Darkest Nights Horror Short Story Collection

Darker Nights (The Ritual)

???: So what happened to the 5 candles that you have not recovered?

David: Well that's another story.

Well after I checked each one the of the corpses I noticed a pattern on them and after I got them together I saw it was a map. the map was a island that seems to be in the middle of no where. it was in the Bermuda triangle.

???: Really? What a cliché.

David: Shut up...

As I was saying, It was in the Bermuda triangle. I spent weeks going to docks all over the east coast trying to find a ship willing to sail to the island. Almost everyone said no and the ones that said sure asked for an arm, leg, and my left nut. But after 4 weeks of searching someone finally agreed, For free no less.

Whilst we were sailing there the captain attacked me and tried to eat me.

'Fucking cannibal', I said as I threw him into the water.

???: Name?

David: Me or the cap...

???: ... The captain.

David: Jonathan Williamson.

???: What a name.

David: I know right.

Well anyways I took over the ship and sailed myself there. While I was on the sea I started to act like a pirate because I wanted to be one as a kid, so yeah. Well anyways I got to the island after about two days of boating.

???: 2 days? It should only take about half of a day.

David: Well I never sailed before and...

You know what.. Shut the living hell up.

So where was I, Oh yeah. after two days of boating I made it to the island. while I was exploring I found a cave that had lit torches and had a lot of different paths. I chose the one that there was the least footprints. It led me to a giant chamber with a lot of levers. Then I went back and took the one most traveled by which had a lot of candles in it then I took the middle one and it had several dudes with black cloaks holding black lit candles chanting something in Latin.

???: What were they saying?

David: How the fuck was I supposed to know it was in damn Latin!!!

Well anyways, when they were chanting a shadow figure started to appear and I looked around and saw five black candles in each point of a pentagram. and I stupidly shouted 'Hey, What the fuck do you think you're doing?'

My. Stupidest. Idea. All of the cloaked figures ran right after me and I darted out. I hid in a bush nearby and waited tell they left. I needed a plan. So I got the idea to check the cannibals boat for anything. I found a bunch of chemicals, since I was an A+ student in chemistry I knew that combining three parts ██████ & one part ███████ would create a weak explosive thankfully I had a shit ton of the chemicals and cover the cave walls and roof with Liquid ███████ it would eventually drip onto the solid ███████ on the floor. So I did and about 3 minutes later they combined and, BOOM!!, they exploded collapsing the cave. I was able to escape the island.

???: What happened to the "cloaked figures"?

David: I don't know. I presumed they died.