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1.) The truth and the lies hidden inside
Everything was still. Nothing moved. Not even Phil. Phil was only sixteen, going on seventeen in three months, so why was this happening to him? It's not like he did anything wrong! So why him? Why not the person this guy's after? But Phil had no time to ask 질문 또는 get 답변 from the guy, so he looked around once more, and kept on running. The air was chilly, not too cold 또는 too warm, but just enough to need a 재킷, 자 켓 if your out here 더 많이 than an hour. But good luck didn't attend Phil, he was in a short sleeved shirt. He was alone. He was being chased. Tracked down...traced! Phil was running along side the road at midnight, of course his road had to be deserted at this exact moment cause luck didn't attend him.
Phil could hear some heavy breathing, which wasn't his. Phil's was 더 많이 of a grunt, trying not to fall and get killed 더 많이 quickly like 당신 see in the movies. And that's exactly what happened. Phil 스톨, 훔친 a glance over his shoulder, ran into a rock, and stumbeled forward, obviously rolling his ankle. He grabbed at it, gasping in pain when the dark figure came over him.
"What do 당신 want?" He asked. No answer. But then the figure grapped Phil 의해 the color of his shirt, and pulled him off his feet, suspended in the air. "Please, don't hurt me!"
"I don't want to hurt you." The man said in a deep gruffy voice that reminded Phil of his brother Tom. "I just want...a taste inside." The man that swiped his finger down Phil's shirt, and it tore, dropping Phil to the ground with a thud. Phil was crawling back, getting goose-bumps from the cold.
"Come here!" The man ordered but Phil knew better as he tried for his feet and balance.
"No way!" He shreiked.
"Go ahead, run, I 사랑 hide and seek!" The man said, not breathing heavy anymore. "Either way I'll catch you!"
Phil looked around and saw nothing but blacktop, grass, and the woods at his side. No way of escaping, no way to get help, nothing to help him last anylonger. But as Phil started to back up, something made him stop. He turned and saw another dark figure.
"HELP!" Phil screamed, realizing there was no help now. "HE-"
The 초 figure covered his mouth with it's hand, and brought him back to the first figure.
"Here 당신 go, Master," the 초 figure said. "He's all yours."
"Honestly, I'd say I'll kill 당신 but that line's alerady been taken." A voice said making the Master turn around.
"Who are you?" The 초 figure asked.
"An interuption, this'll be quick," The Master promised.
"Your'e right, this will be quick." Phil then notices its a guy.
"Let's begin shall we?" the Master asked, pushing Phil and the 초 figure away from the guy and himself.
"We shall," The guy said and the Master threw the first punch. But the guy dodged it just in time to pull something sharp from his pocket and shove it right into the Master's knee making him yelp out in pain! The Master kicked the guy to the side, and pulled it out of his knee, blood dripping from the weapon. The guy got to his feet and punched the Master in the face, making him stagger back a bit. The guy then did a jump kick to the Master's chest, making him fall to the ground. The guy turned to look at the 초 figure.
"Who are you?" The 초 figure asked.
"I am the one who will kill 당신 if 당신 don't leave!" The guy said and the 초 figure just stood there.
"Whats your name?"
"Rick," Rick said and a smile crept upon the 초 figure's face and then he was gone. Phil slumped to the side of the tree, heavily breathing. The Master got up, and ran away too, scared of what just happened and what might happens 다음 if he didn't leave. "You okay?"
"Yeah, just fine!" Phil answered and they started walking back down the road.
"I'll take 당신 home,"
"No, my parents are dead. They were killed by...them," Phil said, stiffeling a cry.
"I'm sorry," Rick said.
"It's okay, just take me somewhere."
"Alright," Rick knew the first place to take him, his place.
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"So," Rick said, shutting the door behind Phil. "Tell me what happened."
"It was like anyother normal day: I went to school, I came home, did the homework assigned to me, and just started watching TV before dinner. Parents are gone on a business trip. I was alone, then there was a knock at my door...I answered and no one was there. When I turned around, thinking it was my imagination, there he was. Right in front of me."
"Don't know how he got in?" Rick asked.
"Nope...he was just there." Phil answered.
Phil and Rick walked through the living room and into the hall, passing five rooms as they went, three on the right of the hall, two on the left. They reached the end of the hall, and Rick poked the 벽 five times as if a bug the size of a gnat was there. But as Rick turned to face Phil, the 벽 behind Rick moved to the side and revealed a torch-lit basement with stone stairs leading downward in a spiral sense.
"So then what happened?" Rick asked.
