The Mask Returns

Chapter 1

Another death

“So this is not a dream!?” Carl said. The masked man said nothing. He took out his knife, Carl started to run but the masked man threw his knife, Carl didn’t look back and kept running and because he didn’t look back the knife hit him. Carl started to close his eyes again and he fell down and woke up in a hospital!? Carl was confused. His head was still hurting. He looked around the room and read the board, “Room 66?” he whispered. “In the hospital in my town there isn’t more than 30 rooms!!!” The door opened and a nurse and doctor came inside. The doctor were normal but the room was just weird. “Where am I!?” Carl asked the doctor. “Where are you?! You’ve been here for A WEEK!!!” said the doctor. “A WEEK!!!???” Carl yelled.

Carl yelled. “Carl calm down, you aren’t supposed to stress! Nurse give him his injection and we will test his blood later” said the doctor. The nurse took out a tiny little syringe with the medicine on it and injected it into Carl’s arm. “Okay now get some rest and we will be back in 6 hours” the nurse said. After they left Carl whispered to himself “how the freak will I be able to rest when someone is after me!” Carl’s bag was nowhere in sight as well. Carl closed his eyes so he could at least get 15 mins of rest or something. Carl’s head started to hurt more as he drifted off to sleep. Then he had a dream. A dream where Carl, his mom, and his dad were sitting in a park and having a great time.

There was no masks there or anything out of the ordinary, it was just him and his mom and dad. They watched the beautiful sun as it went down the horizon. Carl put his head on his mom’s shoulder. He also looked at the little pond next to them. Carl saw a mother frog a daddy frog and a little frog, sitting together looking after their babies. He was enjoying the place he was in and he didn’t wanna leave. Then, some weird hole came and took Carl away from his parents. He could hear them screaming. “Carl NO MY BABY COME BAAACK!!!” and “Carl DON’T LEAVE US!!!” Carl’s head started to sting Carl so he woke up and saw he was not in the hospital anymore. He didn’t even know where he was.

The whole room’s wall was metal and rusty and covered in blood. There were messages written in blood too like “Beware of the mask” or “Death Awaits!” Carl’s head started to hurt him a lot like his arm started to hurt too because of his head. As Carl started to approach he saw a sign that read “18/20 DEAD” When Carl first read it he didn’t understand what that meant at all. Then he realized maybe 18 people out of the 20 were the people who got killed before and haunted by the mask. This meant Carl was the 19th person that will die. Now Carl’s head started to spin and he started to get visions. Like the cloaked man was coming after him. And then the visions stopped and the sign read something different.

It said: Carl we will never be done with you. And Carl’s head started to spin again. “Again I’m Asking you, WHAT THE FREAK DO YOU WANT FROM ME!!!!” he kicked the sign and kept screaming: “LEAVE ME, AND MY FAMILY ALONE!!!!” now Carl started to pull his hair. None of his hair ripped but he kept pulling until his head started to bleed. He started sobbing and kneeled to the ground. “Leave me alone that’s all I’m asking you! Please” he said sorrowfully. But little did he know, the masked man was right behind him this whole time, watching him suffer and cry. Carl looked back and the masked man punched Carl. Carl fell down and closed his eyes.  

Chapter 2

The infinite loop

Carl woke up back in his bed. He wished he hadn’t gotten suspension so he could have gone to school and been safe. He saw that the mask was still sitting on his desk. He went up to the mask and he looked at it. The mask was still the stupid broken and old looking. Carl couldn’t see it well but the words 1997 were still written on the mask. Carl didn’t know what to do with the mask. He kinda just looked at it around and around. There were more things written on it as well just like in that room’s rusty bloody wall he saw. Carl read something written on the mask that caught his attention.

It read “The Infinite death’s” Carl didn’t understand at first but the more he thought of it, he knew exactly what that meant. How many ever times he dies, he just wakes up again and it will be an infinite loop and it will never stop. And however he dies, it will only be by the masked guys. As Carl looked more into the mask he realized something! Something crazy that was killing him to do it. His hands started to shake as he thought about it. HE SHOULD PUT ON THE MASK!!!

Chapter 3

The mask

“Mom!!” Carl screamed. “Yes Carl?” his mom asked “how long is it gonna be until we go to our doctor?” he asked. “Oh we are only going on the evening.” she said. Carl wanted to put on the mask but he also didn’t want to put on the mask because he didn’t know what could happen. Then Carl had a thought, “Even if The mask does kill me if I put it on, I will just wake up back in my bed right?” he said. He brought the mask near his face and slowly put it on. Carl’s head started to hurt and spin. He tried to take off the mask but he couldn’t, he started to close his eyes again. Then he fell to the ground. He laid there in his room for a while and he didn’t wake up. Then he opened his eyes again but this time the mask was in his hand and not on him. “What the freak was that!” Carl said. “Nothing happened!” Carl wanted to go back to school now because he was bored but he can’t.

