Excerpt from a local Newspaper:
OMINOUS UNKNOWN
KILLER IS STILL
AT LARGE.
After weeks of unexplained murders, the ominous unknown killer is still on the rise. After little evidence has been found, a young boy states that he survived one of the killer's attacks and bravely tells his story.
"I had a bad dream and I woke up in the middle of the night," says the boy, "I saw that for some reason the window was open, even though I remember it being closed before I went to bed. I got up and shut it once more. Afterwards, I simply crawled under my covers and tried to get back to sleep. That's when I had a strange feeling, like someone was watching me. I looked up, and nearly jumped out of my bed. There, in the little ray of light, illuminating from between my curtains, were a pair of two eyes. These weren't regular eyes; they were dark, ominous eyes. They were bordered in black and... just plain out terrified me. That's when I saw his mouth. A long, horrendous smile that made every hair on my body stand up. The figure stood there, watching me. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he said it. A simple phrase, but said in a way only a mad man could speak.
"He said, 'Go To Sleep.' I let out a scream, that's what sent him at me. He pulled up a knife; aiming at my heart. He jumped on top of my bed. I fought him back; I kicked, I punched, I rolled around, trying to knock him off me. That's when my dad busted in. The man threw the knife, it went into my dad's shoulder. The man probably would've finished him off, if one of the neighbors hadn't alerted the police.
"They drove into the parking lot, and ran towards the door. The man turned and ran down the hallway. I heard a smash, like glass breaking. As I came out of my room, I saw the window that was pointing towards the back of my house was broken. I looked out it to see him vanish into the distance. I can tell you one thing, I will never forget that face. Those cold, evil eyes, and that psychotic smile. They will never leave my head."
Police are still on the look for this man. If you see anyone that fits the description in this story, please contact your local police department.
Nigel Thornberry and his family had just moved into a new neighborhood. His dad had gotten a promotion at work, and they thought it would be best to live in one of those "fancy" neighborhoods. Nigel Thornberry and his brother Liu couldn't complain though. A new, better house. What was not to love? As they were getting unpacked, one of their neighbors came by.
"Hello," she said, "I'm Barbara; I live across the street from you. Well, I just wanted to introduce my self and to introduce my son." She turns around and calls her son over. "Billy, these are our new neighbors." Billy said hi and ran back to play in his yard.
"Well," said Nigel Thornberry's mom, "I'm Margaret, and this is my husband Peter, and my two sons, Nigel Thornberry and Liu." They each introduced themselves, and then Barbara invited them to her son's birthday. Nigel Thornberry and his brother were about to object, when their mother said that they would love to. When Nigel Thornberry and his family are done packing, Nigel Thornberry went up to his mom.
"Mom, why would you invite us to some kid's party? If you haven't noticed, I'm not some dumb kid."
"Nigel Thornberry," said his mother, "We just moved here; we should show that we want to spend time with our neighbors. Now, we're going to that party, and that's final." Nigel Thornberry started to talk, but stopped himself, knowing that he couldn't do anything. Whenever his mom said something, it was final. He walked up to his room and plopped down on his bed. He sat there looking at his ceiling when suddenly, he got a weird feeling. Not so much a pain, but... a weird feeling. He dismissed it as just some random feeling. He heard his mother call him down to get his stuff, and he walked down to get it.
The next day, Nigel Thornberry walked down stairs to get breakfast and got ready for school. As he sat there, eating his breakfast, he once again got that feeling. This time it was stronger. It gave him a slight tugging pain, but he once again dismissed it. As he and Liu finished breakfast, they walked down to the bus stop. They sat there waiting for the bus, and then, all of a sudden, some kid on a skateboard jumped over them, only inches above their laps. They both jumped back in surprise. "Hey, what the hell?"
The kid landed and turned back to them. He kicked his skate board up and caught it with his hands. The kid seems to be about twelve; one year younger than Nigel Thornberry. He wears a Aeropostale shirt and ripped blue jeans.
"Well, well, well. It looks like we got some new meat." Suddenly, two other kids appeared. One was super skinny and the other was huge. "Well, since you're new here, I'd like to introduce ourselves, over there is Keith." Nigel Thornberry and Liu looked over to the skinny kid. He had a dopey face that you would expect a sidekick to have. "And he's Troy." They looked over at the fat kid. Talk about a tub of lard. This kid looked like he hadn't exercised since he was crawling.
