Imagine being trapped at a covered bus stop, waiting for a monsterous storm to pass. Your home was only about two blocks away, so there was no reason to get on a bus. As you're looking out into the storm a dark figure appears. He rushes in out of the rain. He pay him no mind until you notice him wince at thunder. You've been around enough panic and anxiety attacks you want to help this stranger.
"Here, to drown out the noise a bit. If you've got a phone playing some music might help." You hold out a pair of headphones to the stranger.
"Thank you but it's not the thunder, its what generally comes after, and sadly I doubt there's anything in your bag to help with that."
WARNING!: Blood, gore, deaths, spooky, dark, Creepypasta, Laughing Jack’s uprising, the headless horseman and a forest is talked about !! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!
Two words… Halloween stories…
Yup. The Avengers decided to camp inside a forest and tell each other spooky stories at camping fire.
“Who wants to start ?”, Tony asked smugly.
Y/n lifted her hand.
“Start Y/n.”, Tony said smugly, thinking she has no scary stories.
“Ever heard of ‘The Headless Horseman’ ?”, she asked.
They all shook their heads.
“Rumors say that the headless horseman was once a German mercenary. He filed his teeth down to appear more frightening, which worked. He rode a giant black horse, called Daredevil, and chopped off heads. You could have always found him were war and fights raged on. Then he chopped off as many heads as he could.”
Loki gulped.
“That butcher didn’t get ended until years later. In a forest, near a little village. Soldiers sighted him and shot his horse, then made him flee into the woods, where they got him and he fought them all, until he wasn’t watching out and got beheaded with his very own sword. They buried him in those woods and since then, it is a seed of evil. He got buried by a tree and that tree is a Gateway to hell.”
Everyone, besides Tony gulped in horror.
“But he never rose up from the dead…”, Tony said bored.
“Wrong, Tony.”, Y/n chuckled darkly.
“In the late 19th century he came back from his grave. A woman knew where his grave was and took his head, hoping he will rise up again. And he did. The woman, that had his head, controlled him and told him to kill certain people, even parents and kids. She wanted everyone out of her way that would have been witness of something, she wanted. She wanted revenge and she pretty much got it. She even killed a Mother, to get into her man’s bed, then she murdered the man and she tried to kill her stepdaughter, but someone saved her before the horseman could kill her too.”
They listened intently.
“The horseman only chopped off their heads and took them with himself to the portal. Ichabod Crane found the tree and opened it a bit, only to find blood and the missing heads. Then the horseman left the portal as he found out that the skull of his skeleton was gone. Surprisingly he never killed Ichabod. The only thing he did was injure him lightly. He even gave others warnings to not get into his way, those who didn’t listen after the 3rd warning, got killed.”
“Wow…stupid people…”, Loki mumbled.
Everyone hummed in agreement.
“In the end Ichabod got his head back and gave it the Horseman in last second. He let the girl go and took his skull. After he put it back onto his neck, his flesh, muscles and blood came back, making him look human again. The woman behind all of this was knocked out on the floor as his dead horse came to him. The Horseman was grateful for what Ichabod did for him and others, so he left them alone and took the pest that took his skull, with him, to hell. She screamed and it is said that you can still see her skeleton arm inside the tree trunk, looking out.”
They all gulped.
“That is scary.”, Clint admitted.
“Oh ! I want to try !”, Thor yelled.
“Go on then.”
“I once had that weird dream that Loki was a Demon. End !”
Everyone stared at Thor.
“That wasn’t a horror story…”
“Have you heard about the ‘Devil’s tramping ground’ ?”, Natasha asked.
“I did.”, Y/n said.
“Nope never heard of it..”, the rest said.
“It is said that it is in a forest, a big circle where nothing ever grows. And at night you can hear evil, demonic laughter from there and heavy footsteps. A lot of people even said that they saw the Devil there. Since then they all say that the Devil has a portal made there and goes there to think of making humanity suffer and die out.”
Everyone, besides Y/n, gulped.
“I heard about a place where a lot of soldiers died in war and every night you can hear them screaming, crying, howling and shooting. No one ever went back there since then.”, Steve told.
“The screaming woods…”, Y/n said smugly.
Steve stared at Y/n.
“You creep me out, Y/n. From where do you know that ?”
“I was always drawn to the paranormal… I legit read and listened to everything the internet had for me.”
“Not creepy at all…”, Bruce said.
“The most interesting are the Creepypastas.”, Y/n said darkly.
