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Five best friends check into the Blue Motel on their way to their vacation spot. However, a thirteen-year-old boy named Mark keeps disturbing the guests on their stay as one by one someone dies.
Aubrey, Corey, David, Jessica, and Kim had been best friends for so long, they can't remember when they all met, but they stayed together after high school. They were all in his or her twenties, Aubrey and Kim having the same birthday. Kim was beautiful, sweet, and a nice girl that attended collage to become a doctor. David was skilled hunter and fighter, not someone you would want to make an enemy out of. Corey was not-so-famous actor for plays, television commercials, and he did work for other media productions. Aubrey was, well, Aubrey. She was a bit weird, but most writers are weird. Last and weirdest was Jessica. She was the weirdest and biggest of the bunch, but she was also a well-respected critic for a local television news station. Time was getting late and they had a long way to go on their trip. The five friends arrived at a lonely looking motel called, "The Blue Motel." The inside to the lobby didn't look so lonely the gang when they went inside. It was nicely decorated with lots of flowers in blue clay pots, a table with hot coffee and plastic blue cups, a counter with papers on top and keys hanging on the wall behind it. There were two hallways leading into the lobby. Corey walked to the counter and rang the bell resting on top. "Hello?" Corey shouted. "Anyone one here?" A hideous green faced monster with curly horns popped out from behind the counter. All of them expect for David jumped back at sight of the monster. The monster started to laugh at them. The monster grabbed his face with its scaly green hands and ripped its face off. It was only a kid in a mask. The kid laughed some more. The kid was thirteen-year-old boy named Mark. He sat his mask and monster hands on the counter. "Hello and welcome to the Blue Motel," Mark said. "My name is Mark and we hope your stay here isn't scary as it was just a moment ago." "If I see anything unusual," David said, "I'll shoot it." Mark smiled and turned his attention back to Corey. Mark asked Corey a couple questions about how many rooms they wanted, how long they would be staying, and how he wanted to pay for everything. The usually boring routine stuff to get a room. Mark was pretty smooth and handled everything professionally. Corey paid him in cash for two rooms for one night. "Dad," Mark shouted. "We got some customers." When David saw Mark's father, John, walk into the lobby, he could relate to him. John wore camouflage clothing. He was big, hunter kind of man - thick beard and everything. He looked very authoritative, but he was really a nice guy. "Oh, hello there," John said. "I didn't hear you come in. Did by any chance my son scare you folks?" "He made Corey wet himself," David teased. John chuckled, his belly bouncing up and down. "Yeah, Mark can be a handful at times. Mark, could you show these people their rooms, please?" "Sure thing," Mark said as he grabbed three keys from the wall behind him. "Walk this way." Mark went to a hallway with the five friends following behind him. John went to the other hallway that he came in from. Mark unlocked and opened room six. "The guys can stay in this room for tonight," Mark said standing out of the way so they could get in. "Enjoy your stay at the Blue Motel. If you need any ice, the machine's at the end of this hallway." Corey and David entered the room. David took the key from the lock and shut the door behind him. Mark strolled to the room across the hall to room seven. He took the other key he had and unlocked the door and opened it. "You girls can stay in lucky number seven," Mark said. "Don't let the bed bugs bite." The girls smiled at Mark and entered the room. Aubrey led the way, turning the light on. Jessica followed while Kim grabbed the key from the lock and shut the door. The room had three twin beds, flower wallpaper, and a dresser that supported a television set. She sat the key on the dresser by the television and a plastic container. The girls walked to the bathroom to check it out. Jessica flipped the light switch on for the bathroom. "Wow," Jessica said. "This is so cool." The bathroom was big. It had a large bathtub, a lovely sink, and nice towels. It was everything someone could want in a bathroom. After a few seconds of looking around Kim said, "I don't know about you guys, but my feet are killing me." "Attack of the killer feet," Aubrey commented as Kim went and sat on a bed. She looked up and noticed the door was open. She thought she had shut it after she came in. Before she could get up and close the door, a cold hand reached for her from under the bed and grabbed her ankle with a tight grip. She screamed in fear so loud that Aubrey, John, and Jessica came rushing to the room. They all saw Kim struggle to escape from the monstrous hand. "Let go of her!" John ordered. The hand released its grip. Mark crawled out from under the bed laughing. "You know better not to enter people's room, Mark! Now go to your room." Mark left the room, his eyes downcast, without saying a word. John shook his head. "I'm terribly sorry about that." "It's okay," Kim said. "I'm fine." "If he bothers you ladies again, let me know." "We will," Aubrey told John. "He