[CDT] Poll: Which Spooky Story is the best?

The stories have been narrowed down from 16 to 8 based on the community's votes on the Pre-Poll, now this is the final stage of voting, pick your favorite story by voting on the poll above.

This thread will be closed on November 9th so be sure to get your votes in before then. Best of luck to everyone that has a story showcased here & if you want to you can view the original event thread here.

Spoiler: Story #1

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“Thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three! Ready or not here I come!”


Halloween at the Robertson household was a tradition that was never bypassed. Every year, Sonia and her three children Nathan, Kate, and Scotty would dress up in costume and enjoy fun and games while waiting for the trick or treating festivities to begin. The family lived in a large neighborhood, in a beautiful home with an inviting driveway and a magnificent backyard. Every year at 7:30 the entire neighborhood would head to the streets showing off their costumes in a spirited march around the town hunting for the best candy bars.

“I wonder where they’re hiding!” Sonia exclaimed. She began her hunt to find the three youngsters, heading out of her living room towards Nate and Scotty’s bedroom. As she passed by the countertop in her living room, she couldn’t help but smile at the photo of her deceased husband. John had passed away 3 years ago on Halloween in a drunk driving accident on his way home from a night out with his friends after putting the children to sleep once the trick or treating had ceased and the adults were out to play. He had swerved off the road into a lake and drownedinside of his car. Since that day, Sonia has made sure to never let a Halloween go by where the family would fail to celebrate the remembrance of their beloved father/husband.

She wandered into the kids’ room. “Are you in here!” she yelled as she opened the closet door expecting to see a young Scotty attempting to hold his breath in the hopes that his mom wouldn’t catch him in his excellent hiding spot. To no avail, the kids had seemed to actually given more thought to their hiding spots. Sonia switched off the lights and turned to head towards her own bedroom and continue her search. As she turned her back, she heard a rustle coming from underneath the bed. “There he is, she thought to herself.” With the lights off, Sonia tip-toed back into the room in hopes of startling Scotty after making him believe he was safe. She creeped towards the bed, took a deep breath, got down to her knees and prepared to jump to the ground and give Scotty a quick scare!

BEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! Sonia jumped forwards and nudged her head into the bedframe. “What the hell!?” She said, rubbing her head where she had bumped the bed, “fucking teenagers.” She assumed the honking had just been the teens driving around the neighborhood reminding everyone that the trick-or-treating was about to begin. She looked under the bed frustrated telling Scotty to come out, however, he wasn’t there. Hand still rubbing her head she exited the dark room and walked back into the hallway to continue her hunt.

“The trick-or-treaters will be here soon, where are these kids hiding,” Sonia thought to herself, it never took her more than a few minutes to find her beloved children. In the dimly lit hallway, she looked down on her hand to find her fingers coated in a thin layer of blood. “Crap…” she thought, it seemed the bump against the frame did more damage than she initially thought. She walked over to the childrens’ bathroom to wash her hands and make sure everything was okay. She opened the door flipped on the lights and looked towards the mirror.

“What the hell is this?!” Sonia yelled in a shocked tone. The mirror was covered in steam. Sonia began to get a bit worried, she still hadn’t found her children yet and the gloomy nature of Halloween began to provoke her anxiety more than she had hoped for. She turned on the water and washed the coating of blood from her hands. After some time of washing her hands, Sonia shut off the water and went to dry her hands. She chuckled a little as she was drying her hands. She couldn’t believe she was considering yelling to the kids that she had given up, her children had finally beaten her at a game of hide-n-seek and she...

”wait a second…what is that sound?” The sound of running water croaked around her. She had already turned off the sink, “what was that sound” she once again questioned in her mind. She ran towards the kitchen to find the kitchen sink running. Confused, she shut off the water and yelled to the kids “Nathan, Kate, Scotty, playtime is over it’s time to come out.”

Chills rushed down Sonia’s neck as a cool breeze rushed along her shoulders. At the end of the kitchen was the door leading to the backyard but for some reason the door was open. Sonia was certain she had closed the door. Her heart began to race, fearful that something horrible had occurred. She flickered on the backyard lights and stuck her head out. Sonia’s chills intensified as she stepped into the backyard screaming for her children.

To her left by the bushes she heard a twig snap. She flipped around, heart racing eyes flickering, feeling her legs shaking beneath her. Sonia was sure she had lost her mind and her imagination was playing tricks on her. She looked towards the bushes and thought she could see a pair of yellow eyes glaring her. Paralyzed for just a moment Sonia was unsure if the spirit of Halloween had simply gotten into her head and her imagination was allowing her to really experience the true frights of the beautiful holiday when coming from the center of her backyard she heard a small splash coming from her family’s pool.

Slowly, she turned towards the pool. This night had thrown her for a loop. She was unsure of whether or not her senses were toying with her. She was unsure if her paranoia and anxiety was getting the best of her when suddenly she froze where she stood.

