Hey guys.
I'm Mitchinator, or Mitch if you would prefer, and welcome to my first fanfic, Trapped Until Dawn. I hope you like it, follow, favourite and review it with some constructive criticism if you want.
(For below, 1 equals quite low on the stat bars which equal quite high in that stat and 10 equals the whole bar full which equals high in that stat, but I don't know why you wouldn't know that).
Characters:
Ryan Miles
Honest= 7
Charitable= 5
Funny= 4
Brave= 5
Romantic= 3
Curious= 9
Ryan is 18 years old. He's the type of person to make friends with anyone easily. He is also quite smart, usually being the one to come up with the plans and theories, and can think quick when the situation calls for it. This means that he can be really curious and go into dangerous situations to find out the answers to his questions, leading to William trying to talk some sense into him. He may not be in top physical condition, but he can be quite agile when he needs to be.
William Miles
Honest= 3
Charitable= 5
Funny= 5
Brave= 8
Romantic= 6
Curious= 5
Will is also 18 years old. He may not be as smart as his brother, but he can still bring his own logic into an argument or conversation, but he makes up for that in his physique. He is really into sports, always goes out for a morning run and makes sure to do at least an hour of exercise a day. He's in top physical condition and he knows it. This means that he can be quite brave, thinking that he can take on anything, leading him to get into situations that he can't get out of, needing Ryan to help.
Summary: Ryan and William are two brothers, and best friends, who love all types of video games, find that they are trapped in the horror game, Until Dawn. To get out, they have to survive the night. Are they able to survive until dawn while they're being chased by monsters and maniacs? Rated T for bad language and gore.
William's pov
This has probably been the craziest experience of my life. My name is William, but everyone just calls me Will. My brother, Ryan, and I got trapped in a video game, more specifically the horror game Until Dawn. I know, sounds crazy, doesn't it? Well, we're going to tell you, in its entirety, the whole experience, from start to finish.
So, let us start from the very beginning. It started like any other normal day. It was a blisteringly hot Tuesday morning. The sun was shining down on us as we walked towards my car to drive to college. I have been able to drive for a couple of months now and it came in handy to get to college every week.
"Wow, it's hot today, isn't it?" Ryan said to me as we put our stuff in my car's boot.
"Yeah, I know, it's the hottest it's been in years. The car is going to be so hot inside," I replied.
"Well, I can't wait to get home today," Ryan said.
"Why is that?" I asked as we got into the car and closed the doors behind us.
"Because I just bought a new video game for us to play together."
"Oh, really? What game?"
"Until Dawn."
"REALLY! That video game looks really cool," I said, getting really excited about this new piece of information. Ryan and I love playing video games together. It's one of the only things we have in common and why we spend so much time together.
We go to E3 every year to see all of the new releases and one of the ones we were really interested in back in 2015 was Until Dawn. We were going to watch Markiplier and Jacksepticeye play the game, another thing we have in common is our Youtuber tastes, but we had a ps4 so we were going to play it ourselves but we didn't have any money so we didn't get it until now. We've been so lucky to not get many spoilers over the past year since it's been out.
"Where did you get the money to get it? I'm only getting minimum wage for my pizza delivery job, and last time I checked you didn't have a job," I asked as I drove us out of the parking spot and down the road.
"I've been doing some odd jobs here and there, dog walking, babysitting, jobs like that. And I've been saving up for a while. It can add up quite quickly. And the only reason you don't have any money is that you spend it all of the time," Ryan answered, giving me a proud grin.
"Hey, I spend it on important things!" I rebutted.
"Like on dozens of clothes you don't need, like on takeaway food that isn't good for you," he said back, smirking.
"It pays to look nice nowadays, and I can't help it if I get back from work late. I get a discount from the place I work anyway so how am I not supposed to get food from there on my way out. And you know I can't cook," I explained
"In my opinion, it shouldn't matter how you look. You should just wear something comfortable, like me," Ryan said, pointing at his attire which consisted of a light blue Slazenger tank top, Black Adidas shorts, black and white Nike shoes and a plain navy blue baseball cap, as well as his classic think rimmed glasses, which he needed to see.
"This is comfortable, it just happens to be fashionable too," I said, pointing to my attire, while still looking at the road, which consisted of a mint green River Island polo, Charcoal True Religion Geno shorts, navy blue TOMS Espadrilles shoes, and blue lensed aviators.
"Whatever, the point is that I have bought Until Dawn and it is waiting for us when we get back from College. Let's get going," Ryan finished as we continued to drive down the road to college.
