Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26990009-20170921073521

A long painful screech echoed through the hallway as Daniel's heavy and rapid footsteps pounded against the hard chipped tile floor, he glanced back; a human figure, shadowed by the darkness of the hallway with blue eyes was rushing at him, arms grotesquely outstretched and body stiffened, Daniel tripped and looked back.

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Daniel and his best friend Arty were preparing to go over for a overnight hangout at his friends house, Arty didn't know this friend much but Daniel did very well; This friend's name was Eli, he was zany and full of energy. myths were his strong suit, he loved to read that type of stuff. For once, Eli had a brave idea over the phone, despite not being very brave, the speaker was sparking with excitement as Daniel sat on his bed earlier, Eli was giggling. "Okay Daniel, I have an extreme idea, there's this old house a few yards away from mine, it's been empty for years, I was thinking we could go explore it for our little adventurous sleep over tonight."

Daniel was excited. "Alright, Art. Let's get moving", Daniel said, Arty slipped into the passenger seat of Daniel's little Nissan. Then they headed for Eli's house. After a very short drive and long loud screaming to The Final Countdown, they eventually reached the house, it was fairly big sporting big light windows, a wide open foundation and a giant tree to the right. They got out and headed for the door.

Daniel rang the door, Eli's mom answered with a smile. "Hi boys, Eli's upstairs playing his keyboard, come on in!" Eli's mom exclaimed, Daniel and Arty entered and headed up the stairway to Eli's room. They knocked lightly; A "Come in" was heard, Arty then opened the door. Eli was sat on his bed, legs crossed and keyboard to the side.

"Hey guys, I've been expecting you." Eli said with a laugh, he stood up and walked to face his two best friends. "You guys ready for an excellent time?" Eli stood chipper as a piece of wood. Arty nodded. "Yea we are!" he and Daniel exclaimed. Eli giggled and walked to the window, they trailed Eli as he looked out the window and pointed to a house, decaying partially and hidden mostly by trees and brush. "We head for that house this evening."

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Eli's light shined through the dark trees as he pressed forward, Daniel and Arty followed behind, soon they reached a weird looking house: the wood was rotting and hollow, the entire look was grotesque, a cellar door of some kind was etched open. Eli smirked in happiness as he pressed onward towards to the house entrance. Daniel and Arty looked terrified but knowing Eli's knowledge they followed to the door. He opened the door with a loud creak, then out of nowhere the door fell off of it's loose rusted hinges, falling to the ground with a loud 'SLAM', they pressed onwards, reaching the main living room. Eli sighed in relief as Arty shook, his face pale from scare. Daniel looked around, sweating partially.

The house was dark and bland, Eli walked around shining his light. He jumped with a yelp, shining a light at a human figure, though it was just a convenient coat rack. Eli looked through each bedroom, which was run down and decaying, paint peeling from the hollow wood that made up the house, he shivered and scurried out of the room, looking back into the living room he spotted a CRT TV with a green, he thinks probably used to be blue, couch. He didnt take the risk of sitting on it and raised an eyebrow at what horrible condition the house was in.

He spun around and walked into the kitchen, he spotted a bag on the counter with apparent coins in it. Eli, being the greedy teen he is, reached for the bag. He carefully lifted it on his tip toes, but when he stood back he lost his footing, falling onto the floor, followed by a loud cracking. Daniel raced in, calling Arty. "Eli, are you okay?!" Daniel yelped in concern. Eli nodded. "Yea I'm fi-" he was cut off by a loud crash as the floor caved in and broke under Eli's weight, Arty and Daniel ran over to get Eli away from danger, but to their dismay, they fell into the dark abyss below the floor, landing on a hard surface.

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Daniel blinked slowly, waking up to darkness all around him, except for the natural light that filtered in through the hole above them. Taking a step back and looking at Eli and Arty, he woke them up. Eli sat forward, groaning. "Where.. the heck are we?" he looked around, shining his light. Daniel stood up giving a shrug; After a brief look around he spotted a tiny light flickering down a ways in what seemed like a hall. Eli sat up and grabbed a bowie knife from a sheath on his leg. "I came prepared." He started towards the light, shining ahead through the hall. After about 3 minutes of walking in darkness, they eventually reached the light.

The light was a flickering overhead light above a metal door, with a window on top. Eli peeked in, he couldn't see much until he spotted a large shadow dart past the window with a woosh. He fell back in surprise, screaming almost. "What the hell was that?!" he exclaimed in terror. Arty and Daniel stood back, Eli stood up and braced himself, with caution he opened the door and speedwalked a few steps into the door. Inside the room stood a table with straps on it, weird looking rust covered it. He looked around more and spotted a book, it had tears and stains on the cover. Eli panned through the room and spotted a hatch in the ground.

