Author's note; Alrighty then, this is my first fanfic trying to make an actual x-file, meaning paranormal story, and Mulder/Scully friendship, you know, the way they act in the show.
I am basing it on the game OBSCURE, which is a really great game.
I would appreciate creative criticism only, thank you. Anyway…on with the show : )
Warning; this story does contain violence, but nothing is graphically explained and has it's heavy moments.
Disclaimer; for all chapters that follow; Mulder and Scully belong to that lucky man Chris Carter, and all the Obscure characters and storyline belong to;
Developer: Hydravision
Publisher: Europe - Microids
Publisher: North America - Dreamcatcher Interactive
Teaser
It was Friday evening and Kenny Matthews was in the gym of his high school, Leafmore High. He was practicing his jump shots and free throws; just wasting time and energy.
Kenny Matthews was an average high school student. This year was his senior year and he was enjoying everyday of it. He did everything any senior or teenager should be doing, furthermore, some things he shouldn't.
His parents had left for the weekend and he decided that since he had no one to answer to; he would just stay out and do what he wanted.
Kenny missed a shot and swore. He wasn't as focused as he usually was tonight, just because earlier he had fought with his younger sister, Shannon. She was only a year younger, and they were very close. They had fought about him coming home early that night; she didn't want to be alone, but he just wanted to use the freedom he rarely had when their parents were around.
He was sorry that he had upset her and he didn't like to fight with her, only because she was friends with his girlfriend, Ashley Thompson.
They talked a lot, and sometimes Shannon would, unintentionally, get in him trouble with Ashley. They being friends worked against him.
Kenny this time made a basket. He whooped, and did a little dance, then stopped and looked around; just to make sure he was alone. The last thing he needed was one of his friends seeing him, especially Josh. He was always carrying a camcorder around, filming things he shouldn't be. Kenny liked the guy and would hate to have to kill him for the video.
Kenny felt that he was alone and continued with his free throws. He was the captain of his basketball team and he felt that he needed to be the best so that his teammates could count on him to be a good leader.
He was completely focused on his game, but was interrupted when his cell phone ring. He groaned. He knew who it would be, not that he really minded. He ran back to his bag and took out his cell phone.
"Hey, Ash, what's going on?" he said brightly.
"What do you mean 'what's going on', Kenny, you said that we were going out tonight and that you would pick me up at seven, it is now seven-twenty," Ashley demanded harshly, "Please don't tell me your playing basketball again,"
Kenny faltered. He was usually smooth with her, but he didn't know what to say tonight. He knew that he couldn't lie, but he didn't want to admit that he was playing, or practicing this time.
He internally berated himself, for forgetting to ask Shannon to cover him.
"Don't worry, I was just leaving," he said defeated.
"Uh-huh," she said skeptically.
"I was, I'll be there in twenty minutes babe," he promised.
"All right, you better be," she said and hung up.
Kenny decided that he better make good on his promise. An angry Ashley was terrible thing to face.
He ran back to the locker room. He set his bag down to look for a change of clothes in his locker and decided to shower before heading over to her house.
Kenny showered quickly and dressed. He went back to his locker to get his school things and head out. He noticed his bag was missing. He knew he had set his backpack down on the bench. He started to look through his locker and the area around him. He was confused and a bit freaked out.
He heard something stir on the far side of the locker room. He was startled, but he figured it was probably just one of his friends.
"If you think you can scare me, you got another thing coming," Kenny said, his voice a bit unsure.
He waited for a reply, but got nothing. He instead heard the door open and someone exit.
Kenny became angry. Why would someone want to take his stuff?
He decided to follow. He saw the gym doors closed. They had exited the gym. They move pretty fast, Kenny thought and he rushed after them, thankful that his training for basketball had given him great stamina.
Kenny exited the gym and ended up in the quad area. He listened hard, and heard the footsteps moving away from him towards the left.
Kenny followed the person to the south side of the school. He saw a door that was usually kept locked, was now opened. He walked through and was slightly becoming a bit unnerved. No one was ever allowed in this part of the school, except the principal.
He heard the footsteps continue forward. Kenny was afraid, but when remembered that he was trying to get back his backpack, it only renewed his anger.
He moved farther into the area and was surprised to see a huge house. He never knew that this was what was being hidden, but why? Kenny saw the person move to the right side of the house. Kenny followed and saw the person hurriedly walk down into an opening that seemed to lead to a cellar.
"What is up with you," he complained, "Just give me back my stuff!" he called.
