The Faceless Entity
Chapter: 1
Dreams and disappearance
I have to keep running… I have to escape! I don't even know how long I have been running for, all I know, is that I have to keep running, I have to get away!
This forest seems to never end, every time it seems like I'm about to escape, the exit to this forest seems to be farther away. I don't even know why I am running, but I feel like something is following me.
I turn around to see just what was following me, but all I saw was complete darkness. I slowed down and began walking. I continue walking on my previous route, waking a little uncertainly. I didn't even know where I was going; I just wanted to get out of this forest.
After walking for a while, a really big tree came into view. As I got closer, I noticed that there was a marking on the tree, a big circle with an X crossed through it.
I walked past the tree and kept walking in the same direction. What I saw was completely disturbing. There were bodies pierced through tree branches, plastic bags that were dripping blood and the same symbol that was on the tree was drawn everywhere. "What the hell happened here…?" I whispered to myself.
Suddenly, one of the trees started moving. Wait… no, it wasn't a tree… WHAT WAS THIS THING?! There, right in front of me was a thing that was no less than 9 feet tall, was very slender and… had no face…
I turned around and ran into the darkness, trying to escape that… thing! However, after a few seconds of running, the thing appeared right in front of me! I was so shocked that I fell to the floor. That thing looked at me, I was paralyzed in fear. I couldn't move, all I could do was stare at the thing in front of me.
Then, four tentacles came from the things back and started waving around. The thing walked closer to me, its movement was unnatural. This thing still had me frozen with fear so I couldn't move.
The tentacles came towards me, when suddenly everything except the thing became distorted. Everything was completely messed up, while this happened, words flashed in front of me for a split second. They read: 'WE'VE FOUND YOU".
Suddenly the tentacles wrapped themselves around my arms and lifted me into the air. Then I was stabbed against a tree branch. I coughed blood and held my chest at the pain.
The thing came closer to me and it was still high enough to reach my body. It began to open my wounds with his hands and ripped out some of my organs. The pain was unbearable. Then what appeared to be the shadow of a person appeared behind the thing, the area where it's eyes were had two white holes. The thing turned its head in my direction and everything began getting heavily distorted until everything faded away.
I awoke in my bead, holding my chest, panting and covered in sweat. It was the third time I've had a similar nightmare. It's always the same; I'm running or walking through a forest, I see lots of weird and disturbing things, then that… Thing appears… After which I wake up.
However, this time was different. I saw that message, and that person… could all of this mean something?
I decided to ignore it and got up and did all the regular morning things: I went to the bathroom and took a shower, got dressed and had breakfast.
After that, I decided to call my best friend, Alex, who I haven't talked to in a two weeks. I dialed the number to his house. Nobody picked up. 'He hasn't answered in two weeks… I wonder what's wrong…'
Before I went to check on him I went to my room, put on my blue hoodie, and then I went outside and walked to Alex's home. On the way there I noticed that there weren't many people on the streets. There was only the very rare passing car. Ever since Alex disappeared there haven't been many people around.
When I got to his house I went to the door. As I was about to ring the doorbell, my eye caught something. I looked down and there was a note that was halfway inside the front door. Out of curiosity I picked it up. It was an envelope, there was nothing written on it, but I could tell there was something inside.
I rang the doorbell and hoped that at least someone would answer. Nobody answered. I looked through the kitchen window to check if I could see anything of significance. When I looked inside there was trash all across the floor, most of which was paper and it looked like someone had opened the cabinets and threw everything out.
I began to get really worried, so I called the police.
After I finished the call I heard a door open from the backyard. I walk along the house till I reach the backyard where I saw a person in a black hoodie climbing over the wooden fence. "HEY!" I shouted at the person. The person looked back at me and I saw that the person was wearing a mask with only one eye hole and his hoodie had drawings on it but I didn't get a good look at them. After he looked at me he ran away. I put the envelope in the hoodie pocket and quickly began to follow him into the forest.
After chasing him through the forest I lost him so I went back to the Alex's house. To my surprise, the police were there! I quickly went to one of the officers and told them about a possible intrusion and about how Alex has been missing for two weeks. After I told them everything I knew they went to search the house.
They didn't find anything unusual.
They searched the whole house and didn't find anything everything was perfectly fine. They told me that I shouldn't call unless there was a real emergency and that if I called again they would arrest me. To avoid any more possible trouble I didn't show them the envelope.
Once they left I looked through the kitchen window once more. Only to find that everything was as if it was new. "How did this happen?" I say to myself. "I was only gone for a few minutes!" I decided to give up for now so I left and went back home. As soon as I got home I went to my room and prepared to open the envelope. I just hope it's something useful.
Well? Did you guys like it? I hope you did! Sorry if the main character didn't talk much, but don't worry! There will be more character development as the story goes on. The chapters will also be longer! If you guys enjoyed please review! If you have any ideas or some helpful advice then feel free to say it!