Suddenly an extremely loud, echoing noise bounced down the street in front of our house. I quickly got out of bed to look out the window to see what was going on outside. There wasn't anything out of the ordinary going on strangely, i couldn't spot anything. Scared out of my mind, i stood by the window and waited.

I stared out the window in fear for 10 minutes straight, i could of swore i didn't blink once. My heart pounded as if somebody had a gun on my head. Chills went up and down my spine, i was breathing heavily, and slowly my ears started ringing. The ringing in my ears got louder by the second, i didn't know what to do. I sat on my bed and rested my elbows on my knees as i held my ears in my hands, swaying back and forth waiting for this to stop.

I couldn't hear anything but the constant ringing in my ears, and all i could feel was my heart beating. The heart beat became painful, It seemed as if my heart beated a thousand times a second. Terror stuck my heart when i felt something touch my shoulder. I looked to my side slowly, as i was shaken back and forth by something. It was my dad, with his arm around me, pushing me back and forth like he is trying to wake me up. He had a fearful look on his face, and his eyes wide open staring into my bloodshot, almost beyond wide open eyes. It looked like my dad was yelling at me, but i could barely hear what he was saying over the painful ringing in my ears, still getting loud.

Suddenly everything stopped. No ringing, no breathing, no nothing. I stared into my dads eyes while my mouth hung wide open. I couldn't hear anything, as my dad screamed in my face. Slowly i gained my hearing back, and control over my hanging mouth. I started hearing my dads fearful yelling, i never heard him yell so loud.

"WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" Dad yelled, over and over again

"Dad…" I said

Dad stopped yelling, he was completely silent, his face changed from full of fear to full of hope.

"Dad…" I said again

He slowly broke down into tears as his grip on my shoulder got weaker until he let go to cover his face with his hand as he sobbed.

"What the hell was that…" Dad said as he whipped away the tears around his face.

"uh-i don't know... dad.." I said staring dead into my dads eyes.

"I couldn't hear you, dad... I could barely see.. or breath. My heart was pounding… hard." I added

"What about now?" My dad asked.

"Now… I don't know… I-i can't think straight. Everything is a blur." I said

"Why… How… You.. You looked possessed, i thought i lost you. I have never seen anything as horrific as what ever happened a minute ago." My dad said.

"Did you hear anything outside.. uh-uhm a few minutes ago… like… like a coin being dropped onto a hardwood floor, except a thousand times louder and all echoey?" i asked with fear in my eyes.

"No… no… I-I thought i imagined that. What was it? did you see it?!" My dad replied

"No." I said as i shook my head.

"What happens next?" dad asked

"I dont know…" i said as i began to cry.

A strange noise caught our attention, It sounded like foot steps, far away. Then a crackling noise, then a scream.

"What the!" i said

The footsteps slowly got louder and turned into more like stomps. Louder crackling, Non-stop stomping, More cracklings, More screams every second. The stomping got closer and closer, i was scared to look out the window, so my dad beat me to it.

"I cant see anything!" he said as i approached the window.

the stomping got louder, and louder! The screaming got worst, along with the crackling. We saw people running up our neighborhood streets in terror, falling down, tripping, and becoming a pile of blood every second. The crowd of people went from big to small as each and every one of them were shot down in the sunrise of the day. The whole crowd became a pile of dead bodies in a matter of seconds.

The stomping continued to grow louder and louder until a creature caught our eye. Before we had time to study it, dad and I kneeled under the window, and waited. I felt like screaming, i could barely hold it in. I looked over to my left to where my dad was kneeling, the look on his face was full of terror.

The stomping stopped… we still don't know what was making the stomping too. The questions 'What was that sound', 'Why did the stomping stop', and 'Are we the only ones alive?'.

The stomping started again, but sounded as if the stomping was going away. A feeling of relief went through my mind, until i heard a growling noise right outside our house.

"Did you hear that?!" I whispered to my dad

"Yes… Yes i did" he replied

I heard a loud crashing noise downstairs, and looked at my dad and whispered,

"It-its inside! We need to hide!"

My dad looked around the empty room as the growling creature sounded like is was getting closer and closer. My dad spotted the attic door on my ceiling.

"Up there!" He whispered

We crept across my room, trying not to make a sound as the growling creature got even closer than before. Dad reached up to the handle on the door and pulled it down slowly, trying not to make a single sound.

"Gosh damn! Theres no ladder…" Dad said under his breath.

"Im going to lift you up there, then you're going to pull me up." He added

He lifted me up to the ceiling and i crawled through the doorway. The growling sounded like it was right behind my door.

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