The Skeleton Figure

Hey, guys! Got a new little story for you that I wrote yesterday at Writing Club. Hope you guys like it! Enjoy!

Written: 10/17/13
The Prompt: The black cat started to crouch and hiss when…

 

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The black cat started to crouch and hiss when the tv turned to static and blare loudly. He jumped off of the couch and onto his human’s stomach.

Jay startled, throwing himself of the couch.  He glared at his cat before turning the tv to some infomercial. “Rude,” Jay muttered.

Bealfire, his cat, just sat nice and prettily on the coffee table, cleaning himself. With a yawn, Jay stretched and thought about getting himself some of the pizza and peppers he had ordered earlier. As he went to stand, he heard his name.

“Mitch?” Jay looked for his roommate but a quick look around the room, showed that Mitch had yet to return. His jacket wasn’t hanging up, neither were his keys and his shoes weren’t by the coffee table waiting to trip Jay once again.

“Jay!”

The voice was louder this time. Maybe he was going crazy… (If he was, then he owed his ex an apology.)

“Jay! Yo, look over here!”

Jay turned his head toward the tv, only to be greeted with someone – a man going by the voice and body – wearing a skeleton mask.

“Uh, did you say something?”

This was so st—

“Yeah! About time I got your attention!”

Jay fell back onto the couch, eyes wide open as he stared in disbelief at the tv.

“This is nuts,” Jay muttered.

“No, what’s nuts is you eating peppers with that pizza. It’ll just give you nightmares and heartburn.”

“How did-“

“Never mind that. I need you to do something.”

“…What?”

“Go to the mirror.”

After a moment of hesitation, Jay went over to the mirror. “What now?”

“Look at me.”

Jay looked from his reflection, back to the skeleton masked wearing figure.

“Now look at your true self.”

Jay looked back at the mirror and screamed. He had black skin, yellow eyes, red triangles under his eyes and fangs that were dripping blue. The skeleton started to laugh as Jay continued to scream.

With a gasping breath, Jay awoke. He raced to the mirror, knocking Bealfire off of him. Jay sighed in relief. He looked totally normal. He needed to go to bed.

Jay turned the tv off and swooped down to grab Bealfire before heading for his bedroom, hearing Mitch snoring away in his own room. As he walked down the dark hallway, he heard the skeleton once again;

“Goodnight Jay,” and its laugh dying off.

Dusty Diary

A/N: This was born from me re-reading a journal entry I made about a moth or so ago. A line from the entry sounded too good to not be in a story.  So, I opened up Zen Writer and got started! The diary entry in this story is basically mine except with a few differences, extra details and a few added things; if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask! And so now, I leave you to read and enjoy! ^.^

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Julie flipped through the diary she had found in one of her grandmother’s trunks. According to her mother, this trunk held things belonging to her great-aunt Trudy who had disappeared long before Julie or even her mother had ever been born.

Taking a glance around the mostly packed up attic, Julie hemmed and hawed over reading the private thoughts of the great-aunt she had never met but shrugged, deciding there was no harm in it and she deserved a break as she had been working for hours already helping her mother pack up her grandmother’s house.

Julie sat down on another trunk and flipped to the last entry in the diary, noting that the year was the year her great-aunt had disappeared and so Julie started to read, using the light from the swinging light bulb.

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Priceless Endings

A/N: Okay, so this is an old one-shot I wrote back in 2010 for a contest on Quizilla, which I won by the way; first place! Anyway, I re-found it and realized it was actually kinda good so I fixed up a few typos and figured I post it here! This is a WWE one-shot and for the contest I had to use the lyric: I wanna kick your teeth in, plastic smile to match your style’ from the song Hollywood Whore by Papa Roach. Also note that Amoureux and petite amie – both mean sweetheart, but are two different ways of saying it. Enjoy as always!

 

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Haley made a face at the back of Maryse’s head; she knew she was being childish, but honestly, the brunette didn’t care. Maryse had what Haley had wanted for eight years. Ted DiBiase jr’s attention.

Back when Haley had been 14, she moved with her mother from their small town in North Carolina, to Clinton, Mississippi. Haley had been against it at first, as she didn’t want to leave her life behind, but she soon grew sick of the looks she and her mother would garner and the pity; all because her father had left them one day and never came back.

After a fight at school, Haley’s mother moved them back out to where she had grown up herself.

At first, Haley had trouble settling in, but then ran into the guy who would be her best friend; Brett DiBiase. The two shared the same math class and soon found out they shared a love for wrestling.

As her and Brett’s friendship grew, so did Haley’s crush on his elder brother, Ted. While harboring a crush on the elder DiBiase, Haley’s love for wrestling grew and along with Brett she worked to be able to join WWE. After years of wrestling, Haley was signed and soon on RAW. Which she had hoped would get her closer with Ted, but instead it caused her to be up close and personal with the man and woman causing her heart break.

