The Terrors From Underneath

The Terrors From Underneath


I have always been a light sleeper from what I can remember. For the majority of my life I had never gotten the chance to go into a strange and crazy world where you think its all real but once you wake up and soon realize that it wasn't. And that the strangest part was not even remembering half of it. For those of you who have had an experience like this I envy you! Really I do but at the same time I'm curious to know what its like. You see this is the reason I'm more of a night owl because its just difficult for me to go to sleep until 1 or 2 o' clock in the morning maybe MIDNIGHT if I'm lucky! The only things that can help me sleep are electronic devices but sometimes even that's not enough! Ironically, I have seemed to have no trouble drifting through my tedious lectures at school. Oh! I 'm sorry I don't think we've been properly introduced. Well you see my name is Rachel Harrington and I'm at the age of 15 as I'm writing this. And you're probably wondering why I had brought up the fact that I'm a light sleeper...

   Well you see, ever since I was around the age of 8 I have heard all sorts of disturbing and eerie sounds like the sounds of a woman's raspy voice cackling or raving about something in an ancient and cryptic language,deep growls that would send shocks down your body, knocking, scratching and loud bangs coming from underneath my bed. Sometimes I had even seen these two oversized arms with huge mossy green claws dash out from underneath that would try to grab me and take me with it probably to never return again! I tried to tell anyone that was in the house with me that this was happening but they wouldn't believe me! Typical outsiders, it seems that in almost any horror story you come across, no one outside of the main character(s) doesn't seem to see or the supernatural or creepy thing, even when the main character tries to tell them what happened and show them the spot where they have encountered it. I hate when that happens. So inconvenient. But at least they get to see it later and realize that they should have believed that person first! Anyway where was I? Oh yeah! The creepy bed thing. Well ever since that happened, I no longer had the ability to sleep through an entire night successfully. Its a bit of struggle I know but I really can't control what happens under my bed can I?

  Though despite that, I can recall a particular day where I would finally be able to expose the evil that was lurking underneath my own bed. Well you see it was on the night of my 15th birthday and after all the partying, eating of various foods, and present openings I was all partied out. Quite literally! So I climbed under the covers of my bed with a supercilious attitude because a little while ago I had set up video cameras in my room to catch all the action that had been soiling more pairs of underwear than once thought humanly possible. There was no way anyone was going to be skeptical with VIDEO evidence, some of the most effective pieces of evidence you can get by the way! They would have to believe me after seeing visual evidence of green arms trying to grab me or auditory evidence of growls and raspy women chanting in some freaky deeky language and all sorts of crazy noises.

   I had closed my eyes and took a few slow deep breaths to relax myself. For one third of the night I slept through it OK and I had thought I would sleep through the rest of the night though I don't know why. But things had taken a turn for the worst. At exactly 11:45pm I had felt a soft bump on my neck that was powerful enough to make my head move up a bit. But I had dismissed this as nothing major and went back to sleep. But 5 minutes later something had grabbed me so fast that I didn't even have time to open my eyes. But what I do know is that my screams sounded like a cry of a wailing cat when someone inflicts pain or discomfort on it. The next thing I knew I opened my eyes and saw that I was falling down this deep tunnel with various but strange objects appearing as i descended. This seems familiar but I honestly don't care. So eventually I had stopped falling and fell to the ground with a hard THUD! on the scaly ground. When I fell to the ground I was so disoriented that I had struggled to get up for a few minutes.

    Eventually I got my act together and had regained my ability to walk upright. But this world was nothing like i had seen before even on television and in comic books. You see the sky had a a weird tinting to it where the sky would change color every second from red to blue to green and so on. When I had walked around I noticed that my footsteps made sounds like blips and bloops, similar to the sounds of someone dialing a phone number. Some of the roads had long, dirty, sharp, and chipped teeth with blood coming out of the tooth sockets on both sides. And man was the air thick! It was a nasty green color that made barf look visually pleasing. When I tested to see how thick it was, I realized it was thick enough to eat. Though I wouldn't have recommended it though, it tasted like really crusty gym socks filled with cream cheese and left in the sun for a week. Nasty I know but that's the only way I could describe it really.

    But the strangest part and that's saying a lot was when I would hear occasional animal noises. Sometimes growls. Very deep growls that still made my spine tingle frantically. Other times sharp cackles of various bird calls that almost made me lose my balance. Odd thing to hear such sounds in a desert forest hybrid like this. But these aside from the howling wind, the blips and bloops from my footsteps and occasional heavy breathing, these were the only sounds that could be heard in this world. Everything else had seemed muted or had too high of frequency for me to hear. And I can hear up to 22,000 Hz which is high compared to my peers.

