It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was high and the trees waved and crashed into the worn barn. Thunder as loud as a cannon shook the sky, just as hot lightning struck behind the barn. As I looked around me, I saw that I wasn't alone, a dark man stood behind me, his face hidden in the shadows. He was tall, mean and wearing a long, dark cloak. He had a long, slender knife shining in the dim moonlight.
"Who are you?" I asked trying not to sound as uneasy as I felt. The frightful man stocked toward me letting out an eerie, mechanical laugh, reached back with his knife, and stabbed. I tried to move away from the knife wielding maniac, but wasn't fast enough. I let out a scream of pain as the knife made it's blow. The wound burned with a searing pain. I jumped away from the next blow and ran as fast as I could, blood pouring relentlessly from my arm.
The man followed laughing and saying in a lifeless voice, taunting "Come out, come out. I just want to hurt you, make you feel pain." I ran into the barn and hid behind a stack of hay terrified, desperately trying to calm my breathing as not to attract this demon of a man. It was no use though, the blood streaming from my arm had left a trail to easily seen. The shadow like creature started toward me and peered at me through the hay and stared, it was like he was trying to look into my mind. "I see you, I know you." he said it in a harsh, barely audible voice.
Without warning, the man ran towards me with his knife raised high, blood dripping off of it. I was so frightened I didn't even think, I just ran. I ran as fast as I could out of the barn with the shadowy demon hot in pursuit. But there was nowhere to go, I had cornered myself. The man let out a blood curdling scream. I furiously looked around desperate to find a way to escape. It was too late, the creature was on me stabbing me over and over and over.
The pain was excruciating. I screamed till my lungs were on fire in hopes for someone, anyone, to help. But nobody came. The man continued to stab me again and again. All I could see was me being stabbed over and over, and blood, my blood, all over. The thought haunted me that I was being murdered. If this was happening to me, what would happen to my family!
Only was it then did everything start to get blurry. My head was suddenly pounding like someone was hitting me in the head with a hammer again and again.
"Everyone will perish, because of you! Because of you! Because of you!" His foul voice was fading away so was his image, them he was gone, everything was silent then, "AAAAHHHH!" Someone was screaming! Then I know who. That was my little sister screaming! He's was hurting her, I had to save her! But I couldn't move, I couldn't save her! "NO!" Then everything went black, and all I could hear was her fearful cry of agony echoing through the air.
IT WAS THE END, AS I KNEW IT.
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The Shadow Demon
Short StoryAn unknown creature stalks you in the night, the lives of your loved ones on the line. You're all alone, there's no one to protect you. Will you survive? Read if you dare...