probably thinks Kim is cute." Kim looked at the floor so no one could see that she was blushing. She would always blush whenever someone told her or referred to her as being beautiful. John smiled and left the room, shutting the door behind him. After a moment of silence Jessica spoke. "Well, I guess I'll go get some ice now." She walked to the dresser and grabbed the plastic container. "I'll be back in a minute." Jessica opened the door and kept it open a crack when she shut it to get back inside. She walked down to the end of the hallway where the ice machine and a vending machine with candy stood alone with each other. Above the machines was a security camera to make sure that no one would mess with the machines or break into the rooms. As soon as she got there, she put the container under the spot where the ice comes out from, and pressed the red button for some ice. The machine started. A voice of a girl screaming came from the room to Jessica's right. The number on the room door was thirteen. At first Jessica figured it was just the television in the room, but then the girl started pounding on the door, trying to open it. "Help!" the girl screamed. "Oh, please God help me!" Then the screaming and pounding stopped. The ice machine finished filling the container. Wondering what the heck was going on, Jessica cautiously approached the door. She looked around to make sure no one was watching her before she opened the door. The door was unlocked. She went inside and shut the door. Room thirteen was pretty much like the room she was staying in except for there was one king-sized bed with a blue bed cover and a big metal door. Next to the metal door was a large bookshelf filled with many books. There was also a bathroom and a large closet in the room. Why would a room have a metal door? Jessica thought. Jessica knew she should go get the rest of the gang and let them know about the door, but something about the door made her walk toward it. Maybe it was its size. Maybe it was its mysterious nature. She didn't understand why the door was so special, but she continued walking towards it and opened it up. The door was a bit on the heavy side, but she managed to get it open with her great strength. All her effort was worth it. Behind the door was a hallway with thirteen wooden steps leading down. She walked down the stairs. The first item she noticed once she got off the steps was the thirteen television security monitors on the wall. To her left was a metal wall with pictures of dead people in old newspaper clippings, but to her right was something even more wicked. A gorgeous young girl was chained to the wall. Tape covered her mouth as just hung lifelessly on the wall. Jessica assumed she was the girl was some sort of prisoner so she ran to the girl. The girl made no reaction to Jessica coming near her. Jessica yanked the tape of the girl's mouth. Instead of screaming as Jessica had anticipated, the girl started to laugh. "Sweetie," the girl yelled out. "She fell for it." "I knew she would," Mark shouted from above the stairway. "They always do." Frighten, Jessica ran back towards the stairway. Mark was still standing in the doorway. Jessica was twice the size of Mark. She knew and her knew it. She charged up the stairs to tackle Mark, but he kicked her in the gut with incredible strength. She fell backwards and screamed so loud that everyone in the motel could hear her hopeless cry for help. "Fair is foul and foul is fair," said a witch on the movie version of Hamlet that Kim and Aubrey were watching on the television set. They couldn't hear much of the next part for it was Jessica's scream interrupted them. They immediately ran out into the hallway. David and Corey entered into the hallway from their room right after Kim and Aubrey did. "Was that Jessica I heard screaming?" Corey asked everyone. They nodded their heads. "It sounds like she might be hurt." "She said she was going to get some ice," Kim said. "Okay," David said. "Kim and I will go to the ice machine and look for Jessica. Corey, you and Aubrey go get John." Kim and David rushed to the ice machine as Corey and Aubrey rushed to find John. Kim and David ran to the end of the hallway where they found a container filled with ice. The door to room thirteen was wide open. They room was normal to them, but they didn't know that the bookshelf had been moved to disguise the metal door. Things were not what they appeared to be. From the comfortable bathroom, Mark opened the door and entered the room. He looked at Kim and David and they looked at him. After a moment, Mark ran to the closet door and went inside the closet. Kim and David ran to the closet, but David was one to get there first and open the door. Mark wasn't inside. "What the -?" David said. All that was in the closet was a bunch of towels. "There has be some kind of hidden -" A snake jumped out from the bewildering closet. Kim let out tiny shriek as she jumped onto the bed. The snake slithered its way out of the room. David went back to searching inside the closet as Kim looked inside it from the bed. "Looking for someone?" David and Kim turned around. Mark stood in the doorway. "How did you do that?" David asked. A long snake like tongue hissed out from Mark's mouth. "It's one of my snake like abilities," he hissed. Corey and Aubrey arrived to the hotel's lobby. Neither John nor Mark was there. They