Hey Everyone! This is not my first written mini story, but my first one for the forums. Hope you like it! Reading the story through, this has some 'controversial' scenes, where I suggest reading this if you are mature about the things listed. Darkness Within By: TheRealSmg Prologue: Mark lies away in his old and abandoned shed. His whole life ruined, by one fatal mistake. His loved ones...lost. All he has left is his sanity. Whats left of it anyway. The days start to get colder, as Mark's hate grows stronger. No one knows he's still alive. Not one single person. Mark is left in his shed to rot away, The Old Him. Story: This all started out on a normal day in the town of Death Valley. Home to hundreds of people, with five of those people, being Mark's family. They are the Bearers. Mark Bearer. Mark is the oldest one out of his siblings. He is 14 years of age, just waiting until he turns 15. Mark has two siblings, a brother and a sister. His brother isn't much younger then him, with an age of 13. His name is Kane. Their sister is named Katherine, and she is 8. And of course you have their parents, with the father Paul Bearer. Now, this family's life was great. Mark was fantastic in Math, along with his brother. The parents both had very well paid jobs. Everything was great. At the moment. As we go from one family, to another. A family of crooks, rednecks. They were a group of brothers. One of them is named Bray. He is the leader of the group, with his three other brothers as stated before. Their names are Luke,Erick, and Braun. The townspeople called them...The Wyatt Family, or The Wyatts. This family of crooks had just robbed the local super market, but they wanted more. Bray: "My family..my sweet..sweet family. I welcome you all to our new base, the factory." Erick: *sniffs around* You mean...the one where.." Bray: Yes my dear brother. That Factory. The one where our father created history.." Bray then walks around feeling/looking at the walls, chuckling to himself. He looks insane, and maybe he is. Luke:"Brother..what is our next task for the day"? Bray: "No more for today, we need our rest boys *Chuckles crazily*. But, I do have something big planned in three days. I shall inform you in the morning." Braun: "I hope it involves me crushing helpless civilians." Bray: "I hope that as well." Bray then chuckles himself to sleep, with his family doing the same thing. As we travel to the next day, we head back to the Bearers. We see Mark laying down in bed, when suddenly his alarm goes off. "Uh, school" he says, as he grumpily walks down the stairs, seeing his sister and brother awake as well. Their school houses grade levels 1-12. Paul: "Look who's finally up, ya sleep well sport?" Mark: "Yeah, too well. I wish I could go back to sleep. I wish we didn't have school. I wish-" Paul then cut Mark off by saying, "Look sport, we all have things in life that we got to do, but we don't have to do. No one's life is perfect." Mark: "That is true dad." Paul and Mark then went to the kitchen table, being accompanied by the rest of their family. Kane: *Stares at full bowl of cereal* Mark glances at Kane for a second, until Kane looks at him. He then quickly moves his sight to another part of the room. Mrs.Bearer: *fills coffee pot while saying*, "You all ready for school?" All of the children said a quiet "Yeah mom" while they all look very tired. Paul is seen reading his paper, and he looks very interested in what he is reading. After 10 minutes of the family eating their daily breakfast, Mark,Kane,and Katherine all head out to the bus. As the mother waves them goodbye, Paul waves her over to him, and she walks over to him confused. Paul: "Honey, I was reading the paper..and saw this.." Mrs.Bearer reads the article quickly, thinking deeply about what it is about. She then lets out a sudden scream. "Paul! We need to get our children back here!" Paul: "I got the keys for the car, they should be at the school shortly. Lets go." Paul and his wife then rush out the door, and begin their drive to the children's school. he drops the newspaper article on the table. It reads as follows. Breaking News!!! Local school is seen to be on lock-down, with the recent convicts called the Wyatt Family escaping the local prison. The school will NOT send out a distress signal to the parents of the children, as they are having technical difficulties with their phone-line. It is advised to keep your children home, where it is safe. Thank you. While the scared parents drive as fast as they can to the local school, Mark/Kane/Katherine sit on the bus, next to each other. Mark: "Kane, did you hear about what happened?" Kane: "What?" Mark: "Apparently a crazy family called the Wyatts escaped Jail. They sound mean." Kane: "I heard bout them. Their father..." Mark: "What did their father do?" Kane: *covers Katherines ears* "Their father... murdered a factory... full of kids." Mark: *Looks in shock* "Kane..we got to do something.." Kane: "What can we do? They're older then us. Stronger. Smarter. And if they find us trying to get them, they'll KILL US." Katherine hears that part and starts to cry a bit Mark consoles Katherine and says to Kane, "Kane just trust me. Remember my lucky charm?" Kane: "That thing isn't anything special Mark. It's just a birthmark." Mark: "But, every time I need luck, I think hard about this, and I get super lucky!" Kane: "Ugh, fine we'll look for them. But if I get