He got no response. Frustrated at being ignored, he continued after the person.
Kenny ended up in a small storage room. In the middle of the room's floor was a ladder that seemed to lead under the house. He saw the person's light moving down, but also coming from the opening was an unknown growling.
Kenny felt hesitant and hated knowing that that was where he needed to go if he wanted his stuff back. Honestly, he wanted to forget about his stuff and head to Ashley's, but he realized that he needed to get it back, if not for the principle of it. He didn't let anyone mess with him and he wasn't about to let this jerk get away with that.
Kenny looked around the room. He needed a weapon to protect himself from the person, in case they wanted to fight, and…for what ever was growling down there.
Kenny saw on the table an old box. It was slightly open and in it contained an ancient looking pistol. It was dusty, and he really doubted that it worked.
He picked it up and saw that it was in really good condition, and loaded. Next to it was also a flashlight.
Kenny felt even more unease. It was as if someone had set this up, but why and was the person that he was following in on it. Well, Kenny figured it didn't matter; no one messed with him and got away with it.
He grabbed the gun and the flashlight. He gathered up as much courage as he had left and headed down the ladder.
Kenny was now underground. He looked down a long hallway that was lit with dim red lights, but even in the semi-darkness, he noticed that the hallway seemed weird.
His eyes adjusted better to the lighting and he walked a little ways further down the hall and saw that growing out of the walls were very thick roots. They seemed to have bust through the concrete. He wondered what was going on with the trees for that to be happening.
Kenny walked over to a root and examined it. It didn't look normal and he was sure his eyes were playing tricks on him because he was sure that the root was breathing, or at least oddly looked like it had a heartbeat.
"Weird," he said and decided not to touch it.
Not being able to make sense of it, he shrugged it off and continued onward.
As he moved farther down the hall, he needed to use his flashlight. A strange darkness was enveloping him.
He came across an area of broken wall and had to be careful as he walked by it, but when he focused his light on the ground, something that was as big as a cat, but not a cat, ran by. He only caught a glimpse of it, but was sure that it looked nothing like any animal he had ever seen in his life.
"What the hell," he said, out of shock and curiosity.
He cautiously continued forward, in case anymore of those things wanted to pop out. Finally, he reached the end of the hall, but as he looked at the door, he noticed that it was covered in a strange dark mist. He reached out to touch it and he felt a slight pull and his skin burn as if he had stepped in front of a heater. He moved back from it quickly. The warmth wasn't peaceful. He felt completely frightened of it.
Kenny deliberated on what he should do. He wanted his stuff back and the person who had it could have only come this way. Therefore, there had to be a way to get passed this thing.
Kenny stared at it and then remembered the flashlight. He felt that it was a long shot, but it was his only option. He knew shooting at it wouldn't work. The darkness was a mist; solid things had a tendency to go through non-solid things.
He aimed his flashlight and turned it on. Instantly it began to shriek and recoil. He felt his blood run cold; the shriek was nothing like he had ever heard before.
Finally, the mist seemed to have disappeared. He tentatively touched the door without trouble. Kenny was more frightened, but was now curious of what was going on in his normal high school.
Kenny walked through the door and ended up in a storage room, but it held nothing he had ever seen the school use. It was filled with huge cages and little ones. He knew that his school didn't house any animals except maybe frogs or hamsters, but nothing that was bigger then a human being. And these cages were humungous.
He explored the room a bit, but couldn't make much sense of what he was seeing.
Kenny still wanted his stuff back, but now he wanted to know what was going on.
He saw a big door in the middle of the room and another one across from the door he entered. He decided to try the one in the middle. It was a big steel door with a barred opening. He tried to open it, but it was locked. There was an ominous growling coming from inside. He backed away from it quickly, afraid that whatever was in there was going to go after him.
Kenny then headed for the door that was across from the door he came from and thought, by process of elimination, it had to be unlocked. The person he was chasing had to have come through here and unlock one of the doors to get out.
The door was unlocked and Kenny opened it and entered a smaller room. It held only two doors and a large cabinet. It also had a big hole to the left. Kenny decided to stay away from the hole.
He tried to open the door to the left, but it was locked. He tried the right and it opened. He stepped in and saw that the room he entered was like a jail cell, but it was practically destroyed. The walls were cracked and the bed overturned. Kenny noticed among the ruins a teenage boy who was huddling in the far corner, seemingly trying to hide.
Kenny felt wary of him, so he approached him carefully.