He sighed. "It's the only place we can go, let's risk it guys." Eli walked to the hatch, gazing down at it. Arty gulped and followed Eli. It took a while before Daniel mustered the courage and followed. He reached for the hatch and yanked it open, holding the bowie knife out only to be greeted by a mostly lit up checkered floor within it. "W-what..? How is that possible? We're in a house in the woods, with a secret cellar that's hardly powered, but.. right under me stands a lit up hallway straight from some type of hospital?" Eli looked at it in shock. Arty leaned forward and crouched to get a better look.

Eli was about to say something to Arty before a black, gloved hand reached up from the hatch and grabbed Arty by an arm, dragging him into the hatch and away screaming. Eli screamed almost again. "Arty!!" he screeched in horror, Daniel grabbed Eli's arm and jumped into the hatch, landing on the hard floor, only to see Arty's feet get dragged around a corner.

Eli stood in shock, looking around, it was just a hall filled with turns and colorless walls. He looked at Daniel who was already running towards the corner. Eli followed after him, turning his light off and running faster. Eli spotted a different way with a bright light and ran away from Daniel. Daniel spotted a door to the side and opened it, a far ways away he could hear a human scream. "Eli? Arty?!" he said in rapid concern, running away from the door. Though after he bolted away, 2 blue eyes lit up in the dark room.

Daniel bolted along, running through the halls, around corners, and through doors. He busted through a door to see Eli knocked out on the floor, his forehead bruised. He stood up and turned around to go find something to help. After turning around a corner a shadowed figure was standing in front of him, a grin stretched across it's hardly visible facial features. It hunched forward and outstretched it's long arms, making some type of inhuman screen as it's head rapidly vibrated. It then hunched onto all fours, away from the partially lit up areas of the checkered hall, Daniel gasped and panted in horror as he turned and ran down the hall. A long painful screech echoed through the hallway as Daniel's heavy and rapid footsteps pounded against the hard chipped tile floor, he glanced back; a human figure, shadowed by the darkness of the hallway with blue eyes was rushing at him, arms grotesquely outstretched and body stiffened, Daniel tripped and looked back.

Arty was standing over him, a scary grin on his face and his eyes glowing a light blue. Behind Arty, Daniel could spot the misty shadowed humanoid of some kind standing behind Arty, his arm stretched out. Arty let out an inhuman screech as he gripped Daniel's neck. Eli woke up just seconds later to screeches and cracking, as well as sounds of pain and human screaming. He slipped and stood up, yanking his flashlight and running after the sounds. Sliding to a stop, Arty was hunched over Daniel who was bloodied and had multiple gashes and bite/scratch marks on him. Arty turned around to face Eli, red stains on his teeth, lips and his fingers. Eli grabbed the bowie knife and ran at Arty, yelling. On the other side, Arty let out another inhuman screech and jumped at him, the humanoid shadow remaining in the back.

Eli swung his knife, slicing Arty in the throat. The shadow raised his arms up high, Arty standing back in his posture, unphased by the slice. Eli paled and took a cautious step back. Arty ran at Eli and jumped up at him, arms stretched outward. He swung his knife at Arty which clipped his fingernail. Eli couldn't handle this, he had to get out, escape, reach the surface, somehow! He paused. The hatch. Eli turned and bolted around a corner. He sprinted, keeping his movements as fast as possible, rapid breaths exiting his body. He saw light partially shining through a hole in the roof, he looked back to see Arty running on all fours after Eli, closing in slowly.

Eli screamed and ran faster, jumping up to grip the floor above, he pulled himself up just as Arty was climbing up after him. Eli kicked the hatch shut, hearing a crushing sound, he looked and Arty's fingers were apparently broke from the hatch. He looked forward to see the humanoid reach out from the hatch to swing it's arm around. Eli gasped and ran away, through the exit and down the long dark hallway. He turned on his flashlight and continued running, through the dark hall behind him, he could hear more inhuman screaming. He shined his light to see Arty sprinting after him, his arms flailing behind his back as he bolted for Eli. Eli yelled in fear and ran faster, he could just make out the faint outline of an opening, Eli's eyes widened. How will he get back up? He screeched to a halt and looked behind him, Arty was still running, coming to a halt. Eli looked back up as his eyes shrunk, a fierce wind could he heard outside as the structure of the house above fell inwards, crushing whatever belongings inside and inevitably trapping Eli in with the savage Arty and the vengeful 'spirit'.

Eli turned on his flashlight and shined the light around the hall, Arty was nowhere in sight. He turned back and forth, hoping Arty and that horrible shadow was gone for good. He blinked and saw the shadow screaming loudly and running at him, catching him off guard the shadow misted into nothing. After a brief moment to catch his breath, he could feel hot spurts on his head. He slowly looked up, shining his light. Above him stood the savage Arty, grinning and standing on two down stretched boards with nails sticking out, using the nails as footholds.

He fell back as Arty jumped off the nails and landed on Eli. Eli looked up in fear as Arty's mouth instantaneously lunged at him. Nobody could hear Eli's screams of fear and agony as his bones and flesh began to tear. The last moment Eli saw was the misty humanoid, standing over him with the light blue eyes, before fading into black, then white. 