A world not meant to collide

Log 1 october 1st 2000 - noelle as i make this on my page the more it hurts

Today everything went so wrong. I remember sketching the tracks before everything happened. Not really well but still...

There was a race today it was Staring hot shot! he was such a killer on race tracks too. These show race cars were so cool. until they weren't his blue number 23 burned into the start of his electric blue car! his tires and pushing toward his twelfth consecutive victory. his new record. That speedway bleachers shuddered beneath thousands of stomping sneakers People yelling his chant loud excited in the stadium “go hotshot burn those tracks” but something made the tires rip and shred a black smoke pouring out and Hot Shot’s frantic screams as he tried to get out with violent shudder ripped through the rear axle, the shredding the tires into tatters of black rubber with it sending the vehicle into a lethal, tumbling spin. it was so out of control. Even as the car flipped slamming onto its roof as the bottom combusted a deep blue flames eating at the metal of the car, the racer was trapped. those other cars went to them tired to help. It was far too late .the blistering heat forced them back. boiling blood smeared against the inside of the. thick and dark as it boiled out his body like a warning, and splattered on the window. people were screaming. We all knew he was being cooked in that death trap his yelling long gone and running out the track, all iclung to Kate, digging her fingers into her sweater as she had to grab me from keeping me from falling off part of the stadium thing we were in my foot, almost slipping off before I grabbed her. She kept me from falling into those flames as. Klye running with a camcorder and maya with him. Kate, me and atkins following soon after as the fire was distorting everything it bites. The wind helped the flames travel and the racers had to leave a friend or burn with him. And looking at the camera it recorded it, everything that happened. My hands felt cold watching it shaking even Later with the others we, huddled around the flickering glow of a video they replayed the tape.. the tape caught something else stuck out when the car went in flames As the car exploded, a strange amber shape fled from the burning wreckage, moving with unnatural speed before vanishing into the tree line. Now, none of us can sleep.. Now withThe site buried in my head and the others aren’t much better, Klye doesn’t want to be in cars. Maya cannot look at the blue cars or winced at any sound resembling crackling fire. Maya even flinched at the click of my Zippo lighter. Kate is still hugging me. I was the closes to the flames that started eat the race track if she didn’t grab me i would have burned with him maybe her deep care for me is why i love her. And when I put this on paper, mark crying under my bed. Alison tried to help it. with Atkins held his hand. Alison she doesn’t know what we saw But school kids will were scared… thinking what if it happened to them. And hotshot was gone, His poor wife being alone now. We’re going to his memorial. But i know Something died on that track today, but with it something else crawled out. Noelle out (log 1 ended)

Next moring

At school everyone was on edge some kids weren't there the score's vaguely empty, but there was still quite a few kids there. Because their parents didn't think they would need to be pulled out of school. But still the building smolded weirdly gross to all of us honestly. It kind of just burned your nostrils over time. and even two getting to class, if it felt like there's a backbreaking pressure over us. our group was going though the day as suffocating chill hung over the hallways with us. It's like the school got grosser, somehow, even though it was already bad with how it was living in a strangely suburban city was already strange enough. So, having it feel so gross was even worse since this school was supposed to be considered. One of the best ones in the area, at least kind of good, not the best teachers but still us and Kyle was in english with noelle as our instructor droned on about the situation about how that was open resources from the counselors. Even though we knew that was bowl, crap, it always was the counsellors, never helped in any way if anything.

If we asked for help, we'd go to a psych ward... That's what happened to malicia, conway, at least.... We don't know why they sent her. We just know that it happened. And none of us wanted to happen to us. And even when he finally got onto our english lesson of the day, we didn't really learn anything special, just the bare bone basics again. And had to write a chapter about something but that mixture of stagnant rot, damp soil, and decayed meat slowly claim every hall climbing through vents and just tearing through anything that was soft enough to just bleed through that smell got even worse throughout the day. Until we had to sit there until 11:10 to as it finally blood into the classroom in a first to actually smell it.