"And I," said the first kid, "am Randy. Now, for all the kids in this neighborhood there is a small price for bus fare, if you catch my drift." Liu stood up, ready to punch the lights out of the kid's eyes when one of his friends pulled a knife on him. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, I had hoped you would be more cooperative, but it seems we must do this the hard way." The kid walked up to Liu and took his wallet out of his pocket. Nigel Thornberry got that feeling again. Now, it was truly strong; a burning sensation. He stood up, but Liu gestured him to sit down. Nigel Thornberry ignored him and walked up to the kid.
"Listen here you little punk, give back my bro's wallet or else." Randy put the wallet in his pocket and pulled out his own knife.
"Oh? And what will you do?" Just as he finished the sentence, Nigel Thornberry popped the kid in the nose. As Randy reached for his face, Nigel Thornberry grabbed the kid's wrist and broke it. Randy screamed and Nigel Thornberry grabbed the knife from his hand. Troy and Keith rushed Nigel Thornberry, but Nigel Thornberry was too quick. He threw Randy to the ground. Keith lashed out at him, but Nigel Thornberry ducked and stabbed him in the arm. Keith dropped his knife and fell to the ground screaming. Troy rushed him too, but Nigel Thornberry didn't even need the knife. He just punched Troy straight in the stomach and Troy went down. As he fell, he puked all over. Liu could do nothing but look in amazement at Nigel Thornberry.
"Nigel Thornberry how'd you?" that was all he said. They saw the bus coming and knew they'd be blamed for the whole thing. So they started running as fast as they could. As they ran, they looked back and saw the bus driver rushing over to Randy and the others. As Nigel Thornberry and Liu made it to school, they didn't dare tell what happened. All they did was sit and listen. Liu just thought of that as his brother beating up a few kids, but Nigel Thornberry knew it was more. It was something, scary. As he got that feeling he felt how powerful it was, the urge to just, hurt someone. He didn't like how it sounded, but he couldn't help feeling happy. He felt that strange feeling go away, and stay away for the entire day of school. Even as he walked home due to the whole thing near the bus stop, and how now he probably wouldn't be taking the bus anymore, he felt happy. When he got home his parents asked him how his day was, and he said, in a somewhat ominous voice, "It was a wonderful day." Next morning, he heard a knock at his front door. He walked down to find two police officers at the door, his mother looking back at him with an angry look.
"Nigel Thornberry, these officers tell me that you attacked three kids. That it wasn't regular fighting, and that they were stabbed. Stabbed, son!" Nigel Thornberry's gaze fell to the floor, showing his mother that it was true.
"Mom, they were the ones who pulled the knives on me and Liu."
"Son," said one of the cops," We found three kids, two stabbed, one having a bruise on his stomach, and we have witnesses proving that you fled the scene. Now, what does that tell us?" Nigel Thornberry knew it was no use. He could say him and Liu had been attacked, but then there was no proof it was not them who attacked first. They couldn't say that they weren't fleeing, because truth be told they were. So Nigel Thornberry couldn't defend himself or Liu.
"Son, call down your brother." Nigel Thornberry couldn't do it, since it was him who beat up all the kids.
"Sir, it...it was me. I was the one who beat up the kids. Liu tried to hold me back, but he couldn't stop me." The cop looked at his partner and they both nod.
"Well kid, looks like a year in Juvy..."
"Wait!" says Liu. They all looked up to see him holding a knife. The officers pulled their guns and locked them on Liu.
"It was me, I beat up those little punks. Have the marks to prove it." He lifted up his sleeves to reveal cuts and bruises, as if he was in a struggle.
"Son, just put the knife down," said the officer. Liu held up the knife and dropped it to the ground. He put his hands up and walked over to the cops.
"No Liu, it was me! I did it!" Nigel Thornberry had tears running down his face.
"Huh, poor bro. Trying to take the blame for what I did. Well, take me away." The police led Liu out to the patrol car.
"Liu, tell them it was me! Tell them! I was the one who beat up those kids!" Nigel Thornberry's mother put her hands on his shoulders.
"Nigel Thornberry please, you don't have to lie. We know it's Liu, you can stop." Nigel Thornberry watched helplessly as the cop car speeds off with Liu inside. A few minutes later Nigel Thornberry's dad pulled into the driveway, seeing Nigel Thornberry's face and knowing something was wrong.