First period must’ve already started. So Carl just jumped back on his bed and sat there for a while looking at the mask. “Why are they after me” his voice started to break a little “WHY DON’T YOU LEAVE ME TO LIVE MY LIFE!!!” he screamed. Now Carl was real mad. He ran downstairs and grabbed his dads hammer “Carl what the heck are you doing!?” His mom said. Carl didn’t answer and he just rushed upstairs. He put the mask on his desk and he started to hit the mask and break it. He broke it into 3 pieces and threw it outside his window. “Get out you stupid curse!” he screamed. He looked at his desktop see if it was back and surprisingly it wasn’t. He heard his mom rushing up the stairs. “Carl what the heck are you doing with dad’s hammer!” she screamed.

 “Nothing mom!” Carl said very quickly. “Carl hammers are not toys for you to play with!” she said as she rushed off of his bedroom. “Me and Dad are going out to get you some medicine. Stay put and don’t go outside.” she said while she was heading downstairs. He heard the garage open. He looked out the window as they headed out. He sighed and picked up his phone. “Alright” he said as he turned on his phone and he played some games for a while. Suddenly, when he was in the middle of playing a game, he got a call from his best friend Mark. “Hey wassap Mark?” Carl asked.

“Hey Carl, uh I wanted to speak to you a little bit, so like can I come to your house or something?” Mark asked. “Sure Mark, you can come right now” Carl replied. “Thanks!” said Mark and then he cut the call.

Chapter 4

The 20th target

*ding dong* Carl’s bell rang. Carl opened the door and just as he expected he saw Mark. “Hey Carl uh, let’s sit on your couch and talk” he said. “Sure” said Carl as he went up to the fridge. “Mark you want some orange juice?” Carl asked. “Sure” *** Carl sat down on the couch and started talking. “So what did you wanna tell me huh?” he asked. “So Carl um, I don’t know how to um, explain this but uh, lately something weird is happening. Something like. I’m being chased down by 2 people. Wait, I’m not even sure if they are people though. And also they appear whenever I see this-” Mark said as Carl cut him off “…Mask. I know It’s been happening to me too. I see this mask and these 2 monsters chase me down.

And whenever they kill me, I just wake up somewhere random. I don’t even know what day it is anymore!” Carl screamed. “Wait so, whenever you see the mask you get chased, which means *gasp* SO WHENEVER SOMEONE SEES THE MASK THEY GET TARGETED BY THESE KILLERS!” screamed Mark. “YES EXACTLY!!!” screamed Carl as well. They just figured out how people have gotten targeted all these years. Whenever they see the mask the see THEM. “I just, don’t know how to get out of this curse. What do you do!?” Mark screamed. He started sobbing. “I want my life back” he cried. “It’s okay Mark somehow we will kill these guys” and we will probably get our life back”

Carl tried to calm down Mark but Mark just wouldn’t stop crying. “Honey are you okay?!” mom asked. “Oh, hey mrs. Alvarez, I’m really sleepy, that like water in literally coming out of my eyes!” Mark quickly replied. “Okay, Mark because I was starting to think that you were crying, but of course you weren’t, you are a sixth grader, you wouldn’t cry!” Mom said as she walked off into the kitchen. “Anybody want some, chocolate chip cookies. I baked them myself!” mom said. “Sure mom” Carl said. They just sat there for a while thinking about what to do next. “Here” Mom said as she put down a plate of chocolate chip cookies in the table.

Mark quickly grabbed two chocolate chip cookies and started eating them quick! Carl took one but eat it slowly. He put his arm on his forehead and started to think what to do. He knew that if he went outside, the masked killer would somehow. SMASH him. So he knew he should just stay at his house. With his parents because if Mark is alone all that would happen is he would get killed as well. So he is just trapped in his house and he can’t do anything stupid. He did want to know how Mark encountered the mask. He did want to know how the killer attacked so he and Mark could avoid the killers every move. “Hey mom, can me and Mark go upstairs and play some video games?” Carl asked. “Yeah sure honey, be sure to take your cookies!” Mom replied. 

Chapter 5

3 days ago

“Dude what was the date?” Carl asked. “I think it’s friday today” Mark replied. “Mark can you tell me, like how you saw the mask and what happened.” Carl said. ***YESTERDAY*** Mark was walking from school alone. He wouldn’t have walked alone to school if Carl hadn’t gotten suspended. He was afraid of wood street just like Carl was. He was still walking on selter street and Mark was not even close to wood street yet. He had his eyes stuck on olivia (his crush) on the other side of the street. “man, one day, ONE DAY!!! I WILL ask olivia to go out with me!!!” Mark muttered.

Mark still stared at olivia, then suddenly a car came in between them in the road which was oddly close to Mark, there was a puddle and that puddle SPLASHED, on Marks face. “EW disgusting road water!!!” Mark screamed. Olivia looked at him. “You okay Mark?” she screamed. “Yeah, oli I-Uh just, a car splashed water on me!” Mark replied. Olivia giggled as she took a turn that lead to her house. “Phew” Mark sighed. Then after Mark took his eyes off of olivia, he realized that he was really close to wood street. Marks hand started to shiver. He stopped right where that sign was that read “wood street” Marks heart started to race.

