| INVISIBLE KILLER |
| A father, Henry Dean and his son, Jack, were driving down the highway in their jeep. Henry was in his 40's, had glasses, and was bald. His wife had died in a car accident three years before. Jack had blond hair down to his eyes and was 13. They were going to a remote camp ground that had lots of wooden cabins. They were going on a father-son vacation. "How much farther?" Jack asked. "Just another 15 minutes." Henry answered. "I'm hungry." "We can eat when we get there." Henry was getting upset with his son because he was asking the same questions every 10 minutes. Henry reached down and turned on the radio to listen to music. 15 minutes later, they came to a sign. It read, ‘Camp Blue Moon.' they turned at the sign and went onto a dirt road. "Are we almost there?" "Yes." "Good." They drove up to the main cabin. "Stay here." Henry told his son. He got out and knocked on the door of the cabin. A tall skinny man answered. "Hello?" Henry said, "Hi. I'm Henry Dean and that's my son, Jack." He pointed to the car. The man waved but Jack just gave him an evil look. The man said, "I'm Robert. Robert Sac. Let me guess. You want to rent a cabin?" "Yes. For three nights." "Aw yes. Follow me." Robert walked down the stairs and started to walk on the road. Henry went to his car and opened the door. "Common." He said to Jack. He got out and followed his dad. They caught up with Robert and he showed them a one floor cabin. "It has three bedrooms. A kitchen that is also a dining room. And the living room is the room you walk into from outside." "No bathroom?" Jack complained. "Sorry. The only bathrooms out here are the outhouses. There is one close to every cabin." "How much do I owe you?" Henry asked. "About 100 bucks a day." "I can afford that." "You'll also find an out door and in door swimming pool. Actually, the out door swimming pool is the lake. We have a gym, where you can basically play what you want. There is other staff here but you'll meet them as you go to the different places." "When do we pay?" "If you come back with me now and get your car, you can pay then and I'll give you the keys." "Ok." It was three hours later. Henry and Jack unpacked everything and parked the jeep. They were on their way to the lake. They had to follow a path through the woods. Two people were jogging by them. Some birds flew overhead. The sun was shinning brightly and they were both boiling. "Can't wait to get to the lake." Henry said. "I'm with you there, pops." They got down there and there were people sitting on the beach reading and talking. There were people out swimming and there were people out in boats. "Lets go!" Henry yelled. He ran and did a cannon ball into the water. Jack was going to go, but a girl his age walked up to him. "Hi. I'm Cindy Mac. What's your name?" she had long brown hair. She was short of tall. "I'm Jack Dean." "The life guard over there is my older brother, Aaron. You want to be friends?" "Sure." They sat on the beach and talked. From the water, Henry watched his son and laughed. Then he heard shouting and turned around. A person was just pulled under the water! Bubbles came up but then they stopped. Everyone started to scream. Aaron jumped from his life guard seat and ran and dove into the water, swimming franticly. "Everyone, out of the water!" everyone started to panic and swim back in. The people out in the boats saw what was happing and decided to row back. One of the boats went clear out of the water and landed upside down. The boat was crushed by some unseen force and the people who were in it were nowhere to be found. Aaron went under and saw a body! His chest had claw marks on it. The marks went deep into his chest and Aaron could tell he was dead. What could have done that? He thought. Then he decided to swim back. He grabbed the speaker and talked. "Everyone get your stuff and go back to the camp ground. No one is to go in the water until we find out what happened." there were a lot of moans. People started to walk back. "I'll meet you back at the cabin." Henry said to his son. "Sure thing." Henry walked back on the trail. Cindy said, "I know another trail. One that's not used very often." "Lets go!" they got up and went through some overgrown bushes and came to a trial that had weeds growing on it. "I don't know of anyone who uses this trail." Cindy said. "What killed those people?" Jack asked. "Who knows. Maybe an alligator. Maybe something else." They stopped and looked at each other. Then continued walking. The trail went into some woods. "How long is this trail?" Cindy answered. "Pretty long. But it splits off into two trails. One of them is shorter then the other." Then they walked into some thick woods that the sun barely shone through. "Look at that!" Cindy pointed out. Jack turned and looked. Among the trees was a man. Only he