Night Terrors

Night Terrors

A small boy is sleeping in his bed. When the clock beside his bed turns to 5:00am he awakes suddenly. The bedroom door slowly opens. Outside in the hall there is a cloud of fog. A cloaked figure emerges from the fog. It appears to have no feet and floats into the bedroom. It moves over to the little boys bed. It hovers over the boy's bed. It pulls back its sleeves and reveals long, skinny, skeletal arms with long claws instead of fingers. It pulls back the hood on the cloak. Its face is half bone and half skin. The top half is blood stained bone with black holes and glowing red dots for eyes. The bottom half is made up of rotten flesh and a mouth. It lifts the little boy up from his bed and holds him by the back of his head. It then opens its mouth revealing hundreds of razor sharp teeth, and plunges its head to bite the boy. The little boy wakes up screaming in his bed, covered in sweat. It is 5:00am. He sits on his bed and looks behind him. This time the door is already open. Standing beside the bed is the cloaked figure from his nightmare, with its sleeves rolled up and its hood pulled down. He screams as the figure pounces at him and grabs him. It lifts him up and goes to bite him. Again the boy wakes up screaming in his bed. He looks at his clock. It says 5:00am. He turns around and sees his bedroom door start to open. In the hall is a cloud of fog. The boy sits on his bed and says "Not again." In a hospital bedroom a mother and father sit beside their comatose son. It's the same boy who was having the nightmares. They couple have been sitting there every day for the past three weeks, hoping their son will wake up.