30/11/2025
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ | You're the last one
(๐๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ: ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ค๐ซ๐๐ข๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ค๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ฉ๐. ๐๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐๐จ๐๐ ๐ค๐ฃ ๐ง๐๐๐ก ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐จ. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฃ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด. ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ด ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด. ๐ผ๐ก๐ก ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐จ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ฃ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐๐ฃ๐๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐ฌ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐จ.)
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This story starts off with a simple boy named Arnold enjoying his time in his room, however he couldn't shake off this strange feeling...
"Ah I see!" Arnold gladly figuring out what was wrong, "I forgot to do my assignments"
And so he reached out to his bag... To find nothing
"That's strange?" Arnold questioned with concern, "That's right, I left it back in the classroom... Hope I can still get it at this time"
It was already around 8pm where almost every student begins to go home and the guards locking the gates, Arnold was just barely able to arrive before one of the guards stopped him
"Hey kid, you have business this late in the evening?" The Guard asked, "I don't remember something about a late night meeting to be held tonight in the schedules"
"Please just let me in!" Arnold begged Inisistanly, "I left my assignments in one of the rooms and they are due tomorrow!"
The Guard then let off a sigh, covering his eyes while mubling to himlself how to solve this problem, he then provides a solution
"I will allow you to enter as long as I am supervising you" The Guard said
"Oh thank you so much!" Arnold sighs gratefully
The two then wondered into the innermost parts of Norsu, it wasn't just dark, it was pitch black, the Guard's torch was just enough to guide the way.
They then soon arrived at the acedmy building where Arnold finally starts his search while the Guard keeps watch, it took about an hour or so and Arnold found his assignments and was more than ready to go back home, however just as he was going back to the Guard, he wasn't there
"Did he had to use the restroom perhaps?" Arnold asked himself in confusion
But it didn't stops there, steps and stomps could be heard from within the large room near the entrance, but how? There was no one else inside, the steps and stomps grew louder, signalling to Arnold that something was approaching him, he braced for what was to come until he found that it was just the Guard who has also brought Arnold's mute friend Jeremy
"What are you doing here?" Arnold asks in shock
The Guard then explained to him that Jeremy apparently slept nearby and didn't realize that it was already evening, the Guard already scolded Jeremy and so all three of them began to walk back home.
But fate had other plans, for some reason, the doors wouldn't open
"I don't understand" The Guard says in confusion, "I'm sure I didn't lock the door"
Arnold then again hears the steps and stomps once more, but how? All three were present, so what else was there? Arnold began to panic as he begs the guard that he was just joking... But the Guard wasn't bluffing, and while Arnold and the Guard were arguing, Jeremy began walking in the direction to where the noise was, Arnold took notice of this and grabbed him by the hand, begging Jeremy to not leave him, but Jeremy shook off his hand and proceeds to continue walking, Arnold couldn't just let Jeremy go on by himself so he comes along, leaving the Guard behind.
Once again, it was pitch black, Arnold's phone with barely any power left was used to light the way as they kept on walking
"Hey, where are you going exactly?" Arnold asks in a panic
Jeremy then gestured to tell Arnold that he once heard a romur that the acedmy building held the spirits of dead students who failed miserably in their life and hold grudges against those who have wronged them, Jeremy says that he was always fascinated by it and wanted to investigate it which was why he was sleeping in the building in the first place, Arnold was baffled
"there's now way those things are real" Arnold says to himself while being a frightened
Arnold then noticed that while they had their little conversation the noises suddenly stopped... But they continued to walk to what feels like an endless hallway, soon Arnold's phone went off, leaving both boys in the dark with no light to speak of, only then did the steps and stomps came back, but this time there were many, it is as if there was an army marching towards them, Arnold panics, Jeremy said that the spirits had grudges but what did they do to deserve their wrath? The steps and stomps eerily grew louder, now accompanied by a sound of roaring shrieks, Arnold panics once more, begging his friend to go back with him, but Jeremy continues to walk towards the noise.
Arnold then had enough, he left Jeremy behind and ran back to the door, but in doing so he begins to trip and fumble on obstacles that weren't there before, and whilst in as state of panic and confusion he rushes to go back until he sees the door through the moonlight, at last he was relieved he could be free.
However there was one problem, the Guard was just standing in front of the door, motionless, as if he has become a statue, Arnold tries to play it as some sick joke again but as he was going to grab the Guard on his shoulder, the Guards head twisted all the way back towards Arnold, now with giant dark eyes and a black frown making noises of suffering, Arnold screams and tries going back to Jeremy, but as he runs back he trips and fumbles once more as he soon sees with the moonlight were long hands attached upon hands and long legs attached upon legs, and long necks attached with faces of the miserable and the despair, Arnold panics even more, rushing to find his friend until he realizes... He's the last one.
Arnold shudders in fear, calling out for help that would never come as the noises of shrieks, steps and stomps continue to approach him, he then finds a door which looks to be the one on the second floor, still slightly open, and in a desperation, Arnold dashed to door, hoping to just reach it as the abomination legs and hands and necks begin to block his path, Arnold swiftly evades every single obstacle... But at what cost? The door snapped shut just as he reached it, Arnold then began banging the door while crying tears of despair, until a voice calls out...
"ENOUGH" The voices yells
Arnold stunned with fear, couldn't even move, as once again the sounds of the steps and stomps and shrieks began to grow louder and louder, Arnold just couldn't think and once again braced for what was meant to come, he began thinking what happened to Jeremy, is he still safe? Was he taken by whatever it is chasing them? Nothing came mind apart from the guilt of leaving his friend.
"Did this really happened, all because I forgot to bring my assignments?" Arnold speaking to himself in regret
Until eventually what felt like hours of being haunted by the sales sounds that made despair grow on Arnold's mind, it all just stops, and as was Arnold was looking around he saw his friend Jeremy safe and sound, he rushed to give him a hug but Jeremy stops him, he gestures again to tell Arnold that what he needed to do was done and they can now go home, Arnold never thought he'd be so relived in his life, and so they went back.
As the two approached the door, the Guard who was a monster just minutes ago just finished opening the door and was glad to see that the two boys were okay, they then got out of the building and began going straight home, and while the two boys were going back on Arnold's motorcycle, he egan asking questions on what was Jeremy really up to, however Jeremy stayed silent.
After dropping off Jeremy at his home, Jeremy then out of no where, speaks
"You are safe for now Arnold" Says Jeremy, "but someday, I won't be there to help you"
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Arnold asks with chills coursing through his back
"Let's just say that if you were ever in that situation... You will truly be the last one" Says Jeremy
And just as Jeremy began entering his house, Arnold was left speechless and terrified of what everything was meant to be, and before he could continue to process it, he saw it once more, the abomination of legs, hands, and neck, looking over Jeremy's house.
Arnold quickly drove away, hoping that it was all just a dream... But remember, one little mistake can cause you everything, so be careful next time or else you too will become the last one.
THE END
Words by Aaron Abucayon
Graphics | Sandro Estrellanes
