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The final day of school
You probably think this is a joke, it's not. Run away as fast as you can from this book. But, I know you're not going to listen to me. Good luck when you try to sleep. Keep an eye open if you want to live. After all, who wouldn’t be scared of monsters?
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Summer was hitting soon with a couple more days left of school and freedom for me and my friends.There's always a Party for the highschoolers each year for summer just to kick it off. Many people went in groups and had some interaction. Many of the high schoolers also got drunk. My friend Keith is always clever getting into these types of parties. He is a huge party animal. Around 2:12 we all get out from school and everyone tries to rush home from school just to get air conditioning at their homes. A couple kids in my school walk through the heat to their homes. Yucaria and the Jack twins are some people that walk through the heat together. I'm honestly impressed.They usually do it during the heat waves and cold fronts that hit here. “Hey, Hey John you're excited.”Keith always always acts like this before parties start. “Hey keith. I’m excited to head to the party soon.”, I say shyly. I have never been to a party because I’m scared to begin in crowds but this might help me get over my fear. We went on and talked all about the party. I can be happy that the party was at a pool area where I could smell drama a mile away from now. “You know Yucaria is going to be there right, if not then you snooze you lose.” Keith said stupidly. Yucaria is my crush and now hearing she is going to the party made my eyes light up with joy. I was heading home to sleep before the party because it is starting at 12 p.m. and to get ready my parents never cared about me. Heck,they don't even know that I’m alive in the first place. So everything was between me and keith. I packed some things because I ran away during the summer and came back for the fall. I take my cell phone, some cash, and a journal to write everything down. After packing everything I fell asleep on my cool comfy bed before the party. I went into a deep sleep and saw a girl in a dress with blood stains on it and the irony scent coming from somewhere. I yelled somewhat scared from a far distance,” Hey um little girl are you okay?” She didn’t talk but touched my head and ran away. I looked around and I was in horror seeing the bodies of kids and friends, some chopped up, others bleeding out to death. I ran out of the building seeing more people dead, more blood everywhere, some impaled in the chest and other slaughter in as many ways as possible. I woke up with a cold sweat and was scared.
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I got ready and didn’t know what to think about the dream but it felt like the worst is yet to come. Keith came by and I snuck out of the window so my parents didn’t think I was leaving. We went straight to the party and every type of group came. Everything seemed to be fine. Then Yuacia came into my heart and started to fly away. I went up to her and started to talk. “Hey Yucaria, nice party right.”, I said smiling. “Oh yeah it is, want to leave this place?”, Yucaria calmly. We went outside but something happened around the area. The ground was shaking a lot. Then Keith, the Jack twins and two others rushed out of there with seconds left. There was a place on the outer areas of the town and we ran there but the other made it and pushed us down a hole. But something felt off. It was like second nature to me like it was another home. Me and Yucaria stuck the landing and Keith and the Jack twins almost stuck it but failed. We all got up from our knees and saw we were in another world here then our own. Yucaria mutters under her breath the word “home sweet home”. I’ve heard legends of this place “The mid realm”. I still had my bag with me and gave them a flashlight. We found an entrance to a town after walking for a while. The unknown town We went into the town and there were some human people I didn’t know anything about but Yucaria knew them and some waved back at her. The people or monsters of that town gave us a place to stay. Keith was so mad about what just happened and a monster waving at her like they know each other. “What the hell Yucaria, what just happened and how did that monster know you?!” Keith yells almost violently. Yucaria worked up the courage and said,” I'm a half monster, half human and there's one more in the group. I wore gloves and others to hide my markings. They can come in different forms, looks and types.” My face was shocked but I still liked her. She told us that there is a way out of here and it is very dangerous. But she needs to check who else has these markings. She checked all of us but let an insult to injury I had the marking on my back and chest. I thought it was permanent pen ink on me. “This day gets better and better.”, I said, upset and sad. I felt so mad that my own parents hid this from me or maybe they were never my real mom and dad at all. Keith and the jack twins now knew my problem and tried to comfort me which did nothing. I felt empty and alone. But they were there for me all my friends and the jack twins are adopted so they knew what I was feeling. We went to bed ready to start our journey home but that same dream was there again but the girl about my age was singing very happily around the chair from the far first dream holding a teddy bear with it holding a book I used to have before I gave it away. Then she started to run away and I started to chase after this unknown. And then I passed a mirror and saw my reflection of me I think but with snow white hair pale almost gray skin with my marking all over me. But in the mirror I saw more dead bodies and a lot more blood. I was sick but that emotion went away for some odd reason and was somewhat replaced by an unknown hungry saying “eat it you're not human anymore”. I woke up in a panic and checked myself in the mirror that what happened to my body from that dream was real. It was true it happened to me in real life. I thought I was lucid dreaming and was wrong from the get go. I examined myself a little more and saw that I got really sharp teeth and my stomach sank more and more. Sometimes I wanted to jump and have this problem go away.
