WARNING!

  If this story was real, several kids
  would be in insanity wards.
  Therefore it is not real, Therefore
  There is no truth in this story,
  therefore do not belive any
  information that is contained\
  In this STOrY.  For example
  there is, to my knowlege, no
  nail gun in my school’s metal
  works room.  Characters in this
  story are all real, although some
  traits were made up.  I don’t know
  If jesse likes franchesca and frankly
  it’s none of my buisness.  Blah blah blah
  Yada yada Yada..........

 My eyes opened to bright sunlight streaming through my open window.  The dreams had seemed so real.  I had been  having the dreams off and on for the last week.  Almost all the same.   Huge monstrous creatures. They were hiding and running around my school snatching up kids.  There was a lot of death in my dream.  It scared me, what my unconscious mind could produce.
 

 School was boring that day, you know, Socials, Math, English, Sewing.   REALLY REALLY BORING!  At lunch I talked with my friends, the highlight of my school day.  After school there was some meeting  for grade eights in the gym.  I remember walking through the halls wondering what kind of crap we were gonna see.
 

   As soon as all the grade eights were in the gym, a man walked on the stage.   He was very eerie.  It seemed as though he were floating instead of walking.
“My friends,” he said in a high punctual tone, “Some of you are wondering why I called you here,”  I looked around and was startled by what I saw.   The walls of the gym were gone.   Suddenly we were standing on a floor of black marble in a ring of light surrounded by a heavy black fog.  The man’s voice came clear and loud through the fog.  “I am giving you a challenge, my friends,  I shall use my omnipotent power to create  your challenge, if you wish to accept it.”
“Why?” I asked.
Suddenly the fog turned bright red, and the man (If man he was) shouted, “Because I want to! ,”  The fog grew to a dark gray, “If you accept you fight for your life, If not,”
“You die” I finished.
“Quite right,”  the fog replied, “If you lose, you all die.  If you win everyone will live.  The dead will be resurrected.  To win, you must destroy your opponents before they destroy all of you.”
“Who are the opponents?”
“Ask him.” The fog answered and a bright light lit on me.  “Your dreams were true boy”
A chill ran down my spine.  We had no chance against the monsters.  “I’ll tell you later” I told them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 For those of you who care, my name is Andrew Brown.  I’m not that special, Brown hair (dyed black) Five feet / ten inches, grayish blue eyes.  I’m fat too, but if I don’t care why should you.  Time had stopped for us, the grade eights. We were alone in the gym. I looked at the clock on the wall.  2:50. The hands never moved. The doors were locked.  Windows were shatterproof.  We formed a big group in the gym. I stood on the stage and told them everything I knew, or thought I knew.  I told them of the ice creature, he could freeze you into ice.  If you melted you’d be water! The monster that could  turn you into rock.  The one that made you sleepy and when you fell asleep, you were dead.  Then there were the worst  two.  One injected you with a fluid that would make you go insane, and you’d be happy about it.  The other, which I called  a Berserkering,  would make you blinded by rage, you wouldn’t even recognize who  you were killing or why you were killing them.
“We must fight!” I told them,  “If we give we’ll lose automatically, If we fight we have a chance.”  I heard murmurs of agreement and disagreement.  “We have different paths we can follow.  Those who want to fight can, those who want to give up can as well.  But I am fighting for my... OUR future”
 
 

 Sweat poured down my brow.  The fight was on.  Almost everyone chose to fight.  Some gave up and vanished instantly.  I stood hesitantly waiting for an attack.  I suddenly remembered a vision of the monsters hiding in my dream.
“They’re waiting for us to come to them.” I said.  Suddenly a boy I didn’t know vanished.  I  alone had seen the tentacle. Not all your visions will come true, a voice whispered in my head.  I looked at the ruler in my hand, I had used a pair of scissors to change it into a makeshift stake.  I walk to the doors where the boy had disappeared.  Some teens gasped as I walked out the door, but  my friend Dennis nodded.  He knew what I had to do.
 
