Drew Sisemore: A Narrative Fiction

“There has been another disappearance. This time a boy called, Drew Sisemore. Here is an image of him. If you see him, call the police right away.” I turned off the TV. I got off of the couch and walked to my bedroom. I got into bed and went to sleep. I woke up to my phone blaring. I pushed off my blankets and walked to my desk. When I looked at my phone, it had a text message from a blank name. The user picture was a glitched image. The message said, “Hello, Gabe.” I texted back, “Who are you?”
“I am the one who has been taking people.”
“I’m calling the police!”
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
“Why?”
“I will take you too.”
“How?”
“Goodnight.”
And with that, my phone died. I got back into bed, perplexed. I fell asleep about

an hour later.
When I woke up the next morning, I ate a bowl of cereal. I then took a shower and got dressed. It was Sunday, so I didn’t have school. I decided to walk over to Ethan’s house. When I got there, Ethan said, “We should invite Max over.” Max said he would come over. We walked to Red Front and bought some drinks and chicken nuggets. While we were eating, David walked by. He said, “Hi.” We said hi back and David walked off. When he passed an alley, he was swooped off of his feet and was pulled in. Ethan, Max, and I got up and ran to see what happened. When we got to the dark alleyway, there was a dark figure standing over David. We ran to him and the figure stalked away. When it got to a bend, it turned around and said in a shrill voice, “Watch out or you’ll be next.” With that, he disappeared. We went to see to David. He was lying on the ground half conscious. When we kneeled down to see if he was okay, he suddenly sat up and asked, “What happened?” I told him that something had taken him and they saved him. I told them about the text messages on his phone the night before. Ethan said, “We should go back to my house.” While we were walking back to Ethan’s house, we saw Mateya. Max said, “Come with us.” When we got to Ethan’s house, we told Mateya about what happened. After we hung out for a while and kind of forgot about it, we all went home. I went to sleep that night fine with no disturbances.
The next day, I went to school just like everyone else. I finished my first two periods and went out for recess. At recess, I felt like something was watching me. When I looked around, I didn’t see anyone. I looked at the window of the school and saw a figure in the window quickly slip away. I ignored it and went on with my day. During P.E., I saw something behind one of the trees by the field. On my way home, I saw a kid get pulled behind a house. I quickly ran to see what had happened, but when I got there, I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. I ran home to call Ethan. I told Ethan, but before I heard an answer, the phone cut to static. All of the lights in my house turned off suddenly. I heard footsteps getting louder and louder. When I heard my door slowly creaking open, I grabbed a flashlight and jumped out of my window. I hit the ground running and didn’t stop until I got to Ethan’s house. I quickly knocked on the door. When no one answered, I went and knocked on Ethan’s window. Ethan let me in and we locked all of the doors and latched all of the windows. We sat in Ethan’s room and talked about what happened. At that moment, we heard a scratching on the wall. We rushed to grab Ethan’s airsoft guns. The door to Ethan’s room burst open and the dark figure was standing in the doorway. I pointed my flashlight at it and Ethan shot it. When the flashlight hit the thing, it seemed to weaken and it screeched. It barreled through the front door and disappeared. “It looked like it was weaker when I shone the flashlight at it,” I said as I leaned against the wall. “Yeah,” said Ethan. That night, I stayed at Ethan’s house. We woke up early and walked to school before anyone else. When we got there all of the lights were off and the curtains closed. Only one thing was off, the front door was open. We walked in and we heard chanting. We walked all around upstairs but didn’t see anyone. We then snuck downstairs. We saw a big circle with a symbol in it. In the middle was the shadowy figure. There were hooded people all around it chanting. “Dark Lord we shall bring thee back,” they chanted. Ethan tripped over a steel pipe and fell. The chanting immediately stopped and everyone looked at us. I pulled Ethan up and we started running. The hooded figures chased us. They all wore masks. One had black and red robes with an all red mask. He threw a knife at us. It grazed my arm and black started growing from the spot it cut me. I hit the ground and my arm started bleeding black. It wouldn’t stop. All the sudden, the school exploded anda dark shadow flew through the air and hit me. I heard it’s shrill voice whisper in my ear, “You’ll never get rid of me.” I tried to scream but nothing came out. My body moved without me and grabbed Ethan. I tried to fight back but I couldn’t. I blacked out.
I woke up in a cavern.

I looked around and saw all of the missing people. I saw the dark figure huddled over Ethan. I slowly rose and grabbed a rock. I walked behind the dark figure, but before I could swing the rock at him, he was pushing high up the wall. I hit him but the rock went through him. He laughed but it almost sounded like a scream. Ethan got up and shined his phone flashlight at the thing. It almost looked as if it turned solid. I swung at it again and this time it hit it. I saw a sharp, jagged piece of metal on the ground. I picked it up and tried to stab the thing, but it cut me with it’s hand. Ethan jumped on it’s back but it shrugged him off. The phone hit the ground and it shattered. I ran to the small crack in the cavern. When I climbed out, I was in the basement of the school. I ran upstairs, but I could hear the thing stomping after me and screaming his laugh. When I got outside, everyone was gone. I turned around and watched the thing come out of the school. It said, “Just face the fact that you’ve lost.” I replied, “No, you’ve lost.” The school collapsed behind it. I said, “You have nowhere to run now. The sun is out and you are exposed.” I ran at him and stabbed it in the head with the metal piece. It backed up and tripped over the fence. It hit the ground and shriveled up into a ball. I ran back to the cavern and dragged everyone out. We all looked at the thing. It reached up and whispered, “Help.” I kicked it and it

became still. Then it disappeared into a black blob.
It has been two years since the thing disappeared.

We call it, The Darkness. After that day, no one worried about it again. Everyone pretty much forgot about it. I’m in highschool now. The school was rebuilt and everyone goes there now. Sometimes I have this weird feeling that the thing is still here watching everything I do. Sometimes I wake up on the couch when I go to sleep in my bed. Sometimes I’m on the ground. Last night, I woke up in my front lawn. Tonight I’ll go out to

hunt.