Later that day
College is so much better than School ever was. You're able to choose the course that has the subject you want to learn, whereas at school you go into a subject you don't care about to learn things that are unimportant to life in general. It's so much better. Ever since I left school, I've been a lot happier.
Meanwhile, everything doesn't seem so good for Ryan. He got bullied back in school for being smart and a "teacher's pet" as they would say. What's even worse is that some of those same bullies ended up in the same college as us, and they haven't matured in the slightest. Luckily they weren't in the same course as him, so he didn't get bullied as often.
At lunchtime, I went into the common room to meet up with Ryan so we could eat together. I entered and saw him sitting alone at one of the tables in the corner. I sauntered over and sat down opposite him.
"Hey Ryan, How's your day going so far," I asked as I sat to get my lunch out of my bag.
"Good actually. I showed my lecturer the picture I drew of us in the style of Until Dawn and he thought it was brilliant, especially the lighting and shading. How about you?" He had always been interested in art, including photography. One of the reasons he loves video games so much is because of their art style and graphics, even the 8-bit and 16-bit graphics too.
"Good too. We were learning about how to structure a piece of music. It was fascinating." I have always enjoyed listening to music, it's my passion. I love listening to video game music, the tones, the melodies. I love it.
"Well, I'm glad we are both enjoying our courses. We were learning about how to properly make images 3D and…" Ryan was saying, but I wasn't listening all that much. What I was paying attention to was what was happening behind him. Those bullies I mentioned earlier seemed to have found a new victim, the new 14 year old student Oswald.
The pair of bullies had picked up his bag and had started to play piggy in the middle with it. Oswald was shorter than most students so he was having a hard time trying to grab it. It makes my blood boil to think they would pick on someone like that.
"…Are you listening?" Ryan asked, seeing my distant look. I pointed towards the scene unfolding behind him and he turned around to see what I was so distracted by. "You have got to be kidding me? Really, Adam. You too, Brad." He got up and started to head towards them.
"Ryan, wait! Grrr." I said, staying at the table for now. I don't want to get involved unless I have to. As Adam, the one who picked up the bag in the first place, threw the bag towards Brad again, Ryan hastily intercepted the toss, snatching the bag out of the air before it could get to him.
"Come on, Adam. I never thought you would stoop so low," Ryan commented.
"Ryan, please don't get involved. I don't want you getting hurt." Oswald said, the defenceless looking Asian kid trying to push him away from the situation, but Ryan just shrugged it off.
"Oh, look who it is. Ryan Miles. The resident teacher's pet. Come to protect the defenceless. You're such a hero," Adam mocked.
"Yes actually. Why would you bully someone so defenceless? That's unfair. We're in college. We're nearly adults for God sake. Act your age and be just a little more mature." Ryan defended.
He laughed. "And what are you going to do about it if I don't?"
"Don't tempt me," Ryan said, staring daggers at the bully.
"Hahaha! That's laughable! You think you could take on me?! You have never performed well in any of the physical activities. I've seen it with my own eyes. Maybe you should be more like William over there. Either keep to yourself or work out every day instead of being sucked into your drawings. Come back to me when you aren't a weak, powerless, wimp!" Adam stated, pointing towards me and laughing.
I had half a mind to get up and deal with him myself, but Ryan's expression stopped me dead in my tracks for a moment. Now, there is something special about Ryan and I that you should know about. We can tell what people are thinking just by looking at the emotions in their eyes, that's why we can communicate without speaking sometimes, all we need to do is look into each other's eyes and we know what we want to say.
At that moment, I looked into his eyes and all I could see what anger, hatred and disdain towards Adam, not only for bullying Oswald, but also after all the years of torment he endured. He was finally going to fight back. He was going to punch him, and it was going to be hard. I knew this would end badly.
Before I could even stand up to get between them, he struck. The crowd that had gathered around us now gasped as Adam was punched in the nose. Oswald seemed the most surprised by this turn of events. Adam wasn't expecting the sudden blow to the face so he was knocked back.
He quickly regained himself and looked at Ryan stunned, putting his hand up to his nose to find it was bleeding. But his eyes quickly changed from shock to rage. "What the fuck! You are so going to pay for that!" He roared, advancing towards him aggressively.
I quickly sped out of my seat to get in between them, but I was too late, again. Adam took his swing, but Ryan somehow managed to duck under the swing. He seemed surprised that he missed. Ryan may not be that athletic, but he does have really fast reflexes.
Adam took another swing but Ryan dodge again. He was starting to get frustrated with his misses now. He kept swinging and Ryan kept dodging, I was actually kind of impressed that he was doing so well. The crowd was now cheering Ryan on, Oswald being the loudest.
