A Scythe in the Night (Slasher story)

[spacemonkey]

Hey my fellow schmoes, heres another cool story to flex your writing muscles. Past ventures have been a blast, click on anyone of these titles for an example of just how cool this can be. The last one was a blast! Dawn of the Apocalypse turned out really well! Now heres a chance for any one of you with a penchant for writing to give it a shot and have some fun!: Heres some of examples of previous stories just in case your wondering how this whole thing goes:

Dawn of the Apocalypse (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70640&highlight=apocalypse)

Xenomorph Nightmare (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62070&highlight=xenomorph+nightmare)

Vampire Nation (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45801&highlight=vAMPIRE+NATION)

Fright Night III: The Return of Jerry Dandrige (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30905&highlight=The+Darkness+Within)

The Darkness Within (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40610&highlight=darkness)

Terror Cabin (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=61118)

The Dead are Among Us (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31436&highlight=Haven)

So if you like to write and have some fun doing it, and I know theres a few of you in here, well go nuts here! Just make sure its good!

Just follow these simple guide lines and rules:

1- Dont insult anyone, and dont make stupid senseless jokes that dont have anything to do with the story.

2- You have to follow the last post storyline, if your post and notice that your post doesnt follow the last post storyline, go back and edit it so that it will.

3- Original characters only, dont go and put Freddy Kruger or Jason Vorhees in this one, use only character that you made up.

4- Make it good. Come on, put your back to it! Get your creative horror juices flowing!

Title: A Scythe in the Night

"I cant believe Im doing this...where are you taking me Marlon?" said Lilly as she followed Marlon into the old abandoned Amusement park by the sea.

Theyd been here many times as kids together, but about 5 years back it closed down due to poor business. Back then it was known as "Happy Times Amusement Park" Now the old parkl rides stood there in the dark like a giant decaying skeleton, left out to rot. A lot of storms had hit this area and since the park was close to the sea, the salt had coroded a lot of it.

"Come on trust me, this will be fun!" said Marlon as he grabbed her by the hand and pulled her along.

They were headed to a tent. One of those carnival tents, with red and white stripes all around it. Marlong lifted on of the flaps to go in. They walked in the dark, but it was obvious that Marlon knew exactly where they were going.

Marlong looked specially weird dressed as a skeleton. As they entered the tent the white skeleton outlines on Marlons all black clothing glowed in the dark. Lilly thought she probably looked preatty weird herself, dressed like a traditional witch. Black hat black dress and a broom on her hand.

"Suuurrprise!" screamed two voices inside of the tent as a blinding flash of light iluminated some of Lillys friends who gathered around a small table with a cake on it.

"Oh you guys..." said Lilly as she got closer and saw that the cake said 'Happy Freaking Birthday' on it.

"You guys thanks...thats so cool of you!" said Lilly blushing though she knew that Marlon was bringing her here for this, she acted surprised anyways.

"Hey! How could we forget your birthday? Specially since its on Halloween?" said Josh as he took out a giant kitchen knife.

"Dont worry I wont hack you all too pieces....its for the cake!" he said laughing a bit and then proceeding to cut a piece.

"Its nice of you guys not to forget, most people get so involved in Halloween that they just forget! Even my parents!"

"Yeah, well this is our chance to do both things at the same time babe!" said Marlon as he planted a kiss on her luscious lips, then took a sip of his bottle of beer.

The inside of the tent was light by candlelight, so it was filled with tones of yellow and dark shadows. But they were happy together.
Outside the full moon was shining and through a whole in the top of the tent the kids could see it. The wind of the sea blew agains the tent and made the entrance of it make a flapping sound.

"Spooky place for a birthday!" said Trish the young punk rocker who despite her rough exterior was really just a scardy cat, her friends enjoyed scaring her since it was so easy to do. She was dressed as Madonna in her 80s phase. A huge amount of necklaces hung from her neck and she put on every piece of jewelry she could on her hands.

"Yeah considering everything thats happened here and all..." said Josh taking full advantage of the opportunity to scare Trish. The prankster of the group was not about to let this one pass.

"What are you talking about Josh?" said Trish with a scared tone on her voice.