"No, no, no, have pity please, no more injections, it burns, don't…I don't want to go back." said the boy now cowering against the wall.
"I don't…what are you talking about?" Kenny said, but looked around the cell, "What is this place?" he asked the boy.
The teen boy was still muttering his protests, unaware that Kenny was there.
"Hey," Kenny said touching his shoulder.
Immediately the boy jumped and recoiled, if possible, farther away from Kenny. The boy looked at Kenny fearful.
Kenny saw that it was a boy who went to his school. A sophomore named Dan; except he didn't look the way Kenny remembered him.
Dan was so thin now and sickly looking. Dan had been on the football team before he disappeared. He was big and muscular, or at least used to be. However, Dan had only been missing three weeks! Dan looked like he had been starved for months!
Had he been here the whole time, but why? Kenny wondered.
"Hey, don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you," Kenny said soothingly.
Dan stared at Kenny, as if trying to figure out who he was.
Finally, Dan seemed to relax a bit. "Oh, you fell for it too," he said as if it was a normal observation of the weather.
"Fell for what?" Kenny asked confused.
Dan shook his head, "You don't get it, we need to get you out of here, quick," Dan said seriously, after he had found his mind, but then grasped Kenny's arm, "Don't abandon me, what ever you do, he's nuts, " he begged fearful.
"I won't I promise," Kenny said alarmed and wondering how he was, "All right, let's go,"
Dan led the way out of the cell. They entered back into the small room with the huge hole.
"He always hides a gun in here," Dan said heading for the cabinet in the room.
Kenny looked at him still wondering who 'he' was.
Dan opened the cabinet and pulled out a gun. Dan checked it and was satisfied that it was loaded.
Kenny just watched him surprised.
Kenny and Dan headed back into the room with the huge cages. Kenny knew that he wasn't going to find out who took his bag, but at the moment with what he was seeing, he didn't care. All he wanted to do was get out of this basement and head over to Ashley's.
As he and Dan walked passed the steel door that was locked, he heard the menacing growl again. It was louder and seemed closer to the door. That was all the incentive that he needed to get out quickly. He sped up, dragging Dan with him. As they were getting around a few of the boxes to the main door, Kenny heard as the door was ripped open. He turned and saw something that would never leave his mind for the rest of his life. It was some kind of monster. Monster in every sense of the word.
It nearly looked like a human, but with its scull showing, and droopy skin all over. It had no eyes and its mouth was mostly razor sharp looking teeth and was obviously its weapon of choice. Kenny also saw that it was surrounded by the mist he encountered earlier at the door.
Dan and he stood still for a moment, mesmerized by it. Then Kenny's mind clicked back on, 'run or be killed by it' it screamed. Luckily, his legs reacted before he could tell them to move. He tried to pull Dan with him, but Dan resisted him.
"Nooooooo," he screamed at the monster and started firing his gun.
The bullets didn't seem to do much. Kenny couldn't figure why, but felt that it had something to do with the black mist.
"Hey, Dan!" Kenny called.
Dan turned to look at him. Kenny tossed his flashlight at him.
"Aim it at the thing," Kenny instructed.
Dan did and the monster slightly recoiled, but the light wasn't strong enough.
Kenny rushed towards the exiting door, opened it and ran into the other room.
Dan followed him, but wasn't fast enough. The monster caught him.
Kenny wanted to run back and try to help Dan, but the monster had picked up Dan and ripped out his heart and tore off his head.
Kenny stopped for only a moment to see this happen, but his mind reminded him to keep moving, or else he would meet the same fate.
Kenny took off running down the hall with the thick roots, which seemed to have grown more within the last twenty minutes. He dodged the roots and the little things that he had mistaken for what looked like a cat. Now he saw what they really were, pieces of flesh with legs and teeth. He wanted out of the hall as quickly as possible, not that he hadn't before. He put on an extra burst of speed.
Kenny made it to the ladder and started to climb, relief filling him as he climbed higher and higher. He looked up into a familiar face and was grateful, thinking this person was going to help him; was going to save him, until the door to the ladder closed and he was left in complete darkness with all his nightmares come true, screaming to no one.
Second author's note; Just to let you know I am writing this while my bf plays the game, so it will take sometime to finish, especially adding Mulder and Scully and keeping the story consistent, everyone knows how most games make no sense, well, my job is to make it make as much sense as possible and keep you interested, I don't know if I do a good job with that, so I would appreciate it if no one pointed out that it makes no sense, not my fault the way games are written. I really have to fill in a lot of blanks with this game.