Horror Story

By Atharv Krishna

In the big city of Vienna, where the city is filled with century old buildings and towering sky scrapers side by side, there lived a group of children who were childhood buddies in an apartment complex. Arjun, who was the tallest of all, was a great singer. Noah was a minimalist. He always wore these three things: Oxford shoes, trousers, a belt and a shirt. Liam liked to follow Arjun, while Mehmet and Alex were extremely  naughty. Aadhya was a sweet little girl who was the kindest of all with a skirt, a shirt and a notepad.They loved to play pranks on everyone, even the Mayor. Ali was the  coolest with oversized shirts, an iphone 17 pro max, always having gum in his mouth wearing baggy jeans and Gucci shoes. Although they were friends and stayed in different apartments, they lived like a family.

One day, all the children were coming home from their long school day and they were eager to go to the nearby mall unaware of what was going to happen in the next few hours. After spending some time in the mall, they wanted to go to the much deserted Karlsplatz metro station, an underground subway. But they lost the second last train so they had to board the haunted final train for the day after waiting for fifteen minutes. The doors were opening and closing way faster than normal, as if they wanted to split somebody into two or chop something or someone. Later, the  lights went off and there were red lights 

which flashed and loud alarms buzzed. The children were terrified with his sudden noise and they all fainted.

The Metro train 

When everyone woke up, they all felt dizzy and somehow got to their feet. And the lights were normal but as they sat on the seat, the next blink got a creepy doll in front of them. Ten seconds later as they blinked again, dead bodies hung upside down feet up from the handrail, blood seeping from their mouths, eyes, ears and noses. Aadhya got terrified at the sight and clinged to Arjun, her best friend. Noah Started to howl and cry while Liam fainted. Ali and Mehmet both started praying but then blood seeped from their mouth and the doll said “Prayers are prohibited onboard”. There were many cuts on the scary corpse’s necks and blood was flowing in a tiny stream out from it. Then at the next blink,  the doll was eating through the corpses and when she heard the children shouting,  her head turned a creepy 180° with her innocent teeth growing 

sharp and started laughing maniacally. In an instant, her eyes went red and started to eat Ali first . Ali shouted in pain and all the corpses started rolling their head round and round exactly 13 times.

As Ali was shouting, the doll pulled his head off the boy's body with blood seeping out from the wound. She then took Ali's corpse and hung it next to the other corpses on the handrail. Mehmet, who was checking on Liam,  was trying to burn the Doll but the train jerked and he let go of the matchstick from which a spark fell on the soft thick cushioned seats and they started burning. The children stood up but the fire burned liams clothes. His Friends pulled him out and spilled some water on him to make the burning stop. Slowly the fire was spreading fast and a thick black smoke emerged out of it that made the children difficult to breathe. Then the doll was behind mehmet and he threw it into the fire and it was burnt to ash. Ali's corpse got his head attached to himself and he woke up from the dead asif he was waking up from a dream. The train's screen came to life and it was very old, like almost from the 60s it said ‘Nächster Halt  stephans platz.  

      As the train was arriving, ghosts started appearing from the corpses and they thanked the children and blessed them. When it came to a halt the smoke had made sure they couldn't look outside, but they saw the smoke escaping and ran out for their lives. The souls then levitated out the train and disappeared in a white light. All the children went home and slept peacefully. Later the next day, the children were surprised to see each one of them had a golden replica of a metro train on a gold bar with engraving on the sides “Thank You For Redeeming us.”The horrific incident came to a surprising and exciting end for children while they never had bad luck in their lives again. 

THE END

By Atharv Krishna