Tale 1-The
Boogieman
In
the darkest and foggiest part of the biggest forests, there exists a portal
that leads to a realm where the Boogieman resides. Once you enter, he will hunt
you down, kill you, and hang you in his meat factory with your soul still
inhabiting your broken, rotting corpse. The only way to escape is to go to his
meat factory and find the elevator in the back and go up. Four young adults are
searching for this urban legend and tonight, is the night that they find it.
The
group consists of two boys named Irving and Ryan and two girls named Lily and
Amy who are well prepared for what lays ahead of them. They have knowledge of
religious rituals and spells and regular weapons to defend them from the
Boogieman and whatever else roams its realm.
“So
this is it,” says Ryan.
“Yeah,
this looks like it,” says Amy who walks ahead of the group.
“What?
Do you want to leave already?” Ryan says while following her.
“Yes,
I just want to leave and get this done.”
“I
don’t blame you.”
The
group walks through the realm while being careful of their surroundings. In the
distance, Irving sees what looks to be a woman with blond hair white skin and
dress.
“Hey!”
he says before Lily hits him on his shoulder to silence him then she says,
“Look again.”
Irving
squints his eyes and notices that the girl is a ghost with no legs and is
levitating. He also notices that the girl has bloodstains on her dress and
scars on her arms and face.
“Thanks
for stopping me,” said Irving.
“No
problem,” says Lily.
As
the group gets closer to the meat factory, they check their supplies.
“You
remember all of the rituals, right?” says Ryan.
“Yep.
I’m totally an expert at all of them and can do them with my eyes closed,” says
Amy.
“You
guys sure we need that “magical stuff” for this?” Irving says, “I mean look at
our arsenal: pistols, sawed off shotguns, knives and axes.”
“We’re
dealing with supernatural forces here, so of course we’re going to need “that
magical stuff”,” says Lily.
“Fine,”
Irving takes out the sawed-off shotgun, “But this is mine!”
“Ok
guys look alive. We’re here,” says Ryan as the rest of them take out their
weapons and enter the meat factory.
They
cautiously walk further into the dark and rancid factory while also paying
attention to each other. The factory’s entrance door slams shut and the
electricity comes on, bringing the place to life and awakening those
misfortunate enough to have died here. The Boogieman appears from behind the
rows of hanging bodies and steps in front of the door leading to the next part
of the factory and stares at the group who are ready for a fight. A man then
appears out of a cloud smoke and stands next to the Boogieman. The man is
wearing a red suit and pants with black shoes and tie. He also has curly black
hair and black goatee with no mustache.
The
man steps forward and says, “You’ve finally made it here after your long
journey to find it. I’ll tell you what. How about we make this event special?
You have two rounds to get to the elevator in the back of this factory, which
will come down in three minutes after you call it. The only way to lose is to
be killed, but don’t worry, I’ll bring you back to life next round. However,
lose both rounds and the Boogieman will be allowed to find the means to make
you eternally suffer. Deal? Of course it’s a deal. You accepted it when you
came here. Let the game begin.”
Round 1
The
man fades back into the cloud of smoke and the Boogieman takes his weapon,
which appears from the floor and readies himself to kill all four of them. The
group splits in two and moves along the walls to split the Boogieman’s
attention as they make their way to the first door. Unluckily enough, Irving
and Lily are the focus of his attention. He tries to cut them off, but they
immediately turn and run through the stacks of hanging bodies. Though all of
the corpses are alive, there are special ones that grab people and make them
suffer based on what sins the person has done. Back on the other side of the
room, Amy gets grabbed by one of these things and gets put, kicking and
screaming, into a small box of spikes under the floor that closes when she is
forced in.
“Lily!”
Ryan says as he runs towards Lily who is opening the next door. “Lily! Do we
have anything to get Amy out of her trap?!”
“No,
we didn’t prepare for these kinds of monsters,” said Lily.
“So….
Amy is going to die?” Irving says as the next door opens and the group goes
into the next room, “You bastard!” he says as he takes his shotgun and shoots
the Boogieman who finds them.
The
bullets only slightly slow him down as he pulls back to swing his hammer. Ryan
pulls Irving back as Lily closes the steel door, which the Boogieman almost
breaks with one swing.
“This
motherfucker is tough!” Irving in shocked and fear.
“I
know, but we have to move!” Ryan says as the group splits up again and moves through
the next room.