 

 I walked down the eerily quiet hallway and sweat was coming down in buckets.  I saw the creature in a janitor’s closet.  It had sharp fangs and the tips of it’s tentacles had  tiny pricks on the end, for inserting the insanity poison I saw the kid standing there smiling strangely. I threw the ruler and it broke through his skull easily.  He laughed once and collapsed. I looked  at the monster and was scared.  I will get you. I don’t know whether he said it or if I felt it,  but I was scared.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 I walked back into the gym. Some of the kids were missing. That included Dennis and a girl named Roberta.  I looked at the remaining group.  Most were scared, but  my friend Jesse looked mostly mad.  That was bad.  Anger makes people stupid.  I walked back into the hallway.  I saw Dennis’ shirt on the ground, ripped and bloody, I picked it up and kept walking I stopped at his locker and dropped his shirt by it.  Then I walked to my locker, and saw Travis.  He looked calm.  Blood on his shoes.
“I killed one.” he said in a quiet manner.  We opened our lockers, and took out scissors, metalwork projects and anything else that was sharp.  We dropped them off in the gym.  I got Kurt, Thomas, Carrie, and Steve to come with us  to some classrooms, we picked up ten metal rulers and twelve pointing sticks,  Thomas, Travis, and I went to the metalworks room, the others went to wood works, and  I set to sharpening the rulers.  I gave five to Thomas, and Travis and they headed to the gym.  I  set to a trap in a hallway by the office a trip string on the floor, connected to the rulers in the ceiling which would descend onto the victim.  Back at the gym I notified the others of the trap.  I brought play props out of the equipment room.  Chocolate bars, caramel corn, peanuts, flashlights, mirrors, and pencils.  I sent Jesse to sharpen the pencils and distribute them as weapons, and I took the mirrors out into the hall.  I placed  them on suspicious hallway walls so people could see around the corner without  sticking their head out.  Next I checked my trap.  Two dead monsters.  I reset the trap and checked the office. I found pencils, more metal rulers,  staplers (just in case) and glass shards from a broken window.  Back at the gym  I attached the sharp pieces of glass to a baseball bat from the equipment room.  I gave the bat to Emberly and two thoughts struck  me.  We had only seen three monsters, where were the others?  The other thought was of sharp objects in the wood works lab.
 

 I sent Matt, Dallas, Nicole and Jimmy to the science room, to see what they could find.  Only Dallas returned, his body bleeding in several places,  but he told me the gas was on and he had thrown a match.  I ran down to the lab and  I saw how the windows had shattered (Indoor windows, windows outside were shatterproof)  and the walls were charred and burnt.  The only fire there, was shooting from the gas nozzles.  Three burnt dismembered monsters inside.  I stopped in at the metalwork room and picked up a nail gun (a practical nail gun, for construction) a saw, two table saw blades a hammer and a box of nails.  Suddenly I knew how to make an excellent trap,  I started to work on it.  The idea was simple, a wire is tripped,  and a metal blade comes down spinning so fast you can’t even see it move it took about an hour, but the clock still said 2:50.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 I left the trap in front of the door to the  other science lab.  Then I checked my other trap,  Another Andrew and Jon were laying there dead.  Poor guys, I reset the trap and put their carcasses in the smashed science lab.  I found Tiffany in my homeroom, she looked gentle and asleep.  She was dead though.  She died in her sleep because of a deadly toxin released by the beast in front of me.  I looked like a panda crossed with a spider.  Eight spindly legs covered in black hair, a white head with a snout  that had a short tube sticking out of it. I backed off, I couldn’t risk fighting it.  I locked the door from the outside of the room so it couldn’t leave.   I heard a roaring noise and ran down the hall,  A tall gray, monster with rubbery skin had fallen into my trap. A purple jelly oozed out of it’s wounds.   I reset the trap and made my way back to the gym, dead bodies everywhere.  When I got there I saw about  half of the original survivors  there.  Everyone else was dead.  I was relieved to see that  the girl I had a crush on was still alive. In all there were  Jesse, Dallas, Thomas, Kurt, Carrie, Steve, Daniel, Jas, Ashley, Jamie, Jackie, Corey, Kelly, Kristin, Brent, Matt,  Franchesca, Chad, Raj,  Jack, Danny, and me.   I  took a look around the school and came upon a faint mist.  “ It’s twenty three to six for you.”  the mist told me as I ran back to the gym.  “Only six of them left,” I shouted.
“Kristin is gone, Andrew”  Dallas told me.  My face fell.  Kristin was one of my best friends.
“Well you know what.  When someone you care about gets hurt,” I started, “You don’t let it get you down,  you go kiss some monstrous *** and bring your friend back” I screamed.  Suddenly a huge monster burst into the room and wiped out half of the survivors there and then.  I picked up the nail gun and fired.  I kept reloading and shooting,reloading and shooting.  The monster roared  and chased after me,  I ran to the science room and jumped over the trip wire.  The monster landed on it and was instantly hacked up.   I sighed and  headed back to the gym. Only Jessie, Dallas, Thomas, Kurt, Carrie,Jackie, Brent, and Franchesca, Melanie, and I were left.
 