She tried to scream but she couldn’t. She couldn’t move, she couldn’t think. She tried to run towards the pool, she tried to save them, she tried to react but she couldn’t. On this Halloween evening Nathan, Kate, and Scotty drowned in the pool. Their bodies lie limp in the water, motionless, not even a ripple flowing through the water. Sonia stood there, body frozen. Her mind stopped, she was unable to process the image she was seeing in front of her. The image of her three children’s bodies with their souls drained into the darkness of the night.

The children had fallen into the water and drowned during the game. They fell to the same fate as their father John, forced to suffocate on the water filling their lungs, doing all they could to paddle out of the water. Sonia fell to her knees. Sonia wanted to wake up. Sonia wanted this all to be a dream. This time however, it wasn’t. The Grim had taken the three children’s souls, and this was one nightmare that Sonia would never wake up from. Silence consumed the air.



No sounds were heard, no noises were made, until…

Ding dong – “TRICK OR TREAT!” – 7:30 had struck & the Halloween festivities had begun.

Spoiler: Story #2

There was a semi-transparent rift opening in the air in front of me, when a face appeared for a brief few seconds. “Please… Please promise me. I need to know that you can do this. It’s for the greater good... For everyone, everywhere.” And then it disappeared.

I knew what I had to do and why it was so important, but it still didn’t sit well with my stomach. “I promise.” It’s all I could manage to say. “It was just supposed to be a normal day. This wasn’t supposed to happen,” I thought to myself.

24 hours earlier

“I need that report on my desk by the end of the day.”

“Man, dashRyan never gives me a break,” I said.

“No, but at least we’re out of here soon.” Sonia looked relieved.

I looked down at my watch and noticed a crack in it with the hands stuck on 02:53. I started to fidget with the scroll and then it started to tick again. In that moment, I felt a little dizzy, and then it passed at the same time.

“Weird,” I thought to myself.

I headed over to Ryan’s office to drop off the report when Scotty came bursting through the lobby.

“Guys! That strange case we … we were working on. The one. Y’know,“ He was out of breathe, and not making much sense.

Sonia looked pretty unenthused. “Scotty, calm down. Its almost time for us to go for the day, don’t spin us another one of your conspiracy theories.”

Scotty caught his breath. “Listen. It’s Doomsday.”

Not a second later, there were explosions coming from outside on the street. My head began to pound and everything simultaneously got blurry. I started to tumble against chairs and desks.

Everyone was busy looking outside the windows to see what was going on, making chatter amongst their selves. A high-pitched note was ringing in my ear when everything returned to a normal, but more focused, vision. Everything went silent. I could see everyone’s lips move, but nothing auditory was matching. That’s when I realized everything was moving in slow motion aside from myself.

I looked down at my watch again. 02:52, so I turned the dial back to 02:53. Everyone resumed into normal motion. Puzzled, I decided to consult the one person who always talks as if he has control over time and dimensions.

“Mootrucks. I think I need your help.” I shut the door in a frantic state.

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

“Look at my watch.”

“Okay. There’s a crack in it. You can just buy a new fa-“

“Turn the dial.” With no idea if he’d be able to see the results, he turned the dial. With random luck, he could. He was still moving as if nothing had changed. “Now come with me.” We left his office and looked at everyone else just standing in the lobby.

“What the hell is this?”

“I have no idea. But you talk about time control almost every day.”

“Yeah, but that’s all just fun and games. This… This is something unnatural.”

I turned my dial to the correct time, and again, everyone resumed into normal motion. In that same moment, our front wall in the lobby came blowing through as if a bulldozing truck had hit it. Everyone began to panic, unsure of what was going on. People began to scurry from the building, in fear of their lives. The explosions continued, but got louder as they got closer to our building. I grabbed my bag and headed to my car, when I hear Mootrucks and Scotty from behind me.

“We’re coming with you.” And just like that, I had two companions to confide in. We made way to my car and sat for a moment out of breath.

As I drove off, I explained our direction. “I need to get to get to a friend’s house. Someone who might know what’s going on.” Neither had any place to be so neither had any objections.

In a course of about ten minutes, we made it to Felix’s house. Mootrucks & Scotty stayed in the car as I went to go ring the doorbell. I could see curtains shift to reveal an eye looking to see who was at the door, and a moment later the door open.

I didn’t hesitate to say what had happened in the office. “My watch is changing the motion of things.”

He didn’t look surprised, and waved me inside.

I looked back at the car and put my hand up to indicate five minutes, then proceeded to go inside Felix’s house.

“It’s been a while,” he said.

“Yeah, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t need your help.”

He was looking through his bookshelf for something and handed me three thick-binded books.