kept going to the hallway where they first saw John come from. The hallway wasn't very long. There were no doors in the hallway except for a large wooden door at the end. Corey knocked hard on it. No one answered. He opened the door and they slowly stepped inside. The room was a mess. The bed, table, chairs, lamps, paintings, and everything else in the room were destroyed. Nothing was in one piece. The room was very large, yet there was something pretty much everywhere. Then John entered the room from a door at the other end of the room. "John!" Aubrey shouted. "What happened?" "Oh, don't mind the mess," he said. "It's been like this for a very long time." John then smiled at them. "I'm about to eat diner now. Want to join?" "No thanks," Corey said. "What are you having for diner?" A long snake like tongue hissed out from John's mouth, but his tongue was bigger and more noticeable than Mark's. "You guys." John roared. His entire body started to slowly mutate to a greenish color. His whole body grew. His shirt ripped off from his chest to reveal a body of a snake. Corey and Aubrey watched in absolute amazement as John transformed into a massive snake - three times the size of Aubrey and Corey combined - with the addition of two short arms and hands. His arms and hands were the same size as they were in his human form, but they were scaly and green now. The rest of his clothing was ripped off in the process of him forming his tail. His head changed to that of a snake's with large glowing red eyes. He was finally finished transforming into his true form. "HOLY SHIT!" Corey shouted. John hissed again, his tongue much larger than it was earlier. He was like something you would see as a final boss in a video game. He charged after Corey with his snake speed. Before he could eat him, Corey rolled out of John's way. Aubrey tried to run for the door, but John's tail snapped the door shut. The massive tail rapped itself around Aubrey. John turned his head around to face the helpless Aubrey. He opened his mouth up wide, ready to eat her. Inside the hidden place behind the metal door, Jessica laid on the ground dead. The girl that had tricked her to come down here was known as Dawn. She was out of the chains and stood by Jessica's dead body. She walked away from the body to a ladder in a deep and hidden corner of the room. Above the ladder was a passageway that would led up to a room. She climbed up the ladder and pushed the door open hard. There was something on top of the door, but she managed to get it open after a few pushes. Corey grabbed a piece a large piece of broken wood from the bed - or was it the table? Then he rammed the piece of wood into John's body and then yanked it back out. Snake blood oozed out. John roared in pain, releasing Aubrey. Corey tried to rush to Aubrey, but a pile of junk started to move. From the junk Dawn emerged. "Your not supposed to eat all the food, John!" Dawn shouted. From that remark, common sense told Corey and Aubrey that she wasn't on their side. "I don't get to eat that often either!" John moved toward Dawn. "I still don't approve of you dating my son," John said to Dawn. His voice was much louder and deep than his human voice. "I mean a snake demon and a vampire? It's just wrong." Dawn didn't care what John thought about of her and Mark. She flew to Aubrey - fangs unleashed and ready to drink her like she drank Jessica. Before she could lay a fang on Aubrey, John whipped Dawn onto the ground with his mighty tail. In a blink of an eye, Dawn got up and made a mad dash for Aubrey. She dodged his tail the next time and came down on Aubrey. She sank her fangs into her juicy neck and started sucking her blood. Corey wanted to save her, but he knew she would want him to escape. He ran for the door he came in from. John stared at him with hungry red eyes. Kim and David both got into a fighter's stance. They both knew Mark wasn't human. Mark went for Kim first. She punched him in the nose as hard as she could the moment he got near her. He stumbled backwards a bit and fell off the bed onto the ground. Quickly he got up on his feet. Before he could make any attack, David started in on the fight. David punched Mark's face, then gut, then gave him a powerful upper cut. Kim punched Mark in the back of his head as hard as she could. David then kneed him right in every man's weakest spot. Before Mark could fall, David put each of his hands on Mark's shoulders and head butted him, hard. David then released him and let him fall to the ground. Kim jumped off from the bed, ramming her feet into Mark's chest. They both kicked him several times before they left the room to let Mark die. Corey got to the large wooden door and opened it. He ran out the door, shutting it behind him. He had only take a few steps away from the door when it came crashing down to the ground with parts of the wall. Dust danced in the hallway, making it hard to see, but Corey managed to pick of a piece of wood. Kim and David came unexpectedly down from the hallway into the lobby. They saw Corey fighting against a giant snake demon. Corey turned around and saw Kim and David - without Jessica. "Run!" Corey ordered. "I'll take care of him. Just get out of this death trap!" Kim and David didn't have to be told that twice. They ran out to the parking lot toward David's truck. He pulled his keys out of his pocket and unlocked the driver's