• Syrup Village's NoEnd House •

Ninjin, and Piiman were hanging and chanting on some fences when Tamanegi came out of nowhere screamin.

"Ninjin and Piiman, we need to talk."

Tamanegi told Ninjin and Piiman about the NoEnd House. It got it's name because no one had ever reached the final exit. The rules were pretty simple and easy: reach the final room of the house and you will win 500 Berries. There were nine rooms in all. The house was located outside town, four miles away from Kaya's Mansion. Apparently Tamanegi had tried it and failed at room three, and wants to go again this time bringing his friends along. He told his friends it would be too much for anyone. That it was unnatural.

Ninjin and Piiman didn't believe Tamanegi. They told him they would check it out the next night, 500 Berries sounded too good to be true. They set out the following night.

When they arrived, Ninjin and Piiman immediately noticed something strange about the house the old and worn out appearance sends a chill crawls up their spine. They walked toward the building and the feeling of uneasiness only intensified as Ninjin decides to open the front door.

Their heart slowed and they let a sigh of relieved as they entered. The room looked like a normal hotel lobby decorated for the October Season. A sign was posted in place of a worker. It read, "Room 1 this way. Eight more follow. Reach the end and you win!" Ninjin and Piiman chuckled and tease Tamanegi, for being a big baby over fake props, and made their way to the first door. This is when Tamanegi started to think that this was a bad idea, since he knew it's going to get even more terrifying.

The first area was almost laughable. There were sheet ghosts and animatronic zombies that gave a static growl when they passed by it. At the far end was an exit; it was the only door besides the one that Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman entered through. They brushed through the fake spider webs and headed for the second room. Ninjin and Piiman notice that Tamanegi seem to be more shaking.

They were greeted by fog as Piiman opened the door to the next room. The 2nd room definitely upped the ante, not only was there a fog, but a bat hung from the ceiling and flew in a circle. Scary. They seemed to have a soundtrack playing on a record that one would find in a cent store on loop somewhere in the room. They didn't see a record player. They stepped over a few toy rats that wheeled around and walked with a puffed chest across to the next area.

Piima reached for the doorknob and Tamanegi heart sank to his knees. He did not want to go to into the next room. A feeling of dread hit Ninjin and Piiman so hard they could barely even think. Logic overtook them after a few terrified moments, Ninjin and Piiman shook it off and entered the next room.

Room three is when things began to change, and is the room Tamanegi chicken out.

When they looked around, it looked like a normal room. There was a chair in the middle of the wood paneled floor. A single lamp in the corner did a poor job of lighting the area, casting a few shadows across the floor and walls.

With the exception of the chair, there were others. They had barely walked in the door and Tamanegi was already terrified since it's the room that scared him off. It was at that moment that Ninjin and Piiman knew something wasn't right. Ninjin tried to open the door they came through, but was locked from the other side, which Tamanegi explain that never happen before, since he easliy got out last time.

That set Piiman off. Was someone locking the doors as they progressed? There was no way. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman would have heard someone locking the door. But they are too scared to really think. They turned back to the room and the shadows were gone. The chair's shadow remained, but the others were gone. They slowly began to walk. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman began to made their it to the halfway point of the room, when looking down on their steps that's when they saw it.

They didn't see their shadows. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman didn't have time to scream. They ran as fast as they could to the other door and flung themself without thinking into the room beyond.

The fourth room was possibly the most disturbing. As they closed the door, all light seemed to be sucked out and put back into the previous room. They stood there, surrounded by darkness, not able to move. They were afraid of the dark room and, were deeply terrified. Tamanegi held his hand in front of his face. They couldn't hear anything. It was dead silence.

They began to stumble forward after a few moments, my Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman beating hearts the only thing they could feel. There was no door in sight. Then the silence was broken by a low hum.

Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman felt something behind them. They spun around wildly but could barely even see their noses. They knew it was there, though. Regardless of how dark it was, Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman knew something was there. The hum grew louder, closer. It seemed to surround them, but they knew whatever was causing the noise was in front of them, inching closer. They took a step back. They were so scared, they were going to die; They were scared of what the alternative was. They were afraid of what this thing had in store for them. Then the lights flashed for a second and they saw it.

