“A World of Madness”

a story I did for English class

Hurricane Karen and Hurricane Maribella’s unwelcome visit was speeding angrily toward the torrid metropolis of magical Miami. The Ram family of Miami Coral Park Sr. High was on lock down since no one could exit the campus due to the in climate weather. A bunch of girls were sitting together in their 3rd period Art class in the new building. Together they were talking and laughing, trying to enjoy the fact that they are being kept stuck in a room. It was Halloween so they tried to bring some excitement into this predicament. You could hear the wind and rain pounding against the windows and doors outside but not many paid much attention to it. That is until the lightning started to strike. Once students began to hear the thunder crash, some screamed to be annoying, others were actually scared, and some didn’t really think much of it, that’s how things always were here.
The thunder began to get louder, stronger and closer. Most students began to get worried now and some were very scared. Suddenly Lighting struck! The building shook a little while the Thunder made most students scream in fear, and then the lights went out. The teacher tried to get her students to calm down, even though she herself was afraid. The girls thought of this as a perfect chance to do something fun. The girls had their Halloween costumes in their bags because they had planned on going to a dance after school, which now seemed obviously canceled. The first girl, Mary, Reached for her bag and pulled out her costume, signaling the other girls to do the same. The second girl Stephanie, third girl, Lady, and fourth girl Vanessa all followed her lead and they all secretly exited the room while the teacher was busy handling the students. They went into a nearby bathroom changing into their costumes and began roaming the dark hallways which provided a spooky atmosphere. They began looking for something interesting to do. While walking through the hallways they saw a security guard roaming the hallways.
“Guys, a security guard!” Stephanie whispered, they all looked for cover and jumped in the nearest bathroom. The security guard slowly walked passed the bathroom and continued patrolling the halls. Something wasn’t right and all the girls knew it. “What’s that disgusting smell?” Lady asked her friends in a low tone. They all looked confused because they couldn’t figure out where the smell was coming from either, then they looked down at where the security guard was walking by, and saw a trail of blood, at that point they were all scared, They went back to the classroom to find it empty, everyone was gone, all that remained were their belongings. They started hearing screaming from outside the room and began to panic. The girls grabbed the nearest thing that could be used as a weapon and hid in a corner of the room. Mary turned to her friends “Something’s not right here, and by staying here we aren’t helping ourselves. Let’s get out.” Vanessa turned to her with a worried look. “But, how are we going to get out in the middle of 2 hurricanes?” Mary and the others looked at each other. She had a good point. It was either being blown away or facing what was going on inside. They all gathered their courage and with their weapons they left the room and went back into the halls.

They went down the hallways which were now covered in blood. There were bloody hand prints all over the walls; the smell of death wreaked everywhere. Lady covered her nose while the other girls began trying their best to not breathe in the putrid odor. Soon they heard another scream, instantly giving them Goosebumps. They readied their weapons. At the end of the hall emerged a security guard, but flesh was missing, and limbs were hanging, it was no longer living and far from human, with its razor fang teeth showing and releasing a chilling growl from under its breath. The girls stood there as the security guard moved closer, Stephanie gripped her weapons, 2 pairs of scissors in each hand, tightly and charged at the creature in front of them. She stabbed in the face with her left hand and in the rib with her right and then ran behind it. Before it could turn around to attack her Mary stepped forward and swung her weapon, an art easel, at the monster with all her might knocking it down to the ground.

All the girls began running down the hall, trying to get away from that creature as fast as possible. Bloody hallway after bloody hallway they tried to see if they could at least see what was going on outside, but all the doors were locked, and some even disappeared, leaving only dead ends. Finally after searching all of the new building they finally found an opening outside leading to the old building, but everything was fenced, leaving only a small walkway that leads to some doors of the old building. They went through the doors only to uncover another security guard, but this time it had friends. Behind the security guard were teachers and other students, all seemed to be missing pieces of flesh and limbs, and most seemed to have sharp fangs or a knife in their hand, some had steel pipes. This one wasn’t going to be so easy to get away from.
Stephanie smiled at the other girls and took off a bracelet she had, then handed it to Mary. “When you see my bf give him this and tell him I love him.” She ran straight into the crowd of creatures, stabbing one after the other. “STEPHANIE!!!” Shouted Mary, almost ready to cry, while the other girls began screaming in terror as Stephanie began to get bitten and slowly killed. Mary grabbed Vanessa and Lady by their wrist and began running back to the new building, trying not to fall in the rain. They went back inside and all began crying at the loss of their friend. Mary began to hold back her tears, she knew this wasn’t the time to cry, if they stopped chances are they’d be killed too. She picked up her easel and hugged both of her friends. “Let’s go.” They walked down the halls, this time they began searching the rooms to see if they can find any clues as to get them out of there. Room by room they went, but still nothing was found, not a single clue.
Soon they were met with their very own Principle, but he was just like the others, and like the security guard he wasn’t alone. They quickly rushed forward and grabbed Vanessa, biting her, and ripping her apart, Lady jumped in and tried to save her but she too was swept away in the crowd. Mary knew she didn’t have any chance, so she fled quickly running to the stairwell and to the third floor, many chasing after her. She ran and ran trying to open doors along the way, but still many were locked. Some of the monsters managed to catch up to her but she swung her easel at them and knocked them down hard. She kept on running and finally reached an open door. Beating down another monster she then ran into the room and locked the door behind her. She turned around and was shocked to see what she had found.
There was a control panel, with many buttons and levers, and above it were many screens monitoring the school and the monsters in it. It looked like everything was being manipulated from this one room. Mary looked toward the chair that rested at the center of the room, and when she looked at the occupant of the chair, she couldn’t believe what she saw. The one that was in charge of everything and led many to their death was merely....a dog. A dog had been the one in charge of all the strange events at the school, A DOG had been the one that took away Mary’s friends. How could she of all people have missed this?! She fell to her knees in shock and anguish. The dog jumped down from the chair wearing a cute headset as it walked closer to Mary. When it was close enough, it began licking her face while whining. Something any dog would do. So then...how-? She was too baffled to even react to what was going on.

Soon everything began to get dark, and fade out. Mary had no idea what was happening, and where things were going. Soon she eventually found her self back in art class, her classmates still talking. She lifted her head of the desk and realized that she had fallen asleep on her artwork. What was she drawing again? She looked down to find a puddle of her on drool all over her artwork. Although it was a bit unclear now, she recognized the image that she had drawn. It was the picture of a very familiar dog. Her friends all looked at her and saw her tired expression. “Mary, are you ok?” Asked Lady. Mary nodded her head and said. “I'm fine; I just need to stop playing so many video games.” They all looked at her and laughed. The teacher made an announcement that lock downs were finally over and that the class could finally go home. The girls smiled at each other, said comments of relief and picked up their bags. They said their good-byes and they and the rest of the class went home. THE END.