[JivaFox]

"Well," Said Josh, leaning forwards, studying Trish's face. "Everyone knows that this place didn't close because of poor business. I mean, how could it? It was doing brilliantly every night. No way. The story goes much deeper than that."
Trish frowned, then widened her eyes in anticipation as Josh continued.
"One night, in the peak of the summer, these two kids were feeling really horny, so they decide to slip off round the back, have some time alone, you know what I'm saying? So they sneak off, only to get caught by the janitor. Now they've had a bit to drink, they're high, so they run off through the old roller coaster, and the janitor's chasing them and yelling. But the old guy trips, breaks his ankle. He has to crawl back out. When the kids don't come out the other side, the police go in, make sure they haven't done the same as the clumsy old janitor. But what they find is much worse..."
Trish's eyes widened even more.
"What did they find?" She asked, her voice filled with tension. The rest of the group looked on, listening.
"They found them, but not in quite a state they hoped." He paused. "The boy was slit from his gullet down, his insides scattered across the floor. The girl...well, she was sitting in the corner, her back to the entrance. She was rocking gently, mumbling something. The policeman touched her shoulder and she turned around. The policeman apparantly died of a heart attack."
"What? What was wrong with her?"
"Her eyes had been dug out - by herself. She was sitting there mumbling, holding her own eyes."
Trish gasped and covered her mouth with her hand.
"That's disgusting" Lilly snorted.
"It's true." Josh said.
"How can it be?" Trish cried. "Did she kill the guy?"
Josh shrugged.
"No one knows. She died straight after. The guy was killed by a big a sharp object they said. Probably a scythe."
"A scythe?" Asked Lilly. "Please - no one uses scythes anymore."
"The murderer obviosuly did."
"Eww..." Trish wrinkled her nose up.
"This is my birthday. No spooky stories." Lilly motioned the cake.
"Fine, fine." Josh held up his hands. "Just warning you."
As the gang moved towards the table there was a crack from outside. Silence fell heavy and thick. Everybody looked towards the tent entrance.
Another crack. And another...

[EVILxxx]

Josh grinned devilishly at her, knowing that she would not be able to sleep for a week listening to this tale. JHe picked up one of the candles that was on the placed on the table and began to slowly skulked around the tent.
"It only happened about five or so years ago. At this time bussiness was going great, it was the only real amusement park in the surronding states so people from all over came to this place. The Josh lowered his voice slightly and changed the tone of the story.
"But one day something terrible happened. In the "House of Horrors" attraction people seemed to be disappearing."
Trish looked nervously at him. Then at Marlon and Lily who seemed to be eating this up. They knew the story. And they knew that Trish would be a nervous wreck the entire night.
"Disappearing? w-w-w-where did they go? Did they go off the track to makeout or something" Asked Trish as she fiddled with her huge loop earings.
"I wish that was so" said Josh. As he moved closer towards Trish. "Soon security had started to get more and more complaints that patrons couldn't find any of their friends or family and that the last place they were saw them them was the house of horrors."

Trish sort of backed away and gazed out of the tent flap. She could see the house of horrors ride from where she stood.

Josh continued "One of the back rooms is where they found them. All hacked up and some of them half eaten. The walls were covered in bloody handprints and sprinkled with entrails."
Trish's mouth dropped and her stomach turned.
"They blamed one of the employees who had been working there. He had an assorted history of violent crimes. Nothing to serious but he had a record. He claimed his innocence throughout the entire trial but was proclaimed guilty in the end."
Then Josh shifted even closer to the trio of listeners.
"But as it turns out a female patient from the assylum up in Riverwood who was claimed to have mrdered her huband, young daughter, and two nephews, had escaped the night before and reports claimed she was headed this way."
"Some, mostly friends and family of the man, claimed it was the patient not him who could have commited the crime. Then 4 long years later The man got a new trial and was dtermined innocent, mainly because of some new forensic evidence that was not allowed in the previos trial."
Josh stopped and went into a more somber tone.
"Four long years with the worst of the worst. Killers, rapist, child molesters... enough to drive anyone insane. Some say that the courts needed a scapegoat and that anyone would due. Someone had to be held responsible and it sure as hell wasn't gonna be the state run institution."
Then Josh went into his more menacing mode as the light from the candle danced on his face.
"But then again they never did catch that lunatic... she is said to still visit this place from time to time maybe she even lives here.
Just then, Trish caught it for just a split second she saw a glimpse of steel, glimmering steel, attached to the hand of a shadowy figure that stood by the House of Horrors

