Post by lionclaw0612 on Jun 5, 2014 11:22:45 GMT -5
The White Thing-A story based on real events… sort of…ok not really
Some of the stuff is real, the place where its set, the people, some of the stuff we did…
This is a story about how we discovered the white thing and killed it. (We never came up with a real name for it so we just called it “The white thing”)
I'll tell you about the characters now so I won't have to later.
First we have myself; a 16 year old boy, quite tall and skinny.
Next we have my two half-brothers; Kieran and James, the former is 15, the latter 14. Same sort of build as me.
I also have a younger half brother and sister (amber and Louis but they aren't really in the story.
Now for the pets, Devina is a black Labrador cross border-collie, TJ is a dachshund that looks like a stretched rat. Ruby is an old white Labrador.
The story starts the day I go to my dad’s, he lives exactly 125.66 miles from me and 800ft higher, so I only go there in the holidays.
13/04/14 19:00
I arrived at the house after a 3 hour car journey, just as I arrived, Kieran and James left to go to gym. James said I could play on his computer while he was gone. When I went upstairs to James’s room I saw that his computer was unplugged. I couldn't be bothered to set it up so I went down stairs and played with Louis and TJ the dog. We were chasing him around the table in the kitchen.
Later when my brothers came back we played minecraft on the computer. At 11 o’clock I went to bed. I was just closing my eyes when I thought I heard a kind of growling sound coming from outside. I sat up listening for it again. Nothing. Thinking I imagined it, I went back to sleep.
I woke the next day and ate my breakfast (a cereal bar) and got dressed. After Kieran and James got up (which took a while) we played on the computer. At about 11 we went out to repair our tree house which got blown down in a hurricane. It had got stuck in a fence and we couldn’t get it out, so we cut it down instead. After we cut it down Devina started barking at a hole in the mound near the tree house. We went to look at what she was barking at, there was nothing there. “It’s probably just a rat or something” said Kieran, looking down the hole. We went back to rebuilding the tree house.
That afternoon we added a zip line to the tree house, it wasn’t working yet as it wasn’t tight enough. I was up the tree pulling on the rope to make it tighter when Devina started barking at the hole again. “What’s she barking at?” asked James. I climbed back down the tree to see. James started kicking the hole “what you doing?” I asked. Suddenly the earth around the hole collapsed. Inside there was a tunnel easily big enough for someone to walk through. James stepped into the hole. “wow”
"What could have dug something this big?" I asked
"Should we go down there?" Wondered James
"I'm not going down there" replied Kieran
"Pussy"
"Should we tell dad?" I said.
"He's gone out, remember?"
"Oh yeah, let's go have a look inside" I said stepping into the hole. We started walking down the tunnel.
"Where do you think it goes?" I asked. Before anyone could reply there was a loud growl in front of us. "What the hell was that?" I looked round a realised Kieran was already running for the exit. In front of us appeared a huge white worm thing with legs.
To save time I was show you a picture I drew of it.
If I didn't have a pee 5 minutes before, I would have probably wet myself. "Run!" I shouted, but James was already running. I followed him as fast as I could; behind me the worm thing was chasing me. I could see its teeth and smell its breath. We reached the exit, then ran as fast as we could to the house. We arrived in the kitchen panting. What was that thing?" I asked.
"Don't know, I'll ring dad" said James, getting his phone out. "And tell him what? Dad we just found a giant alien thing in a tunnel under the field, like he would believe us." Said Kieran.
"What are we going to do then?" Asked James.
"We got to find out what it was first." I replied.
We went into James's room and talked about what we just saw.
"Do you think it's that white thing?" I asked.
"What?" Said Kieran looking confused.
"Do you remember when we were younger we used to see that white thing in the field at night?"
"Oh yeah, do you think it's the same thing?"
"What else could it be?" I replied. "I got an idea, how about we camp out tonight and watch to see if it comes out."
"I'm not going out there at night!" Said Kieran in reply.
