind me as they got closer towards me I felt someone grab my hood.
