Scary Story for the contest thingy.

My story takes place at the Riverview Inn. Here is a short summary of what is said about this haunted place. http://www.forgottenoh.com/Counties/Lucas/riverview.html




This ghost has no name so in my story we shall call her Emily.




(The following story, aside from the place, are completely fictitious)









Our story starts with a young man named David, he is a young man, about the age of 21, and he is about to spend a night at the Riverview Inn. David had heard all the ghost stories, but he never believed them. That, however, was about to change.All of the workers at the Riverview Inn believed the stories, because not only had they seen the ghost of Emily, they had felt her cold ghostly hand cross them.




David was in desparate need of a room, but they had no vacancies, except for the attic. He agreed to take that room, but his acceptance of this room only led to shocked looks from the employees at the Inn. The attic is where Emily decided to take her own life, and no one had stayed there since the incident happened out of fear.




He laughed at their shocked expressions, and replied that he didn't believe in ghosts. By the end of this night his mind would be changed forever. So he went up to the attic and began to unpack his bags, when suddenly he heard a knock at the door. He went to the door, opened it up, but no one was there. He laughed to himself as he yelled down the hall, "Very funny guys, but I'm not going to fall for it!" As soon as he shut the door behind him another knock came at the door. He quickly opened it again, only this time a brush of cold air chilled his entire body. With a shiver in his voice he said, "Who-whoever i-i-it is n-n-needs to stop! N-N-NOW!" With that he slammed the door and walked over to the bed rubbing his arms, trying to warm himself up.







He suddenly realized that the room had gotten colder, so cold that he could see his own breath. Across the room he noticed a fire place with some logs next to it, he threw the logs in and started a fire. As he sat by the fire and warmed himself up he started to get tired, so he decided to go to bed.







He woke up a while later to what sounded like crying. He could see the fire was only a few burning embers now, but on the other side of the room was an eerie glow. He stood up and walked over to it to see what it was. It was a beautiful girl, but she was crying, David knelt down in front of her, and asked her why she was crying. She didn't respond, she only buried her face deeper in her hands. He reached out to touch her shoulder and comfort her, but as soon as he did this, the sadness and pain in her crying changed into a sickly maniacal laughter.







David fell back as she flew up to the ceiling, suddenly she flew right at him. He tried to get out of her way, but he wasn't able to move fast enough. She went right into his chest, and immediately David's entire body was filled with a perpetual coldness. His blue eyes turned from their normal color to a deep, blood red. Then suddenly the cold was gone, but it was replaced with an intense pain, the pain that Emily had felt that had driven her to take her own life, all of her memories. The emotional pain of the mental scars left by her abusive father, the physical pain of her own self-destruction. David looked at his wrists, the view was hazy through his eyes, but he could see that they were cut up, almost completely destroyed. He then began to have horrible flashbacks, but they weren't of his memories, they were of Emily's past. Cowering in a corner while her father came ever closer with his hands closed into tightly balled fists. Sitting in the bathroom with her father pounding on the door while she stared at her scarred arms.



All of these memories were forced into David's head. He began to lose consciousness as Emily's spirit began to take over his body, he then fought back and was able to muster up enough strength to scream, "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!" He screamed this over and over again, as he repeatedly bashed his head onto the hard wooden floor of the attic, with each strike he began to regain control, but then he gave up, almost passing out from the pain. Even though David gave up Emily didn't she began taking over David's body, began controlling him. She brought David to his feet and walked over to the door. Suddenly David regained some control, he tried to fight from the inside, he gained enough power to reach for a revolver on the nightstand. He then lifted it up and put it to his own head, he knew that the only release from this nightmare would be death. He pulled the trigger, click, nothing happened, he pulled it again, click, still nothing, he pulled it again and again until he realized that every chamber was empty. After that Emily regained control she threw the revolver to the ground, and slowly walked over to the door. David was able to regain control for a few more seconds, this gave him just enough time to throw himself out of the window.

He flew from the third story window and started to laugh as he fell, then he hit the ground with a sickening thud. David was free, or at least he thought so. He looked down from the spot where he was floating and saw himself, actually the mangled remains of his body. Then to his disbelief his body started to stand up. It was Emily who started to control his body. She stood up and walked back into the Inn, it was late enough that everybody had gone to bed so no one saw her walk in. She walked up to the attic and took everthing that was David's and then left.

As for David he was cursed to be trapped in the attic of the inn for the rest of eternity. That is of course unless he can find another host body. And it just so happens that a few nights later another person takes the room, and so the story begins again.

THE END!!!!