"We could stay in the garden near the house; it wouldn't be able to get there."
"I don't know..."
"I will go." Said James "I'll ask dad when he gets back."
Later when dad got back, James asked if we could camp out. Dad said yes and got the tent out for us and helped us set it up. We got some weapons ready; an axe, a sword, some of Kieran's throwing knives and a BB gun (I don't know what that would have done apart from annoy it.)
We also brought some food, torches, night vision goggles, iPhones and lots of cushions. At about 9, we got in and waited for it to get dark.
"Whats that?" Said Kieran sitting up.
"What?" I asked.
It was a beetle in the tent "wow it's just a beetle I said. I picked it up and put it outside. Suddenly I heard a growl coming from the field. It reminded me about what happened a few years ago.
We were camping in our tent in the garden; I was in my sleeping bag with Devina sleeping with her legs on top of me, when Kieran suddenly sat up. "What was that?"
"What?" I said sleepily
"I heard a growling sound."
"It was probably one of the dogs. Go back to sleep." James was still sleeping.
"That was it!" James's voice brought me back to the present.
"Let's go out and look." I said
"I'm not going out there!" Replied Kieran
"Don't be a pussy"
I slowly unzipped the tent and stepped outside, James followed me and Kieran came reluctantly behind. I grabbed the night vision goggles and switched them on, and looked at the field. I could see a faint white blur at the back of the field. "I can see it, have a look." I passed the goggles to James.
"It's going into the the other field." Said James
"Let's go follow it." I said grabbing the sword.
"You can go but I'm staying here." Replied Kieran.
"We have to find out where it's going, James you coming?"
"Fine" he picked up the axe and followed me.
"Wait, I'm not staying here on my own." Kieran said. He took the knives and BB gun.
"What's that doing to do?" I asked pointing at the gun. He ignored me. "Come on let's go." We walked into the field and followed the white thing. The thing had gone into another field.
we walked to the edge of our field and watched. The white thing was stalking a sleeping sheep. Suddenly I saw its teeth come out of its mouth and a spike come out from under its mouth. It attacked the sheep and started eating it. Suddenly it turned and saw us. "Run!" I shouted. We ran until we got to the treehouse, I looked behind us, it wasn't following. "It's not following us." I panted.
"What's that?" Asked Kieran pointing to something near the hole. We shined our torches at it, it was a human skeleton. "We should tell dad." Said James.
When we got back to the tent, none of us wanted to sleep in it so we went back to the house.
The next morning James told dad but he just thought James was being stupid. Later we convinced him to come and look at the hole. We showed him where the hole was but when we got there it was covered over. The skeleton had also disappeared. "It was just here" James told dad. Looking annoyed dad went back to work. "Where is it?" Asked James after dad had gone.
"It must have covered the hole last night." I replied.
"What we gunna do?" Asked Kieran
"We're going to have to kill it" I said suddenly.
"What?" Exclaimed Kieran "were did you get that idea from?"
"Well we aren't safe anymore, Louis or Amber could be playing in the field and the white thing could kill them. We can't tell dad or the police because no one will believe us." I replied.
"How do you think your going to kill it then?" Kieran asked.
"I don't know yet, we'll have to think of something." I replied.
"It would be good if we could shoot it, but we won't be able to get one of the guns without dad noticing." James said.
"Let's go in and think about it." I said.
We went back to the house and into James's room to think of a plan. We came up with quite a few ideas that wouldn't work. One including making a bomb. "How are we going to make a bomb? I asked
"We could put loads of flammable stuff in a plastic box, like glue, deodorant and battery's, then light a pice of sting attached to it." Kieran replied.
"I don't think that would work, and even if it did, it wouldn't kill it.
"What's your idea then?"
"I got an idea but I don't know if it will work. We make some sort of snare to trap it, then we attack it with knives, the axe and the sword until it dies."
"Do you expect us to start stabbing it with knives even though it could kill us in seconds?" Kieran asked.
