Dark Cell

• Olivia Noulikas, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2018

It’s a dark and quiet night and I can’t get to sleep. I look out the window and I see a shadow, I say “Hi”, to see if anyone is there. No one answers, and the shadow goes away.
After about 10 minutes of thinking about the shadow, I quickly get dressed and run outside. When I open the front gate there is a door in the ground. I open it but when I close it the door goes away, and the lights turn on. I walk down the stairs, and at the bottom of the stairs there’s a sign that says, “Welcome to the dark cell”. I start to freak out and nearly faint. As I keep walking, I see skeletons on the ground and on the walls, I think I’ll be next.
As I keep walking, I can hear a voice from up ahead. The voice gets louder and louder the further I walk. Then I hear “Boo”, I suddenly fall to the ground in a dead faint. A few minutes later I wake up and there’s a big, fat, gross, hairy monster in front of me. I think this is going to be the end of my life.
I keep lying there so the monster thinks I’m really dead and it worked. A few long and slow minutes later the monster walks slowly away, so slow I didn’t even know he was walking away for the first 30 seconds. I’m safe. I get back up and keep walking. Then I hit a dead end. I trip and fall on the big rock wall, suddenly a door opens right in front of my eyes. I take a step through the door and on the other side there are amazing hot springs, amazing walls and pretty flowers, “I have to jump in the hot springs” I say to myself. I’m in the hot springs and suddenly the hot springs started to turn to lava, so I got out as fast as I could.
When I got out, the lava turned back to water, it was like it didn’t like me. I laid on the ground and thought about my warm soft bed and soon enough I was in it, so warm and comfy. This was the best creepy night ever! I’m lucky I didn’t die.