Haunted House Challenge: "Evil Ghosts" -- by Shine

Evil Ghosts

by Shine

I know what's like to sleep in a Haunted House. I've dealt with it since 2016, I was a teenager back then, as it first started with the phone answering machine. "Hello. No one here to answer the phone. Please leave a message after the tone." But the phone never rang and neither did the answering machine. 

Then, on a different night, someone or something threw things at me and I BEGGED for it to stop, so it stopped. As years went on, things were getting more and more creepy. The two old organs (one was an old pedal organ that barely works, and the other one was an old electric organ that sort of works) would play by themselves with a creepy, frightening music/sounds coming out of them. 

Many nights I couldn't sleep until 4AM, because if I sleep before 4AM, Evil Ghosts would jump on the bed, they would sing like an angel (these aren't angels), attempting to speak to me, and their shadow presence brings in fear feeling in the room.

 I guess I should be happy about not having those frightening sleep paralysis with the choking feeling. It has gotten to the point where I had the lights on in the basement and nightlights in my room. Just when I was getting over the fear of the dark. 

Other times, I’ve seen ugly grey shadow figures of Evil Ghosts, both day and night, and they’ve used voices that I recognized. But there were other things that I’ve found weird and a little disturbing to me. My body wash went from smelling nice with a smooth texture, to a slimy texture with the smell of death, making me feel nauseous. And the other one weird thing was something hitting the floor, where my feet were, from the basement ceiling.

Plus there are some rooms, inside and outside of the house, I don’t like going there at night, but I had to, the lights must be on and I have to talk to myself. Just to keep myself from being afraid. 

There were times I’ve had a breakdown from these things in a Haunted House, but I’ve kept on going. If I quit now, the Evil Ghosts will win by frightening me away. 

This is my experience of being in a Haunted House, that I didn’t realize it was until years later, since childhood, but I’ve also heard other stories that involved the same house. I no longer have the desire to live in that house anymore like I wanted to when I was a young child.

Family Heirloom Challenge: "The Lonely Heir" -- by Shine

The Lonely Heir

By Shine

They had said that you would get an inheritance when your parents die. Well, it came true, and you were all alone with an old mansion that had been in the family for many generations, and you had other problems to face. People constantly tell you to sell the mansion, with all the things in it, and the property, and go find a new home to be a normal person. 

"Just sell this heap of junk and buy a different home! Sell your old antiques for money! They're all rubbish anyway!" People would say to you, but you had always ignored them. Even when it hurts you so much in deciding what to do with your life. 

Whenever you were alone, you would look at the stuff and the mansion. It still needed to be fixed, but sleepless nights with nightmares of loneliness kept you up all night with heart wrenching tears of despair. Everything hurts. You often wished that you were with your parents when the time came, but no, the time took your parents away from you, leaving you alone to face many things. 

"I wish I was dead! Then, I wouldn't have so many problems to deal with, and I wouldn't be so alone! The people out there threaten me over this old mansion!" You complained in rage, throwing rocks at your once antique flower pots and other pottery. You didn't care as you were so angry with mixed feelings. 

After you finished your steaming rant, you grabbed the boxes from the basement and the attic, and started shoving your family's stuff in them, so you can forget most of the stuff, but when it came to your favorite books and toys (that were handed down from generations), you couldn't bear to put them into the box. The same with your old baby stuff sitting in the old nursery, collecting layers of dust and cobwebs, so you left your childhood things in your old room, and shoved the other things into the basement, leaving the remaining things in the attic. You had to deal with them later when you were more mentally and emotionally stable. 

You stared at your old hand-me-down Bible from your parents and their parents and so forth. You couldn't bear the idea of putting that away forever, no matter how old and falling apart it was, you had to keep it with you at all times. You had nowhere to go and no one to talk to, so you felt very alone. Like the last person left on earth, waiting for your time to come to reunite with your family. 

Mixed Media Challenge: "The Pinksters" -- by Shine

The Pinksters

by Shine

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

 All inspirations came from my Story Dreams, RED (band) music, Nancy Drew game soundtracks, abandoned places, scary forests, and the word HAUNTED. 

They knew they had done it now as they bolted from the haunted building, away from the psycho villains as far as possible. The moonlight shone through the forest trees as Shine lead Ayden, Gena, Roege, Cheye, and Kreze towards the darkest parts of the forest, hoping the booby traps would slow down the psycho villains, though most of the trees were dead, revealing the skeleton tree form. Once they had reached the scary, abandoned railroad tunnel bridge, they stopped to catch their breaths, forgetting how haunted it looked as they had other problems of their own to deal with. 

"Ok. Let's go over our Private List." Kreze said after a few moments.  "1st. The incident. 2nd. The lights went out. 3rd. The place is too quiet. 4th. This dead old mystery is still not solved," Shine listed. 

