Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-33652729-20171114223719

  Soft faded paint chipped away and onto a small boy’s floor as he slipped out of the old worn out bed. His tiny frail figure barely fit into his oversized shirts, The pale uneven wood that lined the floor could be seen through all the boxes and rugs that littered his room. He began to walk through the room, he was so used to not eating that the gnawing pain of hunger was like a distant memory. He kept walking until he got to the pale door, the boy’s soft uncared for ginger hair fell into his eyes as he reached up carefully for the door. He placed his hand on the door and turned the shiny knob, but when he saw his eyes in the reflection, they looked distant. He felt the door skid a bit on the floor, another marking was sure to be there in the morning.

  Henry quietly pushed up his large glasses, even though the tiny crack on the left one was visible to others, he somehow still could see through the dark but crisp night air. He stepped out into the cold air of the  hallway as he heard his father’s shouting at the tv over some numbers, Henry made the smallest whine as he kept walking, careful to avoid the planks that would creak to tell his father he was awake. The small boy slipped out of the hallway and towards the living room, His mother was snoring in her room, she had passed out drunk like normal. He took a few steps the room when he heard her groan, but he remained silent, Henry kept walking as he stepped into the main room. The usually barren table had a plate on it with a few bits of food remaining on it, Henry wanted to go to the table to get the food but didn’t as if he did he worried his mother would hurt him again.

   He slipped out of the house, slowly shutting the door and looked around when he spotted familiar dark brown matted hair. ‘ S-Sara?...’ He called out in his raspy but quiet voice as he walked towards her. The girl nods and shut her apartment door and looked at him ‘ Henry?... Are we still going to Marie’s?..’ she asked softly though her braces and whined a little bit. Henry needed to think for a second, he was about to answer when they heard the soft creak of a door and a small female whimper. Marie’s door had opened and she waddled over to the two other kids, ‘ Wou Came?” She asked in her soft voice. She had lost a few of her teeth over the past week and her new one haven’t come in yet. Henry and Sara looked at the five year old and smiled a bit, even as a small girl, her smile seemed to brighten the two up, even if it wasn’t a full smile. Sara knelt down to Marie and fixed her hair just a little bit ‘ Yes we did lil Marie, Wanna watch that show you were talking about now?’ Sara asked quietly and Marie’s pale grey eyes lit up in a flash. She nodded her head and bounced on her feet a bit. The wood on the ground creaking a bit and Henry quickly hushed her and whined a bit. ‘ Don’t let the wood tell on you Marie.’ He whispered to her and she nodded and stopped her small expression of excitement

Marie’s bare feet walked into her apartment, where her parents would sleep in the day, and then leave at Night. She tiptoed her way around many creaking planks and a small bucket full of water, She nearly tripped over her own feet when it came to the living room. Henry and Sara carefully followed behind the small skeleton of a girl and sat on the rug as she began to change the channels on the Tv. The Tv was set on the lowest setting possible for volume, It was an old large box tv that rested between a dead plant and a small stand that held some pictures of a woman and man and a small dog, along with a few books. The tv turned onto a channel that Henry knew, ‘ Channel 78’ The channels for adults, Sara and Henry looked confused, No kids shows ever played on that channel. No matter what time of day it was, Sara glanced at Henry a bit confused and he glanced at her with the same look of confusion. The two nearly jumped to the ceiling when they heard soft bells and flutes play together as a kids tune began to play. It was something the two had never heard but Marie hummed along quietly to it.

