Post #22:
So, yeah, you've guessed it. It's 4AM. Well, actually, 4:11AM.
I kind of don't know what to blog about. I decided to blog right now because... well... i was catching up on my Jenna Marbles videos, at 4AM, and i decided that i should create a post, at 4AM, because i had the internet key and i had nothing else to do... at 4AM.
Random Time!
So i just finished watching Orphan. It's pretty funny that it was on because we (my family) just rented it from family video two days ago. I missed the beginning though but it was probably the family just checking out the orphanage and buying a Russian maniac.
We also rented Paranormal Activity 2. I've now watched all the Paranormal Activities, and all out of order. I watched 1 first, then 3, and now 2. Honestly, i think 2 is the scariest. Maybe it's just because it's the freshest in my mind, or maybe because we just got a new TV and sound system, so whenever you would hear the woofer (which makes it sound like an earthquake is going on in the background) you would know to brace yourself for something scary. Also, it seemed like things happened faster than you would think. Like it went from small scares, to big scares, really fast! At first the pool sweeper somehow comes out of the pool and pots are falling from the pot rack, then all of the sudden, the baby is levitating out of its crib! I needed some cool-down time to sort of take a breath, but then dog would bark and be mangled by some force and the girl was dragged down two flights of stairs to the basement to be possessed by the demon that wants her baby?! Everything was just happening so fast, i felt like i jumping from one big scare the whole time other than jumps at separate scares. I rode the high i got from something happening in the middle of the movie, all the way to the end. Does anyone understand what i mean?
There's this show my sister watches call Awkward. and it's about... i don't know, high school and awkward-ness. Anyways, the main character, Jenna, has a blog, but she hid it from the public because she didn't want anyone to see it... why did you make a blog in the first place, chica? Ever hear of a diary? Then she came to a realization and she decided to un-hide it from the public and someone posts a comment as soon as she does and i guess we're supposed to think someone was reading it the whole time and oh my gosh, blah, blah. Something that made me think, though, was the fact that her narration through the show, was really what she was writing in the blog, so it made me kind of sad because her blog was so soulful, it all came from her heart in a way i don't think i'd ever be able to write in my glorious blog here... makes me wonder... it also make me sad, but i said that already... hmm...
In my Creative Writing class meeting that was on the 25th, we got our assignment for the month and then we started to brainstorm whatever we were going to write. Now, here's something you should know about the person who teaches the class, she is very chatty, like veeeery chatty, but that's okay because it's kind of comical at times. Someone had a question about writing and she answered it but then everyone just jumped in on the conversation it went a couple of places before swinging away to talking about books in t he library and then coming back to writing and they were talking about blogs. I decided to take advantage of the library's free wifi and i came to my blog and i read some old posts and realized that i didn't even remember posting about some of the stuff i posted about. Then i heard them talking about how people post their stories online for suggestions and to see how people react and i realized that that might be something i would like to do.
Now, i've thought of doing this before but i was nervous to because what if someone stole my story? I've read and watched too much stuff to be comfortable with the public, but i really do want to see what other people think of my stories, because most of the time, we don't have any time in Creative Writing to share every single person's story, and i
hate reading aloud, so, no one had ever read a story of mine that i really wanted to share.
So, to try something new out, i'm going to
post a story of mine here for everyone to read. I'm going to go with my October horror story because it's the only one that i feel is complete. I feel like it's fine the way it is and i don't need to add another five pages to it to make it better. Well, i guess my story from last June was pretty good, but it was more emotional than adventure-y... and i sorta guess that other one is pretty good to... Okay, i'm starting off with posting my horror story. I've never shared this with anyone yet, so you're the first! (unless someone else read this post before you) it's about... 7 pages i think. Don't ask why the font is huge, but at least you can tell where the post ends and story begins. Enjoy and please, please, leave a comment about what you thought of it! =) (it's 5:05 now)
Unicorn Slayer
Blood Sports
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people cheered as they looked down into the center of the coliseum. It was
dimly lit and shadow-filled from the poor lighting the candles gave off, but
the spectators didn’t care, they never did. The candles were everywhere, on
every railing, every balcony, on every dark open space, the Blood Sports couldn’t
be held during the day and normal electrical lighting didn’t give off the eerie
glow the candles did.