hurt, I'm telling Dad." After getting off the bus, Mark and Kane ran from their school into the local forest, looking for the crazed family. They eventually find the factory, where the Wyatt's lived at the time being. Kane then walks up to the building, and accidently broke a stick on the ground, making a slight noise. Mark watches from a distance as a huge hand, grabs Kane and whisks him away into the darkness of the factory. Mark: "NOO, KANE!!!" Mark then ran into the factory looking for a fight. What he did see, was a gang of 17 year olds, lurking around the young boy. Bray: "Look here boys..we have company." Braun then dropped Kane on his leg, with the young boy shouting out in distress. Mark struggles while the big teenagers surround him. Bray: Erick, Luke, tie the boy up. Erick: *sniffs around* Will do brother.. Erick then showed an evil grin, and tied the boy up with help from his brother Luke. Mark: "You won't..get away with this!" Bray then knocks out Mark's brother Kane with one swing of his face. Leaving a huge bruise on Kane's left side of his face. Bray: "Why won't we BOY!?" Bray then hits Mark, only making the young boy even angrier. As Mark's head falls, Bray notices Mark's lucky birthmark. It is the symbol..of a tombstone. Bray: "So..this be him ay?" Braun: "Let me crush him my brother." Bray: "Hold on my lovely Braun, this boy is special. His birthmark..isn't a birthmark. He has been blessed..by the devil. Mark: "THE WHAT!?" Bray laughs crazily and responds, "Yes boy..the devil. Your "birthmark" is the symbol of a tombstone. It tells your future boy.." Mark thinks heavily to himself, he gets crazy thoughts. Some say he is the devil himself Some say he is death Mark feels a sudden warmth brush his face whenever he hears the word tombstone. It is like, tombstone was a code word, for a new awakening of Mark. Mark: "Tombstone..tombstone..tombstone..tombstone.." Luke: "This boy is crazy Bray, what do we do with him?" Bray: "If we keep him alive, he'll kill all we have done." Luke: "What do you mean brother?" Bray: "With his..mark..it means he is..the devil. He is..a demon." Luke: So? What will he do to us? Bray: "He will kill us for our father's doings. That is what we will do. Let the younger boy go Erick." Erick: "Just let him go?" Bray: "Yes deliver him to the..erm..local school." Erick then nods his head, and takes the younger brother back to the school, to his worried parents. After 20 minutes of complete silence,Mark starts to look crazy. He has pulled some of his hair out. He has scratched his face hard, making himself bleed. And he keeps mumbling, "Help" "Vengeance" "Why". Bray then breaks the utter silence of his brothers, and says, "I know what we need to do." He then looks through Mark's schoolbag, finding out where he lives. Bray: "To rid this demon..of our world..we must burn all it loves. Luke: "Are you sure?" Bray nods his head, and says "At the stroke of night, we will do the deed. After 4 hours of the family sleeping, Mark stays awake. His eyes..half white. He looks scared to death. He looks like..death. Bray then wakes up his family, and takes mark to his house. At the Bearer house, the family is in distraught. Katherine is crying, Kane has a fever, and the parents are arguing. They hardly notice the smoke that arises outside their house. Mark while with the family outside of his house, sees the distress. He tries to clear his mind, but he can't. Mark then starts to untie himself while the family start to light the house on fire. With the first blaze starting, Mark is free! He runs to the house to only see it burn even more. He..gains anger. He gains..fear. he gains..sadness as he pushes the teenagers into the fire. He then watches as his house burns to the ground, with only his grandfather's urn surviving the fire. He runs off crying. Epilogue: Mark sits in his shed. With every night passing by. He keeps hearing the *Gong* of the bell of city hall from his home. He can't get the thought of seeing his family die. He can't take it all anymore. He grabs a shovel, and does the unthinkable. He lies on the ground, dead, as he is finally at peace. Or, he thinks he is. He wakes up in a dark place. He can't see a single thing, but darkness. He senses, a familiar face. The man speaks in the high pitched voice of his. Stranger: Ohhhhh...yessss!! Stranger: The deed..is done..*chuckles crazily in his high pitched voice*. Stranger: My ultimate project..is complete..ohhh yesssss.. Mark feels a good feeling. He feels safe. He feels his grandfathers urn..but someone holding it. Stranger: Rise my new friend. Stranger: Rise my son. Stranger: Rise..My Undertaker! The stranger laughs evilly as a slight gong is heard. They both then disappear. Spoiler: More Info Hey! Smg here, and yes this was my first story on the forums. I really hoped you liked it! I had to cut some parts intended out to make it shorter, even though it is still really long xD.Well, if you have any advice for future stories, don't be hesitant to say. This story is about a Irl wrestler called the Undertaker. And the backstory is almost completely mine. The part about his brother and father are real for the wrestling business, and the "Wyatts" are actual wrestlers. The Urn, the fire were all not my ideas, but put into a story I made. Most of this was completely my idea/design but the parts I have said do belong to "WWE" (World Wrestling Entertainment). Thanks for reading!
