Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24747577-20140330022247

An amber alert poster was up for an innocent child, the next day another, and another and another. All of these children were last seen entering the same forest. The forest soon gained the name of the "Forest of the Lost". I couldn't help my curiousity, what was in this forest that made so many children so curious? I told myself not to go, but deep inside something probed at my mind and told me to go. I was conflicted, I didn't know what to do. I opened  up my laptop and got an IM. I clicked open the chat window and words seemed flicker on my computer screen.

"GO."

"ENTER"

"JOIN US"

"FUN"

"FUN"

"FUN"

After that the words began to overlap, I couldn't read a word after that. I shut down my laptop, someone has a strange sense of humor. I stood up and decided to go for a walk. I walked out side and began to wonder aimlessly, thinking about what to do now.

I found myself on the edge of the forest, the Forest of the Lost. I thought I saw something between the trees, a little girl, I recognized her from one of the amber alert posters. "Hey!" I said. No reponse. "Hello?" I said, unsure now if I was just seeing things. Now I heard, "Hey mister! Can you please help me? My friend is hurt and I dont know what to do..." I assumed it was the little girl who was speaking, although her mouth didn't move. I thought for a minute, she sounded serious but at the same time ... happy? I wasn't sure but something urged me to follow her.

"Lead the way." The girl began to lead me into the forest... As we walked deeper into the forest, I could've sworn I saw shadows or just blurs of muddied light passing us, as if it were heading in one direction. A few minutes later the girl pointed towards a beaten up cabin that looked ancient and like it was about to fall apart at any minute, "Right in there Mister." I nodded my head and walked up ahead and opened the door, at first when I looked inside it looked like there was a girl lying on the floor bleeding, I ran inside and the door slammed shut behind me, I felt a shift in the air around me and I turned around, feeling the urge to run suddenly, I tried to open the door but it seemed to be lock and it refused to budge. I turned around again, the girl that was lying there was now gone.

I looked up and suddenly all around me heads began to appear and drop to the ground, rolling around my feet. One bumped into my foot and I looked down, it was one of the children from the amber alert posters. I looked at the faces of the other heads, they all were from those posters... Suddenly I could hear heavy breathing, a horrific chill went down my spine and suddenly I felt something cold on the back of my neck and I heard a voice of a little girl, "Do you want to play?" I turned and saw not a girl, not a child but a giant shadow that looked like a haze and a formation that resembled an arm made of hazy shadow holding a sickle. Before I could scream or do anything all I could see is red, then black.

Soon another amber alert poster joined all the others. 