“AAAWW! Help me, is anyone there?” Danny screamed for his life, but he didn’t know why, it was like he’d been teleported to a place that he didn’t know. Danny panicked, “hello, is anyone there, why am I here?” As Danny was shouting, he notices that two shadows are walking towards him, “hey, could you two help me?” The two figures come closer and as they do, the sunlight from the window is shining upon them. Danny looks at their faces but to his surprise, their faces are like shadows even with the light shining on them. The shadow figures come closer towards Danny. “Wait…stay away from me! No! Please stay away from me!!”
The skinniest shadow was the first to greet Danny. It grabbed Danny’s face and whispered, “I love you.” And it proceeded to slap Danny in the face, Danny was in terror, he looked at the thing’s face but nothing. Just a black face with a skinny figure. He wanted to move so desperately but he couldn’t. He looked down at his wrist to see if they were strapped to the chair, though they were completely free, however, he couldn’t move, he couldn’t even open his mouth; Danny couldn’t even scream anymore.
As the first shadow was cuddling Danny, the other massive shadow rushes towards Danny and pushes the skinny shadow away. The big and fat shadow is intense compared to the skinny shadow, and the fat shadow causes much pain for Danny. It grabs a pencil out of thin air and grabs Danny’s hand, then he sticks the pencil in between his fingernail.
“AAAWW!” Danny’s feels nothing but agony, he’s in disbelief that he’s going through such pain, he could have sworn he was just sleeping last night.
The shadow begins to conjurer a knife, “good night, boy.” The shadow strikes towards his neck and Danny sees the room spinning around him before landing on the floor.
“AIIIEEEE!” Danny wakes up screaming with pure shock that ran through his veins, “thank God that was a dream. Felt so real though.” He was in distress, sweat was dripping from his forehead to his lap, the sweat made a little swimming pool on his bed. Danny never had such a dream like this one, so real, so tense, and so graphic. “Did the dream mean something, surly not. Just a weird nightmare and that’s all.” Danny was trying to recover from such a hellish nightmare. He didn’t know who the shadow creatures were in his nightmare, but he didn’t want to meet them again. Yet they remained in his brain.
As Danny is trying to forget about his nightmare, he thinks about how his dad treated him last night, Danny couldn’t believe his dad chucked him in his room when all Danny wanted to do was to spend the night and look after his mum. Contemplating about this made Danny wonder how his mother was doing, after all, his mother did faint without much reason. But whatever the reason, it had to be ghastly, he thought. He wanted to check on his mum but didn’t want to see his dad or speak to him. So, Danny decided to look at his chemistry sets. He grabs his rug and throws it to the other side of the room. Danny begins to lift two floorboards up. The floorboards are no competition for Danny as he’s lifted them up plenty of times. “There you are babies.” Danny goes to lift a chemistry box set out of the hiding place, he had plenty of chemistry shenanigans, ranging from: ingredients for a smoke bomb, potassium nitrate which Danny would mix with sulphur and charcoal and in return that would make gunpowder, which made him feel powerful; although his confidence to use them were wasn’t strong enough. He also had lead acetate which was a dyeing agent in a chemistry set he got but it can poison people, and Danny knew this which made him very paranoid that his mum would find it. Danny carried his chemistry box to his desk, put it down and opened it up, the chemistry set was called the barking dog.
Most of Danny’s chemistry experiments were very dangerous, his dad hated him for it, but Kiran would put up with it due to Danny’s chemist teachers getting the family generous funding. The funding would allow the family to live in a three-bedroom house, put Danny into private school, Elizbeth to look after her son full time. The family was extremely happy for this funding, especially Danny, who hated public school, and could never get along with any of the kids who would always bully him for being smart. After one month of being at private school, Danny would get taught at home as well as going to school. He was taught by a few chemists who would spend a few hours each day throughout the week but there was one crazy ass chemist that Danny’s mum and dad didn’t like. His name was Doctor Cooper. A lot of fellow chemists told Danny to stay away from Doctor Cooper because of his past. He sure was crazy, Danny’s dad always said, “it’s in his eyes, I’m telling you, this Cooper guy is trouble for our son.” Kiran was right, Doctor Cooper was supplying Danny with murderous chemistry gear, but Danny wasn’t bothered by it, he knew what he was doing, and Danny was very self-aware about how one mistake could end his life or others.
The barking dog was one of Danny’s favourite chemistry experiments. He loved the sound that the tube would make when the two compounds reacted to each other, the experiment is the exothermic reaction between nitrogen monoxide and carbon disulfide, and then the reaction goes down a tube. Danny grabs a tube, then begins to mix both compounds together, the compounds proceed through the tube, emitting blue light that excites Danny whenever he sees it reaches a certain point, the reaction causes a “woof!” Danny’s favourite part; he loved that the reaction sounded like a dog. “Woof, woof, woof!” Danny heard barking but it sounded like it came from the porch.
“What? Barking? And it’s not coming from this experiment. Wow!” Danny spoke with such excitement. “I didn’t know any of the neighbours had a dog, this is great!” Danny proceeded to look out the window, all he could see was mist, the houses emitted no light whatsoever. Danny was puzzled, it was if there were no souls in the area, completely dead and silent. He could still hear the barking though, Danny opened his window to get a better look, the barking grows louder to which Danny is more concerned about the dog. As he sees the big black dog across the street, Danny notices the dog is barking at a gigantic sack that is perched on the wall, “what’s in that sack? Who owns that sack?” Danny was intrigued by the sack and desired to see what was within. He could see red liquid dripping from the sack, Danny was freaked out by that fact. The dog sniffs the ground near the sack and picks up a scent, as the dog follows the trail toward an alley, Danny sees a strange looking guy running towards the dog. The barks are much louder now, “should I do something?” Danny questions himself. “No, this might just be the owner.” The strange looking guy gets closer to the dog and immediately kicks it to the face. Danny is in shock, he couldn’t believe someone just kicked a dog, especially such a big one. He continued to watch, fearing what could happen to the dog. The strange guy was so fast, the dog couldn’t keep up. As the dog attempted to take one last bite, the strange guy took the full might of the dog’s bite on the arm, then he pulled the dog closer towards him and the strange guy pierced through the dog’s neck with his teeth.