wore a gray cape and hood and they couldn't see his face. The man said with a raspy voice, "go no farther. Leave this camp ground and never return. If you do not leave, it'll mean death!" "What are you talking about?" Cindy asked. Jack could tell she was scarred. "He's just trying to scare us." Jack told her. They looked back up and the man was gone. "Where did he go? We only looked away for a second." Cindy started to panic. "The woods are thick." Jack said. "He could have easily gotten away." They walked back to the cabins. Cindy went to her cabin and Jack went to talk to his dad. They were eating lunch and Jack told his father about what they saw in the woods. "Very strange." He said. "Maybe this place is haunted!" "Dad. Stop it. If the guy was serious, then he's planning a murder." "Have you ever thought that maybe it was him who killed those people in the water?" "They were killed by an animal." Jack said. "What if he used a knife?" "You got a point." "Tell you what. Right after lunch, we'll go talk to Robert." "Ok." After lunch, they had talked to Robert. He agreed that it was too dangerous to keep the place opened to the public. He announced to all the campers that first thing tomorrow, they would have to leave. There were a lot of complaints but they agreed after they heard about the guy in the woods. That night, Jack was woken up cause a dog was barking just outside his cabin. He put on his jacket and opened the door quietly so he wouldn't wake his dad. "Shoo. Go on. Shoo." He through a rock at the dog and it ran into the woods. He turned around to go back inside but heard a noise behind him. The wind started to pick up. He turned back around and the guy from the woods was standing there. Jack jumped and felt like running. But instead he asked, "What do you want?" The guy replied with, "This is your last chance. Leave now or you will die!" "We'll leave first thing tomorrow morning." "Leave now!" the man shouted. Jack turned and ran back inside his cabin. He looked out the window and the wind was blowing some leaves around. The man wasn't there anymore. He climbed back in bed and fell asleep. In the morning, he woke and his dad had already loaded the jeep. "Common. Most of the people had already left." Henry said. "The only people left are us and the people who work here." "I saw him again last night." "Who?" "The man in the woods. He said that we had to leave last night. And if we didn't, we would die." "Lets get out of here fast!" "What got you so scarred?" Jack asked. "You didn't hear, did you?" "No, what?" "Three cabins were found with the people that were staying in them, in the cabins. Only they were dead. One had his head chopped off. The other had his chest ripped open. And so on and so on." "Are you kidding?" "I wish I was." "Man, lets leave." Then Jack paused. Were any of those people by the last name of Mac?" "Yeah. A girl about your age and her older brother, the life guard." "Oh no!" "What is it?" "Cindy. Cindy was the girl." "Was that who you were with yesterday?" "Yes." "Lets get out of here!" Jack and Henry rushed out to the jeep and buckled in. Henry tried to start it, but it wouldn't start. "Hang on." Henry said. He got out of the jeep and lifted the hood. "Man!" Jack could hear him shout. He slammed the hood back down and opened Jack's door. "Common." He said. "We've gotta hitch a ride with someone." "Why? What's wrong?" "Something ripped apart the engine. It's in shreds!" "No animal could do that." "I think it was done on purpose." They walked to Roberts cabin. As soon as they got there, he came out. "Can I get a ride with you guys?" he asked. "The engine in my car is ripped apart." "So's ours!" Henry exclaimed. Then Ronald, a young man with short black hair came up. He was the person who was in charge of the gym. "Ronald!" Robert said. "Let me guess. Your engine is ripped apart." "How did you know?" "Because the same happened to me and them." Ronald said. "Yeah. The same happened to Andrea." Andrea walked up the steps. She was 18 and ran the fitness program. She had long blond hair. "How do we get out? We can't walk. Too far." Andrea asked. "We'll stay here as long as we can." Robert suggested. "Listen here!" Henry shouted. "I have a kid. I'll stay one more night or until I think of a way out of here." He and Jack went back to their cabin. They sat around the table playing a game of cards. "Be right back. Have to use the bathroom." Jack said. "Be careful." Then Henry reached into his bag and pulled out a pistol. "Take this. Just in case." Jack took it. "Sure." He went outside to the outhouse. Jack was following the trail to the outhouse. The sky was a dark gray. The wind was moving the trees and bushes. One set of bushes started to move more then the rest. Jack listened carefully and he heard a low growl. He pointed the gun and fired three