The Monsters of Hollow Edge

So, you’re looking for a good monster legend? Well, I don’t have any of those, but I do have a true, personal story about some “Monsters” as the term goes. This is the story of “The Monsters of Hollowed Edge”.



I’d just woken up to the sun shining. I was just about to get up when I noticed something amiss. I scanned around my room & noticed it was only 3:13 am! When I looked over to my window again, it was pitch-black. I went back to sleep for about 7 minutes & woke up to a bunch of sobbing, growling, scampering & howling. I got my walking stick with a screw of sword (if you read as many of these kinds of stories as me, it’s amazing you don’t have a gun under your pillow or something!) & my “book of Japanese mythological, legendary & just-downright-scary creatures” book I made myself, & looked around my room. Nothing was out of the ordinary, even the noises stopped. I decided to go for a late night stroll, which always calms me down.

When I was out the door, I heard roaring coming from seemingly nowhere. You’d think with my extensive knowledge of what can & will go bump in the night, I would turn around ASAP & go back into my house, but no. I tried to find the source & the longer I looked the louder it got. I eventually realized that it wasn’t getting louder, more voices were joining!

Eventually I got down to the cave near my lake that everyone calls “Hollowed Edge”. The noises seemed to come from there. As soon as I went in, the noises stopped. I don’t mean like how an echo will fade, I mean they just STOPPED.

I started to get a little bit freaked out, but I continued into the cave. About what seemed like 5 hours of walking, I came across a big dead end. It looked like a kind of room of sorts. I went in & looked around. To my absolute horror, I saw that there was some sort of trap-door that, somehow, was directly under my house! Then I heard the sound of trampling feet, howling, snarling, growling, & roaring.

I turned around & came face to face with a large brute-of-a-beast. It had large claws like that of an eagle or hawk, panther like paws, feathery wings, a long tail, a humanoid head but with cat-like eyes, & a large muscular body. I was startled because this was something from my book, The Sphynx. If it was a different place & time, I would be fawning all over her, but I was too scared to move. She started to circle me, over & over until she let out an unearthly screech.

As she did, more figures stalked out from the shadows. I recognized more creatures from my book, like Neko-mata, a Kelpie, & a few others. Some I couldn’t recognize. They then started to circle me again. As they did, The Sphynx strode closer to me, looked at me with those feline eyes locked on mine, & whispered a riddle to me.

“I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.” She said in her hypnotic voice.

I realized I was screwed, because I was never good at riddles. The Sphynx grew impatient & flashed her EXTREMLY sharp claws as a gesture I took to mean “Hurry up, or I’ll gut you where you stand!” Eventually I came around to answering.

“The Future?” I asked.

The Sphynx then walked up, put her paws on my shoulders, & leaned her face to my left ear & whispered “You are correct.”

I was just about to pat myself on the back so to speak, but The Sphynx continued “Do not think you have won. You will never win.” She then started shedding all her fur, then her skin, then her muscles until only her bones were left. Then, her bones collapsed & disappeared. I thought I was safe, until a familiar, hypnotic voice whispered “I will always win.” I then felt a warm liquid fall down my neck, but I was too numb with fear to realize it was my own blood or to feel the pain of the large gash across the back of my neck. I stood there for what seemed like hours, and then another Sphynx appeared. The new Sphynx then turned into 13 smaller Sphynxes, which then began to chant:

“I devour all, follow all, watch over all. I. Am. All.” The Sphynxes then morphed into a hideos beast. At the same time, the other things dissapeared.

The beast looked unlike anything I've ever seen. It was about 25 feet tall, it had long, scyth like claws, a sarpent body with wings, a mane of matted hair, long, reptilian limbs, a mouth like that of a viper-fish, a humanoid head, a long tail & .... Those eyes. It's eyes had every color in the world, some I don't think people should be able to see. The worst thing about the eyes where that they still looked cat-like.

The thing lunged at me, & next thing I knew I was in my bed. I was starting to relax, when I heard a familiar, hypnotic voice whisper "Do not forget, I watch all"

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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This is my very first story, so I would really like some pointers & tips!