Shadow UNO

The Void

It was a saturday night and the boys were up late in the night playing UNO. But in the middle of their 68th game, they all fell asleep on the floor.

Suddenly, Cole opened his eyes. He saw Jerry, his closest friend, asleep on his lap. He tried to say something to wake him up. But he couldn't say anything because his mouth couldn't move. He couldn't move his leg either. Or his arms. His whole body was asleep while his eyes were awake.

Amid the silence, his heartbe at sounded like bombs. Cole felt his heart pounding in his chest, like someone pounding on the door for a way out because there's a murderer in the room.

He screamed. But there's no sound. His mouth didn't even move. He screamed more. But the only audible thing was his heart. Which grew louder as he saw a shadowy figure peaking from the closet, staring at him. He was just standing there, menacingly.

Cole closed his eyes and repeatedly chanted, "It's not real. It's not real. It's not real. It's just sleep paralysis. It's not real." 

He opened his eyes and the thing wasn't in the closet. It was behind his other friend now, Yoshi the Asian nerd. 

The shadowy figure was tall and lanky, and its fingers were spider-like. It was like the real life version of a stick-figure with creepy hands. And it was the darkest thing he had ever saw, darker than vantablack. But also had a black glow, not grey, but black, as if black was a color of light.

It created a horrendous sound. It sounded like his screams from earlier but corrupted into frequencies he never heard.

It snaps it's black-window-spider fingers and he felt like he's being stretched. He closed his eyes in horror. When he opened them, he saw 4 bodies underneath him on the floor. He realize they were his body and his friends. 

"Cole, what's happening?" He heard Wyatt's voice. He looked up and saw his friends again, but they were floating and looked like holograms projected by shadows.

"Wya- Wyatt?" Cole uttered in confusion. "Wha- What's happening?"

"I don't know, I asked you!"

Yoshi pushed his glasses up his nosebridge. "We've been sent to the Void," Yoshi whispered. "The space between electrons and nuclei. The space between atoms. The space between matter. Where only energy exists. In other words, we are no longer in the physical world... We've been sent to..." he paused, "the Void."

Wyatt, Jerry, and Cole all stared at him like he was high. 

"Did you all have sleep paralysis? And saw a demon?" Yoshi asked.

They all nodded.

"We didn't finish the game," Yoshi said and pointed at the unfinished game of UNO under them. "We have summoned the UNO demon."

"The what?" Wyatt, Jerry, and Cole all said in unison. 

"The-"

A sound noise rumbled their ears. It sounded like an earthquake that had been corrupted and bass-boosted. The floor cracked and spider-like fingers crawled out. Then a black stick arm. Then the demon itself.

"You dare sleep on UNO!" it growled corruptly. "I must now impose a game of UNO upon you. If you win, you will return to the physical world. If lose, you are sent to the shadow realm."

The demon wiped the space between him and the boys with its long fingers and 6 piles of UNO cards appeared under it's shadow, 4 for each of the boys, 1 for the demon, and 1 large pile in the middle.

Yoshi picks up his cards while the others look at each other. "Come on guys, it's time to d-d-duel!"