[spacemonkey]

"So was it the janitor or was it the crazy lady?" asked Trish nervously interrupting their laughter. Obviosly the story had stuck to her head. Meanwhile she ignored the small glitter of light coming from the House of Horror across from her tent. She hoped it was just the light of the moon glimmering against some broken mirror or something.

"No one really knows to this day..." said Josh milking the cow for all it was worth.

"Yeah, jeez I thought you were good at making up stories Josh but that one is lame..." said Lilly messing with Josh.

"Oh yeah, well if it aint real why dont we go into the house of horrors and find out? Huh? Or are you all just to chicken shit?" said Josh as he grabbed a piece of Lillys birthday cake and ate some.

"Well I think it would be something cool to do today...heck its my birthday..I was born today on all Hallows Eve...I wanna do something weaked!" said Lilly with fun and excitement as she gave little jumps of anticipation.

"Sure well go, heck its Halloween itll be fun...plus I heard that that Horror House was the best Horror house around. I mean check it out!" said Marlon as he pulled away the entrance flap which revealed "The House of Horrors" that was right across from the tent where they were currently at.

It was a huge architecture, built like an old castle but obviously made of plastic. It had carved Dragons on both sides which where holding two cauldrons from which at one time, when the amusement park was fully operational fire burned. The entrance was a huge door in the shape of a Dragons mouth and at the top it read "abandon all hope all you who enter here..." It was not your typical run of the mill horror house. Special care was taken to make it a truly horrofying experience for all who entered. Now it layed dormant...waiting for someone to enter its jaws ones again.

"Fine, lets do it then...but dont think for a moment Im buying into your hoaky story Josh." said Marlon.

"Guys...Im not so sure we should go. I think I saw something moving over there..." said Trish with a scared tone.

"Sure, sure Trish...you saw something...a-hum." and Josh gave her and unbelieving look as he grabbed his beer and started his way out the door.

"Guys, dont forget to bring those candles...its preatty dark in there" said Josh as he pointed towards the candles on the table.

[EVILxxx]

Oh shit spacemonkey I had to repost mine because I wrote it at the same time as Jiva fox so it didn't make much sense so I posted it below yours.

[EVILxxx]

edit

[redwhisper13]

"Arrr!!" A shadowy figure lunged into the tent, a huge scythe in his hands. Everyone screamed, Trish fainted.

"Gotcha!" Curtis said as he took off the halloween mask. He was laughing so hard he could barely stand. Lilly walked over and shoved him hard, causing Curtis to stumble and fall to the ground, "Asshole. What the hell's the matter with you?"

Curtis remained on the ground, "Aw, c'mon you guys. I couldn't resist." Josh walked over and gave him a hand in getting up, "Dude, that was priceless! Look at Trish, I think we scared about 10 years off her life."

Lilly walked over to Trish, "Trish? Its okay, it was just Curtis acting like a prick, as usual." Lilly ended this statement with a glare at Curtis, who tried to look innocent.

Trish slowly opened her eyes and focused on Curtis, who was still holding the plastic scythe. She slowly got up and punched Curtis in the nose. He was so surprised, he fell again. "What was that for? C'mon Trish, it was just a joke!"

"Thats it! We're threw!" Trish yelled at Curtis, her now ex-boyfriend. "I am sick of your pranks, you are so damned immature. Grow up!"

[redwhisper13]

What is going on with this story? I'm getting very confused. I don't know what to put where.



Space! Please clean out your inbox, I can't PM you!

[EVILxxx]

alright just think of mine and jiva fox's as two differant stories that Josh tells the group. I had to put mine under space monkeys because he had continued like that. So just imagine my post is above space monkeys.

[spacemonkey]

"Well Curtis...nice of you to finally get here, the party is almost over!" said Marlon kind of upset at Curtis.