“I will go, and nothing will happen!” Mark whispered as he set his right foot on the ground. Then he started walking faster. He was much scareder of wood street that Carl was scared of wood street. Mark knew that wood street was pretty short so he thought if he could look down on the ground and speed walk, he would get out of wood street fast. He heard something behind him so he started running faster and faster. To Mark’s surprise, he was almost at the end of wood street. He went to the end of wood street and crossed the road that lead to flower bloom street where his house was near. Mark wasn’t surprised that he saw nothing in wood street because he hadn’t seen anything paranormal in his entire life. Mark kept running even though he was past wood street, and dashed into his house.

 “Oh my god that was freakin’ scary dude” Mark said, even though literally nothing happened. “Hey mom I’m back from school!” Mark screamed. “Hello honey, I made you some muffins and cupcakes just because you have been a darling” his mom said. “Thanks mom, I love you!” Mark screamed as he took out his stuff from his bag. He took our literally everything he could find: A pencil, his lunch box, his homework, a bunch of books, and finally… A MASK. “What the… where did this mask come from!” Mark screamed. “Oooh that is a nice mask Mark, did you make that in art?” His mom said from behind. “Oh-uh yeah I made uh- this mask during art” Mark quickly replied. “Okay honey here is your delicious snack” his mom said as she placed down a tray of some delicious coffee muffins and some cupcakes which was really whipped cream on some corn muffins.

 As Carl took out a muffin from the tray he picked up the mask. Text appeared in the mask and it read “Look outside your window Mark!” “How does this mask know my freaking name!!!” Mark screamed as he looked outside his window. HE SAW THE MASKED MAN. Mark could feel the blood on his veins stopped flowing. His heart also felt like it stopped beating. The man started waving at Mark. “Wh- wh- who the heck are you!?” Mark said. He looked away thinking that man was just some stupid guy, wearing his halloween costume. “Who wears their halloween costume even before halloween starts!” Mark said as he put the mask down on the ground.

He sat down next to it. Then Mark saw it when new text appeared. “WHAT!” Mark screamed as he swatted the mask away from him and crawled onto the sofa. “Everyday is halloween for me my friend!” The mask read. “How do you know what I’m saying?” Mark screamed. The mask started oozing blood. “I HEAR EVERYTHING YOU SAY MY FRIEND!” he heard a voice behind him. He couldn’t understand what the voice was saying but then his head started to hurt. “What the heck is happening!!!” Mark screamed. He fell to the floor because his head was getting dizzy and started to hurt even more. “What the heck are you!?” Mark said as he fainted, he closed his eyes slowly and just before his eyelids closed fully, he saw that there was a giant blood puddle next to the mask. All Mark could see now was darkness. Mark didn’t wake up for a while and when he did, just like Carl, he was in a hospital.

 “What the heck!” Mark said. The room looked EXACTLY like same room that Carl was in but it was not room 66 it was room 67. The exact same nurses and doctors came in. “Where am I!?” Mark asked the doctor. “Where are you?! You’ve been here for A WEEK!!!” said the doctor. “What I was only down for 3 minutes!” Mark screamed “Mark calm down, you aren’t supposed to stress! Nurse give him his injection and we will test his blood later” said the doctor. The nurse took out a tiny little syringe with the medicine on it and injected it into Marks arm. “Okay now get some rest and we will be back in 6 hours” Mark just started at the doctors who left the room.

“What the heck, how have I been here for A WEEK!!!” Mark screamed. “Doctor!” Mark screamed. “DOCTOR!!!” “yes Mark what!” the doctor mumbled loudly he ran in through the door. “How do you know my name!” Mark asked. “I just know it okay now GET SOME REST!!!” The doctor screamed impatiently. “And also, what the heck hospital is this!” Mark said. “This is the uh- you know the one in your town uh- the uh- Echin urgent care!” the doctor said quickly. “No it isn’t doc, Echin only has 30 rooms and this is room 66! Tell me. Tell me who the HECK ARE YOU!” Mark yelled at the doctor. “I warned you Mark I warned y-y-y-y-yo-o-o-o-ou-u-u-u” The doc started shivering as he said that.

His face was starting to rot and his eyes were going dark. “I tried to keep you in a trance just like your friend Carl-” just before the doctor finished that sentence Mark cut him off, “How do you know Carl, huh! How do you know he is my friend, and how did you get me here in the first place! I want answers NOW!!!” “-You won’t get answers because you are a foolish little punk! YOU HAVE MADE A BIG MISTAKE TRYING TO KNOW WHAT I REALLY AM!” the doctor screamed as his teeth started to get sharper and bigger and he grew 5 feet taller that how tall he already was. “YOU ARE JUST A WEAK LITTLE, WORTHLESS HUMAN!!!” the thing said. Now the thing was thin and big, it had teeth that looked sharper than shark teeth. It’s eyes were completely blood red. The thing smiled and said five words: “JUST GIVE UP AND DIE!!!”