leaving for lunch was even worse the lunchroom just smelled there was a infestation of mold and rot and we looked around… everything looked finding nothing. Even maya smelled it and gagged when it hit her eyes getting wet from it being too strong. And Danny walking in choked and ran off for the bathroom and we heard maya "Go hold his hair!" she whisper yelled at Kyle, who scrambled after him the rubber soles of his Vans squeaking against the dirty linoleum,

until they were both in the boy's bathroom klye holding back Danny's long hair while he violently threw up over a stall But that smell was getting to all of us. Maya even got a chair and went to the girls bathroom and stepped on the chair noelle followed to hold it for her even Kate stepped onto the chair right behind her to hold it steady with me, both of them craning their necks to look at the old tiles above And Maya jammed her thumbs under the dusty tile and shoved it up.hands dragging to push open a molded ceiling panel as she went to the dark, her head going into the ceiling as the smell punched me in the face but they couldn’t see a thing in that darkness when maya called out to noelle “Sweet lord it smells horrible up here! “ maya and kate could barely breathe almost gagging when she tried to say anything when my head was up there. Like A cloud of icy, foul air punched their lungs when they breathed it in.

it smelled like an open grave and hearing Noel talk I could hardly hear noelle as she spoke dry, exhausted “ oh really? I can smell it coming down here, so I think we found the source." maya would swear noelle sounded sarcastic when she spoke kat staying quiet to not puke, as maya came down. It hit her as… maya’s head hit the flood, her knees gave out, sending maya crashing down onto the linoleum floor. and Noelle grabbed me and held maya’s head in her lap kate froze, maya in her last point of vision seeing noelle before going black. maya could hear Noelle yelling for the others “KYLE?? MAYA?? DANNY??ATKINS!!!!! SOMEONE!!! “ her voice being what maya hopped dearly was not my last comfort. Before those foot steps came pounding though what maya hopped was the door as the others came to us that foul rotting smell didn’t matter when maya was down and couldn’t see a single thing out my own eyes. And the rough rubbing across maya’s face and a wet like slick tar.

feel over her eyes as maya could finally see, noelle and danny sliding to his knees to help rubbed a black thick sludge off my face "What is this stuff?" Danny whispered, shuddering as he wiped his stained fingers on his old blue jeans as that dark liquid started staining them slowly. All maya knew was it was something she never wanted to feel again that cool and oily to the touch before maya could think longer with kate hugging her so fast it hurt maya’s ribs.

Even noelle hugged maya danny joining soon with kyle.atkins getting the paper towel to wipe her face It scared all of us before kyle got on the chair checking with a Maglite flash light from his bag. Stepping on this chair Kyle went up looking in to the ceiling and that smelling hitting him as Kyle looked with his light, his head echoing “where is that smell” maya’s mind echoed on as The beam sliced through clouds of suspended dust and dusty pipes, settling on a wet, dark mass glistening in the shadows.

just as a pair of amber eyes reflected the light …a mass nestled in the joists back at kyle. Watch Kyle leaping backward off the chair and hitting the floor leaving the ceiling panel wide open above them. "Kyle what the hell was that" noelle shot that out so fast that he could barely even catch what she said, hell, the others were looking at him too. He looked horrifyingly shocked his dark eyes, just reflecting the light that was watching his hands. Now on the floor that's under the metal cracking against the floor was loud part of the flashlight actually broke.

Luckily, not the glass so noelle could just carefully climb up that channel, before realizing, she was too short to actually see up there. Someone would have to pick her up to actually be able to make her head go over the top and kate just gently picked up wolf sips and just left it her up. So she could actually see in there. She used kyle's flashlight to actually look around and there it was still looking. long, segmented metal limbs that end in wicked, three-pronged exhaust-pipe claws.

Making a wet wheezing sound like it was a burnt out engine and exposed black cables and glowing red vacuum tubes that hum its appearance kind of pixelated, like it wasn't from here, or even remotely close to what it was supposed to look like here. And it kind of sounded like. like an old eight bit computer game..."data collection"..." data collection" lens-eye zoomed with a sharp, high-pitched whir-click, precisely like a camera lens auto-focusing.though Kate immediately repositioned herself to lock her arms around Noelle's waist, but they didn't make a single sound as she just stared at it. Noelle didn't know what to do. She just stared at it, her breathing being dead quiet. That thing wasn't hiding from them. It was watching them before it just started droning on that soft. Hum suddenly like an old game still as it just clicked against the tiles, not falling through.

