30 min Fanfic no rewriting challenge
Hello, I tried out the 30min fanfic challenge but I added a rule: "no rewriting" (meaning, everything you write is permanent, you can only make spelling corrections or synonym changes). Here's what I got, I invite you all to try as well. It's perfect if you're like me and have a really tough time commiting to something.
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A skull burned in the bonfire… Weird, never seen that before. It’s the last thing I see before I’m dragged away for the… fiftieth time? Don’t know, I lost count.
It always feels… weird… first you disappear, and for a few seconds you kind of lose your body. I mean, you’re still alive and thinking, but you just don’t have like a corporeal form, it’s like you were disintegrated but your brain (or soul, whatever you believe in) still functions. It’s hard to explain. You always recover your body though, so at least that’s one of the few things you can be certain of in this mysterious world.
This time I appear in some sort of hospital, or a prison, there’s little difference anyways. I immediately spot one of those machines with the light thingy. It’s crazy, somehow, I just always know what cord goes where and what bolt needs tightening. It feels like I never learn from it though, because it always takes me quite a long time to fix the damn thing.
As I fix the magical apparatus, I think about the skull. It felt like it was staring right at me. In my 100ish tests I’ve never seen such a thing. I usually see some plants, a tied-up bag (god knows what it contains), some cake (weird, right? Why would you burn CAKE?!), some bottles, and some other random #########, like a small key or a coin. But NEVER a skull. Something feels off…
I hear a lot of screams of pain, too many… I think the others aren’t doing so well. But whatever, I gotta finish with this thing.
I finish tinkering with the power machine and begin searching for another one. But after only a few steps in one of the hospital’s long hallways I start feeling my heart go faster… And that can only mean one thing.
I start sprinting as fast as I can, but I’m suddenly stricken by a metal bone saw, goddamn that hurts. While the pumpkin-headed ######### cleans her ######### weapon off I try to sneak to a locker. I stealthily get inside, there’s no way she finds me. Got away this time…
I’m still feeling that adrenaline though, it could be from all the sprinting, but it doesn’t feel like that, it feels like I’m still being hunted…
I peek through the window just in time to see her orange little head staring right at my hiding spot. She opens it. ######### this is going to hurt.
As she picks me up, I realize that I’m probably the last one left, considering I spot through a window the little metal hatch on the floor. It’s open (I learned through this random dude’s book that usually happens when you’re the last hunted in the test) My escape is only two rooms away.
If I can get her nasty little hands off me, I can probably book it and get away. She has a good hold of me though.
After a few steps she drops me in the middle of a long hallway though. The last time this happened I was able to crawl my little ass out. This doesn’t feel the same though.
She’s standing on top of me. She begins holding me with her weird cursed hand. It hurts. She tosses me and puts her hand on my neck… Is she…? Is she choking me? What is happening?! I lose my ability to breathe. She stares right into my soul with her pumpkin eyes… My heartbeat is racing but its quickly losing speed. Am I dying? This can’t be.
As I take my last breath, she caresses me… somehow, I feel she’s truly sorry. I’m not dead though. It feels like I’m going to another test, I have no body, but I can think straight.
I come back to my body and feel… different… This isn’t the body I had… I have wings, feathers, I can fly. Am I free? I can get out of this place at last! I flap my wings as hard and as fast as I can… and reach nowhere, there’s nothing up here but mere black. In fact, I really feel like going back on the ground, maybe find a nice rock to rest on and just relax.
I find myself a comfortable little spot on top of a bench, now that I’m taking a second to myself, I can see that I’m in a familiar place, it’s a long street with a lot of houses. Reminds me of something I once saw in a movie.
I see the white mask guy holding a knife, he’s only a few meters away from me, kicking the crap out of one of those generators. But my heart feels normal. Actually, I feel like he’s not a threat to me at all. I hear some grass moving around to my right. It’s a girl with a ponytail, she’s clearly hiding from the stalker.
They tall guy spots her and begins his chase. It’s pretty fun to watch. They run right next to me and I fly away. Don’t know why, just feel like I can’t let them touch me. I still want to come back though, I want to see if she escapes, so I settle myself atop one of the tall bushes and watch the whole show go down.
Maybe I finally passed the test (or failed it?), because this is pretty relaxing. I feel like I could do this forever…
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Hope you enjoyed! All feedback is appreciated. English is my second language so I'm sorry for all the mistakes.