Don't Fear the Reaper

It was a cold October morning when my family just moved into the neighborhood. We finished unpacking the boxes and just wanted to relax and watch some television. Although since we moved into a new neighborhood, my mom told me I had to go meet our neighbors and make new friends. I denied but she threatened to ground me for the weekend if I don't do what she says, I know, great parenting.

So after walking about three blocks, I see someone around my age playing outside on his bike outside of what I'm guessing is his house. I decided to go up and introduce myself to him, "Hey, I'm David. I'm new to the neighborhood."

"Nice to meet you," said the kid with a pleasant tone, "Name's Jackson. Where did you move at?"

"Just a couple blocks down the street."

"Heh, that's a creepy-ass part of the neighborhood. Too much forest. Makes it seem like someone could come out of no where and scare the living piss out of you. Anyways grab a bike and we can bike downtown and grab a bite to eat."

Jackson was sure as hell right about it being creepy. When I walked down that part of the neighborhood, it felt as if I was being watched by something. But I immediately brushed that off and grabbed one of Jackson's bikes and biked downtown to the nearest fast food restaurant with Jackson and then biked back to his house and played video games with him until it was 10 o'clock at night where my mom called, telling me to get home, ASAP.

We said our goodbyes and I walked home alone. Those three blocks felt like three miles. The foliage made it so the road ahead of me was pitch black, making the environment around me an eerie feel. After about walking a whole block, I notice something... odd in the foliage. I swear to god I saw a pear of eyes looking straight at me in the distance. I close my eyes and rub them with my hands to check I'm not seeing things. Right as I open my eyes, they're gone.

The next morning was when I had to start school. I did the usual things you do in the morning before school, get ready, eat breakfact, and pack my backpack. When I went outside, it was still very dark out with that eerie environment like last night. Made sense though since I had to get to my bus stop at 6:30. Seemed a bit early but I didn't really mind. As I'm walking down the dark road, i see a tall figure, at least seven feet tall and walking creepily across the road with it's head slanted downward and what it looked like, curved horns protruding from it's forehead. I'm frozen in fear of what the hell it could be.

After about a couple seconds of it slowly walking, it stops and raises it's head and turned towards me. It was standing a good 50 yards from me and all I could see was it's eyes... white as snow. I immediately faces the other way ran faster than I had ever ran before. I ran on a different and much longer route to my bus stop. I checked my watch and I was 5 minutes late to my bus stop. By the time I got there, the bus was just about to take off. Thankfully, the bus driver was kind enough stop the bus so I can get on.

During the whole day at school, I couldn't stop thinking about... whatever that was on the road by my house. I couldn't even start a conversation without wandering off, thinking about it. But besides that, nothing too unusual happened at school nor when school ended and when I hung out at Jackson's house the following day. But the worst was when I had to walk home from his house. It was about 8 o'clock and as dark as last night. Except that the whole was home, I didn't see anything too strange besides the creepy factor of the woods blanketing over the neighborhood.

As I get home, I immediately go to bed so I don't feel so tired tomorrow. But around3 o'clock I am awaken by a creaking sound in my room, as I get up, I notice the tall figure at the end of my bed. But this time, I could see his features; It was wearing a black, ripped up trench coat with tattered up pants and shirt, also black. It's face was black and leathery with horns that could relate to the horns of a goat. It's eyes were terrifying, they were pale white with no pigmentation and not even a pupil in sight. It's mouth was big with teeth that could make the teeth of a crocodile look like baby teeth. It had a massive tongue that would lick his upper teeth as if it had lust for something.

I was in immediate shock and studdered but asked it, "wh... who... who are you?" It gave me a devilish smile and poke to me in demonic tone, "Hush child, no need to be scared. There is no need to... fear the reaper. I am merely just stopping by to warn you that you should never travel the roads alone at night, or you might not live to see the sunlight again. Not if I can sense fear inside you."

It walks closer to me as I crawl into the corner, frightened. He then stops about a foot infront of me and rests his hands on my forehead. I blanked out afterwards. All I remember is that I woke up in my bed with blood on my hands and a red hand print on my forehead, nearly bleeding along with a bloody nose.

After about a week, I couldn't even think straight. I avoided walking in the dark up until I hung out at Jackson's during the weekend. As we were messing around and playng video games, the power in the whole neighborhood went out in a matter of a second. We confused on why the power went out. Not a single transformer blew up nor was there a storm near by. The only thing that really concerned me was that we were in the dark.

"Oh god this is bad!" I said in fear, "This is really bad!" Jackson sighed and told me, "Don't worry, it's not the end of the world"

"Well do you have something liek a flashlight that could light up the room?"

"Yeah let me just look for one"

We eventually found a flashlight but with the luck we had, the battery was dead. Thankfully Jackson had a batch of brand new batteries he bought from the store a couple days ago. We put the batteries in but the flashlight still didn't work. "Damn piece of shit!" Jackson said in frustration, "This thing was always a piece oof trash!" I offered to use things like candles and we tried to use them, but all of the lighters in his house wouldn't work. we even checked and they all had fuel in them. We even tried the lights on our phone but they were both dead even though right before the power gave out, our phones both had full battery.

Then out of no where, the flashlight turns on even though the switch was off. My heart sank when I saw what the flashlight wa spointing to. From across the room was that demon that visited me in the night. He opened his mouth and out came was a deafening screech and charged at us. I hit a wall so hard that my vision started to blur and I started to black out.

When I woke, all I saw was the carcass of Jackson with his eyes and limbs missing. I start vomit everywhere and try to make my self get out of the house. When I walked downstairs, I see his parents dead with their eyes and limbs missing. I look closely and what I saw was life scarring. When I took a closer look at his mom... I could still see her... breathing. I inch my way outside and headed home wit my skin paler than a ghost.

I don't know why it didn't kill me but all I know is that never go outside in the dark, always keep a light source with you, and always be prepared if there is a power outage in your neighborhood, be prepared. And lastly, never show fear... never fear the reaper.