Chapter 6

The battle of the dead doctor

The doctor took a swing with his huge arm at Mark and Mark wasn’t able to dodge it quick enough. He got hit on his ribs and he flew out of his bed and hit the wall. “You ready to give up yet Mark” doc said. Mark spotted a foldable chair next to him and he knew just what to do. The doctor reached his arm to slap Mark again but Mark got up, folded the chair that was next to him, and hit the doctor as he screamed “COME AT ME!!!” The doctor got hit in the face by Mark. He let out a huge roar and punched Mark in his chest. That hurt Mark a lot. “Ahh” Mark screamed as the doctor reached out for another punch, Mark dodged the doc’s punch but he was cornered. “Ha ha Mark, You still gonna try and fight me? Or you gonna surrender and act like your good and stupid friend Carl. “MY FRIEND IS NOT STUPID YOU FIEND!!!” Mark screamed. “Mark just listen to me DO YOU WANNA DIE BY ME, OR DIE BY THE MASK!!!” doc screamed.

“WELL I’M GONNA DIE ANYWAY SO I MIGHT AS WELL KILL A FREAKING MONSTER DOCTOR BEFORE I DIE!!!” Mark screamed. “YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND ME KID, YOU WILL DIE BY ME!!!” the doctor screamed. Mark was running around the room circling the doctor. “OKAY KID SO THAT’S HOW YOU WANNA PLAY IT!!” The doctor said. Mark grabbed the half broken chair again and swinged it at the doctors face. The doctor picked up his huge arm and broke the chair into pieces. Mark jumped under the bed knowing that the doctor will pick it up. When the doctor did pick it up Mark kicked the bed. The bed hit the doctors face. “OWW!” the doctor was yelling in pain. “JUST DIE ALREADY KID!!!” The doctor yelled as he took a huge swing at Mark.

Mark got hit on the ribs really hard. “Ow!” Mark groaned. Mark fell down on the floor and he started sobbing. “Why, who are you, why don’t you just leave me alone!” Mark cried out. “IT’S TOO LATE FOR YOU TO BE FORGIVEN KID!!!” the doctor screamed. He put his huge fist on the air and Mark was about to be smashed by the doctor. But Mark rolled away from where the doctor hit. The doctor kept smashing the floors because Mark was just rolling around on the floor. Mark jumped up and jumped at the doctor. “GET OFF ME!!!” The doctor screamed. Mark started pulling off one of the doctor’s huge teeth.

The doctors kept screaming in pain as Mark pulled out one of the doctors teeth. “CHEW ON THIS DOC!!!” Mark screamed as he stabbed the doctor right in the chest. Green disgusting blood started spilling on the ground. Before the doctor died he transformed into his normal self and said 4 words. “BEWARE OF THE MASK!!!” Then he just turned into green goop and he dripped down onto the puddle of blood. “Frick you and your stupid mask!!!” Mark said as he threw the doctors tooth down on the floor. He sat down and closed his eyes and he put his wet/ green hand on his other hand which had a giant claw stabbed in it. “Ow” Mark moaned as he pulled the claw out of his hand.

He squeezed out some of the dead doctors blood that was also injected in his hand. Mark’s hand couldn’t be healed. His arm was bleeding so much. He knew he was gonna die of blood loss or something. So Mark quickly got up, and opened the door. The creaking sound of the door was really eerie, and surprisingly, according to the situation, outside the door was just giant brick wall that lead to nothing. Mark started getting dizzy. “Yeah of course there is a brick wall, these people just aren’t satisfied until I die!!!” Mark yelled. “Why don’t you just let me go, please…” Mark sobbed. Mark started to get a vision. 

His vision was the same vision that Carl had. The one where he saw his parents for a second and then they disappeared. “NO MOM DAD!!!” Carl screamed. He closed his eyes and rested his head on the floor. Blood was spilling out of Marks hand and Mark couldn’t open his eyes. He just laid down on the cold wet floor. 

Chapter 7

Recurring headache

Mark woke up back in his house. The mask wasn’t there where Mark had found it anymore. “What the heck!” Mark said as he got back up. It was nighttime. “MOM!!!” Mark screamed. He could hear footsteps coming downstairs. “Mark GO BACK TO BED RIGHT NOW PLEASE!!!” Mom yelled. Mark was super confused. He knew he was not here after he saw the mask, he was in that hospital with that doctor. “Mom wait when did I go to bed again?” Mark asked. “Mark why are you asking that? I thought you knew, well you went to bed about 9:00 pm, and you were fast asleep.” Mom said. Mark’s mind was going crazy. He seriously could not understand what his mother was talking about. “Mom what is the time now?” Mark asked. “It is 3:00 am now please GO BACK TO BED!!! Your father will be really mad if he gets to know that you woke up this early so JUST GO BACK TO BED!!!” “okay mom okay I’m going” Mark ran up the stairs and he opened the door to his bedroom, only to see that everything was normal.