times. He then turned and ran as fast as he could to the outhouse. He heard something behind him. He got to the outhouse and turned. He still heard something chasing him but he couldn't see anything. He went inside and closed the door. Something outside rammed it and it shook. Jack raised the gun again and fired and fired. He knew he only had one shot left because pistols can only hold six bullets. It was clear he was missing whatever it was. The door started to splinter. Then it stopped. The toilet paper started to unravel by itself and float around the air. Jack opened the door and ran as fast as he could back to his cabin. He looked behind him and saw a wolf chase him. Only it was no ordinary wolf. He could see through it. As if it was a ghost! It chased him down the trail. Jack turned to fire but it wasn't there anymore. Then the wind picked up. But only around him. He turned and continued to run. He reached the cabin. He opened the door, slammed it shut, and locked it. He banged the pistol down on the table. "Reload it." He ordered his father. "What happened? I heard the gun shots." "There's something out there. And it aint human." They both looked out the window into the starless night. Henry reloaded the gun and gave an extra round to his son and also put an extra round on him. "We've gotta find the others." Jack said. "Not tonight. Tomorrow." They went into their rooms and went to sleep. Jack woke up to the sound of scratching. Lots of it. As if there were a hundred mice scratching. It was coming from outside and it was scratching on the wall. Jack looked out the window of his room, but saw nothing. The scratching got louder. He pushed the covers off and ran into his fathers' room. Henry was sitting up in bed cause the same was happing to his wall. "What is it?" Jack asked as he climbed onto the bed and knelt next to his dad. "I don't know. But there's something out there." "But I looked out the window and I didn't see anything." "Exactly." Jack was now confused. "What?" "It explains everything. The mysterious man in the woods. The dog barking. The invisible force chasing you, the wind picking up only around you, the wolf, these noises." "I don't get it." "It's a ghost. Or ghosts." "Now it all makes sense. I don't believe in them, but I do now." Then the window bursted outward and they both screamed. Now the scratching noises were coming from inside. Then they stopped. They both got up and went to get dressed. "We're getting out of here and now!" Henry said. They got dressed and were in the kitchen, looking out the window. "Good nothing. Lets go." Jack said. Then they heard a faint noise. It was like a garbled noise. They looked around and it got more high-pitched every second until it was unbearable. The windows blew up and Henry and Jack ran out the door. Henry reached into his jeep and pulled out his shotgun. He loaded it and brought all the extra rounds he had. He gave the pistol to his son. "Whare are we going? Jack asked. "First we're going to the gym. That's whare the remaining staff are." They walked there, their guns pointed at anything that moves. They slammed the door opened and slammed it closed again. Andrea came down the steps from upstairs and yelled, "Don't worry. It's only that guy and his son." The rest came down. "We're so glad that you're alive!" Robert said. "What's with the guns?" they all went upstairs and sat around the sleeping bags, while Henry and Jack told them everything. "But if these are ghosts, why do you have guns?" "I don't know." Henry said frustrated. "Just incase." "The main thing that gets me," Ronald said. "Is that this camp ground never had any history with ghosts or anything that would cause them. Sure, no one even died here until now." Andrea argued. "Well, did you do any research before you came here? Because I know I sure didn't." "I did." Robert said. "And Ronald is wrong. There is a brief history of ghosts here." They all fell silent and listened. "Only until now, they never tried to kill anyone. People reported strange sounds during the night. Strange people in the woods. Being visited by people they knew were dead. Only now we have to find why they got so violent." Ronald yelled, "I don't care why they're violent. I just want to get out of here." "I just don't know why there would be ghosts in the first place." Robert said ignoring Ronald. "There is no history of anyone dying here until now." "Maybe," Jack said. " Maybe This used to be an Indian burial ground. You know. Like that Amityville house." "This is different. These aren't indians." Henry said to his son. Then there was a loud boom and dust fell from the roof. Then it happened again and again. As if something big was walking on the roof. "It's back!" Andrea yelled. "Run!" Ronald shouted as he saw a big hand come down and swipe at the air where he was just