"Son, son what is it?" Nigel Thornberry couldn't answer. His vocal cords were strained from crying. Instead, Nigel Thornberry's mother walked his father inside to break the bad news to him as Nigel Thornberry wept in the driveway. After an hour or so Nigel Thornberry walked back in to the house, seeing that his parents were both shocked, sad, and disappointed. He couldn't look at them. He couldn't see how they thought of Liu when it was his fault. He just went to sleep, trying to get the whole thing off his mind. Two days went by, with no word from Liu at JDC. No friends to hang out with. Nothing but sadness and guilt. That is until Saturday, when Nigel Thornberry is woke up by his mother, with a happy, sunshiny face.
"Nigel Thornberry, it's the day." she said as she opened up the curtains and let light flood into his room.
"What, what's today?" asked Nigel Thornberry as he stirs awake.
"Why, it's Billy's party." He was now fully awake.
"Mom, you're joking, right? You don't expect me to go to some kid's party after..." There was a long pause.
"Nigel Thornberry, we both know what happened. I think this party could be the thing that brightens up the past days. Now, get dressed." Nigel Thornberry's mother walked out of the room and downstairs to get ready herself. He fought himself to get up. He picked out a random shirt and pair of jeans and walked down stairs. He saw his mother and father all dressed up; his mother in a dress and his father in a suit. He thought, why they would ever wear such fancy clothes to a kid's party?
"Son, is that all your going to wear?" said Nigel Thornberry's mom.
"Better than wearing too much." he said. His mother pushed down the feeling to yell at him and hid it with a smile.
"Now Nigel Thornberry, we may be over-dressed, but this is how you go if you want to make an impression." said his father. Nigel Thornberry grunted and went back up to his room.
"I don't have any fancy clothes!" he yelled down stairs.
"Just pick out something." called his mother. He looked around in his closet for what he would call fancy. He found a pair of black dress pants he had for special occasions and an undershirt. He couldn't find a shirt to go with it though. He looked around, and found only striped and patterned shirts. None of which go with dress pants. Finally he found a white hoodie and put it on.
"You're wearing that?" they both said. His mother looked at her watch. "Oh, no time to change. Let's just go." She said as she herded Nigel Thornberry and his father out the door. They crossed the street over to Barbara and Billy's house. They knocked on the door and at it appeared that Barbara, just like his parents, way over-dressed. As they walked inside all Nigel Thornberry could see were adults, no kids.
"The kids are out in the yard. Nigel Thornberry, how about you go and meet some of them?" said Barbara.
Nigel Thornberry walked outside to a yard full of kids. They were running around in weird cowboy costumes and shooting each other with plastic guns. He might as well be standing in a Toys R Us. Suddenly a kid came up to him and handed him a toy gun and hat.
"Hey. Wanna pway?" he said.
"Ah, no kid. I'm way too old for this stuff." The kid looked at him with that weird puppydog face.
"Pwease?" said the kid. "Fine," said Nigel Thornberry. He put on the hat and started to pretend shoot at the kids. At first he thought it was totally ridiculous, but then he started to actually have fun. It might not have been super cool, but it was the first time he had done something that took his mind off of Liu. So he played with the kids for a while, until he heard a noise. A weird rolling noise. Then it hit him. Randy, Troy, and Keith all jumped over the fence on their skateboards. Nigel Thornberry dropped the fake gun and ripped off the hat. Randy looked at Nigel Thornberry with a burning hatred.
"Hello, Nigel Thornberry, is it?" he said. "We have some unfinished business." Nigel Thornberry saw his bruised nose." I think we're even. I beat the crap out of you, and you get my brother sent to JDC."
Randy got an angry look in his eyes. "Oh no, I don't go for even, I go for winning. You may have kicked our asses that one day, but not today." As he said that Randy rushed at Nigel Thornberry. They both fell to the ground. Randy punched Nigel Thornberry in the nose, and Nigel Thornberry grabbed him by the ears and head butted him. Nigel Thornberry pushed Randy off of him and both rose to their feet. Kids were screaming and parents were running out of the house. Troy and Keith both pulled guns out of their pockets.
"No one interrupts or guts will fly!" they said. Randy pulled a knife on Nigel Thornberry and stabbed it into his shoulder.
