Short horror stories

I lay atop my pile of bones from the people unfortunate enough to get caught in this place. I smile widely showing my sharp teeth while thinking of all the poor people whose last moments were in this building. I hop off the pile of victims landing without sound and quietly creeped around the corner feeling the dust and debris beneath my large paws. I walked around the abandoned building smiling knowing I was the reason there were no people here, knowing I was the reason people fled from this town hundreds of years ago, knowing I could outsmart the supposed “smartest creatures in the world”. I awaited the arrival of my next meal and victim, it was only a matter of time before some human went “I bet there’s no monster here!” and opened the doors of my place of residence and became my dinner. Just then, I heard the door click and creek open. “This looks like the building the supposed “monster” is.” Said a masculine voice, I felt he was mocking me with that annoying tone. “Even if there is no monster, this place does look dangerous.” I heard a slightly nervous femanine voice from the direction of the door. “I know you’re just scared, you need to toughen up!” Another femanine voice said more confidently than the other. I sniffed the air and picked up all three of their fear scents along with the smell of the fog that never left. I peeked around the corner carefully so as not to be seen and stared at them from within the empty sockets of the bird skull I wore atop my head. My tongue slid across the skull while l*****g my lips as I watched the trio looking around my structure of residence. I smiled my big toothy grin as I quietly followed them around what used to be the town hall. “We probably shouldn’t go up those stairs, they look pretty unsafe.” The nervous girl said as they all looked up and down the debri cluttered rotten wooden stairs that even I dared not to test. “As much as I think your fears are irrational, I would have to agree with you on this one.” Responded the other female, also looking at the unstable stairs. They continued through the abandoned structure, carefully stepping around the large pieces of debri. I continued to follow them waiting for the perfect moment to strike. They stood still for a little while looking at beautifully painted pictures hung on the wall, tilted from being there for many years. I saw this as the perfect moment. I jumped out of my hiding spot and onto the male of the group, he was my least favorite of the trio. I stared at the fearful face the human made with red glowing eyes while I had him beneath my paws, I smiled wide with my teeth showing. He tried to break free but I was too strong, I had him locked in place. “No monster you say? Then what am I? A hallucination?” I asked the boy leaning closer to his face full of fear as I continued to smile. The boy did not respond due to fear. He continued to struggle but it was no use. “ Help! Someone get it off me!” He called out to anyone who could hear him. I smiled wider, sensing that he was getting more and more fearful by the second. The two females that he was with rushed over to help him by pushing me off, I didn’t budge. I dug my large, sharp claws into his tender human skin and continued digging them deeper and deeper as I felt the hot, crimson liquid on my paws. The male shrieked in pain and fear as his blood dripped onto the wooden floors. I turned to see the two females had a look of pure fear in their faces as they began to run knowing it was too late for their friend. Little did they know, they were all dead as soon they stepped into this town. I chuckled a bit as I turned back to the being beneath my paws. He started kicking in one last attempt to get me off but I quickly put a stop to that by raking my back claws across his left thigh. He had tears in his eyes knowing he wasn’t getting out of this alive as blood began leaking out of his leg. I finally picked up my right front paw and slashed his neck open and watched as he suffocated to death by drowning in his own blood. I smiled bigger than I had been as I dragged his limp body into my favorite room, “The bone room” as I called it. The bone room was filled with many human bones all across it and the once living creature in my mouth was about to be a part of it along with his friends. I dropped the body on the ground in the bone room for later then slipped through a hole in the building that I had made for myself to easily enter and exit the building. I began walking through the town filled with thick fog. I sniffed the air and picked up the scent of the two girls and followed it throughout the town, turning at every barrier that I had created. Eventually, I found them comforting each other and saying things like “we’ll get out of here, we’ll find a way”. I knew they wouldn’t and they most likely did too. I walked towards the pair feeling the leaves crunch beneath my feet, they turned around and looked at me with a horrified look on their faces. They began running from their inevitable death. I chased them with my powerful legs thumping against the worn stone paths. I easily caught up to them and tackled the “confident” one of the pair. The other female turned to look at her friend who was now beneath my paws. “Just go! I’m the one who dragged you into this mess!” The female beneath me yelled to her friend as tears filled her eyes. The other girl ran off into the mist that surrounded the entire town. ‘I’ll be seeing her later.’ I thought to myself as I watched her disappear into the fog. Once I could no longer see her, I turned to face the other girl that I had caught. I could feel her whimpering in fear as she breathed heavily. She attempted to wiggle her way from under me but it was too late. Once I caught my prey, I didn’t let go, no matter who or what they were. I unsheathed my right paw claws and slowly dragged them down her back. She made a lot of noise, noise I did not like. It hurt my ears. So I quicked the speed of dragging my claw across her back. I saw the crimson liquid begin leaking out of her back, soaking the back of her shirt. I licked my lips at the thought of the delicious feast I would have once I had caught all three. I continued slicing her back open all the way down to her hips and removed my claws from her back and looked hungrily at the blood dripping from my claws. I couldn’t wait any longer, I swiftly lunged forward and grabbed the girl’s delicate arm in my strong jaws and bit down with my razor sharp teeth as hard as I could, leaving deep bite marks in her arm. The girl screamed in pain from the bite, but I didn’t care. I licked the blood off my lips and bird skull, wishing I could just eat now, however I still had one more human to catch. I quickly snapped the girl's neck and dragged her all the way back to town hall. I brought her to the same room her friend was in. I set out to catch the last of the group. I didn't have too big of an issue with her, but food is food. I tracked her down, I snuck up on her. She was facing towards me but she couldn’t see because of the fog. However, I could see her. I launched myself forwards towards her and landed directly on top of her. I stared down at her fear-filled face with hunger in my eyes. She didn’t make much noise, which was nice since humans have such high-pitched screams that hurt my ears. I thought about how I was going to kill her while I sat on top of her to keep her from moving, when finally I thought of a way. I slashed both of her wrists and the back of her knees, her thighs as well. Puddles of blood formed around the areas I had slashed and they just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and eventually the girl closed her eyes and stopped moving completely. ‘I can finally eat.’ I thought to myself, smiling. I dragged the final body into the bone room and laid her next to her friends. ‘This is quite the feast.’ I thought to myself as I stepped towards the bodies. I stopped once I had reached them and bent my head down, l*****g my lips.