The Curse

A/N: Once again this is another story written during Writing Club. The prompt was ‘Write about a curse’ and something about opening a pirate treasure chest (aka the curse of opening the chest) but we kinda just y’know wrote about a curse that we came up with. What follows is my story that I wrote. Enjoy.

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Tom Warwick was a dangerous man; at least that’s what everyone said. What else could you say about a man who lived in a large mansion all alone when he first built said mansion? People whispered about the weird sounds and disappearing animals but it wasn’t till people started disappearing that something was done. Tom was attacked by a mob of townspeople who hung him in the town square as he cursed them before burying his body in an unmarked grave.

The mansion was left to squander and for the Earth to take over as no one dared to step foot inside of a place filled with dark acts and who knows what ungodly things from the other side?

That is…till the present time where the stories of old Tom Warwick were nothing but old wives tales and just silly stories meant to scare younger siblings.

That’s where our story begins…

Godfather Shadows – Home

Note: Okay, so this is the final one-shot in the Godfather Shadows series – for now. One day more will be added to the series – hopefully. But first, I have something to say about this one-shot. There’s a trigger warning as there’s talk of the act of self harm. The self harm act is one I’ve sadly done many times myself; I drew inspiration from what I’ve done and in later one-shots, depending on what direction they go, we’ll see the act change. But anyway, I hope you enjoy reading the last (for now) installment.

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They were almost home. Almost at that precious finish line. Being on the road touring and selling out arenas around the country was amazing and great, it was what they had dreamed of for so long but it wasn’t easy being away from your loved ones. It wasn’t anyone’s favorite part of the job at all. Keeping in contact wasn’t always easy because of different time zones and life in general.

Godfather Shadows – Dear God pt.2

Note: Obviously, I own nothing but my own ideas, my own characters and the link in my pockets. As you can see, Avenged Sevenfold isn’t on the list of things I own; their on the do not own list. And as always, enjoy.

 

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It wasn’t the first time the guys had been on tour, leaving Brandy behind and it wouldn’t be the last time more than likely but this would be the first time since Talia, Brandy’s mom had passed. None of the guys were sure about how to handle the situation. If they tried to speak to Brandy about it, she would just smile and tell them she was fine but it was hard to believe her when she still had herself locked away from the world.

Godfather Shadows – Studio

Note: Happy Thanksgiving to all the people who follow and read what I post here 🙂 Hope you have a safe, fun and delicious holiday! I still don’t own Avenged Sevenfold and I still own just Brandy and Talia. And like always… enjoy.

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“Goddammit! Fuck!” Brian swore as he messed up on his guitar solo once again.

Normally with Brandy being in the studio, Brian and everyone else would lower their colorful talk from a 10 to a 7 at least but Matt knew a part of Brian swearing was show as each time he went off on a curse filled rant Brandy would at the least smile if she didn’t giggle. And to be honest, Matt needed all the help he could get lately with getting Brandy to smile.

Godfather Shadows – So Far Away pt. 3

Note: Well, this is the end of the So Far Away one-shots but not the end of the Godfather Shadows series. And like always, I do not own Avenged Sevenfold but I do own Brandy and Talia. Enjoy.

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A home invasion… How could that happen? To them?

It was a strange and odd idea to wrap his head around and Matt still couldn’t quite do it, even after getting the news nearly an hour ago. He had been at home (oh god, what if this happened to Val while he was on the road? What if this happened when he had kids one day? What if–), relaxing when Jason called him.

Godfather Shadows – So Far Away Pt.2

Note: So this one-shot and the next one following it are all kind of… different ways for the same ending as you’ll see as you read. Hopefully you’ll enjoy. And like always, I do not own Avenged Sevenfold. I just own Brandy and Talia.

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CANCER.

There was no word in the world that could make that word sound better. There was nothing anyone could say or do.

And yet, that’s all Matt wanted to do. He wanted to make this better. He wanted to find a way to somehow make everything better but he couldn’t, and that killed him.

His goddaughter was losing her mother and he couldn’t do anything.

Godfather Shadows – So Far Away Pt. 1

Note: So this one-shot and the two following it are all kind of… different ways for the same ending as you’ll see as you read. Hopefully you enjoy 🙂 And like always, I do not own Avenged Sevenfold. I just own Brandy and Talia.

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It was a normal day for Matt but it turned into a day he nor his band mates and especially, his goddaughter, would never forget.

Matt had been at the recording studio when Val had called him, her voice filled with concern and a hint of panic. He had no clue as to what was causing her reaction till she finally said,

“There’s been an accident.”