Not that bad

It was a usual night where everybody was doing their usual stuff. Mom and dad was still out with their friends. I was laying down on my bed, I picked up my phone and started looking through the news. "Zombie breakout video", etc. I let out a sigh, then my brother Zack came rushing into my room telling me about the zombie breakout. I told him it was a fake video that went viral as news. He's a believer in supernatural stuff. He then showed me this video. There's people running around with blood on them and biting others. I can't tell what they are really doing since the video was blur. "See, it's zombies. This place is not so far from here! Isn't this awesome?" My brother said. I looked at him with a confused look, " You do know nowadays people are good with acting and special FX right? It's all fake." That's where I was wrong.

Then I asked my brother to go to my room to sleep since it's quite late and I was feeling sleepy. I locked my door and went to sleep, note that I'm a heavy sleeper. I woke up at six o'clock, which was the usual time I wake up for school. I changed my clothes and was going downstairs when I was shocked. My family was in the living room, their faces showed worried expressions. My mom was sitting on the sofa with my brother. There were barricades like chairs and table on the door and windows. My dad is sitting in front of the barricade with a hatchet in a hand. I looked at my mom but my mom just gave me a keep quite hint, like one finger in front of the mouth.

I looked out the window, they were people standing outside. All covered in blood, just standing doing nothing. This is when everything goes wrong. My phone started ringing at the full volume. The people outside went crazed and started banging on the door and window. My brother ran to me and said, "I told you zombies were real, but these are attracted to sound like they are blind". My dad ask us to go hide, seeing the barricade failing. I just stood there still confused. My mother and brother went upstairs while I stood there numb. The door finally broke and one of them charged in, my dad gave it a swing and blood was splattered on the ceiling. That's when I started running.

I ran up stairs, ran into attic. Since I didn't think zombies could be that smart. My dad's scream was heard. It echoed in my head. Fear was getting to me. I hear multiples footsteps running up the stairs, doors breaking and my mom and brother screaming. I was the only one left, and terrified. Then I heard someone say "I know you are somewhere here... It's not that bad being one of us". I was shocked, I didn't know zombies could talk. I opened the attic door slightly and they were all covered in blood, " It'll just hurt for a while, and all the pain goes away". I can see one of the living dead woman talking, it's so human like.

It's been two days, I'm struggling without food and water. I am very exhausted and whispered under my breath and said " Maybe it's not that bad after all".

John

Back in 1998, a silent cold night. Adam, a 13 years old kid was watching the television. " John the Killer has already committed a murder today, will he strike again?" said the reporter on the screen. Then Adam hears his dad yelling at him to sleep. He yelled back saying yes as he turned off the television in his bedroom. He switch off the lights and hopped into his bed.

While trying to sleep, he thought he heard a slight giggle. He just brushed it off. He thens heard his parents scream. Adam was terrified thinking it is John the Killer. He then decided to pretend to be asleep. That's when he heard his door creaks and opens.

A teenage looking boy walked in, with hair of shoulder length. Adam's eyes are adjusted to the darkness and can see him. He can see his left eye socket empty. He can see a huge smile on his face. John's head started twitching, then the whole body. Adam was horrified by the twitching, accidentally letting out a gasp. All the twitching stopped, but the head is pointing directly at Adam.

John's hand then reach for the lights and switched it on. Adam quickly shuts his eyes. The lights then switched off. John then starts writing something on the wall, which Adam thinks its blood. Then John crawled under his bed. Adam is curious for the writing on the walls and tries to read it. When his eyes finally adjusted to the dark. The writing on the wall wrote "I know your awake". That's before everything went black.

Going back 10 years ago in 1988, there was a group of psychologist and scientist who planned to clone extra ordinary human. After five years later, in 1993. The clone was five years old and they've discovered that he has better hearing, sight and intelligence then normal human. They named him Subject B.

They named him Subject B because there was Subject A. Who is diagnosed with the Wendigo syndrome. The Wendigo syndrome causes an individual to crave for human flesh and blood desperately. At the same time also diagnosed with Happy Puppet syndrome. Happy Puppet syndrome causes an individual to twitch uncontrollably for a short period of time, which looks like puppet and they can never stop smiling. Subject A is locked away in chamber.

Then until one unfortunate December night in 1997, the scientist accidentally left the chamber of Subject B door open. By that time Subject B was already very smart, but was also diagnosed Wendingo and Happy Puppet syndrome. When Subject B started to charge at the members of the experiment, a scientist tried giving his sedative, which failed resulting accidental stab into Subject B's left eye.

He pulled the needle out, with his eyeball attached to it, still smiling. He saw a glimpse of one of the members name on the coat, which was John. "John the Killer" he said with a slight giggle. He then starts ripping their throats, blood spewing everywhere. He enjoyed it. He killed everyone accept one last scientist who was "John". John the Killer then says "I'll spare you, if you lead me out here." John runs out of the underground facility and went to the nearest safe place, which is a bar. John the Killer was following behind in the shadows.

The next day everyone in the bar is murdered brutally and "John the Killer was here" is written on the walls with blood. That's how he got infamous. John the Killer can be recognized for his incredibly twitching and his smile. If you ever do meet him, you should be dead.

Notice

Have you ever felt like you saw something at the corner of your eye? Felt a presence of something eventhough you're alone? Well, that's "them" and you don't really see them often. But if you concentrate good enough, you might just notice them, starting to hear faint whispers in the air. Then starting to see slight figures in the shadows. But keep in mind. When you start noticing them, they'll start noticing you.

I'm sorry...

My wife, Lisa passed away 5 years ago. My son, Luke lost his mom when he was just four. Ever since then, I always hired a babysitter to take care of my son. One late stormy night when I got home, I didn’t see the babysitter in the kitchen. That was where she normally is. So, I thought she went out through the back. That was when I noticed my son at the top of the stairs, crying.

 As he walked down the stairs, I could tell he was very terrified of something. I just brushed it off. When he hugged me, I asked “What’s wrong, boy? Nightmares?" He nodded. I asked if he can tell me, but he just looked at me." You can tell me, go on." He then started narrating. 

“I was awoken by the scream of the babysitter. I slowly went down the stairs to check. I saw a tall creature sticking its long fingers into her eyes, still screaming. As the creature pulled out its fingers, she stopped screaming. Blood and organs were pulled out from her eye sockets. I was terrified. Then another monster came crawling into the kitchen, from the basement door. Then another one came crawling in from the window. They finished the babysitter and licked the blood clean off the floor. I was terrified. I tried to run to the front door, but then one of them caught me by my collar."

Luke wept another tear, saying “I told the creatures that if they spare me, I'll stall my dad long enough for them to eat him." I looked at him with my eyes wide open. I then heard the back door and the basement door open. My son held me tight and said “I’m sorry." That was when I heard the window open.