"I ran, what else was there to do? I mean yeah I freaked out a bit, but still--a guy in your house for now reason that wants to kill you? It was smarter than to stay..." Phil said in a bit DUH tone.
Rick subsided the attitude he was drawing onto Phil. "Okay, then what happened?"
"Nothing...I just kept running and he followed. Then I ran into his friend, and they were gonna kill me. That's when 당신 showed."
"Okay...I need to tell 당신 some things 당신 were convinced were fake. Follow me." Rick beckoned Phil down the staircase, and Phil followed.
When they reached the end of the stairs, there was a wooden door with a huge lock under a symbol. The symbol was really weird, but vagually familiar to Phil. The symbol was made up of three parts, the obvious top, center, and bottom. But it was like it was freshly drawn cause there was some drippy parts like the sides of candles. The material was a red that flickered in the torch light. It was thin, and all were connected, but at first glance seemed like three different symbols. The symbol was three crooked lines (like an M on its side to make it look like an E but wasn't that straight) ontop of a circle. Inside the 원, 동그라미 was a dot that reminded Phil of the TARGET signature sign. On the left and right of the signs were two arrows. They pointed at eachother as if two arrows going for the dot in the middle like a target. But it was actually one arrow. The arrows intertwined as both of them circled the inner 원, 동그라미 three times. Then at the bottom of the sumbol was one final mark: a seven with a curly line through it (imagine a regular seven--7-- but in the center of the line coming diagnoally down to the left, a line was through it. Now imagine the left tip was being curled into an egg-shaped circle).
Phil wanted to ask what the strange, and vagually, symbol meant but held his breath as Rick placed his finger on the dot and pushed in. The dot glowed, and the streams of light seaping through the cracks of the wooden door sunk into the rest of the weird symbol, making it turn from a bloody-red to a bluey-green. Then the light disappeared, along with the symbol, and the lock on the wooden door unlocked. Rick removed the lock and pushed the wooden door open.
"Now, what 당신 are about to hear and find out might make 당신 think I'm crazy, so," As Phil and Rick entered the room, the door behind them closed and they heard the lock lock so they couldn't leave unless Rick unlocked the lock. "I don't want 당신 to leave till 당신 beleive me."
Phil laughed softly, as if expecting to do as told, but just as Rick led him to a metal 표, 테이블 with metal chairs, Phil then realized that Rick might be telling the truth...or at least Rick thought he was.
"Alright, then, tell me what's crazy." Phil sat down, and for the first time, Rick noticed that Phil was shirtless.
"First, let me get 당신 a shirt." Rick then turned and entered another room that blended in with the wall, and came back out with a black 셔츠 and a black 재킷, 자 켓 just incase he was cold.
"Thanks," Phil said, slipping the 셔츠 on, and the 재킷, 자 켓 as well.
"Alright...what do 당신 remember from your childhood?" Rick asked.
"Like...school and stuff?"
"No...like movies, stories, legends, tales, jokes, everything under the HORROR title. Tell me what 당신 know." Rick clarified and Phil looked down at the metal 표, 테이블 that was 더 많이 silver than brass as if the 표, 테이블 was used often...or washed.
Phil had to think for a moment, recalling back to when he was around three to seven. He had to remember what the BOOGEYMAN and the MONSTERS UNDER THE 침대 stuff were actually about to make him have the wiggins/nightmares. Phil then recalled a legend from his sister and began.
"Alright," Phil zipped up the 재킷, 자 켓 and thrusted his hands into the 재킷, 자 켓 pockets. "My sister, Ashely--who is now at Harvard--told me legends of 뱀파이어 and stuff. On 할로윈 night, she'd tell me different stories--five a night--some were enough to curl your toes...some were chessy cause they were passed around and mashed up so many times. But the one that always made me believe in 뱀파이어 and werewolves...was the story of The Immortal Night."
"Go on," Rick said, leaning back in his chair, feet propped up carelessly on the metal table. He was listening, hanging onto every word, deciphering and devouring every word and moment Phil spoke of.
"Alright...The Immortal Night was when every October 31st, apparantly 뱀파이어 and 늑대인간 walked the earth. Cause, unless night, 할로윈 was really the only night they could come out of hiding without anyone knowing anything of it. The only night anyone would suspect anything. Ashley said that 뱀파이어 wold stalk the graves, gathering there friends, and walk the streets. Hunting people for the feed. Then they'd lure them to a 안전한, 안전 spot and take there blood. The screams filled the air all the time, and everyone just laughed thinking that everyone was having a scary good time! And the 늑대인간 would come up from the sewers and the tunnels, and go find people to eat 또는 turn. Then, when the clock strikes midnight, the 뱀파이어 and 늑대인간 would meet up and start killing everyone in sight. Cause, legend says, that when 뱀파이어 and 늑대인간 are full, and they meet up and hatch a plan, they create this...energetic power for them to just touch one person, and it would magnify onto everyone in sight, sucking and 또는 eating them dry till the earth was populatedless. Then they'd rule the earth, mating and creating 더 많이 뱀파이어 and werewolves, 또는 other demons, until everything was demon ruled. But I mean, its just a story..."
