Home Sweet Home

Aryan Tandon
3 min readApr 30, 2020

There once was a boy with the name Lucas Miller lived in a middle-class house. As he was going to his sister’s house, something strange was going on the route as the way which was usually filled up with hundreds of people was totally empty. As he reached her house, she was not there. He thought that she might have gone to her friend’s house but her mobile phone was inside the house. It was not possible that her sister would go out without her mobile phone. So, he decided to investigate the house.

The house was all scattered and all its things were here and there. As he went inside the bathroom, he saw a word written with blood on the wall in a very strange language. As he investigated further, he found a small doorway going in a secret place. He had never seen it before, so he went inside.

He found that the place he came from was now blocked and cemented. As he was unknown to that place, he walked in a straight path and found an ICU with its floor and wall covered in blood. Also, he found a long, metal locker. Suddenly, he heard sound of someone crying. he went out to see who it was. “What are you doing here?” he screamed on top of his voice. It was his sister, inside a room, and when he came towards her, she ran away. Then he heard a sound of someone screaming.

It was a nurse of the hospital, he followed her for help, but as soon as he looked at her face, he ran away. Her body was all covered with blood and she didn’t have an eye. He ran and ran until she didn’t stop following him. So, he went on. He found a demon with red eyes feasting on a holy priest’s body.

In the hands of the priest was a bottle with holy water. He wasted no time and threw some water on the demon and it vanished. The priest was alive and he told him, “You need to kill the evil spirit behind this to get your sister back, now take this…” and he died with his last words. The priest gave Lucas a candle so he closed his eyes to think.

But as he opened his eyes, he found that he was in a church. He understood that it was the priest helping him as holy spirit. He lit the candle and felt dizzy. As he opened his eyes, he was in a cave with many dead people. Among’st them he found his sister. As he approached her, a giant leg pushed her into her death.

Then the demon came towards him. It was fully covered in blood and an eye glowing red. He got panicked and took out the knife he had found in the hospital. It had a phrase written on it, “through it on the eye.”

He threw it on the demon but it missed. The demon got angry and started following him. He started running. While running, some flying skulls crashed into his face. Those were really painful. After running for five minutes, a priest appeared in front of him and said, “Go back to your world, Mortal, I will handle it.” By saying his last words, a blue mysterious fog appeared and took him into his world.

As he returned to his dimension, he was full of sorrow, thinking about his sister. Suddenly the television went on. He tried to switch it off with the remote but it was not switching off. It became really strange when he discovered that the only words written on every channel were ‘Home Sweet Home’.

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