"It would be trapped so it can't move, here's how we would make it... We make a snare with rope, bait it so when it goes to get the food it will get its head stuck in the snare. We would have another rope near its body that we will put tight when it's got its head stuck. The rest of it is easy."
"We could try it." James replied.
"Let's go make it now; if it doesn't work we can try something else." I said.
We started making the snare from a branch on a tree near the back of the field. We had just finished the first snare when Louis came over.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Nothing, go away Louis." Said James helping me pull the rope tighter.
"No" said Louis being stubborn.
"Fine you can help, go get us a knife." Said James.
Louis went to get the knife.
"That should get rid of him for a while." Said James. Just as Louis returned we finished the second rope.
"Right we're done." I said.
"Let's go then, come on Louis" said Kieran.
Later we stole some chicken to bait the trap, and asked dad if we could camp out again. He said we could so we waited in the tent.
"Right this is what we're gunna do... Kieran as soon as I pulled the rope tighter you throw your knives at it. James you got the axe, just attack its head. I will try to drive my sword into its eye. Any questions?" I asked.
"What if it escapes?" Asked Kieran.
"We run." I replied.
Just then we herd a roaring sound.
"I think we caught it." I said. "Let's go kill us a... White thing!" We ran toward it, it was in the trap struggling to escape. I thought I would be scared but the adrenaline took care of that. As we reached it I pulled the rope. "Throw the knife!" I shouted at Kieran. He threw it but because his hands were shaking he missed. He thew a second one, he hit it in it's... Its nose I suppose. The thing on the side of its head with the holes in the picture.
It roared and tried to bite the rope. James stuck his axe into its neck. It started bleeding, turning the ground crimson in the fading light. James had stuck the axe in so deep he couldn't get it back out.
I ran at it driving my sword into its eye. It struggled for a moment then collapsed, dead.
"We did it!" I shouted. We sat down panting.
"What's that?" James asked getting up. The tail thing on the white thing had started moving. I pulled the sword out of its eye, ready for a fight. Then a single white egg came out and fell on the ground.
End of part 1
Some of the stuff is real, the place where its set, the people, some of the stuff we did…
This is a story about how we discovered the white thing and killed it. (We never came up with a real name for it so we just called it “The white thing”)
I'll tell you about the characters now so I won't have to later.
First we have myself; a 16 year old boy, quite tall and skinny.
Next we have my two half-brothers; Kieran and James, the former is 15, the latter 14. Same sort of build as me.
I also have a younger half brother and sister (amber and Louis but they aren't really in the story.
Now for the pets, Devina is a black Labrador cross border-collie, TJ is a dachshund that looks like a stretched rat. Ruby is an old white Labrador.
The story starts the day I go to my dad’s, he lives exactly 125.66 miles from me and 800ft higher, so I only go there in the holidays.
13/04/14 19:00
I arrived at the house after a 3 hour car journey, just as I arrived, Kieran and James left to go to gym. James said I could play on his computer while he was gone. When I went upstairs to James’s room I saw that his computer was unplugged. I couldn't be bothered to set it up so I went down stairs and played with Louis and TJ the dog. We were chasing him around the table in the kitchen.
Later when my brothers came back we played minecraft on the computer. At 11 o’clock I went to bed. I was just closing my eyes when I thought I heard a kind of growling sound coming from outside. I sat up listening for it again. Nothing. Thinking I imagined it, I went back to sleep.
I woke the next day and ate my breakfast (a cereal bar) and got dressed. After Kieran and James got up (which took a while) we played on the computer. At about 11 we went out to repair our tree house which got blown down in a hurricane. It had got stuck in a fence and we couldn’t get it out, so we cut it down instead. After we cut it down Devina started barking at a hole in the mound near the tree house. We went to look at what she was barking at, there was nothing there. “It’s probably just a rat or something” said Kieran, looking down the hole. We went back to rebuilding the tree house.