    But sometimes the sounds were from animals that I had not seen or even heard of before. But what if they weren't animals? What if they were some kind of terrifying horrible human like creatures that were trying to scare me so much that I get mauled by a whole band of them and become their dinner. That's what I thought until a whole bunch of four legged felines sprang out of no where and scared me to the point where I had lost my balance for a bit... Again. However, these weren't like like the kind of big felines I was used to. They all had weird fur colors. For example, one of them was slimish green while another was a deep shade of purple. But they had five claw sockets instead of four, their ears were more rounded, the eyes were all blood red and glowing intensely, and their fangs were like something you'd see on a saber tooth tiger.

    But they had all tried to pounce on me and I avoided it. When they hit the ground, they turned into something completely different! I know I was as shocked as you are right now. Well now they had turned into something even more menacing and underwear soiling. You see they had become, these blue blobish creatures that had jelly like flesh, empty eye sockets and had the ability to walk upright. Not only that but they had large steel bird wings and furry white Fox tails that seemed strong enough to wear they could use it like a pogo stick to give them extra height to jump over their hapless prey and kill them for their daily meals faster than they could say Uh Oh! When they had turned around sharply and quickly they had seen me and ran in my direction with the same blips and bloops that didn't even sound like blips and bloops coming from their feet at an alarming rate. So I ran for safety as fast as i could. So fast in fact that the ground behind me was catching on fire. Eventually, I had come across a strange lake in a garden. In the middle of the lake was a Whirlpool with various bold colors being fueled by a neon blue waterfall. Just as the blob creatures were about to catch me, I had quickly jumped into the lake hoping I would get out of this hellish nightmare. I would have no choice but to get my clothes wet to save my life.

  Splash ashashash! That would be the last sound I would hear for a while. It had echoed for what seemed like hours as I continued to sink down the bottomless lake. At this moment I was thinking to myself, ''Did I just lose my one life already? Will I ever see daylight or anything else ever again?!'' But then, something that thrown me off kilter again. I had woken up, looked around me, and I had asked myself where i was in a tired voice. But then i soon realized that I was on top of a mountain! And then as if this wasn't already strange enough, in the distance I could just barely see a red pagoda and some sign that I couldn't read. Thanks limited visibility! I had then came to the conclusion that I was in Japan! Out of all places, how in the world did I get to Japan?! Well at least when I get back home I can out brag to that snooty narcissistic brat Jessica Ottoman. That will shut her up about her stupid pink limo that turns into a tank!

  I have never been on top a mountain before but aren't they supposed to feel open and free? Because right now I feel very claustrophobic. On top of that, I have this overwhelming sense of tightness and dread like someone was trying to slice and dice my with spiked square walls on all sides. I decided to climb down the mountain and look for someone that knows the area to guide me out of here safely. But halfway through I had lost my balance for a third time.. Boy I'm so uncoordinated today... And fell down the mountain and landed at the bottom with a harder thud than the last. Luckily a bunch of locals had come to help me and surprisingly they had spoke English. Perfect English with barley any sign of an accent! Seems suspicious but I hope it's not those blobish creatures again! So I was taken to a local hospital to have help healing my wounds. But wait a minute! How did I survive falling down a vertical tunnel AND falling off of what the locals had told me was Mt. Fuji?

  Is this even Japan or am I still in some twisted and demented universe where shape shifting creatures try to kill you for some undetermined reasons. But that can't be true right? I mean after all these people were kind enough to help me out. So a few minutes later, a nurse came in who I think might have been in her mid 20's or something because she looked quite young but she was also very tall too. But the one thing that freaked me out was her eye color. Well basically one eye was hazel and the other was red. Bloody Bloody red but let's not get into that. It was like she might have been some kind of weird alien or robot or even blob disguised as a human. But despite her eyes she had asked me a few questions as to how I fell off of Mt. Fuji. Oh boy she's in for a heck of a doozy now!

    So I told her my story and she was both anxious and confused. I didn't know what was going on until they brought in these immense guys in white clothing who resembled Gorrilas to take me to that ''special'' part of the hospital. OK it was the psych ward and I certainly didn't feel like being there right now. So I decided to fight off these apes. Yeah remember when I was being chased by those blob creatures and it made the road behind me catch fire? Well guess what my enhanced speed works here too! This isn't Japan at all... Well I can still out brag Jessica about being in Japan. So I used my super speed to defeat the guards which caused the hospital to lockdown. But unfortunately I got hit with too many of  those tranquilizer darts and I stopped dead in my tracks and fainted. Who knew the darts moved so fast? Well at least I knocked down a few guards, right?

