The dark moon

Chapter 10••The parking lot

Unknown POV

Meanwhile…

“Are you sure about this, Eva?”

“Yes, will you relax. This is gonna be so much fun!”

“Sitting in an empty parking lot in the middle of nowhere with you three is not my idea of fun.”

“Ok selfie time, say stoner.”

“Stoner.”

The four girls smiled for the camera. Eva, Chloe, Scarlett, and Maisie lived in the local town. Eva was the life of the party. She was the one who always had the plans and decided what parties they should attend. Tonight she had decided that they needed some downtime. She had somehow managed to get them some weed, so now the girls were sitting in an empty parking lot smoking weed with the windows up and listening to cheesy pop songs on the radio.

“Did you guys hear that?”

Scarlett was trying to look through the smoke out of the window. Maisie was a pure soul with a kind heart. She was also a giant softy. She couldn’t even watch scary films without having nightmares for days.

“No, what was it?” She asked Scarlett, trying to look over her shoulder to see if she could see what she was looking at. Chloe rolled the window down to let some of the smoke out and to get a clearer view.

“I think I see something over there!” she said whilst squinting her eyes together to try to see better.

“Chloe stop it, you're scaring me!” Maisie whimpered, her heart was beating frantically and her eyes filled with tears.

“For god's sake, will you get a grip, here have some of this.”

Eva passed the joint back over to Scarlett to give to Maisie. Maisie inhaled the weed into her lungs, making her head spin slightly.

BANG! Something crashed against the side of the car with such a force the car actually moved.

“ AAARRRHHH!!!” all four girls scrėamed.

“Eva, start the car now!” Chloe scrėamed, whilst looking at her friend.

“I’m trying, but it's not working.”

“Everyone listen to me.”

Chloe was trying to remain calm but her head was swimming with fog. Everything seemed dream-like, like she wasn't really here in the moment.

“There is someone standing over there with some freaky shít mask on, we need to get the fûck out of here now!”

Chloe looked around and noticed her friends all seemed just as dazed as she was.

“Where did you get the weed, Eva?” she asked as it suddenly hit her.

The weed wasn’t right. It had a strange aftertaste, and it smelt different.

“Scarlett got it, Josh couldn’t get us any.”

Eva looked back at Scarlett, who was looking intently out of the window.

BANG!!!

“Arrrraaaahhhhh!” The four girls scrėamed again.

Someone had banged on the back of the car. Looking through the rearview mirror, Eva saw one of the people with a disfigured face mask on. She felt the blood drain from her face as the masked person looked right back at her.

“Oh my god!” Scarlett scrėamed whilst pointing to the front of the car.

The smoke had cleared now and they could clearly see. Standing a few feet in front of the car were five people, all wearing some kind of Halloween mask, each one just as scary and weird as the other. One of them stepped forward and held up his hand. The girls could clearly see the huge hunting knife he had, the metal blade glinted as the car's headlights hit it.

“Oh my god, we're gonna die!” Maisie cried, her face streaked with tears.

“We are not going to die! Eva start the fûcking car!” Chloe scrėamed.

“It won’t start. I’ve been trying. It’s like the battery’s dead.” Eva cried.

She frantically turned the key over and over, but nothing happened.

“Guys, there’s more over here,” Scarlett whispered whilst backing away from the window.

The girls looked around the car to see they were surrounded by more people in masks now. The one with the hunting knife stepped forward. You could see the evil glint in his eye through the eye hole of the mask.

“Well well well what do we have here?” he started stalking closer to the car.

“Come now dears, if you come nice and quietly, no one will die!” His voice was so cold and void of emotion.

“What are we going to do?” Maisie cried.

Chloe looked around at her friends and at the people surrounding them. If they wanted to get out of here in one piece, they had to do something now.

“We need to run!”

Chloe started looking around frantically. She grabbed her bag and grabbed the pepper spray she carried with her. She pushed it into Maisie's hands.

