Dread

"Cut. I think we need a new monster design. This one doesn’t fit with the ‘monster invades the city’ plot. Go find a new costume, James." said the film's director to the cameraman.As James, the cameraman, was moving the camera to go find a new costume, he fell. Tripping over a wire, he expected to look up to see the crew laughing at him for falling for the third time. But what he saw was not what he expected. He saw yellow walls, and heard the hum of lights. And he could not foresee the insanity that would occur in The Backrooms.
=THE BACKROOMS=
Upon getting up, he saw that there was a hallway leading out of the room. He decided to go through the hallway. 
"Hello?" he said as he walked down the hallway. "Guys, I don’t know how you pulled another prank on me, but this isn’t funny!" He said it foolishly, not expecting the horrors this place withholds. Walking through the mono-yellow halls, he found a door. He opened it, and it led to a new hallway with white walls and wood flooring. After he entered the hallway, he walked down the hallway, which led to a door at the end. He opened the door, and it led to a room with green wallpaper, four ceiling fans, black carpet, and a lot of doors. 
He opened a door and saw a hallway with the same wallpaper, lined with vending machines. 
"Help"! "Can anybody hear us?" He heard from down the hallway. 
"Don’t worry, I'm going to help." He said this, not knowing it was a mistake.
==THE FALSE HUMAN==
"Please! Help us!" The "person" said. As he got to the end of the hall, he saw it. A gray humanoid figure. It made a high pitched scream, echoing through the halls. "What is that?" It started running. He started running. As he got to the room of doors, he frantically looked around, trying every door, hoping for an exit. As the screams got closer, a door opened.
==THE INFINITE NEIGHBORHOOD==
The door led him to what appeared to be another labyrinth— a complex of residential homes, stop signs, street lights, roads, and sidewalks. "Please tell me I’m still recording." He said this because he couldn't understand what had happened to him in this maze of areas. As he walked through the labyrinth of residential homes, he saw strange ones such as upside down homes, homes stacked on top of each other, homes with inverted colors, and even just plain rooms with missing walls. 
Wandering through this infinite suburbia, he wondered if he was dreaming. After hours of walking, he got a call on his phone. It was Bob, the director of the film. "James!" "Where in the world are you?" Exclaimed Bob. "Listen, Bob, I know you won’t believe any of this, but I think I got kidnapped." Said James. "Tell me more." "You know how I fell all over that equipment?" "Yeah, why?" "After that, I looked up and saw this room with yellow wallpaper, moist carpet, and li-" Bob cut him off. "I know where you are. I thought that story was fake. You fell into The Backrooms. You aren’t safe, James. You need to escape now." He said "now" in a deeper tone than the rest of the sentence. As he hung up the phone, he looked behind him and saw a dark void moving towards him. 
He started to run. He saw that one of the homes had an open door. He looked inside and saw a presumably infinite bridge with green mist covering it.
==THE GREEN MIST==
As he walked through the door, he looked at his surroundings, seeing an infinite bridge with green mist covering it. He walked towards a vehicle he saw, specifically a Chevrolet Bel-Air, his favorite car. 
"This thing better start," he said, putting the key he saw on the seat into the ignition. It didn’t start. He checked the trunk, and saw a bottle of Almond Water, a box of Oreos, and a container of gasoline. He fueled up the car, grabbed the snacks, and got inside. He took a drink of the Almond Water, and had an Oreo before he started the car. "It's been a while since I’ve heard one of these," he thought to himself. "The last time I was in one was when my dad took me for a final drive before he sold his."
Nostalgia. He drove for a while, and then he stopped the car after he saw a hole in the ground. He got out, grabbed the supplies, and, without thinking, he jumped down.
==TRAMPOLINE PARK==
He fell onto a trampoline, bouncing up into the air. Once he landed, he looked at his surroundings. He was lucky that he fell onto the trampoline and not onto some concrete flooring. He jumped on the trampoline for a few seconds, then started walking around the level. He saw a group of people in a circle. "Hello?" They turned toward him. 
He saw that they all had the same symbol painted on their foreheads. An eye, with a spiral in the middle. They all had weapons such as crowbars and knives. He knew at that moment they were not taking kindly to him being here, so he ran.
He looked back, and saw one fall over. He ran faster, and saw a fire exit. He opened it, and it led him to another version of the level, but with red lights. He ran faster, and saw a door that said "MALL". He opened it, and went through.
==MALL OF THE UNKNOWN==
The mall I entered was playing a distorted version of "Libet’s Delay" by The Caretaker, making it an eerie scene. I sat down next to an empty game store. "Well, now I know if I see a group of people in a circle to sneak away," I said. I walk around the mall for a while, until I see a store with items inside. I enter the store to see what there is, and I see what the store has. I saw a few brands from The Frontrooms such as Nike, Snickers, Mountain Dew and even saw GTA 5 for PS4. I grabbed some snacks, changed my clothes, and walked out.
When I walked out, an alarm went off. The speakers went from music to a deep voice saying, "They are here," over and over again. The mall went a bit darker, and I saw, from the corner of my eye, a group of people wearing hoodies. 
The only thing I saw was a glowing eye in the middle of the hood. They hadn’t seen me yet, but I wasn’t taking any chances with whatever would happen if they caught me. If I had to guess, they would probably kill me or turn me into one of them, as someone with one eye wearing a hoodie probably doesn’t want to challenge me to a game of Monopoly. I got on the floor and started crawling away.
As soon as I thought I was out of their way, I got up. Then I heard it. "There he is!" one of them exclaimed. I turned around and saw them jumping from the balcony they were on onto my balcony. I ran, but one pushed me off the balcony.