“This has everything you need to know about what’s happening. It happens every 1,000 years, which is why it’s seemingly undocumented. You’re apparently a very important person, and you have a lot of work to do because of it. Since you don’t have time to read everything, basically what’s happening is: There’s someone trying to literally take over the world via time control. Its victims aren’t aware immediately, which is why it’s so easy to do without being stopped. However, you have a tool, the watch, which will help you stop the control. Through controlling time yourself, you can combat anything that they try to do.”

None of this told me who to look for, or what to do specifically to make it all stop. “Who are ‘they’?”

“They are probably the same people who have been trying to take over for centuries.”

“Why has no one stopped them before? Why don’t more people know about this?”

“Because they can make everything stop or go on command. That allows them to be very evasive.”

I looked down at my watch. 03:19. I returned to my car with a small plan in mind. I took off the watch and said, “Okay. We’re gonna stop time, and hunt these people down. It shouldn’t be hard. Grab a part of the watch.” They did, and I pulled out the dial to expectedly stop time. It worked.

I began to drive towards where the explosions were earlier. To my surprise, there was a bunch of people still there. In the center of the crowd, it looked like a beam of light shooting straight upwards to the sky, growing by the second. There was movement, but that shouldn’t be possible if I had pulled out the dial from my watch.

Curious, we neared the center where the light was and I recognized the person standing there. It was Time To Buy and he looked crazy but he was laughing.

“With this power, I’ll buy EVERYTHING. And no one can stop me. Hahahaha.” He began to noticeably grow in size. “With all the world to see, they’ll know what time it is.”

None of this made sense. I thought I would be hunting down a crime organization.

Then Time To Buy noticed us standing there. “Ah, if it isn’t Yankiee and those other folks from the CDT office. If you’ve come here to stop me, it’s too late. You can’t.”

That's when Sonia came swinging down from a helicopter with a needle aimed for TTB’s neck. “Never say can’t, not when you’ve got time on your side.”

When the needle hit TTB’s neck, he became hysterical and began to shrink in size. “This can’t be. But I AM Time.”

Island landed the helicopter and we realized Scotty was the only one not here, so I asked, “Where’s Scotty?”

Sonia had a solemn look on her face. “He… He died in the line of duty. Trying to warn you tomorrow about today.”

I was confused, for about the tenth time today. “Line of duty? Tomorrow?”

“Yankiee. We’re all a part of a special task force called the Speed Force. We defend time and space. He died trying to warn you about today. And to think it was our wedding day tomorrow.”

“Well, at least we got TTB to stop buying everything. Well done everyone. Happy Halloween.” Island said.

“What?”

Then I woke up.

“What the fuck was that?”

