Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-39344062-20190503130303

„ Happy birthday ! „, we all said. It was my brothers birthday and he just turned 30. I organized a party especially for him and I invited all of his friends. I really tried to make him feel happy. We all sang „ Happy birthday „ to him, but after that, he went in his room without saying anything. I thought that I should go check on him, in case it was something wrong.

When I asked him what was he doing in his room all alone, he answered me that he was preparing to go  outside for a bit. I did not know what to say at first, because all the guests were inside and were waiting for him, but I knew that he was sometimes pretty anxious and sometimes needed to stay all alone, even when it came to his friends. I also knew that he was going to go in the forest next to our house, where he spent most of his time, so I knew where I could find him. Also, in the forest were no wild animals except deers, rabbits and maybe foxes, so he was not in any real danger. Outside was getting dark, but by the time he would come back, the sun would not even be completely gone.

My brother left and I returned to the guests. Some of them were playing card games, others were simply chatting and some were watching a movie. I went to play some cards and after one hour of playing, one of my brothers friends asked why was not my brother joining us, because he knew how much he liked playing cards. I chose not to say them were he really was, because I did not want them to be mad on my brother. I said that he was in his room taking some medication. As I said it, I quickly went towards his room. When the quests could not see me anymore, I ran out of the house.

I rushed into the forest with only a flashlight in my hand, because the sun was completely gone. I got mad on my brother for leaving the party for so long and I was already  planning what should I tell him when I would get to him. After 10 or 20 minutes I reached a big tree where I was able to see my little brother.

He was standing on his knees, like he was praying, in the middle of the forest with no lightsource at all. I asked him what was he doing, but he gave me no answer. I waited for a moment and when I took a step towards him he slowly turned to me and stood up. I asked again, this time louder, but my brother remained silent. He begann making some strange signs with his fingers that I have never seen before. I shouted at him and told him that he was not funny at all.

My brother continued to make strange signs for about a minute and then he stopped. He begann twisting and twitching with such force, that he almost fell on the ground. I got creeped out at this point and I tried to convince him to stop, but for no result. His movements were getting faster so I backed off. Then, everyting stopped. My brother was starring at me without making any movement or sound.

I did not know what to think about this and I was not able to say anything. I watched more carefully at my little brother and I could see blood coming down on his face. Still, he was making no sound and we were in complete silence. Suddenly, four spikes bursted from his head and started to rip his head in half, working as a pair. The spikes did not stop and continued with the rest of his body, revealing a hideous creature within him.

The spikes, who appeared to be parts of the things arms, ripped my brothers body completely in half and, just then, the thing came out of his body. The creature was aproximately 3 meters tall, although it managed to stay in my brothers body, who did not even measure 2 meters. Its two legs were made from something that looked like bone, having no flesh or skin. Its arms were long and ended in two of the horrible spikes each, having also two eyes each, that were starring at me continuously. The upper body was large and grey and had a white bulb in its middle. Every single part of its body was horrifying, but no part scared me as much as the head did. It was grotesque, with a round shape, two snail-like eyes, that had a demonic yellow light in them, and a small mouth, that was full of sharp, horrible theeth.

I wanted to scream, but I could not. I was not even able to run as I wished. The creature approached slowly and with every step it took, I felt more and more fear within me. When it was 2 meters away from me, I tried with all my forces to run, and to my amazement, it worked. I was feeling like I was running in a dream. My legs felt numb, but I ran, still, not fast enough. The thing was much, much faster than I was and it was soon behind me. Just by beeing close to it, my body begann shaking. I snapped out of that state when I felt a sharp pain in my left leg. I collapsed to the ground. I did not dare to turn myself and I was waiting for the horrible creature to kill me. The abomination raised me above the ground instead, tearing my skin apart. I then felt two sharp spikes piercing my back and with the strange feeling, an unbearable pain came. My vision begann to darken itself until everything went black.

I awakened when I heard some distinct noises behind me. I was hugging my brothers mutilated body, but I did not have the power to scream or react. Then, I realized that the sounds I heard came from the party guests. I tried to say „ Help „, but everything that came out from my mouth was a whisper. Fortunately, someone heard me and raised me up. I could see the corpse, I could see my brother. It was missing its eyes, its left arm and its right leg, but most important, it was ripped in half. At that horrible sight I was not able to control myself and I vomited. I tried walking, but I fell on the ground after two steps and fainted.

When I opened my eyes again, I was in a hospital room, with a nurse close to my bed. She saw that I was awake and called a doctor. He told me that I was fine, thanks to my brothers friends, that brought me to the hospital before it was too late. The injuries that I got were a deep cut on my left leg, two wounds on my back and missing skin on my arms. I managed to walk again after a month, but I remained in the hospital until I was fully healed.

After I recovered, I went back to my and my brothers house, the same house that was next to that damned forest. I had to come back, because I had nowhere else to go. I also went to a psycholog for treatment, my fear being almost uncontrollable at night, when I was not able to sleep without the medication from the doctor. The psycholog did not believe me when I told her what happened, instead, she kept telling me that my brother was murdered and that I imagined everything, because of the fear I felt.

The treatment helped me a little with the fear problem, but the images of my dead brother and the demonic creature were still in my head. Also, there was something strange with the psycholog and the doctor. Both of them sustained that next to my house was no forest and it has never been. I told them that they were wrong, because I have been living there for 15 years and I have seen it every day. They showed me photos of the place before my house was built and after the house was built, even a more recent one, from one year ago, taken by a local. I told them that it did not appeared in the photos because of the bad angles, but they kept saying that I imagined everything. I do not understand why they do not accept it. The forests do not just dissapear or go missing. 