  ‘ Forest, Mountains, Desert, or with the lizards! This show will find you! Imagine a world where all your favorite pals hang! Imagine this magical streeet!’ A Woman sang, the Tv showed a few kids holding crude drawings of little creatures and animals. The background behind them was not a bright color, but faded grey tiles. They each seemed proud of the drawing that they had done in random crayons. Sara thought it could’ve been a kiddish but Marie was little so she kept watching, Henry was confused as the last Kid was holding up a sign that said ‘ Imagine this Street!’ But he was quivering. The Tv faded from the intro to a small town background with a few brightly colored squares and shapes lining the ‘ street ‘ like benches. After a few seconds of some Ukulele playing a blue colored husky with a white muzzle, a white spot on his eyes, and A white stomach walked onto the set. He waved and smiled at the camera ‘ Heya Kiddos!’ He said in a hyper voice and the hand by his side held a Microphone. ‘ Welcome to our special episode of ITS!’ He laughed, for some reason. Henry tilted his head and looked around ‘ Marie?... Where is your clock?’ he asked timidly but got no response as Marie giggled when the Husky made a terrible pun about dogs. Henry cleared his throat and lightly tapped her shoulder, She broke the trance with the Tv and looked at him ‘ Hmm… Oh Yeah… the Wlock is over in the Kitchen!’ She spoke in a annoyed tone as she went back to staring at the Tv. Henry got up wobbling a bit as his legs felt like icicles being forced to hold his weight. He avoid the nails in the planks on the ground and glanced around the room, It had very pale paint that was peeling off to show the many layers of paint that had been painted over. When Henry reached the clock it read ‘ 1:56 am.’ He became fairly confused ‘ What kind of cartoon runs this early?’ he thought to himself as he heard Marie and Sara giggle. He may have been small and young but his mind had developed more than his body from him being malnourished just like his friends.

 

 The show kept playing, The husky had been joined by two other creatures, A timid looking tabby cat who was shaking where he stood and a confident looking bird. A cockatoo to be specific. The characters were singing the theme song together when they stopped and the Cat stared at the screen ‘ Do we have a new friend?’ His tone seemed timid but with a hint of something Henry couldn't understand. The cat’s ears flicked, he sounded like a boy but had a bow right beside his right ear. Henry couldn’t tell if it was clipped on or not because of the camera’s fuzzy quality. Maria and Sara nodded and pointed to Henry, the moonlight coming from the crack nearly shattered window bouncing off their eyes in such a way that it sent shivers up Henry’s spine.

  He looked from his two friends to the Tv to see the cat staring directly at him in a manner just like his father would. His mouth made a frown, his dark grey eyes burned with a hate just like Henry’s father. His ears were behind his head as he stared, his face showed an expression of disgust and hate. One more second of the frame of the cat staring changed into the husky smiling ‘ Well this is a surprise!’ He said in a overly happy tone as his ears perked up. He chuckled softly and came closer to the Camera ‘ Well kids, what’s the magic word to get in?’ He asked and slowly a phrase on the screen became visible. ‘ Vitae.’ Maria blinked for a second and looked at Sara, blinking slowly. Sara was latin so she said the word easily, ‘ Vitae.’ She repeated and the Cockatoo smiled ‘ That’s one!’ the bird squawked, The cockatoo’s name was revealed under the word, Maxine. Maria quickly copied what Sara said and stood up, bouncing on her feet a bit as she waited for something to happen. The cat smiled and nods, his name became revealed under the word, ‘ Sal.’ It floated above his head as he stared only at Maria.

