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Once there was two boys named Vincent and Terry. They are in Elementary school and love to tell each other scary, paranormal stories. They hung out together all the time. They’ve been friends ever since they were in pre-school. And for some reason, they’ve stuck together ever since. They always spent time with each other and spent the night at each others house and hung out all the time. They are best friends. They weren’t obsessed with each other they have perfect, balanced social lives but they do meet up occasionally.

After school their bus took them to a day care. The day care consists of two parts. One is for babies and toddlers. The other is for kids eight through twelve. They went to the eight to twelve building. Vincent knows it more than Terry. Vincent is just a little bit older than Terry but they aren’t exactly teens yet. But as far as Vincent knows, he’s sure he’s gone to that day care longer than Terry.

As for Vincents sort of new friend, Logan, he’s not so sure. But it’s a possibility. Vincent always gets fiction horror ghost type stories from the library from his school. Terry does as well. Every time they got to their day care the teachers that worked there instructed them to do their homework. At first Vincent didn’t enjoy doing his homework as soon as he walked into the building. But soon he learned not to mind it. After they did their homework they would jump around and about. This all took place in the day care gym. This sort of acts as a third building. This is where they housed the eight to twelve children until their parents came and picked them up. Most of the time they went outside once every day. When they went varied depending what the day care teachers had in mind. They were offered snacks as well. Of course every day it varied.

Anywhere from oranges to animal crackers. The reason why they had to go to the day care after school is because their parents had to work. When either of them got into any sort of trouble they were sent to the front office. This did happen sometimes but Vincent and Terry barely ever get into fights. If any one of them were to be in that situation it would be Logan and Vincent. The day care has three playgrounds. One you walk into as soon as you exit the first building also known as the eight to twelve hall entrance, you take a left and you enter the first playground. The first playground is the biggest. It housed a little swing set, a hang on, and a slide. Farther forward is a plastic set. It has a platform, climbing things made of metal, and two tunnel slides. A gate separates each playground. The second playground is the smallest. It’s really caved in though. There’s a small playset with a small slide and tunnel slide.

There’s no swings but there’s metal bar constructed helicopters that move the wings at the top as you turn the wheel. There’s approximately two. The third playground, which could also be known as the big kids playground, is the best to fully grown kids. It has two swing sets and two small fields that could be used to play football and games like that. There’s three big boulders sticking out of the ground. Vincent would usually scream Logans name repeatedly until he came. That was when Terry wasn’t usually there that day. Logan and Vincent are good friends but Vincent and Terry are bestfriends.

There’s a back door to the gym. It’s an entrance to the third playground directly where the first mini-field is. A gate separates it from the first which is part of the whole playground. There’s three doors to the gym or out. One is from the main building. Another is the return from the third playground.

The third one comes from the pool. The pool is accessible from the door between the two restrooms. Both boys and Girls. Only a teacher can access the pool because the gate is locked and the door between the two bathrooms is usually locked. The other is in the first playground. Usually the kids are allowed to swim only in the summer time or on special occasion. But in order to swim in the pool you were required to pass a swimming test. The swimming test confirmed how well you could swim and how deep you could go, if you know how to swim.

Vincent swam in the pool long before Terry and Logan came into his life. Those other friends he knew turned thirteen and moved on. First Vincent had to wear a life jacket for some time. He wasn’t that good of a swimmer but he was young. Soon he was able to swim in the deep end without a life jacket, but not before Terry and Vincents other friends. Vincent and Terry have been on numerous field trips with their daycare. Vincent remembers every one of the field trips. Nowadays the eight to twelve kids went straight to the gym and outside.

It became a normal routine without so much playing. They’re in fifth grade now. One more year and they’d become too old for the daycare. A lot of times Vincent would bring his fathers’ video camera to the daycare. He dare not expose it at his school. He enjoyed using it and recording with it. He filmed a lot of things with it. Including his father himself, and or with friends. His film opened with his father sitting on the couch.