standing. The hand went back up into the roof. He ran. "Come back!" Andrea shouted. But it was too late. Ronald had jumped down the stairs and was heading for the door. He pushed it open outward but a greater strength pushed it back in, sending him flying across the gym floor. The rest were running down the stairs to him when the stairs in front of them suddenly lifted off of the floor and went to the roof, blocking their way to him. "It won't let us get to him!" Henry told the others. They ran back up and looked over the ledge. "Look!" Ronald was standing up slowly, still shocked by the pain that ran through his body. All of a sudden, a person appeared before him. An adult female. She was see-through but only a little bit. "A ghost!" Jack shouted out. "What do you want?" Ronald asked the ghost. "I want your flesh!" then the ghost opened its mouth wide. Too wide for any human. Its mouth was filled with sharp teeth. "Ahhhhhh!" Ronald screamed. The mouth closed over the top half of his body. It started shaking him back and forth, until his waist and legs detached from his top half. The waist and legs went flying against the wall. The mouth went back to regular size and swallowed. The ghost looked up to the people on the balcony. Its eye's started to glow yellow. "You're next!" the ghost grew wings and flew up to them. Its wings disappeared and it was floating in midair. The ghost walked through the balcony ledge and came to their side. It opened its mouth wide and was about to eat Andrea. Henry raised the shotgun and fired. The bullet went through the ghost, but it did distract it. The mouth closed and the ghost just stood still. "You will all die!" it then disappeared. "Lets get out of here." Robert suggested. "Good idea." Andrea said as she looked at Ronalds' legs on the floor below. They went back to the stairs and they were back to normal. They went down and ran out of the gym. The wind picked up a lot and was making the air really cold. "What are we going to do?" Andrea asked. "We're going to find a way out." Robert said. They went out to the dirt road that left the camp ground. They looked ahead and the road was replaced by really thick trees. "We'll get lost for sure if we go in there!" Jack pointed out. "The kid's right" Robert said. "We'll have to stay and think of another way." They all went back to the main cabin. It was two floors with a storm shelter. Jack went up stairs to look around while the others stayed down stairs to talk. At the top of the stairs was a door. He went through and went into the upstairs hallway. He went into the first room and looked around. He saw dead bodies all over the place! Some were cut up, others were decapitated, and others were ripped apart. They suddenly came to life and walked toward him. He could see through them and so he knew that they were ghosts and not zombies. He closed the door and ran down the hallway. He looked back and they were walking through the door and wall! He ran around the corner and the door leading downstairs shut closed just before he was about to go down stairs. He looked around the corner again and saw that the ghosts had gone. He turned around again to open the door. It wouldn't open. He rammed it and it didn't even shake. "No use." He turned around and Cindy was looking at him. "Cindy. I thought you were dead!" then he looked more closely. He saw through her! He gasped. "Don't worry." She said. "I'm not here to hurt you. The others are. But I'm not." "What's going on? Why is all of this happening?" "Because," Cindy explained. "Hundreds of years ago, this woman named Selt Klein existed. She was an evil woman. She found her husband sleeping with someone else. She was furious so she of coarse murdered him. "But she didn't stop there. She also murdered the girl he had slept with. Then she murdered any close family to them. After all that, she brought them far into the woods and buried the bodies so no one would find them. She then went back and went about her everyday life. "A few years later, no one knows why, she murdered her family. Then she followed strangers home and would murder them. Then she would burry their bodies in the same place in the woods. "Then 30 years ago, some rich family built this camp ground. They mysteriously disappeared. Five years ago, some other people bought it and built more cabins. They then opened it to the public. They retired and just hire people to work here. "The ghosts of the dead people could cope with these new people and so never did anything to harm them. Just scare them. But then, the evil spirit of Selt Klien came. We don't know where she was all these years. But anyway, she came and possessed all the other ghosts, so they don't have control over themselves. But she does." "Why didn't she get you?" "She did. But a few hours ago, she concentrated a lot more power on