“Please just help me, I’m begging you?! Just open the door?” The stranger at the door seemed desperate, which made Elizbeth and Kiran feel uneased. However, Danny was certain that they needed to help the stranger out, Danny’s logic was if he’s desperate then he needs our help even more.

Kiran was undecided, “the safest option is to not let him in because he could anyone.”

Danny laughed, “you can’t be serious?”

“Both of you stop!” Elizbeth had had enough of them both and shouted, “right, we’re going to help him, we’d be teaching Danny a bad parenting lesson. And he seems like he needs help, so why not…?”

A bang at the door which stops Elizbeth from talking, “open the door now, it’s coming to me now, please, open the…”

Danny runs towards the front door.

“No son! Don’t open that door!”

Danny opens the door to let the stranger in and Danny feels solace as he lets the stranger in but as the stranger runs inside the house, the thing that was chasing him jumps on his back. The family see what it is before the stranger does, it looks pale, skinny as a vein, and with bright red eyes but humanoid looking.

Kiran screams, “get here now Danny, it’s not safe.” Danny doesn’t listen, he is in shock and can’t move. The pale attacker is sat on the strangers back as if it’s his resting place. As the stranger fights back, they both fall into Danny. Kiran runs to help his son.

Danny is in the bottom of an all pile on, the pale guy is on top of the stranger and the stranger is on top of Danny. The young boy freaks out and as he looks at his surroundings, he notices that the pale guy is trying to bite the stranger.

Elizbeth commanded, “Hurry, grab our son now, Kiran!”

Kiran wasn’t wasting no time as he ran towards the living room where the commotion was going on. He runs at full pace and fast for a big guy. As he reaches the pale guy, Kiran kicks them both, the speed that Kiran was going made them go flying, which freed Danny. Danny could move which was a relief for him and his dad. Kiran picked him up and ran for the other side of the room. “Take him Elizbeth, he might be hurt.”

Elizbeth grabbed Danny and held him in her arms like an angel. She noticed that Kiran was hovering back towards the living room, “don’t go anywhere near them, babe! Just let them kill each other.”

“I can’t do that, babe. Look, one of them is normal but that other one is freaky looking.” Kiran proceeded to help the stranger, “what the hell?”

The pale guy sunk his teeth into the stranger’s cranium, and it made a crunch sound which made Elizbeth throw up. The rotten, pale, and deranged face of the pale guy continued to bite the cranium; Kiran didn’t know what to do, he was in shock. As the pale guy stopped biting, the stranger shouted, “please, someone kill me?” As the stranger continued moaning, the pale guy grabbed the back of his head and smashed his face into the hardened floor. He continued smashing his head into the floor, while teeth were flying out of his mouth, piles of blood spilling out of his mouth, ears and eyes. The family was ice-bound, except for Kiran who grabs a broom and starts walking towards the pale man. As he was getting closer, the pale man sees Kiran coming towards him. The pale man takes one last bite out of the stranger and throws him to the side. He looks Kiran in the eye and screams so loud that he breaks a glass. Kiran is taken back but stands his ground. The pale man runs directly for Kiran. As the pale guy reaches Kiran, he attacks him with his long, sharp, and rotten fingernails. Kiran dodges the first slash but the second one comes quick and slices Kiran’s left leg. The pale man tries to stab Kiran in the eye, but he finally uses his broom to block the attack. He continues giving Kiran slashes on the arm, chest and the last one breaks the broom. Kiran freaks out but has no time to think because the pale man grabs him and throws him to the floor. Kiran tries to get back up but no luck, the pale man is in a mounted position on top of Kiran, He cannot move at all, so the pale man goes to bite Kiran.

The bite is heading towards Kiran’s neck, and as the pale man was getting closer, Elizbeth steps in and pushes the pale man just in time to save Kiran.

“Thanks, but find Danny and get out of here!” Elizbeth didn’t want to listen but knew he was right.