His bed was made, just like usual, his pictures were normal, and his pajamas were laying in top of the bed. Mark walked over to the pajamas and looked at them a little closely. He really thought he would find something but really there was nothing on the pajamas. “So everything that happened was, wait this doesn’t make any sense, where was I. What even happened to me, I come back from this weird hospital where I fought a monster doctor and it is nighttime and everything is back to normal!!??” Mark screamed getting more and more confused as he thought about it. “Mark STOP SCREAMING AND GO BACK TO BED!!!” his mother screamed. “Sorry mom!!!” Mark said as he put on his pj’s “Another thing that is very odd is that the Mask that I found in my backpack has just disappeared!!!” Mark mumbled. He laid down on his bed and closed his eyes and whispered “everything can be solved as long as you get a good night sleep”

*THE NEXT MORNING* “Mark wake up YOU WILL BE LATE FOR SCHOOL!” his mom yelled. “Yes mom!” Mark said. As he rubbed his eyes. *yawn* Mark got up and sat on his bed. He put on his socks, innerwear, shirt, pants, and rushed downstairs. “Mark I have placed a glass of milk drink that right now!” mom said. Mark grabbed the milk and drank everything in about 30 seconds. *20 minutes later* “Mark come on in 2 mins your bus will arrive, put on your shoes faster” mom was yelling as Mark was tying his shoelaces. “Done mom!” Mark yelled and he rushed out of the door. “Bye mom, love you!” he screamed. “Bye honey!” his mom said as Mark shut the door. Mark kept running and didn’t stop at all. He rushed past the parked car that was right next to him. His legs were moving so fast his shoes almost ripped.

The bus was already there, and the kids were getting on. “WAIT FOR ME!!!!” Mark screamed as loud as he could and rushed over to the bus. He jumped on just as the doors closed to the bus. “Mark I will not stop for you again if you are going to be late like that, come on you are in 6th grade, you should be more responsible Mark!” The bus driver said. “Sorry Mr. Liam” Mark said. Mark walked over to the end of the bus where he always sat, where he knew Carl would be at. He rushed over to the seat and he was surprised to see that it was empty. Carl wasn’t sitting on the seat. “Hey William, did Carl come to our stop today?” Mark asked. “Dude how did you forget Carl got suspension for a week” William replied. “Oh yeah he did” Mark said. He sat down on his seat and looked out the window.

Everything looked normal. Mark just noticed is that the injury from that doctor that he fought didn’t bother him at all. Mark pulled up his sleeve to see if the injury was even there, and shockingly there was absolutely nothing there. Mark rolled his sleeve back up and he heard a voice. “HEY DWEEB!!!” he recognized who it was right after the person said it. IT WAS LOGAN SMITH!!! “GET THE HECK OUT OF THAT SEAT, I WANNA SIT THERE, YOU STUPID UGLY IDIOT!!!” Logan screamed. “Go bother someone else logan!” Mark said. Logan grabbed Marks T-shirt and shoved him out of the seat. Mark fell down in the aisle and he wasn’t able to get up. He could hear Logan laughing and Mark didn’t like that. He didn’t like that Mark was being bossed around by some other stupid kid. But there wasn’t really anything Mark could do because Logan was twice the size of him, so Mark just got up and sat next to william. *** “Bye Mr. Liam” Mark said as he got off of the bus.

Back at his classroom Mr. Dave was yakking about some guy called Andy Warhol. Mark was distracted of what happened yesterday evening. He still had the mask stuck on his head. “Okay now students I want you to go get your chromebooks so you can all research Andy Warhol” Mr. Dave said. Mark had a weird feeling when he got up. It felt like he was being controlled by someone or something. Then suddenly Mark felt like his body let loose, like all the bones in his body was just gone. He put his arm up and took out his chromebook from the chromebook cart and walked back to his desk. He opened his chromebook and saw his background was changed. All his background was is a black background. Mark thought his background was not loading but nothing changed. Mark was just sitting and staring at the chromebook’s black background.

Then suddenly, an image of a mask started flashing on his screen. Mark opened a new tab but that was all the same, the chromebook had his normal chrome background but the only thing that is different is that all his bookMarks were gone, all his shortcuts didn’t work at all. Mark looked around his chromebook for a while and he found another weird thing in his chromebook, in gmail he got a weird email called the mask. He opened up the file and he saw that the person who sent these only sent images. Mark opened up the images and looked at them.

All of them were disturbing images of broken masks. All of the pictures looked the same except the last picture. The last one was a video. He played the video, and saw that the video, the video really scared him because the video was a live recording of the classroom he is in. Mark shut down the chromebook instantly. “Mr. Dave can I go to the nurse, my head is starting to hurt.” Mark said. “Okay Mark!” Mr. Dave replied. Mark opened the door and walked slowly to the nurse. “What is happening to me” Mark mumbled as he walked. He put his hand on his forehead and his headache was starting to get worse. He leaned on the wall and closed his eyes. He was about to fall down to the floor but before he did he heard a voice. “Mark are you okay” a voice asked.

