Always By Your Side

01

With darkness surrounded I'm walking through a forest. The moon shines bright, being the reason for me to recognize the trees' silhouettes. It's quiet and very peaceful here. The only sound that can be heard are my feet meeting the ground as I walk. Sometimes the crack of a branch bursting as I step onto it echoes through the dark forest. I don't know where I am, but I keep on walking in the unknown abyss of the forest.

After some time I hear a noise behind me. I turn around but all I can see are the silhouettes of trees and grass vanishing in the darkness.

Hello? Is there someone?

No answer. I'm getting scared and starting to walk faster. I am almost running. Suddenly I hear noises following behind me. I start running. Running for my life without knowing what's behind me. I don't want to look 'cause I fear falling while I'm not looking for the path along which I run. The thing that's after me starts running too. I can hear that it must be very big. In the forest is nothing but I and that creature.

I keep running for a while, but I can't get away from that thing behind me.

What might that creature be? I can't run anymore, my legs won't hold me. Furthermore, I want to know what's chasing me, the next opportunity I have, I'm going to turn around.

Said and done, I turn around, and I wish I hadn't done it. In front of me halts a two meters high black creature. It has long and thin arms. There aren't fingers at its hand, only something that looks like long and sharp nails that just wait for their victim. Because of the little moonlight I can't see its whole body, and I'm kinda happy about it. The monster has something that scares me the most. Its eyes. The thing in front of me has big red shining eyes that stare directly through mine in my soul. The last thing I remember before it reaches out to me are those eyes. They just radiate pure evilness…

I open my eyes as fast as I can and try as hard as I can to control my breath.

Woah shit, that was just a dream. F*ck was that scary. I don't think I can go back to sleep now.

I think about what that beast could be while trying to get out of the bed to get a glass of water.

But what… I can't move… Why ca-can't I move? The dream is over, right? So what's going on?!

I try to scream but there is no sound coming out of my mouth. I can only move my eyes with which I scan scared and hurriedly my surroundings.

Hey, calm down. Stay cool, maybe it's just another dream!. It may feel real but it can't be so just calm down.

I control my breath again and close my eyes for a second.

Right. It can't be real. Soon I wake up and everything is alright.

I open my eyes again just to see my room. It's dark because it's night. I see a little gap letting moonlight shine through my window. The moon brightens the foot side of my bed.

Suddenly one long black thing stretches out of the darkness and lays down on my bed. Then more of these things lay like fingers or more like long nails on my bed. I look into the darkness behind my bed trying to figure out what's there and some red eyes suddenly appear. I remember the creature, it's the one from my dream and yes, it is the thing. It crawls quietly out of the darkness on my bed and looks at me. I still cannot move. I can't scream. I'm just able to look at that monster that gets closer and closer, inch by inch. It isn't that big like in my dream but it still looks scary. It stops above my chest and tends his head while looking at me. Not only that, but it lifts its hand and grabs my face with the long nails. I try to scream but again I am not able to do anything.

The thing over me seems to sense my helplessness and makes noises I interpret as it is laughing about me. It laughs loudly. But this isn't a normal laugh. The voice is deep but also can sound like someone would scratch with nails over a blackboard. This mix makes me even more terrified. It just sounds horrible.

Out of nowhere the laughing stops and the handle around my face is getting fixed. The creature looks me in the eyes while it lays its other hand around my throat. My eyes are getting bigger while the creature presses his hand on my throat. I try to push it away, to stand up and to push it back where the creature came from but I couldn't move. I'm lying here and watch this thing murder me.

No, I don't want to die. I want to live!

My thoughts while I can't breathe anymore. I see the red eyes. Suddenly between the black of the monster something white flashes. Those are white sharp teeth. The handle around my face is getting softer and the creature lays its nails on my cheek. With a wide open mouth the monster gets near me and the only thing I can do is to scream. Scream. Yes, I can finally scream again. I scream as loud as I can and push the monster back. I jump out of my bed and do some steps away.

Suddenly my door opens and the light goes on. My parents stand in my room. My mother gets to me and tries to calm me down while my father investigates my bed. But he couldn't find anything.

....

I was so scared that I couldn't sleep anymore. I even needed to go to therapy. The therapist told me that it was sleep paralysis.

therapist

Almost everybody will experience sleep paralysis once in his life

Back then there was no track about that red eyed monster that tried to kill me. There was just a bloody scratch on my cheek…

author-nim

We write our stories as normal novels and I little try to make it possible to read it good here.

author-nim

I have a novel with the same name having the originals, maybe you take a look there, too.