But just forensically tapping things as it targeted closer so quickly.Noelle backed down immediately, dropping back onto the linoleum floor as Kate heard those noises. She just immediately yanked back down wolf yanked her back into a fierce, protective embrace kat not letting her go and just keeping her as close to her chest as possible, asked both of them looked up and so did the others. That thing was looking down at them but kat's eyes scanned Noelle’s face for injury or exposure to that vile stuff before looking back at the creature that familiar dial tone starting to echo, it was like kate's old phone. "It didn't just look at me, Kate. It recognized me." In the wall's eyes just trace back up before maya, just wobbled back up and just slammed that plate back down that panel slightly cracking down the center. But maya just forced it back in place before just all of them going out back into the lunchroom and down the hall to get out of the building for a second.

the cold air biting at their arms as they looked at each other atkins hitting the floor and mark coming right behind them after hearing what happened. They got there really fast, which is what helped

But taking a deep breath after And slowly walking through the halls for a second, it just helped ease this all before going back into there. Just thinking it was just basically carving to the back of our heads like a reverse lobotomy as we all just had to think That couldn't possibly be the thing that they saw before. It couldn't right the other thing was an ember, a blue deep ember. That thing looked like the burnt race car That the everything about it. Looked wrong!

It wasn't supposed to look or be there and all I could do is just look between each other. Was this a threat again? Was this another thing gonna cause harm? At some point. But before they could even finish that thought a putrid smell, a gas leak it was natural gas mercaptan combined with burning oil, forced through the ventilation system as something- better yet that creature was the thing that probably ruptured main lines, that could be the only thing that could describe that smell in hearing a burst as part of the building, went up in flames, kids screaming and running out of there as fast as they as they could.

Everyone Didn't care about the protocols. All they could do was just get out of there. Get out of that building as it just slowly burnt. Light burning everything in sight, anything it could just grip ontot, no one even got the time to process what was happening as they just had to go bolting Away from the school building it tasted like raw methane and sulfur, so thick it coated the back of everybodys throat And the group just quietly gathering underneath some of the bleachers hoping the air didn't carry it over there as they all sat by the football field that was a lot farther from the building, just watching their high school, burn a bright orange flame, a shadow looming over everything. But they caught a glimpse of something patch of deep, charcoal-black fur that seems to be smoldering at the tips a beast wreathed in roaring flames.leaving a trail of ash and melted asphalt. But inside the building was a lot more horrifying, the last one in there was actually alison.

She never heard the memo of what happened in the bathroom, but she was still inside science class. She got had to see that firsthand in end of recording it a lot on her phone wave of blistering, dry heat began radiating directly through the science walls, alison needed to go bolting through the hallways and when she saw it, it was on top of the pipe system. One of the ones that led to the main boiler room The heavy iron pipe didn't just crack...it melted into a hot iron goo, that just burned through more things as it dripped down before that thing just shook its thick fire like fur, with the bass-heavy shockwave rattled the entire building. Down the hallway, classroom doors blew outward on their hinges as a wave of blue and amber fire ripped through.

Before the ceiling surge coming down and allison just barely got out through one of the exit doors that she wasn't supposed to go through. But that thing still watched her before escaping the building, leaving it in ruins creature moved with a chilling, fluid grace the a massive, quadrupedal shadow shrouded entirely in a mane of roaring, liquid white fire.

Unlike a ordinary flame, the fire clinging to its feline frame dripped like molten glass, leaving glowing elegant like look, but it wasn't as pretty as it looked. It was oh, so terrifying for those poor kids, alison and managed to get to the rest of the group. And was hugged by them. But no, all she could do was just stare at it as there tufted ears twitched at the sound of distant sirens and you can slowly start to see lights as the fire station tried to get here, but maybe it was just too late. Half the school was already ash. And it was spreading faster than anyone could have thought.

With its glowing amber eyes scanning the chaotic scene below with cold detachment. this was something that knew what it was doing... This was the warning... Before Alison was able to go bolting out of the building, just running as taste as she could. Weaving and dodging through hallways that had stuff slowly collapsing through them as the structure became unstable in the high school building. All we could do is just wait for her to come running out and hope that she was okay. She had to be okay, we couldn't lose Allison. None of us wanted that all we could do was just wait quietly, some of us even crying. Just hoping. Evem Kate sat pressed tightly against Noelle, her knuckles white where she gripped Noelle's jacket. Her breathing was ragged allison didn't matter when noelle was there."Did... did everyone get out?" Danny asked, his voice barely a whisper, hoarse from inhaling smoke. He was sitting on the cold dirt, staring blankly his hands still nasty from the bathroom sludge. "I saw kids running toward the street," Kyle said. He was crouching near the edge of the bleachers, clutching his camcorder but his voice sound like it went through gravel and got dug out from a dry riverbed but we saw a better view of it as it ran away from the building, looking back at us.

