Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-28299494-20160609140627

What happened during that Night at camp? This is a question that I am often asked, it’s sort of a big deal. So you’re going to be the second person that I tell. It was just a normal night at scout camp at 12:00 am. My friends and I were playing soccer, when our leader told us we needed to come back to our site for lights out, basically a scout term for it’s time to go to sleep. We followed him along the trail, but we heard something. “What was that, Jason,” puzzled Spencer “I don’t know, should we check it out?” asked Jason. “No we need to listen to our leader and head back, we could get lost,” I objected. “Come on John, what’s the matter. To chicken,” Spencer teased. The thing with Jason and Spencer is they’ve always been mischievous people. They’ve almost gotten themselves killed in many instances just to impress.”Fine,” I said,” we’ll go look for a little bit but then we need to head back.” So we went into the forest, I thankfully had a flashlight to light the way as it’s basically pitch black out here at this time.

We walked for about 12 minutes when we heard it again but louder and it sounded like a voice.”Guys we should really head back now, it’s getting pretty creepy out here,” I said hastily. No way man we’re just getting to the good part,” Jason defied. So we walked a little longer when he caught a glimpse of a strange creature, but at the same moment my flashlight died. Slightly annoyed I put in fresh batteries and turned it back on, it was gone. I was starting to get a little nervous now. “Did that creature see us, and if it did was it hostile,” I thought to myself. Jason, did you see that thing,” asked Spencer. “Yeah Spencer, but what was it.” Jason puzzled. I just stayed silent, whatever it was, I don’t want to find it again. “Uh, John are you okay you look pale,” Asked Jason. “No, I’m fine just the light of the flashlight that’s all,” I lied. So we looked around and started to head back as we were all tired now, when we saw it again. It looked extremely pale and very thin. With abnormally long hands and feet. Now all 3 of us were a little scared. So we decided to go the other direction, and it worked for a little bit. We had walked at least 2 miles in this forest and we knew our way around. Then the creature appeared yet again, this time smiling at us and getting closer and closer.

We were frozen, we couldn’t move. Jason was panicking.”What is that thing John,” Jason yelled.” I don’t know Jason, we need to go NOW,” I panicked. Spencer was gone, so we ran and we saw him.”Stay with us you’ll be safe,” I yelled. He turned and came back with us. We stopped and rested, we didn’t see the creature yet. It was about 5 minutes when we realized… it was behind us.”SPENCER, RUN,” Jason and I yelled. He ran with us following him, Spencer was the fastest out of all of us. We ran for at least 20 minutes with a few rests.”There it is, I see light that must be camp!” I rejoiced, but then my flashlight died.”Oh crap,” I said. I didn’t have anymore batteries. I looked back, I knew Spencer would have some.”JOHN HELP ME,” Spencer screamed. Spencer was being pulled, then I heard a horrible cracking sound, very reluctantly I turned around. The thing was feasting on Spencer’s corpse. I vomited, Jason was still running and stopped. I soon followed, and Jason said his final words to me,”Listen, the voice we heard said one thing and I understood it, I am what you see in the night, I am the bane of your sins, I am The Rake. After Jason said that he was pulled and burned alive by this Rake. I ran still and made it and my leader was worried sick. I told him the whole story, he didn’t believe me and he told Spencer and Jason to come out of where they were hiding, but they never did because The Rake killed them. 