Mark knew it was a girl but he just didn’t know who it was. He opened his eyes and saw oliva standing in front of him. His headache flew away, and his eyes opened fast and he looked up standing straight and said “Nothing, I’m fine!” Mark started to shiver, he was really really nervous. “Well if you are fine why were you leaning on the wall with your eyes closed?” Olivia wondered. “Also Mark why are you shivering, are you really okay?” Mark grabbed his hand so it would stop shivering but no he was just shivering even more, “Oh it’s nothing Ollie it’s just a little headache” Mark uttered. “Okay well uh ollie, I will just uh go to the nurse and you uh go to your class and have a great day” Mark said with a straight face. “Okaaaaayyyy” Olivia said before she rushed off to her class. “Ah frick me!!!” Mark said as he slapped his head.

“hello Mrs. Elizabeth” Mark said as he walked into the nurses office. “I have a little headache, that has been bothering me I don’t know why, but It is really bothering me” Mark sat down in the chair next to the nurse, “Okay hon, let’s see” Mrs.  Elizabeth took out this weird thing and put on something in it. “Alright now I just need to see your right ear” Mrs. Elizabeth said. She put the thing on Marks ear, “Okay, you don’t have a fever, but you do have a little bit of a cold. Does your headache bothers you a lot?” Mrs. Elizabeth asked. “Um yeah sort of, but not really so much that I need to go home but sort of” Mark replied. “Okay just drink a lot of water, you’ll be fine okay hon, now you better get back to class before it’s too late” 

“Okay mrs. Elizabeth” Mark said and rushed off back to class. 

Chapter 8

A better solution

Mark got off of the bus and waited at the bus stop for a second. He sat down in the bench and thought about what happened with his chromebook. His head started to ache again. “Bye Mr. Liam” Mark said. This mask thing really affected Marks brain. He couldn’t focus on school which made Mr. Dave really frustrated with Mark. Mark didn’t really care about Mr. Dave screaming at him. He thought back to when he saw that last video in his chromebook where there was just a live cam recording of him even though when he looked over there he couldn’t see anything. He knew it was a live recording because in the video was able to see him from the side. He could see his arm moving, and he could even see his head tilting just like the way he was tilting really.

He didn’t understand it at first but when he thought about it at in the bench he is thinking that the mask dudes know where he is. He still couldn’t understand the stuff that happened with the doctor and stuff, everything was so random. These stuff happening in his life, had only started for the past week and it had happened all in random times, like the mask that just appeared in his backpack was so random and that doctor thing happened for no reason, BUT the one that he really didn’t understand was about that masked man who was standing outside. He didn’t do anything, he just stood there happily waving at him. As Mark thought more and more about this he realized that the mask that the guy was wearing was the EXACT SAME MASK THAT Mark WAS HOLDING IN HIS HAND!!! Now Mark knew that something has to do with the mask that he had. It also disappeared from him after he woke up on his bed after killing the doctor. Mark started walking faster towards his home.

He didn’t know what to do know. Then he thought about telling someone. He knew that nobody is going to believe him though. Nobody is going to believe that Mark saw a mask and after that weird stuff started happening. UNLESS IT’S Carl, he knew that Carl believes most of the stories he tells and he thinks he might believe it again today but except Mark is telling a real thing that happened to him, and not a fake story. 

Chapter 9

A relaxing beach

***END OF FLASHBACK*** “Wait you said the masked man just stood there in your backyard? So does that mean that the doctor that I went through was really a monster but I didn’t realize!!!” Carl said. “Also that part when you said your chromebook was hacked and it showed images of the mask and there was a live recording of you at the end, did you feel anything when you saw the mask?” Carl asked. “Yes I had a headache so I went to the nurse to try to stop the headache but it didn’t stop until… until, wait I don’t even know when it stopped!” Mark replied. Mark’s head started hurting once again and he put his palm up his forehead “Carl it started hurting again I don’t know what to do. That is why I came to you so you can help but you seem to know even less so what will be our solution?” Mark said.

 “Why are you saying that I know less and you know more than how much I know about the mask huh Mark, you knew that the doctor was up to something but did you investigate the mask fully, and first of all I saw that masked man more than you did and-” Carl was screaming at Mark but Mark stopped him “Wait Carl, you said that you saw the masked man more than you saw other stuff. “Yeah I did see him more than other monster well to be honest I didn’t even see any other monsters, but you only saw the masked man once!!!” Carl said. 

