The Darkness Within
Verse:
The darkness surpassed the light…
Devouring all the innocence inside me and
Allowing myself to be conquered,
With nothing left to do but to grieve with guilt and pain…
Why me? Why me?!
Why do I have to suffer all of this?!
-Record 1: Dark Clouds-
A young boy named “Paul” suffers in a rare mental disorder. He tends to speak abnormally, sometimes he speaks with a change of voice, slightly different from a normal boy’s voice tune. His father doesn’t care about him because he is not his real son and he thinks of Paul as a burden to their lives. His mother on the other hand always cared about him but suffers when her husband comes home late and drunk. She is usually heard weeping at night because of the bruises and the pain which she always endures for her son.
One night, the father came home late and drunk as always. He called her wife and she immediately went to her husband. Suddenly, he slapped his wife’s face and scolded her for raising a child who doesn’t really belong to him. The woman had enough of his cruelty and complaints; she pushed her husband to the ground and ran towards their room, locked the door and started packing her and her son’s luggage. The reckless father starts banging the door and he wants her to open the door. Fear started to flow over her body because her husband might kill them. The banging sound repeated for a while then it stopped. After a few minutes of silence, the man barged in through the room’s window with a knife in his hand. The woman was really scared, she tried to open the door but it seems that an object is trapping the door from the outside preventing her from escaping. The poor mother started running across the room until her husband caught her and stabbed her several times. The floor was flooded by blood. As soon as the man finished his gruesomely act, he dropped the knife and he sat on a chair as if nothing had happened and started drinking alcohol again.
His son approached him from behind and the boy said in a low creepy voice, “Daddy killed Mommy”.
Paul smiled and slit his father’s throat, slashing it drenched his father’s body heavily in blood as his life faded away.
Many things happened in that short period of time. As the moonlight shines the room, Paul can be seen holding and hugging his mother’s lifeless body, smiling and swaying back and forth while singing a “Happy Birthday” for himself.
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-Record 2: Kindled Soul-
There was this story in 1956 which everyone is familiar with. It is a tale about a mother who killed her sick little son in their bedroom. Her husband left them because they had no money so she is desperate on how to get money.
One late night, because of the intense depression and loss of hope, she drugged her son and put him into a stroke. The mother went to the garage and took a can of gasoline, she placed a funnel on her son’s mouth and poured the gasoline until its empty. She then lit a matchstick and dropped it in the boy’s mouth.
The horror of fire burning the little one’s innards and he can’t do anything since he is bed-ridden, watching and staring at his mother whom he loved and trusted the most leaving him behind to ashes.
Later on, as times passed by, the burned property was recreated and houses were built on it. Every night at exactly 3:06am where the boy was ignited in flames, according to the residents, there will be a boy whose body is burned would appear lying beside them on their bed, staring and watching them angrily like what he did after he saw his mother leaving him behind.
And every night, the room would smell gasoline and it would also smell like something or someone is burning.
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-Record 3: Dire Magic-
“She is the Puppeteer!” This is what they call Cassidy (16) because of the dark nature enveloping her past.
Cassidy since the age of six was treated harshly almost her entire life because of her family’s bad reputation that they are witches who brought misfortune to people.
On the night of the cleansing, the villagers dragged her mother on the outskirts to be burned at the stake. Meanwhile, she was sent to a house where she saw her beheaded father by the guillotine stand. The village elder decided to behead the child as well. Being alone in the corner, Cassidy didn’t give much of a reaction about what happened, she just stayed silent when suddenly the lights went off. Everybody panics and screams, the doors and windows shut and the surroundings became oddly quiet.
The elder started shouting, “Where is everyone?! Turn the lights on!”
Soon after the darkness creeps through the night, he heard the child’s voice and started telling him a cryptic tale about her family.
She began, “We moved here because of what happened back then in another village.”
A year ago at their previous place, despite being witches they lived a happy life away from others, away from all troubles. They roam the lands freely like any normal person would do. But an incident took place, someone or somebody knew that they are witches and began to spread rumors about them. The people actually believed these rumors because of the deaths occurring within their premises.
Evening came and a loud bang on the door surprised the family. When mother opened it, she saw her son (Cassidy’s older brother) lying on the porch and appeared to be strangled with a note nailed to the body saying, “Leave this place or suffer the same faith like your kin!”
Mother was gravely furious and she began her revenge. She went to a room full of hexing paraphernalia. Their lineage uses strings for witchcraft. She then ties a lot of strings from the wall to a chair. She cuts one, a person dies, and she cuts two, a pair of people die. Thinking of her son, she cut all the strings which resulted to everyone’s death. Then they hurriedly left the place to escape but the rumors sure spreads fast until other people started noticing them and rejecting them into their society.
Cassidy continued, “I thought being here was different but it was not. You are all sinful like us! Do you think treating us this way will wash off the sins you are carrying?! You are all fools!”
The elder answered, “You witch! You will burn in hell!”
She responded, “I am no witch, I am the devil.”
The lights went back and the elder saw a very horrifying sight around him.
Everyone is impaled with strings by the eyes, the head, almost every part was, bodies are dripping with blood, others are dead and the others are still breathing.
The elder started running away while screaming. Strings ensnare his feet then coils around his body pressing him unto the soil. The pressure from the strings busted him into pieces. Cassidy smiled and gave off a devilishly laugh like she owned everyone else’s lives.
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-Record 4: Red Letter Day-
Every year on the 7th autumn day of November at exactly 4:40 in the afternoon, red dandelion seeds can be seen gliding around “Day Town”, this event is well known as “Day’s Freedom” which is very popular for its remarkable history.