He wasn’t a professional film person so he just free filmed for the majority. He also filmed some of his teenage baby sitters and couples a lot from the teenage son of his mothers’ boyfriend because Vincents parents are divorced. He filmed them a lot and tried to be cool with them. But his mother got onto him for it. He used his video camera a lot. He used it at Camp Thunder while he was a scout he brought it and filmed it a lot there as well. He liked to make his own mini-horror movies. Like after being inspired by the movie RAPTOR, he took red food coloring from the pantry and a rubber coated T-Rex that would act as the attacker.

He would scream like an idiot as he filmed and moved the T-Rex as if it was eating into him. He would then squirt the red food coloring out all over the floor and it would look like blood squirting out. The teens found that cute. He also bought some fake blood from the party store on Halloween that was designed to go into your mouth that it was cinnamon flavor. He would be at Camp Thunder for the spook fest for Halloween with his fellow scouts. He would have his dad hold the camera and Vincent would have the fake blood in his mouth and one of his friends would come up behind him with a Halloween mask on and would grab him. He would spit the fake blood out and one of his friends would say it was cool.

Also he would get beat up pretend style which was a strange little hobby of his. It made him a riot but most people thought it was cool. He would pretend to get thrown face first into the basketball pole as well as getting beaten down by chairs. Sometimes Logan took it too serious and actually hit Vincent with the chairs. It was a great deal of fun. The people who beat him were Logan, Terry, and his friends from scouts. He kept the tapes in two separate cassettes he could review. They’re labeled VINCENT 1 AND VINCENT 2.

One time at the daycare they decided to try something scary and put the video camera in the bathroom with the lights out. They would place the camera on a chair facing the mirror in the bathroom. Then they called Bloody Mary outside the door a ton of times. It became very controversial because after doing this a good thirty or more times, the reason is because Logan accidentally faced the camera away from the mirror. Whether or not he did turn it remains a real mystery. The turning of the actual camera was blamed on the basketballs being bounced and dribbled on the gym floor. Oddly but interestingly, the camera functionally broke down.

That was the end of that camera of Vincents. Vincent and Logan like to think it was Bloody Mary force or something. Another possibility given to Vincent by Logan is that it was Terrys’ fault because Logan saw Terry bulge the tape in when it wasn’t ready to receive it. So Vincent went to Terry to see what he had to say. Of course he denied it. Now Vincent doesn’t know the truth. He definitely knew it was a possibility. After that, every time they tried to film it stopped very shortly and started beeping and the screen turned blue. Vincent made fun of it and called it para-freakin-normal.

He didn’t have much time to explain as the video camera would soon break down. It was broken. No more from that. Unfortunately Vincent has presently lost the two tapes and has record of them. Vincent is reading a new mystery scary story chill book. When he got home he got on the computer. After searching a long time and clicking on many links a supposed script that he was looking for. He’s doing on an African folktale that’s in his book.

It’s called the Guppy. It’s about a spirit that wanders like a green, lighted, slimed, ghostly, ghastly germ ball. And it devours kids. His mom is making him go with his daycare with younger kids to the long trail that Vincent and others hated to walk because it was so long. Vincent got in trouble with the teens because he went to a place with them to a place where his mother said he could not go to. He told the teens he could because he thought he should. So he got punished. He got grounded and wasn’t allowed anywhere with the teens for a long time. Vincent thought that was simply unfair. As punishment his mother is going to make Vincent take place as a shaperone instead of her.

Vincent became incredibly furious. He just wanted to do nothing but frighten the five through ten year olds. But something happened and the dates and or plans for the trail walk fieldtrip were moved. Ironically soon Vincent is going on a field trip to a native American type place. It’s a big field trip. He’s going with his school. There’s going to be like eight to ten buses. They will have lunches under a big wooden place like in Camp Thunder. They will go through tours. They will run around freely after lunch. Then they would listen to a Native American tell them that there is Cherokee families inhabiting the woods behind them.