Spoiler: Story #3

Oh god. Oh god oh god oh god. Ok, Lean where the fuck did you put your laptop? Quickly! Nevermind, I found it. Lean i’m powering on the laptop, take my back and watch for it, it could attack us at any second now. Lean, if in any case it comes to it, use the pistol. Fuck i’m literally shaking right now. 03:28. Hello Sonia, this is Jack Hack, it is currently 03:29 and we are currently at Old House Woods. Fuck, Sonia, you know the gist, apparently you weren't lying about the tree man. Tree monster? Tree whatever the fuck that was. Ok, anyways roughly 4 minutes ago, we were following your exact procedure, build a tripod from sticks and light it up using flint and steel, and wait. We waited exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds, just like you said, and guess what. You were mother fucking right. The ground is still, not shaking like it was before, but we are certain it is still chasing us i think. Lean and I managed to cut him off on some river and we’re in this small isolated cave. I know it’s sorta dark, but I don’t want to bring up my iPhone to its maximum brightness, incase, you know, that damn thing can see light through walls or some shit. Lean and I have came to a conclusion that we’re camping this cave until we see sunlight. I bought a few extra portable batteries, just for you, so I can record this whole thing for you. It’s currently 03:36 now and we still haven’t seen him. Sonia, I’m expecting a hot fucking meal when I get back. Anyways, i’ll turn it back on every fifteen minutes or so. 03:55. New update, I told Lean I could hear shit in the ground, so I put my ear on the ground and fuck me, I could feel the ground shaking just slightly as it touched my face. I really don’t know why we took this challenge up from you, but it’s horrifying. My heart can’t stop for a second now. I’ll get back to you in fifteen or so again. Peace. 04:22. Sonia, this is really getting out of hand now. You fucking told me that this wouldn’t make me shit my pants, and guess what, i’m about to. Yeah, fuck it, I am a pussy, and I just want to go home and talk to Chloe. Man what the fuck was I thinking? Anyways, still scared, and honestly I think my heart is beating faster than ever. I’m not sure, but I can feel this strange mist in the cave too. I’m going to watch my past recording to see if this was happening before hand. I’ll hit you up again in another fifteen. Peace. 04:55. I can hear it. Can you hear it Sonia?... Shhh… Lean, come over here with me. Close your eyes and concentrate, do you hear that soft… screech?... Sonia, you didn’t tell us about this. Now humor is suppose to help in terrifying situations, so is this some mating call or something? I honestly don’t know what’s happening, but I’ll update you soon. Sorry if i’m waiting longer than fifteen minutes, my body is fucking terrified and just moving my body makes me believe i’m going to die. Anyways, Peace. No Lean, fuck off I’m not going to be your mom and nurture you here. 05:33. Sonia? Sonia…? Do you read me? Can you hear me? Lean is gone… A root. A fucking root. It took him Sonia. I… I don’t know where he went... I tried to help him Sonia, I swear. I… I… I just couldn’t reach him. I was too terrified… I’m… I’m sorry… Sigh… I’m going to go out Sonia, I’m sorry. I can’t leave my brother like that. Your fiance, my brother, we both love him. I’ll still keep you updated. I’m sorry Sonia. 06:17. Hey Sonia. I uh… Just look at this. Isn’t this the nest you were talking about? I think Lean might be in there. I’m going in Sonia, I gotta save him. I don’t know any other way other than climbing, so I don’t know if I can keep you updated anymore, but if I can i’ll continue doing so. God save me. 07:35. Hey Sonia, sorry i’ve been whispering ever since, I honestly don’t even know if you could hear me the past recordings because i’ve been whispering so softly. Anyways, I successfully made it down, and it is pitch black here. I’m using my iPhone on its lowest brightness again, and i’ll try to let you take a look at what i’m seeing. Do you see that weird root formation? I’m going in Sonia. Pray for me, and God please keep helping me. I’ll update you once I get in there. 07:52. Do you see that?... I can’t believe it… It looks too mythical, almost like in those scary Halloween books we read as children. And there’s Lean. He’s hanging by some roots. I hope he’s not dead, because my plan i’ve created in my head like a retard is to create a distraction by throwing something the opposite way and sprint and recover lean. If I don’t update you after this, it probably means im dead. I must probably be 100ft underground by now… Pray for me Sonia. 08:41. Sonia, Leans dead. My… hands… Blood… So much blood… I’m sorry.. Sorry… I’m sorry Sonia… He was missing so much… I didn’t… I didn’t even… I… I’m scared... Sonia... They’re behind me... I can hear the soft screech from before too. Tell me you see them. Tell me you can fucking hear them Sonia. I can’t move Sonia, My body is too shocked to do anything, I wasn’t mentally prepared for what I was going up against. 08:50 I managed to crawl into a small opening that fit me. I’m on my last battery pack, I’ll update you on anything, and from here on out, If I stop with these calls, I’m probably dead Sonia. 09:20. Sonia, they’re here for me. I know they are, I can hear them outside of this small opening. Sonia, please tell her I loved her. I can’t bear to say her name. Quietly sobbing is hard here, I’m sorry. I’m sorry, i’m sorry, i’m sorry. Sonia. Please promise me you’ll do it. Please. Promise me Sonia. They’re here. I can feel the root in the ground. It’s shaking. I’m so fucking scared Sonia. God, if you can hear me now, please, lord, forgive me for all i’ve done lord. Sonia, promise me you’ll do it. Promise me Sonia. Please... Sonia promise me. Sonia, promis-...


This is an official transcript of the last words of Jack Hack.

10/25/11 - Death of Jack Hack.

Time of death: between 09:25 - 09:30

How they died?: Unknown cause

Case: Closed

Spoiler: Story #4

The green glow emitting from the bubbling cauldron in the center of the room was the only thing I could make out while trying to struggle out of the chains wrapped about my body.

I hear white noise coming from the left and tilt my head, there's nothing, it was almost like staring at a black piece of paper, no room for light.

"Vader.." I hear a whisper from my right ear, I quickly turn my head.. "Hello? Is anybody there?"
"You're a vader.." I hear the whisper again, it sounds like it's getting closer.. "Hello? Vader? I don't know what that is? This is some kind of mistake!"

The chains grip tighter around my body, "Please.. I don't know who or what a vader is.."

"Then why are you here?" the voice sends a shiver down my spine, as I feel a cold breeze clip my ear.

"I was walking through the forest and decided to take a short cut, I'm sorry.. Please let me go.. I don't know who vader is."

"YOU'RE A VADER!" the voice snaps at me, the cold air pierces my lungs, I feel the chains release off my body, I scramble to get up but my legs are badly beaten. I begin to hobble down the hallway hoping to find something.. anything to get me out of this horrible place. Everything is so dark and smell is so disgusting my eyes begin to water when I take my hand away from my nose for just a second. I grip the wall beside me and try and grab my bearings but the stench is so foul I find myself sinking to the ground and everything around me getting even darker.

