My story is about stories, what we tell all kinds of Horror stories about demons and ghosts and stuff but no matter what a story's about there's only one thing that makes it really scary what's that your imagination
If you're really
into a story you become part of it and you start to imagine what a horrible
thing might be sneaking around the corner ready to pounce and just when you start
to wonder what you do if you were the one facing the monster
It's your
imagination that gets you into a story and unless you're very careful you might
need your imagination to get you out
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Brinda was
everybody's favorite babysitter, A strange young woman
Her advertisement in the newspaper said for kids who hate babysitters
She was becoming
every parent’s favorite babysitter. No one knew her secret. She claimed it to
be just "magic". It was strange like she just knew when a parent
wanted to babysit for them and when not. Also, she loved reading and collecting
books more than anything
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Turn the television
volume down Ricky’s mom yelled as Ricky was taking the chips packet from
cupboard
“You working tonight”,
Ricky asked her mom
“I told you that earlier”, his mom replied
Suddenly the Home
silence was disturber with doorbells
“Must be the babysitter”,
Ricky’s mom said with positivity
“A babysitter
seriously mom”, Ricky screamed with disappointment
“Mom I'm 17 years
old”, Ricky yelled
Then what appears
at the other side of the door to be a tall mystical personality covered in
black coat answering the door!
The black hood of the cloak is pulled down and reveled to be a Quietly young beautiful girl with sparkling bright Hazel eyes.
Ricky's Mom is a
bit nervous about her appearance at first. Then She gets a calm satisfying
aura around her, as if she already knew her.
“Good evening
this winter”, she introduced herself
“I'm Brinda”, she replied
Ricky’s mom asks Brinda,
with a smile since she's been highly recommended by all the parents, she asks
her what her secret is.
Brinda says
"Imagination".
where's Ricky Brinda
asked as ran inside the house strangely
“If there's any
chance you could get him to turn off the television”, Ricky’s mom said with
hope to Brinda
“Don't worry I
brought some books”, Brinda said pointing to the deep black bag in which she
had brought few hard thick books
Please turn good Ricky’s
mom said looking at Ricky and waved him a goodbye and left the main door
leaving Brinda and Ricky along for the rest of the night
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“You”, Brinda
said to Ricky as walking slowly towards him
As seeing Ricky had no interest in talking, she changes his direction from him to the television
She stood in
front of Ricky and television and started to make strange faces and chanting
something
“Hey move”, Ricky
shouted
“It's time to get
to know each other”, Brinda said in deep clam voice
Hey I really like that drawing on your shirt Brinda said pointing towards the print on Ricky t-shirt and asked “what does it mean”
“It's a
metalbender”, Ricky said casually
It was a long sword in between of a pair of bright blue wings Ricky explained and suddenly said “Hey I don't want to get to know you I don't need a babysitter”
Wow! you must be extraordinarily amazingly rich Brinda said while dancing in the room and ignoring what Ricky has just said
“Yeah, I am”, Ricky
said with proud
“So, keep out of
my way”, Ricky said as turning is head uncomfortably to watch television
“I'm afraid
that's not going to happen here”, Brinda said and snatched the remote from Ricky’s
hand
“Hey”, Ricky
shouted with anger
“We are going to
read some books”, Brinda said this Ricky tried to snatch the remote back from Brinda’s
hand but surprisal the remote disappear from her hands into thin air
“How did you do
that”, Ricky asked in surprise
“I'll tell you
what, you read a book for a few minutes and I'll leave you alone the rest of
the night”, Brinda said with evil smile
“Deal?”, Brinda
asked strangely
“How many minutes”,
Ricky demanded to get of this situation
“Oh, I don't know
let's say five minutes”, Brinda said smugly
“Then I can watch
TV all I want”, Ricky asked with surprised
“That's what make
you happy Kid”, Brinda replied
“You're the
strangest”, Ricky said with confusion
By saying so Brinda
started removing all the books from his bag and placing it on the table
With self-doubt Ricky
selected a book from the many and started to read one which titled as the dark
nights in his mind
“Aloud please I like to hear them”, Brinda said angrily
Ricky got into
terror hearing Brinda voice, the smoothness in her voice was completely and now
a was replaced with ……. terror
So, he begins to
read a with struggle and fear Ricky started to read not moving his eyes from
the book
“It was late on
the dark moonless night
as a wild storm raged across the Moors
the hideous
witch flew closer to the”
