The Woods (short novel)

LPHybridSnax

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Well.. around last January I started on a book called 'The Woods', sooo original title... so I'll probably change it. I just tried to make the language that it would be in real life. You know how in some horror movies people wouldn't be like "oh ****! I'm ganna die!" if Jason or somebody like that was about to kill them. They'd be like "Holy ******* ****.. etc" so yeah I try not to make it too bad though, here's a link. I made it just for a few friends so I don't know if anybody else will like it as much as they did. Sorry, it isn't Linkin Park related. Personally, I think this was a flop, but I've had a few people wanting me to print them off a copy, so I don't know.

Here, I'll try to post a little day by day.

The Woods

There have been reports of mysterious murders in the small country town of Nineveh, Indiana. The victims have been found disemboweled with some organs never found; some people have reported seeing the entrails of human remains in the branches of trees. The murderers are unknown. There have been rumors floating around the town as this hasn’t reached the outside world yet. The government doesn’t want us to know. They’re saying it’s some sort of cannibalistic clan, but some are going as skeptical to say it’s a paranormal source such as zombie or demons.

Nineveh, October 21, 1992

“Jeez Earl, roll up the **** window, its twenty ******* degrees.” said Aaron as he put his coat on. “Oh, come on, what are you a woman?” “...IT’S OCTOBER!!” “Fine…” Earl muttered as he rolled up the window. “Wait, what’s that?” Aaron points to a field. A figure is attempting to run. Earl stops the car. The figure is coming closer, it’s a man. In a faint distance the two can hear him yelling “Help!... help!” the man reaches the truck. “Please help me!” “What the **** happened” asks Earl alarmed. “It was this thing, I was driving through here and it jumped on my car and made me wreck, let me in we’ve got to…” the man is pulled away quickly by a figure. “Ahhhh!!!” the man screams in horror. Aaron and Earl scream. Earl then hits the gas. “What the **** was that?!” yells Aaron.

“…What ever it was, we’re next. It saw us..” replies Earl calmly. “Bu… but we couldn’t even tell what it was!” “It doesn’t know that. It sees us as food….. I read something of this in the paper…but I assumed it was some joke these kids were pulling….” Earl told.

“That wasn’t a ******* joke!!! That… THING, just gutted him!!” yelled Aaron

silence…

“How long has it been, Earl?”

“About 10 minutes.”

“Think we’re safe?”

“…no.”

“Oh, ****!!!” yells Earl

“What?! What is it?!”

“It’s that…thing…”

“What?! How?!.....Where?!”

“In the road ahead…”

“What? You can’t even make it out..”

“Who stands in the middle of a street at 1 in the morning with their arms at their sides?”

“…….gun it..”

Earl pushes the gas all the way, pushing 80 miles an hour. The figure is coming up fast, still in the same position. “Take this you son of a *****!” Earl screams

The man who was killed earlier flew up on the wind shield…dead and ******.

“Ahhhhh!!!” screamed Aaron and Earl. “…I don’t think that was it..” pointed out Earl.

Aaron opens the glove compartment.

“What are you doing?” asks Earl.

“I’m getting my gun, that thing comes close to us I’m ganna blow it away.”

Something hits the side of the truck, knocking it slightly to the side of the road.

Both looking the left where the impact happened….. Nothing. Something then hits the left side knocking it into the woods. About 30 feet in before it is stopped by a tree.

Slightly unconscious Aaron whispers “..Earl… Earl?!” He found that his friend has been impaled by a sharp branch.

“Earl!! No!! Oh my ***!!!”

He picks up the gun which he dropped during the crash and opens the door shaking. He walks to where he thinks the road is, but just goes deeper into the woods. He sees a black figure fly by fast to his right and turns and fires.. misses. He starts to run, and sees a light… perhaps a flashlight. He runs towards it and yells “Help!!” the man with the flashlight shines the light on Aaron’s face. “Who are you?” The now noticeably elderly man. “Th.. The guy and…. and.. the blood, and Earl…Earl is dead..”

“..Don’t move.”

The elderly man says calmly as he raises his shotgun. “Wha… what are you doing?!” he ***** the gun. Aaron fists his hands and drops his gun as he guards his face as the man fires. Aaron looks behind him… it was only a wolf. “Those things have been causing me a lot of trouble.” Said the elderly man. “That’s not what’s been attacking us…” says Aaron “this thing killed a guy a few miles back… then we hit the guy about half a mile ago..” “I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you look like you’ve been through a lot, why don’t you stay at my house tonight?” “Okay… I need to clear my head.”

The House in the woods

“So tell me about yourself… uhh… sorry didn’t catch your name.” says Aaron

“Just call me Henry and there’s nothing to tell.”

“..Okay… I’m just going to go to bed..”

“Second room on the right.”

Aaron enters the room

“Man, that guys messed up… no phone, no radio, no TV.”

October 22, 1992

“Thanks for all you have done, but can you do one more thing for me?”

“hm?”

“Drive me back to town?”

“Alright, get in the truck.”

The two drive back to the town of Nineveh, Aaron wondering the mystery of what had killed his friend and of the mysterious old man. He never would figure these mysteries out, but he would leave with his life. He hasn’t heard from the old man or the creature since. That day he called the police, they never found the truck with Earl missing. With the driver’s door ripped off and the branch broken, the seat was spattered with blood. The truck had a dent the size of a bowling ball on the right side and the same looking dent on the left also. The only remains they could find were a few pieces of flesh and what appeared to be part of his intestines on his seat. The police didn’t believe Aaron’s story and they just past it off as a drunk driving accident. They said they believe that the dents are from hitting passing trees going through the woods, he was impaled didn’t get any vital organs, broke the branch and the door fell off with a slight push. When they were asked about the remains they just ignored the media and said they have to leave and that was it. It was all forgotten… again. A few of the murders that went ignored were; Bert Marqueh, a 17 year old honor student who had a promising future, was the best in his school in wrestling, Dylan Smalls, 13 year old middle school student that qualified to be a genius and taking the SAT’s in 6th grade, Lucy Jaxon, 22, a young yet brilliant chemist from Japan, Hugo Antonio, age 14 a pretty average kid, a little athletic, and the list goes on and on, I think there were about 20 or 30 people on that list and the government just ignored it.

I'll try to post more tomarrow

 
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