“-AND I saw another guy last time, who was also wearing a mask, he said he was the ‘main mask’ apparently. I don’t remember his name, it was something like the nightiner or something. Oh yeah and I looked at the mask for a while and I saw the text 1997 written in it. I looked up what was the top news in 1997 and apparently two boys were found murdered in wood street and the only clue they have to know who the killer is a note left next to the boys and it said, beware of the mask” when Carl said that Mark was frozen still. “Wait why is this happening though?” Mark said. Carl didn’t know anything to say so he just said “I don’t know!” “Wait Carl how many times did you see the mask?” Mark asked. “I don’t know what, you expect me to know every single thing I need to freakin’ know about the mask!!!” Carl replied. “Mark can we just have some time to relax and stop thinking about the mask.

“Yeah That would be nice! All this mask stuff has gotten me tense!!!” Mark said. “I need to relax a little bit, hey why don’t we go to that amazing beach that they just opened recently Mark. It’s right down the street” Carl said. “Sure” ***AT THE BEACH*** Mark was sitting on the sand as Carl was running around jumping in the sand, even though the mask stuff has got him all mixed up he just wanted to let that stuff behind him. “Hey Carl why don’t we make a sand castle?” Mark asked. Carl and Mark then got some wet sand from near the water and started off by building a little mountain shaped thing. Then they started making the castle more detailed like the started adding the walls and stuff. The sun started to set pretty fast which seemed a bit odd considering that it was spring and the sun doesn’t set until about 7pm and it was only 6pm. “Dude it is starting to get dark! I think it is better if we leave now before anything bad happens. 

It is already starting to get dark unlike normal so we better get our butts out of here!” Mark said cautiously.“Yeah I think you are right, let’s get the heck outta here” Carl agreed as they both got up and started to run. “Why do I feel like time is moving faster than usual?” Mark asked. “It’s fine we will be home in no time” Carl replied again. They started running faster. The faster they ran the quicker they ran out of oxygen. When Mark and Carl finally reached home they sighed in relief. Then suddenly Mark realized something. “Dude you were able to get to your home but how do I get to my house now, alone? My house is like 4 blocks away from yours. Plus there is a chance that the masked man could come back and murder me!” Mark said looking very very worried. “RELAX Mark it is fine I will ask my mom to call your mom and tell them that you want to stay in for tonight” Carl said. 

“No Carl it is fine I will just run home. After all I mean 4 blocks it not that much anyway and I will make sure I text you right after I go home!” Mark said. “Okay If you don’t text by five minutes I’m coming outside okay Mark!?” Carl asked. You got a deal! See you tomorrow!” Mark said as he ran off. Carl went in the house as he whispered “Oh I sure hope Mark is safe” Carl walked into the living room. “Sweetie it is dinner time I made some delicious pie that I’m sure you would love it. Your dad seemed to enjoy it right jones?” Mom screamed across the room. “Yes dear! It was one of my favorite meals that you have made!” Said dad across the room. “Aw shucks!!! See Carl you will love it!” Mom said again. “Okay mom, I know your pies are great!!!” Carl replied as he ran into the kitchen excited to eat the pie. “This is actually some good pie” Carl said as he stuffed some pie onto his mouth. ‘Beep beep’ his phone beeped.

Mark had texted Carl that he made it home. The text reads “Successfully managed to reach home without being chased by the masked dudes!!!” Carl was tired of all the pies he ate and he was just plopped down on the couch. “Mom I’m tired I’m gonna go to bed now” Carl said to his mother. “Okay Carl, goodnight!” her mom said calmly. “Goodnight mom, goodnight dad, I love you both” Carl screamed from upstairs. “Carl was incredibly tired and he completely forgot about all the mask stuff that happened to him. He fell down on his bed and turned off the lights and immediately he started to sleep. Carl room was dark without any lights. The only sound that was going on in the room that Carl could hear was his desk fan which was still on.

Carl was bothered by the noise coming from his desk fan and plus someone sent a text to him on the phone. “Oh my god can I just freaking sleep dude” Carl said as he got up. He turned off the desk fan and he looked at his phone Mark texted him saying “Dude my room is kinda scary and I’m a little worried about this mask situation. This has not been a good day for me!” Carl texted Mark back to just forget about everything and go to sleep” and he put his phone back on the desk and he went back to sleep. Mark was really worried about what was going to happen next. Since he is the last person being attacked by the masked people and he never knew what they might try to pull off next. Mark felt like he was over reacting too so he just forgot about all the creepy stuff and he started to slowly fall asleep too.

Chapter 10

The burning mask

Suddenly Carl woke up on the sound of Mark screaming “Wake up Carl wake up” “Okay okay I’m up I’m u- WHERE AM I?” Carl screamed “I don’t know, I started to fall asleep and I was awakened by the sound of my name being screamed a couple of times and suddenly I see we both are teleported into this rusty hall way” Mark quickly said. There was blood on the walls that read, ‘Beware of the Mask’ “Wait Mark, I don’t know why but I feel like I have been here before” Carl said. At the end of the hallway there was a pit of green fire and the mask sat right behind the fire. “Carl look, look what is beyond the fire!!!” Mark screamed. “THE MASK!!!” Carl exclaimed. “All we gotta do, is get the mask and we will be outta here without being killed by the stupid masked people!!!” Right after Mark said that a wall appeared between Mark and Carl. “Mark!!! CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!” Carl screamed. “YES Carl, NOW LET’S GO GET THAT MASK!!!” Mark screamed from the other side.