I open my eyes slowly and see shadowy figures that have a warm white glow around them, I scream, pick myself up and run the opposite direction, not having time to look back I feel something wrap around me, frozen.. I look up.. It's a shadowy figure, I scream again trying to fight my way out of it's grip.

"Ssssh little one.. We are here to help you.. We are the White Knights."
I go limp from defeat, at least the glow can allow me to look around better. He picks me up and takes me back to the small room with the other 3 glowing figures.

"Allow me to introduce myself my fair madam, I am Sir Shin, my other three brothers are BluPig, Darkgroove, and Lean. We will help you escape, it is our sworn duty to protect all women!"
"T-Thanks.." I stutter, "I thought I was going to die down here! I don't even know what a vader is!"

I hear a bang against the wall beside us and it makes me jump, "IT'S ALL A LIE! EVERYONE IS WRONG! I SHOULD BE KING OF THIS WHOLE CASTLE! WHY IS EVERYONE SO STUPID! WHY IS NO ONE AS SMART AS ME!" the excessive yelling simmers down to a mumble.. "They should of listened to me, I can do it all myself, just kill everyone, I'll run this castle myself.."
I turn my head to the White Knight known as Blupig, "Him? That's Suf, he's harmless, we keep him in his own special room where he talks to himself all day and sometimes has outbursts of yelling, you'll learn to block his voice out, everyone does."

"Follow us m'lady" Darkgroove gives me a warm smile, I don't trust them completely but what option do I have at this point, they're not trying to kill me.. yet.
They lead me out a huge wooden door and walk me down a hallway which seems to go on forever, the smell is still too foul for me to take my hand away from my nose but it is now followed by a sticky slush under my feet every time I take a step, I look down to see my shoes covered in a white gooey substance, I cringe and decide to carry on, no use worrying about a pair of shoes and at least it's not blood.

"Vader.." A voice strings along the hallway.
"That's the voice I heard when I got here!" I grab one of the White Knights, White Knight Lean looks at me, "Those are the trolls that roam this castle, do not worry about them, they are not dangerous when there is only 1 or 2, we must be careful of the packs though."

"Look!" Shin exclaims, the exit is up ahead, we all pick up our paces, freedom at la.. WHACK.

I wake up once again strapped to the chains where I first began, this time I'm able to see all the White Knights also tied to separate boards in the room.
"What the.."
"SHUT UP VADER!" a figure from the shadows snaps at me, it looks almost human.
"I'm not a vader! I don't know what that is!" tears running down my face.. "I just want to go back home."
The human figure emerges from the shadows allowing me to see it clearly.. it's not human.. it's skin is a disgusting disfigured yellow, there are multiple red spots all over it's face, the smell as it inches closer makes me want to pass out again. It reaches out and grabs my face, "You're not even a real girl."
I hear chanting from behind me, many other disgusting creatures make their way around me, staring me up and down.
"Not even a real girl - VADER!" A few of them shout at me. "FAGGOT!"
One of the smaller grosser ones speak up, "I bet she doesn't even last a week here!"

I bang against the chains, "Please! Please! Let me go.. I'm not a vader!"
The bigger one, clearly the leader, approaches me closer, "Welcome to the Spam Forum."

Spoiler: Story #5

Cast:
Prince Hal - Scotty
Falstaff - Richard
Queen Margaret - Sonia


Act 1 begins in a dark and dank forest, with Prince Hal, the heir to the throne of England looking for raspberries for the Queen Margaret's famous raspberry pie. There he is confronted by Falstaff, an old friend from the Boar’s Head Inn.


Fal - ‘Hallo Prince Hal! What are you doing out here?’
Hal - ‘Hallo! I am picking some raspberries so that Margaret can make a pie (happy expression)!’
Fal - ‘Haha, I’ve missed that tarts tart!!! Let me know once you’re done and we’ll have a drink!’
Hal - ‘Sure thing Falstaff, you old grump.’


Later that evening, Prince Hal arrives at the Boar’s Head, and finds that Falstaff is already extremely pissed and passed out on the table; Hal deduces that not only is he pissed but he has been drugged. Falstaff is a big bald fellow, who is partial to a drink or two, he can hold his drink well, and Hal knows of reasons why some may want to do away with Falstaff. Hal frantically searches looking for any strange substances. He finds a jar dirt, he open it up to find that it smelled particularly foul, almost like human feces. It was at this moment he realised what was happening, Falstaff had been eating a jar of Margaret's shit. But why? Hal was very confused in to why Falstaff would eat such a thing. Then Queen Margaret walked into the inn.


