There might be a monster here...
I wonder what kind of monster, but also I really don't want to know.
Quietly I sit, trying to breathe as few times as possible to not make too much noise.
After a while I can't feel my legs anymore, this part is so cold, I don't believe that any of these crystals have ever seen the sun. So maybe the monster hasn't either.
I can't take it anymore, I've cried so much that I don't have any tears left anymore and I can feel a terrible headache.
There is only one thing on my mind, and how terrible the idea might be, it is: I need to move.
So all knowing that it would be a mistake, I stand up. Almost falling over, from how tired I am, the pain in my head and the pain in my cold legs.
I use the wall as a support and slowly walk through the glowing tunnels.
It really doesn't enter my mind to take a crystal with me, it might make noise and attract the monster that the others were talking about.
After walking for a while and turning corner after corner, choosing without really thinking, only listening, I see a small object lying on the ground.
I get closer to see what it is.
It's the tool that 20 gave to me!
What a strange place to find it.
Did it really roll that far?
Carefully while making sure that I'm alone I pick it up.
My hands have already gone numb from the cold and as I try to hold it in my hand, I drop it again and it loudly falls against one of the crystals.
THUNG!
It echoes loudly throughout all of the cave.
Why did I even pick that thing up in the first case?!
Then the thing I feared most happens...
I can hear an echo return of something I do not know.
Quickly I turn around and run in another direction.
The sound gets louder and louder.
It's so loud that some of the crystals start to turn dark, but I don't stop running.
I hit a wall and I want to cry, but I start running again.
Closer.
Closer.
The sound of the monster gets only closer.
Maybe if I turn my head around, I will see its giant teeth shining back the lights from the crystals.
I can hear it run.
It's so close.
I don't want to look, but I can feel its claws getting closer and closer.
"Leave me alone!" I start to yell.
But it doesn't.
Something ice-cold takes me by my shirt, piercing it in the process.
I fight back: "Let me go! Let me go!" I scream.
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Short Horror Stories
HorrorMy vision obscured by the darkness of my mind... A bundle of short horror stories written by me. Most of the stories here are more on the psychological side of horror. Updates every Tuesday. Some stories might be a bit dark so viewer discretion is...