Everyone waited with anticipation for
the first door to be opened, and when it was, the cheering was louder than
before. Out stepped the intended target, or victim. He looked like a lowly
servant, or a man straight off the streets, with an overall dirty look and
filthy appearance. Knowing death was waiting for him, he didn’t step out of the
doorway, but was shoved by an unseen hand; he fell to his knees, unbalanced and
upon getting up, he tried to shrink into the walls and go unnoticed, but the
onlookers laughed at his fright.
Then, the audience was twisted with an
eagerness that overtook them all as they looked toward the door on the opposite
side of coliseum. Almost all of them were chanting, and almost all were
different phrases, but in the end they all meant the same thing: open the door.
After an antagonizing minute, the requests were obliged as the sounds of a
lifting mechanism echoed and mixed with the roaring of the crowds.
Nothing was released at first, as if
the ones who ran the Sports were still deciding on what to set out, but soon a
dark shape appeared and walked elegantly into the arena. With it being my first
time to the Blood Sports, I thought it was a joke, someone who was going to
announce the monster and run off before it came out, but I was wrong. The
members of onlookers who came to the Sports regularly were just waiting for the
moment when the creature found its victim and struck: it didn’t take long.
Still standing in the shadows, it’s
eyes and nose quickly found the dirty man who was still pressed up against the
cream colored stone walls. He knew hiding was futile, but every fiber in his
body told to him to at least try to save himself, but it didn’t work. The dark
creature’s eyes lit up with an other-worldly bloodlust and ran, faster than it
looked it could ever go, straight to the man. He was dead faster than I expected,
but the quick display of aggression was breathtakingly horrible all the same.
The body fell into the dirt erupting a
cloud of dust, and it inadvertently shown the audience the gashes across the
neck, making them cheer the loudest they had all night. The vampire looked
around at all the blood surrounding it and was planning in its head how to kill
every single cheering person, but the walls were too high for anything, even a
monster, to climb or jump up. It was too intoxicated to give up its planning,
it greedily wanted every drop of blood that surrounded it, but eventually it
realized planning and fantasizing would be fruitless and let itself be lured
back into the farthest door where it would wait until the next time one of its
feedings went public again.
The spectators started to file out of
the coliseum, blowing out the candle in front of them as left. The excitement
died down quickly after the predator’s door closed and the body of the man was
taken away. It was said that they were taking it be eaten by the werewolf that
was sometimes shown on other nights.
The Blood Sports were started
“underground” when a group of men found a scraggly vampire trying bite rats in
an ally and thought it would fun to put him in with their enemies in an enclosed
room. The vampire tried to get out, not wanting to hurt innocent men, but he
couldn’t stop himself because he was so weak. The men that found him thought it
was hilarious to watch and invited more people to watch and did it again with a
homeless man from the streets, and invited more people and did it again. It
grew until the King found out what was happening. No one’s sure what happened
next, but soon the Blood Sports started again, and was supported by the current
King himself. He thinks that it’s a new way to deal with the homeless
population, criminals, lazy servants, and a new way of entertainment for the
wealthy.
Yes, entertainment for the wealthy, you have to pay a big fee to
gain admittance to the Sports and don’t think just because I got to watch them
that I’m a wealthy person. I’m actually a poor homeless boy, age fourteen, and am
fascinated by the Blood Sports. I was always hearing about them while I was out
pursuing my career of petty thief, and they sounded mesmerizing, and they were.
The fault in them was that it was prohibited for anyone who watched to talk
about it outside the coliseum, such as who was killed or what did the killing.
I always thought it was a lion, or bear, or other big animal, and never have I
once thought a vampire was doing killing, but I’m glad it was, it shown that
our world wasn’t as predictable as we all thought.
The only way I got into the Sports was
by sneaking past where you pay under some lady’s big coat; I’m glad I’m
unusually short for my age. My friends, pursing the same career as me, were
trying to find a back way in, but there aren’t any and they never got to watch.
After the coliseum was half-way empty I got out of my hiding spot, if anyone
saw me they would know that I snuck in, and made it to where my friends were.
They looked frustrated at the fact that they missed it.