History 1955:
Dr. Isaac Burrow was the founder of “Day Asylum”. It is an asylum which specializes in caring for the mentally-ill children. At that time, he had a daughter who would usually play around the area. One day while the doctor is away, his daughter was accused as one of the patients, so the nurses injected her with several dosage of sleeping drugs. Being a weak child who suffered from a heart disorder, her heart stopped beating because her body can’t resist the drugs resulting to death.
Not long after, the doctor came back and noticed that his daughter can be seen nowhere, he tried calling her name but to no avail. Frightened, he checked all the rooms and there he found her in the morgue lying pale on a cold steel table. He cried out loud and thus became desperate to revive his child at all costs.
The next day, he dismissed all of his people and locked himself inside with the rest of the children. Several tests were done, he killed each one of the children and took their hearts out to replace his poor daughter’s fragile heart. The dead bodies were buried behind the asylum. Unfortunately, none of his experiments actually worked, it drove him crazy and eventually, he hung himself above his daughter’s lifeless body.
Year 1955, 5th of November:
They found the doctor and his daughter’s bodies but the residents are not sure about the other children’s whereabouts.
History 1957:
2 years have passed, a child’s body was accidentally found. A boy with his dog were walking down the street where the asylum is located, the canine started barking and ran behind the facility. He followed his little friend and entered a garden of red dandelions. The dog started digging a hole on the ground and there they saw a skull. The boy scarily told the police what they found but the police were confused of his statement about red dandelions because there are no such things like it growing in town. Upon listening to the story, they quickly went to the location and searched the area where the bone was and saw several remains that they believed were the children of “Day Asylum”.
Year 1957, 7th of November:
4:40 in the afternoon when the skeletal bodies were found, they reburied them since the children have no relatives according to the asylum’s old records. They gathered all the residents and gave their condolences. At that very moment, the wind blew hard and the red dandelions scattered seeds, swaying through the air all over the town. It is said that the flowers became like that because the roots sipped a bloody soil but in reality the cause is uncertain.
Stories spread that every year on the 7th day of November, the children’s spirits reminisce the moment they were found by the scattered dandelion seeds. And at the same day, the people of “Day Town” would hear children giggling like they are having fun and it seems they are happy that they received the freedom they wanted in the garden behind “Day Asylum”.
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-Record 5: Winter Lights-
Snow falls above the twins’ home, siblings Matthew and Madison both 17 years old are unique for having white hair and accentuated by their blue eyes resembling the cold winter but there is one more thing that is special about them, it’s the fact that they can sense and see visions of an impending death.
Ever since that accident 12 years ago on a wintery night while returning home by car from holiday shopping with their mom and dad, another car collided with them which sent their car toppling over the road. The family survived the crash but when they found the twins, their hairs were covered by an unusual white dye and ever since then they were known as the survivors through a miraculous result of an unexplainable phenomena.
A decade has passed and now, people would talk about their past, some would be amazed yet some would be scared by them but the siblings were able to live a somewhat happy life despite the attention given to them thanks to their loving and understanding parents.
The thing that makes the twins different is that they know when death will occur, it was frightening at first but as time passed, it became a normal part of their lives. They describe seeing a light aura surrounding a living thing’s body indicating that they are running out of time and when it radiates, it means that the time has come for them. Through their eyes, they have seen grown plants perish and animals or persons dying of old age or sickness. But little did they know their ability will be realized as a gift for saving lives.
Christmas Eve, while father drives through the night, news came in the radio stating that a killer is on the loose and was last seen in an area near where the family lives. Their father did not let the news finish, he quickly turned the radio off as he was terrified at the thought of murder on Christmas. His wife beside him told him that he should calm down and to just focus on driving in which he complied.
Upon returning home, they saw a hideous looking snowman on their neighbor’s yard which gave them the creeps but they quickly brushed the thought aside and immediately entered the house. Feeling exhausted, they said their goodnights, went to their respective rooms and prepared to sleep.
Loud banging woke them up in the middle of the night. Madison was the first one to exit her room, followed by her mother and father, she noticed that her father is emitting light, as her father walked towards the door, the light began radiating and she saw a vision of what will happen. Madison was about to tell her father when Matthew shouted at the visitor to stop hiding and to identify themselves to no avail at the back door. Mother was confused of how her son thought someone is hiding there so she asked him. Matthew saw light behind the door but before he can answer, an explosion at the porch startled them and when they looked there, they saw father’s blown up body. It turned out that when he opened the door, it ignited something outside which caused the explosion. Mother was terrified at what happened but more than that, the sight of her husband’s head rolling towards her made her even more scared and she began to lose her consciousness.
After a few seconds, the back door busted open revealing a man holding a knife, inches away from young Matthew, the trespasser stabbed him multiple times leading to his death.
Tears streaming down her face, Madison called out to her lifeless twin brother Matthew. She kneeled on the cold wooden floor pleading for her life, the murderer is now approaching her with the bloody hands that killed her brother. Madison knew it was the end, the man now standing in front of her uttered one last phrase, “Merry Christmas”, before everything went black.
Rewinding all of the events that transpired to after the explosion, the trespasser busted in the house but to his surprise, he was blasted away outside the house. From his view, he saw the twins’ father walking towards him with a shotgun on his hands. Father tied him to make sure that the man will not go anywhere while his wife calls the police. This was the vision Matthew had earlier when he saw the light, the fate of the murderer, his father just made sure to not kill him so that he can be handed over to custody. And Madison was able to tell the family about what will happen, preventing the same outcome she saw in her vision.
Few minutes later, the police arrived and arrested the bleeding man and upon inspecting the area, they saw a body buried inside the snowman they saw earlier. It was analyzed that the body belongs to their neighbor who died from multiple stabs.
It was a long night indeed, the family decided to stay at a nearby motel until they move to a new home. It was still holiday so they happily greeted each other a Merry Christmas before they drove away from the horrid place.
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