Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Season Seven
Episode One: The Tale of the Falling Death
Six new kids surround what's left of the secret spot of the once Midnight Society. It's been five years since someone has been here, and now these kids want to start it up again. Bryan, Joey, Ali, Daniel, Cassy, and Grant try to start the fire and a few minutes pass, but they get it going. Cassy is the one who found the place, she was once friends with a boy named Tucker. He told her that if she ever needed a place to go and hang out this was the place, and then Tucker moved away. Cassy had heard all about how to do the meetings, and how to end them. Bryan gave Cassy an evil glare and shouted, "can we get a move on this, and I hate the woods".
Cassy started the meeting; "I would like to thank you all for coming. Tucker said the bag would be in this stump," Cassy reached in and pulled out the infamous bag of dust, "Now all we do is tell stories around the fire. I'll start tonight with one of my tales. Submitted for the approval of the newest Midnight Society, I call this story the tale of the falling death."
Cassy started the story, "Kyle and Mike were best friends since preschool, and no one could separate them. They had lived next door to each other since fourth grade, but something was going to change that."
Kyle and Mike are pushing each other on the ground for fun, and that's when they knock into a tall dark figure. "Sorry dude, we didn't mean to knock into you like that. Are you ok?"
The tall dark figure looked down at the two boys, "All is fine, no harm here. Would you boys like to come inside and talk?"
"The boys decided that the tall dark figure had a bad sense to him, so the boys decided to decline the man's offer."
Kyle and Mike ran into Mike's house, and started to laugh. "Would you like to come inside and talk?" Mike said mocking the tall man. Then Kyle had a bad thought, he thought that what if the man would tell their parents if they didn't go inside.
Kyle decided to go back and talk to the tall man and make sure that he didn't tell his parents, but Mike stayed at his house. When Kyle arrived at the house it took one knock and the man was there, he invited Kyle inside. A few hours past and Mike got worried, "Kyle hasn't come out of the house yet. I hope he's ok."
Just then Kyle came out of the front door, he had a dazed look and he was trembling. Mike ran to Kyle and asked him what was wrong, but Kyle couldn't speak. The next day Kyle wasn't at school, in fact Mike had noticed that a lot of his friends weren't there. After school Mike went to Kyle's house, Kyle's mom told Mike that he hadn't come out of his room all day. Mike knew something was wrong, and so he decided to go to the tall man's house.
Mike pounded on the door; the man opened it, and invited Mike in. Mike rushed in and sat down. The man started to ask Mike weird questions, "Mike, what's your biggest fear?"
Mike almost started to chuckle, but he held it back. "My biggest fear is falling to my death, why?"
"And is Kyle your friend?"
"No, I only hang with him because I kind of feel sorry. Don't tell anyone."
The tall man laughed and got up, Mike decided to follow, but the man turned around and told Mike to wait. It seemed like hours before the man returned, he brought a blindfold with him, and then he asked Mike to put it on. Mike ran for the door, but the man was quicker. The tall man grabbed Mike and forced on the blindfold, he then took Mike into his backroom.
"Oh no, Mike is dead meat. There's no way for him to get out of that", Ali had shouted interrupting Cassy.
Daniel replied, "Be quiet and let Cassy finish her story".
Cassy started again, "It looked like all hope was lost, but Mike wasn't going to give up that easily".
Mike's blindfold was taken off, and he screamed when he saw where he was. Mike was standing very high from the ground, and the man was behind him. "What are you doing?"
The man laughed, "Your fear is falling, if you can face your fears I'll let you go, but if you can't your soul will be mine. Just like all of your friends and soon your family will join".
Mike looked down, "If I face my fears and jump, will you let all of my friends go? And leave this town?"
The man agreed that he would. Mike smiled and he pushed the man back and jumped. He didn't scream and he didn't cry, but he did laugh. When Mike landed he was back on the man's couch, the man had an evil glare. "How did you face your fear so quickly?"
Mike smiled, "Because falling isn't my fear, now let everyone go. Before you do and you leave town, who are you anyway?"
The man looked at Mike, "I'm Fear, I go around trying to help people to face their fears, but I do get paid if my services don't work. I collect souls, and it would seem that you've outsmarted me. A deal is a deal, everyone will return back to normal, and that won't remember a thing. Well done Mike, well done".
Mike left the house to find everyone back to normal, well almost everyone. Kyle still had a dazed look on his face.
"The end, well I hope everyone liked that story."
Bryan looked confuse, "Wait, why didn't Kyle change back?"
"Because Mike said to change his friends back, Kyle wasn't Mike's real friend." Ali answered, "Mike only felt sorry."
"Well until next time", Cassy said.
Then Cassy poured the water and the fire went out. Everyone got up and started to leave.