Derelict House

One late evening you and your friends had made plans to go to a large abandoned and decrepit house. Your friends had heard rumors regarding the house and it was said to be haunted by the home's first owners who were said to be worshipers of the dark lord and were into the occult. A family not to long ago bought the house but left and were never heard from again. You thought it would be fun to go with them to have a look around and see if the rumors could be true. You agreed to all meet at the house around 11:00pm as that was when the ghosts were most likely to appear according to the rumors. [[Continue]]

Upon arriving at the house you wait for your friends. But as half an hour passes and no messages or any phone calls to say they were not coming. You figure your friends might be inside so you go to investigate the house to try and locate them. You walk up to the front door and try to open it, as you expect it's locked and appears to be jammed anyway, so you make your way around the side of the house and find that the back porch has some dimly lit lights illuminating the area. You believe that your friends are inside and left the light on to tell you that is where they were able to get inside. Once you get inside you call out your friends names...but no response can be heard from anyone. You continue to search the dark house, using your phone's camera light as a torch to see what is around you. The house must have been abandoned a long time ago as there was paint peeling from the walls and ceilings, cracked floor boards and rotten wood doors leading to the other rooms, but the house still had its old furniture and items from the last owners as if they just picked up and left without any of their belongings. [[Continue on]]

As you make your way through the house investigating and looking for your friends you keep hearing noises, but you assume that it is just the age of the house creaking and groaning under the wind from the storm. Continuing your way through you look in each of the bedrooms and adjoining rooms to the living room that you came into when getting through the back door you find no hints or clues that your friends have even ever being there. Finding this rather odd you try to call them on your phone, the phone does not ring and cuts out, and to add insult to injury your phone then dies cutting your source of light off and virtually becoming blind for a few moments until your eyes adjust to your surround shroud of darkness. As you keep moving through the house you begin to hear noises coming from inside the house now, and they were not as easily dismissed as you did before. The sounds were getting louder but were muffled so you couldn’t quite make out what it was. You decide to move in on where the sounds appeared to be coming from as you get closer to the hallway doors you hear footsteps coming from somewhere in the front of the house behind the two doors leading to the hallway. You realize you are the only person in the house and the foot holds are much heavier than a regular step with a loud hollow sounding clop that reminded you of the sound of a heavy hoof on solid hard ground. You decide to… [[Pursue to investigate where the sound originated from.]] [[Arm yourself with a knife from the kitchen and wait to hear the steps again.]] [[Flee the house through the back door and jump the back fence in hopes of escaping whatever is in the house with you.]]

You push through the hallway doors, the double doors swing open into a long and wide corridor with no light giving off an eerie feel as you can’t see the end of the hall as it fades to black. You push forward into the darkness feeling the walls to guide your way through the dark corridor. As your feeling your way along the room you feel as if someone, or something is watching your every move. You become uneasy at this odd feeling and stop to collect your thoughts and try to clear your head, but once you stop for a brief moment a quiet knocking can be heard coming from further ahead of you. After hearing the knocking, as if taunting you to come closer, you decide to... [[Move closer to the sound feeling uneasy with each step.]] [[Flee the house through the back door and jump the back fence in hopes of escaping whatever is in the house with you.]]

After you move to the kitchen and claimed the knife, you sit and wait to hear any more sounds that sound like movement coming from the front of the house, and as if on cue just as you begun to dismiss the idea of anything actually being there the footsteps get louder and heavier seeming to get closer and closer to the double doors blocking the hallway off to the rest of the house. You decide to go to the doors and press your ear up to the door to see if you can hear the steps clearer. As you press your ear to the door a loud heavy breathing can be heard from the other side of the door. Startled by this you… [[Confront your fears and quickly open the doors and rush through them.]] [[Drop the knife and run out the back door.]]

After jumping the back fence of the house you feel safe and as if you are away from what was in the house. Whatever it was you don't want to find out what was inside on the other side of those doors. But as you turn to walk away from the house and leave you hear and feel the ominous breath of something large down the back of your neck. But when you turn around there is nothing there just the creepy dim lit back porch of the house you had escaped from moments ago. Walking faster now you're determined to just get out of the presence of the house and as far away as possible from the derelict homestead. As your pace quickens loud thumps in the dirt behind you can be felt with each step you take. At this point you think it would be best to… [[Begin to sprint wildly as fast as you can to try to lose whatever it may be tailing you.]] [[Stop and turn around to confront whatever it may be.]]