door. He got in, shutting the door behind, and unlocked the passenger side door. Kim got in and shut the door behind her as David started the truck up. The truck roared to life. They didn't even have their seat belts on as put they speeded out of the hotel's lonely parking lot out onto the highway. David and Kim were safe. Just because David and Kim were safe doesn't mean the story's over. Corey was still inside the motel, battling off the evil snake demon known as John. He used his piece of wood as a sword to fight the horrible demon. He wasn't having much luck. He finally lost the battle when John roared and ate him whole. John was still very hungry. David drove way over the speed limit and Kim and David didn't care. The street the empty. No cops or other cars were around, just miles and miles of trees. However, the peace soon changed as they heard a loud rumbling sound. Kim looked turned around and looked out the widow. John was chasing after them in his true form. "Step on it, David!" Kim said. "It's coming after us!" David went as fast as the truck could go. He looked in the rear view mirror and noticed John was behind them. He was gaining on them. "Three down and two to go," David whispered to himself. David didn't like the fact it was just him and Kim who were still alive. The gang would never be the same without them - if David and Kim survived to stay friends. David speeded past a cop car. The cop turned his sirens on and pulled out onto the street and after David. Before the cop could get far, John ran over him. The police car and officer were flat as a piece of paper. John was getting closer to David and Kim. David kept going faster than the speed he should be going. The snake demon was right behind them. His mouth grew wider than the truck as he lowered his mouth. David could tell that John was going eat them and the truck. "Well, since we're going to die, Kim," David said, "I just want to tell you that I'm going to miss you." Kim smiled back at David. "I'll miss you too." After Kim said those words, John took a bite out of the truck. David shifted the truck into cruise control. John took another bite. David and Kim opened their doors. Then John took another bite. He had only taken a few bites before he ate the truck - just moments after David and Kim escaped. David ran as fast as he could while Kim ran the other way. They knew if they split up, one of them would have a chance of surviving, yet one would not. After chewing the last few bites of David's truck, John turned his head around. His snake tongue snapped out of his mouth and back inside. He could smell them. He hissed again and slithered towards Kim. Kim ran into the forest. She followed no dirt path, save where ever her feet led her. There was no doubt that she was very pale with fear from all the darkness. She paused for a moment to catch her breath. A stick broke. Kim's heart jumped. Trees started falling. Mother Nature couldn't hold the trees against John's power as he slithered toward Kim. Turning around to see the disturbance, she saw John standing near her. John opened his mouth wide. Kim ran away from John, but she tripped over a tree root and fell down. John lowered his mouth. She screamed for help. No one heard her as he ate Kim whole. However, someone did hear Kim. It was David. He wanted to build some kind of trap for John and kill him, but there was nothing he could make at the time and he had no good supplies or weapons for that matter. Faster than he thought was possible, he ran through the mighty forest. A voice laughed at him. Was he hearing things? No, David knew he wasn't hearing things. The laugher was like a wicked witch flying on a broomstick. Then he saw a girl soaring through the night sky - without a broomstick. The girl was Dawn. Dawn flew over David's head with her wicked vampire strength to scare David. She had recently fed so she was extra powerful and felt like scaring him. Dawn turned around and flew at him again, but at a much lower level. David ducked out her way as she glided over him. Dawn laughed. "Snake demons can't fly," David said to himself. He picked up a nice sized stick from the ground. "But vampires can." Dawn landed on the ground, several yards in front of David. "Who in the hell are you?" David demanded. A twisted smile came across Dawn's face. "No need to be afraid. I can tell that you're bleeding fear in your dark heart." She put her right hand over her heart. "Besides, I'm not going to kill you." Dawn dashed at David in a blur of acceleration and badness. She slapped the stick out of his hands. She quickly twisted him around so his back was against her front. She bent his neck so someone could drink from him. He closed his eyes, not wanting to see Dawn kill him. Then he heard a very seductive voice singing. "There was a friendly but naive boy named David." David opened his eyes and saw Aubrey walking toward him with grace and beauty. "He wanted to die screaming, but he knew he wouldn't be heard." "AUBREY!" David shouted. He tried to move towards her, but Dawn kept a good grip on him. There was something different about Aubrey. "It's no use," Dawn told him. "Your friend is now a child of darkness." Aubrey opened her mouth wide, showing off her long and sharp white teeth. She smiled sinisterly, then bit into David's neck and drank deeply. Five best friends, who have lived together, died together. |