   The husky turned his head to Henry who stood behind the two girls with a worried expression, He didn’t want to be left out so he hesitantly soke. ‘ V-V-Vit..ae…’ He mumbled and the husky clapped his paws as his name appeared ‘ Frisk.’ Henry whined but his eyes grew wide as The husky got close to the Tv before just climbing out, The screen turned like Putty as the large husky stepped out on the old rickied planks. They groaned under the Huskies paws as he stared down at the children in front of him before kneeling down, Microphone in hand ‘ Howdy kids!’ he smiled widely before grabbing Maria in one hand using his tail to throw Sara into the Tv. He picked up Henry and tossed him into the tv like a rag doll and then went into the Tv. The Tv’s already dark screen flickered as it’s lights dimmed out before the glass shattered and the Tv broke in half.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Henry landed on hard but colorful material, He gasped for air as he tried to stand up but he heard Something collapse. The wall behind them had collapsed into a large open forest, A mobile generator was sitting there and had been destroyed. The camera, or where it should’ve been, was now a smoldering pile of dust and ash. Henry saw Maria and Sara standing on the fake colorful road that stopped where the camera couldn’t see. Henry rushed over to the two and hugged them both but, to his shock, no response, not even a flinch from Sara. He pulled away and stared at them, they were staring at shock and Maria rose a shaky point over to some trees.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">  Stepping out of the tree’s was Sal, or what was Sal. His body was contorted and mangled as his skin ripped apart like taffy and leather fused as one. The fur on his body seemed to fall off as he limped towards them, His once shy looking eyes had become large real eyes that were two small for their own head as his body kept changing. Blood dripped from his mouth as his jaw began to splinter and unhinge in a inhumane way. He fell to the ground where he should’ve rested long ago but he was here now. His ears began to rip and muscle pulsed under the fake leathery fur. His chest and body seemed to grow and he began to become so skinny, like a doll made of only bones and fake skin. His fur was now gone to the ground as large claws began to rip out of his once small and soft looking paws. Henry felt like this had to be a nightmare, nothing could have looked this ungodly. The groaning that came from this creatures muzzle sounded like he was growling and gurgling on his own thick blood. He hissed as his eyes rolled into the back of his head and the crimson liquid came pouring from his sockets and down his face. He let out a screech before racing at the children even with the leg that wouldn’t move. His body moved in a way that made even Henry cringe. His bones clicking against his almost leather like skin as he kept running.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Henry looked at his two now shaken friends as he grabbed their hands and started to run. They soon snapped out of the trance of fear and their adrenaline kicked in,` ‘ HIDE! WE HAVE TO HIDE!’ Sara shouted, her tone that was usually soft and calm was now panicked and Henry listened to Sara, he Grabbed Maria’s hand and heard another Ungodly growl come from the mutant, once friendly creature chase them. He jumped into a ditch with Maria as the two panicked when they heard their friend scream. A few minutes of silence fell over the forest, the soft night air stinging to their lungs as Maria and Henry began to cry. But their tears would soon dry as they heard wings flap above them. Henry wiped his eyes as he stared up the sky, He saw a large shadow of a bird fly above them, sending leaves flying after it. It passed by about two more times before it fly down to the ditch and in one quick swoop picked up the two. Maria screamed as she got separated from Henry and was tossed  down in front of Sal in a large clearing. Henry was soon tossed down like a rag doll with his friends. Sara had fainted from shock and was only a few feet from the two kids.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> The bird land down on the ground and used her wings to balance herself as she turned around. Her large lengthy body was like Sal’s Contorted and bending in ways it shouldn’t. Her wings were large and sharper than any usual bird’s feathers, She pressed on her wings as she hissed, Half of her beak chipped off and right under her large feathers on her head was a hole where her bow should’ve been. Thick black blood dripped from her mouth with each breath as she stared at the children with a hunger that would never dim in her dark sockets for eyes. A hiss came from Sal as he dug his large claws into the damp dirt floor of the clearing. The pine trees were now barley the size of these creatures. A large but painful howl came from the woods as the leader of the mutant Trio stumbled out of the woods. Frisk’s form was now just a skeleton rising from the thick mixture of fur and blood as a whole new creature ripped from the body of the once adorable Husky.