Note: This is a horror story, with some gory depictions although I tuned it down alot. So y'now, reader's discretion, etc.
Yeah well, Sometimes I'm generally bored and creative writing is a hobby of mine, so...
Yeah. Part one of a story I called "Hellbound" It could be a bit better, I know, but only by attempting can one then improve [or something]
Some may notice that it shares similarities with a similar story, but i swear it was completely unintentional. I found out after i wrote it. Anyway, i have 3 written "chapters" so there's a lot of room for story variation. anyway, enjoy, and don't hit me.
1. Forty-Five Minutes.
January. It was nearly a week since the crowds of drunken people had gathered at the nightclub to herald the new year. Everyone celebrated in their own way, the rockers went to concerts, the thugs got drunk and beat the carp out of each other, the skaters went to the pro expo at the local park, and Jason stayed home. In during the 5 years he lived in this town, he would always spend the last night of the year at home, in his room. He went out for Halloween, Christmas, Victoria Day, anything you would regularly go out for. Even when his parents went out on new year's, he would stay home out of choice, he just preferred it. However, this year was the first time he felt the lingering pain in the pit of his stomach, Regret.
"Maybe I should've gone to the concert with Steph..."
No. He stayed home with his best friends, the harmonica his grandpa left him, and the acoustic guitar he had received for a recent birthday. Stifling a sigh, Jason's gaze moved from the dull grey sky to the large buildings that stood behind him. Green Vale Secondary School: An average highschool, complete with facilities like a decent sized swimming pool, a physic's lab, and an indoor track should the outside race circuit be rendered unusable due to weather. The area didn't see much snow that winter, all the better for Jason, he hated snow. Actually, Jason had noticed that the weather had taken a change from it's usual trend. It was the second week of January, but he could wear a light autumn jacket and feel perfectly comfortable.
Jason got up from the bleachers he was sitting on, slinging his bag over one shoulder. The school bell would ring soon, and here he was thinking about the weather. Surely enough, the bell rang. He checked his watch: 8:30. Leaping from the top bleacher, Jason landed and made for the side entrance door at a light jogging pace, barely catching the door before it shut after the last of the student body had entered the building.
8:35. Jason stumbled into the classroom and silently took his seat, just in time to answer to his name as the teacher read the attendance list. As far as the math teacher was concerned, if he made the attendance, he was here on time.
8:55. The teacher finished the lesson and left the class to do textbook work. Of course everybody put off the work to do as homework and spent the work time engaged in conversation and playing video games. Jason stood to the side of the room, only one thing being the center of his attention. Rachel Thames, possibly the most beautiful creature among the Sophomore herd. Loved by all, with a personality to justify it. Her calming voice rang of sarcasm and fatigue, as if she had just woken up from a good night's sleep. Her charms had caught Jason's eye without much trouble, but he refrained from getting involved in matters that would only turn against him. There she stood, next to her companion, Jamie Brixton. The most dull headed super-jock to roam the halls. She had made it known that they weren't dating, but Jamie the headstrong valiantly proclaimed her as "his property". It couldn't be helped, things were the way they were for a reason, and he wasn't meant to--
A clap on the back broke his train of thought. "Yo, you busy?" Jason turned to face his rocker friend, Steph. His full name, Stephane Leonard-Charles, was something only used by his mother when he would forget to take out the garbage or clean his room. Other than that, the full name was taboo, and just "Steph" would suffice. Steph was a good friend of Jason's; the two had met three years previously when the Charles moved to Green Vale. Steph handed him a manilla folder and patted him again on the back. "Teach wants you to take down the attendance, mate."
"Yeah sure, no problem"
The halls had an eerie silence as he walked toward the foyer...odd, seeing as things usually were up and running by this point. Even more so, it was cold, colder than it should be indoors. Goosebumps ran up his arms, it was the same temperature that it should've been outside, something he noticed, regretting that he had left his light jacket on his chair back in the classroom.
"But why would I need a jacket to walk in the hallway anyway..."
When he got to the front entrance of the school, he could see the source of the cold. The big stained glass window over the entrance had been broken severely in several places, leaving a gaping hole where pounding rain poured into the building. "Wait...rain?" He looked closely at the puddles of liquid accumulated on the floor, dripping from holes in the glass dome skylight that was built into the ceiling. Jason looked around him for anyone that might be nearby, a janitor, a teacher, but he was alone in the hallway... Jason startled as a dull bang echoed throughout the corridors. Looking for the source of the noise, he turned and saw the office door swinging open and banging against one of the potted plants that were placed on either side of it. It was open, but otherwise looked intact.