"Pinkalanda doesn't need anymore villains. Darklanda, home of the villains, needs to close down and remove the villains somehow. They've ruined our childhood lives, leaving us all with haunted memories," Ayden said, looking at his siblings and in-laws.

"Shine, you've been our Ring Leader of this team since the beginning of our horrible past of being kidnapped by those villains, what are we going to do? We have to complete this and somehow heal from our past. Maybe even more. Maybe someday we'll be all healed to the point it doesn't bother us," Gena suggested. 

"Well, we'll all wait until they're asleep, sneak in through the back door, and go from there," Shine planned, ignoring the villains’ screams in a distance. 'They must've found those old booby traps I put there years ago. I just hope the traps don't kill them since I want them alive for the dungeon,' Shine thought to herself, already figuring that the good guards had a hold of the psycho villains and put them in the dungeons by now. 

Roege looked behind him and then at Cheye. Cheye didn't like what she heard in the distance. But when they heard what Shine had said they thought she was insane. 

Later that night, while all the villains were asleep, Shine led her team toward the haunted building (where the villains used it as their hideout for their evil doing) to figure out what was behind their plans from a long time ago and why they did it. Once they snuck inside, they followed Shine through the dark hallway toward the scary part of the building. The frightful meeting room, near the dungeon like hallway, where Shine stopped dead in her tracks. 

"I can't do this. I can't," Shine said, holding back her tears as many memories shot her mind from where the kidnapping happened as a young child: to screaming so loud while crying and rattling the bar-like door, to seeing the scary thing that haunted her Dreams, forgetting how they've managed to escape the dungeon like room. She had seen more things than everyone else. Things that she wished she hadn't seen. Not once had she told anyone as she kept to herself for years. 

"We've made it this far, Shine," Roege said.  "We can't quit now and we have all night to figure this out before they wake up." Cheye said, hoping it would help Shine calm down a little. 

Kreze hugged Shine close. "Everything is going to be ok, Shine. We'll get through this together. We didn't call ourselves The Pinksters for nothing, even though it was originally called The Run Away Pinksters Gang, but we went by The Pinksters for short since the team name was so long." 

After a few moments, Shine calmed down and Kreze had a plan for the team. 

"Let's split up. Two would guard the meeting room door, two would guard the windows, and two would go through the files and stuff. Then, once the files and stuff are found, we'll find a safer spot to go through them and go from there." Kreze said, thinking his idea through. "Roege and Cheye would guard the meeting room door while Ayden and Gena would guard the windows in this room. That would leave Shine and I searching through all this stuff. Are we in agreement?" 

Everyone nodded in agreement even though what they were doing was a very risky mysterious mission. Ayden, Gena, Roege, and Cheye went to their spots, so Kreze and Shine could rummage through the broken filing cabinet without feeling the fears of being caught by villains. As they rummaged through the files, Kreze found all the evil plans and put them into his backpack just as Shine found some files and some disturbing papers that hit her so hard in the guts. She remembered helping burying a couple of their members in a grave after what the villains have done to them. Pushing the memories away, she shoved the files into her backpack, not even caring if the papers rip from all the shoving. 

"Alright everyone, let's go." Shine ordered, hiding the fact that she had been silently crying. "We should go outside and find a place to having our meeting, but not in this building. None of the rooms here are good." Everyone silently agreed with her and followed her very quietly out of the haunted building all the way where the same old railroad tunnel, so they could figure out what to do with the evidence, but only to find the answers on the papers in a frightening way. Where it all began. 

Make the Villain a Hero Challenge: "The Haunting Flashbacks" -- by Shine

We have another new member of Modern Bard this time! Everyone welcome Shine and let her know what you think of her Loki fan fiction story :)

The Haunting Flashbacks

By Shine

(A Loki Fanfiction)

Dark Asgardian dungeons with only dim lights for lighting. A tall male with very pale skin, dark black hair, emerald green eyes, and an outfit of green, little brown, and black, stood behind the gold force field light. No living soul could touch it. The male was Loki. It felt very strange to have a prince in the dungeons with deadly villains, but no one knew the truth of Loki, because Loki wasn't open to speak of it. All Loki knew was everyone in the palace hated him. Including the Frost Giants.

            Born as a Laufeyson.

            Adopted as an Odinson.

            None of it matters to him anymore. He was a nobody to everyone. Everyone wanted him dead. Only Loki knew the truth. Yes, a painful truth that haunted him for many years. Those haunted horrors would only come out as nightmares, flashbacks, PTSD, or just by thinking about without realizing it, or a slightest sound that sounded like the deadly tortures of the Abyss can trigger his thoughts. The chains triggered Loki everytime he goes to Odin. Which now, Loki's mind thinks it's Thanos. One time, he thought a Einherjar guard was the Other, and he tried pulling the chains. Everyone in the palace called him a MAD PSYCHO.

