DARK STORM
By the winner of sun storyteller award, Henry Young
Morning. As the sun rose over Star Casino and Hotel, Grith Handell who is 18 years old, is up awake and having breakfast at the casino’s bar/restaurant. He came to the casino because his Dad was having a conference near this casino. Grith hade invited some of his friends so he wouldn’t be stuck doing nothing on his own. The Casino was isolated from civilization, the owner wanted to make it a motel for people going on road trips. Once Grith had breakfast he went and woke up his friends, Peeta, Lauren, James and Kerry are all eighteen years old the same age as him. They had quite a chilled-out morning watching the news. Then the news said a massive hurricane was hitting Nevada (where the casino was). They all started to panic because the news said they were putting the whole of Nevada under lockdown because the winds will reach up to 250mph.
As they started to calm down, they realized that they will be stuck at the hotel until the end of next weekend in 5 days. Grith went down to the casino just to take things off his nerves. When he went down to the casino no-one was there, so he got some chips and asked Sam the janitor to play with him they started off playing poker and Sam won ten grands. Grith stormed off to sulk because he lost all his money to a janitor. As he sulked, he made it to the staff floor where his friends were drinking coffee. He asked why they were up here, and they said because all the staff were gone, and they wanted to explore. Grith said he was playing poker in the casino and they could play if they wanted to. So, as they went down to casino floor, he looked in the cooler for a drink. He found no drinks but a single black and white chip. As he picked it up, he felt a cool breeze down his spine.
Grith took the chip down to the casino to see if it was worth anything. As soon as he placed it on the poker table the lights went out and a girlish scream pierced the darkness, when the lights came on Kerry was gone. It was like she had disappeared into thin air. They looked everywhere and when they come back to the casino Kerry is there, lying on the poker table, dead with a baby doll which has the black and white poker chip as an eye. Lauren screamed when she saw Kerry there and ran into James’s arms. Sam inspected Kerry's body to see if she was alive but she was stone cold, dead as a doornail. They all went back to Griths room to find out how Kerry was killed. James saw something in Laurens hand that was the doll in Kerry's hand. Grith shouted at Lauren to put it down but then she asked why and he said don’t know why but just put it down okay. Lauren put it down and Grith sighed with relief. Sam didn’t know how Kerry had been killed because they were the only ones in the hotel, and they all were looking for Kerry. Grith knew it had something to do with the chip but didn’t mention it. They all went to bed that night all suspecting the worst. Grith woke up when a scream pierced the air. When he looked outside, he saw a pale white body getting battered by the wind and somehow floating, then it zoomed toward Grith with its claw like nails raised to strike him down. This he thought must be what had killed Kerry. Grith started running and running and running, he stumbled down the hallways and into the casino. The wisp of a person was right behind him. Grith yelled for help as the ghost flew towards him. The ghost stopped as soon as he screamed and then she shrieked and disappeared. He woke up with cold sweat running down his face and he realized that it was just a dream. When he got dressed, he saw Lauren and Peeta looking at a body with blue eyes and blond hair, it was James and he was still alive but was stuck on the floor and he couldn’t move. He was talking to the others but he was just a wooden face sticking out of a wooden floor board and when they tried to rip up the floor board his body was wooden.
It was terrifying because James was just a paralyzed wooden body. As soon as James was out of the floorboard, he started to turn slightly human and after a few days he was back to normal except one of his fingers which will stay wooden forever more. Then it struck Grith the ghost in the dream might have killed Kerry and done this terrible thing to James and her fingernails were wooden so maybe they were cursed. Every time something weird happened like the dream something terrible happens. So Grith told his friends about his idea. They all ran to the door of the casino to escape but when they opened the main doors the ghost woman was there. Standing still baring her teeth and she lunged at Lauren and scraped her face. Lauren screamed, James tried to grab her but she wiped away. They all ran into the nearest car because the hurricane and the lockdown were over so as they teared down the empty road the ghost screamed down the street. Into the nearest town where people were coming out of their houses to see what all the commotion was, they saw the hideous creature storming towards them in a whirlwind of hatred zooming towards their loved town so they all ran inside and shut their shutters as the storm of a person shrieked and wailed towards the group of friends and the helpless villages. When it got close it started to rain, as it rained the ghost started to scream as the drops hit her skin, she screamed like it was acid and it was with every drop that hit her that part of her
wisp of a body disappeared. She slowly staggered towards Grith and fell to her
knees and raked at his feet.
Then she was gone as quickly as she appeared, she had disappeared. All was normal then Griths Dad rushed towards Grith hugged him and said what happened and Grith was frozen still because everyone was safe and sound except for Kerry.
One Month Later. They were all at Kerry’s funeral and as they walked down the aisle holding the coffin someone rushed through the crowd and it was Kerry. The group embraced and that’s how this story ends.