Mister Alexander's Exhibition Of Fun, Heights, And Frights!

The Blue Demon

When we entered the park, the first notable thing was the lack of people. Normally, when you go to an amusement park on a hot sunny day, there are tons of people bustling about, screams echoing from roller coaster riders, and ice cream dripping from the hands and faces of young children. But here --- here, there was no one, except Liv and I.
To say the least, I loved it.
Liv, on the other hand, seemed to be having a rather tough time keeping her nerves in check.
"Ol, are you not the least bit curious about why the hell no one else is here? That girl was super scary! She was, like, old but not at the same time! I don't like this. How long do we have to be here for?"
"Oh, who's trying to leave so early now, huh? The same person who wanted to drag me onto every single ride? Well too bad; you got me outside, now you better make the most of it! C'mon, that haunted house ride looks like the best place to start, yeah?"
"Ol! Seriously? Are you kidding me?! You're not scared at all?"
"There's nothing to be afraid of, Liv! No one's here but me and you. But who knows, maybe the real reason I brought you here was to brutally murder you. That's been my plot all along!" I let out my best maniacal laugh, and lurched out to tickle her. She squeaked and jumped away, laughing along with me.
"Fine, lets do the haunted house ride. But only because I want to get the worst over with. I'm being serious, I really don't want to do this..."
"We'll be fine, Liv."

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The haunted house was just around the bend, distorted music and creaking noises emanating from speakers attached to poles near the ride. We had to enter a building made of stone, cracked walls and vines woven throughout its structure. The doors were an old-fashioned metal gate, fancy spikes decorating the top, and I pushed them open, the metal extremely cold even though it was the middle of summer. Liv demanded I hold her hand even though I told her we'd be less likely to fend off any demons if our hands were connected, and we kept walking through the building even despite no one else being here. No employees to make sure everyone was waiting in line or anything, just us.
The music caught my attention as we were told by a sign covered in fake blood to wait for a cart to come; a man with a very deep voice singing about dancing and dresses and dining, but it had some distorted circus sounding in the background, and began to add to the sense of dread I was feeling. The whale inside me seemed to be growing more restless.
An old rickety wooden cart finally inched its way up the tracks toward us, the black gates unlocked and Liv got in on the right side while I followed her, sitting down on the left. We strapped ourselves in, and the ride started, a low laugh echoing through the hall of darkness ahead of me that sounded like the man who had been singing earlier.
"Ready?!" I said to Liv, trying to sound exited rather than horrified. I swear, it was the music.
"Do I look ready?! I think I'm shaking. Look, my teeth are chattering! What if we get stuck? No one's here to help us, and we'll be surrounded by horrifying props without heads! This is not how I want to die, Ol!"
"We'll be fine, you're overreacting Liv! Look, see that guy? He might jump out, just to let you know. I'm so ready to pee myself!"
We neared the guy, a tall man with a fluff of dark chocolate hair on his head and huge eyes. He was wearing a tux, and he stood with a microphone in front of him, and ---
He was moving.
"That is so cool!" I shouted to Liv over the music that was getting louder the closer we got, "open your eyes, you're missing everything!"
She peeped her eyes through her fingers and screamed, earning a laugh from me. "Its okay, he's not real!" As we continued on the music started to fade and I began to wonder whether this ride would actually be scary. The man continued to sing, and my vision soon faded to darkness because of the lack of lighting. I heard whimpers from beside me, Liv must've got really spooked. I felt kind of guilty for forcing her to come, but once this was over she'd thank me, I was sure.
The next thing I knew, the hall was illuminated by a blue light, and upon closer inspection I noticed skulls and white bones littered the floor. Ah, now we were getting to the good part. We continued for a while longer, until a long window covered in cobwebs suddenly began on Liv's side, and a man--- with the same huge eyes as before, stood there, crumpled and leaning over. Backbones seemed to poke out from underneath his blue skin, and he turned his head suddenly as his huge yellow eyes met mine. He had horns attached to his forehead, and his bare chest had a swirl of designs much like a tattoo coiling around his torso.
I heard a cackle again. The same voice.
He watched the cart keep rolling, and I looked back to see his arms grow longer and thinner, and his body elongate so that it was longer than his legs. The crunching noise of bones snapping caused my heart to jump as he began to chase us, and I could feel my breath grow shallow.
It's not real, I told myself, it can't be.
I watched in horror as he beat us to the end of the track, and whatever hall he was in joined ours. He stood there at the end, transformed back into a hunched over man.
"What is that noise?!" Liv yelled suddenly, "make it stop! Ol, I hate this, stop the ride!" I could hear it in her voice that she was crying, and my voice cracked as I responded, "it's okay, keep your eyes closed. I can see the exit, we're almost there." Even though I couldn't see the exit, and I had no idea how far it was. The cart kept going, and I searched frantically for a way to stop the ride, stop the cart, to tell the managers to get us out. But no one was here, it was just us.
And the blue demon.
We neared the man, if that was what it was, and I felt my heart pounding in my throat as he sprang up into the air, leaving silence and nothing in his wake.
"Liv... Liv, I think it's over, I think we're almost there, just hold---"
Yellow eyes sprang out at me from above, and the same song the man sang earlier repeated and repeated in my mind until I had gone insane, and everything span in circles, and the yellow eyes ate at my soul, and a headache thrummed in my brain until my own eyes felt as if they would dislodge themselves from my skull and be eaten by worms and other small bugs until it all stopped.
And then, "Ol!" A shriek, faded and distant, as if it was a memory of my past revisited in a dream.
Finally, I awoke. My warm bedsheets surrounded me, and though my heart was beating at an abnormal rate, I couldn't figure out why.
Oh, today's the day we go to the amusement park, I remembered suddenly.
I can't wait!