CHAPTER 2- TRUTH

“What is happening?” he asked as the entire town starts to transform slowly.

“This is not good,” he thinks as he watches in horror as everything changes drastically.

The clouds above are coming closer and closer, it's like they wanted to swallow the whole town

Eric starts running inside his hotel to lock it up. He rushed into his room before all the lights in the whole town died off, one by one. Soon all the windows shut themselves as the lights turn off completely, plunging the whole town into darkness.

At that moment, Eric hears a loud footstep echo through the town. He turns to see, the room is filled with white mist which made him dizzy as it surrounds the room and covers his vision. He looks out the window as his breath hitches, a shadow was standing in the middle of the street.

MEANWHILE—

In a room, two couples were partying with their music fully loud, making noise. One woman was wearing red lingerie and the other wore a black dress. She had on a black wig that was covering her face, while her hair was done in a high ponytail.

“What a night,” she says taking a sip from her glass.

The male grabbed her by the waist causing her to laugh and say, “Careful, I might start drooling.”

The guy kisses the tip of her nose before taking the bottle from her hand and pouring some alcohol into his cup of wine.

“Oh my god, you’re drunk already?” the woman says in disgust and then turns to face him while grabbing his cheeks with both of her hands. “My sweet, beautiful boy, let's go,” she says and then takes his hand and begins dragging him towards the bed.

Once the bed is in front of them she pushes him gently onto the bed. “Lie down”

She goes onto the top of him kissing him deeply while holding her hips. She pulls away from the kiss and moves her lips to his neck. She starts sucking on his skin, as her tongue circles his collarbone.

Unaware of the white smoke entering the building, suddenly the music died off. The man held his wife closely by her back when he suddenly opened his eyes to see he was kissing a woman who had worms crawling on her face and body.

“Ahhhh” he screamed.

He pushed her away, falling from the floor. Suddenly the wife horrifyingly looked at him with her white eyes, as she crawled toward him trying to grab onto him.

He screamed out louder, trying to run away from the woman.

Then he was surrounded by the dead bodies of the children and the worms crawled over their flesh and bones.

He tried desperately to escape, he couldn't escape their death grips on his arms, legs, and torso.

Soon the worms were surrounding him again, and he couldn't breathe. They were too strong and he was trapped in a cage full of death.

But then the worms turned to smoke and slowly disappeared. He started breathing normally again, as he sat on the ground. With his heartbeat rising.

Everything vanished into thin air, and the male stands to his feet, rushing out of his room.

He ran downstairs searching for someone, anything, but found no one. Then he noticed how everything went black, and everything was silent.

He rushed back upstairs banging on each door of the hotel when suddenly he heard a footstep and a shadow coming towards him. He jumped backward screaming.

The shadow appeared to be human-shaped, its face completely exposed. There were three sets of horns protruding from the top of its skull.

Suddenly he leaves his position rushing into a room that was dark and hurriedly closing the door behind him. Afterward resting his back on the door as he listened to the footstep of the creature. It stops outside his room.

He waits until he hears a deep voice mutter: “Black, Black Black sheep....have you any wool, ”the figure sang in a demonic manner followed by its hysterical laugh.

As he continues listening carefully to the footsteps approaching his room.

“—One for the little man who will die in pain,” the voice says, sounding angry.

He remains silent fearing the monster would attack him.

Suddenly a mighty force starts to knock loudly on his door. “Open up! Open up! Open up!” the booming voice of an enraged person demanded loudly.

Suddenly the sound became louder, the knocking becomes harder. The monster began pounding upon his door, shouting at him in rage.

The man trembles with fear and starts shaking. “Please don't hurt me stop" then he begins reciting psalm 23 and the pounding stops.

The man exhales heavily relieved that he escaped, then he opens the door to find the figure gone.

He steps out of his room to see the hallway desserts. He sighs turning backward to come in the face with a figure floating before him. His breath hitches as he screams in terror. “Help—” Suddenly the door closes on him, and blood floats out through the door of the room followed by the yelling, and the sound of crunching bones.

On the road, Sean walked while ignoring the silence. His thoughts were occupied by the images of the child he saw earlier. When he noticed a tall hellish creature feeding on human flesh and drinking fresh blood. The creature suddenly turns to him with his huge axe that had spikes all over it.

It had a rod pierced across its head

with holes where its eyes should be, it was covered in dirt and blood. It was holding a giant rusty axe as big as it was tall with blood still dripping from its blade onto the ground.

The creature approached him with caution. Its eyes stared into his with pure hatred as it took a step closer until it was right in front of him.

Before he could react, it lifted the axe and slammed it down upon him. It missed because Sean managed to dodge the blow, as the creature charged after him.

As fast as he can move, Sean sprinted to the side. He turns around watching the creature charge at him again with its axe raised to strike him, he begins to run anywhere safe.

After running for about 20 meters he hears the creature roar and charge toward him. However, he continued running as he tries to escape. He looks backward before he collided with an unseen force. The wind blows strongly against him knocking him unconscious.