"Sorry dude, its just that I had a hard time getting my costume right..you see Im....DEATH! Ha ha ha ha ha!" said Curtis moving his plastic scythe around menacingly.

"Ok so update for you Curtis, were going into the House of Horrors over there and were going to see if that old crazy lady is still living there and if she has chopped up humans remain laying around...so if you want to come..." said Josh invitingly.

"Oh Josh, your still telling that story to get laid man? Everyone knows your full of shit allready. You need to try some new material dude!"

"Well Trish bought it, but seriously I heard it really happened" said Josh matter of factly.

"Well lets go!" said Lilly with a candle in her hand as she started walking out of the tent into the windy night.

[EVILxxx]

The massive structure hung over them ominously. The huge door towered over them and was so well designed you would have sworn it was made out of real wood.

The group gazed up and gave the place a good once over.
"Well" said Trish "It doesn't look like there's anyway to get in"
"Nice try Trish but the 'employees only' door is right over there" proclaimed Josh. The group shuufled over to the maroon colored door.

"Damn it. Its locked." complained Lily. "Nonsense." shouted Curtis as he kicked the door with all he had.
"Oh fuck me. Fuck'n hell. Fuck this!" shouted Curtis.
The door did not give like he wanted or expected. Curtis doubled back and sat on the ground for awhile. He lifted up his pant leg to see if any swelling had accured. There was a slight bit, he mumbled to himself and looked uo at the rest of the group shamefully.

"Curtis you dumb ass! Your supposed to kick next to the knob, not the middle of the door." laughed Marlon.
"yeah well if you know so much why don't. . . ."
Before he could even finish his sentance Marlon had kicked it open, injury free. He threw a smirk Curtis' way.
"Wipe that shit-eating grin off your face and help me up."
Pulling Curtis to his feet they entered the darkness.

[Corpse Candle]

"Great! a venture in visual entertainment....complete darkness this place must have really...Rocked "

Josh shouted sarcasticly

"Yeah well maybe we may be lucky and find that scythe guy and he can remove your head from your shoulders"
Trish snapped.

The group found them in a tight corridor the only light was comming from behind them but it did nothing to penitrate the blackness infront of them.

Trish's elbow accidently struck a switch that lit a flourecent light,it gave an unassuring flickering illumination to long grey passage way that streched in two ways.
"Nice going trish at least we can see something"
Lilly winked at tina as she spoke.

"Okay guys any bright ideas on where to go now"
Marlon said

"Not sure but I think one direction leads to the staff room and the other goes to the house of horror room"
Josh replied

"Okay.....let me see what's going on in the staff room no need for us all to share the boredom"
Trish said

The rest allowed to pass and walk towards the staff quaters trish hated waisting time making descisions and found the boys with all thier bravado were the most indescive bunch of pricks on the planet.
However Lilly ment so much to her that she made her self stick around with boys and thier testoreone.

Trish dissapered around the corner and into the shadows where the light was to weak to reach.


The silence was deafening all that could be heard was the tappings of Trishs's steel tracked boots and then the rattle of the door handle.
Then silence again until there was a that sound that all five members would always remember and try to forget..........


Sorry had to edit....no such person as Tina except in my head...but that's another story LOL;)

[spacemonkey]

Trish walked on down the hallway till she came to a door that had a sign on it which read 'staff room'. It was a small room filled with switches and handles. Trish wondered if the electrical system was still working on this thing, maybe she could get the whole place going again. She saw what looked to her like a main power switch and flicked it.

The lights on the room turned on and like a giant creature that had just been awakened from its slumber the whole place lighted up. Noises, shrieks, and ghostly moans filled the air with noise. A yellowish light came from the old light bulbs in the place. The old room was filled with lots of cobwebs and dust.

Cool! Said Trish to herself! She started flicking more switches on, with everyone that she flicked something different happened. A new noise would fill the air.

"Hey guys! I got the power back up! I got the power back up!" she screamed through out the hallway.

"Good one Trish!" said Josh screaming back at her, though he still couldnt see her.

"I cant believe the light still works in this place! Now we can really have some fun!" said Lilly.