As each step you take the knocking becomes clearer and clearer, the knocking is now coming from your left. You continue to follow the sound and stumble into a large darkened room with a single dimly lit lantern placed what seems to be in the centre of the room over the top of a large symbol that could not be seen as it stretched out into the darkness. Not sure what the symbol is you move closer towards it, upon reaching it you notice that it is drawn out of a sticky red substance with a strong metallic smell. You move to the centre of the symbol and take the lantern for a new source of light, after turning up the dial on the bottom of the lantern it shines brighter and you are able to make out what the symbol is, it is a large pentagram drawn in blood. Intrigued and frightened by this discovery you decide to investigate further to find out if your friends had really been there or if you really are alone...or with something else lurking in the shadows. At the back of the room lies a staircase to what appears to be two other bedrooms. You think that if your friends are here at all the last place they could be was in either of these rooms, so you push on and slowly creep up the the old stairs and begin to whisper out your friends names in hopes that they would hear you and show you that it was all an elaborate joke, but nothing is heard in return. Worried they did not hear you, you move to the first bedroom door and open it quickly and see that room is bare and no trace of anything ever being in that room. You shut the door and move to the second door of the next room and as you get closer you can hear something behind the door, with what seems to sound like a person pacing back and forth. You believe that this can be one of your friends. You knock on the door and the pacing stops then on the other side of the door, whoever was there, knocks back. You grab the door handle and begin to open the door. [[Move on]]

After rushing through the doors with you knife wielded at the ready for anything you bump into something large and solid but seems fleshy. With a croak and a loud moaning noise coming from whatever you just rushed headlong into. You realise that whatever you just ran into is enraged, unable to identify what it is that you ran into you stab franticly at it as it advances slowly towards you. Landing a couple of strikes you can see reflecting glimmers of the blood from the fleshy behemoth and it was not red, but black...pure black. Stepping back into the living room where some light was seeping through from the back porch you were able to make out some of its features as it walked through the doors. It was unlike anything you have ever seen before, it was tall and muscular but the shade of its skin was that of a pale green, it had horns like a ram, large pale white eyes and no lips around its mouth just its sharp razor teeth permanently showing through in a disturbing permanent smile. You keep swinging at the large figure with the knife landing a few large deep blows, but with each strike landed it seems unaffected by the attacks. Confused and frustrated at this you throw the knife in anger landing the blade into its sternum again seemingly unaffected by the blade protruding from its chest it keeps striding towards you. Panicking frantically now that you are unarmed and seemingly facing imminent death you make one last burst of effort to attempt to leave the house through the back door. As soon as you reach the rear door the horned creature was right behind you, as if it quickly rushed to catch you before you left the confines of the house. As soon as it gets to you, you are able to break free of the house and jump over the back fence and run as far as your legs will take you. The End. [[Beginning]]

You take off on a wildly sporadic pace, almost surprising to yourself how fast you are running, fleeing the immediate area of where something was seeming to follow you. As you run farther and farther away the footsteps appear to be getting quieter and less noticeable. You don’t want to stop, and you don't you just keep going until you are unable to see that derelict house anymore. The End. [[Beginning]]

You decide to turn around to see what has been following you all this time from the inside of this house to the vacant land behind it. Once facing back towards the house there is a shadowy figure that you can make out standing roughly a few meters in front of you. Upon seeing this you are frightened and your first thought that crosses your mind is to run and dont look back until you make it to somewhere with some form of civilization that is away from this hellish place. The End. [[Beginning]]

After you open the door to the last bedroom upstairs you shine the lanterns light into the room it is the same as the last bedroom with one difference. There appears to be a dark shadowy figure hobbled in the corner at the back of the room. You decide to…. [[Move towards the shadow in the corner as if you were drawn to it. ]] [[Turn around and try to get as far away as possible from that thing.]]

Once you reach it you extend your arm to grab what seemed like its shoulder, but as your hand draws closer the shadow almost instantly turns around and stares directly into your eyes. What you see is a horrifying visage of what you can only believe to be something not of this world or even dimension. Its eyes were a pale white, it had teeth that looked like they were grinded down to small sharp razors, and it had what looked like rams horns curling over to a sharp point at the end of them. In this moment you knew there was nothing you can do to escape the grip that this...thing had on you. The End. [[Beginning]]

You hurry as fast as you can down the stairs and make a break for the back door from where you came in. But as you reach the double doors that were leading to the main living room that figure from the room was standing in the middle of them. Illuminated by the light of your lantern you see what it really is. Its unlike anything you have ever seen or could even comprehend. Bright eyes, pale and white, glistening in the illumination of your light. Horns that extended from the forehead, and teeth like jagged sharp blades. Its flesh was a sickly green and bathed in blood. Taking in what you've seen you turn in the opposite direction and try to go through the jammed and locked front door. With all your might you run as fast as you can and hit the door with your shoulder in hopes to barge through the door to safety. But the door is stubborn and not moving at all, you turn your head to see if that thing was still there, it is, and it's moving closer towards you. Feeling helpless you keep trying to knock down the door until it's too late and the creature is standing before you. It reaches its hand out to you and grabs your arm, crushing it with its absurd strength. The End. [[Beginning]]