As he read those lines from the book the lights started to blink rapidly and the room started to shake as a storm with gust of smoke was approaching towards the room, but till now Ricky was too much lost in the book to notice this in his surroundings, he kept reading
Watching all of this Brinda had a board smile on his faces as, she knew it had started and if she is getting what she wants
“Lonely cottage
swooped down and banged on the door”
Ricky read aloud from the book
As he read this there
was a strong bang on his main door, it was too loud that it disturbed Ricky and
he finally notice what was happening around him
when he realized what was happening, he
screamed in terror” What was that”
“Don't stop now”,
Brinda said with evil smile
“This one's
boring”, Ricky said and threw the book in fear
“You only read
one sentence”, Brinda said with disappointment
“I can tell
believe me I know”, Ricky said
“Well, it's not
like TV no you have to give yourself a chance to get into the story use your
imagination”, Brinda said
“Yeah, yeah hmm”,
Ricky said and took another book and said “This could be good”, Ricky said
“Good I like that
one a lot”, Brinda said in joy
As Ricky took the
book, he opened it and started reading from the middle portion
“Hey Hey Hey Hey start at the beginning”, Brinda warned him with tension in her eyes
“Why I'm not going
to finish it anyways”, Ricky replied and ignore what she has just said
“The stone walls
echoed with the clash of barbs and cries of agony as battles raged the courtyard
when crimson with the blood of fallen warriors yet now all was silent all was
still as if the very memory of these dreadful events continues to haunt them
bell”
As yet again Ricky
was so lost in his reading that he didn’t paid attention what was happening in
his surrounding from the back window a hand with war marks on it, nails bigger
than fingers and hairs all over them was approaching him, as he was yet reading,
he got stooped at it as he was not able to spell difficult the word,
Watching this Brinda
hurriedly pronounced the word with happiness
“Melik”
“Oh yeah”, Ricky said and closed the book and replied this one's lousy too
As soon as the book was closed the hand that was emerging towards him vanished outside the window
“Whatttttttt Brinda”,
said with anger and stood up
“One too many
words”, Ricky said with frustration
“No once you
start a book you really should finish it”, Brinda said strangely, it seemed like
a warning to Ricky
“Yeah sure”, Ricky
exhaled that’s all-lousy babysitter would say so
As soon as Ricky
said this in disappointment his vision fell on a mysterious dark golden book
covered in red velvet strips and resembles like blood droplets
“What's this”, Ricky said picking it up with excitement
“Nope not that”, Brinda
snatched the book from Ricky hands hurriedly
“What do you mean
I thought you wanted me to read”, Ricky said with disappointment and confused
“You're not ready
for this one yet all”, this was all Brinda could say with mysteries grin
“Right forget it”,
Ricky said and left the couch and started walking out of the room
“Where are you
going” Brinda shouted
“I'm not reading anymore of your stupid books”, Ricky said laugh
“I wouldn't go
out there if I were you”, Brinda warned Ricky with sparkling eyes
“Good thing you're not me” was all that Ricky could say, without understand what she meant and slammed the door closed
Brinda stared laughing
and opened that book and read a word cheerfully
Ricky was walking
to his room leaving Brinda and his stupid stories book in the hall, he heard
some footsteps approaching towards him, he ignored them thinking it’s probably Brinda
but he was too irrigated for her and bother not to look and ignore her as much
as he can
###
He opened his
room door and hopped on his bed and started to play with his mobile
He was now too irrigated, and then he saw a shadow luring to his room and he thought Brinda is here again
Hearing the presence still there, he looks up and sees it's not Brinda, but a medieval knight in shimmering dark armor. The knight is wielding a longsword and with a single strike he attacked Ricky
Ricky was now too surprised to react, he screamed and jumped from his bed in fear, to avoid the strike of the sword, as soon the sword hit the bead, all the room shivered and agony,
Ricky ran screaming
from the room and closed the door with struggle with the motivation to trap the
mysterious armor man in the room
he ran towards
the hall to get help from Brinda, she was in the Mainway to the hall when he
noticed a man/ a soul/ a creepy Ghost or whatever it was, Ricky couldn’t understand
A mysterious
identity with long hair wearing a deep black cape to cover his all body except
his face and hands, this the same hand that was approving from the window when
he reading that book
His face was melted like candle and skin shredded like old tree trunk
Ricky escaped
from him too and ran with all his strengths towards the hall