“Did you get in?” one asked in a raspy voice
from whispering. I smiled and nodded superiorly. They exchanged amazed glances
before crowding closer. “Well, what animal was it? Who died? How much
bloodshed?’
“I don’t know,” I said slyly “I’m not
supposed to say, it’s against the rules…”
They
didn’t like my answer “Since when have we followed the rules?” he said “Now
tell us or I’ll slit your throat,” he withdrew a knife, but said it in a half
joking, half serious voice with a wry grin.
“It was some dirty servant man and there
wasn’t much bloodshed because… well you won’t believe what killed him,” I said,
just setting them up for a shock.
“Well,” the one said hungrily “what killed
‘em?”
“Yeah, what killed ‘em?” a younger one chimed
in.
“It was a-”
“Hey!” a loud scolding voice shouted cutting
me off.
“-vampire,” I finished before turning to see
a bunch of guards congealing together, intent on stopping our conversation
before any outside source heard the secret of the Blood Sports.
In a flash our group broke up and
started running, but I must have hesitated because I was pinned to the ground
by some unseen force and looked to see an arrow in my shirt at the side, I bet
they were aiming for my stomach, the death a ruffian was a small price to pay
to keep the secrets of the Blood Sports just that, secret.
I tried to pull the arrow out of the
ground, but it was too deep in to be taken out easily, so I tried to rip away
my shirt by just standing up, but I was weak from the fall because it took my
breath away. Soon a guard was picking me up from the neck of shirt, ripping the
side off, leaving a swatch of fabric stuck underneath the arrow on the ground.
“What do we have here?” he asked in a gruff
voice. He showed me to the other guards, one had a crossbow in his hand, and
they all smiled at my misfortune.
Before I could even blink twice, I was
being drug to the coliseum. I kept my eyes open, but made it look like I was
severely disoriented so I could watch our route and plot and escape. The guards
opened a hidden trap door and my captor lugged me down a staircase while one
held a torch and the other with the crossbow made sure I wasn’t going to
escape. I could make out a prison of some sort: it was dimly lit with torches
on the walls and had cells side by side, some holding one person, some holding
many, some empty, all reeking of death and blood; I felt truly privileged to be there. After a long spell of empty cells we
stopped at one beside a cell occupied by one person, far away from others.
Without warning, the cell was opened and I was thrust inside it. I cracked my
head against the hard stone floor and the world around me blurred. My head
started to bleed and I passed out.
***
I woke up in a fog, dizzy and
confused. When I sat up against a dirty wall I felt the knot of dried blood
tangled in my hair at the back of my head. I looked around the cell, but it was
too dark to see anything. I crawled to bars of it, still disoriented, and tried
to look out, but saw nothing but a stone wall and a hall extending away to my
right. I tried to shout out, but it came out as barely a loud whisper.
“Don’t even try,” a male voice said. I wasn’t
sure of where it came from until I remembered the one in the cell beside me.
“The only reason why they’ll come back is to put you in the Sports.”
“Who are you?” I asked.
There was a moment of hesitation
before it calmly replied, “Another
unlucky soul.”
I was happy to realize I wasn’t
completely alone in this.
“How long have you been here?” I hoped to
gain some kind of time stamp on my stay in this prison.
There was another hesitation “Far too long.” I slouched, I was happy to
know that I would live, but every moment would be antagonizing, “But you, you
will probably not live here for as long as I.”
“What makes you so special?” I asked, partly
apprehensive.
“Hmm…” the voice said, I could imagine it
shrugging its shoulders.
“When do they usually come back for us
prisoners?”
“You have longer than most here. Usually they
wait a couple of days until the point where you’re hungry and weak and even
sick to put you in the Sports, so you have a less chance of fighting or
resisting of any kind. Personally, I do not understand this, I think it would
be much more exciting if the victims ran around blindly before they were
attacked,” the voice said smoothly.
“Okay, well, how many days would you say I
have?”
“A few,
three, four. Not many, really.”
I slouched back. Pretty much everyone
has a want to live, even if they have hardly anything to go back to. I doubt
that even if I did somehow escape, finding my “friends” would be a hard thing
to do. I started a debate with my own self in my head, one side wondering where
to look for them, the other questioning the point of such a thing, there was a
slim chance I was getting out alive.