Suddenly two black doors flipped opened and a small black car emerged. It was going down a series of tracks that obviously ran all over the Horror House.

"The ride is about to begin ladies and gentlemen! Take your seats!" said Marlon signaling at the carts.

The small cars could only fit three, one in the fron and two in the back. Lilly went in the front and Marlon and Curtis sat in the back.

"Ill stay here and get on the next car with Trish!" said Josh, they all knew that he had a crush on Trish so they let him.

"Fine see ya! Just dont stay behind for too long!" said Lilly and winked at him. The car took off into the darkness, the screams and recorded shrieks continued to fill the room, giving Josh a bit of a shiver up his back.

Josh was starting to wonder what the hell had happened to Trish, she was taking to damn long to get back.

"Trish come on, we got to catch with the guys..." said Josh as he countinued to walk back down the hallway towards the staff room. He figured maybe this way he and Trish could get some quality time together, he figured he might even get lucky tonight.

[EVILxxx]

Josh made his way down the concrete walls towards where he thought he had heard Trish's voice.
"Trish? Are you there?" The hallway was a very unsettling place, especially after being closed down all for five years. Spider webs had clung to the walls and ceilings, The dust was so thick that it made Josh's allergies act up.
"ACHOOO! Oh man I can't wait to get out of here."
Josh shifted closer
Just then Josh heard shuffling foot steps around where the corner turned. Josh quickened his pace. He would catch Trish and then with his unmatched charm and charisma he would make her his.
"BOO!" shouted Josh as he jumped around the corner hoping to scare the easily frightened Trish. She wasn't there but what he did see was a room with a flickering light. The flickering had an unsettling red color to it that creeped Josh out alittle. Josh who was not easily scared by any means.
He knew however that this is the only room that Trish could be in, he wiped his nose to make sure there was no unsightlyness and he approached the room. . . cautiously.
"Triiiiiiiiiiishy, are you in. . . . ." She was there.
Her neck had been slit. No not slit. . . . she was nearly decapitated! Only about two inches of flesh was all that remained of her neck. Blood had sprayed all over most of the room and noticably all over light bulb with the flickering red light. Her face was completely pale, eyes wide with horror.

Just then Josh heard foot steps approach. He was so in shock and so terrified there was only one thought on his mind. HIDE!
The foot steps got closer.
He saw a cabinet that could barely fit him laying next to the body.
He closed himself inside. The cabinet had a small slit where he watched through and saw a pair of feet enter the room.
He could not with all power in his body and will in his mind stop what was going to happen next. . . . .

"ACHOO!"

[redwhisper13]

The footsteps stopped, Josh covered his mouth and nose with his hands, willing to suffocate himself before whatever horror that walked in that room found him. Josh continued to stare as he saw two black boots slowly turn and walk in his direction. Josh started to tremble, his heartbeat was deafening.

Josh watched as the boots stopped in front of him, and started to bend down. Josh could hear himself screaming in terror, when suddenly the mysterious figure straightened. Josh then realized that it was not him screaming, it was Lilly! She was still on the ride, unaware of what had become of Trish, and the madman that was stalking them!

The boots swiftly turned and left the room, persuing the screams of Lilly, and now Marlon and Curtis, innocently enjoying the ride. As the stranger left the room, Josh heard a strange thumping sound accompanying the rythmic walk of the murderer's shoes. Josh leaned forward to see if he could glimpse the killer before he left, but the figure was gone!

Josh leaned out of his hiding place to see where he had gone, and that was his fatal mistake. The killer stood to the side, with a scythe raised high. Josh's eyes widened in horror, and that expression was frozen forever as the killer's scythe swung down in a mighty arc, cutting off the top of Josh's head as cleanly as wheat.

The killer watched in satisfaction as Josh's body slumped to the ground, blood pooling onto the concrete floor. He placed the scythe against the wall, then smirked, "Now, let's make this place REALLY scary."

[JivaFox]

EDIT > Ooops, someone got their first.

[spacemonkey]

Lilly, Marlon and Curtis got of the car for now the ride was over.

"Man what a kick ass horror house! That cemetary was awesome! I cant believe those old props still worked!" said Lilly.