"Is it?" Rick asked, for the first time in a while speaking.
"Yeah?"
"No." Rick said calmly. "The story might be...but the vampires, werewolves, demons, 당신 name it...they are real."
Phil stared at the 표, 테이블 for three minutes, trying to hold in a laugh. But then he couldn't help it and started a laughing fit.
"I don't mind 당신 laughing...but I don't see how this is funny." Rick said with no tend to yell 또는 get angry at Phil for his beleifs.
"Alright, can I go. I think the 뱀파이어 are in for the night." Phil mocked in a serious way--he wanted to leave but added a joke.
"No. They aren't away...yet." Rick answered, still leaning back.
"Alright, seriuosly I need to get home." Phil said but Rick shook his head.
"Nope...your staying here for the night. I need to figure out what's going on." Rick got to his feet, and walked to the door.
"I'll call the cops!" Phil threatened.
"Yep, I expected that..." Rick slowly turned, eyed Phil and then tackeled him to the ground as Phil slipped out his phone from his jeans pocket.
"LET ME GO!" Phil yelled, reaching for his phone that slid three feet away.
"No, not until 당신 promise me that 당신 aren't gonna call the cops!" Rick said, and Phil just laid there, struggeling to get Rick off of him. But failed quickly.
Phil stopped and sighed, his arms were pinned to his sides on the cold stone floor, and his legs were being sat upon 의해 Rick. Rick held his arm across Phil's chest as if securing Phil down like Phil was a strong, Hulk-ish guy. Rick just sat there, waiting for Phil's answer. And after what seemed like hours, Phil finally answered.
"Fine...I won't call the cops though I do want my phone back-"
"After we finish talking...and do 당신 promise to stay the night here in my guest room just in case they go looking for 당신 again?" Rick asked, easing the pressure on Phil.
"Yes." Rick then got up, and helped Phil up. Phil rubbed his arms and chest, stretching his legs while Rick swiped up his phone.
"Now...let's get into detail," Rick said, sitting back down, as did Phil.
"Alright," Phil agreed, putting his hands back into the 재킷, 자 켓 pockets.
As Rick filled Phil in on everything since the dawn of day, Phil didn't interupt 또는 ask...he listened like a good listener should. But while Rick and Phil were talking, somethings always came back up in the conversations: blood, death, and horror. But then again, this was the type of conversation that involved blood, death and horror. When Rick was done, Phil just kept thinking about everything Rick had explained.
"Well," Rick said, putting his feet back on the 표, 테이블 and leaning back again.
"I know this sounds crazy but...I beleive you!" Phil confessed and Rick looked confused.
"So wait," Rick said with a chuckle. "You wanted to leave half an 시간 ago, swearing I was nuts, but now 당신 beleive me!? Priceless!" Rick said.
"NO! It's only cause some of the stories that I was told came up as legends in your explanations...and I beleive 당신 so I beleive 당신 on that demons and stuff is real."
"Well, okay then, if I let 당신 out of here and up to the guest room, plus giving your phone back, do 당신 promise to stay here and not call the cops?" Rick asked just to be sure, rising to his feet and stretching.
"Yes..." Phil said, rising to his feet, hands deep in his pockets still.
Rick nodded, beckoned Phil again after giving Phil his phone back, and they walked up the spiral staircase and up to the hall way where the door slammed shut behind them and looked like the dead end of a hall way once more.
"Alright," Rick took two strides and threw open a door. "This is your room where you'll be staying. There's clothes of everything, shirts, underwear, pants, jackets 당신 name it all inside. All sizes of course. Take what 당신 want, and wear what 당신 want...I'll make some food...you look hungry."
Phil nodded, and shrugged out of his 재킷, 자 켓 feeling warmer now. Rick walked off, leaving Phil to check out his room in privacy. Rick heard the door shut as he entered the kitchen, and Rick pulled open the fridge.
Phil realized that what the truth is...is that demons are real...and the lies that he was told everysince he was little about them being fictional...were just to not scare him and settle him down with no nightmares. The truth and the lies hidden inside his life...were rising to the surface...and there was no way to escape the truth...or at least any longer.