Please Help Set Us Free! Part 2 (Fiction)

[The_Story_Teller2005]

I don't know how long I just stood there, looking at the old lady's window, wondering if she would return to it, to see what I would do, but finally, I looked down and picked up my flashlight. I closed the trunk, and made my way to the front of the boarded up house. After setting down my flashlight, I jammed the crow bar between the wall and the plywood and pushed hard! It wasn't a surprise to see that the nails didn't budge...not a bit. Again and again I pried to no avail!

With sweat running off my face, I finally gave up, and went to the back of the house, to the rear door. If that too failed, I would just have to try each window. Something kept knawing at the back of my mind. Why would someone use such heavy wood? What were they trying to keep out? Then my thoughts turned to what the white haired lady I enountered had said. Was their any truth that something evil was lurking inside! Was the plywood meant to keep something "in", not keep someone out?

I wasn't one to buy into ghosts and the supernatural...that's for Hollywood director's to entertain us, but not in real life, demon's per se, simply don't exist. Towards the bottom corner of the door, the nail began to pull away from the wall, as I strained with the crow bar. Once loose, it was just a matter of working my way up the wall, a little at a time. Finally, with my shirt soaked in sweat, i tossed the bar to the ground. With both hands, I put my muscles to work and pulled and pulled. As the plywood broke free I stumbled backwards and almost fell to the ground.

As the sheet of plywood fell to the ground, a horrible smell of something rotting filled my senses. I felt my knees buckle as I reached out to hold the door frame. I had never smelled such a sickening thing in my life. I couldn't even describe it! There must be a dead animal inside I told myself. What else could it be? I moved away from the door way to breathe in fresh air. All I could see from a distance was darkness beyond the doorway! Looking back, I realize I should have gone in... but my curiosity got the best of me. I wanted to know.

I wanted to know what was causing that awful smell. I wanted to know why the lady nezt door was afraid, why she wanted me not to go inside? What did she know? How did she know? Or, was she just a woman with delusions? Perhaps she had mental problems. In any event, I pulled my T-shirt over my nose and mouth, took in a deep breath, and with flash light in hand, walked towards the doorway. I can't say if the open door allowed fresh air inside, or the odor out, but for me, the smell seemed more tolerable. I turned the flashlight on and stepped inside. It was black, the blackest black I had ever known or sensed

I was standing in the kitchen portion of the house. Everything was in chaos! As if something had went on a rampage! Everything was torn off the walls, cabinets laying on the floor shattered. The green metal dining table twisted, chairs missing legs. The pipe that went to the sink was thrust into the wall next to a boarded up window. There was a heavy layer of dust everywhere. The smell of musty mold was strong. I made my way carefully through the debris, leaving the comfort of the outside daylight, and entering the world of darkness.

Suddenly everything became darker and darker. It was as if the darkness was choking the light from my flashlight! I now stood in what I felt was the large living room. The brown carpet was crumpled up, as if someone or something had been trying to rip it up....to get under the floor! The walls had marks...marks like claws i swore! I moved closer and held my flashlight close to the wall, and put my hand to the wall. It was so eerie to look at. Something had been claying at the wall...there could be no other excuse! But what ever hand clawed the wall, hand much larger hands then me.

Suddenly, I heard a noise to my right, behind me, footsteps kicking debris out of the way! My heart was racing like the wind. The hair was standing up on the back of my neck. I swirled around and faced the doorway leading outside, and to my horror I heard a thunderous roar. As if something had exploded, and there was total darkness! Shivers went up and down my spine as I saw that the plywood was now acress the doorway.!

The sounds of footsteps were growing closer and anxiously I faced the direction of the sounds and aimed my flashlight into the darkness to see what I could see! It was at that moment that I dropped my flashlight when I saw him...or rather it! A hideous creature with blue skin and wearing a velvet cloak, his teeth crooked. It was then that I realized that this was what the old woman had worned me about! This was what was sealed within these walls! I screamed as I put my hands to my face!

© 2006 Raymond Cook (All rights reserved)

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