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Prologue: The Witness

That day was raining. The rain fall the whole day and it didn't show any time of slowing down anytime soon. No one was outside of their houses, the storm was so strong that no one had the mood to even be outside. Besides, it was Sunday, no one would go out on Sunday with this horrible weather. True, no one was outside, except for a girl with a red umbrella over her head. She had an unusually long red hair and she was wearing a red raincoat. She looked young, but a little look closer anyone can notice that she's older. The girl's name is Jane Waterhouse and she's eighteen years old, although she looks a little younger. Jane was carrying a plastic bag with her. She was going back home after shopping medicine for her grandmother. While she was walking under the rain, she was thinking about the part-time job she had and what is she going to do next, staying in Derry or leave and attend to a good university the next year. She didn't know if she should even leave because she had to take care of her grandmother and her father was a little overprotective. She thinks of herself as an adult person now. She's old enough to take care of herself now.

"This rain... It's slowly stopping" Jane look up and saw that the rain was, in fact, stopping a little, but not enough. Jane reach Jackson Street, she was already near her house, only a couple of blocks and she could lay in her bed for the rest of the day and maybe watch some TV. Jane takes a couple of steps and hears two people talking. She was a little curious and keep walking until she saw a little kid kneeling in front of a sewer talking to someone. Jane was at the other side of the street, looking from afar... But strangely enough, she could hear the conversation... At least the end of it...

"I should be going now" Said the kid and was about to stand up, but the "person" inside the sewer talk to him...

"... Without your boat?" Jane hears a creepy voice coming out of the sewers. She slowly walks to the middle of the street and saw a clown on the sewer with a paper boat in his hand. "Here... Take i...t" Said the Clown and the boy get closer to the sewer to grab his paper boat. The boy reaches for the boat, the clown grabs his arm and in the blink of an eye sharp teeth come out of his mouth and bite off his right arm. Jane saw it all and she could only stare at the scene in horror, she didn't yell or move, she was in shock for what just happen. The boy starts screaming in pain and Jane saw an alarming amount of blood coming out of his shoulder. The boy saw Jane and extend his arm to her, yelling for help.

"P-Please! Help me!" The kid yelled. Jane was paralyzed with fear and she fails to even comprehend what just happen and what was even happening. Jane's eyes look at the boy laying in the street and then at the unusually long arm coming out of the sewer. Jane blinks multiple times before finally reacting and grabbing the boy's hand despite the situation. She throws her umbrella and bag and pulls the kid away from the sewer. The clown grabs the boy's feet and starts dragging him, and Jane, to the sewer. Jane tries to help the boy. With all her strength she pulls, but the clown was stronger. The boy keeps yelling and Jane was getting scared by the second. She looks at the sewer and didn't saw the clown's face, but the face of a giant spider starting at her, moving its chelicerae to the sides, like it was trying to spit poison at her. Jane, having a severe case of arachnophobia, let go of the boy and the clown, or more likely "Thing" drag him to the sewer. Jane crawls away from the sewer as fast as she could and she ends up at the other side of the street. She hears a sound that she didn't want to hear at all... The sound of bones breaking, they echoed in the sewer. Jane starts sweating and her heart beat faster than usual to the point she might be having a heart attack. She stares at the sewer and saw the clown again, his mouth was full of blood. He stares at Jane and smiles at her.

"... Hello, Jane" He said and that was enough to not only send shivers down her spine but screaming in fear. "You seem like a nice girl... A really nice girl... Tell you what... You love magic, don't you?" The clown asks and his smile grew wider. "Oh, you do love magic... How about I show you a magic trick, huh?" He keeps talking and Jane stare at the clown, she was so afraid of him that she couldn't even move. Her brain told her to run, but her body wasn't responding. "How about a magic trick, Jane? Look closely..." The clown places his hands on the ground outside the sewer and from his sleeves, an army of tarantulas came out and run after Jane. Her eyes widen and finally run away. She grabs her bag, but leave her umbrella behind. In the distance, she could hear the clown laugh and yell. "Come back, Jane! You'll love it down here! Georgie is having fun! He's floating! Float with him!" Jane ignore him and run all the way to her house and as soon she stepped inside she closed the door behind her with her key, but that wasn't enough for her. She runs to the kitchen, grab a chair and use it to block the door. Jane stares at the door and starts shaking.

"Jane...?" Jane turned around and saw her grandmother, slowly walking to her. She looks at her from head to toes and gets worried about her. "Wh-What happened to you sweety...? I-Is that blood?" Jane looked down and saw the blood from the kid in the raincoat. Jane stares at her grandmother and hugs her like if her life depends on it. "J-Jane, what happens? You are scaring me"

"A-A-A kid... I let go of his h-hand... Th-That thing eat him..."

"Wh-What?"

"A thing in the sewer eat a boy!" Jane yells at her...

Jane found herself outside of the Police Station of Derry. She goes right after what happened in that street and tells the police what she just saw... No one believes her and they thought she was on drugs. They arrest her for at least fifteen minutes before letting her go after they confirm she was in her right mind. Jane couldn't believe it, she just saw a boy dying in the sewer and the police are ignoring her. Jane didn't know what to think anymore, even she was having troubles believing her own story when she speaks about it out loud. Jane saw a white car coming closer to her and stop in front of the Police Station. The man driving the car was her father. Jane goes inside without saying a word and her father stare at her. He sighs and scratches his head.

"Jane... Are you sure that what you saw-"

"Yes! I know what I saw, okay!? I know it sounds insane, but I'm telling the truth! That Thing kill that boy!" Jane yell.

"Calm down... Just... Why don't you just forget about it?" Her father suggests to forget what happened in the events of that day, but Jane looks at him like he was the crazy one in the car.

"... Are you hearing yourself, Dad!? I'm not forgetting what happened today! I refuse to forget... Even if I really wanted to erase that horrible memory from my head... I must live with it... I'm not crazy, Dad. I know what I saw... Why no one believes me?" Jane asks, almost in tears. She looks outside the window for a moment and saw something near the trees. The Clown was staring at her, smiling... He had the paper boat in one hand and the arm of the boy in the other. He waves at her and whispers something that only she could hear as her father drives away from the Police Station.

"You'll float too, Janie... You'll... Float... TOO!" He yells and reveals his sharps teeth at her... A sight that Jane won't be forgetting anytime soon... That is, if she made it out alive...