Alex finally made it to the second floor and darted through the hallway, at the end of the hall he made his way into another room. Thinking that the creature would go through each room in search of him. Unfortunately the monster had caught a glimpse of the door closing shut, the ferocious monster raged on as it rushed to the closed door. From the outside the creature slashed it’s claws viciously against the door, shrieking in frustration. Meanwhile inside, Alex had locked and barricaded the door with an old closet and a table that was there, there on the floor, he sat, hugging his knees tightly crying hard as the monster kept raging just outside the door. “I’m sorry mom, I’m trying to be brave but I can’t, I’m scared and I don’t know what to do" he said to himself, sobbing as the barricaded door started to give in. “Just leave me alone!” Alex screamed at the door, to his surprise he was given complete silence, the pounding on the door had stopped. Phew. He breathed a sigh of relief, he was starting to get relaxed when he was startled by more pounding against the door, this time more violently. Seeing that the monster just wouldn’t give up he knew that he had to get out of the room. But how?
Alex looked around and noticed a stack of old bedsheets folded on the old bed in the corner, he hadn’t noticed that when he came in. He rushed to the window at the back of the room and opened it, sticking his head out to see how far the ground was from the window. He was on the second story of the mansion, he quickly went back for the sheets and tied them together to make a rope, once he did this he tied one end to the foot of the bed, pushing into the edge of the window. The monster kept banging on the door, it managed to get one claw inside but it struggled to push the door with everything holding it sturdy. Throwing the bedsheets out the window, Alex wasted no time in climbing down the rope, he hastily climbed down, struggling to keep a hold of the bedsheets. Alex was almost near the ground when he heard a loud crashing noise upstairs in the room he was in, immediately after he heard the same horrendous scream. Alex knew that it was going to be outside soon, with only a couple feet between him and the ground, he jumped and landed in his feet. He immediately started running for the forest thinking that he had enough time to escape, unfortunately he thought wrong, not a moment too soon the monster appeared out of the house crashing through the pillars of the house, Alex didn’t stop until he heard a loud booming sound, it shook the ground so much that he stumbled and fell over. Looking back he noticed through all the dust that the mansion was no longer standing, the old building had collapsed completely, but that monster didn’t stop for anything. Hearing the killer shrieks of that blood thirsty monster he got up and ran, making it into the forest, not stopping for a split second, behind him was the sound of the monster chasing after him.
He was already deep in the forest when he no longer heard the sound of that thing chasing him, he then appeared in a clearing in the forest, the full moon shone making it all bright, chasing the darkness away from the clearing. Alex sat on a stump nearby thinking it was all over, “that thing must’ve given up on chasing me, I’m going to survive, that stupid monster couldn’t get him" get thought to himself. He chuckled to himself. He then stood up and started walking out of the clearing when his eyes widened. Slowly looking down to his stomach, as he looked down, he shut his eyes. It was the monster’s claws, piercing through his body, he was in too much pain to scream. “We'll…be together soon…mom and dad” was all he managed to say before the monster took its claws out and lifted Alex into the air, ripping him in half. The blood spewed everywhere and the monster screamed with satisfaction, it had gotten what it wanted all along.
“Huh?! What…? Where…?” Alex jolted awake from his sleep. Phew. He lifted his blankets to check where the monster had pierced him with its claws. Fortunately it was all good, it was just a nightmare. He got up and sat on his bed, reaching for his phone on the nightstand, it was six o’clock in the morning on Halloween day. “That has got to be one of the worst ways to start Halloween” Alex murmured to himself. With that he got up, headed straight for the shower, he didn’t realize how much he’d been sweating, turning on the water he stepped in and let the cold water run down his body. He put his hands against the wall, facing down just letting the water run down his back, after a good shower he got out.
Gazing at where Rocky was still laying down, his mind took him back to his dream, as if sensing his tension, Rocky lifted his head and barked, making him snap out of his thoughts. “You know what Rocky? It’s a beautiful day out, let’s take you over to the dog park” said Alex to Rocky. At the mention of dog park, Rocky jumped with exhilaration and wagged his tail excitedly and with that he got dressed and left his small apartment with Rocky.
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A Nightmare before Halloween
TerrorTrapped in a dilapidated mansion by a monster with a thirst for blood , a 17 year old boy makes various attempts to escape the crumbling building. Will he prevail in his escape or will he die trying?
