Fun Night at Carnival of ‘Fright Night’

Nightfall came and the excitement overcame a large crowd of the carnival. Various neon color beams lit up part of the darkness over the crowd as they gathered for fun. Songs and laughter riveted across the grounds choking out street noise.

The two girls had left their dorm by taxi. During their ride, Meagan spoke of what would be at the carnival. “OMG Vass, they are going to have so many events happening. Look!”, Meagan presents her phone before Vastria who was sitting in silence watching the driver who was obviously annoyed hearing Meagan rambling about the carnival. Vastria took Meagan’s phone reading smiling as Meagan went on, “Yeah, there is a concert, an acrobatic show, and so much food stall. Don’t forget the rides and games.” Looking at Meagan’s phone, Vastria pointed at a particular event, “Hey I do want to see this concert. When is it?” Vastria read on, “Oh! It is at the end of the night. We can do a lot of things by the start of the concert.” Meagan nodded, “Yes, first things first, we have to go to the mirror horror house, and win these prizes.” Meagan pointed at the stuffed grumpy/angry bear in black and red with a fanged grin. Vastria agreed. Vastria really wanted the bear due to her seeing something similar in a Japanese animation show, anime.  The two girls were excited for this night of fun. Vastria and Meagan arrived just outside the entrance of the carnival by taxi. The driver seemed to have been disgusted that he had to drop off his customer of the night at a carnival he clearly did not approve of. Meagan stepped out of the car after paying the cab fare while in her tight dark blue jeans and a loose rose-pink top which the sleeves hung off her shoulders, her toe covered sandals in rose pink to match. Vastria followed while all in black, black jeans, black ripped top that accentuated her bosoms, and tall heeled steel toe black boots with silver studs in its design.  

The two girls smiled as they saw the carnival standing side by side, Vastria taller due to her boots. They made their way into the carnival.

The entrance to the carnival was gated with a wood cut out of a black and gold grumpy/angry bear head and mouth as the open entrance way. In the mouth above the opening were its fangs. It was a cute set-up as the girls happily walked up to the ticket person and entered the carnival.

The two girls were having so much fun, they each won their prized bear and to their surprise they were able to have it delivered to their dorm rather having to carrying it all around the carnival. Vastria won the red and black bear, while Meagan got the pink and grey bear. Meagan ranted at how easy the game was even though many others tried the game and failed. The game was the wall balloon popping. In order to get the prize, the winner was supposed to pop ten balloons in a row. Meagan had to try three times before she got her prize, whereas Vastria got it on the first try. Many others just could not get past popping five balloons, which was weird, since the balloons was not placed in hard places on the wall even though after your 3rd throw parts of the set-up would move. Vastria thought Meagan’s ranting was funny as she listened to her while laughing knowing the truth, since Meagan too had a hard time with the game. Many others just could not get past popping five balloons. It was starting to get to the end of the night and the two girls made their way to where the concert was said to be held.

A large white wall positioned in a corner of the crowd lit up as five shadowy figures stood on top of the wall. The crowd roared in excitement as the music started to change to a faster pace then moving neon lights start to flutter across the area. Vastria looked up at the figures above on the wall in awe as she excitingly got into the show. Meagan next to her jumping up and down holding onto Vastria’s arm. 

The beat of the music moved the crowd as each of the figures start dancing to the beat and slid down the wall singing. Time seem to grow slower as Vastria watched the entertainers dance and sing like a siren attracting their victim. The five figures spread out in front of the crowd as a foggy mist starts crawling around the people’s feet. The music seemed to also slow down and people’s movement gradually slowing. The beat of the music got deeper and darker. The figures crouch and slowly made their way into the crowd.

Everyone watching does the same in a crouch position but backed away as if it were part of the show, dancing along with the performers. Vastria following along with wonder and excitement watched the closest figure got near her. She noticed each figure were men dressed in black clothing that bounced the neon lights off their body. Each of the figures had slightly long dark hair plastered to their face with a ridged cut. The foggy mist rises above Vastria’s knees and the entertainment continued slowly. The man got nearer to her with a grin. Vastria smiled as she noticed the man getting near.

The man now in front of her, everything got slower, everyone then stopped in motion. Each person stared in front of them. Vastria stared directly into the man’s crystal black eyes as he stares back with his usual grin. His eyes suddenly changed with a glow of silver. Vastria’s mind grew dense, heavy, and hazy. A pause in breath took over Vastria as darkness ate away at her vision and the air getting weightless around her.

Vastria awoke to murmuring cries around her. She slowly opened her eyes to a dark room. The only light in the room peeked behind the blinds of closed windows shut with boards and steel plank plastered on the surface of the windows in the far left of the room, the only windows in the room. As Vastria slowly looked around her, she started to feel lightheaded. She closed her eyes then reopened them as she tried to steady her confusion of the matter. As she looked around again, she saw people crouching on the floor afraid. She noticed that there was a total of twenty people in the room including herself. Her friend was nowhere in sight. She stood up slowly to look further around the room. As she does this, everyone looked at her in horror and hope. The walls of the room seemed crusted with old paint. The distinction of the color of paint could not be deciphered. It looked brown and tan in some places then charred black and grey in others with white flakes of maybe white paint. Vastria looked around the room and found that the only way in or out of the room was the metal door in the far-right corner of the front of the room ahead of her.