They both rushed for the mask but they kept getting teleported back to where they started. “IT KEEPS TELEPORTING ME BACK AND EVERY TIME I TELEPORT BACK I’M GETTING A CUT IN MY BODY!!!” Carl screamed “SAME HERE Carl!!! THIS HURTS SO MUCH!!!  I’M BLEEDING LIKE CRAZY!!!” Mark screamed from the other side. Suddenly the wall disappeared again Mark started to run toward the mask just as Carl spotted danger ahead. “MARK STOP RUNNING THE MASKED MAN IS THERE!!!” Carl screamed at the top of his lungs as the masked man grabbed mark and hit him in the head with a baseball bat. “MARK NO!!!” Carl screamed as the man in the cloak appeared behind him. He hit Carl with a baseball bat too.

“Mark…” Carl said softly as he fell to the ground. Mark and Carl were on the ground and the masked men were standing behind him. They dragged Mark and Carl near the fire and dropped them both next to the mask. “So Mark and Carl here huh!?” They both said in an odd voice. “Who should I kill first. The strong Mark or smart Carl?” They both said again. “I’m going to kill Carl first!” Just the cloak man said. Carl opened his eyes and he saw the masked man. “WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US!!!” He screamed. The Cloaked man ignored him and Asked Carl if he had any last words before they killed both of them forever. Carl looked around the room, he saw the mask was right behind him. He knew that was their power source because it was put up in a stand and it was glowing yellow. The stand was really weak and rusty and it could fall over if Carl just pushed it ever so slightly it would tip over and fall. The fire was also behind Carl.

Carl knew just what to do. “Yes!!! I do have some last words to say to you!!!” Carl said slowly. “I HOPE YOU DIE!!!!” Carl screamed and he got up and pushed the mask towards the fire. Both of the masked people grabbed Carl by his arms. The mask was right next to the fire. “Let…me…go!!!” Carl said as he tried to push himself free. The cloaked man got a knife out and he was about to stab Carl.

“AHHHHH!!!” Carl screamed as he pushed himself free just barely escaping the cloaked mans jab and as fast as he can, he pushed the mask into the green fire. Carl turned around and the cloaked man jabbed at Carl again with his knife, but before he could stab Carl, his whole right hand turned to dust. The other masked man started to turn into dust too.

Carl shoved both into the fire while also screaming “LET ME LIVE!!!” The cloaked man and the normal masked man both fell into the fire. Carl was bleeding too. He sat beside Mark and he also fell down. Falling asleep. 

Chapter 11

A journey’s end

Carl woke up on his bed. He looked at his desk and he saw, the mask was gone. All the cuts in his body was gone, and he felt better than he used to. He quickly got up grabbed his phone and called Mark. Mark immediately picked up the phone and he started asking questions like ‘what happened’ and ‘are you okay!” Carl just calmly said, “Dude, we did it, we destroyed the mask!!!” Mark was really happy to hear that and he said since it was the morning he had to go to school. Carl couldn’t because he still had suspension from school. “Okay Mark, see ya!!!” Carl said and he put the phone down.

Carl was in such a happy mood because he had done something that had successfully managed to keep him from dying.  He also managed to save his best friend Mark. Carl thought to himself that without Mark’s company he wouldn’t have managed to defeat the mask by himself. Carl ran downstairs screaming “MOM I’M UP!!!” Happily. “Carl don’t forget you are still grounded from playing video games for being suspended!!!” his mom said. “Mom I don’t mind at all Carl said as he jumped onto the chair and slurped up his milk. “Good morning dad” Carl said. “Hmmph” His dad said without a response. He was still pretty mad at Carl for being suspended but he does still speak to him, but he is kinda still grumpy. After Carl finished his milk, he quickly ran upstairs and took out his computer.

He started to finish his story that he was writing with his friend. He was finishing the digital copy of it. After he finished writing the last sentence he finally wrote the words to end his story. “THE END”

To be continued…

The ghost behind the mask coming soon…

A little authors note:

Dear Reader,

Thank you so much for reading my little book part 3 will come out soon, be sure to leave a like if you like my book and let me know that by commenting down below. I’d like to give a quick shout out to my friends (Vidyuth, Chaitanya, Kishore, and last but definitely not least… Gavin) for helping me throughout the story. you are awesome and I hope you have a great day, 🙂

About the Author

Akash Chandiramouli, lives with his mom and dad in their house, he is 11 years old and he likes to make books with his friends. This one he made by himself but his friends helped him to make it longer and better, Akash spends most of his time thinking of cool stories to write or spends his time playing games. He really likes horror stories, and by watching horror movies and reading scary books, he is the Akash we all know and love!!! (kind of).

Be sure to check out the first book “The Mask” If you have not read it before, read it! then come read this book