another ghost and totally forgot me. I escaped and found you." "How do we stop her?" "I don't know." Then the wall formed a giant face and it opened its mouth. "Nooooo!" Cindy screamed. The face came partly out of the wall and devoured the ghost. It licked its lips afterward and blew. The wind sent Jack flying against the door. It opened and he went tumbling down the stairs. "What happened?" His father asked him, after they got him on a sofa. He told them the story that Cindy told him. And of what happened afterwards. "How awful!" Andrea exclaimed. "So no one knows how to stop this spirit? Great." Robert said. "Wait. Does anyone know how to fly a plane?" "I do." Henry said. "Why?" "Well, it's obvious we can't stop this ghost. And at first it seemed we couldn't escape. But I just remembered about the water plane." "We have a water plane?" Andrea asked. "Yeah." "Lets hope it still works." Henry said. They all got up and walked out of the cabin. The wind had picked up even more. Robert took the shotgun from Henry They were walking past some of the cabins. They heard a scream and turned. Just as they did, they saw a ghost flying low to the ground. Its face was like a skeletons. It's long hair, blowing behind it. The ghost was screaming as it flew. It flew at a tremendous speed. Robert cocked the shotgun and aimed. Too slow. The ghost had picked him up and was flying away. The people could see the ghost, eating Robert as it flew. "Hurry!" Andrea shouted. Andrea, Henry, and Jack ran past the cabins and came to a trail that went through the woods. They ran down the trail. They could hear something chase them, but when they turned nothing was there but they could still hear it. They ran faster and then the trail suddenly turned to water and they all fell in. They started to swim. "Go faster!" Andrea shouted. Then they saw the form of a ghost under the water. It was the ghost that Jack had seen in the woods. It still had its grey hood and cape. It was floating under the water. Then it looked up at them as they swam. It started to float up to them. It grabbed onto Andrea's leg and pulled her down. Jack and Henry turned and watched. The ghost was grabbing onto Andrea with one hand and it's other hand had just come out of a grey sleeve. Its finger nails were long and sharp. "Noooo!" Andrea screamed under water. The ghost dug its nails into her and pulled down. It pulled its nails out and Andrea's body floated down to the bottom. "Go!" Henry and Jack swam faster. The water all around them began to take a shape. The water in front of them was turned into the ghost. It swiped at them but they went under the water. It took off its grey hood. Underneath was a females' face. It had short hair and an evil look in its eye. The water ghost went back into the water. "It's Selt Klien!" Jack shouted. Then the water turned back to the trail. Henry and Jack stood up and ran. They could see the clearing. They ran out onto the beach and looked around. Off to the side and in the water was the plane! "He was right!" Jack shouted. Then one of the motors on one of the boats started up by it self and flew up into the air. "Oh no!" Henry said. The boat flew at them. It was going to hit Henry but he dropped to the ground and it went over his head. The boat turned around and went at him again. Jack reached into his pocket and took the gun out. He fired and fired and fired. He fired till he was out. The boat had a few holes in it but that was all. Jack reloaded it and fired again. The boat was still going for his dad. It wasn't going to stop until it killed him. "Just leave us alone!" Jack said through clutched teeth. He aimed very carefully and fired his last two shots. He hit the motor both times and the boat blew up. Henry jumped under into the water and went under. A minute later he resurfaced. They ran to the plane and jack got in the back seat. Henry was going to get in, but heard a noise behind him. He turned and there was an army of ghosts standing there. "We've got a problem!" he yelled up to his son. "I see it!" Jack shouted back. Then a familiar ghost appeared. It was the ghost of Robert! He walked up to Henry. Robert said, "congratulations. You freed us. Your son destroyed the evil spirit. The only way to destroy it was to wait for it to control a solid. Then destroy the solid. Now Selt Klien is destroyed and the other ghosts can rest." "I'm clad to hear that." "But I'm sorry to say that the other ghosts no longer want man coming here. If they do, We will kill them. Warn man." "I'll try. But I can't tell everyone. And barely anyone will listen." "Still try." Then all the ghosts disappeared. Henry hoped into the plane and started it. "Will dad, lets tell the world!" "Ok." The plane took off and flew across the lake and land. Back to the real world. THE END INVISIBLE KILLER JEFF LONG December 1999 |