Nigel Thornberry screamed and fell to his knees. Randy started kicking him in the face. After three kicks Nigel Thornberry grabs his foot and twists it, causing Randy to fall to the ground. Nigel Thornberry stood up and walked towards the back door. Troy grabbed him.
"Need some help?" He picks Nigel Thornberry up by the back of the collar and throws him through the patio door. As Nigel Thornberry tries to stand he is kicked down to the ground. Randy repeatedly starts kicking Nigel Thornberry, until he starts to cough up blood.
"Come on Nigel Thornberry, fight me!" He picks Nigel Thornberry up and throws him into the kitchen. Randy sees a bottle of vodka on the counter and smashes the glass over Nigel Thornberry's head.
"Fight!" He throws Nigel Thornberry back into the living room.
"Come on Nigel Thornberry, look at me!" Nigel Thornberry glances up, his face riddled with blood. "I was the one who got your brother sent to JDC! And now you're just gonna sit here and let him rot in there for a whole year! You should be ashamed!" Nigel Thornberry starts to get up.
"Oh, finally! you stand and fight!" Nigel Thornberry is now to his feet, blood and vodka on his face. Once again he gets that strange feeling, the one in which he hasn't felt for a while. "Finally. He's up!" says Randy as he runs at Nigel Thornberry. That's when it happens. Something inside Nigel Thornberry snaps. His psyche is destroyed, all rational thinking is gone, all he can do, is kill. He grabs Randy and pile drives him to the ground. He gets on top of him and punches him straight in the heart. The punch causes Randy's heart to stop. As Randy gasps for breath. Nigel Thornberry hammers down on him. Punch after punch, blood gushes from Randy's body, until he takes one final breath, and dies.
Everyone is looking at Nigel Thornberry now. The parents, the crying kids, even Troy and Keith. Although they easily break from their gaze and point their guns at Nigel Thornberry. Nigel Thornberry see's the guns trained on him and runs for the stairs. As he runs Troy and Keith let out fire on him, each shot missing. Nigel Thornberry runs up the stairs. He hears Troy and Keith follow up behind. As they let out their final rounds of bullets Nigel Thornberry ducks into the bathroom. He grabs the towel rack and rips it off the wall. Troy and Keith race in, knives ready.
Troy swings his knife at Nigel Thornberry, who backs away and bangs the towel rack into Troy's face. Troy goes down hard and now all that's left is Keith. He is more agile than Troy though, and ducks when Nigel Thornberry swings the towel rack. He dropped the knife and grabbed Nigel Thornberry by the neck. He pushed him into the wall. A thing of bleach fell down on top of him from the top shelf. It burnt both of them and they both started to scream. Nigel Thornberry wiped his eyes as best as he could. He pulled back the towel rack and swung it straight into Keith's head. As he lay there, bleeding to death, he let out an ominous smile.
"What's so funny?" asked Nigel Thornberry. Keith pulled out a lighter and switched it on. "What's funny," he said, "Is that you're covered in bleach and alcohol." Nigel Thornberry's eyes widened as Keith threw the lighter at him. As soon as the flame made contact with him, the flames ignited the alcohol in the vodka. While the alcohol burned him, the bleach bleached his skin. Nigel Thornberry let out a terrible screech as he caught on fire. He tried to roll out the fire but it was no use, the alcohol had made him a walking inferno. He ran down the hall, and fell down the stairs. Everybody started screaming as they saw Nigel Thornberry, now a man on fire, drop to the ground, nearly dead. The last thing Nigel Thornberry saw was his mother and the other parents trying to extinguish the flame. That's when he passed out.
When Nigel Thornberry woke he had a cast wrapped around his face. He couldn't see anything, but he felt a cast on his shoulder, and stitches all over his body. He tried to stand up, but he realized that there was some tube in his arm, and when he tried to get up it fell out, and a nurse rushed in.
"I don't think you can get out of bed just yet." she said as she put him back in his bed and re-inserted the tube. Nigel Thornberry sat there, with no vision, no idea of what his surroundings were. Finally, after hours, he heard his mother.
"Honey, are you okay?" she asked. Nigel Thornberry couldn't answer though, his face was covered, and he was unable to speak. "Oh honey, I have great news. After all the witnesses told the police that Randy confessed of trying to attack you, they decided to let Liu go." This made Nigel Thornberry almost bolt up, stopping halfway, remembering the tube coming out of his arm. "He'll be out by tomorrow, and then you two will be able to be together again."