And that there’s Cherokee parties available if you came at night. They would dance and call the spirits and do what Native Americans do. Then he offered them to go into the tents and pray to the spirits as their religion goes. Vincent parted from the group and entered a tent. He sat down bummed out. Terry poked in, went over to Vincent and sat beside him. “What’s wrong?” asked Terry. “I’m grounded for like a year and I can’t have fun with the teens” replied Vincent. “That sucks” said Terry. “Yup” replied Vincent. “You got a plan?” asked Terry. “Yes, I’m going to bring a reign of terror down on the younglings” said Vincent. “Yikes” said Terry. “There’s nothing better to do, there’s ACTUALLY NOTHING BETTER TO DO” said Vincent. “True” stated Terry. “What are you going to do?” asked Terry. “I found this ancient African script that’s supposed to bring out a floating green slime ghost monster that devours the kids” said Vincent. “First I’m going to terrify them with the story, then I’m going to say out the scripture. That should scare the living daylights out of them” Vincent finished. “Well good luck with that” said Terry confidentially. “Thanks” responded Vincent. “What’s the scripture?” asked Terry. “It’s an old version of an African Dialect” responded Vincent. “Do you know the scripture by heart?” asked Terry. Vincent closed his eyes and said the whole thing. It was awkward and strange that the Cherokee was sort of bonding to Vincents scripture. Almost as if it was a ritual.

“Wow, you remember all of that?” said Terry. “Got to do what I got to do” said Vincent. They exited the tent. “See ya” they said as they parted. Finally the date came when he had to shaperone for the daycare kids. He was asked to lead them a first mile. The teachers took forever to come back up. They went out far. There was quite a few shaperones. A lot of them were teens. After like three hours of trailing, everyone was so exhausted.

So they set up camp at the next sign. Everyone was so thirsty. It was getting dark. They set up a campfire. That night he told the story and said the chant. It worked. The kids were terrified and couldn’t get to sleep. Vincent was so happy.

He felt just like he would if he spent the greatest night ever with the teens. But when morning came they did a headcount. There was three kids missing. There was twenty five in all. Now there’s twenty two. They were supposed to go back today. They spent half of the whole day looking for them. Soon they gave up and were planning to send the rest of the kids home and call the FBI.

But then they heard one of the kids voice. They continued to search desperately and anxiously. As they got closer they could hear it call out one other of the kids names. They tried and tried but the voice only got closer if the childs name that was being called was put in front. It was incredibly strange no doubt. An outstanding phenomena. Vincent tried to help the other teachers and shaperones find the other kids. The voice led them so deep in beyond the trail that it would take a day and a half to get back.

They made marks to make sure they don’t get lost. They decided to give up and head back. They kept the children as close guarded as possible. The night was spent and the adults realized they might have made a terrible mistake. And it turns out they were right. The next day more than half the kids were gone. All they could do is get out of those trial woods as much as possible. Only three children were left. Vincent was astonished and a tad frightened about the thing with the kids. The three surviving kids disappeared the next day. It was the most craziest thing to have taken place. Some people were more into it than others. But to Vincent and some others, it was quite a remark. The kids could never be found. Vincent spent many many many days wondering what could’ve taken place. He couldn’t find any logical answers.

He decided not to worry about it because it stopped right after the kids disappeared. Vincent was the target of empty interrogation and awkward popularity. Terry was delighted to have such a cool friend. He was being nicer to him than usual. They spent quite a while discussing it. As well with other people. After a while it settled and the simple fact is that if it doesn’t happen again, then there’s nothing to worry about. Soon an acquaintance of Vincent named Barry, invited them to something.

