User blog:TeaCupsinBlackandWhite/Creepypasta Riff: It Was Just a Shadow

Well hi. I have been busy with life lately and haven't had a chance to riff. In my riffing abuse, I heard that Dorky is getting rather popular! Good for him, he deserves the recognition~. Any way I had some stories saved on my Google Drive to riff. I will be riffing "It Was Just a Shadow". Let's get this over with:

It Was Just a Shadow 'There must be six more weeks of winter. '

Your eyes shoot open. Ouch.  You sit up on your bed and examine your surroundings “ Last night was crazy, what happened?” . You are in your room I hope I am in my room, this is my bed.. ; nothing has been touched. You wonder why you woke up so suddenly “A thought goes through your head, “Did I leave the oven on?””  and checked the time. 3:30 AM Ten points for exact timing. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You stretch a bit and <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">step<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> out of the comfort of your bed <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">If you do that, I don’t trust you, turn over and go the hell back to sleep. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> to get a glass of water. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Maybe that will help me go back to sleep," <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> you think <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">That will not help you sleep, it’ll make you have to pee and you will never sleep. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You hurry down the stairs as quietly <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Don’t you dare tell me you aren’t afraid of stairs in the dark. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">as you can, trying not to wake up your parents. As you enter the kitchen you are startled as you see a dark figure in the corner “ <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dad, what are you doing with mum?” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">, who also seems surprised. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Go back to your room, son” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> You are frozen with fear as the figure starts to make noises as if it's trying to talk <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> “All you can make out is the slightest, “Hail Hydra”” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You open your mouth to let out a scream <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“HAIL HYDRA” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> as the shadow vanishes. You run up the stairs and burst into your parent's room, panting and shouting, <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“CUT OFF ONE HEAD, TWO MORE SHALL TAKE IT’S PLACE” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> They both wake up and stare at you with concern in their eyes <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“No more Captain America, son” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">"What happened? Did you have a bad dream?" <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">If this so common that the parents are only asking calmly if you had a bad dream, you are pathetic.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You shake your head and explain what has happened. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> How do you explain a shadow that made a noise without sounding insane? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> You move out of the way so your father, now holding a gun, can go into the kitchen. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Screw the old fashioned baseball bat, get the gun! <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> You hold your breath as he turns on the light and yells, "GOT YOU!" <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You’d be the first to die in a horror movie.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">He came back into the <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">bedroom<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> with a relaxed <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">face<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. "Nobody is in there. Maybe you just saw a shadow." <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">How do you explain the noises? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> You look at your parents' faces in disbelief and mutter curses under your breath <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Curses! Foiled again!” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Fine," you say as you plop back into your bed, pulling the covers over your body <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Whatever it was will stand no chance against my sheets” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You are still shaking a bit from the experience but you <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">manage<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> to fall asleep anyways <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">See, you didn’t need water to go to sleep, you just needed to lay back down. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">As you wake up, you find that you cannot breathe <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">It isn’t safe to have the sheets over your head, sorry I forgot to mention that. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">start<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> to panic as you open your eyes wide <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Not your mouth? I guess you breath through your eyes. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You are confused as you see that your body is dark. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You know what they say, ‘Once you go black, you never go back’. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Your eyes look up to see a body shaped figure laying down in your bed <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Wait, how big is your bed? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You are now wondering about who can be the one sleeping in your bed <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You don’t question why they are there, and what happened to being suffocated? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You manage to get a glance at their face and you let out a shriek. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Again, I thought you weren’t breathing a second ago? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> The person shoots open their eyes <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ouch <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">, awakened by your shriek <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Your entire family would be the first group to die in a horror movie. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You run down the stairs into the kitchen before he can see you. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Wait, were you on your bed, did you fall out of your bed? What the hell is going on,  it’s too late to hide! You shrieked! <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> You hear footsteps going down the stairs, and you start to get scared <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You have been scared the entire time <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. Who's in your house? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You, your mum, and your dad.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The person steps into the kitchen and finds his eyes on you <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Don’t you love your first secret admirer? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. It looks a lot like... you? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Awkward. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> "What's happening?" you ask, "How are you me? Where am I?" <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You know where you are, you are in your house, you have been there the whole time. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">But the other you just stares at you and opens his mouth to scream as your vision fades off. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Rude, you don’t look that bad, do you? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> You are awakened to the sound of your alarm clock and you sit up in your bed, sweating <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Would you like a towel? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. You find your father sitting on a chair across from your bed <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Go to sleep, son”, that’s right, your dad was Jeff the Killer all along. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">staring at you with a blank face <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Oh, no, I guess your dad is Slender Man. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">. He grinned brightly as you started to feel light headed. Before you went into your eternal slumber   <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Wait, what, why? What is causing you to go into eternal slumber? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#d4d4d5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">the last words you heard were:

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(212,212,213);font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">"Didn't I tell you it was just a shadow?" <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(212,212,213);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Did you just say you died to make it creepy? It didn’t work.

I was not totally impressed by this story..at all. But oh well, you should see the torture Dorky goes through to entertain you people! You all get the revised version that makes the stories bearable. Anyway, what did you think? Did you like this riff? Or do you wish I died through unknown causes having to do with shadows and my dad? Tell me in the comments below.