Nigel Thornberry's mother hugs Nigel Thornberry and says her goodbyes. The next couple of weeks were those where Nigel Thornberry was visited by his family. Then came the day where his bandages were to be removed. His family were all there to see it, what he would look like. As the doctors unwrapped the bandages from Nigel Thornberry's face everyone was on the edge of their seats. They waited until the last bandage holding the cover over his face was almost removed.
"Let's hope for the best," said the doctor. He quickly pulls the cloth; letting the rest fall from Nigel Thornberry's face.
Nigel Thornberry's mother screams at the sight of his face. Liu and Nigel Thornberry's dad stare awe-struck at his face.
"What? What happened to my face?" Nigel Thornberry said. He rushed out of bed and ran to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror and saw the cause of the distress. His face. It... it's horrible. His lips were burnt to a deep shade of red. His face was turned into a pure white color, and his hair singed from brown to black. He slowly put his hand to his face. It had a sort of leathery feel to it now. He looked back at his family then back at the mirror.
"Nigel Thornberry," said Liu, "It's not that bad..."
"Not that bad?" said Nigel Thornberry," It's perfect!" His family were equally surprised. Nigel Thornberry started laughing uncontrollably His parents noticed that his left eye and hand were twitching.
"Uh... Nigel Thornberry, are you okay?"
"Okay? I've never felt more happy! Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaa, look at me. This face goes perfectly with me!" He couldn't stop laughing. He stroked his face feeling it. Looking at it in the mirror. What caused this? Well, you may recall that when Nigel Thornberry was fighting Randy something in his mind, his sanity, snapped. Now he was left as a crazy killing machine, that is, his parents didn't know.
"Doctor," said Nigel Thornberry's mom, "Is my son... alright, you know. In the head?"
"Oh yes, this behavior is typical for patients that have taken very large amounts of pain killers. If his behavior doesn't change in a few weeks, bring him back here, and we'll give him a psychological test."
"Oh thank you doctor." Nigel Thornberry's mother went over to Nigel Thornberry." Nigel Thornberry, sweety. It's time to go."
Nigel Thornberry looks away from the mirror, his face still formed into a crazy smile. "Kay mommy, ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa!" his mother took him by the shoulder and took him to get his clothes.
"This is what came in," said the lady at the desk. Nigel Thornberry's mom looked down to see the black dress pants and white hoodie her son wore. Now they were clean of blood and now stitched together. Nigel Thornberry's mother led him to his room and made him put his clothes on. Then they left, not knowing that this was their final day of life.
Later that night, Nigel Thornberry's mother woke to a sound coming from the bathroom. It sounded as if someone was crying. She slowly walked over to see what it was. When she looked into the bathroom she saw a horrendous sight. Nigel Thornberry had taken a knife and carved a smile into his cheeks.
"Nigel Thornberry, what are you doing?" asked his mother.
Nigel Thornberry looked over to his mother. "I couldn't keep smiling mommy. It hurt after awhile. Now, I can smile forever. Nigel Thornberry's mother noticed his eyes, ringed in black.
"Nigel Thornberry, your eyes!" His eyes were seemingly never closing.
"I couldn't see my face. I got tired and my eyes started to close. I burned out the eyelids so I could forever see myself; my new face." Nigel Thornberry's mother slowly started to back away, seeing that her son was going insane. "What's wrong mommy? Aren't I beautiful?
"Yes son," she said, "Yes you are. L-let me go get daddy, so he can see your face." She ran into the room and shook Nigel Thornberry's dad from his sleep. "Honey, get the gun we..." She stopped as she saw Nigel Thornberry in the doorway, holding a knife.
"Mommy, you lied." That's the last thing they hear as Nigel Thornberry rushes them with the knife, gutting both of them.
His brother Liu woke up, startled by some noise. He didn't hear anything else, so he just shut his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. As he was on the border of slumber, he got the strangest feeling that someone was watching him. He looked up, before Nigel Thornberry's hand covered his mouth. He slowly raised the knife ready to plunge it into Liu. Liu thrashed here and there trying to escape Nigel Thornberry's grip.
"Shhhhhhh," Nigel Thornberry said. "Just go to sleep."