 We were caught.  Jessie was struggling in the arms of the berserkering, and I was wrapped in the tentacles of the insanity creature.  I felt the pricks of the tentacles bite in to me and felt the fluid of insanity (which the fog called Myloroc) flow into me.  I saw Jesse’s eyes bulge as he was transformed into a berserker.  I smiled at him as he roared in anger.  I laughed psychotically  as he ripped  the arms off the berserkering and killed it.  I was still laughing as he tried to kill me.  I dodged him as he leapt and just kept laughing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 I ran into the gym.  I looked at the scared helpless looks on the kids faces and laughed.  It was all so funny.  Then I looked at  Melanie and my smile died.  Suddenly my mostly rational mind snapped back.  I grabbed Jesse by the shoulders and gently said, “Calm down Jesse.  Calm down.”  His eyes bugged out and a little while later he was back to normal.  I looked around and saw a thin blue mist sweep into the room.  The sleep monster had escaped from my home room.  A couple people fell asleep, dead.  I saw Melanie’s eyes close. “MELANIE!” I cried!
“We gotta leave!”   shouted Dallas.  The survivors ran off but I stayed.
Melanie looked up at me.  “Fight harder.... and bring me back”  then she fell still and I ran from the room.
 
 

 Jessie, Dallas, Thomas, Kurt, Carrie, Franchesca, and I were left to face four monsters.    A monster burst  towards us and managed to turn Kurt and Carrie to stone before it fell upon my ruler trap.   Later another one came in and sprayed  Franchesca.  She started to turn blue.  Jesse cried out, ran to Franchesca, and embraced her.
Soon she was ice and Jesse had fire in his eyes he grabbed the monster and turned to us, not recognizing anything but his thirst for blood.    When he started to run towards us, one of the last monsters grabbed him and killed him gruesomely.   The monster grabbed Thomas, but failed to see the table saw blade in Thomas’ hand,  and a couple minutes later both were dead.  The monster with the blade in it’s head and Thomas with a broken neck.
 
 

 Two to one.  Not very good odds.   Dallas and I faced the insanity creature with the old science room between us. I started to smile.  A strange laugh formed in my throat and burst from my lips.  I walked forward and stepped on something, a wire of some sort.  I kept walking forward until the blade came buzzing down from my trap and sliced my legs off.  I saw, in hazy vision, Dallas pick up a pair of scissors and throw them at the creature.  The scissors stuck in the creature gasp in pain, and collapse.  I closed my eyes and died, smiling.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 I woke up as the bell went.  Where was I?  I was in socials.  The memories came flying back to me.  The fight.  Was it a dream?  Then I looked at Melanie, and saw  a wonderful look in her eye.
“You brought me back” she said and smiled.  I smiled back and I knew that I loved her even more.
 
 
 

 That night the only dream I remember was me standing in a thick blue fog.  You won. This time, but I’ll be back.
 
 
 

 Two days later, None of the grade tens showed up to school.  They were gone the whole week.  Some say it was a secret mass murder,  and I guess it was.  The teachers don’t know exactly what happened.  But I do.