Standing There

A short horror story about a group of scientists that find a weird creature doing abnormal things.

It stood there. It just stood there. Not doing anything, just standing. Why was it standing? There are better things for it to do. It was very tightly shackled to the wall, but it wasn’t even struggling.

Puzzled, I rested my head on the thick, cold glass that enclosed the small cell, in which it stood.

We’d found it a week or two back, just standing in the middle of an alleyway, in front of two murdered teenagers. Funny thing is, a camera was pointed right in the direction of that alleyway, but at the exact second the teenagers were to be murdered, the cameras went blank and static, the whole murder hidden.

But it was just standing there in that alleyway, like it wanted to get caught.

And that wasn’t the only murder, either. Cameras have caught this thing on several other occasions, but went blank when people were murdered.

It was short and had the shape of a small child. It had stubby arms, long legs, a long torso, and a fat head. It was an off white colour, with red facial features.

It was a phenomenon, how it could move. Tests had been conducted, and when it was dark, the thing would almost seem to teleport; or it was just really fast. Teleporting was impossible though -so speed was the only answer.

It wouldn’t talk, although it seemingly had a mouth. It might be shy, or thinking something. What was it? Why was it here?

I didn’t know, but my team and I had the determination to find out.

The two men that were already in there, dressed in their protective jumpsuits, studying the creature, stepped closer to it.

Suddenly, a shrill shriek was let out -assumedly from the creature. It was very high pitched; so high that I had to cover my ears. They felt like they were about to explode.

The lights flickered violently, and then darkness fell around. Alarms sounded as well, adding to the violent rupturing of my ears.

Then the shriek ended, and the lights went back to normal, the alarms off… I slowly uncovered my ears. Is it over? What happened?! I thought.

I looked around. Everything seemed normal.

Instinctively, I looked into the cell. What I saw horrified me.

The two men were on the floor, lying in a pool of blood -their own. And even worse; the alien-like thing had disappeared. Gone -nowhere to be seen. But how did it get out?! The door was closed! It was tightly shackled! I thought, astounded.

That thing’s dangerous. If it escapes, the whole country could be in danger!

I didn’t know how to act. I opened the door to the cell and ran inside. The two men were definitely dead. The thing �" still nowhere to be found. I was scared -confused and scared.

That’s when I heard it -a low growl. Frightened, I slowly turned around-  

And it was there.

Just standing there, watching me, standing completely still. Just standing there.

Author's Note

Please ignore lack of description - this writing was for a competition that could have no longer than 500 words.