Margaret - ‘Hi Hal, I see you’ve found Falstaff! (sniggers)’
Hal - ‘What have you done to him?’
Margaret - ‘I found him here drinking, and seduced him into eating out of that jar..’
Hal - ‘You did what! Will he survive?’
Margaret - ‘I put my hand down his pants like this (Margaret suggestively moves towards Hal before placing her cold hand down Hal’s pants), and told him that there would be more of that once he had taken a spoonful of this special jar...
Hal - ‘Oh, okay..’ (Hal takes the jar of feces and takes a large spoonful of Margaret's feces, before swallowing it)
Margaret - ‘That’s a good boy..‘ (Margaret moves her already wet hand sensually down her body, making sure she awakens both nipples, before starting to masturbate furiously)
Hal - ‘I loved you Margaret!?!’ (Falling to the ground in sickness and pain)
Margaret - ‘I know you did.. Hah.’ (Moaning)


It is at this point during Act 1 that Prince Hal wakes up suddenly to his hot seed flowing all over his stomach.

Spoiler: Story #6

Once upon a time two children @John and @Lame were heading down the street towards their first stop on their long list of trick or treating destinations. As they skipped arm in arm dreaming of all they candy they were soon to aquire they were stopped dead in their tracks at the sound of a wolf howling at the full moon just on the other side of the street. The two ran down the street screaming at the top of their lungs, quickly they found themselves hiding in the bathroom of their local park. Shaking and whimpering they held tight to each other hoping the scary monster didn't follow them. After what seemed like an eternity they cautiously peeked through the crack of the stall door. To their excitement they were all alone. Eager to make up lost time they gathered their sacks, wiped their tears and emerged into the dimly lit park. Noticing they have missed the majority of the night and we're miles away from the best streets they agreed to make their way back home and hit all the homes they could. The two quickly all but forgot about their near death experience once the candy started to become some what difficult to haul around. They laughed and joked as they zigzaged across the dark empty streets sometimes running to the next illuminated porch light. Bags almost full, legs beginning to ache, John and Lame wanted to hit one last street before heading home to inventory their nights bounty. As they rounded the corner they stopped jaw dropped, they knew it, the hit the motherload. The street was lit by the over abundance of yard decorations and orange lights hung from the roofs. Smiling from ear to ear they eagerly raced up to the first house and pressed the doorbell. A maniacal laugh came from inside the house as the door slowly squeaked open. John and Lame trembled slightly as they stood in the empty doorway. A dark figure soon appeared, "hello my pretties" screeched the shadow. Before the two could squeeze out their well rehearsed trick or treat a blinding flash lit up the face of the shadow in front of them followed by a defening crack of thunder. "Don't be afraid" the unfamiliar figure laughed. "Trick or treat" the two said trembling. "Trick OR treat" cackled the creature. "I choose TRICK!" Another clap of thunder boomed as the boys fell unconscious. As they woke a familiar howl came from down the street instantly sending shivers down their spine. The two sprung to their feet and ran as fast as possible. As they grew tired they began looking around, everything seemed different. What happened to all the lights they thought. What happened to our candy?! They began to panic. "What to we do?" cried Lame. "RUN!" Screamed John. A dark figure was headed straight towards them. Still tired they ran as fast as they could frequently checking over their shoulder to see if the thing was still after them. With the shadow monster still behind them they rounded the corner onto their cul-de-sac hoping the safety of their home will protect them. They burst through the door screaming slamming the door behind them. Huddled in the corner they could see the shadow pass by the windows "where is everyone?" Whispered John " I thought they were staying here for the night." "Maybe they went to bed early." Replied Lame "Let's go check." They crawled up the stairs skipping the creaking step at the top. Lame slowly turned the knob to their parents room, too dark to see "mom?... Dad?... Are you in here? Lame whispered. "Where are they?" Asked John. "GONE!" They boys jump around and the glow from the halls they saw the long green nose of the shadow. "You're a witch!" They shouted in sync. Lightning flashes blinding the boys. The end

Spoiler: Story #7

Am I awake?

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! The bolts of lightning struck overhead. I could only catch a glimpse of what was happening around me. BANG! BANG! BANG! The thunder raged through my ears. Deafening me as I fell to my knees, I had crawled into a ball, scared and frightened.

“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” A girl had screamed!

A wet sensation trickled down my face; unable to make out whether these were tears... Or blood.


And then… I woke up.


“SCOTTTT-T-T-Y-YYYY… S-S-C-C-OOTTTYYYYY…!” I was screaming his name as if I was in pain, my heart throbbing with pain.

“Sc…Scott… Scotty….Sc…” Mumbling now as my body was shaking with fear.

Tears rolling down my face, as I waited for him to respond. He didn’t respond. It was pitch black. A cold breeze down my spine had caused me to shudder furiously. I tried to look around, but it was pitch black. I could see nothing. And then it hit me. I wasn’t in bed. There was no warm, cosy, soft duvet. There was no bby, my teddy bear, within arm’s reach. Am I even awake?