Kiran fought the pale man so Elizbeth and Danny could escape, he kicks it in the back to grab its attention and as he does, Kiran runs to the kitchen by jumping over the dining table, then jumps over the kitchen counter so he can grab a hammer from under the sink. He goes to grab the hammer from under the sink but as he does, the pale man grabs him and chucks him away from it, “you think a hammer is gonna beat me, ha-ha.”

Kiran’s face was in shock, “so you can talk then, what are you?”

The pale man didn’t even reply, he attacked Kiran immediately. he was pounding on Kiran’s face and with every hit came with more blood. The pale man chucked Kiran to the wall and spoke softly, “I wouldn’t want you to pass out yet, I’m about to entertain your wife, you certainly wouldn’t want to miss that, you cuck.” Kiran was too dazed to even reply to him but was conscious to what was going on. He started walking towards Elizbeth.

Elizbeth was looking for Danny in the playroom, but he wasn’t there. As she turned around and faced the door, the pale man was standing right behind her. He grabs her by the arms and chucks her out of the playroom and into the dining table. Elizbeth is shocked and it covers the pain of her bones crashing into the hard wooden table. She quickly gets up but as she does, the pale man is once again too swift for her. He places her on top of the dining table like a piece to a puzzle. Her back slams on it and she winces. Her neck vibrates within his palm. She looks for anything to help her but sees the stranger is dead as rat. She screams. Then she sees Kiran who is beaten to a pulp. The pale man readies himself to take a chunk out of her neck.

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“What the hell is going on, I need to get upstairs.” Danny is in terror. He cannot believe that a stranger is being attacked. As the pale man bites a chunk out of the stranger’s cranium, Danny runs upstairs. When he gets to his room, he figures that if their family is to survive this, they’ll need a weapon or something to fight off that thing. He opens his floorboard stash of chemistry goods, then grabs a few ping-pong balls. He grabs a screwdriver and puts a hole in the top of one of the ping-pong balls, once he has a hole, he cuts the remainder ping-pong balls into little pieces so he can put them into the hole of the ping-pong ball. The ping-pong ball was full of little pieces of the other ping-pong balls. So, Danny grabbed a pencil and some aluminium foil. He put the pencil into the hole of the ping-pong ball and wrapped aluminium foil around them both but he left a hole at the end so he could take the pencil out after. He gently removed the pencil out of the aluminium foil so there was a shape left of the pencil, Danny joked that the ping-pong smoke bomb looked like a penis. Danny heard a big bang downstairs but needed to find his lighter so he could light his ping-pong smoke bomb. As he seen the lighter was in his floorboard stash, he went to adventure downstairs.

As Danny was walking down the stairs, he seen his mum was on the dining table and the pale man was about to bite his mum. Danny didn’t even have time to get in decent range, so he grabbed his ping-pong smoke bomb and lighter. He had to light the bottom of the ping-pong ball for it to work properly. Danny lit the smoke bomb and threw it at the pale man.

As the smoke dispersed, Kiran grabbed the circular saw from outside the front door and began to walk towards the pale man and Elizbeth, but as he got in range, he couldn’t see anything through the heavy smoke. Kiran entered through the smoke. He could hear Elizbeth screaming which he hoped was a sign that the pale man hadn’t bitten her yet. As he got closer, Kiran saw a shadow and attacked it, “die! You fucking gremlin!!”

He used the circular saw to make an incision on the shadow figure, Kiran was reckless when swinging his circular saw around, it made him feel like he was finally helping. He swung the circular saw like a fist, but suddenly it broke, Kiran just hoped that last attack was effective.

As the smoke was fading, Kiran couldn’t hear see the shadow figure no longer, but he could no longer hear Elizbeth’s voice, Kiran’s mind was racing, he thought, “what if that shadow figure was Elizbeth?”

The smoke was completely gone, Danny could see that his mum was alright but as he looked at his dad, he seen the pale man was now behind his dad, “dad watch out!”

