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The haunted carnival

Horror Story 25

By AshDream_StoryPublished about a year ago 5 min read
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A small city is hosting a festival for the first time in times, but the fests snappily turn minatory. The lodestones feel to be alive, and the players are further than just mortal. The townspeople must uncover the festival's dark secrets before it's too late.

It had been times since the small city had hosted a festival. The locals had fond recollections of the bright lights, various canopies, and succulent smells that filled the air. But commodity felt different about this festival. The lodestones sounded to be alive, and the players weren't relatively mortal.

As night fell, a group of teenagers decided to sneak into the festival after hours. They crept through the empty lifts, gaping at the creepy dolls that lined the booths. Suddenly, a zany appeared before them, its painted smile stretching constitutionally wide.

" Drink to the haunted festival," the zany chuckled." You will noway leave."

The teenagers screamed and ran, but the festival sounded to have a mind of its own. The lifts started spinning on their own, the zanies began to multiply, and the dolls began to move on their own.

The coming day, the townspeople began to notice that commodity wasn't relatively right. The thoroughfares were eerily quiet, and the festival's lights noway turned off. When they tried to enter the festival, they set up that the gates were locked from the inside.

One by one, the townspeople faded. The festival sounded to be feeding off their fears, growing stronger with each passing day. It was not long before the remaining locals realized that they demanded to uncover the festival's dark secrets before it was too late.

The group of survivors decided to enter the festival together, fortified with only their head and a many new munitions. They pushed through the crowds of zanies and dolls, trying to reach the center of the festival where the source of the wrong sounded to live.

As they approached the center, they heard a deep, menacing horselaugh. The festival master appeared before them, a grotesque critter with tentacles for arms and eyes that glowed with an unearthly light.

" You shouldn't have come then," the festival master growled." Now you'll noway leave."

The group charged forward, fighting their way through the festival's defenses. One by one, they fell, until only one survivor remained. With a final burst of strength, she plunged her armament into the festival master's heart, and the festival began to deteriorate around her.

As she stumbled outdoors, the survivor saw the festival vanish into the night, leaving only an empty field where it had formerly stood. She knew that the wrong had been subdued, but the memory of the haunted festival would hang her dreams for times to come.

The survivor stumbled towards the city, exhausted and covered in bruises. She knew that she had to advise the others about the festival's true nature and the troubles that lurked within its gates.

When she arrived at the city hall, the survivor was met with skeptical aesthetics and dismissive commentary. No bone

wanted to believe that the festival they had eagerly awaited for so long could be the source of similar nastiness.

But the survivor wasn't dissuaded. She knew what she had endured, and she refused to let the wrong of the haunted festival go unnoticed. She began to dig deeper, probing the festival's history and uncovering its dark secrets.

She discovered that the festival had been innovated by a group of occultists who had made a pact with a demon in exchange for power and wealth. They had used the festival as a front to bait unknowing victims into their grasp, feeding off their fear and despair to strengthen their hold on the demon.

Fortified with this knowledge, the survivor rallied a group of like- inclined individualities and set out to destroy the festival formerly and for all. They trolled the city, retaining anyone who was willing to fight against the darkness that hovered to consume them.

As they approached the festival grounds, the survivors were met with a wall of darkness that sounded impenetrable. But they pressed on, channelizing all their courage and determination into a final, hopeless assault.

The battle was long and challenging, but in the end, the survivors surfaced victorious. The demon was banished, and the festival was destroyed beyond form. The city was free from its grip, and the survivors pledged to noway forget the horrors they had witnessed.

Times went by, and the city sluggishly began to heal from the trauma foisted by the haunted festival. The survivors grew old, but they noway forgot the assignments they had learned. They knew that evil lurked in the most unanticipated places, and that occasionally, the only way to master it was to face it head- on.

And though the haunted festival was nothing but a distant memory, the survivors knew that its heritage would live on, a exemplary tale for generations to come.

As time passed, the city's people sluggishly moved on from the horrors of the haunted festival, but they noway forgot what had happed. They would frequently advise their children to noway go near the old festival grounds, for fear that the wrong might still loiter.

The survivor, now old and argentine, knew that her work was done. She had defended her city from the darkness that had hovered to consume it, and had given its people a chance to start again.

As she watched the sun set over the old festival grounds, the survivor felt a sense of check. She knew that the recollections of the haunted festival would noway leave her fully, but she had come to accept that they were a part of who she was.

And so she walked down from the old festival grounds, her head held high and her heart at peace. For in the end, she had triumphed over the darkness, and had surfaced stronger for it.

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