“Scotty, Scotty where are you!” With a nervous tone of voice I whispered.

I had expected him to rush to my aid. There was no sign of him. Why would he leave me, alone, cold, afraid? Scotty wouldn’t leave me alone in my time of need. I need Scotty, I needed him right now. The thoughts raged through my mind, it had to. If I thought about what was happening I don’t know what would happen.

BOOM!

I flew backwards, landing with a hard thump. A shocking pain in my heart had me crippled and unable to move, I was glued to the floor. A bright light appeared in front of me nearly blinding. I could barely see Chloe appear. She looked like her head was about to explode. That big boom, perhaps her head had exploded and regrew.

“YOU DARE BETRAY ME?!” Screamed Chloe, she was angry, I could tell by the tone of her voice.

“No… no. It’s not what you thi-“

Scotty? Was that Scotty? Is that-…?

“YOU ARROGANT PIECE OF SHIT, HOW DARE YOU CHEAT ON ME WITH SONIA?!”

“It-t-t isn’t like that-t-t Chloe! She’s only my friend!”

Well... he had got that right. He was just a friend… I mean he was friend zoned, not that he knew.

“You’ll pay for this, YOU WATCH!” Chloe shrieked, her voice sounded like she had ripped her voice box out and swallowed it again.

The voices had trailed off into nothing, the light had faded and there I was again in pitch black. I was alone, with nothing but my thoughts for company. My body shuddered with the cold that had capsuled around me. Had I just dreamed about what just happened? Am I even awake? Was this a vision? Scotty had only asked me to marry him yesterday. Could he have been cheating? This pain in my heart…


And then… I woke up.


“Sonia... SONIA!” Wake up! Scotty was shaking me as I opened my eyes with a confused look and a sharp pain in my heart.

“Sonia… Are you ok? You look so worried whilst you were sleeping.”

“I’m-m-m… F-f-f-f-i-ine…” I stumbled as I tried to focus.

“W-what are you doing in my bed?” I said.

“What do you mean? Why would I not be in our bed?” he responded sharply albeit slightly confused.

“Our bed… What do you mean our bed?” I whispered.

I looked at Scotty; the slight feelings of worry had crept over me now.

“We got married last week, Sonia are you feeling ok? Did you have another nightmare?”

Married? Haha! Married, to Scotty? What on earth was happening? Slowly the anxiety crept up through my thoughts into the open. A distraught, confused, worried look had been portrayed on my face.

“Sonia? Don’t you remember? When Chloe died?” He said now starting to look worried staring at my somewhat uninterested face.

“C-ch-chloes d-d-dead?!” I shrieked in fear. The pain started to race through my heart again.

Did Scotty kill Chloe? Was that the blood trickling down my face, the lightning had flashed and all I could see was… oh no. Chloe was dead. Scotty had killed Chloe. It wasn’t a dream. It wasn’t a nightmare. I had married a murderer! The thoughts now racing through my head, the pain in my heart was growing. Am I even awake?


And then… I woke up.


I was staring down at myself, my motionless, empty, cold looking, pale-skinned body as it was drenched in a pool of my own blood. A single knife wound to the heart, I had bled out instantly. It was a gruesome, cold evil sight. Tears streaming down my face, my legs beneath me unable to keep me standing, I felt crippled, falling to my knees, I grabbed my left bosom, clenching my chest; realising that, that had been the pain all along. I was murdered.

Who could it have been? Scotty? Chloe?

“MWUAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA…!” Yankiee had roared with laughter.

“It was I; you pathetic girl. And next it will be Chloe, and then I shall have Scotty all to myself!”

Yankiee had gone mad with the power she gained from killing & stabbing me in the back. The look on her face, the greed had crept over her body. It had taken control of her. She wasn’t like this, she was a nice girl. Roaring with laughter she waved the knife about. And then… she stabbed herself.

“Oh!” She exclaimed as the sharp knife had entered the mid-section of her body. Her face removed of all expressions, as she fell backwards and hit the floor. She lay motionless beside my cold bloody body.


And then … I woke up.


“I wish it had been me, and not Sonia.” Scotty’s soft voice echoed throughout the room.

The 31st of Halloween, it was the day of my funeral. I lay motionless in my coffin, and I heard Scotty talk and talk about his undying love for me. He had wishes of getting married, having children and a life together.


And then… I woke up.


“Scotty?... S-S-Scotty??”

I had woken with a confused and bizarre feeling in my heart.

“Scotty?!” I exclaimed as I realised I was in this dark pitch black, empty, nothing… again.

Thump… thump… thump… a dull thump had echoed around me. I turned around, looking down in absolute shock. I fell to my knees. Scotty lay there, as the last beats of his heart was slipping away from his soul.

