Halloween mcyt short stories

◕ Shadows Of The Past~Pt.2 ◕

Something I love about this book is how different the views are on each chapter. One chapter can have 30 views and it'll be the start of the story then the next chapter has 5 views then the next after that has 15. Gotta love Wattpad.
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The two stepped away from the door and began to head down the hallway again. They didn't pass any doors when walking before, but there had to be at least one door in the entire hallway.

Zak and Nick looked around the dark hall, their phone flashlights illuminating the darkness. Something moved on the wall where Zak was looking, it seemed to be human so Zak thought it was just his own shadow.

The humanoid silhouette followed the two people, hiding in the darkness of where the flashlights didn't shine. The shadow peaked out of the darkness for a minute and stared at the people in the halls.

Nick's eyes wandered and saw the shadow's head peaking out of the darkness. Nick thought it was Zak's shadow at first then realized that 'Zak's shadow' didn't look much like him, and that also he himself didn't have his own shadow.
"Zak look..." Nick whispered to his friend and pointed to the shadow. Zak faced the shadow and saw it's head peak out of the darkness. Zak moved his flashlight to expose the rest of the shadow and gasped.

The shadow seemed to have demon horns and a devil tail, it tried to back away from the light but Zak kept his flashlight focused on it.

Eventually after trying to dart out of their vision it gave up and faced them. It's devil tail flicked in frustration, Zak and Nick only stared at the shadow.
"Is that what locked us in you think?" Zak asked Nick, confused at what the shadow was.
"I'm not sure. Maybe we're just imagining it." Nick answered back.

You could see where the shadows eyes and mouth were. The light passed right through where eyes and a mouth were supposed to be, making it looked sort of creepy. The shadow's eyes seemed to scrunch up in anger, it raised it's hand and closed it's eyes.

Strange noises began to come from the end of the hall where the locked door was, Zak and Nick glanced towards the noise. Suddenly, a thin trail of what looked to be a tendril of pure darkness, snaked it's way down the hall. The shadow opened it's eyes and looked at the tendril, it smiled and tilted it's head to the side curious of their reactions.

The black tendril touched Zak's ankle for a moment and he tensed, it then curled around his ankle and tried to drag him away. It took Zak a moment to figure out what was happening, but then his senses came to him. With his other foot he stomped on the tendril, making it uncoil from his leg and go for Nick's ankle.

Nick looked at the tendril now coming for him and backed away, making the last flashlight on the shadow face the floor. The shadow grinned from the wall as the light was taken away from where it was standing. As the shadow disappeared from the light, more dark tendrils appeared from the hallway.

Zak and Nick began to run down the hall, finally coming across a door. The two ran in the door, which was thankfully unlocked. They were met with a closet and the shadow had followed them inside without them knowing. The two shined their phone lights around the small room and were met with the shadow.
"What did you do?!" Zak asked the shadow, the shadow just smiled at them then ran out of their view. Zak groaned and Nick stared at where the shadow just was, still amazed at what was happening.

After their few moments of safety the tendrils curled their way under the door. Nick and Zak panicked and rushed to get out of the closet. They slammed the door behind them and ran further down the hallway, going deeper into the darkness.

Nick started thinking about what just happened.
Only until after the shadow left was when a lot of black thingys came... and after the shadow left from the closet, they came again... Nick started thinking while mindlessly walking down the hallway. As Nick didn't pay attention to his surroundings, Zak stopped him with his arm and looked at what he was pointing at.

In front of the two, were stairs, and they seemed to go about one floor up. The balcony was also one floor up... Nick gasped and bolted up the stairs closely followed by Zak.

There was another hallway and it seemed to be almost darker than the one below them. Nick held up his flashlight high and got a glimpse of the time. 1:40am his phone read, Nick stared at it then turned to Zak.
"We've been here for two hours Zak!" Nick said worriedly, then showed Zak the phone. Zak glanced at his own phone once Nick used his as a flashlight again, Zak stared at the bright screen in awe of the time.

Zak was confused at how they had spent over two hours in a dark house, it only felt like 15 minutes had passed. The two held up their flashlights again and began to walk down the hall, hoping they could find the balcony.

After a few more minutes of walking the shadow caught up to them again. Nick looked at the shadow with anger and Zak shined the light on it. Zak noticed something he hadn't before, the shadow was wearing a oversized hoodie, with the big hood up over its head.

Zak choked back tears, the outline of the hoodie reminded him of Darryl and Darryl's favorite hoodie. Zak took a deep breath and focused on the shadow, it's tail twitched and flicked close to the floor, looking almost bored.

Again, the shadows left the light's view and the dark things came again. This time though, they weren't tendrils, they were spindly black hands. The hands had sharp claws and boney, black fingers that looked like they were from a horror movie.

These moved fast and one suddenly grabbed Zak's arm. Zak tried to pry his arm away from the hand but couldn't. It's claws started to rip into Zak's hoodie and both Zak and Nick tried to pull away the claw.

It's dark, black, thin claws started to cut into Zak's skin, he yelped in surprise and felt a sudden rush of adrenaline. Getting the sudden strength to pull away he yanked the now bloody claw away from him. Zak grabbed Nick's arm and ran further down the hall to temporary safety.

Their breathing was heavy and the adrenaline rush Zak had felt faded. Zak looked at the bloody rip in his arm and cringed. Sticky blood oozed out of the wound and his hoodie was ripped to shreds at the forearm. Zak tried to touch it but let out a small yelp of pain when he did.
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