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was in the news for killing 18 people. Now Nirmal
was here, he tried to catch all of us, but somehow
Left I managed to escape in a boat and sailed far in the
lake. I fell asleep and when my eyes opened I was in
to an island and thinking of only 3 words :
REACT
Die REPEL
RUN
I reached in for my phone (no signal). “UGH
I HATE THIS”, I thought to myself. I walked a little
far to find service. I tried to call my family but the
phone was dead. I had nowhere to go .
I searched left and right and couldn't find
nor see anyone. I climbed up a tree and slept on its
It was an all crystal day, the sun was shining branch.
bright, the lake was cool, and our stay in the cabins
were delightful. It was a day when my friends and I I woke up hearing weird noises and footprints
were just going to sit back and relax. We started to near me. I got scared and fumbled for a bamboo stick
pack our stuff in the cabins, got dressed and went to nearby as I got down from the tree. I held on to the
the lake to dive. Everyone was swimming. I was just stick and escaped the scene from behind the tree.
relaxing, staring into the woods, when I saw a weird I heard steps following me. When I turned, I saw a
masked person or a creature. He was very tall, almost black figure. He stopped his mindless shuffling, and
6 feet and he was wearing a long black coat. turned slowly to face me. Like the other thing back
in the camp, he was absolutely disgusting. His nose
I thought I was just imagining it, until one was ripped entirely from his face, only a jagged crater
of my friends thought he too saw the same masked remained. One eye was probably missing and the
figure. Everyone looked and saw the same figure who bottom part of his jaw was missing entirely.
suddenly started moving into the water. My friends
got out and ran, we all stayed in the cabin for the I raised the bamboo high and hit his head.
whole night but not all of us were there. One of our He fell on the ground moaning loudly. I bashed the
friends was missing. bamboo again and again on his head. On the third
hit, his skull cracked, and on the fourth the head split
It was 11:01 at night, when we heard our door open, with a wet squishing sound, almost as if some-
banging. All of us were terrified. The scariest thing one had burst open a watermelon.
was when at 11:45 p.m my friend (Shaurya) went to
fix the power because the lights were flickering. Even I quickly looked around, hoping that his
though he was scared, he would do it for us. dying moans had not attracted others. But I saw that
half a dozen of them were coming out from the caves
nearby.
He didn't return after that.
I panicked and began to run away and I saw
another boat on the island. I ran fast and jumped
But soon the banging noises continued and onto the boat and started rowing faster and faster
got softer, then louder again. I was stuck there with . When I looked back I saw Nirmal behind me. He
my friends with candles lit. The banging stopped for with a grinning smile bumped my boat and I fell
a while then my missing friend’s body was thrown down in the water. I didn't know how to swim and
through the window drenched in a pool of blood. We soon felt my lungs filled with water and then a total
screamed as we now saw a serial killer named Nirmal blackout!
entering the scene. He had escaped prison, and he
- Saanvi Karki
