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Luci took a deep breath, staring at the number of inbox notifications on the right side of her screen. A bright red number five appeared over the envelope icon. 'Five people think I'm crazy already.' The thought was less than encouraging to continue the blog. It had been a week since the first entry and though she was sure no one believed her, she felt the need to get it out.

Even her best friend ,Edward, didn't believe her. He explained it might be her mind playing tricks on her, because the box looked ancient and something out of Hellraiser. Luci explained the numerous differences, however, Edward had heard enough. In final words, he retorted simply that he had not experienced anything despite finding the box with her and holding it himself. He was a scientific type of guy. If science didn't explain it, then it simply didn't exist. Normally, this wasn't something that bothered Luci, but now it was frustrating.

Luci's finger tapped hard again the mouse, clicking on 'New Post'. The thought of Edward's reaction infuriated her, but also, fueled her to make another entry. She needed to keep documenting things. That's what he always did in his scientific notebook. With each stroke, there was a loud tapping of the keys being hit.

'May 15th / Week 2:

It's been two weeks since my friend and I found the odd box. For those of you who missed my last blog, I will backtrack a little. The box fits in the palm of my hand. It has strange squiggly lines, rectangles, and writing I can't identify. It looks similar to stuff from Lord of the Rings, but not as fancy.

A week went by and I had put it out of my mind until I started to see stuff out of the corner of my eye. At first, I didn't think anything, but now I know I must have been seeing something.

This week, I have seen it a little better, but its not the same every time I see it. I'm not sure what it is or what they are. Sometimes I see something that looks like a huge dog with long green fur. It never looks at me and takes off running as soon as I get a good glimpse of it, but I think I have heard it howl twice. Other times though, I see something that looks human but the eyes are too big and it looks just too damn tall with weird clothes. Worst of all, he (or it) stopped disappearing when I take a double take at him. They just stand there. Not always looking at me, but just...there! It's like they are waiting for something!

Of course, I have tried to tell my friend about this, but he doesn't believe me or see anything. If we did found the box together and at the same time, why am I the only one seeing stuff? I'm really starting to worry now, because the creatures aren't even trying to disappear. I think they might be actually getting closer.

On another note, there is the new guy that started hanging around my friend. He looks pretty cool but he has kinda been avoiding me, like he doesn't really like me. I don't see why. I haven't don't anything to him and hardly even spoken to him. He has been hanging around my friend though, and it's pissing me off. My friend ditched me at lunch saying he was going to hang out with Xion, since he doesn't have many friends yet. He left before I could ask him why he couldn't just sit with us. It's not really like my friend to just skip out on me like that. I mean, ya we have jobs and college, but we have been friends since early high school and hang out a lot.'

Luci's fingers hovered over the keys. It pained her that within two weeks she had grown so far apart from Edward. She had worried about it after graduation, but they had always stayed in touch and together.

A small lump started to form in her throat, making her turn her attention back to the blog. She knew she was rambling off topic, but it felt important. Blogs can be kinda like journals after all, she reminded herself. After a brief moment of closing her eyes and a sigh, she began to type the rest of the post. The clicking of the keyboard was softer this time.

'I'm not sure what I'm going to do about my friend, but I'm going to try to take pics of the creatures and talk to Xion.'

Without another thought on the matter, she clicked publish and opened the top drawer of her desk. She had expected to see the ancient box, however, it wasn't there. Pulling it out further, she started taking everything out. After piling all her notes and pens on the desk she stared at the empty bottom. 'I probably put it in the second drawer or something' she rationalized. It wasn't unlike her to forget where she had moved things.

She scanned the top of the desk, as her fingers pulled on the handle to the second drawer. Nothing was on top of the desk other than her laptop, drink, sticky-notes, and ashtray. In the second drawer there was nothing but a few notebooks and scraps of paper. Exasperated from the recent memories of Edward and this new guy, Xion, she decided she would just go to bed. The box wasn't really important, she just wanted to look at it again and examine it.

After work each day of that weekend, Luci took pictures of things that she thought she saw or where they had been standing. However, each time she tried to take a picture of anything, her phone would act up or the picture would come out blurry. The only decent picture she got, was of the man. He stood tall, too tall even for a grown man. She had sent the picture to Edward, but never got a reply.

Despite not being very skilled in Photoshop, Luci tried to clear the image up. The few things she did know only made the image more distorted. It didn't take long before she gave up and checked her blog.

There were three notifications. She read the comments quickly, ignoring the two that told her she had lost her mind. The last one though caught her attention.

'You have the gift. Keep your eyes open and don't let them draw you in. Beware of the Farvann.'

It didn't really make sense to her. She tried replying back, but the person had deleted their account within the past hour. “Draw me in?” She said slowly, analyzing the words in her mind. Who would draw her in? What was she supposed to watch out for? What the hell was a Farvann? Her mind produced at least twenty other thoughts, but they were pushed to the back of her mind for now. It was late and she had an early morning. Before going to bed, she left herself a sticky-note to look up a Farvann.

On Monday Luci showed Edward the picture, since he hadn't replied to the text she had sent. The details of the man were blurry, but she described them to him. “He had long greasy hair that looked like it had dirt in it. His clothes, can you tell? They are like old-timey shit! Do you see it?” She pushed her phone closer to his face, forcing him to look at it.

“Luci, I see a tall guy in the picture. That's it. Xion was telling me some nerds LARP around here near the woods. He is probably someone just trying to freak others out or waiting for his buddies.” Edward explained vexed at her insistence.

“You're fucking kidding me, right? Look at the eyes Edward! What about them?” How could he not believe her? Worse, how could he just except Xion's word? Then again, how did Xion even know about the text and image? “Did you show him?” Her voice cracked slightly. Her green eyes quivered as she gazed at him. How could he?

Edward's brow furrowed. “Yea, I didn't think it was a big deal. I told him we found this box in the woods and you had been acting weird and shit, seeing shit.”

Before she had time to scream or think, Luci took off. Her mind was pounding with chilling thoughts. What if Xion was part of all this? What if he knew the guy in the woods? Her heart raced at all the possibilities.

On the way home, she ignored the feeling of being watched. Her skin crawled with each shadow that appeared in the corner of her eye. Her apartment was only a few blocks away from the school, but it felt as if it was taking hours to get there.

As she walked, there was one creature that she could not ignore. A very large green dog gave an ear piercing howl of a dying animal from the alley to her right. Instincts took over and Luci immediately took a few steps back. Her mind became numb and only the sound of her heart could be heard. She gazed at its long bared fangs and green eyes as it slowly stalked towards her. Slowly she inched further and further away from it, hoping it wouldn't rush her. With her eyes never moving from the large dog, Luci noticed that it was no longer moving. She took a second to glance around for help. She realized she was in the middle of the road and tires were screeching, desperate to stop.

Blood began to pool around the small wooden box.

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Authors Notes: First off I would like to thank you for reading this. Second, I would like to apologize. I have been out of writing for some time now and this is my first 'horror' genre peice. I didn't want to make it too long, but then again, I didn't want it too short. I felt that it might be best to let the reader imagine the story with what I gave.

Now, I personally feel I left out too much description, but I thought I would try something new. I would love some feedback on the description (or non-description), as well as if this idea is worth expanding on. Honestly, with it being my first try at horror, I wanted to make sure that the base idea was good enough for the genre.

PS- this made my 5th time trying to post this damn story (I'm new here...). Sorry if the formatting is a little off.  