He was too scared to understand what was happening who are these people and why are they here and why after him
As soon as he entered the hall, he screamed “Brinda” and seeing her he took a relief breath
she was tearing the pages from the book and throwing them in the burring chimney
He panicked to
tell what he had seen and before he could say anything Brinda interrupted him
and said without looking at him
“There's someone hiding in your bedroom and a ghost in the hallway I know” Brinda laughed don't worry
Ricky was till in
terror, and he rushed to the other doors and closed them and pushed the chair
to block it
“It's just your
imagination” Brinda said while burring the pages
“They are not
imagination they're real”, Ricky said with terror in his voice
“You had no idea what you were reading did you”, Brinda exclaimed with smile
Ricky was now confused, Brinda seemed different, she didn’t have that evil grin anymore but was smiling now being too polite and nice, but there were others things in the house that were more disturbing in the house rather than sudden Brinda’s changed attitude
“Look at the
stupid books there's”, Ricky said
But Brinda stopped
him in-between “Don't you see they came from books now if you help me, you get
rid of books by burning them”
Soon Ricky
understood that he has read the stories a little bit each figure or creature in
it comes to life, he cried in fear he saw Brinda was burning the books so he
asked “We burned the books and they go away?”, Ricky asked confused with some
relief
“Exactly”, Brinda
said with joy
Then Ricky
started burning all the books at an immense pace to get rid of the situation
As he was helping Brinda burring books, someone nocked at the door
Suddenly someone is knocking on the living room door, which is bolted shut with a chair.
And then Ricky couldn’t
trust his ears, to be surprised it was Brinda’s voice from the other side, now
Ricky was too stressed and afraid unable to understand what was happening
Brinda's voice is
heard coming from the other side telling him “NOT to listen to her”
Soothe knocking on the door turned in the slamming and the door pushed opened with a bang
it was Brinda!!!!!
Ricky then
realizes that if she is Brinda who rushed inn, then who is the other person?
In a witch like
voice the other Brinda screams from behind "what do you think! Ha Ha Ha Ha
Ha Ha uses your imagination".
Suddenly the
person who looks like Brinda has a hideous witches face now. Ricky is terrified
and screams.
Brinda said “That
she was afraid that this was going to happen. It turns out she’s a young witch
with an overactive imagination”. So, both the benevolent and malevolent
manifestations of her imagination literally come to life when they are read
about.
“So, they must be
contained within books”. Brinda takes Ricky by the hand and they ran and hide
inside the kitchen. Then they bolt it shut by pushing a table in the way. Brinda
said “That this will hold them off for the time being”.
Now Brinda was
laughing with the same mystic grim, now Ricky was sure she’s the real one.
###
He demands answers
from her, what was going on here, who are they, why are they after me, who is
she
“Imagination I
was afraid this was going to”, Brinda said with evil grin
“What do you mean
for now make it go away”, Ricky screamed crying
Brinda started
laughing and said “I sorry can't”
“You are the one
who read half the stories you have to finish them but since you and the witch
burned my books, now you can make them go away,”
And then she
removed the red velvet book,
Brinda warned Ricky” You’re going to have to use your imagination if you don't want to end up being dinner what do I do”
“Oh, I'd finish off the story fast Brinda, But the books gone” Ricky said crying
“Will then make it up make it up sure go for it it's your story now”, Brinda exclaimed
With no other
option Ricky started thing with terror
Without enthusiasm Ricky says "Okay, some weird stuff happened with Ricky and Brinda then it went away. Then they lived happily ever after the end.
And then there was complete silence in the room
As soon as Brinda
heard those phrases she started laughing loudly
“It didn't work, Ricky
cried
“Sorry, that's
cheating you're going to have to be better than that”, Brinda said and kept
laughing
“Cheating how can
I achieve I don't even know what I'm doing” Ricky screamed
As this moment Ricky
was scared and clueless, he didn’t know what was happening he just wanted everything
to go back to normal and escape this situation
As they were
taking Brinda pulled Ricky and screamed “Heyyy, watch out” from the door and at
the exact time a sword pierced the door in a single bow
“When that happened,
how did you know that, was all that” Ricky said shivering to Brinda
Ricky was
terrified how could Brinda knew that exactly at that moment the knight would
attack, how could she possible saved me, was it a coincidence or mere luck
who is she, who are
you, Brinda?