She bent over and whispered to the closest person to her in front of the door of the room, a girl with long brown hair covering her face and dirty blue jeans with white v-line t-shirt, “Hey. What is going on? Where are we?”

The girl stared at Vastria scared and murmured in a low voice, “I don’t know.” The girl shivered as she goes on, “I just woke up here, but every now and then a…” The door slammed open interrupting the girl.

Both the girl and Vastria jumps in panic. The girl Vastria spoke to shied away from Vastria as a figure entered the room. Vastria frozen in her stance and stared at the figure at the door. The figure was a man dressed in black, black leather boots with silver lining, black jeans and a black t-shirt with a black leather jacket with white lining. The man was bald, with broad shoulders. His face long and slim with a big nose pointy nose. He notices Vastria in her bent position and goes up to her and grabbed her with a grim smile showing a glimpse of fangs between his lips. His eyes glow silvery as he grabbed Vastria’s arm. On reflex and fear, Vastria pushed out of his grip and ran out of the room. The bald man grabbed at her by the back of her neck as she passed through the door into a hallway. Noticing a tray of knives and what seems to be blood bags and tubes with needles on a cart left in the hallway. Vastria grabbed a long-sharpened bolo knife and ferociously start hitting the man with it. Vastria not knowing what came over her could not stop. The bald mad seemed in shock could not block or counterattack. Blood spattered all around her as the man crumbled to the floor without any resistance as though Vastria herself were faster than the creature before her. Vastria stared as the man in a giant heap. Time did not seem to work as Vastria stared at the man covered in blood. She was lost in the sight of the blood as it slowly dripped and puddled around the man before her. She did not know if the man who stood before her truly was a man or creature. She remembered the fangs from when the man smiled. It was not normal, nor human.

She could not take her eyes from the body before her, her body trembling. The blood around the body increased. The man's arms torn and shredded. Pieces of flesh scattered in the pools of blood. His face was hidden, faced down. 

In a blink, Vastria return to herself and stared at the man on the floor. Vastria shivers in horror at what she had just done. She could not think clearly, her mind muddled and hazy. The bald man’s head rolled to her feet as a pool of blood builds around the body and to her feet. The walls of the hallway were covered in the man’s blood. The blood seemed to slowly slide along the wall. Vastria looked at herself and found she is completely covered in blood. A flash of her dream came to mind. Vastria hand started to shake dripping in blood as she held the bolo knife. She noticed the others in the room are stirring at the terror she committed. She heard running footsteps behind her and yelling from other men rushing towards her. In a fright she darted and unconsciously started slashing at the men. Time seemed to zip by as she ran, and more blood splattered on the walls and on Vastria’s face. Not knowing where she is heading, she knew she needed to makes it out. She finally found a door where light streamed from. She pushed through the door into the blinding sunlight.

After a while, she stood in the warmed of the sunlight drenched in blood, her eyes closed for a bit as her heart pounded in her head, high on the adrenaline. She opened her eyes then turned around looking back at a one-story building of concrete that appeared to be crumbling apart, but intact. The walls were crusted with old paint that seemed to have been white but now brown and red from dirt and rust. The windows were blackened. No greenery grew around the building, only red dirt and weeds overgrown on the sides crawling onto the walls of the building. No one followed her. Breathing hard and confused about what happened, Vastria looked at her hands still covered in blood. She still held onto the bolo knife. Vastria stood there, still confused and afraid. She tried to take the time to think to herself on what to do next. She worried for the others she left behind. She stared out at the building she ran from as her vision started to waver at the sight, her head starting to pound harshly from the overuse of adrenaline. She touched her hand to her forehead debating. Her heart beat hard echoing in her ears as her breathing start to get fast making her anxious. She heard screaming from the concrete building which shook her from her thoughts. Her eyes widened looking at the building even though she could not see any movement inside. No shadows, no vibrations of footsteps getting near. She had to decide, there was no time to thing. Vastria bolted down a grassy hill behind her away from the building not stopping. Her heart beating faster and breathe getting deeper clouding her head in her own noise.

She ran into a nearby forest not knowing where she was heading or how long she was running. She did not look behind her or around her in fear that she would get caught by some creature. As she ran, the forest seemed to run away from her, her vision becoming unclear. She only looked forward and ran.

After some time had passed, Vastria stopped to take a breath leaning onto a tree nearby as the beginning of the night sky started to crawl through the trees. Darkness grew surrounding her muddling her vision and mind. Vastria started to get groggy with from the shock and anxiety of what she experienced. She then suddenly fell to the base of the tree trunk unconscious.