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Posted by: steelboom490
By Artemis Fowl (requested to have it posted)
Damn, I was flying down to some Ghost Town for a meeting my work had told me about at the last minute. I wasn't able to make reservations for a hotel or anything, and the only place I could find was about 150 years old. Ah well, at least the trip was only for two weeks.
The man sitting at the hotel desk was old, I was thinking about asking him if he was as old as the hotel. He fumbled around in a box and handed me the key. I read the number, Room 13. "Careful in there," the clerk said. "Yeah, alright," I said, pressing the buttons to the elevator.
Now, not to be gross or anything, but I don't usually get up to take a piss in the middle of the night. For some reason, I guess it was just being in a new place, I had to. I got up and went into the bathroom. One side of the wall was particularly worn. I didn't remember seeing that when I got there. I finished my piss, washed my hands and went to bed. I swore I heard something whispering on the other side of the wall.
Now, normally, I don't believe in ghosts, but all that night I kept having nightmares. The next day, I got up and put on my best dress shirt, ready for my work meeting. I read the address on the memo and drove all the way to the convention center. There was a security gate out front and the guard asked me what I was here for. "A work meeting, Room 402," I said. "Sorry kid, nothing scheduled for Room 402 this week," the man said. I felt kind of embarassed and drove back home. On the way back I kept looking at the address seat. I had gone to the right place, but the meeting wasn't there.
The next day I decided to call my boss and ask him if he copied the address down right. I picked up the phone and dialed the number, but no sound came out of the phone. I followed the line all the way to the plug and saw that someone had cut it right at its end. I walked out of the room to the elevator.
The clerk was still there, but he looked a lot older, like he had just aged ten years in a few nights. "Excuse me?" I asked. He nodded at me. "Umm, my phone line is disconnected up in my room, if I could use the phone down here real quick," I said. He pointed to the phone. I picked it up and dialed my boss's number. "We're sorry, this number has been disconnected."
I stormed back up to my room, furious. Not only was I stuck here, but my boss had to decide to have here number changed. And to make it worse, there was a hole in the bathroom wall. Wait... WHAT?! I double taked and saw it again. There was a whole about the size of my eye in the side of the bathroom wall! I looked into it but it was too dark to see. I ran out of the room and down to the lobby. "Excuse me, sir. There's a hole in my wall. If you could just come check it and make sure..." I trembled. He got up and went with me to my room.
"I see no hole," he said smoothly. I walked into the bathroom and looked at the hole, but it wasn't there. The wall was perfectly clean and shiny, like someone had just cleaned it yesterday. The man grunted and went down to the lobby. I stared at the wall in amazement, how could the hole have disappeared so easily? Was I hallucinating?
I slept uneasily that night, voices kept coming to me. And then it was, the urgence to take another piss. I got up and went to the bathroom. I slid inside and left the door wide open. The wall was worn again, and just as I finished pissing I heard a loud CRACK! I turned around and tore it back into my room. Everything seemed fine, I looked around the room a few times and went back into the bathroom to wash my hands. The hole was back, but this time a demonic red light was coming from it. I looked inside but everything was just filled with red, I couldn't see.
Friday came, and it was a Fridath the 13th. Once again I slept uneasily. I woke up in the night to piss, again. As I went into the bathroom, the small eye sized hole had grown. A lot. It was now big enough for a full grown man to crawl into. I stared in horror at the dark red light emitting from the hole. I stood in shock for a few seconds, but then ran all the way to the stairs, not bothering to take the elevator. When I reached the lobby, the old man was sitting there, but he seemed almost ancient looking. "Giant... Hole... In... Bathroom..." I breathed, gasping for air. The man looked annoyed, but agreed to walk with me to my room to give it a look.
The hole was gone. The wall was clean. I was stuttering, trying to find the right words. I must've been going insane, I thought to myself. I went back to bed, but woke up again, for another piss. Did I have a bladder problem? Two pisses in one night? I cursed out loud and walked to the bathroom. The hole was back, but it was big enough for me to stand up in now. I leaned into it, the demonic red light almost blinding me. I felt a swift push from behind me and fell into the hole. I jumped and turned around to get out, but the hole was only big enough for my eye again. I looked through it to see the clerk, but his body was thinning away, as if he were only a skeleton. I beat on the wall, screaming for help but nothing came.
I waited, and something was speaking to me. It was telling me to go into the hole further. I tried to resist, but I couldn't. I involuntarily stood up and walked forward. The hole widened into a cave, and it got even darker. I began whispering to myself, shivering in the cold. Pipes were sticking out of the walls, as though someone had dug right through the plumbing. I kept going unit my foot landed in a puddle. It was deep puddle, and I had to pull my leg with all my strength to get it out. I thought maybe it was water from the pipes, but when I looked down, I saw my pant leg drenched in blood. I wanted to scream but something stopped me. I silently continued walking forward.
"What are you doing here?" A man that looked exactly like the clerk in his skeletal appearance stood there, but there was a different feeling with him. His eyes were black, nothing went into them, nothing came out. He stared blankly at me, expecting an answer. I mumbled and looked around. The walls were decorated with human bones and skin, but the man didn't seem to notice at all. He stood up and began walking deeper into the cave, beckoning me to come.
We reached a large carven that was all hollow except for a torch with a pendulum scraped in the dirt around it. The man lit it and began chanting something. The fire grew and seemed to show everything in the room. Human corpses lay around the room in piles, their flesh rotting and bones showing. I started to scream but the man stopped me. "Silence!" he whispered loudly. He finished chanting and something came out of the fire. It was a ceremonial dagger. He began walking towards me, a malicious look in his eyes. I shivered all over, and ran all the way back as far as I could remember. I was lost, and I was going to die in this cave. "Over here!" The skeletal clerk called desperately. I ran towards him and found the hole, wide open, in my bathroom. As I jumped through it, the hole shut, except for the eyehole. I heard ancient sounding screams coming from the other side of the wall. I floored it all the way down to the lobby. At the desk, the clerk was sitting there calmly. "Did you kill him?" he asked quietly. I shook my head. "Leave, now." He helped me pack my bags and put them in my car. "Get as far away from here as you can. Don't stop for anything," he said quickly. I got in my car, thanked him, and got the hell out of Dodge.
My tank of gas was just about empty. I stopped at a gas station and went inside to pay. I asked where the bathroom was, not looking at the cashier. I walked in with the key and saw a giant, gaping hole in the wall of the bathroom, a human skeleton hanging from the edge. I ran out of the store and into my car. As I looked up into the store, I saw the clerk. His eyes were straight black, and he looked as thin as a skeleton. I looked around and saw, to my horror, that other people were getting out of their cars, their figure morphing to match the man, and they were all marching towards my car...
-Artemis Fowl
That was freaky but are you sure there was 2 bathrooms that were similar 0_0