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The bloody hands of a clock

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Chapter 1 - The mall

It was night time and the weather was getting very bad that day. On one side, the sound of lightning outside had created a lot of noise and panic. Similarly, inside a house, a mother was shouting at her small child while talking about lightning. As if his mother had lost her mental balance. That child and his mind had shrunk and withered like a mimosa flower. Then his father comes home from work and he, like a ray of sunshine, takes away the child's mother from there and then talks to the child and gives hope to his sad, scared and scared mind again. Gives a new ray. On the other side of all this, four friends are sitting in a cafe in the afternoon sun in Hobart City, Australia. One of them was a twenty year old boy who was wearing a red black colour check shirt and brown pants. His name is Elvis. He says in a tired voice, "Dude, while doing engineering it seems that all creativity has gone away. "I don't have any idea for a startup."

Just then a twenty year old girl was wearing a brown colour top and black colour jeans. Her name is Amelie. She says laughingly, "Get the engineers to leave engineering and do anything. They likes everything accept engineering."

Then Elvis closes his eyes a little and says in an irritated voice, "Yes, you don't give pills like a doctor, do you?"

Then a third voice joins the voices of those two. This voice belonged to a nineteen year old boy. Who was wearing orange colour shirt and blue pants.

His name is Craven. He says, "Dude, stop this fight between math and bio, I don't know how to relate to commerce." Then Elvis says to Craven "You are right. They stop fighting and go somewhere else."

Then the fourth friend who was wearing black shirt and blue pants. His name is Louis. He says laughingly, "Where would you like to go, you have visited all the famous places and what else is left in this unknown city?"

Then Elvis says "There must be some left. I want us all to go out somewhere. Because my leave will be over in a few days."

Amelie says, "Okay, let's go somewhere."

Just then, Craven stops them all and says, "Hey, but where?"

Louis says "Now we will go to where our car will take us."

Elvis becomes overjoyed and says "That's exactly, let's go."

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They all reach near the car and then sit in it and goes on a unknown journey. Then the car comes far away and then Elvis says, "Now tell me where we are going in this unknown place."

Craven says, "What a royal question there is."

Then Amelie says, "Look, a very old cafe is visible in front. Let's go there and see if anyone is there or not.

Listening to Amelie, they all start going to that café. That cafe looks very old because its board is covered in dust, the pants of the walls there were also uprooted and it has only one floor.

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There is a small lamp inside which does not emit much light. There the colour of the inner walls is also peeled off. There are only five stools and one table. No one is seen there for a while. Then suddenly an old man comes from behind them and says "What do you all want?"

They all get very scared. Then Louis asks them, "Do you get coffee here?"

The old man says, "What is it, I had a passion for laying bricks since childhood. When I grew up, I built this café.

Then Louis laughs and says, "Well, that's why this café looks like this."

They all also started laughing at Louis's words. Then Elvis says "louis no comments". Then Louis says, "You make four coffees."

The old man irritably says, "Yes sir!". Then they all sit and enjoy that coffee. Then Alvis says, "Seeing this cafe reminds me of a closed stationery shop in my college which used to open only at night and one night I went to that stationery shop". Saying this, Alvis stops and then Louis asks impatiently, "Next further". Alvis says in a heavy voice, "I was standing at that stationery, I asked that uncle for two pens, he was looking for those two pens. I turned back to check something on my phone, then when I looked towards that stationery, that stationery was not there and I came home scared. Amelie says "What happened next?" Alvis says "Nothing happened, I just had good luck". Kraven says "What do you enjoy about going to such dangerous places all the time?" After some time, Elvis' eyes go to a deserted street. Pointing to that street, Elvis says, "Hey, do any of you know about this street?"

Then Craven says, "Hey, every one of us, never comes so far then how would anyone know about this street".

Elvis says, "Well, no one knows about this street, so today let's find out about this street. Tell me, what do you all say?"

Then Amelie says "Yeah okay anyway we all have a lot of time. So let's go here today."

