The Slender Man Project
Chapter 1
(3rd person POV)
"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
-JK Rowling
Walking home slowly from school, fifteen year old Allyson Marie Dawson walks home from Jujujia High School, her mind dwelling on her latest project for history. She's so engrossed in her thoughts that she doesn't even notice the light breeze flicking her shoulder length chestnut brown hair, nor does she notice the sunlight that's shining dangerously close to her milk chocolate brown doe eyes. She's thinking about how to look up the Slender Man, a paranormal being that in a way was somewhat like the male version of Bloody Mary.
"What to do… Let's see, I'll have to truly look up the history of the Slender Man, maybe even get Austin or Dez to play the Slender Man game with me…" Ally thoughtfully murmurs to herself as she mentally plans a checklist for her project, just one out of many to do lists.
Still marveling over what to do to make her project perfect, she reaches Sonic Boom where she heads up to the practice room, grabbing her laptop. She'd always been a hard worker, whether it was when she was 4 and arranging her mother's suitcase so that when her mother left to Africa for the first time, everything would be all tidy, and Ally's stuffed animals would be there to have 'Ally' with her mom, or when she was twelve and got her first major assignment that truly consumed her time, or when she had first met Austin and started writing upbeat pop songs for him every week. Nevertheless, she had always been a hard worker, and she never ever procrastinated. She had only procrastinated once when she was thirteen and her dad was hosting a 'good luck in Africa' party for her mom when she was leaving for three years, and she had to write a speech for her mom. She had wanted it to be truly different, and so she had ended up writing it at ten PM the night before the party. She had learned her lesson from that experience.
Logging on, Ally typed in 'Slender Man' into the search box on Youtube (1), and once the results popped up; she clicked on the first video, a video called "The Slender Man Documentary" (2).
After watching the nine minute and twenty one second documentary, Ally had an ominous feeling, like someone was watching her, but she quickly shook those feelings off, taking a deep breath and jotting down important notes for her project.
Once she had a respectable amount of notes for her project, she decided to call Austin up to ask him to play the Slender Man game with her. She normally wasn't easily scared by fake seeming paranormal things, but this one just had her gut tugging at her for comfort in a way that she had never experienced before.
"Austin?" Ally asked once she hit speed dial number one, and he picked up.
"Yeah Ally?" Austin's carefree and happy voice replied.
"Um, I was wondering if you would play the Slender Man game with me… I have a project on it, and I'm going to play the game to get some good information on it…" Ally carefully said, hoping he wouldn't jump to conclusions like she asking him out on a date, or that she was actually afraid of something near the horror genre. Not that she'd ever admit that, of course.
"Okay! I'll be right there," Austin said, a hint of confusion evident in his voice, but he then hung up the phone and ran to Ally's house.
Knocking on the door lightly, Austin waited for Ally to open the door, but he didn't have to wait for long before she opened it.
"Hey," Ally said, smiling.
"Hey," Austin replied, smiling.
"K, I just downloaded it, you can go upstairs while I get us a drink, okay?" Ally said.
Austin merely nodded, and then bounded up the stairs. Ally smiled at his retreating figure. She'd always had a soft spot in her heart for the blond haired happy go lucky guy. She just always felt like Austin, with his sweetness, tall figure, and caring, was like her eternal protector, and she had to admit, when she first met him, she had thought he was pretty cute, but now, he was definitely more than just cute. She knew that she was slowly and undeniably falling for her best friend, but she knew that it probably wouldn't work out anyway.
Shrugging at her last thought, she grabbed some chips and Mountain Dew (3) before heading upstairs.
Once she reached her bedroom, Austin was already there, lying on his stomach towards her laptop, slowly reaching for her songbook journal.
"Don't touch my book!" Ally sharply orders with a teasing smile on her face.
Austin sheepishly turns around, rubbing his neck nervously. "Whoops…" He says.
Ally rolls her eyes, and lies down next to Austin. "Alright, let's just play this game and get started. I need to get a good grade on this," Ally states before opening Slender (4). The opening title pops up, and then their player is transported to a forest with the words 'Find the eight pages', and then the words go away.
"Okay, so we just walk around, looking for paper?" Ally asks confusedly.
"I guess so…" Austin said in the same tone of confusion.
Once they had been exploring and found a note, Always watching, no eyes, the number of notes that they'd collected updated, and ominous music started to play.
"Um… I doubt this is a good sign," Ally said cautiously and right then, they saw a man in a black suit, and silently gulped. Then the man came closer, the screen got super blurry, and then before the game closed out, the Slender Man's faceless face popped up on the screen that was blurring and static, and Austin and Ally both screamed at the top of their lungs, terrified beyond any time they'd been scared.
"Oh… my… god… I've never been that terrified in my life," Ally said breathlessly.
"I think he got me to piss my pants…" Austin said, trailing off at the end with an embarrassed expression popping up on his face.
"You know what? Let's just try ONCE MORE. Please?" Ally pleaded with Austin.
"No, that dude has traumatized me for life!" Austin exclaimed.
"Please?" Ally asked innocently, using the power of her big, brown, doe eyes. Austin groaned in defeat, and Ally smiled in the pleasure of having convinced Austin. They open the game, and right when they're about to start, Ally's phone goes off, indicating that a Team Austin meeting is about to be held.
"Oh, we'd better go," Ally said, rushing towards the door, Austin trailing behind her. Neither of them realized that when the time went by, the Slender Man popped up to no one.
"An empty area… Interesting. Well, this little maze has been quite boring, I think it's time to have some fun," The Slender Man rumbled in a deep and ominous voice before cackling evilly at the end, and then his body turned into a white bright line, and as it went towards the laptop screen, it came OUT of the laptop screen and into Ally's room.
The faceless demon stared at the room, memorizing it. As the Slender Man walks out of the door, looking at everything through his suit pocket which managed to let him see without eyes, he looked at the house, truly memorizing some important details of the house. After he felt he had committed it to memory enough, he went back to the bedroom where he spotted the songbook journal with a tiny 'Allyson Marie Dawson' embroidered on it, yet it was big enough for the paranormal being to memorize that name. He first wrote on her wall, "It's nice to finally have the opportunity to meet you. Thank you for helping me get out of that dreary game that you despicable beings find terrifying…
-SM" in floating white letters, and cast his tracking and marking particles into the air of that room, so that he would never forget her.
"Allyson Marie Dawson, you are next…" He spoke to himself in a cold, quiet, ominous tone before he sinisterly cackles and flashes out of the room.
Author's Note: I'M BACK GUYS! After a day, which is impressive. You can thank my friend's friend for telling her to see a video about Slender Man, and that led to me watching a documentary that was really interesting on the history on Slender Man. Then, I watched this guy's reaction video while he was playing Slender, and the game seems pretty scary. Stupid jump scares... Anyway, you might have seen the videos, they're by this guy named 'PewDiePie' on Youtube. Anyway, numbers:
(1) Don't own Youtube... :(
(2) That video actually does exist. www. youtube watch ? v = xm6PGh2fvTg (without all those spaces of course.) I would recommend watching this video and watching Part 1 of PewDiePie playing Slender and his reactions. It's quite amusing, honestly... :)
(3) Don't own Mountain Dew... :(
(4) Slender, or Slender: The Eight Pages is a game based on the Slender Man. Austin and Ally were playing this game in this chapter.
Anyway, this story will be supernatural and romance although in later chapters, mystery and horror will definitely be extra genres that just won't be listed. Hope you guys enjoy my second supernatural multi chapter story! R&R, and all that other jazz... Constructive criticism and praise is always welcome here. :)
Yours Sincerely,
Dream-to-reality123
