• There was an abandonned school building which was several decades old. Some of the people who lived near the old building asked the mayor of the town why it hasn't been broken down. Apparently, there have been 3 dozen attempts to demolish the school over the past 70 years. Some of the children heard of this and decided it would be fun to explore the school, so they all set out to the abandonned school. In the dead of night, 7 children went in. Surprisingly, there was a layout of the school on a wall, covered by a sheet of broken glass. They were able to make out some of the map, yet the rest had faded, specifically, a small part near the bottom that read of something unusual, yet undeterminable.

    The children then decided to stick together, and go into the halls. Several parts of the school had been ruined from age, yet none of it seemed to be damaged from something of a truck or bulldozer. There were chips in the walls, coat racks that lay on the floor, and a few holes in the hall. As they ventured further, there were cracking sounds that silenced the children. They stopped, and waited. All of a sudden, a large part fo the floor started to crumble underneath their feet, falling to a bottomless pit. They ran for their lives, yet only 5 of them survived, the other's screams, echoing from the hole. The children mourned their losses for a moment when one of them said they wanted to go home.

    Everyone looked behind them the way they had come, yet none of it looked familiar. The straight path they were taking, now curved and made sharp turns, and doors scattered along the wall. While they were walking through the hall, they heard a scratching sound. Thinking someone else was there with them, they scrambled towards the sound, and reached a door where the scratching was loud and clear. One of them opened the door slowly, the creaking of the door echoing through the halls, and there was a classroom inside, with desks and chairs all in a pile, several of them broken. Yet what caught everyone's eyes was a small boy, made of what seemed to be fog, holding a piece of chalk, writing on the chalkboard. The boy looked over at all the children, vanished into thin air, the piece of chalk falling to the ground. All the children then started to panic. They closed the door and leaned back against it. Suddenly, down the hall, light seemed to be fading.

    The darkness was growing stronger, making almmost the entire hallway pitch black. The children screamed and ran for their lives. 1 child tripped, and grunted as he got back up, yet no one had stopped for him. He looked at the darkness, as it engulfed him. A loud scream made it's way to the children's ears, and they stopped. The darkness ahd also stopped, not going past the moonlight which spilled through the open window. One boy opened their backpack, and brought out a flashlight. He turned it on and pointed it at the darkness, which seemed to growl quietly. He pointed it at a corner, hoping he could drive it off slowly. There, the darkness withdrew, but only slightly. The boy exhaled a sigh of releif, and pointed the flashlight away, only to see the darkness resume the corner. The children then mourned slightly, and headed in the opposite direction. not knowing where they were going, they wandered into a large room, which they presumed to be the cafeteria. They walked past the broken benches and tables, scared half to death. Then, the darkness started up from the door they came from, and the children, with no exit in sight, held on to eachother tightly, and prayed it wouldn't do anything.

    The darkness engulfed them, but, just before it got too close, the boy turned on the flashlight, making a slightly visible path. The children rejoiced and followed the boy. after several minutes, the flashlight started to flicker and then turn off. The children started to cry, but the boy was determined to get out and looked through the dark, and exclaimed that he saw a light. Everyone and looked and saw the ornage light that grew bigger, then stopped. The light then grew smaller and all the children followed it for what seemed to be years and years. The children started to see another light, and came close enough to see it was moonlight. The orange light vanished, a very, very faint moan of agony emitting form it, and the children ran happily to the moonlight. they reached the edge of the darkness, and one by one, slipped through, but only 3 of them. They realized this and sadness engulfed them yet again. The children walked towards the moonlight, and saw the door they had come from, and they rushed towards the door.

    The boy with the flashlight looked over at the map on the wall, and all the glass was completely gone, and the map was fully visible, some of it, he recognized, was drawn with black ink, yet the rest was drawn with a dark red ink that seemed to drip. And at the bottom, there, written in the same ink as the rest of the map, in large letters was a simple message. "YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE" was all it said. Shivers crawled through his spine as he read this. He ignored this and went with the other children who were gathered around the door. They exclaimed that the door was locked, and everyone began to panic. Then, a noise was made, and everyone stopped. After waiting, the noise came again, a very faint moan, similar to the one of the orange light. The boy took out the flashlight and began to frantically try to turn it on. The noise grew louder, and louder, and then, somewhere in the darkness, there was the orange light, slowly becoming larger. And then, it disappeared, a thick line of fog in it's place, and the children could just barely see the face of an elderly man in the front of the line. The fog then scrambled around the room, and then grew wide and rushed at the children, moaning. The children screamed and the boy dropped the flashlight. The children fell to the ground, life gone from their hearts. The flashlight rolled over to the map, rolling in one spot, the light finally on and pointing directly at the message. Then, finally flickered, and then turned off, allowing the darkness to spread through the room.