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“Woof!” The dogs last bark was awful, it sent a shiver down Danny’s spine, he couldn’t comprehend what he had just seen, he was in shock and couldn’t move. The only thing that moved was his heart.
“Aww!” the strange guy was yelling but almost as if he was celebrating, it pulled Danny out of his trance. He quickly ducked under his window to make sure the man did not see him, then reached for his light and turned it off.
Danny’s room is not as dark as he wants it to be, the experiment that he had done was still emitting blue light, Danny just hoped it didn’t reflect outside so the man would see it. He was confused, he’d never seen anything like that, it was like the situation with the hellish bats, he thought. Then he realised the bats wasn’t even outside anymore, “why has everything been so unusual this past two weeks?” He whispered to himself. “I need to speak to my dad about what just happened, this thing is serious.”
Danny prepared to stand up but couldn’t, he was on edge and didn’t want to end up like the dog. He’d wish he was as strong as the man with who was known as the trawler; all Danny wanted was to be strong, brave, and stand up to the ones that bully him. Eventually, Danny grows the courage and shuts his window and runs towards his door, as he got to the top of the stairs, he began to walk down them, but a knock at the front door interrupts him. Danny freaks out, “it has to be that strange guy.” Danny crept down the stairs to try and get a look at the strange guy. He reached the bottom step and realised the windows were boarded up; Danny couldn’t see anything through the window. The knocking became less friendly, Danny was beginning to suspect that the strange guy would break the front door down.
“Woof,” Danny heard another bark, he quickly ran back up the stairs, and proceeded back to his room so he could investigate out his window. As he looked out his window, he seen the strange guy carrying the sack over his shoulders. The strange guy was walking as if he was important to someone. He had a long black trench coat on, with a posh hat, and smart shoes. As the strange guy started walking away from Danny’s house, he noticed that the sack was full of darky red liquid.
“A sack of blood, surly not.” Danny didn’t want to believe it, “that has to be blood, what else could it be?” Danny thought about telling his dad right away, “he’d never believe me, not in a million years, especially after last night.” Danny’s eyes followed the strange guy towards an alleyway, as the strange guy was beginning to leave Danny’s eyesight, he turned and looked Danny right in his eye. Danny trembled in fear, but the strange guy dashed through the alleyway. “What? He’s supernatural, he was the speed of light.” He felt like he was just learning chemistry again, “that thing was so fast, scary, and unthinkable to the human mind. It looked straight into my eyes; it felt like he was reading my soul. Did he bite that dog to death, I don’t understand, surly that shouldn’t be possible? No! All of this shouldn’t be possible! This is stark mad.” Danny was beginning to lose it, “I need get out of this nightmare now!!” His voice was raising, “someone help me? Please? Please?! Please?!” Danny fell to his knees, banging his head on the floor. Danny’s mind was beginning to crumble. “I have no one that loves me, cares for me, or will even save me. I have no one!” As he was suffering, he had a realisation, “wait, I have a hero.” Danny stood up, “I need to stop talking to myself, someone’s going to think I’m crazy! Who would of thunk.” He wiped his tears and proceeded to his hero.
The stairs creaked as Danny stepped on the first step, he began to run, after all, he was missing his mum. Danny hadn’t been away from his mum for long, but he was worried for her, he’d never seen his mum faint the way she did. As he walked down the stairs, he began to think about whether his mum is going to survive.
He thought about how she was as pale as the moon.
He thought about how hard she hit the ground.
He thought about the fact she was scolding him before fainting.
He thought the worst of them was when she said, “I am a queen.”
Danny reached the bottom step. He took a left and went towards the living room, expecting to see his mum in the playroom but as he looks in the playroom, he doesn’t see her to his surprise. He is shocked, “is mum awake?” as he steps into the playroom entrance, he sees his dad asleep in a chair, “so much for looking after mum.” Danny scoffs to himself. Danny walks out the playroom.
As he walks out the playroom, he is met with his large dining table; the dining table was used for family dinners, where their grandma would come round and cook her special cottage pie. The grandma would say, “the cottage pie is good for the blood, and we need the humans to have good blood.” Danny always thought his great grandma was weird when she talked about humans. He thought she didn’t consider herself as human. As Danny was standing in between the playroom’s door entrance and dining table with about 80cm of space between him.
He walked to his living room but as he did, he seen something in the corner. He is instantly uncomfortable and doesn’t want to turn around. Danny is sure it’s the strange guy who killed the dog. He sees his fate on a crystal ball.
A noise comes from the corner, Danny grows the courage to turn around and face his fate. As Danny turns around, he shouts, “mummy!!” Danny jumped for joy, but his mother was silent, not even a peep. His mother is standing in the corner of the room with her stomach against the wall, he is confused on why she’s not responding, “mum, are you awake?” he started to approach her but as he took a step, she growled like an animal is in her stomach. Danny stopped. He wonders why she was acting so weird; he’d never heard her growl before. He continued to walk towards her, but he was a little anxious of her, “mum, what are you doing?” As Danny spoke louder, her head tilts to the left. He gets within about 60cm next to her, he considers that she might be sleep walking, but he’d never seen or heard of her sleep walking before.
Bang! The mother slams her head on the wall, Danny quickly runs to her aid and puts his hand on her shoulder.