“S-S-Sonia… i-i-l-ov-y-u“…his last breath slipped away from his lungs. The words ‘I wish it had been me’, echoed in my head as I sobbed and cradle Scotty in my arms. The pain in my heart unbearable, tears of blood bleeding down my face in agony. I collapsed beside Scotty. Bodies intertwined we lay motionless, the pain in my heart was killing me, my last breath slipped away from my soul.

The Grim Had Taken Our Lives.
This was the 31st of October; Halloween.

But ... Am I awake?

Spoiler: Story #8

One day a lonely DNT-member named @b1b was browsing Sythe at night. He was peacefully browsing the site until he got an alert. It wasn’t an usual alert, this one didn’t say anything else then "We know your secret…". Not very impressed by the alert B1B kept browsing Sythe, but the alert kept bugging him: no moderator was online to have sent the alert as a joke, so who else could it be?


About 30 minutes later Sythe started to stutter and between every stutter the message "We know your secret…" could be seen very slightly. At this time B1B tried to contact an administrator or moderator to ask what was going on. When he checked the "Members Online Now", however, he saw no one else was online. Somewhat confused by this as there always is someone online he started to check user-profiles, only to find out none of the users he searched could be found, almost like they had never existed.


Soon after, his speakers automatically turned on and in a computer-generated voice he heard the message “We know your secret, we will come for you soon”. At this point B1B had enough of it and decided to call the police, but his mobile had no signal and the house phone seemed to be shut-off. As a last resort he decided to go to a real-life friend of his, @AchingThumbs.


B1B got on his bike and drove to AchingThumbs as fast as he could. On his way to AchingThumbs B1B noticed something very weird, nothing. There was no sound of animals, cars, other people, or anything else and there was no one to be seen as well. As he drove alongside some dark alleys he could very slightly see some big, dark, weirdly shaped silhouettes hiding in the alleys observing his every move.


Once he arrived at AchingThumbs his house it appeared like ‘they’ knew he was coming: the front door was wide open and all the lights indoors were turned on. As he walked towards the house he could see movements in the corner of his eyes but whenever he turned his head to look it was gone. Very cautiously he approached AchingThumbs’ house seeing more and more movements in the corner of his eyes. As he entered the house all lights suddenly turned off, making everything completely dark. As B1B listened closely he could hear the air moving as if someone was moving very rapidly and it was coming closer, towards him. As fast as he could in the complete darkness he tried to find his way to AchingThumbs’ room but he tripped and could feel the dark silhouettes come closer at an alarming rate. He knew that he wouldn’t make it and with one last scream he screamed “WHY, WHAT HAVE I DONE?!”.


B1B heard ‘them’ slow down a bit after his scream but they were still approaching at an alarming rate. Suddenly he heard a whisper right behind him, it was close enough to give him goosebumps all over his body. The whisper said: “We know your secret… We got you now”. B1B was frozen in fear, it took him a bit to recover enough to say “Wh..What secret”, at this time he could sense that he was completely surrounded by ‘them’. The whisper he heard earlier answered his question “We know everything about you… It’s time you leave this world for good” as he felt an ice-cold claw pierce his back. He screamed in pain but the creature didn’t hold back. B1B felt his end was nearby as he turned his head around with the last bit of energy and willpower he had, the face he saw was something that shocked him the most. It was his friend AchingThumbs, but he was completely transformed in something like he had never seen before. One side of AchingThumbs his face had the same texture as that of a crocodile but with big lumps all over his face, the other side of AchingThumbs’ face was like it was dead: it was completely lifeless and it looked like it had been decomposing for days. This was the last thing B1B saw as his view turned black as he left the world of the living.

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My opinion doesn't matter. It's all rigged.

 

Why do you say that?

 

The votes don't lie.

 

Voted! Gl to all participants and thanks CDT

 

I voted for 2, super creative and fun to read. Story #1 has a pretty huge advantage cause I guarantee most people are just going to read one or two stories before voting.

Story #3 was hilarious btw

 

Please try and read them all.. #7 is excellent I just hope people get that far

 

#6 because @Lame and @John

 

HOLY MOLY. $150 in prizes.

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Voted btw

 

Took forever to read but I managed to get through it. Voted! Great stories

 

Voted, wish I could vote for more than one.
Really appreciate the levels of participation for stories,

 

Best of luck everyone, I had fun reading all the stories.

 

Voted! Nice competition

 

3 is spicy

 

Hey guys, unfortunately we're re-polling the story poll.

It seemed we missed out a story for the poll, again apologies to the person.

Also we are unsure because the poll was left open for voters to change votes and there being a bug-
abuse, we cannot be sure whether this poll was abused or not.

The re-poll is being taken place to ensure a fair place for all entrants, apologies to those who this concerns and have stories that have been voted on.

The re-poll thread will be out ASAP. If you have voted please DO VOTE AGAIN and don't forget to read the extra story in case you change your mind.