This continued until Ryan decided to take one more swing at the aggressive meathead. He successfully hit him in his blind rage. He staggered back again and seemed to think about his situation. Now, not only did he have a probably broken nose, but also a black eye.
His rage only seemed to heighten and he suddenly rushed towards Ryan and rugby tackled him into the opposite wall, winding him. He also managed to successfully land a couple of punches to his gut and the face, giving him a black eye and a bloody lip. Before he could fight back, he was grabbed by the neck and lifted off his feet, choking him slightly.
"What are you going to do now, huh? You're trapped with nowhere to go. No way out now! Prepare to get pummeled, Bitch!" Adam said triumphantly, winding up for a powerful punch that would probably knock him out.
Now was my time to get involved. I quickly rushed behind Adam and caught him off-guard, grabbing him by the back of his shirt and throwing him to the ground. Ryan fell to his knees coughing.
"Hey, remember me!" I said, kneeling on his stomach and grabbing him by the front of his shirt. I could see in his eyes that he was scared now. He knew how strong I could be when my strength was put to good use.
"Oh, h-hey Will." He stuttered, shaking slightly in fear.
"If you know what's good for you, you will stop harassing people like Ryan and Oswald, or there will be hell to pay. That goes for you too Brad!" I said giving both of them a menacing look, which they returned was looks of fear. I quickly lifted Adam by the collar of his shirt onto his feet and pushed him away, he stumbled back before regaining his balance and moving away, Brad right behind him.
"Now get out of here, before I change my mind," I said as they ran away defeated. The crowd around us stared at us in shock, as I hurried over to attend to Ryan's wounds, which quickly turned into cheering and applause.
"That was epic!" "I didn't think anyone could stand up to Adam!" "Who knew Ryan could be so nimble!" "Will was so badass, coming in last minute to save the day!" Were some of the comments I heard over the crowd's ovation.
"It was nothing really, but now there is nothing anyone should be worried about. He shouldn't harass anyone anymore." I said as the people gave one last cheer before quickly dispersing to get on with the rest of their day, not before checking if Ryan was alright.
"Are you OK? He didn't hurt you too badly, did he?" I asked as I got the first aid kit that I keep in my bag just in case, out to patch him up.
"I'm fine. But you have to admit… I left quite a number on him, didn't I?" Ryan said, groaning from the pain, but giving me a smile none the less.
"Yeah, you did. But you shouldn't have done that. That could've gone even worse if I hadn't stopped him." I said.
"Well, I couldn't let Adam bully Oswald. He's just an asshole who needed to be brought down a peg or two." Ryan said.
Speaking of Oswald, He hadn't left yet. He came over to us and kneeled down to Ryan's level, who was currently sat down with his back against the wall. "Ryan, Will, thank you so much for intervening. If Adam continued, no one else would've stood up for me in my time of need."
"You're welcome, Oswald. I know what it was like to be bullied by that asshole, so I felt like I finally needed to stand up to him." Ryan said.
"I just wish there was some way I could repay you," Oswald said.
"Trust us, your gratitude is its own reward," I said, finishing my patch-up job and lifting him carefully to his feet.
"That's not good enough. I live by the motto 'If you do good, then good will be done to you.' I will repay you somehow." Oswald said, determined.
"Ok, well, you think about that." I said as we sat down at our table to eat our lunch while Oswald went back to his table to think over our 'reward.'
The rest of our lunch was spent in silence, except for the occasional talk about our respective courses. As we were eating, I saw Oswald out of the corner of my eye. He seemed to have his eyes closed in concentration and his hands out in front of him. I don't know what he was doing exactly but he seemed to be concentrating really hard on it, to the point that he was sweating profusely.
After we had finished our lunch, we packed everything away, threw the rubbish away and got up to leave. Before we could though, Oswald came over to us looking incredibly happy with himself, smiling like a kid that had just come out of a sweet shop. But he didn't look so good, looking like he had just ran a marathon, with his sweaty face, messy hair, and tired eyes. He looked like all of the energy had been sapped out of him all in one go.
"Oswald, are you alright? You don't look so good." I asked.
"I couldn't be happier. I finally thought of a really good reward for you two." Oswald answered, even his voice sounded drained.
"Cool, what is it?" Ryan asked, quite curious, as was I, as to what it was, and if it was the reason for his sudden exhaustion.
"Oh, you'll find out later, but trust me when I say, you are going to love it. I promise!" He answered before running off without saying another word. Ryan and I looked at each other with confusion but quickly shrugged it off, thinking that he will give it to us later. We said our goodbyes and went our separate ways to go to lessons.