That afternoon we added a zip line to the tree house, it wasn’t working yet as it wasn’t tight enough. I was up the tree pulling on the rope to make it tighter when Devina started barking at the hole again. “What’s she barking at?” asked James. I climbed back down the tree to see. James started kicking the hole “what you doing?” I asked. Suddenly the earth around the hole collapsed. Inside there was a tunnel easily big enough for someone to walk through. James stepped into the hole. “wow”
"What could have dug something this big?" I asked
"Should we go down there?" Wondered James
"I'm not going down there" replied Kieran
"Pussy"
"Should we tell dad?" I said.
"He's gone out, remember?"
"Oh yeah, let's go have a look inside" I said stepping into the hole. We started walking down the tunnel.
"Where do you think it goes?" I asked. Before anyone could reply there was a loud growl in front of us. "What the hell was that?" I looked round a realised Kieran was already running for the exit. In front of us appeared a huge white worm thing with legs.
To save time I was show you a picture I drew of it.
If I didn't have a pee 5 minutes before, I would have probably wet myself. "Run!" I shouted, but James was already running. I followed him as fast as I could; behind me the worm thing was chasing me. I could see its teeth and smell its breath. We reached the exit, then ran as fast as we could to the house. We arrived in the kitchen panting. What was that thing?" I asked.
"Don't know, I'll ring dad" said James, getting his phone out. "And tell him what? Dad we just found a giant alien thing in a tunnel under the field, like he would believe us." Said Kieran.
"What are we going to do then?" Asked James.
"We got to find out what it was first." I replied.
We went into James's room and talked about what we just saw.
"Do you think it's that white thing?" I asked.
"What?" Said Kieran looking confused.
"Do you remember when we were younger we used to see that white thing in the field at night?"
"Oh yeah, do you think it's the same thing?"
"What else could it be?" I replied. "I got an idea, how about we camp out tonight and watch to see if it comes out."
"I'm not going out there at night!" Said Kieran in reply.
"We could stay in the garden near the house; it wouldn't be able to get there."
"I don't know..."
"I will go." Said James "I'll ask dad when he gets back."
Later when dad got back, James asked if we could camp out. Dad said yes and got the tent out for us and helped us set it up. We got some weapons ready; an axe, a sword, some of Kieran's throwing knives and a BB gun (I don't know what that would have done apart from annoy it.)
We also brought some food, torches, night vision goggles, iPhones and lots of cushions. At about 9, we got in and waited for it to get dark.
"Whats that?" Said Kieran sitting up.
"What?" I asked.
It was a beetle in the tent "wow it's just a beetle I said. I picked it up and put it outside. Suddenly I heard a growl coming from the field. It reminded me about what happened a few years ago.
We were camping in our tent in the garden; I was in my sleeping bag with Devina sleeping with her legs on top of me, when Kieran suddenly sat up. "What was that?"
"What?" I said sleepily
"I heard a growling sound."
"It was probably one of the dogs. Go back to sleep." James was still sleeping.
"That was it!" James's voice brought me back to the present.
"Let's go out and look." I said
"I'm not going out there!" Replied Kieran
"Don't be a pussy"
I slowly unzipped the tent and stepped outside, James followed me and Kieran came reluctantly behind. I grabbed the night vision goggles and switched them on, and looked at the field. I could see a faint white blur at the back of the field. "I can see it, have a look." I passed the goggles to James.
"It's going into the the other field." Said James
"Let's go follow it." I said grabbing the sword.
"You can go but I'm staying here." Replied Kieran.
"We have to find out where it's going, James you coming?"
"Fine" he picked up the axe and followed me.
"Wait, I'm not staying here on my own." Kieran said. He took the knives and BB gun.
"What's that doing to do?" I asked pointing at the gun. He ignored me. "Come on let's go." We walked into the field and followed the white thing. The thing had gone into another field.
we walked to the edge of our field and watched. The white thing was stalking a sleeping sheep. Suddenly I saw its teeth come out of its mouth and a spike come out from under its mouth. It attacked the sheep and started eating it. Suddenly it turned and saw us. "Run!" I shouted. We ran until we got to the treehouse, I looked behind us, it wasn't following. "It's not following us." I panted.