Nothing. they saw nothing and they know they saw nothing there. The room was again plunged into darkness and the hum became a wild screech. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman screamed in protest; they couldn't hear this sound for another minute. They ran backwards, away from the noise, and fumbled for the door handle. They turned and fell into room five.

After falling in from the previous room, their view of room five was from their back, looking up at the ceiling. What they saw both scare them and surprised them. There were Trees that had grown into the room and towered above their heads. The ceilings in this room were taller than the others, which made them think they were in the center of the house. They got up off the floor, dusted themself off, and took a look around. It was definitely the biggest room of them all. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman couldn't even see the door from where they was; various brush and trees must have blocked their line of sight with the exit.

Up to this point, they figured the rooms were going to get scarier, but this was a paradise compared to the last room. They also assumed whatever was in room four stayed back there. They were incredibly wrong.

As they made their way deeper into the room, they began to hear what one would hear if they were in a forest; chirping bugs and the occasional flap of birds seemed to be their only company in this room. That was the thing that bothered them the most. They heard the bugs and other animals, but they didn't see any of them. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman began to wonder how big this house was. From the outside when they first walked up to it, it looked like a regular run down house. It was definitely on the bigger side, but this was almost a full forest in here. The canopy covered their view of the ceiling, but they assumed it was still there, however high it was. They couldn't see any walls, either. The only way they knew they was still inside was that the floor matched the other rooms: the standard dark wood paneling.

Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman kept walking, hoping that the next tree they passed would reveal the door. After a few moments of walking,

they felt some mosquito fly onto Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman. They shook it off and kept going. A second later, they felt about ten more land on their skin at different places. They felt them crawl up and down their arms and legs and a few made their way across their faces. They flailed wildly to get them all off but they just kept crawling. Tamanegi looked down and let out a whimper. Ninjin didn't see a single bug. Not one bug was on him, but he could feel them crawling. Piiman heard them fly by on his face and sting on his skin but he couldn't see a single one. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman then dropped to the ground and began to roll wildly. They were desperate. They hated bugs, especially ones they couldn't see or touch. But these bugs could touch them and they were everywhere.

They began to crawl. They had no idea where they were going; the entrance was nowhere in sight and they still hadn't even seen the exit. So they just crawled, their skin wriggling with the presence of those phantom bugs. After what seemed like hours, they found the door. Piiman grabbed the nearest tree and propped himself up, mindlessly slapping his arms and legs to no avail. Tamanegi tried to run, but he couldn't; his body was exhausted from crawling and dealing with whatever it was that was on him. Ninjin took a few shaky steps to the door, grabbing each tree on the way for support.

They were only a few feet away when they heard it. The low hum from before. It was coming from the next room and it was deeper. The feeling of the bugs on Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman lessened as the hum grew louder. As Ninjin placed his hand on the doorknob, the bugs were completely gone but he couldn't bring himself to turn the knob. He knew that if he let go, the bugs would return and there was no way he and his friends would make it back to room four. He just stood there, his head pressed against the door marked six and his hand shakily grasping the knob. The hum was so loud Ninjin couldn't even hear himself pretend to think. There was nothing he could do but open the door, and he and his friends moved on. Room six was next, and room six was Hell.

Piiman closed the door behind them, their eyes held shut and their ears ringing. The hum was surrounding them. As the door clicked into place, the hum was gone. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman opened their eyes in surprise and the door they had shut was gone. It was just a wall now. They looked around in shock. The room was identical to room three - the same chair and lamp - but with the correct amount of shadows this time. The only real difference was that there was no exit door and the one Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman came in through was gone. At that moment Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman fell into insanity. They didn't scream. They didn't make a sound.

At first they scratched softly. The wall was tough, but they knew the door was there somewhere. They just knew it was. They scratched at where the doorknob was. They clawed at the wall frantically with both hands, their nails being filed down to the skin against the wood. They fell silently to my knees, the only sound in the room the incessant scratching against the wall. They knew it was there. The door was there, Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman knew it was just there. They knew if they could just get past this wall -

"Are you guys alright?"

Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman jumped off the ground and spun in one motion. They leaned against the wall behind them and they saw what it was that spoke to them; to this day they regret ever turning around. There is a young girl with wavy pink hair which is split on either side, and has red large eyes. She wears a short pink dress with a white collar and frills on the bottom, and black leggings and yellow shoes. She was the most frightening thing they had ever seen, and they knew that nothing in their life will ever be as unnerving as what they saw in her. While looking at her, they saw something else. Where she stood they saw what looked like a man's body, only larger than normal and dressed in black. His head was not human and had wings on his back. It wasn't the Devil, but at that moment it might as well have been. The form had horns on the head that look like ram horns, and sharp teeth like that of a wolf.

It was horrifying and it was synonymous with the little girl in front of Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman. They were the same form. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman can't really describe it, but they saw them at the same time. They shared the same spot in that room, but it was like looking at two separate dimensions. When Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman saw the girl they saw the form, and when they saw the form they saw the girl. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman couldn't speak. They could barely even see. Their mind was revolting against what it was attempting to process. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman had been scared before in their life and they had never been more scared than when they was trapped in the fourth room, but that was before room six. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman just stood there, staring at whatever it was that spoke to them. There was no exit. They were trapped here with it. And then it spoke again.

"Ninjin, Tamanegi, Piiman, you should have listened."

When it spoke, they heard the words of the little girl, but the other form spoke through their mind in a voice they won't attempt to describe. There was no other sound. The voice just kept repeating that sentence over and over in their mind and they agreed. They didn't know what to do. They was slipping into madness, yet couldn't take their eyes off what was in front of them. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman dropped to the floor. They thought they had passed out, but the room wouldn't let them. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman just wanted it to end. They was on my side, their eyes wide open and the form staring down at them. Scurrying across the floor in front of them wete a group of rats from the second room.

The house was toying with them. But for some reason, seeing that group of rats pulled their mind back from whatever depths it was headed and Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman looked around the room. They trying to find a way out. They was determined to get out of that house and live and never think about this place again. They knew this room was Hell and they weren't ready to take up a residency. At first, it was just their eyes that moved. They searched the walls for any kind of opening. The room wasn't that big, so it didn't take long to soak up the entire layout. The demon still taunted them, the voice growing louder as the form stayed rooted where it stood. They placed their hand on the floor, lifted themself up to all four and turned to scan the wall behind them.

Then Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman saw something they couldn't believe. The form was now right at their back, whispering into their mind how their shouldn't have come. Their felt its breath on the back of their neck, but they refused to turn around. A large rectangle was scratched into the wood, with a small dent chipped away in the center of it. Right in front of their eyes they saw the large seven they had mindlessly stretched into the wall. They knew what it was: room seven was just beyond that wall where room five was moments ago.

They don't know how they had done it - maybe it was just their state of mind at the time - but they had created the door. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman knew they had. In their madness, they had scratched into the wall what they needed the most: an exit to the next room. Room seven was close. They knew the demon was right behind them, but for some reason it couldn't touch neither of them. They closed their eyes and placed both hands on the large seven in front of them. They pushed. They pushed as hard as they could. The demon was now screaming in their ear. It told me them, they were never leaving. It told them that this were there going end but thry weren't going to die; They were going to live here in room six with it. They don't want to. They pushed and screamed at the top of their lungs. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman knew they were going to push through the wall eventually.

They clenched their eyes shut and screamed, and the demon was gone. They were left in silence. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman turned around slowly and were greeted by the room as it was when they entered: just a chair and a lamp. They couldn't believe it, but they didn't have time to well. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman turned back to the seven and jumped back slightly. What they saw was a door. It wasn't the one they had scratched in, but a regular door with a large seven on it. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman were shaking really badly. It took them a while to calm down, then Tamanegi laid on his hand on the knob, but he wasn't ready to open it yet. Ninjin and Piiman just stood there for a while, staring at the door. They couldn't stay in room six. They couldn't. But if this was only room six, they couldn't imagine was seven had in store. They must have stood for what felt an hour, just staring at the seven. Finally, they took a deep breath, and Tamanegi twisted the knob and opened the door to room seven.

They stumbled through the door mentally exhausted and physically weak. The door behind them closed and they realized where they was. They were outside. Not outside like room five, but actually outside. Piiman's eyes stung. Ninjin wanted to cry. Tamanegi fell to his knees and tried but he couldn't. Then they screamed in joy, they were finally out of that house. They didn't even care about the prize that was promised. They turned and saw that the door they just went through was the entrance. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman ran away far from the house, and each went back to their respective homes.