Even later that day
The rest of the day went by quickly, as per usual. What I was really looking forward to was getting home and playing Until Dawn. We've been wanting to play this game for ages now, so you could tell how surprised and happy I was when Ryan told me that he had bought the game and it was delivered early this morning.
When the day ended, I got into my car, leaving the door open to let the inside cool down, and waited for Ryan to finish his session. I finish my day half an hour before him.
As I waited, I just couldn't stop thinking about Until Dawn. We had watched the first part of the game when it first came out but that was about a year ago now and we had tried not to watch anymore. The only things I can remember about it were the characters and their names.
I also had Oswald on my mind too. He was acting weird as we were leaving the Common room, not to mention that he looked fatigued all of a sudden, but he was just sitting at his table for the rest of the lunch period.
He'll probably come over to us as soon as he comes out of his lesson to give it to us. I thought as I waited.
Finally, I saw Ryan come out of his session and stroll towards my car.
"Finally, get in," I said, opening the boot so he could put his bag in.
"Well, I'm sorry if my timetable inconveniences you," Ryan said, putting his bag in and getting in the passenger seat.
"Sorry, I'm just itching to get home and play," I said, putting our seat belts on.
"I know, I am too, but I can't help if my timetable is different from yours. We're on different courses." Ryan said.
"Well, it doesn't matter now. Let's just get home." I finished as I started the car.
"Wait… There's Oswald!" Ryan interrupted, pointing over towards the bus stop. I looked to see Oswald quickly get on the bus before it drove out of college.
"He just got on the bus. Did he forget to give us our reward?" I questioned confused.
"Possibly. Oh well, he will probably give it to us tomorrow. Let's go." Ryan said, taking that as my queue to leave.
On the way back, we got caught in traffic… a lot. It's like the universe didn't want us to play the game. But when the traffic eventually cleared up, I tried to go as fast as possible without breaking the speed limit.
"Will, slow down! The game isn't going anywhere, it's not going to magically disappear." Ryan said.
"I know, I'm just excited to play it," I said.
"Well, we'll never be able to play it if we get into a car crash!" Ryan said.
We inevitably got back home through all of the traffic. I turned the car off, opened the boot, and got our bags out, and rushed to get into our flat.
We live in a one bedroom flat on the fourth floor of a 10 story flat complex, that Ryan and I worked our asses off to pay for. It has a small kitchen, a good-sized living room, which has our TV, game consoles and game collection in it, and a small bathroom and a cosy bedroom that can fit two beds next to each other, a wardrobe, with all of our different styles of clothes in, and a desk that has one drawer on each side and can fit both of us at it with our work or laptops by the window. Turns out we had to take the stair at the elevator was broken… Again!
"Will, slow down! I'm not as athletic as you!" Ryan shouted as I rushed up the stairs.
"Come on, I've seen you move fast when you need to! Like earlier today." I shouted down to him.
"I don't need to be fast at the moment though. And I'm still hurt, you know!" He shouted back as I got to the fifth floor and enter out flat.
As we entered, I quickly threw my bag onto my bed and headed into the living room to our bookcase full of games to find Until Dawn. As Ryan come into the flat and sat down on the sofa breathing heavily for the flights of stairs, I found the game in the PS4 section of the collection, turned on our PS4 and put the game in.
"I hope this game is good," Ryan said through heavy breaths as the game loaded up.
"Well, it did look good, both in graphics and in gameplay, so it can't be that bad," I replied.
As the title appeared on screen, the loud noise it made actually scared Ryan. I scoffed, Ryan was never good with horror games, but he plays them anyway because of me, he does like playing them but he just isn't good with jumpscares. I have always loved the horror genre, whether it was in video games, movies or TV shows.
The main title screen came up on screen and Hayden Panettiere, also known as Sam in Until Dawn, appeared on screen with it. I pressed 'new story' and waited for the game to load. Now, this is where things started to get weird, I noticed that the light on the PS4 controller with glowing brighter than usual and it started to become hotter, to the point where it was almost too hot to hold.
"Ouch, the controller is getting hotter for some reason," I said.
"And the light on the controller is getting brighter too," Ryan said, starting to get worried, and it was about to get weirder. The black loading screen started to glow brightly too, so bright in fact that it was blinding to look at.
"What's happening?!" I shouted to Ryan, getting scared.
"I don't know!" Ryan shouted back. The whole room was being consumed by the shining light.
"AHHHHHHHH!" Ryan and I screamed as the room completely disappeared and we both blacked out.
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