Phantoms

|| Seven || Murders

JOHN

We decided to stay up and keep watch around the house since last night and Eric has still been recovering from his cut which was larger than we all assumed.
The cat had been keeping him company which would be great cause he doesn't have to listen to us talk loudly around the house while he slept.
We all discussed what we were gonna do and started coming up with ideas and then Jack told me we should go back to the houses now that it was a bit sunny and so we could see and more people would be out.
I agreed and walked with him with our pistols to the houses and we went to the one we went to last night and the floor was still covered in blood.
We started to look all over the place and nothing came up until I heard a thump on the floor and turned over to see Jack being dragged away and I chased after grabbing his gun he dropped and then I saw the thing dragging him had stopped and started walking towards me and I stood still staring at it.
It got right up in my face and I'm pretty sure it would've killed me right there if it wasn't for Jack tripping it over and then it punched him back onto the floor and slammed him against the wall and kept beating him down and I sat there watching my older brother being beaten.
I didn't know what to do, eventually it gave him one hard blow to the head knocking him out and I just lost it.
I shot every bullet I could at the thing and once I was out I grabbed my knife and stuck it in its neck and after that my face was covered in blood.
It eventually ran off and I grabbed Jack and picked him up and started heading back home and then Jack started bleeding and I didn't notice the cuts on his leg.
It wasn't that bad so I just ran the rest of the way home and bandaged his leg up and started to get ride of my clothes and just go back into nothing but shorts so I can get all the blood off and I wasn't gonna look like some murder, after that I had to take a shower.

ALEX

I saw John run in with Jack and saw the blood and instantly knew something was wrong so I waited for Jack to wake up while John was in the shower and Eric woke up and came downstairs and saw and everyone else came into the room and we were all filled with mixed emotions.
Once John came downstairs we all asked him questions and he told us the story and after that we all stood there in silence.
Soon me and the others besides John and Jack went to the houses, despite us trying to get Eric to stay he wouldn't.
We all got to the houses and started to search all together and found the room John and Jack had been in.
We looked around and followed the blood until it stopped under a bed.
We all looked at each other, Eric and Jackson started to move the bed and then we found a trap door and started to head inside and found a small room full of boxes and we all hid behind some boxes with our knives.
We saw someone or something that seemed familiar and Eric realized and instantly started running towards it and stuck his knife into its neck.
Eric was now covered in blood by continuously stabbing the knife into the thing and we all started to join in and blood was covering the room and we were all covered in blood now.
Whatever the hell the thing was it finally dropped dead and we all stayed there for a while to see if it would get back up and when it didn't we just smashed a glass bottle on its head for the heck of it.
We all left and started running back home as quick as possible in order to not be seen with the blood on our skin and clothes and once we got home we got rid of our clothes and back into shorts and took showers one by one.
Once we were done we went back downstairs and saw Jack with the most pale face ever.
We all walked towards him and noticed the cut across his face and Eric asked if it was the cat and he shook his head slowly.
We all looked at each other in shock because no one else could've been in the house, John wouldn't do something like that.
We asked Jack what happened and a tear rolled down his face as he tried to remember, we were there for what seemed like forever he finally spoke but softly like Eric does and he said, "It... Took... John..." We all looked at each other again but with extremely pale faces and we all started to search the house just in case but found nothing.
We went back to Jack and asked if he knew where they would be and he only assumed all the abandoned house.
We all went into the kitchen and started to talk about what we were gonna do to find him.
Eric had an expression we've never seen him have before and he just ran upstairs and came back downstairs fully armed and he just pumped his shotgun and spoke, "We're gonna find him if it's the last god damn thing we do while we're alive."
We all stared at him and he just started walking out of the house and we all started to run upstairs and get dressed and grab whatever weapons we can.
Jack ran past us all and we all started to run after him and once we got to the houses we just put on our masks and looked at each other and nodded, then we ran into the houses.