==YOU CHEATED==
As I anticipated my death, I closed my eyes. Then, I fell onto the carpet. I looked up, expecting the area I started in, but it was just a room with a closed door. I opened the door, and it led to just darkness. I had no flashlight, so I just closed the door again. I looked around the room, hoping to find some trap door that led me to the next area. After an hour of looking, the door opened. I saw a man with a knife. I tried to run, but he stopped me.
"I know you are lost here, so I’ll rip up the carpet for you to escape, as this level has some areas without ground leading to other levels," he said. As he ripped the carpet, there was a pit in the middle. We exchanged names, thanked him, and he walked back to where he was before. I jumped down, and I entered a game store.
==THE GAME STORE==
I entered what appeared to be a game store. The floor had areas where it went down. The store had gift card stands, shelves with gaming devices from all generations. It even had some unreleased games that are lost media, such as GTA 64 and a few Sonic the Hedgehog games with their original concept designs. I looked around a bit more and eventually found games that were mentioned in gaming creepypastas, such as Godzilla NES. This was one of the weirdest levels I have been to, as the floor was weird and it had nonexistent games such as Five Nights at Freddy’s 8. I saw an opening in the ceiling, so I grabbed a nearby shelf and climbed to it.
==ROOF PARKING==
It led me to what appeared to be the top of an infinite parking garage. There were no light sources other than the occasional street lamp that barely lit up anything. I saw speakers on some of the lights. They were playing nothing but television static. After walking around for a while, I found a book. It had blood on it, which wasn’t a good sign. I opened it, and it said; 
"I don’t know how long I have been here. I want to see my family again. I can’t escape this parking lot, and I only get to hear that stupid song on replay. It is etched into my brain, along with whatever started chasing me. Its screams were terrifying. The lights are red, and I hear it" 
It cuts off there. As soon as I closed the book, I heard it start playing. The song that whoever wrote that book talked about. My heart was rushing, the lights turned red, and my brain was not working. Then I saw it. In the dark, a spider with realistically human eyes walked towards me. It opened its mouth, and hundreds of baby spiders came sprinting towards me. 
I ran faster than I ever have. I ran so fast that I think I would have won any Olympic race with my speed. Although this was an infinite parking garage and I was running to keep my vital organs instead of getting a gold medal. I heard the tapping of spider legs, which made me run faster as I did not want my chest to become a spider’s home. I saw what looked like a ladder, so I started climbing. I then got stabbed by the spider, but kept climbing. I was then led to what appeared to be a gas station.
==THE GAS STATION OF NO RETURN==
The gas station was in the middle of what appeared to be an infinite snowy piece of ground. Though it was snowing, it felt like I was in summer weather. I entered the gas station, and it was bigger on the inside than on the outside. I walked, and it seemed like some shelves were repeating. I decided to experiment, and I took a bag of Doritos off of a shelf and threw it on the ground. I walked in the opposite direction, and it led me to an aisle with a bag of Doritos on the ground. I walked even more and saw a freezer without a shelf. I went through it, and I was in this labyrinth of concrete walls and floors. I walked through the halls, hoping to find an exit. I saw a door, but when I opened it, there was a dark room with a smile in the middle. I shined my flashlight at it, but it started chasing me. I ran from it while the lights were flickering. The thing bit me, and it was the worst pain I have ever felt. I saw a door that said "EXIT" and went through the door.
==EARLY DISMISSAL==
I was led to a school hall. Outside was what looked like a cherry blossom tree. I got closer and regretted what I saw. I saw that instead of it being a cherry blossom tree, there were bloody handprints in the formation of one. Then I heard footsteps. I looked behind me and saw the scariest thing I had ever seen on my journey. A shadow tall enough to touch the ceiling, with a smile that truly activated my fight or flight senses. I chose flight, and ran. Following the exit signs through the corridors of no return. My adrenaline was rushing along with my blood. My heart was beating out of my chest. It made a high-pitched, distorted sob that echoed through the halls. I looked behind me, and saw it on all fours, crawling after me. Its arms were bent behind it, holding it up on all fours, with its chest facing the ceiling, and its head in a disturbing position, looking straight at me. That stare was the most disturbing thing I had ever seen. Anxiety was the only thing I felt. I came to an intersection, with a ladder in the middle. I took the ladder. I climbed for 5 minutes, but it felt like 5 hours due to the anxiety. I moved a manhole covering the exit, and climbed out of it, putting it back in its place.
==ENDING==
I entered what looked like the entrance to heaven. There was an escalator. The escalator looked infinite, so I got on it, hoping to get to heaven. I have been here for four months. I don’t know what to do. I cannot die. I am hungry but cannot starve to death. I cannot jump off the side, as I have a feeling telling me not to. I hope whatever is up there ends my suffering.
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=EPILOGUE=
What is that? I see someone-- no, something. Is this god? This is not how The Holy Bible described him. This thing is an eye, with wings. This is a different heaven than what The Holy Bible said. This is not a place up in the sky. This thing hopefully ends my suffering. It started speaking in an unknown language. I didn't understand what it was saying, but somehow knew its intentions. Its intentions are to turn me into one of those creatures I saw in The Backrooms. Anything to end my suffering, I guess.
I was knocked out, and woke up in what appeared to be a superstore, similar to that of Walmart. I found a mirror and saw that I was a glob of black goo formed into a humanoid creature. I tried to speak, but only made low pitched screams. I was still hungry, so I looked for food. Then, I saw a human. An unsuspecting victim. I guess I won't be very hungry after all.
Category:Tales