"No, NO!!"

A girl was screaming hopelessly as she watches a kid with a broken leg crawling away from a pitch black creature.

"No please, please, LEAVE HIM ALONE"

*crack*

the creature twisted its neck and turned its head towards the crying girl.....

"AAAGHHH"

"Now, now. Don't cry little one."

*beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *bee--

*click*

Mary, who was sleeping sweaty on her messy bed, suddenly woke up nine in the morning after hearing mixed sound of alarm clock and a loud scream from her brother, Marcus.

"AAHHH!!"

Mary rushed to get off her bed, opened the bedroom door, and ran downstairs to look for her brother.

"Marcus! MARCUS!" shouted Mary.

She went to the living room and checked beneath their sofas.

"No one here. Oh God, where are you..."

Realized that no one is in the living room, Mary immediately went to the comfort room to check. Suddenly...

"ROAR!!"

A loud noise bursted from a dinosaur Marcus was holding, as he attempted to scare his big sister. Unfortunately, the result was a failure. Looking at his sisters face, Marcus felt a dangerous and dark aura as her sister glances back.

*smack *

Mary slams her knuckle on the top of her brothers head.

"Screaming to wake me up early just for this, seriously." Mary told her brother.

"Hihi, sorry Mary. Wanna play hide and seek?" asked Marcus.

"Sorry Marcus, can't today. Stayed up all night to finish my homework"

"OH COME ON!! You promised yesterday that you'll play with me! You even told me you will play hide and seek, basketball, tag--"

"Okay fine, just one game"

"Hmmmm. No, how 'bout five games of hide and seek"

"Hmm. How about three plus three, divided by six games of hide and seek?"

"I don't quite understand, but LET'S GO!!!"

Mary and Marcus ran up to the room of Marcus as their starting point. Before they start, both of them played rock-paper-scissors to determine who will seek, and Marcus lost.

"Hah, goodluck finding me little dude." Mary told Marcus.

"Eeeeh. Fine then, I'll count faster than usual" replied Marcus.

"Cheaters are losers Marcuuus!" A fading shout of Mary as he ran outside Marcus' room, and went downstairs to hide.

Of all the games of hide and seek they played, Marcus has quite the ability to remember visually all the places Mary hid, but ironically, Marcus isn't quite good at Math. With that being said, Marcus is more or less familiar with all the hiding spots, so Mary decided to find an unusual spot in the house to hide.

With their house quite big, Mary has time to look for her final place to hide before Marcus finds her. So she went to the storage room on the back of the kitchen, and wandered inside, knowing that their parents warned them not to open frequently for there is too much mess inside.

"Woah, this is the mess Mom was telling us?" as she entered the dark storage room, and saw a very well organized cabinets full of old vases and clocks. After minutes of wandering around, Mary seems to have noticed a doorknob in between the clocks. The doorknob was somehow shiny as gold, but has dust and spiderwebs that cover. Mary then, with all her strength, moved the cabinet of clocks so that she can see the whole door.

Mary stares at the door. It was quite bigger than the usual room door. It was covered with spiderwebs mixed with all sorts of dust, making it even recognizable as a door. What cathes Mary's attention is how shiny the doorknob was, as if it was tempting her to open it. So she went.

*tries to open it*

"Seems locked." said Mary.

As Mary tries to open the door several times,

"What the...", she noticed that the door does not have keyholes nor padlocks attached.

*woosh*

A paper suddenly went past from underneath the door and moved across the storage room. The paper has dark red liquid drops, as if it was a blood. Too shocked, Mary stares directly at the paper for a minute while her hand was holding the doorknob.

After some time, Mary finally picked up the paper and noticed that it has words written in a crappy way:

don't cry, little one.......

Mary collapsed.

She fell down on her knees with a fixed face like she just saw a ghost or something. Although she doesn't know why the paper writing affects her too much, she suddenly felt cold on her knees, as if they were refusing to stand up.

*knocks on the door*

"No, please NO!"

The knocking went a little faster, and it became louder as well.

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

Mary suddenly went to a heavy breathing, and leaned to a wall.

*door opens*

"Mary? MARY!" shouted Marcus, as he opens the storage room door.

"AHA, I found you in less than five minutes! (actually 20 minutes) what do you think of that? hihi" Marcus bragged as he looks down on his sister staring at him.

"M-Marcus... help."

"Mary? If you wanna sleep you should've told me sooner." said Marcus.

"B-butthead. Help me stand up." Mary replied.

Marcus puts his sisters arm around and helped her get up.

"Wow. You really opened the storage room huh?" said Marcus.

"Yep. *coughs* I wanted to give our little game of hide and seek a twist."

"Well too bad for you sis. The only thing that's gonna twist is your head, as you shake them out of disappointment because HAHA BECAUSE YOU LOST!--"

"Stop it." Mary interrupted.

"Huh? Why?" Marcus said confused.

"Nothin'."

The siblings went out of the storage room and closed the door.

Marcus helped his sister to carry herself upstairs.

"What happened to you?"

A deep voice suddenly went past Mary's and Marcus' ears.