"Yeah, lets continue to check this place out...maybe we could even spend the night here what do you think?" said Curtis.

"Yeah, I think Josh and Trish are waaay ahead of us on that one. Heh, I havent heard a peep from those two in a while, lets go check em out" said Marlon as he started walking down the hallway which led to the Staff Room.

"You think we should interrupt them Marlon? The obviously got the hots for eachother..." said Lilly.

"Well its been a while, I think we could just sneak up on them...and scare the shit out of them! Its Halloween remember?"

"Ok lets go..." said Lilly.

As they approached the room they could see a red light emerging from the room. The shadows on the wall were slowly moving about as if the lightbulb was swinging back and forth.

"Josh?"

"Trish?"

They continued forward slowly they came to the realization that the room was a horrendous theater of death. Trishs body sat on a chair...headless. Joshs body was lifeless on the floor...also headless. Hes body still sprayed blood on the floor, like a small jet of blood gushed on the floor and sprinkled on Curtis's sneakers.

"Shit! What the-" said Curtis.

Lilly immediately screamed almost out of instinct and couldnt close her eyes at the horror....she stood there screaming in disbelief. Marlon covered her eyes and brought her close to his chest as she continued to cry.

"What the fuck happened? What the fuck is going on here?" yelled Curtis almost in jargon.

Blood had been sprayed all over the walls of the small room. The crystal windows that allowed you to see outside into the darkness had been sprayed with blood as well...and a message had been written on the glass.

YOU ARE NEXT!

"Shiiitt! Lets get out of here theres nothing we can-" and then Curtis stopped talking as he thought he saw something moving outside of the glass window. He looked closer...and out of the dark shadows of the horror house...and very close to the glass window stood a clown. Tall and skinny with clown make up on...only the make up was made out to be slightly evil looking. It had white make up and a red out fit...which was made more red by the blood that was now sprayed on it...It held a scythe in on of its hands...and it leaned close to look at Curtis.

Curtis took a good look at the scythe...and at the end of it like an apple on a stick was Joshs head.

The clown took Joshs head fromt the scythe gave an evil laugh and the hurled the head towards the glass window. It smashed into a million pieces then the head fell next to Marlon and Lillys feet.

They all screamed in horror and began to run out of the room in terror.

[EVILxxx]

RIGHT!
LEFT!
RIGHT AGAIN!
The remaining trio ran all through the place.
No exits.
No way out.
Marlon and Lily were way ahead of Curtis now. "Wait for me you assholes! For God sakes you can't leave me!" The other two could not hear him. They couldn't hear anything, only the thumping of their heat and the echo of their foot steps were audible to them.
Curtis's swollen knee was slowing him down. If he wasn't such a show off. If he didn't have to be the center of attention, he wouldn't have been in this predicament.
"Fuck me" said Curtis. His pace was reduced to a slow hobble. The pain in his knee had gone from numb and dull, to sharp and constant. The pain shot up his leg like a flesh eating virus.
Then he heard what would be his doom.
A chuckle rang through the winding corridors and reached Curtis's ears and ran down the back of his spine into the pit of his stomach.
"Hide and go seek is it? You know that was my favorite game as a kid. I was always it though. I know where yopu are you know."
Curtis swallowed hard.
The killer continued. "But being the sport that I am I'll give you to the count of 5 to go hide but as you can see from your friends back there, you don't stand much of a chance."
"5. . . 4. . . . 3. . . "
Curtis knew he was hearing the count down of his doom"
The creature was scraping the scythe along the cold gray concrete walls, the noise was unbearable.
Curtis saw his only hope. A steel grate.
Curtis tugged. It would not move.
He pulled harder. nothing...
"2. . . . . . . . . . . 1!"
Curtis began to hear the foot steps moving closer, faster.
Death was coming for him.

[spacemonkey]

Curtis kept staying behind in the labyrinthian hallway. Marlon and Lilly went ahead, Curtis could hear Lillys cries of terror.

Curtis stopped running. He figured he would stand up and fight this murderous clown. He could probably take him. Curtis took a steel pipe from the electrical tubing on the wall.

"Come on you fucker! Im waiting!"