Barry is a bit chubby but he’s alright. He liked to play sports a lot. He invited Vincent and Terry to his super cool birthday party celebration. He was having it at a special lake resort camp site in North Carolina. It was supposed to be amazing. There was going to be ski water jumping on the ramps, a giant water trampoline thing, and other stuff. They were going to play football and stuff. Terry and Vincent were going to go together. They called and met up to get a present for Barry.

They got Barry a gold football and a chocolate bar. It was indeed for one night. Therefore a sleep over. It was to be on Saturday and it starts at three o clock. They arrived on time the next day and had a great time. Vincent and Terry had cake, ice cream, and soda before they joined Barry and all the other kids on the football center. Vincent didn’t really want to play. Soon Terry convinced him to try.

He never really caught the ball though. Terry did catch it two or three times. Some other group of kids were getting ready to play paintball. They asked Vincent if he wanted to play. There was an older group of kids playing football as well. One kid kept yelling out “You suck!” at everyone that failed. Soon Vincent got fed up with it and called back rudely. Terry backed Vincent up and tried to help him shut the kid up.

They got into an argument with the big kids and were chased savagely into the woods. Terry and Vincent were too scared to move out of the woods and into the play sight. According to the teens Terry and Vincent are prohibited to enter the play sight. So sad. Soon their tents and sleeping bags were hurled to them. “What are we going to do now?” asked Terry. “Nothing, it’s ruined” replied Vincent. Terry and Vincent took a walk around the lake. They decided to stay around the sight of the party. They talked a lot and sparkled enjoying conversation and interesting topic. They walked several times across the lake. They became jealous that the kids were enjoying themselves on the water trampoline. They tried to ignore it as much as possible. An hour later a girl came along about the same age as Vincent and Terry.

They asked her what was she doing here. She said she got in an argument with one of the teen boys and she was so upset she did exactly what he suggested she do. They could tell that she had been crying. They said it would be fine if she was to chill with them. She sat down and faced both of them.

“Aren’t you the kid who was with that daycare who spontaneously lost all of those kids?” she asked. “Yeah” replied Vincent. “Sooo…. What happened?” asked the girl. “I don’t know, they just started disappearing one by one like from nothing” replied Vincent. “You mean you didn’t really see anything?” asked the girl. “No, I told you they just disappeared. There was some voices heard though. But I didn’t hear anything” said Vincent. “Are you sure you don’t know nothing else?” asked the girl. Vincent hesitated for a good fifteen seconds. “Not really” replied Vincent. “Mhm” said the girl. Vincent glared over lightly.

“I’ve discussed it with Terry over a dozen times” said Vincent. “Is that true?” asked the girl. “Yeah, he says everything in detail every time he explains all he knows” said Terry. “Well could you tell me?” asked the girl. “Why do you want to know?” asked Vincent.

“I’m just curious” said the girl. Vincent told her about how he was forced to shaperone there. As well as how long he walked and the story he told to frighten the kids. The story seemed clear to the girl. Nothing suspicious in it.

“Those kinds of things rarely happen” said the girl. “Tell me about it” replied Vincent. “I’m getting hungry” said Vincent. “I could use a snack as well” added the girl. “Me three” said Vincent. “What are we going to do?” asked Terry. “We’ll stay here and-“ Vincent gestured his hands at the girl. “Nora” replied the girl. Then Vincent continued.

“Will go back up to the party house and see if there’s still snacks and drinks still in stock” finished Vincent. “I don’t want to go back there” said Nora. “Come on, they hate us a lot more than they hate you” said Vincent. Terry was nodding in approval.

“Nora, if you don’t go we’ll starve” said Vincent. Nora hesitated as if she had a choice. She knew she was the only one who can and has to go back there and get what they need. “What if they only give some to you?” asked Terry. “You guys come with me” she said. The two boys sat still and looked up at her. “Come on guys, it’s going to get dark soon and we’re going to need food and firewood” said Nora.

