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Devil's Campground
James, Micheal, Mona, Veronica and Dahlia were all at the local campground, called Devil's Campground. As the crew was collecting wood for a big fire to roast hotdogs for dinner and smores for dessert they were all excited to finally be hanging out again as a crew after years apart. They all had met back in College, all of them being a tight knit group.


Micheal being so confident to be all by himself, Micheal mentioned about walking to the bathrooms.


“Watch out for the boogeyman” Veronica said, chuckling. Micheal looked at her and laughed, calling her a dumb ass. Oddly enough the campground didn't have many people camping there, there was one other couple besides them that was camping nearby. 


As it had started to get darker out, Micheal now finally reaching the bathrooms, he rushed in to use it. However, not knowing that it would be his last time breathing air. Someone had walked in behind him and grabbed Micheal from behind while he was at the urinal. The stranger grabbed his head and started to pound his skull into the urinal, his head cracking some. Micheal is now screaming in agony. The stranger grabs his machete and takes off Micheals head, spraying blood all over the walls and urinals. The stranger delicately places Micheals head in the urinal facing the door to greet someone when they walk in. 


As time had passed and Mona had gotten the fire started, James had brought out the hotdogs from the cooler and grabbed the fire sticks and passed them around. By this time, it was fully dark and the fire was the only light at their campground. 


“That's strange, Micheal hasn't shown back up yet.” Mona had said. Mona was the girlfriend of Micheal. She was now starting to panic. 


“I'm sure he's fine, he's probably off chasing a firefly somewhere.” James said in a laughing tone. He was trying to calm her down by humor.


“No, I know him, he wouldn't be gone this long.” Mona had said 


“How about I go check on him?” James said. Dahlia got up and said she would go, as James stood up as well. With the two of them heading towards the bathroom and the flashlights on their cellphones on, they nearly get there when they hear a twig snap behind them, Dahlia turns around to greet the stranger in a clown mask, but this wasn't an ordinary clown mask, it was one made up of orange skin, and red hair, with a blue nose. Dahlia went to scream, but the masked stranger had taken a tree branch and jammed it into Dahlia's chest, causing blood to gush from her mouth, her screaming being drowned out by blood. 


James, unaware of his friend's death behind him, he keeps on walking thinking she is behind him. He approaches the door and opens it to find a decapitated body, and the head laying up in a urinal, the body belonging to Micheal, his face in terror and distorted. James runs out of the bathroom to find his face meeting up with a machete, the blade going right through it. James's body goes limp and falls in between the door, blocking it from closing, exposing the scene of the mutilated body in the bathroom. 


“Okay, now James and Dahlia are taking forever, what is going on??” Mona said impatiently. By then both Mona and Veronica had two hotdogs each and were now making their desserts, smores. It had gotten very quiet and a moment passed. The dead silence was interrupted by the stranger coming up behind Veronica and suffocating her with a plastic bag. Her body slumping down into the fire, her hair now aflame. 


Mona tries to get up, but trips over the log seat, breaking her ankle. Mona now screaming, she gets up pushing past her pain in her ankle and hobbles over to the couple, where they were camping. Upon approaching them, she had heard a horrible gorging noise. She walks up to see that the couple had been severely slashed and diced, their pomeranian now sitting there chewing on intestine, leaking out of the woman. 


Mona bent over and vomited. She hobbled to the bathrooms to find that Dahlia was impaled by a tree branch, further on, now reaching the bathroom, she finds James with a huge hole in his face, where the machete had met it, and inside was her boyfriends body and head, now laying apart from each other. The head resting in the urinal. Mona let out a blood curdling scream, her boyfriend, and friends were dead. Not to mention the poor couple who had been hacked up and are now being dinner to their dog. 


Mona turns around to find the masked stranger there. Mona tries to go left, but the stranger blocks her, she tries to go right, but he only blocks her again. Mona remembering the pocket knife Micheal had gave her earlier that day, she falls to throw his tracks off, the masked killer now raises the machete to kill Mona, only to be surprised with a sharp pain in his ankle, causing the masked killer to fall, Mona gets up and starts to repeatedly stab the masked killer, after more than 30 stabs and wounds to the body of the masked killer, Mona grabs the mask and yanks it off, looking at her friend Geo, who they weren't able to get a hold of days before. The number claiming to be off, they just had shook it off and didn't bother to go looking for him. Mona sits down and sighs, nursing her broken ankle. Now trying to figure out how to explain this to authorities.

© James Bowser