“So they’re just going to let me rot in here
until I’m fed to the vampire.”
“Or werewolf, do not forget about him.”
“How could I?” I asked rhetorically. “Are you
sure there isn’t some way out?”
“If there was, I would have found it by now,”
the voice said glumly.
“What about the guards? Have you ever tried
to, I don’t know, fight them?” I asked hopefully, I just really wanted to get
out of that cell.
“I did try once, when I was first put in
here,” my ears perked up “That gash on my head bled for a while.”
“So you’re saying you lost the fight?” I
slouched.
“Lost? There was barely a fight at all.
Thinking back, it was quite foolish for me to even try. There were so many
guards, and they themselves could take me down bare-handed, let alone with their
knives and crossbows. After getting out of the grip of one guard, another was
right behind him to knock me down,” the voice said, shadowed from recollection.
“How many guards were there?”
“More than I could count.”
Well that didn’t make any sense, “Why?
There were only three guards on me, why were there so many on you?”
There was pause, and then a deep
breath was taken in and out, “Because I’m a murderer.”
That was like a punch in the chest. At
first, I refused to reply to what he said, not wanting to speak to such a
criminal, but then I sighed, not caring anymore, about anything. “Who’d you
kill?”
“Whoever I wanted.”
“So you just killed random people off the
streets?”
“Yes.”
“Well… why?”
There was another pause, this guy
seemed to never be able to make up his mind, “Everything vies to survive.”
What was that supposed to mean? I tried asking him the same question, but he
didn’t answer me back, so I sat in the near dark on a dirty floor. I tried to
talk to him again, just so I could get some form of socialization, but he never
answered back for days. So, alone, I laid and died in the cell, I became hungry
and weak after the first two days, by the third I was considering committing
suicide, it wasn’t like anyone was going to miss me. There was a lack of tools
to do so with though, so, begrudgingly, I took that off my long list of things to do.
In the distance I would occasionally
hear the guards opening cells and laughing at others’ misfortune. If they came
close, I would cringe, thinking that they were coming for me, or my silent,
murderous, friend, but then they would fade away, my day not coming yet.
On the beginning of the fourth day is
when the voice finally spoke again, “They are coming.”
I was weak and half asleep, so I
barely understood a word “What?” I mumbled.
“The guards are coming,” it clarified. I
tried to listen closer.
“How do you know-”
“They are coming for me and you, but there aren’t many, three I think. One to hold each of
us, one to make sure we don’t escape.”
“How-”
“I think this is the only moment either of us
has to escape, be prepared to fight them.”
“Fight? Are you crazy? I can barely stand!” I
harshly whispered. In the distance, I could hear guards.
“Be prepared to fight,” the voice repeated,
almost in a growl.
In a matter of minutes, the guards
came; three, like the voice predicted. They opened my cell first and pulled me
out violently, I was dizzy and hurt, tired and hungry. Then they opened the
voice’s cell and out stepped the man behind it. He was young, and looked
healthy despite the fact that he was in his cell longer than I was. He had
copper brown hair and a handsome face, in fact, he didn’t look like a killer at
all.
We started to be lead away, eerily,
the guards were silent, except when they would sneer or grunt at me to move
faster. Eventually we made it past the cell blocks and into a tiny empty room
that divided into two tunnels going opposite directions. The guards started to
pull away into the two tunnels, I was going one way, the man was going to the
other, he had two of the guards, I had one.
Suddenly there was a lot of noise and
movement behind me, the guard holding me turned around, and I craned my neck to
what was happening. Somehow the man got free, and he was winning in a fight
with both guards. He hit one of the guards in the nose with the heel of his
hand and then kicked out his knee, he feel to the ground, his nose bleeding
violently.
The second came and tried to grab him,
but he knocked down and he fell on all fours. The man kicked him in the
stomach, and the guard rolled on his back, trying to breath. The guard holding
me looked at the man, who smiled and cocked his head, just telling him to bring
it on. The guard looked at me, back at the man, and then pushed me away and ran
at the man, who was expecting that much. Faster than it seemed he could move,
the man had the guard’s hands behind his back, and faster still, he bit into
his neck and drank his blood. My mouth fell open in shock.
