Trevor Whittemore
The Thing In The Wall
Jordan’s mom Pamela was a high school teacher. Jordan would be attending the same school in a year as he had just started eighth grade. Everyone had just finished dinner and Jordan went up to his room with his pet Doberman pinscher Roxy to unpack his things. He hung up his clothes in his new closet and then he started hanging up his heavy metal posters. As he was hanging Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son poster he heard a horrifying noise coming from within the wall and Roxy started to bark. He backed away from the wall a tad frightened.
“What in the hell was that noise. It wasn’t you was it Eddie” said Jordan looking at his poster.
He then put his ear up to the wall to listen carefully but there was pure silence.
“It must be the pipes” he said and he grabbed a horror comic and started to read it.
Meanwhile Randy and Pamela had just finished having sex in their new home.
“God I love it here! How about you honey, are you happy?” Randy asked.
“I couldn’t be more happy”said Pamela.
“Good, because I wouldn’t want you to be unhappy here.” Randy said.
“I love the house it’s perfect!” said Pamela as she leaned over and kissed Randy.
“It sure is and I am glad you’re happy here, I love you!” Randy said.
“I love you too,” Pamela said.
“Well, I need to get to sleep. I gotta get up early for work to make those big bucks,” said Randy.
“I hear you, goodnight honey,” said Pamela turning off the light.
Jordan waited for his parents to fall asleep and he quietly crept downstairs and opened the large sliding glass door leading to the balcony. He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a pack of Marlboro reds and a Bic lighter. He lit the end of the cigarette taking a big drag inhaling the smoke into his lungs.
“Nothing like a good smoke after a meal and before bed,” said Jordan taking another big drag.
After he finished his cigarette, he put it out on the wooden deck and flicked the butt over the deck into the forest. He then gently opened the slider door so nobody would hear him and he closed it locking it shut behind him. Then he went back into his room. When he entered his room, Roxy was snarling at the wall with exposed teeth.
“What is it girl” said Jordan.
Suddenly a long freakish arm burst through the wall grabbing Jordan by the throat. The only thing he could think to do was grab his lighter so he quickly grabbed it from out of his pocket and held it right up against the long freakish arm and he flicked it and it did not light but the arm quickly pulled away and disappeared back into the wall as Roxy jumped up at the hole it had made barking profusely at it. Jordan ran as fast as he could to his parents room beating hard on the door.
Randy sprung out of bed.
“What’s going on?" said Pamela as Randy opened the door.
“What the hell is the matter with you? Why are you shaking like that?” asked Randy.
“There is something in the wall it just attacked me!” yelled Jordan.
“You need to stop reading those damn horror comics before bed,” said Randy.
“No, you need to come with me now so I can show you the hole it just made,” said Jordan grabbing his dads arm.
“Have you been smoking?” asked Randy.
“No now come on!” said Jordan pulling Randy towards his room.
“Liar! You reek of cigarettes, damn it Jordan your grounded,” said Randy pulling his arm away.
“Listen dad! Some crazy clawed arm just grabbed me and I am not making this up. I swear it Roxy was barking at it!” said Jordan leading Randy into his room where there was now a much bigger hole in the wall than before.
Randy slapped Jordan hard across the face.
“You did this you little shit you are grounded for the rest of the god damned year you hear me and you are going to fix this hole tomorrow, and I don’t care if it takes you all day you will fix this is that understood?” Randy said.
“But da-“ said Jordan.
“IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?” yelled Randy.
“What is going? Oh my god, Did you do this to the wall?” said Pamela.
“No, I swear I didn’t something in the wall attacked me! Mom you’ve got to believe me!” said Jordan terrified with tears pouring down his face.
“Roxy where are you girl?” yelled Jordan.
Then another section of the wall came crumbling down along with half of Roxy who had been torn in half. Pamela screamed out loud at the top of her lungs and Randy wore a look of shock upon his face. Then the same huge hideous hand that had hold of Jordan’s neck just minutes ago had hold of his moms head. More of the wall broke away as the monster lifted Pamela into the air by her skull as she screamed. Randy rushed into his room grabbing his Mossberg 500 pump action shotgun.Cocking it as he ran back to Jordan's room faster than his two feet have ever moved in their life. Right as he entered the room the long hand crushed Pamela’s skull like an egg. Blood, brains, and skull fragments still covered in hair and skin oozed from the creatures hand as Pamela’s headless lifeless corpse fell to the floor convulsing. Jordan was covered in his moms brains and blood. Then it emerged from the wall and it was horrifying. It had a droopy face and jaw with hundreds of sharp jagged teeth with completely bloodshot red eyes.
Jordan froze in shock and fear and he wet himself at the sight of this horrifying abomination. Randy fired round after round at the thing to no effect as it grabbed him up by his waist with both of its hands and it opened its huge gaping maw and in one monstrous bite it ate Randy’s head neck and clavicle. The sound of snapping bones could be heard as Jordan picked up the shotgun and emptied the remaining rounds into the hideous monster. The 00 buck had no effect whatsoever on the creature so he dropped the shotgun and reached for his lighter. He then ran up to the creature and flicked the Bic repeatedly near the monsters side and it back handed him so hard that he flew through his open door landing in the hallway.