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We all went into town and got all the supplies we needed for the trip back. I felt like this was somewhat like home but that feeling was very bold. Keith tried to attack from behind but failed miserably. “ whoa, dude how’d you do that move?”, saying almost shocked and amazed. “I don’t feel like I know these moves.” I said I was almost scared of myself. “Can you stop acting like idiots?” Yucaria says. “Sorry it won’t happen again.”we both said at the same time. “Come on, the adventure awaits,” the twins said in a happy tone. “Yeah coming..”Keith trails off his word while blushing. Their story As walking Keith seems off looking at the jack twins always blushing when seeing them. He was like that one character from the Rick Riordan book series head over heels for that odd emo character everyone loves. Before we all left my powers kicked in I never knew to control and went into someone's memories. It was Keith’s memories. I’ve been friends with Kieth for awhile I knew some things him begin trans female to male but we never talk about it that often. I fell into a memori from after school with his prairent The journey We all got things ready. John was somewhat scared of what happened to him. It seems like I knew him as a friend before. He woke up in the night and I saw he was somewhat like me but he was a full monster. I thought to myself, ” was John ever human?” I know if a monster had a human form there powerful but why john. We all march into the deep dark empty forest. It looks like a disipar went in the trees as well, making it look soulless. We all walked deeper into the forest and became more unsettling and felt like someone was watching us. It made me and the rest of us want to get home. As we were walking for about 3 hours we started to hear sounds from the bushes. Keith got scared, his face went pale like he had seen a ghost. The growling scream got even louder than before. The Jack twins were still fine; they weren’t even fazed by it; they've had too many horror movies in a lifetime. “Um guys, do you know what that sound was?”Keith said, shaking a lot. “Yeah maybe we should start running out of here.”,I said calmly. “Maybe we will rest for now.” Yacaria said coldly. There was a purited smell coming over somewhere but didn’t know where to find it. Then it can be out. It was like the monster from the movie Alien but with a few key differences. The monster had many eyes with some bloodshot red eyes as if it was crying. It had many long wet slimy legs; there were too many to count. I didn’t know but Yucaria went head first into the beast like she had summoned a weapon to fight it. Keith wasn’t impressed. I think he was confused and panicking. The jack twins tried to calm him down until their hands rose and went down for them. Its hand was long and almost bone- like with something dripping at the long nail tips. It was blood dripping so much the smell was over welling. Then yucaria got hurt badly so I went in to rescue her. Without thinking I charged in and something summoned in my hand a sythery like what the grim reappear would use and something like I had a superpower. I lunged straight towards the beast and killed it. I was scared a bit and we went over to the group. Keith and the jack twins got Yucaria laying out cold from the hit on the head that monster gave her. We were lucky to be near a river and had some bottled water for us. She woke up and saw the weapon and her face went pale. We got our belongings and went deeper into the forest. “You know the next town is about 400 to 8,000 miles away. Maybe we took a bit of the monster parts and used them for us to get out of here.”, Yucaria said anxiously. “That's a good plan, wait did you just say the next town was about 8,000 miles away!?” I was almost shocked after I said that I felt like a dumbfounded idiot. The lost Prince I know I shouldn’t jump to conclusions but John has the prince’s weapon and those markings was he the one who went missing those years ago. I know that the prince is immortal. There must be more of how he made it to the surface. This would mean some other monster or people at play, maybe both. I had a weapon for hunting creatures like this one. Some poor humans and monsters died. It felt bad to look at them but maybe it wasn’t what I was thinking. I was dead wrong there were corpses inside the monster too many to count. They were all humans and were decaying. It looked like it had been for a couple weeks or so. The smell was overwhelming. I know monsters Have an appetite for normal food. The royals or powerful monsters probably like John do have an odd hunger like in the manga Tokyo Ghoul where the monster hunts and eats the humans. If John is the lost Prince then I screwed up big time by having him here. Would anyone who knew the king and queen found their lost heir be overjoyed or sad. Once we are the next town I’ll have to find a way so he isn’t in danger. “Hey Yucaria, are you ok?”John said, worried. “You're the prince, did you not even know that!” I almost yelled upsettingly. I know I shouldn't get upset but he might be the key to the fallen kingdom but still god dammit. We walked more until we got to the town. I'm a local where people know me. The clock in the center town was singing as if things were getting back on to track. John hid himself good but too good in fact. I walked over to him. He was there but his eyes felt as if the light was broken in them. He was acting as everyone was watching him like he was always making a mistake. Keith tried to make John happy but instead he tripped on himself and the Jack twins helped him up. John was still quiet. We were here to just get some supplies and be on our way home to