“What I can’t run Chloe.”

“Eva, you can run and you will, fûck knows what these crazy fûcks will do. Take your heels off so you can run faster.”

“Ok,” Eva said, quickly taking her shoes off.

“Ok, on the count of three, open your door and run. Don’t stop or look back, just keep running until you get to town. One.. two.. three!”

All four girls opened the doors of the car and sprinted for the exit of the parking lot. Maisie sprinted forward, heading for the exit. A tall man wearing a pig's head loomed above her, stopping her in her tracks. She tried to scrėam, but not a single sound came from her dry throat. She fumbled with the pepper spray but pig mask grabbed her, hitting her across the face knocking her to the floor. She aimed the spray and pushed down hard. The man scrėamed and grabbed his face. Maisie scrambled backward to try to put some distance between her and pig mask when his maniacal laugh made her lip tremble and her body run cold with fear. His eyes bore into Maisie’s as he stepped forward, shaking his finger from side to side tutting, Maisie tried to scrėam but no sound came from her mouth. He lunged forward, knocking her backward. Her head bounced off the concrete and everything went black.

Eva knew she had to fight her way out of this. An elephant with red eyes stepped in front of her, blocking her only way out. She ducked and ran underneath his arms, banging into a person with a baby face mask on. Baby face turned to her, a sinister giggle coming from underneath the mask sent a chill down Eva’s spine. She looked around and saw Masie being picked up and thrown over the shoulder of pig face and Scarlett and Chloe were nowhere to be seen. Eva swung with all her might, hitting baby face across the cheek and splitting the mask revealing cream skin through the crack.

“You shouldn’t have done that!” A voice snickered, making Eva turn to see elephant mask pulling a knife out from the back of his pants.

Eva shook as the adrenaline pumped through her veins. She knew the forest was close by so she pushed herself up to run, only to be knocked over by baby face. She kicked her legs, hitting baby face smashing the mask in half. A woman smiled up at Eva. Blood covered her lips and teeth and her eyes were red and puffy. Baby face pulled herself up Eva’s body. Her face was inches from Eva’s, blood dripped from her mouth landing on Eva’s cheek. Elephant mask laughed as he walked over and kicked Eva in the face.

Chloe looked back to make sure her friends were behind her but she was alone, Maisie was being carried over someone’s shoulder and Eva was on the floor, out cold.

Chloe felt defeated.

She turned to find Scarlett, to tell her to keep running but stopped dead in her tracks. It felt like the wind had been knocked out of her lungs. Scarlett stood next to the one with the hunting knife. Her smile made a chill run through Chloe’s body. Her eyes looked different, they looked black and dead.

“You didn’t think Eva came up with this idea, did you?” she started to laugh menacingly, all the others in masks joined in, Chloe was officially scared shítless now.

Scarlett stopped laughing abruptly.

“GRAB HER!” she scrėamed to the masked people.

Chloe turned and ran, she ran as fast as she could. The muscles in her legs burned from running. She had somehow managed to make it to the woods. She was crouched down low behind a large tree, panting for breath. Looking back over her shoulder to see if anyone had caught up to her yet.

Loud footsteps begin to get closer and closer, people were shouting different directions to go and check for her. It was now or never she had to run for it again. They would soon catch up to her.

“Little lamb, why did you run?”

Chloe slapped her hand over her mouth to stop any sounds from escaping her mouth. She looked around but couldn’t see where the voice came from.

“Up here.”

She looked up and staring back at her from a tree branch were two eyes glowing blood red. She couldn’t even scrėam from the fear she felt. She felt something cold hit the side of her head, as blood trickled down onto her face.

“Little lamb.”

Chloe’s eyes shoot up and terror filled her. The thing with the red eyes stood a few feet in front of her, he coćked his head to one side and gave her a sinister smile that made her skin crawl, he charged at her, the forest around her started to spin, and before it reached her everything went black.