When each of them thought how uneasy they felt. The joy of leaving NoEnd House had faded and dread was slowly building in their stomaches. They shook it off as residual from the house and made my way to the front door.

Ninjin immediately went up to his room. When open his bedroom door, on his bed he spots his parents mutilated bodies, covered in blood. What disturbed Ninjin the most is his parents' face expressions, they had a very wide smile. He recoiled in shock and started sobbing. Ninjin then out of his room, and ran downstairs and then outside.

Tamanegi went to the livingroom to go read a book. When he descended the stairs and turned into the family room; what he saw would be forever burned into his mind. His parents were lying on the ground, naked and covered in blood. They were mutilated to near-unidentifiable states. Tamanegi cried in terror, and he ran out of the house in fear.

After laying in his bedroom. for a while, Piiman went to the kitchen to make something to eat. That's when saw his own parents who's limbs were removed and placed next to their bodies, and their heads were placed on their chest facing Piiman. The most unsettling part was their expressions. They were smiling, as though they were happy to see Piiman. He vomited and sobbed there in the kitchen. He didn't know what had happened. It was a bloody mess. So he ran out back to the NoEnd House.

When he arrived, he spotted both Ninjin and Tamanegi. They talk to each other about how they saw their each of their own parents mutilation, then Tamanegi saw it. On the front door has a large eight scrawled on it in blood.

Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman were still in the house. They were in room seven the whole entire time. They knew they had to move on, but at that moment Tamanegi wanted to gave up. Then the hum returned. It was louder than ever and it filled the house and shook the walls. The hum made Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman to continue walk once again.

They began to walk slowly, making their way closer to the door and the bodies. They could barely stand, let alone walk, and closer they got inside. The walls were now shaking so hard it seemed as though they were going to crumble. As they inched closer, their eyes followed them. They saw two bodies, a few feet away from a bedroom door. The dismembered hands clawed their way across the carpet towards them, all while the faces continued to stare. New terror washed over Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman and they walked faster. They didn't want to hear them speak. They didn't want to hear the voices. They began to open their mouths and the hands were inches from their feet. In a dash of desperation, they lunged toward the door, threw it open, and slammed it behind them. Room eight.

They was done. After what Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman had just experienced, they knew there wasn't anything else this dreaded house could throw at them that Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman couldn't live through. There was nothing short of the fires of Hell that Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman wasn't ready for. Unfortunately, they underestimated the abilities of NoEnd House. Unfortunately, things got more disturbing, more terrifying, and more unspeakable in room eight.

They still have trouble believing what they saw in room eight. Again, the room was a carbon copy of rooms three and six, but sitting in the usually empty chair was a man. After a few seconds of disbelief, their mind finally accepted the fact that the man sitting in the chair was going to kill them. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman walked closer. They looked up at them and noticed the tears in they had in their eyes.

"Please...", cried Ninjin.

"Please, don't do it", sniffed Tamanegi

"Please, don't hurt us", said Piiman.

"What?", he asked. "Who are you? I'm not going to hurt you."

"Yes you are...", cried Piiman.

They was sobbing now.

"You're going to hurt us and we don't want you to", said Piiman.

He sat in the chair with his legs up and began rocking back and forth.

"Listen, who are you?" They was now only a few feet from the man. It was the weirdest experience yet, standing there talking to themself. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman wasn't scared, but they're going to be soon.

"Why are you-"

"You're going to hurt us", cried Ninjin.

"What?"

"You're going to hurt us if we want to leave this house", called Tamanegi

"Why are you saying this? Just calm down, alright? Let's try and figure this out"

The man sitting down, except for a small red patch on his shirt embroidered with the number nine.

Their eyes didn't leave that small number on his chest. They knew exactly what it was. The first few doors were plain and simple, but after a while they get a little more ambiguous. Seven was scratched into the wall. Eight was marked in blood above the bodies of their parents. But nine - this number is a person, a living person.

"Um... kids?", he had to ask.

"Yes... you're going to hurt us you're going to hurt us...", cried Piiman.

They continued to sob and rock.

They paced around for a few minutes while the man sat in his chair. The room had no door and, similarly to room six, the door they came through was gone. For some reason, they assumed that scratching would get him nowhere this time. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman studied the walls and floor around the chair, sticking their head underneath and seeing if anything was below. Unfortunately, there was. Below the chair was a knife. Attached was a tag that read, "To Ninjin, Tamanegi, Piiman - From NoEnd House Management."