Jordan ran into his father's room and quickly grabbed the keys to his Lamborghini as Randy taught him how to drive it; he ran downstairs as fast as he could as the creature continued to eat Randy like a Labrador eating a grinder. Jordan opened the door to the garage and then he pushed the garage door opener that was hanging on the wall and he entered the Lamborghini and started it up; right as he flipped on the headlights the monster came crashing through the wall grabbing onto the car with both its monstrous hands. Jordan put it into reverse and put the pedal to the metal and burnt rubber but the creature would not let go. Jordan flicked on the high beams and the monster let out a loud roar as it covered its eyes. Jordan then peeled out of the garage flying down the driveway in his dads Lamborghini. When he reached the bottom, he spun the car into a 180 and peeled out of their driving as fast as he could without crashing. He continued down the mountain downshifting and breaking at the switchbacks he nearly made it to the bottom when he crashed into another car.
Jordan awoke at the hospital days later handcuffed to the bed when suddenly a detective came into the room. You are under arrest for the the Murder of your parents. You will be tried as an adult I can promise you that,” said the detective.
“I didn’t kill them some monster did,” said Jordan crying and scared.
“You blew your moms head off and you cut your dad in half with a chainsaw and we will find it unless you tell me now what you did with it right now you sick little fuck!” said the detective.
“I swear it wasn’t me you’ve got to believe me it was the thing in the Wall,” said Jordan.
“You won’t fool me with that crap you can pretend to be insane all you want it won’t make any difference your dad was a good man and very well liked,” said the detective.
“I know he was I swear I would never hurt them,” said Jordan crying.
“You can tell it to the judge,” said Jordan.
He was tried as an adult and given 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole and he was put in a juvenile corrections facility until he reached he age of 18 and then he was transferred to a maximum security prison. His parents had left him the house in their will and all of their money but it didn’t matter as he had no way of posting bail.
Jordan worked out daily and the events of that tragic night poisoned his mind. He got into fights occasionally in prison and every chance he got he read and read about what might have killed his parents that night. He learned about demons and that if that is what he encountered that it did not like something about the lighter. He came to the conclusion that most likely the flint is what it didn’t like as he read in one of the books. It said that demons could be killed by weapons made from flint so he would acquire a Bic lighter every chance he got and he would take a piece of paper and the lighter as he turned the wheel creating sparks as flint powder fell onto the piece of paper he then hid it well.
Over the next 30 years he saved lots of flint powder and when he was released in 2018 he took it with him. Jordan was ready to face the same monster that killed his family as it took away thirty years of his life he could never get back. He bought many flint nodules and he spent a month learning how to make flint knives and arrows made from flint. then he wrapped his hands in boxers tape and he took the jar full of flint powder he had saved for thirty years and poured some of it it over the wraps on his hands. And then he put the jar into the front pocket of his leather jacket. He had two knives made from flint as well as a bow and a full quiver of arrows. He purchased a dodge Demon and he drove to the house he left behind thirty years ago to the day. He parked his car in the driveway when he arrived and he took his bow and walked up to the front door and unlocked it and went right upstairs to his old room. The room was the same way he left it thirty years ago he made sure no one tried to sell it out from under his nose while he was in jail. He put his hand on the Iron Maiden poster that was still on the wall.
“Alright you ugly motherfucker, show yourself,” said Jordan but there was silence.
“What are you afraid now you big mouthed cocksu-“ before Jordan could finish the sentence a giant arm punched through the wall knocking Jordan across the bedroom and he landed right on his bed.
“Nice punch you fugly fucker” said Jordan as he loaded an arrow firing it right into the monsters shoulder and it roared out in pain as the wound started to singe and smoke rose from out of it.
He quickly loaded another arrow firing it into the monsters cheek. It roared out in agony and tore the bow from his hands snapping it in two. Jordan launched himself high into the air punching the hideous creature square in the nose and it started to sizzle as its skin melted off. It let out a deafening roar and Jordan threw punch after punch hitting the beast. The monster picked him up by the skull just as he did his mom. Jordan screamed out in pain as he quickly unsheathed his flint knife stabbing it right through the Demons right arm and it dropped him.The monster pulled the knife out and threw it through the glass window shattering it. The thing grabbed Jordan by his side picking him up with both of its very long clawed hands and arms. Jordan tried to unsheathe his other knife but couldn’t as the monster had a death grip on his waist where the knife was.
The foul creature opened its enormous mouth as wide as it could ready to bite off Jordan’s head. He remembered he still had the glass jar in his pocket. So he reached inside his jacket pocket and cut himself on the broken glass but now he had a fistful of flint powder and broken glass. Right as the monster went in for the kill Jordan chucked the flint powder and broken glass right into the creatures mouth and it released him making a terrifying noise as the flint burnt the inside of the monsters mouth. It thrashed it’s arms around cutting deep into Jordan’s side with its long claws. Jordan screamed in pain then he grabbed the knife and stabbed the creature in its side over and over again until the blade of the knife broke inside the monster. The ugly pink creature fell to the ground burbling and wheezing as it lie dying. Jordan grabbed the knife from the beasts arm and cut through its neck until its head was severed breaking the knife as well. The demon melted into a grotesque pink puddle of yuck.
“That’s for killing my parents you ugly fuck!”said Jordan.
He then felt really strange and he started to seizure his body twisted and grew and his mouth dropped and stretched beyond its capable limit.
“NO, NO, NO!” yelled Jordan until his voice distorted.
He transformed into the same hideous monster that he just killed and he walked back into the wall.
END
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