G-Raa
MemberMothra LarvaeOct-03-2014 7:47 PMShin was prepared for the monster to take him. He never believed in all his life that he would be killed by a monster. A mugger after his change, a car accident, even being mauled to death by a wild animal would have been preferred more than this. He could hear the monster roaring as its head lunged down at him.
BANG!!! BANG!!! Shin suddenly opened his eyes to the loud noise. It went off again, BANG!!! BANG!!! As Shin looked around he could see the remains of what looked liked firecrackers in the air next to the creatures face.
“SHIN”, screamed Kiriko at the top of the incline. “HURRY UP, CLIMB AS HIGH AS YOU CAN!” Kiriko threw more fire crackers at the creatures face. It roared in aguish as it became hard for it to see. It as seemed to hate the fire the fire crackers made, but Shin couldn’t dwell on that now. He rushed to the edge of the incline and started to dig his hands into the muddy side. As he lifted himself up he could feel the side of the incline giving way but he had been given a chance to get out of this alive and he wasn’t going to let slip away so easily. Shin lifted himself with all his might; he could still hear the creature’s cackling roar as it swayed its head back and forth and from side to side. It was trying to gain back its vision, but in vain. Shin pushed his hand deeper into the muddy side and pulled even harder with his lower body now out of the water. He started digging his feet into the side.
“That’s it, climb, your almost there”, but as Kiriko finished her sentence the creature lunged at her nearly grabbing her with its jaws. Shin looked back and saw the creature swaying it head wildly. It was biting at trees, the ground, and even the water. It couldn’t see them so it was trying to home in on the sounds they were making, any sound that was made. Kiriko got back over to the edge and stretched her arm out to Shin’s. She wasn’t speaking so as to not attract the creature. Shin stretched his right arm out to reach Kiriko’s but the creature was still thrashing about. It lunged down at the ground close to where Kiriko was laying. It tore out a large chunk of the muddy earth and spat it out almost just as quickly, and dove its head under the water. What it trying to reclaim its sight? This was their chance. Shin forced himself up with one final push and finally grabbed Kiriko’s wrist. The held onto the ground with he other hand as she pulled Shin up to her level.
Shin was up and on his knees where Kiriko was now. They both looked at each other with frightening relief. Before Sin could move, Kiriko leaned forward and held him in her arms. She was in no doubt grateful for his near selfless sacrifice for her, but the reunion was cut short as the creature rose again from the water. This time it was as close to the shore as it could be and looking down on them both with a furious stare. It had regained its sight and could see them clearly now and it was in no way amused as it snarled down at them. Kiriko and Shin looked at each other and got up to their feet in a nano-second and made a break for the trees. The creature lunged its head down at them, its head getting stuck by the branches and twigs of the trees. Shin and Kiriko ran as fast and far into the tree line as they could until the cackling roars of the creature died down into shrieks followed by silence. They two stopped to catch their breath as they looked back to make sure they weren’t followed by it.
“WHEEEEW!” Sighed Kiriko, as the rubbed her head of sweat on her forehead. “THAT. WAS. HORRIFING!!”
“NO FREAKING DUH!” Puffed Shin. He was having trouble talking while breathing deeply in and out. The two of them had just survived an unbelievable experience.
“That’s the last time I listen to some random girl” said Kiriko. Shin looked up at her in surprise. “Girl… what girl?” he asked. Kiriko looked back at him and said, “Some creepy random girl I ran into in the woods told me I could find you if I swam over to the other side of the lagoon. I don’t know how she knew that but…”
“Wait, was this girl about our age, kind of pale, and with an old night gown” asked Shin.
“Yeah. How did you know?” Shin made a startling face and Kiriko could tell that he had met her as she did. But neither of them knew who or what she really was.
“Can we PLEASE go home now?” Shin asked
Kiriko shook her head in agreement. She regretted the very idea of coming out here on that dare now. They strode toward to where their houses were through the tree line. The walk was long and tiresome, but they dared not stop for fear of being chased by the creature of being found by the strange girl. Just before the stroke of midnight they had reached Shin’s house. Kiriko said her goodbyes and head for her house on her own. Shin was partial to walk her there, but knew she would refuse. Kiriko could be brazen and stubborn about being help with such a simple task even after they had been attacked by a monster. As Shin watched her go farther and farther away, he noticed that Kiriko’s closed were stained by a thick black liquid. He looked down and found he had some on his clothes as well. The black stains gave off a funky smell. He figured it came from them being in the lagoon water. Some kind of muck or pollution he figured. He would have it cleaned tomorrow in secret, less his family find out how he got it, but for now he would hide it in his room and sleep for the rest of the night. The fog was still roaming in, which gave Shin the chills as he hurried into his home silently. He could never forget what he witnessed this night, but wondered if he should even try to tell anybody. Would they even believe him? He couldn’t even believe it himself. Maybe it Kiriko back him up, but all this thought could wait for tomorrow morning.