(A sketch from noelle seemingly depicting the fire cat in a rough sketch of their building burning)

."You saw how it moved. It didn't panic. It waited until the gas was thick enough, and then it lit it." kyle's eyes never left the building when he spoke again, his voice sounding more and more raw "Why would a thing like that do that?!" Maya wiped her nose with the back of her sleeve, leaving a dark smudge across her cheek. "It left a trail," Atkins said softly, pointing toward the edge of the parking lot.Even from a distance, they could see it.

Where the creature’s paws had hit the ground, the asphalt was literally glowing the deep, smoking craters melted into the pavement...kate just had to scoff at it " oh, yeah, obviously it left a trail in allison, barely got out with her skin on her body!" It was scary for all of us. That was incredibly obvious, but we still had that feeling of being watched by something we couldn't tell where. But eventually we just saw stuff, and found stuff on the ground, Each of us grabbing what we found first, what we could tell was they were cards. Before we just had to run home... We turn a different one.

We didn't know what they were, but they looked like. Digimon card, honestly? They looked like vintage Digimon cards, but the art was entirely wrong. Each bore unique, unsettling designs, strange numeric stats, and unfamiliar symbols.... just weird characters, none of us got ones that looked remotely similar all distinctly unique with strange stats and symbols on them. Out of the wet grasp of us found them others on the pavement, and others found them on the bleachers. It 's like we were the only ones that found them, but they definitely looked a bit old but they looked like they were in really good condition, and as we had to go home, just slowly walking, looking at each other's cards. And trying to figure out what was going on, what were these? What were they doing here? Even in judging each other on what cards we got each one in our hands as in our opinion we thought Noelle's look the strangest... It was like if you can bind a dragon and a dog together. It looked wrong, it had no arms. Just a very fluffy body with two little back legs and a pitch black face with two white eyes. But so fluffy deceivingly cute and ugly but we can say kyles was objectively the ugliest. It looked like a literal pile of sludge that turned into a cat. Sucks to suck I guess.

Night

All of us got back.

We were just scattered around Noelle's room. We didn 't know what to do. We just had to sit there in her cold room. Her TV just blistering on occasionally. When it just glitched out none of us knew what to do. But we knew one thing, it happened again.klye set his camcorder on Noelle's nightstand.

He looked down at his hands; they were still stained with black soot. "If we tell the police or our parents that a flaming beast crawled out of the ceiling and lit the gas lines... they’ll think we’re in shock. Or worse." But kat snaped "We know what we saw, Kyle," Kat said hashly, her hand reaching out to wrap firmly around Noelle’s fingers. Her grip was cold and tight. "Noelle was right up in the tiles with it. It looked right at her." And all noelle could you wish us nod, not harshly? But just softly her eyes looked tired and her hands looked bruised."It’s not gone," Noelle whispered, her flat, quiet voice chilling the room more than the autumn breeze outside. "It didn't run away because it was scared of the fire"..." we all knew what it did. We all knew what it was there. For it was warning us, it was doing something, but I don't know what"...noelle leaned on kat... Everyone can feel it. It felt hard in their chest. It's like they all swallowed a bunch of rocks just sitting there together, not knowing what to do continuously looking out the window, and getting another sleepless night. They couldn't keep doing this. They didn't know what was gonna happen or who was gonna happen? What else would get destroyed? What even was that thing? What was the other thing? What was that ember? What was that monster? What was that giant cat of flame...

What is going on with this world. Was this world ever right until this day? Did we just never notice what was happening until now... What do we truly do in a place like this? What would you do in a place like this?. We all know we can't stand like this. We didn 't even get to see the memorial before everything went down in flames. Now we just had to be stuck in this house. Hoping that it doesn 't get burned down with everything else.

All of us are scared, but maybe that's what it wanted. And as the sun slowly set all of us could just lay down, that's all we could do. We couldn't do another all nighter; One already caused enough stress on our bodies. But it makes all of us feel sick. Knowing what could have happened? What could have happened to Alison? If that thing didn't have mercy, why? Why did we have to deal with this? What did we do. But maybe it wasn't us, maybe one day we can track it down or maybe we could even beat it, but this world was never gonna be normal again.

Nothing will ever be normal again. everyone could acknowledge that... We didn't even know what to do with the cards. None of us did. We just kept it with us... Just these distant cards in our hands, as we slowly just fell asleep. The night feeling colder than it ever did before. Like you were being watched even with the window closed in it. Heater on it never changed.

Noelle couldn't even sleep without holding into kate's arm. But you could guess that's what happens when you get scared enough. Even then you can still feel that pain cracking through your body.we will get to the bottom of this maybe all of our souls are corrupt, and we just don't know yet whatever someone did. We're the ones dealing with it