The pale man grabbed Kiran from behind and began choking him. Elizbeth was still on top of the dining table with her back still hurting from being slammed on table. She looks to see the pale man choking her husband but notices the wound on the pale man’s chest, it was gaping, a massive gash. Elizbeth seen the broken broom on the floor, broken but effective due to the end being spiky, she thought. She rose off the table like a fish out of water, as she made room to grab the doomy broom and ran towards the pale man so she could save her husband. As she was running towards the pale man, Kiran managed to escape the choke, the pale man was injured so it gives Elizbeth time to use the broom.

She was within a few centimetres of the pale man and as she got closer, she pulled the broom as back as she could and used her momentum to drive the sharpened broom into the pale man’s gash. The broom goes straight through his heart. Elizbeth is shocked it would have worked; she didn’t believe she had the strength. But as she looked up at the pale man, she heard his last grasp of air. She turned her head to her celebrating family.

“Are you okay mum?” Danny couldn’t believe she had it in her to kill someone.

Kiran walked towards Elizbeth and hugged her, “I’m proud of you, you did the right thing, it was him or us.” Kiran could see the shame she had for herself, but he didn’t want her to feel that way, she’d saved the family after all.

Elizbeth didn’t know how to feel but just wanted to embrace her family’s love. They all walked into the living room and sat as a family on the couch. Elizbeth felt relief when Kiran put his arm around her and pulled her closer towards him. Elizbeth looked at Kiran and spoke gently, “thank you for being considerate about the situation, I know I killed him but…”

Before she could even finish her sentence, “you don’t need to worry, like I said, it was him or us. He murdered that poor feller, so you have an enough of a reason.”

“You’re right I guess.” Elizbeth knew Kiran was right, but she felt bad for taking someone else’s life. But she wondered, wondered if that was a life.

Kiran looked at both corpses, they were laying as if nothing even happened, one innocent corpse and the other a devilish corpse. “What do we do with the bodies?” Kiran said like they’d just done a crime, “we can’t just leave them there, it will stink.”

Elizbeth couldn’t bury them; she just didn’t have the energy. “What about the shed?”

“I was thinking more of a burial.”

Danny quickly piped up with, “if you don’t want to help mum, I’ll help dad instead.”

Elizbeth demanded, “no you will not!”

Kiran interjected, “why not, he helped us take that thing down.”

“Because he’s our son and I don’t want my son to bury someone, yet alone someone I murdered.

Kiran and Danny piped down, “the shed sounds like a brilliant idea.”

As Kiran and Elizbeth went outside to take the bodies to the shed, Danny went upstairs to tidy and hide his chemistry stash. He arrived at his room and began to put his chemistry equipment away. He opens the floorboard up and puts his chemistry equipment back into his stash. Danny was just glad he’d survived the ordeal.

He walked towards his window, thinking that him and his dad could have died to the bats, never mind the crazy pale man who was biting people. As he stared out his window, he remembered the strange man who murdered the dog, Danny thought, all of it was weird and didn’t make sense. Until Danny remembered how the strange man killed the dog, “he used his teeth to kill that dog, shoot, I need to tell my mum.”

Elizbeth and Kiran were carrying the innocent body first, as they carried the body, Kiran said, “I do wish he knocked on another door, don’t you?”

“Yes! If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have killed anyone.”

Kiran understood her, “I get it but I’m glad you stepped up to the plate, like you always do, to be fair.” Kiran smiled at her but then he looked at the dead body and it remined him of this nightmare they are in.

Elizbeth looked at Kiran and spoke with serenity, “I’m just glad we’ve all made it, if anything happened to you or Danny… I just don’t know what I would do.”

“Babe, nothing will happen to me or Danny, I promise you.”

Elizbeth regained eye contact with Kiran, “I hope so, but I will say this; so much for breakfast.” They both laughed.