As from the other
side the crying voice of the Witch was also echoing, which disturbed Ricky’s
internal conflict
He cried why
these two creatures are after him
“Of course, it
was going to happen you have gotten stories all mixed up”, Brinda reminded him
“You have started
the story and left them incomplete, and I warned you about it” Brinda said
As they were
talking the armor man broke the door and entered the kitchen and he was not
alone, the Witch floated behind him
Brinda pulled Ricky
and ran towards the storage and sealed the door
“Hey I can't see anything”,
Ricky said in the darkness as that were in the storage room
“It's right above
your head”, Brinda replied and Ricky switched on the bulb button
How could
possible she knows where the lights are? Ricky begins to wonder
looking Ricky’s
condition scared and confused Brinda laughed and said “This is getting fun”
Brinda smiles and
is excited for some reason.
“Now what happens”
Brinda asked Ricky
“How should I
know”, Ricky shouted in pain
“Because it's
your story silly what happens” now Brinda laughed
“Okay”, Ricky
said and continued the story
"They
ran down to the basement, where he kept his Uzi (a type of machine gun) and
special magical spells. One he kept just in case any knights, witches and
ghosts appear. And they killed them both with this Uzi and spells”, Nothing happens again,
As Ricky said the
above lines there was complete silence, for a minute or two
Ricky smiled with
joy assuming that this dark never-ending night have finally came to end
But in the next
second they both heard a loud bang on the door behind, Ricky’s joy completely
vanished
“Why are they
still here what's wrong with that it's a good ending”, Ricky screamed in terror
“Yeah, maybe for some silly TV show or something but it doesn't make sense in this story”, Brinda laughed
Ricky notices that Brinda is carrying that certain book everywhere with her and she keeps peeking at it. He suspects she knows what will happen and the ending is in it. So, he asks her for the book. She tells him the book is empty but he thinks she knows anyways.
“The endings in
that book aren’t it”, Ricky screamed at her
“No there's
nothing in this book”, Brinda said with seriousness
“Then why are you
dragging it around why do you keep peeking at it when you don't think I'm
looking”, Ricky said with anger in his voice
“Give it to me”, Ricky
screamed and tried to snatch it from Brinda’s hands
But Brinda was
too fast and countered Ricky’s move and again started laughing
“You really think
you're ready for this”, Brinda asked him with seriousness and as a warning
“Yes, let me have
it”, Ricky said in single breath
“Okay have fun”, Brinda handed it to him with evil smile
Ricky took the
book and started sliding its papers, but he was assumed when he saw that pages
were empty, plain nothing in it, the whole book was blank, he was confused now
“I don't get it
what's a big deal”, he said and look to glance at Brinda but when he saw his surrounding,
he gasped “Ohhhhh”
He was not in the
basement of his storeroom, he panicked and looked all over, all he was and
assumed was in a dark basement which appears to be of some old castle
All the bricked
stone log walls resembled of a vintage castle of the medieval age with fire
burning at places to provide light in the dark castle
Now he was confused and afraid, he didn’t know what was happening to him, He stared blankly for several seconds. Unable to believe his eyes or he was no longer in the comfortable suburban house but in the dank crypt of an ancient castle the dang crypt of an ancient castle with walls as ascended into the darkness above unskilled
He then went to
scam the book again just to find that it was not blank anymore, there was
something written on it, it reads
“I don't get it
what's the big deal he……Ricky”, said then Ricky's voice trailed off
He examined and realized
that this is what he has just said and now it was incripted in the book,
He was not able
to believe what his eyes were seeing, he couldn’t utter a sing word
And suddenly he notices he was not alone he heard someone’s footsteps
Suddenly, he
heard loud sound of footsteps of clanking metal approaching through the dark
He was stressed
and feared with sweat when he saw the medieval knight from his house has summon
from the darkness of castle approaching towards him
Sound of his footsteps
kept increasing and soon he removed his long shinning sword and within seconds
he started running towards Ricky with full strength, chopping everything in his
way
Ricky saw this
and soon started running for his live and secretary hoping that somehow Brinda
would save him, and in that huddle, he almost loses grip of the book, but
managed to recover it and started running again and somehow discovering the
hidden parts of the castle