The
current room has two floors with the ground floor the same with more active
corpses and the top floor that as no corpses and instead has a maze of pipes
that shoot out incredibly hot heat. Ryan takes the top floor while Irving and
Lily stay on the bottom. The Boogieman breaks down the door and goes after
Ryan. The group gets through this room with relative ease as they are more
careful now than before as Lily and Irving go through the next door and Ryan
goes through a vent, which leads to the final room.
“There
it is!” Lily says as she runs through the middle to get to the elevator, but is
quickly caught by a corpse and put into its body.
“Lily!”
Irving screams out as he tries to open the corpse, but can’t manage to.
It
spits her out, but now her body parts are mixed up with her leg where her head
should be and her arm where her head where her arm should be and so on.
“Oh
shit!” Irving says as he quickly does a spell ritual and returns her body to
normal, “Are you okay?!”
“Y-”
she says before collapsing with her skin falling apart.
“What
the hell?!” Irving says as he looks over Lily’s corpse and notices that on top
of moving body parts, the corpse also moved her internal organs around in less
than beneficial positions in her body.
“Don’t
worry Lily, I’ll win for us,” Irving says as he moves towards the elevator via
the sides.
On
the top floor, the Boogieman is still following Ryan while not being bothered
by the hot steam coming from the pipes. This does however; bother Ryan who gets
hit with the steam as he recklessly moves through the maze. The heat melts his
face causing him immense pain and to fall to the floor still barely alive. The
Boogieman then ends his pain by smashing his face in with his hammer then moves
to his next victim. Irving gets to the elevator and presses the elevator
button, but then the Boogieman crushes Irving’s hand, which was still pressing
the button. The button is still intact without a scratch somehow, but the same
cannot be said for Irving’s hand as he falls to his knees in pain. The
Boogieman then takes Irving by the neck and drags him to a corpse that burns
him alive and eats his charred corpse.
Round 2
The
group is revived and placed at the entrance as if nothing happened except they
don’t have their weapons.
Amy
collapses in tears and says, “I can’t do this! I can’t do this anymore!”
Ryan
put his hand on her shoulder and says, “Come on, we have to do this, we have to
survive. Come on,” he helps her up, “I’ll protect you.”
Amy
finally snaps out of it and round two begins and this time, the group makes it
through the two rooms without any problems and press the elevator button. A
timer starts above the elevator starting at three minutes as it ticks down, the
Boogieman busts into the room, which opens several secret rooms. The group
decides that it will be best to play a little hide and seek with the Boogieman
so they won’t have to keep running around and hide in various rooms. The
Boogieman slowly walks around the room looking through the rooms and then
something catches his eyes so he runs toward it putting the entire group on
edge. He passes by Ryan’s hiding spot, which gets him to jump in fear. The
Boogieman notices this, but still goes for whatever he sees. It turns out that
he finds himself a scythe with a long, sharp curved blade. He walks towards
where he heard Ryan and uses his new weapons to reach into the corner of the
room from outside of it and to stab Ryan in the chest and pulls him out of the
room. The three remaining survivors watch in horror as the Boogieman drags
Ryan, who is still alive, to a corpse that grabs him and impales him on a spike
that goes through his ass and out his mouth. Ryan’s death adds another ten
seconds and another layer of fear to the remaining survivors.
They
reach the minute mark despite their fears and Irving and Amy decide to change
spots while Lily goes back to the previous room to get a weapon. Thirty seconds
are left on the clock now, which cause the Boogieman to become impatient and
search the rooms more quickly. Irving and Amy try to keep ahead of him in
response, but this turns out to be a mistake as the Boogieman hears their movements
and finds them just time for the elevator to arrive. The group runs towards the
elevator with Irving and Amy being the first one to make it, but Lily gets
caught by the Boogieman’s scythe with its blade stabbing the side of her head,
killing her. Ten seconds get added to the clock, which makes the elevator stay
where it is. Amy takes the heavy axe that Lily drops when she dies and gets out
of the elevator.
“Amy,
what are you doing?!” says Irving.
“I’m
going to buy you time!” Amy says as she attacks the Boogieman.
The
elevator starts up again and rises up with only Irving on it. Amy manages to
get a few good hits at the Boogieman, but he ultimately triumphs by slicing her
head off, making the elevator go down for another ten seconds. Irving backs
further into the elevator as the Boogieman walks towards him, but stops after a
few steps and stares at him for a few seconds then points at him and laughs.
