The+Missing+Mascot,+Man

We heard a crack and we all turned to look to see the piece of broken wood. The school room was dark and we kept on searching for clues which might show evidence of our missing mascot.

“Found something!” Jack said and we turned around to look at him. He was holding up a ruler stained with blood. “We can examine it.”

“How?” I asked. “We don’t have special eyes to identify whose blood it is.”

“We do have a science lab,” he answered as he rolled his eyes.

We walked down the long eerie hallway that led to our science lab. We put the blood on a slide under the microscope to look at the DNA. Surprisingly, nothing appeared. But suddenly three words appeared in the scope:

 You can’t leave.

I quickly looked away from the scope and looked around. I had a feeling that someone was watching us. Suddenly I heard a laugh. A laugh that sounded like our mascot. We quickly opened the door but found something standing in the way. It was our mascot with inverted colors. It looked tortured and dead.

“You can’t leave…” it whispered in a dreadful way, “you can’t leave…”

The thing carefully pulled off its head and reddish liquid squirted and splashed everywhere. Blood. My friend, Josh, quickly tried to push open a window close to us but the thing quickly moved behind him and grabbed him by his head.

“YOU CAN’T LEAVE!” it screamed in a horrifying way.

Josh’s eyes began bleeding and he cried out in pain. Then he turned inside out. He exploded as blood spilled everywhere. The rest of us quickly ran out into the halls and into the cafeteria.

“What are we going to do?” I asked Jack.

Jack quickly grabbed a knife and a frying pan. He handed me the knife. “We fight.”

I watched as his eyes widened when we heard the cafeteria door open. He suddenly got up and ran towards the thing. It laughed a horrifying laugh and just stood there. Jack swung and landed a direct hit in its chest. The thing fell backwards to the ground with a loud thump. Jack turned around to walk back to me but the thing quickly crawled towards him. Jack screamed in horror to see that it was still alive.

“You can’t leave…” it hissed and grabbed Jack by his leg as he quickly tried to hit the arm with the frying pan but the thing wouldn't let go of him. It pulled Jack’s leg off and he cried out in pain.

I ran over to him and cut off the muscle that still connected the torn leg and Jack and carried him back to our hiding spot. I peeked out to see the thing devouring the part of Jack’s leg we left behind.

<span style="color: #10a61f; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">“I can’t do this anymore,” he said, as he looked at his missing right leg.

<span style="color: #10a61f; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">“I don’t know what's going on,” I said. “But I do know that we’re stuck here until morning.”

<span style="color: #10a61f; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Suddenly Jack murmured something. When he said it a second time, I could hear him clearly, “We cannot leave.”

<span style="color: #10a61f; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I quickly got up and ran away. As I ran away, I quickly glanced back at Jack to see him getting eaten by the creature.

<span style="color: #10a61f; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">//I can't leave him,// I thought.

<span style="color: #10a61f; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I ran back to him and stabbed the creature's back and blood came gushing out. It stopped devouring Jack and grabbed my leg and pulled me down. It started to chomp down on my leg and then Jack suddenly stood up. His head was missing. Then he picked up his deformed head and placed it on this neck. I was too late.

<span style="color: #10a61f; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">He smiled with his bloody mouth and walked towards me. He kneeled down and started to rip my chest apart.