the top world but maybe we should head to the capitol instead. John started to dig his nails into his arm close to the point of bleeding out. As we got the last of the supplies john seemed like he saw a ghost and was about to have a panic attack but we luck out before it happened. We got out of the town and the fireflies were out and it looked like a show was about to start for us. This was the town I grew up in until a fire broke out. I lost my family due to that but now John Keith and the jack twins are like a family to me. The show was like a fairytale but it lit the forest up showing the flowers, the streams and night becoming a grand party. There were legends about this place where spirits help their loved ones. We all went to sleep but something felt off in my mind. The nightmare After we all lied down this time the dream was more different with note and feeling like something or someone was watching me. I was heading over to read it but it had disappeared. I was fed up but did find more tools if you can say. Some of the tools were big and small but the main thing was someone else was in here. A boy a little older than me seemed calm and frightened. His name was Toby and was 17. We both didn’t know that we had the same dream. I was here longer than Toby about 3 trips to this creepy spine chilling bloody place with more corpses. Toby on the other hand, this is their first time. I can see why they were scared. The metallic smell was really bolder than before. We were walking in this place but there was a school but I heard screams of someone calling a person 's name as if the person lost someone and was grieving. It sounded close to a banshee maybe but then my name was spoken. Then everything was fading and Toby was scared but they started to wander off into the nowhere and I wasn’t able to catch up to them. “When will John wake up?”Keith asked curiously. “We don’t know.” the twins said, before John gave an inhuman scream. John sat up the twins and Keith went towards him. I know that he might be the lost prince but that scream sounded like a nightmare of some sorts. As if there was a putte master behind it. But we must head to the capitol to see what the bleep is going on with the monster and john. Walking more into the capitol a john saw a building in the distance that looked like the one from his dream. But he brushed it off, everyone was side-talking and John saw the building again. Come to think of it, in his dream it was a pretty big building. They started to notice that John was headed to the old building. The group followed behind John and the more he was getting close to the building a sinister feeling dawned upon them. They pieced together what John building was about. It was from the nightmare. John found Toby and he was running away from the building and Keith the jack twins Yuacaria all caught up to John and toby. He looked like something was coming. “Toby?!”,Yucaria stated in a moment of shock. “Yucaria you’re ok thank god, I almost died. Wait John you're here too.”, Toby almost searched on top of his lungs. “We have to get outta here now.” Yucaria said without a second thought. We all agreed and sprinted out and away from that building. All of us were heading to the capitol so we could seek shelter before anything else could happen. As we were close to the get of the capitol two guards appeared and realized who they were and let us in. “Oh captain Toby, Captain Yucaria what brings you here?” one of the guards asked. “We are here to seek shelter and I must speak to the king and queen. Something came up and this group of people are with me.” “Yes captain Yucaria.”,the other soldier said. The king and Queen We walked into the capitol. It was humongous, many big buildings with many markets out there, food stand swords making you name it, they have it. It ranges from the modern time of technology to the old time from the late 1800 or like the greek colosseum art to every style in the world. We strolled more into the capitol. It looked like we were in a fantasy sci-fi movie. We found a hotel that we can stay in for who knows how long. Yucaria was about to leave to talk to the king and queen and toby reporting about something to someone. “Um Yucaria, why are you heading to talk to the king and queen?”John asked if he was in trouble. “I’m heading there to see if you're the prince but have to come with me.” Yucaria said as if she was scared of them. “Okay.”,John said quietly. As we were walking to head to the king and queen I felt daggers begin pressed into me in the back of my head. I didn’t like where this was going. As we got to the gate there were many flowers of all the colors of the rainbow you’ve ever seen in your life. Yucaria entered a code in and the gate opened up. Entering the castle felt uncomfortable but I stuck with Yucaria. We made it to the throne room where there were people sitting the king and queen. The King had bright blue eyes and jet black hair with white skin. The queen had green eyes, snow white hair and gray skin. “Your highness I think I found something that may shock you.”,Yucaria said calmly trying to her composer. “What is it?”,the queen answered. “I believe I’ve found your son, your highness.” Yucaria said close to being in fear. “Really, then who's the person with the cloak on in here?” the king said in a booming voice. “Your son your highness.”, Yucaria said. I took off my hood and they stared in shock at their son. As they brought a mirror to see my hair was black and white and green and blue eyes and gray skin. They looked happy to see their son was ok. Things felt good until they asked where I’ve been until they realized their son probably lost his memories of them. A doctor came in and told them that I