Fear- The Complete Trilogy of Horror Short Stories

by Lee Jones

  Her father notices something is off. He is reading in the living room and gets up and knocks on her door. “Grace, whats going on are you ok?”

  “I’m ok dad! I’m ok,” says Grace.

  The werewolf makes it to the school campus. On it’s path it breaks a window and causes damage to property. It makes it way down a road and into town. An elderly woman is in her home watching TV. She notices a silhouette outside the window and thinks it might be a burglar. She grabs a shot gun from the garage and steps outside looking around.

  “OK COME OUT I KNOW YOUR HERE!” yells the woman. She turns around and can hear a growl in the darkness. “What is that a dog?”

  The werewolf lunges forward from the darkness. The woman fires a shot. The beast has a wound in its shoulder and it looks at it. Blood is seeping but it rebounds and attacks again. It mauls the woman. It eats the flesh of it’s victim leaving some body parts and bones before a neighbor walks out and notices whats going on.

  The beast dashes off disappearing into the night. Minutes later, the local news station and sheriff arrive on the scene. The sheriff walks up standing just above the dead carcass of the victim. “Looks like another one of these attacks,” says sheriff Brown.

  Grace turns on the TV and see the local news. Another victim. Grace begins crying she feels stupid for not finding her bag with silver to stop the rampage of the beast.

  The next mourning Grace heads out to retrieve her bag. She has the same map and follows it. Kye is found sleeping naked in the woods. “Kye!” she yells. Grace runs and shake Kye sleeping on the ground. He has a wound on his left shoulder. “Your hurt?” she says.

  He lifts his head and looks at her. “Grace? your here” She kisses him on the cheek. “We need to get you some clothes,” she stole some from her dad and gives it to Kye. He put it on.

  “Somebody was killed last night Kye,” says Grace. “I can see something happened to me but I can’t remember anything after you left,” he says. “It’s my fault, I, I didn’t have the silver with me and I was so scared I just ran,” she says. Grace walks over and can see her bag is still there.

  “Nothing is your fault, it did what you could to stop the beast inside me,” he says. She walks him back to the car and they drive back into town.

  THE CURSE

  The school is repairing the damage. Footprints were casted by plaster by the sheriff. Kye is at football practice. The problem is, is that he is distracted. He has been thinking lately about the upcoming blood moon and is increasingly worried. “Kye! What’s going on?” says the coach.

  Kye’s performance is lacking in practice. “I just got a lot on my mind right now coach,” says Kye. “Take a break, I need focused players on my field right now,” says the coach. Kye goes to his car and looks at his phone. He has voicemails from colleges wanting to recruit him for their football team. He gets a text from Grace.

  Grace: I’m going to do better, don’t worry I won’t mess up

  Kye: I’m afraid this blood moon you won’t be able to stop me

  Kye: Meet me at the beach

  They meet at the beach at night. There is a bonfire but Kye is all alone. Grace walks up. “Hey.”

  “Hey,” says Kye. They feel a bit award around each other. “So in a few days it’s going to be a blood moon,” says Grace. “I know it’s been troubling me for a while. This could potentially be even worse. I need to stop the killings,” says Kye.

  PAST

  Grace is in school but Kye has missed school again. She is in science class the the teacher is discussing the blood moon set to appear that same night.

  “A lunar eclipse occurs only when the earth, sun and moon are directly aligned,” says the science teacher. “We will be able to see it tonight so I want a brief summary on your aberrations due by tomorrow,” says the teacher. The bell rings and Grace gets out of class. School is out and she needs to find Kye. She gets a text.

  Kye: Meet me in our secret place

  Grace get in her car but she is unsure this time. Can she stop the beast? She gets to the secret location and finds Kye there awaiting her return. “You missing days at school people are wondering whats going on?” she says.

  He gets up and looks her in the eyes. “Kye is not perfect, he has flaws like everyone else. My parents were werewolves, they wanted me to have a normal life so they put me in a foster home. Football was my escape, I grew up almost forgetting about it. But when I got older I started transforming into this monster. I am the only one I know of,” says Kye. He is still staring off in the distance pondering.

  Grace walks up hugs him from behind. “I want you to know whatever happens tonight, it wasn’t me. Kye would never do this. It was the beast,” he says.

  Some time passes and the sun starts going down. Grace has her things and is more prepared this time.

  “We want to control the beast but not kill me,” says Kye. A tear falls from his eye.

  BLOOD MOON

  The sun has gone down and Kye begins transforming. His eyes get bigger, His veins begin popping out, his body temperature rises. “Grace!” Grace looks up and grabs the jewelry from her bag. She places a necklace around his neck. “ARGHHH!!!” He screams and when the silver touches his skin steam emits. His body is sill transforming and he is growing in size.

  Claws are developing form his hands and his face is forming into that of a wolf. “Grace hurry I need more silver!” Grace hurries and grabs another necklace to put on his neck. She puts it on and the skin burns and steam emits. His neck grows so big that it breaks the necklace and it poops off.