"What's that?" Asked Kieran pointing to something near the hole. We shined our torches at it, it was a human skeleton. "We should tell dad." Said James.
When we got back to the tent, none of us wanted to sleep in it so we went back to the house.
The next morning James told dad but he just thought James was being stupid. Later we convinced him to come and look at the hole. We showed him where the hole was but when we got there it was covered over. The skeleton had also disappeared. "It was just here" James told dad. Looking annoyed dad went back to work. "Where is it?" Asked James after dad had gone.
"It must have covered the hole last night." I replied.
"What we gunna do?" Asked Kieran
"We're going to have to kill it" I said suddenly.
"What?" Exclaimed Kieran "were did you get that idea from?"
"Well we aren't safe anymore, Louis or Amber could be playing in the field and the white thing could kill them. We can't tell dad or the police because no one will believe us." I replied.
"How do you think your going to kill it then?" Kieran asked.
"I don't know yet, we'll have to think of something." I replied.
"It would be good if we could shoot it, but we won't be able to get one of the guns without dad noticing." James said.
"Let's go in and think about it." I said.
We went back to the house and into James's room to think of a plan. We came up with quite a few ideas that wouldn't work. One including making a bomb. "How are we going to make a bomb? I asked
"We could put loads of flammable stuff in a plastic box, like glue, deodorant and battery's, then light a pice of sting attached to it." Kieran replied.
"I don't think that would work, and even if it did, it wouldn't kill it.
"What's your idea then?"
"I got an idea but I don't know if it will work. We make some sort of snare to trap it, then we attack it with knives, the axe and the sword until it dies."
"Do you expect us to start stabbing it with knives even though it could kill us in seconds?" Kieran asked.
"It would be trapped so it can't move, here's how we would make it... We make a snare with rope, bait it so when it goes to get the food it will get its head stuck in the snare. We would have another rope near its body that we will put tight when it's got its head stuck. The rest of it is easy."
"We could try it." James replied.
"Let's go make it now; if it doesn't work we can try something else." I said.
We started making the snare from a branch on a tree near the back of the field. We had just finished the first snare when Louis came over.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Nothing, go away Louis." Said James helping me pull the rope tighter.
"No" said Louis being stubborn.
"Fine you can help, go get us a knife." Said James.
Louis went to get the knife.
"That should get rid of him for a while." Said James. Just as Louis returned we finished the second rope.
"Right we're done." I said.
"Let's go then, come on Louis" said Kieran.
Later we stole some chicken to bait the trap, and asked dad if we could camp out again. He said we could so we waited in the tent.
"Right this is what we're gunna do... Kieran as soon as I pulled the rope tighter you throw your knives at it. James you got the axe, just attack its head. I will try to drive my sword into its eye. Any questions?" I asked.
"What if it escapes?" Asked Kieran.
"We run." I replied.
Just then we herd a roaring sound.
"I think we caught it." I said. "Let's go kill us a... White thing!" We ran toward it, it was in the trap struggling to escape. I thought I would be scared but the adrenaline took care of that. As we reached it I pulled the rope. "Throw the knife!" I shouted at Kieran. He threw it but because his hands were shaking he missed. He thew a second one, he hit it in it's... Its nose I suppose. The thing on the side of its head with the holes in the picture.
It roared and tried to bite the rope. James stuck his axe into its neck. It started bleeding, turning the ground crimson in the fading light. James had stuck the axe in so deep he couldn't get it back out.
I ran at it driving my sword into its eye. It struggled for a moment then collapsed, dead.
"We did it!" I shouted. We sat down panting.
"What's that?" James asked getting up. The tail thing on the white thing had started moving. I pulled the sword out of its eye, ready for a fight. Then a single white egg came out and fell on the ground.
End of part 1