“You’re the vampire…” I said in my whispery
voice. He didn’t answer right away, he was busying killing the guard. After a
minute, his body dropped and the vampire looked at me.
“Yes, I am,” he said simply. He started to
walk towards me, but I backed up “Come, if I wanted to kill you, you would be
dead by now, and I am sure that you need my help if you want to live.”
“Why are
you helping me?” I asked, still uneasy.
“Pity maybe, could be friendship, I am still
not completely sure, but if we are to get out of here alive, we need to leave,
now,” he said strongly and went through a door that I didn’t notice before
because it looked the same as the wall. We were in a dark tunnel, lit with the
occasional torch, that lead to an unknown place.
“Did you kill that guard you… bit?”
“No, I just did that for some strength, plus
he was about to get on my nerves, I could just tell. He is going to wake up
with a bad neck-ache, but that is as far as his pain will go.”
“So he’s not going to be a vampire?”
“No, just angry."
Content with my answers, I continued
to run as best as I could, behind me I started to hear the voices of men, I
could only think that they were the guards. Slowly, a door appeared ahead of us
which we ran through. We found ourselves in the arena. I never wanted to know
what it was like to in there, but I realized that it was like being in a big
bowl, really. We were on the side of the oval shaped arena, the victim door was
to the left, the vampire/werewolf door was on the right; we came out of the
door they used for “clean-up.”
“Well, mister smart guy, where to now?” I
asked sarcastically.
“Through there,” he said, pointing to an
identical looking door across from on the other side of the oval. It wasn’t a
far walk, the oval was longer than it was wide, but it seemed so far away. We
started to run towards it “This door leads outside the arena, if we make it, we
will be free.”
Being free sounded pretty good to me,
so I tried ran faster, but before we made it halfway to it, a big and bright
flood light turned on. The vampire put out a hand to stop me.
“What’s happening?” I asked quietly.
Before I could be answered we heard a
long clanging mechanical noise and, turning, we saw the vampire/werewolf door
opening. A guttural growl sounded from behind it.
“No,” the vampire whispered. Out sprang the
werewolf, huge and angry.
It looked like a wolf, but it was
higher and thicker. Its fur was dark and mangy, and its eyes were red and
burning. It locked its eyes onto me first. I wanted to scream out, but my
throat was too dry, and I was numb from terror. I tried to run, but I was too
weak and when the wolf pounced on me and knocked my breath out, all I could do
was lay there.
I was under its big paw being crushed
while it tried to bring its snarling face down to my neck to kill me quickly.
Instinctively, I out my hands to push it away, but it was too strong and I
couldn’t find a hold. Rank breath rained down on me and I turned my head and
looked away.
Suddenly, the pressure on my chest
lightened and I looked to see the wolf getting off me, but it was so it swipe
me with its paw. Four parallel lines stretched down my chest and on part of my
cheek, my shirt was ripped to shreds. Searing pain burned my body. It was about
to come down on me again, but the vampire knocked him out of the way. He looked
at me and whispered a single word that I tried to follow, “Run.”
The scratches hurt like Hell, but I ran
and tried to open the door to the outside, it wouldn’t budge, so instead I ran
into a corner and tried to appear invisible.
The vampire and werewolf were engaged
in an epic battle. Sometimes it looked like the vampire was wining, sometimes
it looked like the werewolf was winning. In the end, the vampire won the
battle. The wolf let out a whine as it died. Sadly, I was half dead and missed
the fight.
Through blurry eyes I saw guards come
in and take away the vampire and werewolf body and they lugged me away too. I
passed out.
When I awoke, I was in a cell again,
it seemed like the same cell I was in before, which meant the vampire was most
likely in the one beside me. The scratches felt numbed, but my head was heavy
in pain. I looked up to see a rather smug looking guard watching me.
“Werewolf and vampire fights,” he said in
thought, “that seems like a new thing to introduce to the Blood Sports.” He
walked away, a haughty chuckle following.
I wondered what he was talking about
until I noticed that the glare of the torch in front of my cell glowed gray
instead yellow. The marks on my stomach were shining scars, thick dark hair was
on the back of my hands, and my teeth felt sharp and canine.
“And unlikely friends become natural
adversaries,” the vampires voice said solemnly.
I then realized how hungry I really
was…