"Mom... I-"

"Enough." told by their mom, Miras, interrupting Mary as she tries to explain what they did earlier.

"Come here you knuckle heads." said Miras

"Hihi. Good morning Mama!!" replied by both Mary and Marcus.

Miras carried her daughter back to her her room and checked on her condition. Mary explained what happened and also told her mom about the paper in the storage room.

After hearing this from her daughter, Miras suddenly frowned as she looks at her daughter's eyes.

"Why? What's behind the door mom?" Mary asked.

"Nothing that concerns you." Miras answered.

"How old are you Mary?"

"13. I'll turn 14 in a month from now, remember?"

"I see. Sorry I have trouble remembering things. Well, we should plan plan something for your birthday in a month." Miras said as she smiles.

"Anyway, Mary, what I'm about to tell you now, you might not understand it completely yet, but I'm sure you're old enough to know some of the points." Miras said. She then gets a hairbrush and started telling a story.

"Long ago, when you were little, you tend to cry a lot whenever you were having nightmares.

You see, these so called nightmares that you see in your dreams, are just an illusion which are caused by your fears inside, and tends to haunt you as if they were actually existing in the world.

So, what does a kid do whenever he or she is experiencing nightmare? Most of us pray, some of us read a good story before bed, while some, in the worst case scenario, never even sleep. "

"Wait, then how can they prevent the nightmare? If they can't sleep, as time passes, they'll just get more sleepy. Then they will experience it again. How will they bear it?" Mary asked.

"They don't." Miras replied. "Because they will be dead before they can get a chance to sleep again. "

Mary turned her head and looks at her mother.

"M--- Mom?" Mary said with a nervous voice.

Miras stared at Mary with a creepy look on her face, staring directly at Mary while having a straight face.

"M-mom? What're you--"

Miras' mouth started expanding slowly and her teeth started to grow longer.

*knocks*

*door opens*

Marcus peeked inside Mary's room.

"Eyyo! You alright now Mar--...

...What the..."

"MARCUS GET BACK!" Mary screamed as she ran towards Marcus who just opened the door.

"eeeegh eeeeegh eeeeeaaaAAAAAGHHH COME TO MAMAAAAA!!" Miras shouted

"Quick, get to the storage room. HURRY!" Mary said to Marcus. Marcus went downstairs while Mary locked the door of her room as quickly as possible. Miras, who was changing forms, seem to have stayed inside.

Their mother took a long time revealing her true self, so they also took the chance to run.

Mary and Marcus ran to the storage room and locked the door.

*panting*

"Mary? What the happened to mom?!" Marcus asked in a breaking voice.

"I don't know as well." Mary replied.

"She prevented us to go here, yet she's the real danger in this house. So I'm guessing *coughs*, this is the safest place for us" Mary continued.

"This is not real right? This isn't real. Mom loved us! Mom will never--"

"Will you shut the hell up for a second? I don't know what you think, but to me, that felt real. While she was combing my hair earlier, her hand suddenly went very cold." Mary said.

"But what're we gonna do in this storage room? Starve to death?"

"No, of course not. Listen, there's a door here somewhere that I found earlier when we were playing. I think we should check it out. Maybe there's weapons hidden inside."

"And if there is? What're you gonna do? Kill our MOM?"

"WHAT? DO YOU HAVE A BETTER IDEA RIGHT NOW?"

*CRASH*

The door of the storage room bursted open. Miras entered the room with an awful looking body. Her eyes were red, her head is deformed, her stomach expanded and her arms and legs grew longer and grew sharper nails.

"Maaaaarcuuuuus" Miras sang with a beautiful voice.

"Shhhhh shhh. Crawl back! crawl back! The room is back there!" whispered by Mary.

"Maaaaarryyyy where areee youu? Mary? Maaaaaryyyyy"

Marcus crawled back and went to the door Mary was talking about.

"What about you?" Marcus whispered.

"Don't worry, I'll distract her--".

"found you"

Miras found Mary.

"Oh shit. QUICK! GET IN!" Mary shouted as she ran towards Marcus. Mary took a small vase from the cabinet and threw it at Miras.

*glass breaks*

"aaaaaAHHHHHHHHGGGGHHH" screamed Miras.

"ITS LOCKED MARY"

"Oh shit, I forgot."

Miras got up, laughed, sniffed, then ran towards Mary and grabbed her leg.

"MARCUS!"

"MARY, HOLD ON. CRAP"

*creeeeeek*

The door suddenly opened.

"Come here!! Quick"

"MARY, THE DOOR OPENED! AAAAAAGHHHH" Marcus shouted as he pulled Mary as hard as he could. So hard, that Miras can't hold on to her any more, and decided to let it go.

"Damn, mom sure is weak. Come on Mary."

Mary and Marcus followed the voice, and entered the door that has been prevented to them by their mother.

"You ready sis? No turning back now. Our lives are at stake you know."

"I know. Come on"

Both have entered the door, closed it tightly and fell inside a deep dark hole.

... but I still found you, didn't I?

Miras said to herself, as she turns into a completely hideous being, and started sniffing.