    Any way, by the time I wake up my heart jumps at the same time I do because standing over me were a bunch of Deranged Cyclops' dressed in doctors uniforms ready to perform surgery with one of the tools being a shortsword for some reason... And it still had the blood from the last patient on it! It made me want to faint, since I tend to feel weak even when someone just talks about blood. But at this point I'm sick of blood and blood makes me sick! Literally! I had soon discovered that i was chained to the operating table both arms and legs. Speaking of that, the head surgeon had told me that my legs were rather meaty and that they would make good candidates for eating! And he said it all in a voice that had echoed and sounded distorted as well. Trust me it was way too terrifying to describe it any further. So he put away the shortsword and got out a giant chainsaw and told everyone to hold me down while he was cutting off my legs. Well they held me down alright and I was so worried that i would have to use my hands for legs for the rest of my life. In fact I could just feel the pain and see the blood coming out of the leg areas.

    But then I had suddenly remembered the necklace I got today. It had a white shiny piece of jewelry on it that would sure get me out of this mess. Remembering this, I tried my hardest to break free from the grasp of the other Cyclops doctors and it took me awhile but just before he got to the first leg I used the jewelry to blind him and abandon his weapons as well as well as blinding the rest of the Cyclops. Once I broke free of the chains, I decided I needed some slicing and dicing action. So I grabbed the chainsaw which was still running and with the combination of my superspeed dashed all around the room and chopped all the doctors up piece by piece and the room was painted with... Black blood? Huh? Interesting. So when I went to the blackened door I realized it was locked from the outside and needed a key to open it. But who needs keys when you have chainsaws!? So I ripped the door apart with my newly acquired chainsaw and escaped the hospital and I was finally relieved to get out of that madhouse. I soon discovered that if I put something behind my back it disappears and I might be able to use it later. How am I getting all of these weird powers? First the superspeed now this? Aww who cares? Its awesome!

    So i ran away from that place as fast as i could hoping no one would find me and bring me back there. Just as i thought I got away Scott free, I soon ran into a wall that had a jelly like hole in the middle and I was suddenly floating through the stars aimlessly. Woah! This is really making my head spin but its also relaxing me. Well as I was floating through space I think, I was wondering where this portal would take me to. I mean I jumped into a lake that some how brought me to Japan and I nearly got my legs chopped off by Cyclops'. What could possibly be next?

    Well here's a doozy. So as soon as I abruptly stopped hurting through the stars I suddenly found myself shooting up like a rocket through some cold glassy substance that didn't seem to cut me all that much. But soon after, I fell to the ground and landed on top of some sort of weird rectangular metal like box just a little taller and wider than me that was also cold to the touch. The air was also sadistically nippy as well making every blow seem as though i was getting my face and other exposed skin scratched up by ten thousand rusty and extremely sharp pitchforks. I soon got of the box and went to see where this portal had taken me. While walking around I had noticed that my footsteps now sounded like someone tapping on a wine glass. Then I got up to this sign and under the intense cold, stuttered while reading it but basically it said. "Www...welcome tt....to Ant...arctttt..tica... Yes ff..folks we ff...finally ddd..did ii...it!" At first I was confused as to what the slogan meant until I looked around to discover that there were towns and cities all over the place in one of the harshest climates in this world... Or where ever I am!

   It seemed as though no one had lived in these cities and towns but i decided to check anyway. I called out and asked if anyone was here but no answer. Five minutes later I tried again but no answer. But just when I thought I had no luck I got some sort of response. It was hard to hear but hey at least it let me know that SOMEONE was here with me. It was something that is quite hard for me to describe. But basically it was like a short, simple series of syllables or words that were sung on or intoned (I don't know which) to the same note or a limited range of notes . The thing was though, as much as I was reluctant to find the source of the sound I had noticed that my legs started to move on their own without any assistance from me. Please legs, don't drag my poor soul over there who knows whats going on... Maybe it could be those blobish creatures planting some sort of maniacal scheme to kill me or rip every single one of my limbs off my body and use it as food to feed their whole tribe or worse.