Slowly Jason entered the seemingly empty office, placing the manilla folder on the table. Nothing in the office seemed out of place...maybe it was a random act of vandalism? And the gardening club located on the school's roof could have somehow caused the broken dome...Faint voices interrupted his thoughts, he could hear them, teachers, talking in the back lot. Naturally, Jason didn't want to linger around the scene of the carnage lest misunderstandings be created. Dashing through the office's back hallways, he soon found himself at the door to the back lot, where a precarious scene was beginning to unfold.
A large group of teachers stood around what seemed to be somebody cringing in pain on the driveway. Jason noticed that the math teacher was there too, so he must've been called down after Jason left. Ms. Grey, the principal, knelt beside the boy on the dry, crumbling asphalt. The dry wind blew a couple scraps of paper and some dust around, but nothing obscured Jason's view of the spectacle The boy, a ginger haired youth, probably a freshman, was moaning and clutching his side, blood seeping though the layers of shirt and sweater he was wearing. "Hey, are you going to be okay?" The principal looked with horrified eyes as his fingers lost their sheen, and the light in his eyes began to dim, the pupils dilating. "Some body call an ambulan--"
He cry was cut short. The boy had grabbed the front of her blouse and pulled himself up to her, wild eyed, he bit into her neck, until blood flowed like fountain from around his jaws. Screams erupted around the lot as the lifeless form of the principal slumped into a hunched sitting position. The ginger haired boy then leapt onto another one of the teachers, gnawing off a few fingers and proceeding to rip thee whole hand off. It was then, during the wild screaming of the now left-handed geography teacher, that the principal stirred. She got to her feet and flung herself at the nearest teacher, ripping his nose off. Anybody who tried to help was mutilated, and those that were killed just got back up and helped in the killing.
Jason had seen enough. "This is like a bad horror movie" he thought to himself. His eyes glanced off the analog clock on the wall inside the corridor he was standing. "9:05" He had to get out of there, luckily all of the other students were far away from this... A loud blaring filled the hallway and Jason felt sick to the pit of his stomach. The fire alarm. All the kids would be heading outside. Outside, right into the slaughter.
"carp, there's no way I can stop over 2000 teenagers from exiting the building..."
Something flashed before his mind, and he panicked. In a dash he made for the doors, grabbing the elevator key from the front desk on his way. Shoes squeaking from the wet floor, he arrived at the elevator, fumbling keys until he found the right one, and rode it up to the 3rd floor, the math department, one thought ringing out loudly in his head: Rachel.
Bolting down the hallway he could already hear the sounds of chaos as the infected victims increased the death toll and their own number. A flash of dirty blonde hair that he would recognize anywhere, there she was, fighting some off with a meter stick she took from the math room, Jamie the jock locked in combat with another one. He screamed. "YOU TWO, C'MON, OVER HERE" Without question, the two followed him, Rachel with a bent, blood stained, aluminum meter stick and Jamie with his fists. As the lunkhead made to speak, Jason interrupted. "No time for talk, we gotta go. Now."
Jamie simply shrugged, caught off guard by the sudden change of things, he dropped his tough guy macho facade. "Where to?"
"The Phys-Ed Department. You help me seal off the three doors before anything else can happen."
Rachel but in "What about me?"
"Huh?"
"What can I do? Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean that I'm useless you know"
"Help with the exits then, and keep that meter stick, because of the trip, there's only one phys-ed class in here, but that's still a good 15-20 people. Stay sharp"
And with that, Rachel ran off to the southern exit. Jamie made for the eastern exit, but Jason stopped him. Confused, Jamie asked "Hm? What's up?"
Jason looked at him. "Go with her. I'll handle the exit."
Jamie seemed to understand at once. "Got it chief. And sorry about the whole "panty-head" in grade 6.
Jason shivered as memories of his middle school torment flashed in front of his eyes. He growled. "Just Go!"
He had already finished his exit, and stood before the eastern door, a baseball bat at his side for defense. The electronic led clock glowed in the distance. A dull thudding resonated from the other side of the door. Jason's grip on the bat tightened. 9:15.
In 45 minutes, hell had taken over his life.
The door burst open...
The bat flew...