He tried to run
and hide in the castle as the knight was about to strike him, and then the
knight stroked his sword Infront of him and dropped his sword on the ground in
front of Ricky
Ricky was shocked to see this, he thought the knight was after him but now he bowed in front of him as if he was paying him respect,
He sensed danger
and in confusion and to protect him from the knight he took up his sword and as
soon as he took it in his hands the knight amor fell in pieces and to add the
terror, the amor was empty as the amor fell with loud noise, disturbing the
castles peace
Ricky examined
the sword and saw some writing on it, he read it out
Whosoever
holds this almighty longsword is swore to protect the tomb of his beloved king
and his kingdom
It didn’t take Ricky
much time to find out that the knight was not here to harm him, he was here to
protect the tomb of his beloved king, and now he was the one hold the sword, so
he had to complete the knight’s task
The thing that
stuck Ricky was that if the knight was here not to harm him, then who was? and
from whom the knight was protecting the tomb, who is the evil in this castle
Suddenly a voice calls out from the dark, Ricky immortally took his sword in front of him to protect him from the source of the voice
Suddenly, a voice
calls out from behind
Ricky saw a young
girl in medieval clothing holding a big lit candle.
She sadly tells Ricky
that she is lost, and she cannot find her way home. So, she wants him to help
her.
Ricky was
surprised to see a young gorgeous girl dressed medieval cloth in the castle, he
wondered how could it be that a girl from so long ago could be there right now.
She was so
beautiful that Ricky was mesmerized and felt shy Infront of her beauty, for
almost he forgets whatever happened earlier that night and focused on the
gorgeous face, his heart was pounding at a faster pace now
She asks him if
he can put the book down and help her find her way home.
Ricky was now in
a bit relief to find someone in the castle, at least he was not alone now, Frustrated
Ricky slams the book shut and said “He has no idea how to get home either, and
if he did, he would have already escaped this rusty castle”
It was strange
and he was completely alone and after the medieval knight disappears and then
suddenly a young girl shows up asking his help, even though all this felt too
good to be true after everything that have happened
Ricky them stared
at the young girl with some thoughts, she seemed out of place like from
another time.
Then he carefully
looks at her as she lowers her head. Ricky screamed with angry, and says "Or
from another story! You're not a girl."
As soon as Ricky
screamed and pointed the sword at the young girl and warned her
The young girl
transforms into the Witch who attacked him in the house.
She yells at Ricky
“Put down the book”, laughing and cackling at him. Before she can approach him,
Ricky picks up
the long sword and slices her right across the chest. The Witch screams in
agony with green slime oozing from her wound and turned into transforms into an
old grumpy King.
Ricky screams in
horrified shock
The old grumpy King
addresses himself as the Kings of Kings, emperor of emperors the almighty named
as Klaus,
He praised Ricky
with his bravery and thanked him and told him that he was placed under a spell
cast by an evil witch. His spirit was cursed to wander the earth forever. Ever
since than his spirit was wandering in a suit of armor to find someone brave to
help defeat the witch and save the King Tomb.
Ricky now bows before the king with utmost respect and offers the sword, as he didn’t think what else to do in such situation
Suddenly, Ricky opens
his eyes and founds himself back in his home, while Brinda exclaimed what a
story
Before Ricky
could ask her, anything or understand it the house door opened widely and Ricky's Mom returned
She saw Ricky
holding a book and was happy and surprised to see Ricky with it
Brinda eventually
points out that the book on Ricky's lap, "The Dark Tomb,” story written
by Ricky winters, his name on it.
Ricky is shocked and
couldn’t understand what was happening things were happenings so fast paced he
could spot a difference better what is reality and imaginations desperately he asks
Brinda “If it really happened”.
She smiles
hinting yes and says “That it's only a story”.
Ricky stood there
still as if he was still in shock
Before heading
home, Brinda is asked by Ricky's Mom what she owes her. Holding onto her new
book, she smiles and says she's already been paid, telling Ricky's mother to
call her anytime.
Ending
As the story
is ending, Ricky searched all over the library but he never found another copy
of "The Dark Tomb" By. Ricky Winter or any of Brinda's other books
because they were first and only editions