“They can’t starve us, that would be child abuse”. Vincent nodded in approval and looked over at Terry. “Are you ready for this?” asked Vincent. “I’m with you bro” replied Terry. “Don’t worry guys, it won’t be as bad as you think” said Nora. “For you maybe” said Vincent. They walked to the main lake camp ground. When they showed up one of the teen guys came out and said “What are you doing here?” in a nasty tone.

“What do you want?” “We need fire and some smores and brots” replied Nora in the lead of the more cautious Vincent and Terry. “Whatever” replied the teen. He went to get them some stuff. As they waited, Barry peered out with a guilty look on his face. “I’m really sorry about Hamp, guys I really am. The adults will be here by tomorrow morning” said Barry. “The party is only for one major day” replied Nora.

“I’m sorry guys, is there anything I can do to help?” asked Barry. Nora nodded. Nora then told him what they need. He brought it out quickly. They received ten large store made fire wood. It took them five trips to get the firewood to their place. Barry gave them a lighter for the fire. Then there was a teenage girl who ran to them. “Could you guys please take little Andrew with you, he’s becoming a grand nuisance to me and is close to ruining my life” she said. The three of them looked at each other. She begged.

“Please please please!” Nora stood still with an awkward look on her face. Terry’s look was sort of astonished. Vincents face was also awkward but also hesitant. Vincent doesn’t have any experience in babysitting but I guess that doesn’t matter.

“I guess so” said Vincent. The teen girl thanked him and kissed him on the forehead. Vincent flinched with astonishment. Nora had a nasty look on her face. Terry had an astonished look on his face. They started to walk back. “You’re going to look after Andrew, right?” said Vincent.

“We all are” replied Nora. “Just because I’m a girl doesn’t mean I’m going to watch him twenty four seven and do nothing else” said Nora. “Right” replied Vincent. As night came they have eaten their brotworst and now they’re roasting smores. They were talking about funny situations in their lives but then it lead to scary things. “How about a really scary ghost story” said Nora.

“Those at night are the worst due to nightmares” replied Vincent. “Chicken!” scolded Nora. “I do know the Duppy story and the chant that ought to fill in your fear spots in your body” said Vincent.

“Ok” said Nora. As soon as Vincent opened his mouth, Terry stopped him. “Um Vincent I don’t think you should”. “I’m just telling the story” replied Vincent. “You want me to chant the scripture?” Terry shook his head. “Chill man what’s wrong?” asked Vincent. “I don’t think it’s a good idea Vince” said Terry. “Oh well too bad” said Vincent. “No you can’t do this!” exclaimed Terry. Vincent looked at him ridiculously. “You don’t think that Duppy actually exists and it’s the one that took the kids, right?”.

Then his expression turned into a grin and he started laughing. He looked over at Nora to see what she thought about it. She was laughing. At first, Terry put an embarrassed look on his face but it quickly turned into a grin and he too ended up laughing. Soon they all went to sleep. Andrew slept with Nora. He didn’t have a choice. Nora didn’t feel like calling out the sexist thing.

The next morning they were all astonished to find out that Andrew was gone. They spent thirty minutes looking for Andrew but couldn’t find him no matter how hard they tried. They felt desperate to find him. After a while they finally gave up. They ran back to the camp sight. There they met a group of teens who were just as desperate and eager for something. They each lost kids. But the difference is that the teens lost all of the kids.

“Let’s not panic” said Vincent. The parents would be there soon. And that’s what the teens were worried about. Even Barry was missing. Too busy with the idea of finding the kids, they didn’t get a chance to think of the cause. But then the parents came and Vincent knew what he had to do. Vincent explained that the automatic strange disappearances are probably from the Duppy spirit. He explained at first that he didn’t believe it. But now since it’s happened a second time it’s the only most possible logical explanation.

The teens didn’t really care what Vincent had to do. As long as the kids could come back. They were held responsible for the young ones. Especially that teen girl and Andrew. They would be infamous and never be trusted. They would also be punished. As well as breaking the parents heart. So Vincent demanded and got a laptop and tried to search a reverse chant that will destroy or di- summon the Duppy and get the kids back.

