The Vacation From Hell: The Rusted Blade

        Tic…Toc…Tic…Toc…The class was seconds away from the twenty day vacation. Fortunately, the bell rang and it was accompanied by the screams of the excited and exuberant students and in a nanosecond, the classroom was as empty as the Saharan Desert.

       “Hey guys!”, Will said. “What are you planning to do this vacation?”, Will added. “I’m thinking of making a trip to the cabins next to the lake, would you like to join?”, Samantha proposed. “Ok, that sounds like a wonderful idea”, Julia agreed. “I’ll call Bill, Matt and Jennifer to come too”, Will said. “We’ll meet at my house at 8 am on Saturday”, Sam said.

       On Saturday, they all went to Samantha’s house; all of them holding a handbag full of their camping gear. “Come on Sam!”, shouted Julia. “I’m coming! I’m coming!”, she replied. After ten minutes, she came down with two handbags and a huge suitcase shouting “ I’m ready!”. “At last!”, sighed the others. They went into Will’s car and began to drive to the cabins. During the trip there, Sam never stopped talking about herself and her outer beauty. While she was bragging, Matt and Bill were starring deeply at her.

       After that extensive and dreadful drive, they finally arrived. The girls took one cabin and the boys took one, too. Of course, they went to the lake and started swimming and “tanning”. Suddenly, a rough rattling and crackling was heard in the bushes. “What was that?”, asked Jennifer. “Maybe it’s just a stupid raccoon or a squirrel”, Matt added. However, the sound did not stop, furthermore, it became louder and closer and a strong moaning was heard!

       “Let’s get out of here!” Jennifer screamed. Then, they all ran as quick as they can to the closest cabin, which was the girl’s, but Bill was nowhere to be seen! “What was that?!”, asked Jen. “Don’t know”, said Samantha. However, as soon as she finished her statement, hard banging was heard on the door; then, a scream of help was also heard and it was apparently from Bill! “Oh My God! Somebody help him! It’s Bill out there!”, Jennifer screamed. After that, the screaming was replaced by laughter; it was all a joke!

       “Argh!”, they all said angrily. Conversely, when he was opening the door to enter, an unknown thing quickly snatched him outside. “Hahaha! Stop it, it’s not funny anymore!”, they all said. Nevertheless, he was not joking, it was real! Then, bone crushing and blood splattering were heard. “Ahhhhhhh! Hel…!”, Bill squealed.  Will went quickly out to find a large pond of blood but no body was found instead a weird figure was what he saw walking away except it was far away.

       “Oh My Gosh! A freak killed Bill!”, Will screamed. “I’m scared. Let’s go back home, please”, Jen cried. Everyone agreed and steadily went to the car for no one to see them. When they arrived, they went into the car, and found… Bill’s body cut into pieces!!! With the corpse, they found a note saying:

“Dear Campers,

       You will be cut by my wife, Bessy, (my lovely blade) into small pieces. Then, I will put you in skewers and between each piece will be an eyeball. When I plate you, to garnish, I will pour your blood on them and I will put a dip made from your guts and capillaries, then, as the final touch, a sprinkle of hair and teeth.

       See you soon. Hahahahahaha!

Lovingly,

The Chef of Death”

       “Oh My God! This “Chef” is crazy!”, Sam said, “ We’re gonna die!”, Jen added frantically. “I’m going to find my own way out. Who’s with me?”, Julia proposed. “You can’t go because he might be waiting at any corner and when we stick together, he won’t attack”, Matt said. “Well, I’m going anyway. I’m sick of your wimpiness”, she said.

       As soon as she arrived at the edge of the road, a rusted blade appeared cutting Julia’s head. “I told you so”, Matt shouted. The chef got out from the bushes and ran towards them. Obviously, they ran, but Matt was a bit late since the others got a head start.  At that moment, the chef threw his trusty knife and it came right in the middle of his back breaking his spinal cord.

       Afterwards, he went slowly to the other corpse, thus holding both cadavers on his shoulders. The teens ran away into the field. In it, they found an abandoned house. They went into it and found a restaurant-like living room with beheaded people hung from the walls, and instead of the tablecloth is a puddle of blood and organs.

       Sam stood in awe and said:”Oh my Gosh!”. Suddenly, rumbling and crackling was heard outside; it was the Chef! Sam and Will ran up the stairs to hide in one of the rooms, and Jen hid in a tiny room under the banisters.

       When the Chef got in, he got one body and put it on a table and started butchering it; closely separating each edible object from the non-edible. Jen was breathing very lightly not moving a muscle, watching his every move.

       Upstairs, Will and Samantha were hiding in apparently a bedroom. Then, they started searching the drawers to see who this “Chef” was. In them, they found an old graduation degree from one of the best culinary schools in the world and an old newspaper article:

“Famous Chef Went Crackers!

Earlier this day, The Famous Chef known as Chef Blade attacked one of his customers since the customer said, “The food tasted like a rock, so tasteless, hard and dry”. The Chef took his trusty blade, “Bessy”, and stabbed the man in his back, then cut him in half and followed by slashing each half into smaller pieces…”

       “What? He is crazy! But the page is cut off, so we didn’t know what happened! We didn’t know what happened to the customer!”, Sam said. “Plus, we did not know what his real name is! But, what’s in this envelope, maybe its his birth certificate or any other thing that may help?”, proposed Will. When he was going there, he tripped from the blood puddle and smacked on the ground.

       "What was that?”, Chef mumbled roughly. He left everything he was holding and went quickly upstairs. Will and Sam quickly hid in separate places: Will in the bathroom and Sam in the 

bedroom closet. “Who is here? Come out, come out wherever you are”, Chef said “playfully”. Then, he heard hard breathing coming from the closet. Tak! Crack! He threw his rusty knife to the closet and cut Sam’s head in half.

       Meanwhile, downstairs, Jennifer carefully got out of the “room”; it took her about fifteen minutes to go out. Ignoring the screaming of Sam’s agony, she ran as quickly as can while being very chary.

       Returning to the house, Chef heard heavy breathing coming from the bathroom, so he tiptoed there gradually, inch by inch. Then, he heard rattling, thus he opened the door and stabbed Will on the closest place he could find. He pulled him and put him on the ground and telling him:

“I know each and everyone of you. You are the smart one in the group. Samantha is the snob; she only cares for herself. Julia is stubborn and stupid, sorry for the word. Bill is naïve and a “joker”. Matt is so protective yet he does not think things fully. Jennifer is so careful and a wimp… speaking of Jennifer, where is she?”

       Then, he took the carving knife, cut his forehead vertically, took his brain, and stepped on it. “Now, that’s your consequence for being smart”, the Chef, said. He quickly ran down the stairs to find the banister room’s door open and the front yard door, too. “She got away! But no fear, I will see her soon.”, he said.

       As soon as Jennifer got to the street, she saw a police car, thus she waved and shouted to grab his attention. He quickly stopped and let her in. “What’s wrong?”, the policeman questioned. “A crazy man killed all my friends, but fortunately I got away”, she answered.” Let’s go there”, he said.

       They cut through the fields as fast as they can and arrived at the house.” Let us go in. Don’t be scared I’m with you”, he said. The instant they came in, the Chef was waiting for them. The police officer closed the door and said “Hello, father.”