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Henry nearly vomited from the stench of literal decomposer hitting him in waves as the skin that had dropped from the Skeletal figure began to cover parts of his body as his one small eye dangled out of it’s socket like a yo-yo about to snap off it’s string. The large creatures claws ripped out of the soft fur into large pulsing claws as he stumbled towards him. His body merging and then splitting apart, like it wanted to fight itself. As large sharp teeth forced Frisk’s Jaw to unhinge from his own mouth as Henry caught a glimpse inside the creatures mouth. The thick blood that ran down the Creature’s mouth seemed to run down a face, a Screaming face that looked sewn into the back of the creature’s throat. It’s eyes seemed decayed and faded as The creature slammed its mouth shut. Henry staggered to his feet and soon got knocked down from the creatures large boney tail slammed the ground near him causing it to shake. The blood seeped through Frisk’s gnashing teeth, dripping down his mouth onto the ground in a large puddle. The creatures stared at the three children like a group of vultures. Growling at each other like they were talking.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">  The once shy cat creature began to limp towards the kids, His body low to the ground as his tail split at the ends at a large almost claw looking figure and snaked its way over his head like he was a scorpion. The claw opened up to show small sets of teeth lingering around the edges as Sal stared right at his new prey, Sara. Henry panicked and began to crawl his way to Sara, trying to be subtle, but his attempt failed as he was about to grab her hand when the tail claw slammed into the ground around Sara and pulled her up to Sal’s face as he hissed and the thick blood began replaced with a thick almost grey looking substance. He was going to bring Henry’s friend to the substance when a gunshot interrupted the gurgling growl of the creature. Sal’s face seemed to split in half as a large bullet wound was placed in his head, A large pain filled howl escaped the creature as it began to claw at its face, The tail claw launched Sara out towards the trees, Henry yelped and Looked at Maria. She was frozen in fear staring at Frisk but Frisk looked focused on the now panicking Sal. The mutant cat kept clawing at his face yowling and hissing as another Gunshot was heard. A woman came rushing out of the woods with a rifle that smoked at the end as she panicked. The woman held the gun to her chest as she watched the large mutant cat that once stood towering above the other was now shivering on the ground into a pile of dust, but not after taking the form of a little boy. The substance that was coming from the once deadly creature was now dissipating into the ground as the boy’s form slowly sunk into a decade skeleton laying on the ground with the smoking bullets. The other two large and now growling creatures stared at the woman, Her hands trembled as she filled the gun with a few more bullets and aimed it at Frisk. The Husky growled and kicked up his back legs as he began to push himself towards her. The woman shakily aimed at the creature’s throat, When Frisk’s mouth unhinged to shoot the substance at the woman but began to choke as a bullet penetrated his thin leathery skin into the back of his throat. He gagged on the smoke as the bullet ripped the back of this throat apart sending the creature to the ground wailing and failing around, reaching his claws out to try and tear that woman apart. She aimed it at his head and slowly cocked the gun and narrowed her eyes warily as she took one last shot that ended the creature’s suffering.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">  The cockatoo already had a bullet hole in its head, But it just looked from the corpse of her best friends and then at the woman and hissed. The woman stared up at the creature, It’s eyes sent a unimaginable amount of shivers down the woman’s spine as she stared up at the hollow black eyes. She held the gun, her hands trembled as she stared at the creature that stood up on it’s claws and let out a loud screech. It sent birds flying, even made the moon hide behind clouds as the large bird creature flapped its wings. The wind kicking up, ‘ STOP!’ The woman shouts and the bird screeched at her as if to tell her to shut up. The woman aimed the gun to the left wing and shot, the backlash was enough to send the woman to the ground as a loud Gurgled roar escaped the Bird as her skin broke apart like glass and began to shed to the ground showing the black blood rushing off bone and muscle as the creature quivered and shook in the pale moonlight as the moon uncovered itself from the cloudy blankets. Soon the bird’s feathers and skin was now in large clumps that kept peeling from it’s skin as it’s skull split open, the black blood dripping down the form slowly melting it away, the small chunks that remained in tack fell to the ground with a  sickening thud. The creature’s wings shriveled up to dust falling to the ground in thick clumps, It’s once gnashing beak and small teeth where now small bits of meat that littered the ground. All that remained of the decaying body was the outline of a decayed girl, Her hair was now thin strands with thick black blood seeping from her scalp. The woman dropped the gun and stumbled towards the girl ‘ M-Maxine?...’ She asked softly and reached out to the girl. The girl’s eyes were white voids, the small bit of pupil  you could see looked abandoned and distant.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">  The girl’s finger looked barely able to stand, what remained of her foot was turned backwards and the bone was sticking out of the socket. The corpse opened it’s mouth to speak only to make a soft pained groan. ‘ M...M….ooommy….Moooommy….’ The girl’s voice was so strained and hurt that it barley was heard. The woman hugged her daughter as tightly as she could without breaking one of the girls fragile bones. ‘W..hy….Mommmy… You let him do it…. You let him hurt… You l-let… him… kill…’ THe girl shook as the Mother pulled away and the thick coating of black blood seeped into her shirt. ‘ Mommy… Kill-l….him… for me…. Please…’ The girl begged softly as her legs began to turn to black sludge. The mother backed up ‘ W-What? M-Maxine!’ The woman Grabbed her daughter’s dissipating hand as the girl’s legs filled more of the dark puddle of thick black sludge. The girl fell into the thick black sludge and her face began to fuse with the rest of the sludge ‘ For me Mommy… For me….’ Her voice trailed off as the girl’s skin melted away into the sludge leaving the skeleton there in the woman’s arms. The skeleton then withered away into the pool of dark thick blood. The woman sat there in the sludge, tears flowing down her face as she screamed out in sorrow and pain. The sludge stuck to her hands like glue as the woman tried to stand up. Henry and Maria stood in fear only a few yards away from the scene, Henry covering Maria’s eyes as the suns few rays slipped onto the dark blue deary sky like white paint on a black background.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">‘ Golden Oak News, Sara winston has been found, her body has large and minor wounds but the hospital says she will be fine. The beloved Dr. John Brooksworth and his wife Amelia Brooksworth’s bodies have been found outside of the city, a thick dark sludge had coated the two from head to toe. It seems John had been shot in the heart while Amelia had shot herself in the head. The sludge cannot be identified and will be taken to a lab for testing. A curfew has been put in place by the Golden Oak Police station, No one's meant to stay up out of there home’s ast 8:00 unless for an extremely  important reason. ’ The female announcer nods her head as Henry and Maria sat in front of the Tv. Henry and Maria had been abused by both of their families when they returned beaten from the scene with the creature’s, Child Services was called by the woman that lived across from them and they were both put into foster care. Thankfully the family that volunteered to foster them was in a better part of the city. Large polish homes lined the curved road like the neighborhood of a Tv show. They had fixed the children from their once broken state to who they are now.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">  Henry raced upstairs to his room with Maria and caught a glance of himself in the Mirror causing him to stop and stare. The mirror was a full body mirror that hung in the cream colored hallway. Henry stared at himself, His ginger hair was brushed out and smoothed out a bit, but the natural curliness still remained. His large black framed glasses were shimmering in the light of the window, His body was still unnaturally skinny and frail but it almost looked normal. Henry’s face that was usually dirty and had bruisie’s that almost never went away was clear and he could see, he had tiny freckles lining from his cheeks over his nose and to his ears. He smiled a bit and then put his hand onto the mirror, he could see perfectly now. No crack, no scratch, no lies, Henry smiled to himself and went over to the window. Maria ran up beside him and jumped up on the small couch that sat in the wall, right beside the window ceil. She smiled softly and hugged Henry tightly, he looked at the raven haired girl, Her hair was now cut neatly and barley reached her shoulders. Her cheek had a large cut on it, but the newest thing was her eyes, once dark and forgetton we're now bright and cheerful like any other kid that they had met at school. Henry hugged her and smiled, his vision was crystal clear, monsters are real. They don’t have to people, they can be something much different then that. Sometime’s monster’s can show people that even they can find a happy ending from something so terrifying.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> ( If you have a question, ask me.) <ac_metadata title="&#039; Imagine This Street.&#039;"> </ac_metadata>