He screamed, with a nervous trembling on his voice.

All he could see was the dark shadows on the walls, the small lightbulbs didnt give much light. The tunnel seemed to end in pitchblack darkness sace for the few inches of light that the lightbulb provided.

"So...you think you can take me junior?" said a skeaquy voice. He sounded like the way a clown would talk, only this clown had evil in its tone.

"Ive allready killed two of your friends....you think you can beat me?" and after he finished the sentence he heard a laugh.

Curtis stood their just listening to the voice echoing from the darknes.

Ever so slowly a figure emerged. It was the clown. Now Curtis could really take a good look at him. He soon wished he hadnt layed his eyes on the monstrosity.

The Clown was wearing a red clown suit with big yellow circles. It had fake yellow hair that was smudge with dirt and blood and a huge red nose. Its make up was running down his face from all the sweat on its face and his eyes gave a vibe of ever growing lunacy. The make up running gave it an even more evil look. The scythe in his hand looked menacing as hell, curtis though. It still had some of Joshs blood on it.

"Im just a preatty little thing aint I kid? Wont you come closer? Ill make you laugh....till you die!" and he gave yet another hedious laugh. It seemed like this was the way he ended all his sentences.

Curtis stood there holding the steel tube tightly in his hands. He wasnt going to let the clown make the first move. If someone was going to attack it was going to be him first he thought.

"Why are you doing this you sick fuck? What did we ever do to you?"

With every second that passed by the clown took a micro step closer to Curtis.

[JivaFox]

"I swear to God if you take one more step I'll bash your fucking colourful brains in." Curtis tightened his grip on the pipe. The clown was closing in and Curtis knew that if he was going to strike he had to do so now or -
- with one swift movement he swung the pipe as hard as he could. It hit the clown in the thigh. It let out a demonic squeal as it flew sideways. Curtis limped as fast as he could away from it, his leg burning with pain. The clown regained its menacing posture and turned to look at Curtis with its small eyes. They flashed with evil and blood and anguish. It gave a small growl and Curtis did not stop.
"Stay away, stay away, stay away..." He muttered. He felt hot and weak and he was sweating.
The clown started to move forwards again, differently now, a more swift angry movement. It raised the scythe up, ready to swing.
"No you fucking DON'T!"
Curtis hurled the iron pipe upwards. It swung forwards into the air and connected with the clown's ever-grinning face. The arms dropped. The scythe clattered to the ground. Curtis hobbled as fast as he could, but his knee clicked and the pain was too much to bear. He collapsed under his own weight and with a strangled cry turned towards the clown. It was coming again, blood running from its face, scythe ready and now he had nothing to fight back with.
"Alright you motherfucker, you win, but I swear I -" He didn't finish. The scythe swung low, slitting his abdomen. The blood ran thick acorss his shirt, over his hands, the pain was oberbearing and the clown's manical laughter rung in his ears. The scythe swung again, this time crunching through his jaw and through the bottom of his mouth. He tasted blood and warm metal and felt bone slit his tongue and his teeth were everywhere and the pain...
He slipped into darkness as he hit the floor.

[spacemonkey]

(good one Jiva!)

Curtis felt the scythe digging deeper into his head. He was about ready to fall unconscious into death...embrace the darkness. The scythe came out through the back of his neck. Curtis wasnt going to go easy...on last bit of strenght left in him. He swung his foot upwards towards the clowns groin hitting him with all his might.

The clown screamed in pain and anguish, he was human after all. The clowns anger started to rise like a boiling pot of hot water until he raised the scythe high up in the air and began to hack away at curtis non stop. One hack after another, with every slash the demonic clown separated another limb from Curtis's body until Curtis was no longer one. He was now separated across the floor into countless pieces which amounted into a bloody pulp.

After he finished hacking away at Curtis...as he breathed heavily he focused down on Curtis's hand. It was made into a fist with the middle finger extended outwards.

"The fucker! Well at least he gave up a fight...lets see how well the other two kiddies measure up!" and he started his way into the dark walls of the Horror House. By now, the two kids must have hidden away somewhere deep within the bowls of the ride he thought to himself.

There was no way out. The clown had made sure that there was only one way in or out...and that door was now shut tight.