The feeling in their stomach as they read that tag was something sinister. They wanted to throw up and the last thing they wanted to do was remove that knife from under that chair. The man was still sttting and reading a book. Their mind was spinning into an attic of unanswerable questions. Who put this here and how did they get their name? Not to mention the fact that as Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman knelt on the cold wood floor the man just sat in that chair, while Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman sobbed in protest of being hurt by the man. It was all too much to process. The house and the management had been playing with them this whole time. Ninjin and Piiman thoughts for some reason turned to Tamanegi and whether not he got this far. If he did, he would of met the man sittting on the chair, rocking back and forth, but then again he would of mention him earlier to Ninjin and Piiman, plus he manage to leave the NoEnd House at room three.

Ninjin and Piiman shook those thoughts out of their head; it didn't matter. Piiman took the knife from under the chair and immidately the man went quiet.

"Hey kid", he said.

"What do you think you're going to do?"

He lifted himself from the ground and clenched the knife in hand.

"We're going to get out of here."

The man was still sitting in the chair, though he was very calm now. He looked up at them with a slight grin. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman couldn't tell if he was going to laugh or going to kill them. Slowly, he got up from the chair and stood, facing them. It was uncanny. His height and even the way he stood matched mine. Piiman felt the rubber hilt of the knife in his hand and gripped it tighter. He don't know what he was planning on doing with it, but he had a feeling he was going to need it.

"Now," his voice was slightly deeper. "I'm going to hurt you kids. I'm going to hurt you and I'm going to keep you three in here."

Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman didn't respond. They started lunging and tackling him to the ground. Ninjin and Tamanegi had mounted him, and Piiman looked down, knife poised and ready. He looked up at Piiman, terrified. Then the hum returned, low and distant, though Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman still felt it deep in their body. The man looked up at them as they looked down at him. The hum was getting louder and Piiman felt something inside him snap. With one motion, he slammed the knife into the patch on the chest and ripped down. Blackness fell on the room and Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman was falling.

The darkness around them was like nothing Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman had experienced up to that point. Room four was dark, they could see only large gray silhouette of faces starting at them. They wasn't even sure if they were falling after a while. They felt weightless, covered in dark. Then deep fear and paranoia came over them. They keep thinking the faces aren't real, but they are seeing it and their mind has trouble differentiating between what is real and what isn't. The gray faces in the darkness only deepened, greatly increasing Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman's fear and paranoia. They were in room nine for what seemed like days. The final room. And that's exactly what it was: the end. NoEnd House had an end and they had reached it. At that moment, Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman gave up. They knew they would be in that in this room forever accompanied by nothing but scary gray faces staring at them in the darkness. Not even the hum was there to keep them sane.

They had lost all senses. They couldn't feel anything but fear. They couldn't hear anything. Sight was completely useless here. They searched for a door and found nothing. They felt disembodied and completely lost. They knew where they are. This is Hell. Room nine is Hell. Then it happened. A light. One of those stereotypical lights at the end of the tunnel. Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman felt ground come up from below me and them was standing. After a moment or two of gathering their thoughts and senses, they slowly walked toward that light.

As Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman approached the light, it took form. It was a vertical slit down the side of an unmarked door. They slowly walked through the door and found themself back where they started: the lobby of NoEnd House. It was exactly how they left it: still empty, still decorated with childish October decorations. After everything that had happened that night, they were still wary of where they was. After a few moments of normalcy, Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman looked around the place trying to find anything different. On the desk was a plain white envelope with their name handwritten on it. Immensely curious, yet still cautious, they mustered up the courage to open the envelope. Inside was a letter, and ut reads...

Ninjin, Tamanegi, Piiman,

Congratulations! You three have made it to the end of the NoEnd House! Please accept your prize inside the brown wooden box as a great achievement.

Yours forever, NoEnd House Management.

Next to the letter is the brown wooden box that contains five 500 Berries.

Ninjin, Tamanegi, and Piiman couldn't stop laughing. They laughed for what seemed like hours. They laughed as they walked out of the house. They laughed as they split the berries for one each. They laughed as they buried the extra 200 Berries next to a boulder in the woods. They laughed as the three went respective homes, and laughed as they went into their respective bedrooms.