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The
white Shadow
Chapter 1
It was year 2013. The rain was beating down and there
was a heavy fog over the old
derserted castle I had just inherited after my uncle who
suddenly had disappeared.
It was close to midnight, Friday the 13th of January.
The full moon was shining
outside, the wind was howling and the window shutters
were clattering against the
castle's blotchy walls.
In the remotest corner of the castle's adjoining park
was the belonging graveyard. I
saw a white shadow floating above the gravestones as if
it was looking for something.
It wasn't the first time I had seen something strange on
the graveyard. I decided to
take a closer look. Therefore I took a torch in my hand
and put on my coat and went
off towards the graveyard.
Gradually as I got nearer the fog got more thickly and
it was only by means of the
torch I was able to see a few steps ahead of me.
Suddenly the light caught a pale
face which looked out behind a gravestone. The hairs in
the back of my neck stood up.
I sneaked closer to see what it was.
Because it was so dark I didn't see the big pile of soil
next to the hole until the last
minute. Suddenly I heard the sound of a branch breaking
behind me. I turned around
and at the same time the tower watch stroke 12
resounding strokes. I got so scared
that I dropped the torch which went out right away. I
heard a hoarse rusty laughter
as I felt a clammy hand which pushed me closer and
closer towards the open grave....
to be continued
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Chapter 2
I was fighting
against Death: a stranger had seen me in the graveyard,
he wanted to kill me. The white shadow was hiding
something under its huge cloak, what’ What? I didn’t
know, I could hardly breath in those awful moments of
fear…
I didn’t scream, so frightened I was the white shadow
might be armed…
I don’t know how, but finally I freed myself from its
cold hands, the hands of Death, and I said: “Why are you
doing this to me? I don’t know you, I am not interested
in you….”
After listening to my desperation, the white shadow
showed a sort of hesitation and I ran away, hoping it
would not follow me in the path out of the graveyard. I
didn’t have any breath left in my throat, panic had
taken me in its tentacles.
Fear made me move my legs, which stopped straight away
when I saw a car, coming up towards me. A pretty woman
was driving it, she was smiling. Why? I was so scared I
could trust nobody any longer. The pretty woman came out
of the car, saying: “Come to me… don’t be worried…
everything is all right…. Nothing has happened” but I
was frightened, my head was aching and I fainted, just
near the car.
When I woke up again, a white shadow was looking to me…
oh no! the same white shadow with something in its hands:
a razor, a shining blade ready to cut…
It said: “ You are going to face the longest night of
your short life, my poor boy… you are the Elected!!!”
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Chapter 3
Surrounded by
blackness and darkness I kept still, oppressed with a
growing fear trying to get used to those thick bushes
and matted branches.
All of a sudden a flickering flame flashed in the
distance followed by a floating veil like a bridal veil.
It reminded me of the white shadow in the graveyard.
I realized to be in a clearing, a wall full of cracks
appeared in front of me, it was irregular, full of
recesses and chipped bricks. I decided to look for an
entrance and advanced cautiously step by step.
After a while I touched what seemed to me a wooden door,
I pushed it and I was shocked by the sight of the white
shadow holding a flickering candle lighting what once
might have been a walled garden. In the distance the
shadow of a huge mansion full of gables and spires……
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Chapter 4
I was too curious to
see the huge mansion there, so I went closer and closer.
I felt like my heart was beating in my ears.
It's was so difficult to tell what I was thinking and
feeling. Sometimes, I felt scared and somehow I felt
brave. As I'm getting closer to the mansion, I heard a
branch cracking. Somebody was following behind me! I
walked faster.
As I sneaked closer, I heard someone talking. I was so
shocked. I thought nobody was there. I was alone just
now. And the mansion looked very scary to be lived. The
mansion was unlocked, so I went into the mansion quickly.
I walked into the living room and I was stopped in my
tracks.
The living room was empty, but looming in my mind there
was a tall white shadow standing in front of the couch.
The only way I can properly explain it would be to say
that it was invisible to the naked eye but I could see
it with my mind and even sometimes with my naked eyes.
Ever since that day it's always been near with me
wherever I go. Suddenly, the white shadow's clammy hand
came nearer me. I tried to go away from those hands. I
felt so scared when its rusty laugh became louder and
louder. I'm afraid. I don't know where I must go...
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Chapter 5
 The white shadow
continued to persecute me, not only during the day but
also at night while I was sleeping... in my dreams, in
my room, next to my bed.
Those dreams were so
frightening and strange but with the passing of time,
they became very familiar.
I could see the members of my family as if they were
alive, reliving moments of my past life in which the
white shadow floated above us with his incessant, hoarse
laughter. I became thoughtful when, more and more
frequently, my uncle Tom, the owner of the old castle
who had suddenly disappeared a year ago, appeared in my
dreams.
Why? What did he want?
The situation got
more terrifying when I realized that every time my uncle
Tom was there, the white shadow wasn't, but something in
those dreams showed me that he was present, that somehow
he was there… I could feel his presence. That evil laugh!
I woke up suddenly even more frightened, I began
sweating. Oh no! It was my uncle who was laughing. What
did they have in common? I wondered. Were they the same
person
or not?
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Chapter 6
 So much fear, so much
confusion! Always near the death with the white shadow
following me all time leading me to death but this never
happened.
I started thinking what I must to do, to sell and
abandon the castle or stay and fight my fears.
First of all I decided to explore the castle. I was
searching without stopping for whole two days, in the
cellars, in the enormous rooms of the castle in all
floors. But nothing, nothing…
I was in the attic when I saw a small door behind a
column. I pushed it and I found the truth, all the
answers to my problems were there. A laser machine was
covered by a white sheet. As an expert of new
technologies my uncle Tom had used the laser machine to
project and created imaginary situations and tortured me
again and again. I was sure that my uncle Tom was still
alive.
It was close to midnight, Friday the 13th of February,
2013 the full moon was shining outside, the wind was
howling and the window shutters were clattering against
the castle’s blotchy walls. I was in the big living room
of the castle trying to warm up my cold hands near the
fireplace when I heard his hoarse rusty laughter and the
tower watch stroke 12 resounding strokes. I began to run
towards the attic.
“Uncle Tom” I said “where are you? Appear, I know that
you are somewhere here!”
I opened the small door and my Uncle Tom was there alive!!!
“Oh my nephew, he said, you forgot your Uncle Tom for a
long time. Let’s have fun together with the next
visitors of our castle.”
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