The next morning, the whole town resumed its various activities. Acted like nothing happened last night, except for the fact that Sean was missing, but nobody questioned why and the rumors about the strange event didn't spread to their homes. Nobody mentioned to anyone about the event that had been spotted yesterday or ever existed in the first place.

The townspeople got used to the strange incident. After all, they've been through more weird stuff than normal people.

At the hotel, the whole passengers had all packaged their luggage, they can't live in the town anymore because of last night's event. “We can't stay here anymore" one of the passengers cried out.

“We need to leave this cursed town," another said.

“We have to get to the mainland, we're going crazy in this town.” The second passenger continued crying.

The entire group began to argue. A couple of the passengers were arguing against going back and the rest just stood quietly waiting to leave.

“We need to calm down everyone" the driver announces as he turns around to climb a chair “there is no reason to fight amongst ourselves. We will take the bus, which is already repaired, and leave before Night Falls ." The driver says.

A few passengers nodded. Some were agreeing with what the driver had said. Others were not so confident.

“Make sure you clean the chair," the receptionist says while looking at the driver.

The driver rolled his eyes and climbs off the chair.

All the passengers were happy to finally depart the cursed town. Some wanted to leave now, board a bus and leave. Everyone has their things and is ready to go. Then boarded the bus

A few passengers nodded. Some were agreeing with what the driver had said. Others were not so confident.

“Make sure you clean the chair," the receptionist says while looking at the driver.

The driver rolled his eyes and climbs off the chair.

All the passengers were happy to finally depart the cursed town. Some wanted to leave now, board a bus and leave. Everyone has their things and is ready to go. Then boarded the bus that was already ready to take the guests to the mainland.

The bus slowly began moving forward, the sun shined brightly and birds chirped happily. Everything looked great, it wasn't like anything that was happening before; this is what life should look like.

The passengers on the bus are excited for the trip to begin. They felt refreshed and happy. All of them were eager to leave this cursed town.

In the corner of their eye, many passengers are pointing and whispering to others. The drivers turned around noticing the curious stares.

The driver sighed and glanced forward driving out through the exit of the town of Scarville.

"Let's just hope that I won't crash this goddamn vehicle." he whispers to himself while he drove down the endless road until he sees a familiar sign board which appeared to be ‘Scarville’ the driver turned confused looking around. “How did we end up there?” he mumbled as he turned around continuing his way down the road.

“What's wrong? are we going in turns?” a passenger asked

“Yes I don't know why we keep appearing back into the town," the driver says while reversing the bus until he was able to speed down the empty road.

After a while of driving, they came back to the entrance of Scarville.

“I think we're back where we started," one of the passengers say

“I'm sure we are" the driver replies as he stops the vehicle while banging the steering wheel angrily.

The driver exits the bus quickly and slams the door shut.

“We've screwed again” he mumbles under his breath. “Damn it why do we always get stuck?"

“Maybe we aren't getting the road properly, let's keep trying” a passenger suggested

Meanwhile, Sean wakes up to see himself laying before a huge abandoned mansion. Looking at his surroundings he notices that there are tons of old materials. The place seems abandoned. But he knew better, and his instincts told him people were hiding somewhere nearby.

As he starts walking toward the mansion, he hears loud noises coming from inside the house, making him anxious. As he gets to the mansion’s door it opened by itself, he enters which leads towards an abandoned hallway.

On the wall, a large painting hangs. He walks closer to the painting, staring at it.

Before he is distracted by a shadow that suddenly passes behind him followed by the giggling of a child. He quickly spins around looking behind him. But he doesn't see anyone. He starts walking down the hallway trying to locate the source of the noise. His ears pick up a muffled sound. It sounds like something scratching against the glass, like claws scraping on the concrete floor.

As soon as he comes upon a door, he pushes it open to see a young girl sitting on the floor, her back facing him. She is sitting on what appears to be a mattress, and she wears a torn dress. She is sitting against the wall staring at some kind of picture frame.

“Hello there," Sean says as he walks up to the girl.

He could hear the little girl Cry ing softly as she looks at the picture.

“Are you okay? what happened?" he asked

“He knows," she said softly still crying

Sean was startled by the reply "he knows?" he asks puzzled.

“He knows everything" she answered wiping the tears away from her face.

“Who's he,” he asked curiously.

“He's coming, run!” the little girl says as she jumps down and runs away

The sudden outburst of fear made Sean freeze, his heart rate increased and he started shaking. Suddenly he heard loud footsteps walking down the hallway toward the room he was n. Without thinking he turns and runs up the stairs with his head bowed. As he reaches the top of the stairs he hears loud footsteps coming up the stairs behind him. He continues to walk faster as he reaches a door and quickly grabs the handle of the door and yanks it shut. Once the door was closed it was getting closer. He takes a deep breath to steady his breathing. He glances at the door knob only to see that it has been locked tight. The footsteps stopped outside the room.