The Mall at Midnight

The Mall

My name is Colton Kaldor, i'm 21 years old, and i'm a university student. I'm currently working as a night security guard in an abandoned mall in Edmonton. My uniform is quite unusual, but cool, it's a black tuxedo with a black tie. My working hours are from 9 PM, to 5 AM, 10 bucks an hour, which isn't so bad i guess. They also gave me a desert eagle pistol too for some reason. At first i assumed it was because it had frequent gangsters or lots of trespassers, but it seemed empty, all the time.

The first week was fine, the place was dusty, dark, no electricity, but i had a flashlight so that was no problem. Within the second week, no one even comes to this mall, so i figured it'd be fine if i started doing my university homework as i was on the job. No one comes here anyway, what's the worst that could happen? The third week was good, not only do i get to finish my annoying homework, i get to make money too, i'm basically killing two birds with one stone.

The fourth week was... unusual, i thought there were trespassers now, guess the mall wasn't so safe now. I walked towards the noise, it came from the western side of the mall, i heard a glass break, i ran towards the noise, "Hey who's there! You shouldn't be here!" i shouted, but when i arrived, there were only broken pieces of glass on the floor, the glass shined like a holy glow as i put the light of my flashlight on it. In fact, i don't recall hearing a single footstep of the other person, maybe they were stealthy about it? But i couldn't find anyone, despite having a flashlight. The rest of the week was like this, noises happening, glass breaking, bangs, slamming doors, footsteps on the ceiling that sounded like a wooden board being hit by a hammer, then once, the sound of a crying woman. To say the least, i was quite frightened.

I'm on the 29th day of November now. I bought a crucifix online, figured it could help protect me from the ghosts. I also noticed that in Supernatural, Castiel was using salt rounds to hit the ghost, so i also bought .429 magnum salt rounds for my desert eagle, just in case.

I walk into the mall at 9 PM in my uniform, and hold tightly onto my handgun as i dart my eyes, looking around as i hold my flashlight tightly, as tightly as a knot. An hour passes, nothing happens... another hour passes, nothing happens, yet another hour passes... and nothing seemed to happen. I start to calm down, i stop holding onto my gun and secure it back onto my belt, and i grab a coke can from my pouch and drink the coke deeply, i haven't eaten since 8:30 PM. Another hour passes, it's now 1:00 AM, at this point, i'm convinced maybe i was mad, perhaps those noises were just my mind making things up because of my boredom. That's what i thought—until a silver dagger sinks into my left shoulder.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" i screamed in pain, jerking my arm back, i quickly grab my handgun from my belt and aim into the direction where the dagger must've been thrown "YOU BETTER SHOW YOURSELF RIGHT NOW!" i yelled angrily at him, my nose flared, my facial muscles tensed. Then in the light of my flashlight... a figure steps out, i can't make out what it is, it's like a haze, a humanoid, blackish, grayish, haze. It stood still, as if contemplating or thinking about something, its head tilted. Then it sprang into action, chasing me like a psychopath, i fired two salt rounds at the figure, and it screeched, it sounded like the sound an egg makes when you cook it on a pan and press on the egg with a spatula.

"YOU LIKE THAT?! YOU CRAZY FUCK!!!" i yelled in anger at the figure. I took a step forward, shooting the figure 6 more times, it screeched even more, now it sounded like the sound the Demogorgon from Stranger Things makes when it attacks. "YEAH, YOU BETTER SCREAM! I KNOW YOU'RE NOT HUMAN! SO YOU BETTER TELL ME. RIGHT. NOW. JUST WHAT YOU ARE!!!" i shouted at the top of my lungs. It didn't respond, only covered its wounded parts with his claw-like hands, until the holes were closed by the mist, and it sprang into action at me.

I ran as fast as i could, darting across halls, rooms, stairs, you name it. Then i noticed it didn't even seem to be running... more like, flying at me, despite the low visibility due to only having a flashlight, i could notice a little trail of its haze being left behind as it ran at me, then when it got too close, i shot another salt round at it straight in the face. I was out of salt rounds now, i quickly reloaded my desert eagle with the regular .429 magnum bullets now, although it may not be as effective...

I was sweating, panting, nervous, shaking, i pointed my flashlight at the figure again, and noticed the face slowly reforming, i didn't wait for it to finish, i ran again, and as i looked behind, i noticed it flying even faster at me, i shot some rounds at it, but as expected... the regular bullets didn't do anything, it flew past it like how planes go through clouds... then i remembered... i had a crucifix! i quickly opened my pouch and grabbed the crucifix like my life depended on it... which it most likely did, the crucifix was calm, holy, and gave me a sense of safety, i pointed the cross at the figure— and it stopped flying, it stopped, as if scared, and it started to fly away... "OHOHO NO YOU DON'T!" i yelled angrily with excitement, my eyes widened, veins forming on my forehead as i said the prayer at it "Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio, contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus supplices deprecamur; tuque, Princeps militiae caelestis, Satanam et omnes malignos spiritus, qui pervagantur in mundo, in perditionem animarum, in infernum dejice virtute Dei... AMEN!" i said the prayer of Archangel Michael, suddenly, the cross started to glow a holy light, the eyes of Jesus Christ on the cross shot out holy light, like laser eyes, and as the light made contact with the figure, the figure screeched again, but even louder, as a circular portal opened up, it had a faint holy glow light coming out of it, and glowing yellow white chains grabbed the figure by the legs, arms, and neck... 

Then i remembered... the cross facing upwards is for Heaven... but i don't want that ghost to go to Heaven... IT DOESN'T DESERVE HEAVEN!, i pointed the cross upside-down... and the portal became red, i could feel the intense heat from the portal, the chains turned dark silver and burned with red fire... then there was sounds of growling from the portal, and the chains grabbed the figure and pulled it into Hell... with the portal closing up... and i removed the knife off my shoulder.

I stood there, in awe at what happened. From that day forward, i can now work here in peace, there hasn't been any activity ever since. Of course, i told my parents, my grandparents, my family, and my friends about my experience, but they are atheists, so they say i probably hallucinated or it was someone messing with me... but i know what i saw, shooting bullets at someone would've surely killed it, whatever it was... it was a malevolent ghost, and i'm glad i sent a wretched being such as THAT, to Hell...