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Warning: The following contains scenes of violence which some may find upsetting.
What Lies Within
An Ordinary Night
Kai had suggested a team break, after winning the third tournament and working hard to restore the BBA after Boris's madness had been stopped again.
Max had suggested camping in the American wilderness, Tyson and Ray agreed with Kenny reluctantly agreeing. It would help get them away from everything and unwind. Exactly what they needed after a few months of hard work. Kai hadn't accepted Voltaire's money, he didn't need it but had access to it. He organised a private jet and the correct and required paperwork. A week later they were on their way to the US where they'd spend a week at a camp in the outback.
Once they had arrived they went to a store to buy the right equipment and with Kai's cards this was easier than getting Tyson to stop eating.
"Kenny...put back the bug spray," Kai said. Kenny was struggling to carry several cans of bug spray.
"B...but Kai...!" Kenny protested.
"Fine...three bottles, just because I have money doesn't mean I'll spend it on any crap but put the other bottles back," he said walking away.
"Why do I have to babysit these children...?"
"I hope you don't count me as a child," Ray said holding three tents walking up behind him.
Kai turned to face Ray, surprised at the his appearance, he saw what Ray held.
"Are they one or two people?" changing the topic.
"Two, that okay?" he asked.
"As long as I don't have to share with Tyson," Kai responded.
They collected the camping gear which comprised of the usual, tents, bug spray, camping stove and gas, food with padlocks to prevent Tyson stealing, sleeping bags, torches, lanterns and batteries, maps and waterproofs with boots as well as fold up chairs, a camp kitchen, water bottles and plastic plates, Kai had also bought a satellite phone as regular cell phones wouldn't work.
It took an hour to drive to the camp and when they got to the site they found the whole place deserted. It looked like it had been deserted for a while.
"Kind of spooky," Tyson said taking his bag out of the back of the minibus.
"Look at it this way, no other people for us to disturb or likewise," Ray said taking his duffel out and shouldering it.
"Anyone want to help with the tents?" Max asked taking one out of the back.
"Sure, I never put one up but I probably could," Ray said taking another one out of the back.
It took half an hour or so to put the tents up with Max and Ray working together with Kenny reading the instructions. Kai and Tyson were unpacking the minibus before it drove away leaving them alone in the wilderness.
For Kai, the silence and loneliness of the place was perfect. It reminded him of the camp they had gone to to train with the other teams except more quiet, apart from Tyson the resident loud mouth. Ray almost felt at home having grown up in the Chinese wilderness. Tyson and Max being both city boys with little forest experience except for their team events and the odd family event through the years were enjoying it and Kenny, Kenny was barely surviving, complaining he had nowhere to charge his electronics which Kai flat out ignored leaving the camp behind.
The first day had gone without a hitch and now the sun had set, they sat around a camp fire and Max was introducing them to toasted marshmallows and the awesomeness that was S'mores. It was a clear cool night with a half moon casting feint shadows.
"Okay, okay...now who wants to tell ghost stories," Max said putting down his soda can.
Silence fell over them apart from the crackling fire.
"I'll go, might as well get this over with," Kai said which surprised them.
"A ghost story from Kai? I doubt I'll be able to sleep again," Tyson said.
Kai ignored the comment and started.
"Probably...this is from the Abbey...a lot of fucked up things happened there...kids went in, kids didn't come out...hell, you saw what happened to Alexander. When I went down there he was locked in a cell." Kai paused.
"Now, there were rumors which were to some extent proved true that they were able to torture Bitbeasts, even some of the kids said they heard Bitbeasts had even been killed..."
"Kill a Bitbeast? Is that even possible?" Tyson asked seeming convinced and suspicious. "Are you making this up as you go along? I'm not scared yet."
"I'd ask Matilda about that one Tyson," Kenny responded.
"The guards didn't have control over us as they thought, we weren't stupid...others said they heard disturbing sounds in the nights, screams, roars that didn't sound like it had been made by anything living...Some nights others would sneak into the depths of the Abbey, some never came back, some reported seeing horribly deformed Bitbeast like creatures wailing and howling...some said they saw the ghosts of other kids that had died in the walls, two claimed they saw a friend that had gone missing only two days earlier during a round of cybernetic experiments. His body was mutated, face fixed in perpetual agony...they turned and ran, even heard guards saying they've seen some disturbing things, guards have even been known to break down themselves...it's too fucked up even for them, it's said even now people don't go near the Abbey, it's closed up now, people claim the place is haunted, seeing ghostly spectres at the windows and disembodied screams and howls, the team would back me up if they were hear, Tala says he saw one of them."
