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Campfire

October 18, 2019
By Zany_Zach_24 BRONZE, Lebanon, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
"Its impossible to through life without causing any sort of pain, I just wished I coulda caused a little less" Lee Everett (The Walking Dead Telltale Series)


Author's note:

I wrote this piece from playing the game and an ELA assignment

“It was a spooky night, Bats filled the night sky and monsters filled the streets. Hungry, ready to feast!” I explained, the kids were shaking in fear worried that something was out for their blood! The sensation of scaring children with my stories made me very happy, it's just the fact that the stories work as they are intended make me proud.
“Your stories aren't actually real are they Pax?” one of the children asked,
“That's for you to decide little one” I said to try to spook him more. I grabbed my bag full of all the great candy I got during the trick or treating it had MnM’s, KitKat, Reeses, and of course the mvp Snickers. While I was walking down the street things felt off.. I was worried and creeped out that something was stalking me it was foggy and dark the street was like a void no sound besides my breathing, I kept walking hoping to find a way out, to find an end to this torture and just as I was about to start running I heard a laugh,it sounded like one from a woman. It started off quiet and I thought it was from down the road, I continued walking thinking nothing of it, but it was getting louder! I felt uncomfortable.
“Who’s that I here?” she said,
Her voice was demonic, it sounded like she was possessed. I Sprinted down the street and until her laughter was gone, I could barely breathe the fog burned my lungs like a gas. *Slap* *Slap* *Slap* her footsteps echoed. I started sweating and chills slid down my spine. I looked for the nearest house and ran to the porch, I slammed on the door “LET ME IN!!!” I cried, I kicked the door and it swung open with the force to put a hole in it. I ran up the stairs and went in a master bedroom with flowers on it's wallpaper and grey carpet, I looked around, a closet! I swung open the doors and stepped inside. *Slap* *Slap* *Sl- It stopped
“I hear you breathing, don't be afraid! It won't hurt” *Screeeeech* it was a haunting sound of a knife scratching the wallpaper up the stairs. Silence filled the house, all I could hear was my frantic breathing. *Creek* the closet door opened and I saw her rotten bare feet covered in blood…
“Found ya!” she said.
I slammed the closet door against her launching her into the wall. And sprinted out the bedroom door and across the hall. I practically fell down the stairs because of the speed going down them. I didn't want to look back, the fear of her behind me with that knife made me keep going. My mind was racing and I made a split second decision. I went into the woods. The fog was thickening and I could barely see. It was like smoke surrounding me and then everything stopped. My breathing, My heart, The woman's footsteps, everything!

The fire was warming and relieving, it felt like a sign of hope. I sat next to it for awhile getting my grasp on things and surveying the area. The moment I checked my pockets was the moment I started to worry, everything was gone just as it was when the smoke surrounding me. I checked to see if I dropped it somewhere, nothing! Screams echoed the dark abess. Where am I? Smoke formed in other places around the campfire, I couldn’t see what was in it until it cleared up.
“Hello?” I asked in a quaky voice
“GET AWAY FROM ME!” She screamed!
“It's ok! I'm not going to hurt you!” I yelled back
“GO!” She kept screaming!
“Hey it's gonna be alright” I said as she started to run out of breath.
She looked at me. As if I was the only human she’s seen in years.
“Who are you?” she asked
“I'm Pax Evergreen” I replied
“How did you get here?” she asked
I explained to her what happened all the way up to me being next to the fire and she understands everything I said, which worries me that it's believable and this isn't just some horrible nightmare. I looked down at her hands, she had a medkit.
“Hey how do you have something, all my stuff is gone!” I told her
“I just used what energy I had left and tried to picture something that could help and then I felt something, something great! Like hope, and the medkit was there.” she said as she sat on the log next to the campfire.
I tried picturing a weapon to use incase that girl came back, and a sharp pain hit my brain.
“OW!” I screamed
“You can't picture and form of self defence string bean!” a voice said behind me
I jerked around and looked at him
“You can call be Bill” he said
“You can call me Claudette” the woman said

The smoke surrounded me again but this time I was alone in the middle of a farm. I started to walk, hoping to find someone to get directions home, but my heart started racing and I felt like I was being watched. Red filled the area behind me and I didn't dare turn around, until the fear of not knowing made me do so, a tall man stood there, with a mask made of human bone, and a machete made of rusted steel and crusted blood. It seemed like time has stopped all together and it's only me that can move. I turn around and sprint towards an area with wooden walls shaped like the letter T. I turn the corner and crouch next to a window, I peek around the edge looking for the crazed killer. About 5 minutes pass and there's still no sign of him, I stand up and walk out of the wooden walled area and gather myself. Lights flicker on in the distance and the sound of a generator turning on echoes throughout the dark mist. I run to the generator to see Claudette and Bill sprinting off into the mist. *Thump* *Thump* my heart beat starts going again. I jerk around looking for the man with the bone mask, there in the distance he is bent over putting something on the ground. He walks away into the mist and I sneak over to the area where he placed something. *SNAP*
“AHH” I scream as the teeth of the bear trap grasp my leg
*Thump* *Thump* *Thump* the red stain from his eyes surrounds me as the trapper picks me up and carries me over near a farm house. My vision is getting blurry as the blood leaks from my leg. *Crunch* my shoulder goes as the cold, bloody hook goes through it.
“AHH! HELP” I scream as the pain rushes my body.
Anyone that went through this in real life would pass out. But here feels different, i'm more awake than ever! Footsteps fill the area and I see claudette take me off the hook with strength i've never seen before! I fall onto my knees and flinch at the pain that pierces by shoulder. The sound of another generator echoes the dark abess. I see the trapper heading toward us but see him change his mind and head towards the finished generator. Claudette looks at my shoulder and does the best to fix it but it only barely affected the pain. An engine echoes the abess again alerting us to only needing two more generators to leave this place we walk out of the barn house and head towards the stables where we see one of the generators! I put my hands into and move the cables around attaching some and pulling some apart. It seems to be working because the generator is making noises and moving, we do this for about 5 minutes and the generator makes a loud noise that alerts the others. The mist starts to turn red as the trapper approaches and I turn and run! *Snap* the trap wraps around my leg and my entire body gives up. *Creak* the trap opens my vision is dark and in my sight I see someone not Bill, not Claudette
“Hey you’re gonna be alright! My names Dwight.”
We run off to the sound of an exit gate opening as the last generator is finished I sprint into the dark open field and don't stop running.



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