    But just as I was exploring I came across some sort of... Really bizarre creature that made my heart race and jump about two feet back. This creature was something that...even I couldn't come with on the ultimate of sugar highs. You see here's how I can best describe it. Well basically it had straw and shaggy fur that had seem to cut off at the middle of the legs as though someone had sliced it off with a knife as fast as they could and the legs had shown some bright pale liquid coming down From all sides of the legs. It had a nasty bump on its back that looked like a giant jagged pimple that was actually beating like a heart. The bump was filled with tons of dirt debris and puss ready to explode if even the slightest bit of force was used to pop it. Not only that but its legs were more like tentacles with three stringy looking talons or claws or something similar on the ends of the legs. But one thing I did know was that the ends of the legs felt all slimy and surprisingly warm as it was rubbing them against my legs. Its neck was a whole other story. You see, its neck looked like a tornado and seems as though it thrown into a mechanical mixer and whipped several times enough to make you feel dizzy and have a headache too. And attached to that twisted neck was its head which didn't look like a squid but was in fact an actual squid with huge creepy eyes that just stared into your soul and your mind peering at every single one of your thoughts and emotions. But its tail by far was its most bizarre feature. You see, it turns out that it wasn't a tail at all. It was a bird's head with the beak and everything. It looked very gloomy and depressed while also having this feeling that it was going to detatch from its host and attack me in any way possible. I think its the creatures guardian that protects against blind spots from behind and protects the creature while it sleeps as well.

    Well it turns out this creature didn't want to cause me harm at all. Instead it lead me miles outside of the abandoned towns and cities into the remote part of the tundra with howling winds that seemed to make the winds in the towns and cities seem like a light breeze because now the winds felt like I was getting my skin scratched off by a pack of starving hyenas that haven't eaten in as fort night. As I was walking alongside the creature it had stopped dead in its stringy tracks as we came to this campsite with a blazing fire going and an enormously rounded black cast iron cooking pot that was large enough to fit two savage adult polar bears comfortably (as if they needed it in there anyway).  Not only that but gathered around the flame was a group of what I thought were natives completely nude, even the women, with all sorts of tattoos painted on their bodies. How do they survive in this harsh and unforgiving tundra in their birthday suits? Because even with heavily padded clothes on I would still be cold. Oh well at least they got that fire going for them. Anyway the creature continued into the camp and at first I was a bit reluctant because I didn't know if these people would help me or not and given what I have gone through so far I think that experience is sounding like a rational reason right now.

    But I had followed the creature into the camp and for a few silent and uncomfortable moments the whole tribe was looking at me as though I was some sort of creature they had never seen before. Afterwards they had talked amongst themselves but I couldn't understand what they were saying not because they weren't loud enough but because they were speaking in some sort of cryptic and confusing language. The only things I could make out were: ''Eenemo gui tonsaka quai kwanzi due fenicto''. I have no idea what it means or if they're just talking nonsense or not. But anyway I soon learned what it meant because the natives had escorted me to some sort of cage made entirely out of frosty hard icy permafrost and threw me in there locking the cage as they left. I soon found myself parked over a pit of water up top a cliff. I laughed because I thought they didn't know I could swim as and that this was a pathetic attempt of drowning me. But when I turned my head to the back of the cage I noticed the entire tribe getting ready to push me off into the bottomless and cruel abyss below. Some of them even has sticks that were whetted to the point where it didn't take much force to do some serious damage when used to poke someone.

    So if it wasn't for a drowning, then why was I in a cage to begin with? Well from what I could see being on the cliff there were all sorts of cages filled with various, intimidating creatures that became aggressive even if you looked at them the wrong way. There were extremely large polar bears with blood on their fur, teeth, and claws that attempted to rip the icy bars out of the sockets while giving off a spine tingling roar that would send even the bravest person cowering for safe shelter. Housed right next to the polar bears were some sort of sea spiders that seemed invisible from the angle I was at. They had scaly skin 8 hairy legs and two arms with webbed hands that resembled something from a platypus. There were other horrifying Antarctic creatures caged up down there but I can't describe them all since  it would take all day. Just then I had begun to feel myself moving and getting closer and closer to the edge of the cliff about to fall to my demise. All of a sudden I had remembered my chainsaw I got from the Cyclops' and whipped it out to free myself. However when I tried to slice and dice the bars open I ended up breaking the chainsaw and the teeth went flying everywhere with one almost slicing my arm off. Well I guess diamonds aren't the only indestructible materials out there! So I eventually fell down into the icy lake and the predators were released from their cages were chasing me. They yammered and gnashed their bloody teeth and claws at me trying to pry the cage open to claim their prey. While floating down the lake into a river I had suddenly noticed a giant steep waterfall only inches away. I was about to fall down the waterfall until this blinding red and orange light flashed before my eyes for a few slow and painful minutes.