Kai had stopped speaking letting silence fill over the group and slightly the wind picked up lapping at the flames for a moment before calming to a gently breeze.
"Who wants to go next?" Kai asked.
"I'll go," Max said shifting to get comfy and cleared his throat.
"I heard of a lumber mill, it was owned by two brothers, they were liked by everyone and everything. When he was digging for a new building one of the brothers found ancient buried artefacts worth millions. He knew he'd have to share it with his brother and he didn't want to. So one evening once he was sure he had been seen by other people away from the mill he snuck back and as his brother was finishing up at night and he pushed his brother onto the saw killing him almost instantly...It was a year later almost to the day the other brother was no longer living at the lumber mill having gotten rich from the find when he heard a strange noise from his house's basement...it sounded like a saw and when he went down to the basement it was exactly like it was that night. Slowly he approached the ghostly saw and without warning a hand slapped his back forcing him onto the saw which cut him to pieces..."
"Nice story," Tyson said. "But I've got one far worse...I heard that five years ago...or was it in the nineties, it was at our school, a girl died in a horrible accident, she fell down stairs and broke her neck, she was pushed and with her dying breath she cursed those who had tormented her and a week later those who had tormented her started dying in horrible accidents. After investigations they found out it was her best friend who spoke with the dead girl's voice, she had no idea what she had done and committed suicide several days later through mental anguish, believing herself dangerous...it's said their ghosts wander the first floor to this day and janitors have seen them, even students working into the evening claim to feel an uneasy pain around their neck where the girl died." Tyson stopped and looked at the group, Kai didn't look freaked but Tyson assumed he was.
Tyson allowed for a dramatic silence to fill the group and after a moment of silence Ray finally broke it. "Pretty good story Tyson, but nothing compared to this one," Ray said smirking.
"Oh yeah? Prove it," Tyson replied sticking his tongue out.
"Where I come from we did this all the time. About seven hundred years ago when little was known about Bitbeasts, they were revered almost God like, Shrines were set up to worship these Gods. People feared them, people hated them, people worshiped them. I read a story about a man seeking ultimate power and prayed at a Shrine to an ancient and powerful Bitbeast who appeared before him and told him to seek an Orb of ultimate power and return to the Shrine and he will get his wish. The man searched for ten years before finding and stealing the Orb from a Monk and took the Orb for himself. When the Bitbeast learned he had been deceived he went wild with rage hunting for the man and slaughtered the man when he had been found. The man dropped the Orb where it remains with his body today, his soul forced to guard the Orb for eternity. Anyone who ever came close would have their life force drained as the man's tortured soul attempts to gain power to free itself from its curse."
Silence fell over them and the wind picked up licking the flames once more.
"Not bad, not bad Ray, okay, Chief have you got one, you're last, dude?" Tyson asked looking at Kenny who unlike Kai seemed freaked out.
"I have one...I read online that a guy bought a second hand computer...its previous owner was pretty much unknown...It worked fine for several weeks before acting weird, freezing, rebooting, he checked for viruses but there wasn't anything. One day he had been playing games on it until the screen went white. He started banging on the screen until his hand vanished into it. Slowly his whole body was pulled inside and the computer shut down. The guy was never seen or heard from again. Some say that on dark nights when you have a blank screen saver his face appears on the screen. The rumor has it that those who see his face vanish...As for the computer itself? It mysteriously vanished several days later, no authority took it. It just vanished...the rumor also states anyone who finds the computer will get sucked into it and trap people online too." Kenny stopped.
"S...sorry, that was bad," Kenny said blushing slightly.
"Nah, it's fine, should have known it'd be something to do with computers," Tyson responded patting him on his back.
"It's so peaceful out here," Tyson said looking up at the almost clear night. A half moon hung in the sky above them casting eerie shadows. Ray put more wood on the fire poking it with a stick before tossing it into the flames.
Max yawned out loud taking them by surprise. "Man I'm tired."
"It's the jetlag," Kenny said. "We should probably get some sleep."
"Just a little longer, I'm enjoying myself...I think this is going to be the best vacation ever...!"
Author notes
Beywriter: Here's the start of my annual Halloween upload!
Story-Beywriter
Editor-Lirin Sama