“How do we know the kids aren’t just decomposed bones in this things body?” asked one of the teens. “Only one way to find out” replied Vincent. It took him a lot more time and effort to find a re-summon scripture for the Duppy. The adults came by grief stricken and with terror urging Vincent to find the scripture. In the end, it ended up costing them one hundred and eighty dollars to get the scripture to destroy the Duppy. Then Vincent instructed they had to wait until night.

“Someone has to act as bait” said Vincent. Everyone fell silent. “I’ll do it” said Vincent. Nora threw her arm out at Vincent. “No!”. “I brought this thing out. Now I’m taking it back in” said Vincent. “No you didn’t, it’s just a nature freak thing” said Nora. “We don’t know that yet” replied Vincent. Nora didn’t let go. “You care about me don’t you?” asked Vincent. “Yeah, kind of, a little” said Nora. Vincent smiled at Nora. Then Terry stepped in. “No no no no” said Terry. “You can chant this. I’ll be the bait” said Terry. “Terry you’re-“ “Don’t talk. Don’t think. Just do it”. said Terry. Vincent looked at Terry. Then at Nora.

“Fine” he said. Nora had a light smile on her face. All the parents and teens waited until night fall. Terry would lay in front of the fire and sleep. Vincent would rush out and read the scripture. Then Nora would quickly wake Terry up and they would all watch the Duppy perish. “Alright. Good luck man” said Vincent to Terry. They did their handshake and then the semi hug. Then he turned and hugged Nora.

“Good luck, be careful”. Terry nodded his head and went to his sleeping bag. Soon it was twelve o clock. All of the parents, teens, and Terry and Nora hid. Soon as Terry lay there, a greenish streak appeared from the ground and from the side of the trees. It moved to Terry and spoke in a faint kid voice.

“Terry”. Terry moved but didn’t open his eyes. Soon a big green oval shedding off light with layers shape figure came from behind the trees with streaks of light coming from it. It moved closer and closer to Terry. Vincent and Nora watched in astonishment. As soon as the Dubby could get any closer, Vincent jumped out from behind the bushes and started to read the scripture. Nora rushed out and shook and slapped Terry until he was awake. One of the moms was instructed to remain still with the rest but couldn’t resist.

The Dubby knew she was there. The figure spread and covered the atmosphere. Out came ghastly figures of a good thirty five kids. That’s when the mother threw herself out.

“Andrew!!” she screamed. She ran for him in the holographic presentation of the Dubby showing all of the kids it took. She reached for him but her hand went right through like a useless hologram.

“Help me mommy” said Andrew. The teen girl watched them in grief and horror. She and the others followed her out of hiding. They were all so happy to see their kids. But they were also sad they could not get to them. Andrew held his hand out but his flesh perished and melted away along as his bones turned to powder. The teen girl and the mom screamed. Vincent repeadedly read the chant over and over and over.

Finally the Dubby took on its original form and started moving and bulging like a worm. It’s as if it’s going to vomit. After stretching out and bulging convulsively, the Dubby finally exploded and a twenty five second rain of pure blood spilled on all of them.

“Well that didn’t work” said Vincent as he spit some blood out of his mouth. Pure blood covered the whole team of human blood. Nora, Terry, Vincent, the teens and the adults are blood soaked. They all stood still and hesitated. Soon as they began to move they noticed that the blood puddles that were already on them began somehow getting better. Actually the blood on the trees came spilling down creating more blood puddles. Then two hands solid made from pure blood grabbed Vincent began pulling him into the blood puddle. The rest of the group were dragged under the blood puddles by the forms of several kids made out of blood.

Now you know. When you are reading interesting folklore, not to become too interested in it for things could end up like the events that unfolded on these people. Bold text 