“Tell us about it.”, Tony said.
“Oi ! I didn’t even get my turn !”, Bruce yelled.
“Do you even have a story ?”, Tony asked.
“No…”
“Welp, Loki won’t have something to spook us with and I have no spooks to tell too, so let us give Y/n the lead.”
They all agreed and listened to her.
“Well, there once was a boy in the 19th century. His Father was an alcoholic and beated his Mother on a daily routine, Issac always hid in his room and his Mother taught him strictly. He was 7 or so years old and had no friends. An angel created Issac something, out of sympathy. It was a colorful Clown. His name was Laughing Jack in the box. He was a being and he learned, what Issac learned. LJ got so created that what Issac feels and knows, LJ will too. They were the best of friends, until they played a game one day… A cat came onto the property and their playground. Issac told LJ to capture the cat, but he squeezed her too hard and killed it.”
Everyone gasped.
“That poor cat !”, Thor yelled.
“Issac’s Mother never saw Laughing Jack. Parents weren’t allowed to see him, so Issac was being blamed. He got sent to boarding school. The day before he left, he told Laughing Jack to go back into his box. But once he was in there, he had to wait for Issac to let him back out. With time Issac forgot about him and Laughing Jack lost his colors. He went insane all alone and became monochrome. No colors left.”
Loki stared at Y/n in horror, while the rest listened even closer.
“Issac went insane, thanks to his abusive Father and the school. They beated him up and made him go crazy, just because everyone said that Issac’s friend was imaginary, but he never was. LJ always had to hear Issac’s parents fight, until the Father went too far and beated his wife to death. As she was reported dead and he sent to jail, Issac was already having a job. He got the house and threw a lot away. Laughing Jack could still see everything through his box, so he knew his friend was back, but he knew that Issac forgot about him.”
They all had sympathy on their faces.
“One night he was drunk and came home with a drunk woman. He tried to fuck her, but she was sober enough to push him away. He didn’t get the hint and she slapped him, the next thing that happened was that he killed her and in his panic created acids to make everything of her disappear, besides her bones, skin and blonde hair. He made a throne out of her skeleton, her hair was the filling of the cushions and he made her skin to leather. With that he created a whole throne out of her corpse.”
They all looked at her with disturbed faces. Loki even grew a bit sick.
“The worst was, Laughing Jack saw it all happening and it made him want to ‘Play’ that ‘game’ with Issac.”
“Oh no…”, Tony mumbled.
“Issac didn’t stop. He killed more. Elderly people and then even kids. He tortured a boy to death. Tore out his nails and broke his bones. He did a lot more brutal things to him, just because he was a little boy and a bit immature. That was the day when karma came for Issac. The shelf broke and LJ in his box fell down. As Issac cleaned up he found the box and accidently freed Laughing Jack.”
“Oh shit…”, Bruce wheezed.
Loki looked really sick to his stomach.
“What happened then ?”, Natasha asked.
“Laughing Jack chained Issac on his little torture table and then started his own game. He did a lot to him. Pulled nails out, cut out his tongue and then shoved a pipe into the side of Issac’s neck, so he stays alive, then cut him open and pulled out organs and even blew them up like balloons and made things out of them, splashed adrenaline rush syringes into him, by his eye ball and even pulled it out of his socket and lastly filled his body with a lot of bugs that ate him alive. Many said that, as they found his dead body, he was happy. LJ is killing kids since then.”
Loki stood up, like a few others too, and they ran to bushes and puked.
“Holy shit…”, was all that Steve got out.
Y/n chuckled darkly.
“I love the creepy things, never challenge me.”
“This will haunt me in my dreams now !”, Tony announced from the bushes.
Y/n only stood up, laughing and went to her tent. The rest soon did too and Loki had night terrors of the story Y/n told them, but he was too scared to get out of his tent and to hers. He was silently crying.
Suddenly his tent opened and Loki wanted to scream, but he saw that it was only Y/n. She came inside and smiled at him softly.
“Hey…”
Loki was quiet.
“Come here, let’s cuddle. You are shaken up, Loki…”
She sat next to him and he crawled over to her, hugging her tightly. She shushed him gently and rubbed his back.
“A-are they real ?”, Loki asked her.
“No one knows… But because I never met one, I would say they don’t exist, Love.”
“Can you stay over ?”
“Sure.”
After a few hours Loki fell asleep again and Y/n smiled. She also fell asleep soon after. What no one knew was that a monochrome Clown listened to her story and smiled.