  Any other jewelry wont work at this point. “GRACE! RUN!” yells the beast. Grace turns and runs as fast as she can. She remembers this time where she needs to go. She is running as fast as she can.

  HOWL! She can hear in the background. She gets in her car but she wants to follow the beast path this time to warn anyone.

  The beast begins galloping down the road. She notices in her rear mirror that this time it’s much much bigger. Grace drives to the sheriff’s office. She runs out and and into the building. “Sheriff Brown, we have an emergency!” yells Grace. The sheriff gets up, “well what is it?”

  “The killings have been all related to a beast, a wolf. A half man, half wolf. He stands about 8 feet tall, if we don’t stop him more killings are going to happen tonight!” says Grace.

  “Haha, kid you can’t be serious?” says the sheriff. “I’m telling you we need to go now!” yells Grace.

  “Alright, alright I’m sure it’s not what you think it is.,” says the sheriff reluctantly. She gets in the sheriff ’s car and she directs the sheriff where to go. They drive down a road into the darkness of night. They then get to the center of town and can see the beast breaking down whole buildings and structures.

  The beast smashes into the small brick post office demolishing it. The sheriff slams on the breaks. “What in the world?” He gets out and grabs his shot gun from the trunk.

  “Wait don’t kill him, It’s Kye!” yells Grace. “The football star?”the sheriff looks confused. “Only silver can stop the beast” says Grace.

  The sheriff gets on the radio, “Calling for backup, for a, for a large wolf!” The people of the town come out to see what all the commotion is. Some of the kids from school are out and the use their cell phones to video tape the incident. For most people of the town this is there first time getting a glimpse at the beast.

  The beast smashes through a convince store and the building demolishes. It thens heads towards a gas station. The sheriff aims his gun but Grace puts her hand on the barrel and lowers his sight.

  “Kid get your hand off, we gotta kill this thing!” he yells.

  More police cars arrive. Another sheriff calls in for air support. Moments later a helicopter arrives with a spotlight on the beast tracking it’s move. The beast is running along the road and notices the spotlight from the helicopter.

  The police setup a roadblock setting up several cars in an attempt to stop it. Th
e beast fast approaches, howls and then smashes through the blockade of police cars. An officer on the helicopter fires a shot at the beast. The beast stops and then climbs up a tree. It jumps from the tree onto the helicopter.

  The weight is too much and the helicopter begins to fall and crashes in the trees. It eats the dead officers in the helicopters ripping their bodies to shreds.

  A swarm of police cars arrive and the officers get out and start firing at it. It proceeds to run towards the marina. The beast smashes through some buildings and then pickups and throws a boat at the officers.

  Grace gets in the sheriff’s car stealing it and drives away. She drives up to the marina and walks out with her bag. “Kye! Kye!” She runs out towards him. “It’s me, Grace,” she says. The beast turns around stops and looks at her.

  The beast is breathing heavily. It locks eyes with her. Grace approaches the beast. “I’m here to help you, Kye,”she says. Suddenly shots ring out. The beast is hit multiple times in it’s chest. “NO!” she yells. It’s helpless body falls to the ground.

  It starts transforming back to human. Back to Kye. Grace runs up and can see it’s him back in human form. His body lays helpless on the ground. She embraces him and the blood gets on her clothes. She is weeping. The police narrow in and surround her and Kye.

  To be continued in part 2…

  THE UNDEAD: MASSACRE

  By Lee Jones

  PROLUGUE

  An epidemic is bound to wipe out the worlds population… Our four heroes must get the research file to the CDC, but the safe house is breached with a horde of zombies.

  MASSACRE

  After some time to rest the team hesitates no more to get moving. Before leaving Dr. Meyer hands Rochelle a notebook. “Protect this with your life,” she says.

  Outside the hospital, flood lights are setup from the roof to illuminate the perimeter. The fence is mainly setup inside the hospital wing where the survivors wait. On the roof the guards can see a few more infected straggling towards the hospital. The stragglers start growing in numbers.

  The guard on the roof takes a spotlight and shines it down below. He can now see there is a horde of infected gathered just below. The horde is rapidly growing in size and they have now gotten inside the lobby of the hospital. A guard inside the fence is looking from inside the wing out into the lobby.

  Infected rush in a large horde and push against the fence. Now more infected are in the lobby so many till no floor space is seen. They all push together at once and push the down the fence. BOOM! The horde rushes in. “Get back!” yells the guard as he fires his gun.

  The guard is quickly overtaken and falls over. He is bitten. Other guards run down the wing with guns. They fire at the incoming horde of infected. Some infected fall down but the horde is so large that their guns can’t stop them all. The guards are quickly taken over by the horde and bitten then they’re bodies ripped to shreds and eaten.

  A fire alarm goes off. Lights are flashing. Rochelle and the gang are in a hospital room awaiting departure for they’re mission. They look out the window and can see a sea of infected all the way down the street for a mile up to the hospital.