[Just want to see what people think before i decide whether or not to post subsequent chapters]
Yeah well, Sometimes I'm generally bored and creative writing is a hobby of mine, so...
Yeah. Part one of a story I called "Hellbound" It could be a bit better, I know, but only by attempting can one then improve [or something]
Some may notice that it shares similarities with a similar story, but i swear it was completely unintentional. I found out after i wrote it. Anyway, i have 3 written "chapters" so there's a lot of room for story variation. anyway, enjoy, and don't hit me.
1. Forty-Five Minutes.
January. It was nearly a week since the crowds of drunken people had gathered at the nightclub to herald the new year. Everyone celebrated in their own way, the rockers went to concerts, the thugs got drunk and beat the carp out of each other, the skaters went to the pro expo at the local park, and Jason stayed home. In during the 5 years he lived in this town, he would always spend the last night of the year at home, in his room. He went out for Halloween, Christmas, Victoria Day, anything you would regularly go out for. Even when his parents went out on new year's, he would stay home out of choice, he just preferred it. However, this year was the first time he felt the lingering pain in the pit of his stomach, Regret.
"Maybe I should've gone to the concert with Steph..."
No. He stayed home with his best friends, the harmonica his grandpa left him, and the acoustic guitar he had received for a recent birthday. Stifling a sigh, Jason's gaze moved from the dull grey sky to the large buildings that stood behind him. Green Vale Secondary School: An average highschool, complete with facilities like a decent sized swimming pool, a physic's lab, and an indoor track should the outside race circuit be rendered unusable due to weather. The area didn't see much snow that winter, all the better for Jason, he hated snow. Actually, Jason had noticed that the weather had taken a change from it's usual trend. It was the second week of January, but he could wear a light autumn jacket and feel perfectly comfortable.
Jason got up from the bleachers he was sitting on, slinging his bag over one shoulder. The school bell would ring soon, and here he was thinking about the weather. Surely enough, the bell rang. He checked his watch: 8:30. Leaping from the top bleacher, Jason landed and made for the side entrance door at a light jogging pace, barely catching the door before it shut after the last of the student body had entered the building.
8:35. Jason stumbled into the classroom and silently took his seat, just in time to answer to his name as the teacher read the attendance list. As far as the math teacher was concerned, if he made the attendance, he was here on time.
8:55. The teacher finished the lesson and left the class to do textbook work. Of course everybody put off the work to do as homework and spent the work time engaged in conversation and playing video games. Jason stood to the side of the room, only one thing being the center of his attention. Rachel Thames, possibly the most beautiful creature among the Sophomore herd. Loved by all, with a personality to justify it. Her calming voice rang of sarcasm and fatigue, as if she had just woken up from a good night's sleep. Her charms had caught Jason's eye without much trouble, but he refrained from getting involved in matters that would only turn against him. There she stood, next to her companion, Jamie Brixton. The most dull headed super-jock to roam the halls. She had made it known that they weren't dating, but Jamie the headstrong valiantly proclaimed her as "his property". It couldn't be helped, things were the way they were for a reason, and he wasn't meant to--
A clap on the back broke his train of thought. "Yo, you busy?" Jason turned to face his rocker friend, Steph. His full name, Stephane Leonard-Charles, was something only used by his mother when he would forget to take out the garbage or clean his room. Other than that, the full name was taboo, and just "Steph" would suffice. Steph was a good friend of Jason's; the two had met three years previously when the Charles moved to Green Vale. Steph handed him a manilla folder and patted him again on the back. "Teach wants you to take down the attendance, mate."
"Yeah sure, no problem"
The halls had an eerie silence as he walked toward the foyer...odd, seeing as things usually were up and running by this point. Even more so, it was cold, colder than it should be indoors. Goosebumps ran up his arms, it was the same temperature that it should've been outside, something he noticed, regretting that he had left his light jacket on his chair back in the classroom.
"But why would I need a jacket to walk in the hallway anyway..."
When he got to the front entrance of the school, he could see the source of the cold. The big stained glass window over the entrance had been broken severely in several places, leaving a gaping hole where pounding rain poured into the building. "Wait...rain?" He looked closely at the puddles of liquid accumulated on the floor, dripping from holes in the glass dome skylight that was built into the ceiling. Jason looked around him for anyone that might be nearby, a janitor, a teacher, but he was alone in the hallway... Jason startled as a dull bang echoed throughout the corridors. Looking for the source of the noise, he turned and saw the office door swinging open and banging against one of the potted plants that were placed on either side of it. It was open, but otherwise looked intact.