With everyone's consent, they all sit in the car and head towards that street. After going a little further, he comes to know that this street ends at a forest. Then Kraven says, "Hey, would it be a good idea to go into this forest?" Then Elvis says, "Hey Craven, you got this great place with so much difficulty, now don't spoil everyone's mood." Then they all get excited and start moving towards that forest in their car. After going a little further he sees a mall. This mall was quite scary to look at. Because that mall had three floors, looked quite old, had a lot of vines growing on it and the most surprising thing was that there were a lot of trees around that mall. Seeing that mall, they all get surprised as to what the mall is doing in this deserted forest. Then Alvis says "This is the scariest place I've ever found in this city. It is hard to believe that such a mall can exist in this forest".

Then Louis says "Yes you are right. I also feel like going to this mall. But Elvis, listen, it's four o'clock and then slowly it will become night. So we have to come before seven o'clock."

Elvis says "Okay bro, we will all get out of this mall as soon as possible."

Kraven says, "Yes, it makes sense that we get out of there quickly."

Then agreeing with Louis' words, they all head towards the mall. Then they all start going inside that mall. There is a glass door in front of that mall. There was a lot of dust and some vines growing on it. That door was open. They come inside the mall through that door. Then they see that they on the ground floor. The light there comes only through glass doors and windows. There is nothing much there, just two cash counters, two closed vending machines on the side and a big closed clock. Seeing him, Kraven says "There is nothing here. Let's go upstairs". Then they all start going up with the help of stairs. They all reach the first floor. There they find three types of shops. First of clothes, second of toys and third of shoes. Seeing all this, Elvis says, "Let's go to each shop one by one." Then Amelie says, "Alvis, what is there in those broken shops?" Then Kraven says "Hey! No Amelie, there is always something interesting to be found in a place like this". Then everyone starts going to those shops on the advice of Elvis. On the other side of all this, the child is playing with one of his toys. That toy looked like a pigeon and then his mother comes there. His mother takes that toy from him and then she goes to a window with that toy and throws it far away. That child feels as if someone has taken out his heart and thrown it out because the child had made that toy with his own hands with great effort. That child stays near that window and his mother goes away crying loudly. On the other hand, the first thing they go to is a clothing store. There is very little light in that shop because there are not many windows there. They all go inside and see nothing but an empty shop. Then Amelie says arrogantly, "See what I said, you will not get anything". Then Elvis says, "Amelie, don't give your verdict so quickly, at least take a look up." Amelie says "Well what is that up there?" Amelie looks up and screams loudly because there were many mannequins hanging above and there were clothes on them too. Seeing this scene, Amelie gets a little scared and she says to Elvis, "Dude, who would have done all this?" Then Elvis says, "The people who came here for the last time must have done all this." Then they go to the toy shop. There were many dolls kept there. Each doll is covered in dust and has its eyes and mouth stitched on. Now seeing this, all of them feel bad. Then they all go to the shoe shop. There are very beautiful and shiny shoes are in the showcase. They all become very happy after seeing that shop. Then Louis says "Hey! ,Wow! A proper shop has been seen in this whole place". Elvis says in surprise, "But I found this shop the scariest." Then Amelie laughs and says "Hey! What is it, while living in a boys hostel, dust seems good and cleanliness seems scary." Then Elvis laughs and says, "Come on, let's go to the second floor." Then they all start going to the second floor. There are cosmetic shops, kitchen items, empty food stalls and gym equipment shops. Then Elvis says, "Are you going to go to all these stores too?" Then Louis says, "Oh no man, now we will all go to the third floor and come back". Craven says "Yeah man Lewis is right." Then they all go straight from the second floor to the third floor. But instead of going to the third floor, Elvis goes to the cosmetic shop on the second floor and says, "I am just going to the cosmetic shop once." On the other side of all this, the child comes home late and has a new toy in his hand and he is hiding that toy from his mother and then his mother is not even looking at his innocent face. His mother throws the toy out of his hand and then his mother brings a knife in her hand while crying. On the other hand, Alvis sees that there was a lot of mess in the cosmetic shop. Sees lipstick, powder, some glass pieces. Then Elvis screams loudly and on the other side, the child's mother stabs him with a knife and the child screams very loudly. On the other side of all this, there is another floor above the third floor of that mall. There was a person on that floor who did not look like a human at all. He wore an armour on his body. There is a bone head on both the shoulders and navel of that armour and a big clock is attached on the back. The hands of that watch are of humans. To tie that armour, a chain was placed on it. The colour of that person's eyes is black and the colour of the iris is red. He gives one of his devilish laughs.