  “Shit, we need to get moving,” says Rochelle. James grabs a rifle and loads a few rounds in the chamber. They depart the hospital room down the stairs to the cafeteria. At the bottom of the stairs looking out the door window they can see a horde of infected. Survivors are being ripped to shreds and eaten. Limbs pulled from their bodies and flesh eaten from bone. Blood splattering everywhere.

  The noise is deafening, the infected are growling and hissing, making noises like wild animals. James fires a few shots at the horde through the window. Two infected go down but the other infected quickly turn to look at them. The infected begin moving towards them. Zac and Will point their guns at the horde and begin firing. Some infected go down but there are so many they just keep coming.

  “There’s too many!” says Zac. They run back up the stairs to where they came from. They can see Dr. Meyer trying to get her patients disconnected from the tubes in the hospital beds. “Let’s help her!” says Rochelle. The gang runs and quickly tries to help patients up out of bed to safety.

  “There is a helicopter on the roof, we need to make it upstairs!” says Dr. Meyer.

  BOOM! The infected have busted down the door on the first floor. “We need to get moving they’re coming up the stairs”, says Zac. Dr. Meyer is trying to help up an elderly woman in bed. “Doctor, we need to get moving the infected are going to be here in less than a minute!” yells Zac. “I can’t just leave my patients here, we need to get them out”, replies Dr. Meyer. “Listen we don’t have time, there are too many to stop!” yells Zac.

  Rochelle goes to grab the doctor but she shrugs her arm. “Let go of me! It’s my duty to take care of my patients, now they must be saved”, yells Dr. Meyer. “Guys lets go”, says Rochelle to the rest of the gang. The infected have now made it to the second floor and the gang runs to the stairwell. James and Zac fire they’re guns for just enough time to make it to the next floor up. On the way out Rochelle can see the infected grabbing Dr. Meyer and her patients being ripped to shreds and eaten.

  The gang is running up the fire stairwell to the roof. They can see just below them the horde of infected coming up just below them on the stairs. They get to the third floor, the forth floor, the fifth floor then finally the tenth floor. Everyone is huffing and puffing, sweating heavily. Will coughs, they can see the helicopter sitting on the pad. “I’ll get the chopper started! hold them off for a few minutes!” yells Zac. Zac runs to get in the helicopter. He straps in and looks around at the switches.

  ESCAPE

  Will, James and Rochelle are at the top of the stairwell with their guns pointed. They can hear the loud growling and hissing. Then finally they see infected. Everyday people who were infected with an unknown virus turned into raging cannibals. Animals with no other thought process but to eat uninfected beings.

  They begin firing and take down a few infected. The sound of round shells are dropping to the floor. The rotors on the helicopter start to spin. “Let’s get in!” yells Will. They all turn around and run for the helicopter and get in. They shut the doors. “Strap in, it’ my first time flying,” says Zac. “I thought you were in the Army?” says James. “I was, however I was infantry”, says Zac. The helicopter lifts up slowly and wobbly a few feet off the pad.

  Infected come rushing onto the roof of the hospital. The helicopter is hovering just a few feet off the ground. “Alright, lets get us out of here,” says James. He flips some switches above him. The infected horde are running towards them. As the helicopter starts to elevate higher, a couple infected have grabbed onto the helicopter’s landing skids.

  The helicopter lifts up into the air wobbling side to side. “Steady as she goes,” says Zac speaking to himself.

  “I think we are the only known survivors, we left a whole lot of sick patients and survivors back there. ” says Rochelle. “We left the only known person who has studied the infected and knows how to make a vaccine, Dr. Meyer” says James.

  “She gave a notebook before we left,” says Rochelle.

  Will leans over and can see the infected hanging onto the landing skies of the helicopter. “We got a few un invited passengers on board,” says Will. He grabs his hand gun and leans over. He takes a shot and misses, the bullet sparking on the landing ski.

  The helicopter is now in the air hovering away from the landing pad but wobbling side to side. “I’m trying to hold this thing steady,” says Zac. Will leans over again to shoot but misses the shot when the helicopter bobs to the side. CRASH!

  The other infected have smashed the other side of the helicopter window. It’s snapping it’s teeth at them. James is sitting closes to the window. It bites him and grabs his arm. “Shit!” yells James. Will looks over and can see what’s going on. He grabs a pistol and tries to aim steady not to hit James. A struggle ensues. “Damn!” Will is frustrated that he can
’t get a good aim with the helicopter bobbing about and drops the pistol on the floor of the helicopter. He gets up and

  punches the infected in the head. Zac gets distracted and looks behind him and can see what’s going. He looks back and can see the needles on the dials begin to drop. He starts flipping switches. He can see that it looks like the engine lost power. He lost engine power and needs to make an emergency landing. The helicopter is gliding back down to the ground.

  There is a grassy area nearby, a park, he steers the helicopter the best he can. The helicopter is coming in fast. Everyone bracing for impact. The auto rotation helping glide the helicopter down but too fast. CRASH! They have crashed in the middle of the park. Black smoke is filling the air around them and a small fire has started up front.