02 pt. 1

The sun shines bright and warms me fully. Perfect weather for a school trip. Who hates them as much as I do? So my class decided on going to the beach to chill out, surf and swim. I’m still skeptical but as long as I am not dragged into this I will be fine.

.......

Time skip

Aaaaahhhh!!!!!

I was held by my hands and feet and brought to the ocean. My blood pressure rose leaving me being able to hear my heart pumping in my ears. I fought them back with all might but I couldn’t do anything against my enemies. I internally panicked, falling into shock when my classmates' feet met the water of the ocean. They walked in a little longer and threw me in the water. I couldn’t react.

The unknown depth of the ocean was swallowing me. Darkness came across.

Suddenly I felt something slimy crawling up my leg.

Before I could try pushing it away a jerk jolted through this thing pulling me deep. Not letting go.

Yellow, red and purple eyes shining from time to time.

I feel water pushing through my nostrils as I try to spit out the water which got inside my mouth.

My throat hurts from me trying to scream and the fact that I am swallowing a lot of water unintentionally.

The pull on my leg got slower and I was examinating my surroundings or better I was finally paying attention for the place I landed in.

it was dark. I couldn't see my hand infront of my eyes.

I heard strange noises from behind and around me.

the ones from behind me sound like low grunt or groans. other things sound like deep vanished whispers.

My ears are ringing. It is like deep and high-pitched voices and waves.

My head is about to explode.

suddenly a grunt from behind me can be heard again. Already frightened some cold thing wraps around my ankle.

I don't dare looking down but my angst let me do it. I wanted to know what held me.

Afterwards I knew I shouldn't have done it.

My ankle and my foot were surrounded by something slimy, cold and black.

It also had some luminescent as to which I was able to see at least a little.

The thing started to pull me back leaving me absolutely afraid of what happens next. My head snaped back as the pull got strong.

I again heart a grunting but louder.

My heart was about to blast my veins as to how strong it pumped the blood through my body.

With the sound of my blood rushing in my ears I scream at the top of my lungs.

I felt my mind go blank as more tentacles grab my wrists and my other ankle. They are now wrapped around my whole arms holding me in place.

I stopped screaming.

I just hadn't had the energy to keep it up.

I come back to reality as I was stopped by crashing into a sandy yet wet and slimy thing.

02 pt. 2

My body was again touched by something cold.

I was whimpering because I was so sacred.

Suddenly I was surrounded by darkness,

I looked around and saw one red eye

I started at it as of it was my last sogn of me being alive although I knew it was my certain death.

then another eye appeared, it was blue, then another yellow one

They just kept appearing and disappearing.

Then the murmuring started, first light and quiet then louder and more penetrating.

I tried holding my ears but that couldn't help.

Furthermore another penetrating sound rung.

a beeping

it started of fast and then had some break. It wasn't following a rhythm.

I was overflowing with fear

I just couldn't hold it in anymore and fell

so I am going to skip to the time I wake up because that is the next I can remember.

I woke up gasping for air.

I tried opening my eyes but I was blinded by some white light

I was free

it was bright

I could see clearly

The feeling however remained

and not only a feeling but light spots everywhere the monster touched me.

I never thought anything big of it. The fear always stayed by my side but I learned to live with it by distracting myself and medication.

I even avoided seas. all different kind of bodies of water.

The light spots seemed to disappear three years later

they showed up again two months ago, and they are spreading.

My skin first gets an allergic reaction and I can't stop myself from scratching. Every time I tried to show them to a doctor they weren't there. It's cursed.

I -I can't anymore

I tried talking to others but no one would believe me. they said I was insane.

M-may-maybe you kn-know help?

therapist

I see what I can do.

FL looks up seeing her worst nightmare smiling at her while she couldn't help but scream.

therapist

Finally I found you 🙂 You even came on your own.

therapist

I wasn't careful enough last time. so I will be better this time. 😏🙂😈

(can't move) I-I don't want to.

hHEELLPP!!!

They were gone before the secretary was able to open the door.

The woman and her therapist were never seen again. They never left the building. No traces were found. It's a mysterious case which couldn't be solved.

It is said that you can still hear her screams echoing through the building. And even people from the neighbored buildings wake up because they hear her screaming. until it suddenly disappears.

....

author-nim

have you guessed which phobia was described?

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