The next morning with Shin being awoken by his father. He seemed very distressed, and Shin wondered if he had found out if that he was out late last night. Shin asked him what was wrong, but his father found the words he was looking for hard to release. Shin’s mother was standing in the doorway with half her body behind the screen, like she was trying to hide herself in vain. Shin didn’t like what was going on, something was wrong. Something so bad that it had his stern father leaning down at him speechless and his more saddened and scared.
“What? What is it? What wrong?” Shin asked in hesitation.
Shin found himself running to the now sunken ruins of his friend Kiriko’s house. He couldn’t believe what his parents had told him. That Kiriko’s house had fallen into the lagoon and that her and her family was still missing. Most of the village was their either sifting through the wreckage or watching in despair. “It must have happened sometime last night” they whispered, “How could this have happened again.” Shin stood in horror as he took in what he was seeing and hearing. How could they both have survived a monster attack and then had this happen to one of them? “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right.” Shin said.
“Who ever said monster are fair?” said a old gruff voice behind Shin. It was Old Man Shu standing over him with his old wooden bamboo cane. “You went and did it didn’t yah, yah two went into the water at night didn’t yah!?!” “Yeh got the black stuff on yah, now your next come tanight.”
“What the hell are you talking about old man.” Shin yelled in frustration, “If you haven’t noticed I just lost my best friend, I don’t want to hear your crazy stories now.”
“Oh, but you know it isn’t no story now don’t yah. You’ve seen it, and her haven’t yeh, the creature that lives in the lagoon and the young girl that calls to it. Lures people into the water so they get marked and found by the creature, so it drags them down to where she’s at, so they’re lost down there with her.”
“How do you… black stu… wait what are you saying when say marked?”
“It don’t matter now, its too late for yah. It will come for you too now. Best to just lay down at the lagoon edge so it will only get you.” The old man said as he lumbered away in a hurry. Shin had no idea what the old man was saying or what he meant by being marked. All he knew for certain is that Kiriko and her family was gone. Later that night Shin went to his father and mother to ask them about Mr. Shu. They both told him to pay him no mind. He was just going senile from his past experience. Apparently, Mr. Shu was living in this area when the big earthquake hit the Fukushima area. He once told everyone of this one house that was swallowed up in the middle of the fissure that opened up and created the lagoon. He also mentioned that there was a young girl that was still in the house, apparently she was sickly and couldn’t leave the house when the earthquake hit. They never recovered her body and say she’s still down there at the bottom of the lagoon. “Mr. Shu believes that the girl calls on a lagoon beast to grab people who come into the lagoon at night so she may be joined with others or to force people to look for her to put her to rest or something. What a joke” said Shin’s father. But Shin had come to realize his mistake. The girl last was trying to get him into the water so the creature could get them. The creature must only be able to attack people if they have gone into the lagoon at night and gotten… “Oh no” Shin said.
Shin remembered that he also go the black stuff on his clothes that he hid in his room. He ran out of the dinning room and into his room and grabbed his blacked clothes. They still smelled. But all of a sudden the house began to rattle and shake. Shinran back out with the clothes in hand and looked out the front window. It was dark and foggy outside, but Shin immediately recognized an all to familiar shape in the fog. The young girl was standing out there smiling in delight.
“I honestly thought you got away last night. But you went into the water on your own. Goooooood, now you can join your friend… with me! As she finished her sentence a much larger figure slid out of the cover of the fog. It’s eyes glowed bright yellow as it locked onto the house and raised its head.
The last thing Shin heard was the terrible cackling roar of the creature as it rocked the house, while dragging it into the lagoon. Sinking it completely beneath the water.
End
Hope you enjoyed this first story arc. How you guys are up for the next one. It’s going to be told a little differently. Have a safe night!
