Hello there! I'm taking this week off (Plus this weekend) to write for a Halloween writing contest. As you might have guessed, I'm writing spooky stories for the contest. I know, quite disappointing that I have to stop this for a week just to write a spooky story, but I want to win the contest and all Valerie would do is distract me because I love Valerie more than I love Alaho. (Please don't come and kill me in my sleep Ala)
My break was only supposed to be Friday Saturday and Sunday, but the writing contest came in. If you just like my writing style in general and don't care what it is that I'm writing, here's chapter one of Alaho Christmas.
Chapter 1- Not so fake scary story
On a newspaper sat the headline " 1990 Man mugged in an alley and face cut to pieces while shopping for Christmas toys".
The little section dedicated to the now-dead man read "his eyes were popped out and his face cut open to look like Freddy Cougars face." If you flipped a couple of pages in the newspaper you would find a headline that said "Dead man's body lost".
In 1995 there was a new newspaper with a headline of "Son of Alaho, who was mugged and killed in 1990, hung himself".
In his little section, it read "his dying wish was to be with his father, who had been dead for 5 years."
Modern-day 2020, some girls were having a sleepover near Christmas time, and one of them thought it would be funny to make up a fake scary story about Alaho, the weird faced dead guy her grandfather told her about.
"Alright girls, gather around. It's time for the best part of a sleepover." Said a girl named Mia "Scary stories!"
An excited group of girls came running and screaming, then sat down in a circle with Mia.
"So, ever heard the story of… Alaho Christmas?" A flush of "no's" filled the room.
"Well, here it goes." The room quieted down, eager to listen to the story of Alaho Christmas. "So, one night while this guy named Alaho was shopping, he was mugged and killed in an alley."
Whispers wavered under Mia's words.
"His face looked like Freddy Cougars, but he didn't have a mask or eyes or nails. When they were planning his funeral his body wasn't found. Now they say every December 15, he'll come out and steal all the children's clothes and toys, and kill them." Silence filled the room.
"Is there a way to stop him?" One of the girls asked.
"Yes, if you put a toy train on your door, he won't go in and kill you then take your toys and clothes".
One little girl had a question that she couldn't stop from coming out. "Why is he killing children, where is he taking their clothes and toys, how will a toy train stop him?''
Mia laughed hysterically "Oh sweet Ava, he is killing children in order to bring his child back, his only son hung himself 5 years after Alaho's death. He is taking the dead children, the toys, and the clothes to an old abandoned house that used to be his. He takes it there as if he was taking the toys to his already dead son like he was still alive and still living in their old house. A toy train will stop him because that was his son's favorite toy, and it was the toy that was stolen from him in 1990." The girls looked scared, and Mia didn't know why. She was never scared of scary movies and scary stories. She didn't believe they were real, as they weren't.
'Even IT is scarier than this story and I fell asleep watching it. Michael Mayers would crush this story and he makes me think of a bunny.' Mia thought to herself and rolled her eyes while the other girl shook in fear waiting to hear the next part of the story.
In truth her friends were scaredy cats, the story was hardly scary yet they were shivering in fear.
"Well, ladies next Friday the 15th, I hope someone has a toy train." Mia said in a somewhat spooky voice.
The girls screamed and Mia's mom Ms.Lynn walked in.
"What's wrong girls?! What happened?" Ms.Lynn walked in with a still-hot frying pan.
"Oh nothing mom, I just told them a scary story." Mia got up and went to hug her mother.
"Oh, of course, sweetie. It's time for bed girls." Ms.Lynn went to turn on Mia's lamp so that the girls could sleep without being as scared.
"Good night Ms.Lynn." the girls said in unison.
"Good night mom." came from Mia.
"Good night girls, good night sweetie." Ms.Lynn said as she closed Mia's bedroom door.
The next morning the girls left, they all told their parents and sisters and brothers about the story Mia told them. They all looked terrified and told them they wouldn't have to worry because it wasn't true.
One of the girls left their pajamas in Mia's house and she went back to get them. Her brother turned around and chuckled. Then he looked up and saw a man without eyes that looked like Freddy Cougar but without claws or a mask. The man had a blank expression.
He screamed and ran in the opposite direction. He went to Mia's parents and he brought everyone outside. They saw nothing and thought he was pranking them.
"Ah good one son. Next time go bigger, make us just a little scared at least." Mr.Lynn said to the 18-year-old.
He looked shocked, but everyone disguarded it thinking it part of the prank.
"Come on sis, let's get away from lease crazy people." He rushed his little sister into the car and pulled off instantly.
"What was his problem Mama?" Mia asked her mother and looked at her father because she would accept an answer from him as well.
"Teenage boys love to play pranks sweetie." Ms.Lynn said as she locked the front door and headed to the kitchen to start preparing breakfast.
"Oh, well I'm going upstairs to play with my toys. Call me down when it's breakfast please mom." declared Mia as she walked upstairs.
At the time she was only 8, but she wished to become a nurse and she loved playing nurse with her dolls.
She heard footsteps and thought it was her dad coming upstairs so she ignored it and kept playing with her dolls.
Soon enough she heard breathing and thought her dad had choked on something and needed help.
"Daddy, are you okay? Do you need help?" She had her door closed so she opened her door and peeked her head out.
"What was that darling?" Her father asked by yelling up the stairs.
"Oh nothing daddy, I'm just playing." She thought she was just hearing things and so she went back to playing with her dolls.
(Yes I know this isn't scary, but it's chapter one. What did you expect, also yes I did come up with his name and what he does as a vengeful undead man.)