[redwhisper13]

Marlon and Lilly stopped a moment to catch their breaths. Lilly shut her eyes in horror and anguish as she remembered hearing Curtis' horrible screams. A sob escaped her lips, drawing Malon's attention to her.

Marlon grabbed Lilly's shoulder's and squeezed, "Heh, don't start that. We've got to keep strong if we're going to get out of here." Lilly nodded, "I know, but I just can't believe that they're all dead! Curtis, Josh, and, oh god, Trish! I..I don't want to die!" A torrential flood began to upheave within Lilly, the terror was overwhelming. Marlon started to shake her, "C'mon, don't fall apart on me now. Stop it!" Marlon struke Lilly across the face. The shock stopped her tears. As well as the footsteps that were shuffling closer and closer.

Lilly pressed herself against Marlon, as he wrapped his arms around. Neither breathed. The footsteps stopped in front of the darkened corner they hid in, then flashed a flashlight into their faces. Marlon took a deep breath, then lunged at the shadowy figure, "Son of a bitch!" Marlon wrestled the figure to the ground, and pinned him while he waited for Lilly to pick up the flashlight to identify their tormentor.

Marlon's eyes widened in shock when he saw the face of...

[spacemonkey]

"Stop hitting me dude!"

After hearing this Marlon stopped throwing punches blindly at whoever it was that he was pinning to the floor.

"Wha-" said Marlon when he realized that it was Dean his highschool buddy.

"Whats wrong with you Marlon, Janine and me we just came in cause we heard you guys screaming in here, we figured you guys had managed to turn the ride on since we saw the lights..." out of the shadows came Janine, Deans girlfriend dressed as a waitress with a fake knife passing through her head, fake blood was drawn on to her temples. She squeaked a shy "Hi" to everyone.

Before Dean could start talking again Marlon began speaking desperately, looking back through the hallway expecting to see the clown figure emerging from the shadows at any moment.

"Which way did you come in? The front gate? Is it open?"

"We sneaked in through the front entrance of the ride, we had to pry the doors open but it wasnt too hard...the door that said 'staff' was locked for some reason so we found this other entrance..what the hell is going on Marlon? You guys seem upset" said Dean as he started to get up from the floor.

"Take us there now! Ill explain as we move along!" and they all started to follow Dean towards the main entrance of the Horror House.

As they walked, Lilly and Marlon looked back behind them. They could hear a smashing sound as if glass was being shattered. The lightbulbs lighting the hallways were being shattered by the clown...one by one he hit them with the scythe shutting off the light that they gave. The horror house became increasingly darker.

"Hurry up Dean! This fucked up psycho clown is trying to kill us for some reason! He allready murdered Josh and Trish and now hes after us!" said Marlon impatiently. Marlons impatience made Dean pick up his pace, he was practically running following the tracks that lead to the main entrance. As they continued their small treck Dean hit the metal track with his feet and a plastic skeleton popped out, screaming and laughing a recorded maniacal laugh. He had accidently triggered on of the rides mechanical gags.

Lilly gave of a high pitched skqueek, she was obviously in a terribly horrified state, Marlon knew she normally liked spooky things like that, not today of course. Not when they were being hounded by the clown from hell.

Finally they arrived at the front entrance. It was the place where normally the small carts would come in through. If they went out those doors, they would find the main entrance were people would wait in line to get on the ride, and eventually get on the small carts that took them on the ride.

Suddenly, the doors opened to reveal a sligthly short yet fat clown. He had equally hideous make up and blue hair, hes teeth were distorted and dirty. His suit was Yellow with green cotton balls. It had huge red clown shoes that seemed to go on forever. He started to slownly make his way towards the kids.

"Heee heee heeee, where do you bratty kids think your going? Me and my brother have not yet finished our performance! This is one show you will never forget! Ha! Ha! Ha! Hee hee hee!" said the fat clown at the kids with an evil grin on his face. He had two machetes...one in each of his hands.

Marlon and Lilly looked back and they heard the other clown, the tall skinny one was right behind them, they could hear the sound of shattering glass getting ever so closer and the darkness almost engulfed the room.