A Slumber Party Massacre

Chapter 6

   Ash was lying down on his bed listening to music at low volume, he was painting his toenails a bright neon green color. He hummed to the song as he placed the brush down on his big toe. All his focus was on his nails until a big 'CLANG!' sound came from the kitchen. It startled him, he figured Jacob was awake. He ignored it and continued.
'CRASH!' another sound from the kitchen. Ash was really worried about Jacob, he figured it was going to go on all night so he got up and decided to check it out.
When he stepped out of his room he couldn't see anything from how dark it was. The light switch was right next to his door, he switched it on, but nothing. He flicked the switch back and forth, "damn old house," he said, remembering he carries an emergency flashlight with him.
When he stepped back out to the hallway, it was quiet, not a single sound, until, drip, drip, drip, drip,
"Jacob!" He shouted, no response. He was walking barefoot and suddenly felt a wet sensation on the bottom of his foot. He turned on his light and pointed it straight down, it was a trail of blood. Ash freaked out and slowly followed the trail with his light, the blood ended at the end of the hall. He saw right above the puddle of blood, two feet hovering over it, he lifted his light and saw Andre's body hanging from a rope tied to the ceiling, his throat slit and his eyeballs gouged out of his eye socket.
Ash was in complete terror, he screamed off the top of his lungs for five full seconds straight.
He took a couple of steps back, standing in front of Fin's bedroom door.
The closet door in the hall slides open next the Ash, the man in the frowning clown mask stands in the closet staring at Ash. He was in complete shock and terrified for his life, he struggled to scream once more.
Fin and Key are woken up by the sounds of Ash's screams, "Was that Ash!?" Fin said, they both stood up and quickly put clothes on. Fin goes to open the door when...
The man in the mask walks up to Ash and grabs him by the throat, pins him up against the bedroom door. At the same time, Fin had opened the door as Ash's body was pinned up, closing the door on Fin, "ASH! WHAT IS GOING ON?" Fin yelled. He pushed with his whole weight trying to open the door.
Ash was lifted off the ground and was being choked, he couldn't respond, he couldn't attack, he couldn't breathe.
The man didn't say a word, he simply stared into Ash's eyes. The mask made it hard to see the man's eyes, Ash couldn't see a soul in those eyes.
He quickly remembered he had his wooden nail stick in his pocket, he took it out and stabbed it into the man's hands. This hurt the man long enough to let go of Ash, his body dropped to the floor and he crawled away, headed for his room. The masked man walked up to Ash only to be interrupted by Fin pushing the door open.
Fin heard the sound of Ash crying for help and saw a giant man standing five inches away from the door, he turned to look at Fin and Key, they freaked out and Key quickly shut the door.
Ash was just a couple of steps away from his room, hoping to lock himself inside. From the other side of the hall, a second masked person sprinted up to Ash and quickly stabbed a large knife into his gut. Ash screamed once more and his only reflex was to kick the second person in the leg, dropping them to the ground. He quickly crawled inside before any of them could hurt them once again, he shut the door and locked it.

"Who the fuck was that?!" Asked Key in a terrified tone. "I don't know, but we have to save Ash and Jacob!" Said Fin boarding up the doorway. "Come on! Let's go out the window and hopefully get inside Ash's window!" He said grabbing Key by the hand. They slide the window up and crawl out one by one. When Key makes it outside he shuts the window so they don't leave evidence of where they came out from.
They crouch down and walk up to Ash's window, the light is on, and Fin peeks in and sees Ash balled up in the corner with his pocket knife in hand.
Fin knocked and Ash screamed from how scared he was, he saw Fin and Key waving at him from outside, he slowly crawled up to the window and flicked the locks, they opened the window and crawled inside one by one, Fin going in first.
They shut the window and turn off the light. "Ash, are you okay?" Key asked. He was not okay, he was bleeding out slowly. "no, I want to go home!" He responded holding pressure on his wound. "We need to get you to a hospital!"
"But we're so far out! We'll never make it to a hospital on time!" Said Key.
"Does anyone have their cell phone? Maybe we can alert the police," said Fin.
Ash's phone was on the bedside table connected to the charger. "Mine is right up there," he pointed. Fin grabbed the phone and dialed 911.
"911 what's your emergency?"
"Hello! We need help! There is an intruder in the house and my friend is injured!"
"How many of you are there?"
"There's four of us, we don't know where one of my friends is at the moment."
"did you see how many people broke into your house?"
"Just one-"
"No, there's two," Ash said interrupting Fin.
Fin froze in shock, he couldn't process the words Ash said, there were two intruders. He thought to himself.
"We have your location, an ambulance and police officers are on their way,"
"Wait!" Fin asked the 911 operator a question that would crush him depending on the answer.
"Where exactly are we?"
"You're in CenVille sir, help is on the way, but unfortunately you guys are too far off from town, I advise you folks to escape to an area that is safe."
Fin dropped the phone and froze. He couldn't believe Jacob brought them to CenVille where the security guard was killed and the killers were on the loose, Ash said there were two intruders. Fin didn't want to wait for help, he needed to get the boys and get the hell out of there!
"Fin, what's the matter?" Key asked quietly.
"We need to get the fuck out of here," he got up and looked through Jacob's bags which were in the room, he found the keys to the van. "Help me lift him," He asked Key to help lift Ash off the ground. They tried lifting him to stand on his feet, but they barely lifted him to sit on the bed, Ash was in so much pain, that he couldn't properly stand up.
"Okay, here's what we're going to do, Key I need you to go start the van while I go look for Jacob," no one liked that idea, that just meant they would each be on their own. Key takes a moment to process how he's going to quickly get the van started and back it up to Ash's window. He opens the window and checks both sides to make sure the ghost is clear, he crawls out, and heads for the van.

"Ash, listen to me-"
"Please don't leave me!"
"Ash-"
"NO! PLEASE FIN!"
"Ash I know you're scared, I'm scared too, but I have to go check if Jacob is okay!"
Ash cries his eyes out holding onto Fin's arms, refusing to let go.
"I'll be back for you I promise!" Fin leaves the room and goes out into the hallway.

Key is by the bushes, he's going slow to avoid being seen. He sees the van and decides to make a run for it. He quickly hops in and turns the key, but nothing. The van's starter had been tampered with, it won't start. Key tires everything, he pushes every button, turns every switch, he turns the lights on, and in front of the van was the smiling clown-masked figure standing above Jacob's dead body. Key was terrified for his life, and now knew Jacob was dead and these people wanted to kill them all. He turns the lights off and arms himself with a crowbar Jacob had in the back. He jumped out of the van and the figure was gone.

Ash was lying in bed scared, he hoped Fin and Key wouldn't take long so he wouldn't have to be alone. The lights being off were freaking him out, he reaches for the light on the nightstand and turned it on. He was scared there would be someone in the room with him, luckily there was nobody. It was too quiet, he was scared that Fin would get hurt out in the hallway. Tap tap, a taping sound came from the window, it was the smiling clown, Ash screamed and tried to stand. The clown pulls up the window and crawls inside the room. Ash didn't have anything to defend himself, he just screamed and called for help, hoping Fin would hear him. The clown jumped on his body, pinning him down and stabbing his knife into Ash's body multiple times. Ash screamed and screamed, unfortunately, those screams did not save him from getting his intestines ripped out of his body. Before Ash could take his last breath, he removed the mask from the killer, "fucking hell," were his last words.