Slowly Jason entered the seemingly empty office, placing the manilla folder on the table. Nothing in the office seemed out of place...maybe it was a random act of vandalism? And the gardening club located on the school's roof could have somehow caused the broken dome...Faint voices interrupted his thoughts, he could hear them, teachers, talking in the back lot. Naturally, Jason didn't want to linger around the scene of the carnage lest misunderstandings be created. Dashing through the office's back hallways, he soon found himself at the door to the back lot, where a precarious scene was beginning to unfold.
A large group of teachers stood around what seemed to be somebody cringing in pain on the driveway. Jason noticed that the math teacher was there too, so he must've been called down after Jason left. Ms. Grey, the principal, knelt beside the boy on the dry, crumbling asphalt. The dry wind blew a couple scraps of paper and some dust around, but nothing obscured Jason's view of the spectacle The boy, a ginger haired youth, probably a freshman, was moaning and clutching his side, blood seeping though the layers of shirt and sweater he was wearing. "Hey, are you going to be okay?" The principal looked with horrified eyes as his fingers lost their sheen, and the light in his eyes began to dim, the pupils dilating. "Some body call an ambulan--"
He cry was cut short. The boy had grabbed the front of her blouse and pulled himself up to her, wild eyed, he bit into her neck, until blood flowed like fountain from around his jaws. Screams erupted around the lot as the lifeless form of the principal slumped into a hunched sitting position. The ginger haired boy then leapt onto another one of the teachers, gnawing off a few fingers and proceeding to rip thee whole hand off. It was then, during the wild screaming of the now left-handed geography teacher, that the principal stirred. She got to her feet and flung herself at the nearest teacher, ripping his nose off. Anybody who tried to help was mutilated, and those that were killed just got back up and helped in the killing.
Jason had seen enough. "This is like a bad horror movie" he thought to himself. His eyes glanced off the analog clock on the wall inside the corridor he was standing. "9:05" He had to get out of there, luckily all of the other students were far away from this... A loud blaring filled the hallway and Jason felt sick to the pit of his stomach. The fire alarm. All the kids would be heading outside. Outside, right into the slaughter.
"carp, there's no way I can stop over 2000 teenagers from exiting the building..."
Something flashed before his mind, and he panicked. In a dash he made for the doors, grabbing the elevator key from the front desk on his way. Shoes squeaking from the wet floor, he arrived at the elevator, fumbling keys until he found the right one, and rode it up to the 3rd floor, the math department, one thought ringing out loudly in his head: Rachel.
Bolting down the hallway he could already hear the sounds of chaos as the infected victims increased the death toll and their own number. A flash of dirty blonde hair that he would recognize anywhere, there she was, fighting some off with a meter stick she took from the math room, Jamie the jock locked in combat with another one. He screamed. "YOU TWO, C'MON, OVER HERE" Without question, the two followed him, Rachel with a bent, blood stained, aluminum meter stick and Jamie with his fists. As the lunkhead made to speak, Jason interrupted. "No time for talk, we gotta go. Now."
Jamie simply shrugged, caught off guard by the sudden change of things, he dropped his tough guy macho facade. "Where to?"
"The Phys-Ed Department. You help me seal off the three doors before anything else can happen."
Rachel but in "What about me?"
"Huh?"
"What can I do? Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean that I'm useless you know"
"Help with the exits then, and keep that meter stick, because of the trip, there's only one phys-ed class in here, but that's still a good 15-20 people. Stay sharp"
And with that, Rachel ran off to the southern exit. Jamie made for the eastern exit, but Jason stopped him. Confused, Jamie asked "Hm? What's up?"
Jason looked at him. "Go with her. I'll handle the exit."
Jamie seemed to understand at once. "Got it chief. And sorry about the whole "panty-head" in grade 6.
Jason shivered as memories of his middle school torment flashed in front of his eyes. He growled. "Just Go!"
He had already finished his exit, and stood before the eastern door, a baseball bat at his side for defense. The electronic led clock glowed in the distance. A dull thudding resonated from the other side of the door. Jason's grip on the bat tightened. 9:15.
In 45 minutes, hell had taken over his life.
The door burst open...
The bat flew...
[Just want to see what people think before i decide whether or not to post subsequent chapters]