The elevator starts up, yet again, and starts to go back up.
Irving
sits down from the exhaustion, laughs and says, “I made it. Haha.”
The
man from earlier appears in the elevator and says, “No you didn’t.”
“What?”
“When
I said “you”, I meant all of you needed to make it. Now without further ado,
let’s start round three.”
He
snaps his fingers and teleports everyone to the next round.
Round 3
On
this round, the Boogieman is put outside of the factory and the group is left
inside behind its locked doors. The man in the red suit appears in front of
them and says,
“This
is round three and the rules have changed. The Boogieman is out there looking
for the tools of your punishment. The only way to stop him is to find the keys
to the door hidden in these corpses, but don’t worry, I’ve left you a riddle so
you know exactly where to look. You also shouldn’t worry about dying, as you
will come back to life as long as the round is still going, but it does take a
toll on your mind and add time to the timer. Once you open the door, you have
to keep the Boogieman away from this factory because once he steps foot in
here, it’s game over. Let the game begin.”
The
group frantically looks for the keys, while the Boogieman looks for what he
needs to destroy them. He wanders the forest until he finds an abandoned cabin
with a pistol in it that has a heart carved on its grip. Past memories start to
fill the Boogieman’s mind, but some of the pieces are missing. He goes further
into the forest and comes across the dead woman from the beginning. She sees
him and charges towards him and to his surprise, she doesn’t hurt him and
instead hugs him with a big smile on her face and tears of joy. She holds both
of his hands, but doesn’t say anything. More memories come pouring into his
mind and yet, he is still missing something. The woman holds his hand as they
walk through the forest and the two eventually find a campsite with a hunting
rifle on the ground. The Boogieman picks up the rifle, which makes of his
memories come back.
His
real name is Bruce and he was a hunter who was married to a woman named
Caitlin. The couple hunted for sport without killing their prey by using
tranquilizers. They competed in various hunting competitions that used these
tranquilizers so they didn’t need to worry about endangering the animals they
hunted. On one hunting trip, the couple stumbled upon the portal that lead them
to the secret dimension in the forest they are currently in. They found the
group of Lily, Irving, Amy, and Ryan who violently killed the couple and cursed
Bruce to become the Boogieman while his wife endlessly wandered the forest
looking for her husband. The group also did other wicked things with their
magic that they obtained from the devil himself who they made a deal with. The
devil let them have a small piece of his power, but they would have to come
back to this dimension in a year to face a challenge to see if they deserved to
keep the magic, but if they fail, their souls will eternally be his and today
is the day that they are tested.
Bruce
and Caitlin know what to do now as Bruce takes his pistol and Caitlin takes her
rifle and they head back to the factory to make the people who had caused so
much suffering to suffer eternally. They make it back to the factory just in
time as the group opens the door, whom have died at least two times in order to
get the keys and it shows on their faces. With weapons in hand, they charge
towards Bruce, not realizing the guns the couple have in their hands. Caitlin
picks them off with her rifle, which has real bullets in it now, while Bruce
shoots the ones that come back to life. Despite constantly dying, the group
don’t give up because they know the consequences of losing, but no matter how
hard they try, they can’t get the gun wielding couple to back down resulting in
their defeat. The group gets turned into a group of dogs, the Shiba Inu breed
in particular, and the couple gets turned back into their normal bodies. The
victims who were killed and turned into living corpses are brought back to life
and put into the elevator. A cloud of smoke appears and the devil walks out of
it with his red suit, claps his hands and says,
“Congratulations
you two, you are free to leave this dimension and go back to your normal life!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a new bunch of wittle puppy dogs to play
with!”
A
collar appears around the dogs’ neck and the devil pulls their leashes back
into the smoke with him.
“Come
on my precious puppies, we’re going to have so much fun!”
They
disappear along with the cloud of smoke and the couple walks into the elevator.
While inside, Bruce apologizes for what he did, but the people wave the apology
away and say that,
“It’s
not your fault for what those assholes made you do and you shouldn’t worry
about it and you should instead focus on your new life that’s ahead of you.
Also…try not to accidentally walk into secret dimensions.”
Bruce and Caitlin laugh and
thank them for forgiving them. The couple part ways with the others and go back
to their normal lives, but with more appreciation for it. As for the secret
dimension however, there will always be someone or some people that will unknowingly
stumble upon it and find the devil there with an offer to give them and whether
they accept it or not is up to them.
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