            Not once he forgave Odin.

            He hated Laufey from the beginning.

            Not once he forgave Thor and Thor's friends with death threats.

            All he wanted was Frigga to love him.

            Though, Loki would be released from the dungeons sometime soon. He was looking forward to locking himself in his room or finding a new place to live in, but he never knew his freedom would be something else. Until the day of Dark Elves killing Asgardians. The day he almost died from saving Thor's life from death.

            'If you betray me, I'll kill you.' The death threats echoed in Loki's mind as he was being freed to only help Thor on a mission. 'Your birthright was to die!' Odin's booming voice echoed in Loki's mind. It was a very dangerous escape from Asgard with Thor and Jane. The Warriors were keeping the Einherjar guards busy, as well as killing the dark elves.

            Loki kept himself from thinking about the Abyss and made him so madly different from others. But everything reminded him all the tortures, the mind controls, the brainwashing, the bloody whipping, the painful kicks from the Chitauri, the nightly tauntings from the Other, and the horrors of dead bodies laid by the Gallows of Death. Loki remembered every single one. He remembered all the warnings from Thanos. 'Those who fail my orders, will die in front of everyone! Prisoners will be forced to watch their cellmates die!' Those death sentence words haunted Loki forever. It seems that only the nightmares bring back the unwanted memories.

            Bullets hit the ship, causing Loki to snap out of it. He had no idea how long his mind wandered off at the time like this. Plus Thor's rage flying, making the ship go in different directions, crashing into things, just to escape from Asgard. The rest of the escape plan was to jump on the Skiff (a flying Asgardian boat) and fly to a secret pathway. Fandral seemed to keep the Einherjar guards busy by knocking them out.

            Taking the stirring stick thingy, Loki guided the Skiff towards the secret pathway. Which it was inside the mountain. Thor had a very nervous feeling that his brother was trying to crash into the mountain, not realizing that the secret pathway was in front of him.

            "LOKI!" Thor yelled, not liking how the Skiff was picking up speed.

            "If it were easy, anyone would do it." Loki said, trying to concentrate.

            "ARE YOU MAD?!" Thor shouted, shielding Jane Foster, his beloved girlfriend.

            "Possibly." Loki replied as they were now going through the mountain.

            Once on the other side, Loki said, "TA DA!"

            The Land of Dark Elves is where they were. A deadly, dark place to be in. Loki knew that, somehow, Thor was behind this idea of going to a place where Odin forbids any Asgardian to be in. And here Loki thought Thor's trip to Jotunheim was horrible enough. Kill the dark elves and get back to Asgard was Loki's silent plan as he parked the Skiff. 'Stupid chain cuffs! I hate these!' Loki thought angrily as the threesome walked up on the steep mountain of rocks and dirt.

            Again, Loki tried so hurt not to think about the darkness reminding him of the Abyss, but it was very difficult for him. He couldn't run from it or run off to hide. The sharp rocks reminded him of the Other always hiding at the rocks, waiting to strike his prisoners. Mainly the dungeons part and Thanos’ throne room. The chains. Always chains. Snapping out of his mind, Loki reached the top of the mountain with Thor and Jane behind Thor. The army of dark elves were on the bottom, next to the huge, ugly, ship. He had to get these chain cuffs off before he started losing it mentally.

            Once the chain cuffs were off, the battle begun. Though, Jane stayed on the mountain, so she was safe, but the brothers were in battle. While Thor was busy hammering the dark elves, Loki took care of the other dark elves with his sharp dagger blade. He stabbed them in every vital part of the bodies he could locate without getting hit by them. Just as he thought he was done, something wasn't right. The giant elf wasn't here. He looked towards the flying rocks and saw that Thor was getting a heap of beatings from a giant elf named Kurse. And he thought Malekith was deadly enough.

            As Loki snuck up behind the monster, he recognized him from the dungeons. The monster had tusks and war paint on as Loki recalled. Loki picked up the monster's sword and stabbed it through the back and towards the chest. There was one mistake Loki made and he didn't realize it until the monster picked him up and shoved the blade through Loki's middle chest. The extreme pain triggered his thoughts about the whippings from the Other. Thanos’ strict order of beating their prisoners. The horrible flashback was disturbed when he was shoved on the hard ground.

            Kurse shoved Loki on the hard ground before he disappeared into the wormhole. Thanks to the black haired Asgardian for setting it off. Once the giant monster was gone, Thor rushed to Loki's side. Loki had already lost consciousness, suffered from blood lost, but not enough to kill him, and was in a coma by the time Thor had brought his brother back to the Asgardian healing room.

            No one, not even Thor, would know when their Hero, Loki, would awaken from the coma. Only time will tell.

            The only good thing about this strange coma is that the dark, horror triggers of the Abyss couldn't bother Loki's mind.

Copyright 2017 by Shine