indeed lost my memories and some parts would come back over time. Keith’s hiding something As we headed out of the castle going back to the hotel we saw Keith acting strange, not his over the top self. So we were curious and saw he was picking some flowers up and headed to the hotel. We didn't think much of it but oh boy were we wrong. Keith entered first and was talking to the jack twins. “Um hey guys.”Keith sounded almost embarrassed about what he was going to say. “Oh hey Keith, how are you?” the twin asked at the same time. “I’m fine… But there is something that I want to ask you if that's fine.?” Kieth was hesitant to say. “Will you um guys be my date? I heard from some town people that there is going to be a festival soon.” Keith blurted out and his face turned red. “Yes!” the Jack twins exclaimed in joy. Then John and Yucaria got into the room and saw the flowers. And we were about to ask what was going on and why I was asking both twins out. “Keith, why were you asking both boys out?”John asks, trying to be understanding. “I like them okay I was going to tell you at the party before all of this happened.”, Keith sounded like he did something wrong. “I was going to tell you I like boys. I didn’t know who to tell because I was scared that I would lose you as a friend.” Keith said with tears coming out. “Hey Kieth, I chill and I support you okay you don’t have to worry about me leaving you were friends till the end.” John tried to make Keith happy and it worked. “I - you support me?.” Keith said, almost scared and crying. “Yes.” I said back to be happy about my friend. But that happiness was cut short why we heard sirens in the distance that something was coming. I wanted to go with yucaria but she didn’t allow it so I came up with a plan to help. Turns out another monster heard that I was here and wanted me dead but I didn’t care. The hotel we were in was three stories high but there was a ladder out back so I used that to get down. The monster looked like the thing we saw in the forest but bigger, stronger with wings and more defining features like the teeth and the blood coming out of the arm if you can. Without a plan I summoned my weapon to help out. But then a flash of a memory came to me and I said words and fire and lighting came out of my hand and it weakened the monster down so yucaria could land the final blow. The human monsters saw me do magic and found out who I was but they were grateful.Yucaria was fine thankfully but she was hiding her face. “Hey Yucaraia are you okay?” I was concerned. “Um Yeah, can we talk alone.” Yucaria’s voice sounded shy. I followed her to the royal garden with beautiful flowers then out of nowhere she leaned in and kissed me. I had a crush on her so I kissed her back. She had an injury so I healed her and went back to the hotel but we saw Keith and the twins holding hands and on a date. Getting old memories back I woke up but not at the hotel but I saw another person and asked me something. “ I know you but what do you want?”I said to another. “Well I want you to have all your old memories with the ones you have, you might feel so much pain.” the other me said with a blank face. I felt my head hurt but like someone was hitting me. But I got all my memories back but I also know my name Kuzik. Then I woke up again but in the hotel and nudged Yucaria to wake her up. “Yucaria I know what my old name was and my memories are back!” I sound happy and excited that they were back. “I'm happy for you.”she said and hugged me tightly. “I know who locked my memories away and know how to defeat the thing that was hurting me and toby.” I sounded more serious than before. Then we went to the king and queen, my mom and dad and talked about how to find and extinguish the monster. The beginning that took my memory was the Head of killing all those people and human monsters. The final battle We were talking about how to defeat the monster who took my memory and hurt me and toby. We got our troops and from my memory we found the place that girl was screaming at me and where the vidid dream came from like any horror movie but this was real life. We encountered some monster but more deadlier and wanting freedom and blood shed to happen we wouldn’t allow it so we took our troops and charged at the beings spelling begin cast left and right and sword fight. We fought the monsters left and right and the souls of the people whose lives were taken had joined the fight. We got close to the creepy abandoned building and ready for the final attack. I went in because It was my battle. That creepy girl wanted something from me. But she was taller, ghastly pale and with blood on her she tried to throw a punch and I dogged her. “Damn you prince all take the ability you have to head to the surface.” The girl said. “Won’t allow it, you will stop and that's what I’ll do.” I said back with venom in my voice. Then I charged at her and with my sword I ended her tranny on my kingdom and what she had done to everyone she had hurt. “I hope I don’t see you in enos to come and so forth.” I said. After the battle my parents said we could head back to the surface and stay there or stay in the mid realm with everybody else but some of us would have to change from human to monster human. We all choose to stay here Keith and the Jack twins choose to stay and change now they are a vampire and werewolves. Later on in life me and yucaria got married and had a child named Jane. We strengthened our kingdom with the other ones and made sure no threat would even hurt us again. Keith and the Jack twins also got married and have two kids; they adopted Zulo and Belo. Everything seems amazing and I would never change it for the universe. Sincerely, night/John -The end-