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Shop of the Dead: Shattered Souls

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Step inside if you dare, but be warned—this is no ordinary shop. Those who enter never leave the same… if they leave at all. A sinister force lurks within, fueled by a dark past and a thirst for revenge. The price? Twelve lives for twelve sins. As officials race to put an end to the bloodshed, the shop’s deadly grip tightens, claiming innocent victims one by one. Will anyone uncover the truth before it's too late? If you crave spine-tingling horror, heart-pounding thrills, and a mystery that refuses to stay buried, this book will haunt you long after the last page.
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Chapter 1 - The Massacre Incident 1985 Part 1

A student named Sebastian was going for a walk in his town. It was a cold night, the silence was too loud.

He felt something weird. Weird that something might be watching and following him. He wants to run but he cannot. Few walks, he eventually looked at his back.

Someone was really following him. He immediately ran so fast like lightning. Sebastian knew he was running for his life. 

"Stop this! Stop this!" Sebastian screaming out loud. "Please help me, someone's following me!".

No one can hear him. Only him, and the boy who has been following him. Sebastian stopped, fearlessly shouted 

"Who are you! I am not scared of you! Stop this nonsense!". 

The boy replied "12 people were the ones who did this to me, 11 have to pay. And you are one of them". 

"It's you. It's you! Stop this! I already apologised and I don't want any fights now! I was just with them!" 

"I dont give a thing about your explanations. You killed me. Now you're next. Scream."

He ran and ran, eyes in the trees were following him. Different objects were chasing him.

The boy, who wanted to kill him, made him stop.

He was confused how he stopped. He looked around, no one was there.

No eyes, no objects, just the boy. Looking at him, deadly in the eyes. 

"Stop, please have mercy!" said the frightened Sebastian. 

"I can't let you go now. You are mine. And you must pay the price. You are one of them and you will never change. Anything from you! Nothing!" the boy replied.

He pulled an axe on his back gently, waiting for Sebastian to make a move.

But, Sebastian didn't even move. Instead he thought of an idea on how to escape. 

"Don't think about what to do. You are controlled by me. What you see is not what you really see." 

"What do you want from me, Lukas!? I can give you everything you want just please! Stop this!"

"I want you. To die. Blood in my hands. Death is near you and it will not resist and even if you escape, the curse is on you." he told him boldly. 

"I don't care, just let me out!" said Sebastian.

The axe floated as if it was magic and threw it on Sebastian's beloved head.

It was chopped off. The dream became blurry that you think you became blind.

His dream has ended, and the suffering has only begun. 

It was morning and his mother called him, shouting aggressively at the door.

She knocked so hard but no one was answering her. She immediately found the keys to his door and opened it.

She found her son, floating in a cross-like way. 

"Sebastian! Oh my god! Nina, call the ambulance!" her mom panicked and almost passed out. The room was filled with blood, as if it was a bloodbath.

Moments later, police arrived at her house. She cried and told them what she saw.

She doesn't know what happened to him. Police investigated the room. 

"Oh shit what the hell is this! This is a literal bloodbath! How is it possible that he's floating!" the police told the crew.

The other officer replied "This is not a criminal's fault. This is something more than that."

They brought the body to the ambulance and police discussed their sightings. 

"I believe that this is a paranormal thingy y'know" the police said. 

"Who even believes paranormal things, Albert.

What a psycho, this is literally a criminal who did it. There were strings in the body when they looked at the victim's body. The brain was not working properly and his eyes were literally about to puke out." said the other police.

"I refuse in your opinion, Mclaurey. There have been some cases about this. A body floating in a T-shaped form, eyes were puking out and bruises all around the body. People say that this is a paranormal thing where a specific person goes into your dream just to kill you in real life. The specific murderer we are talking about is a boy who kills people that he interacted with-" 

"Hey can you stop? This is a total nonsense that you are yapping right now. Why are you even here just to tell us some scary stories of yours." said Mclaurey to Albert's story.

Albert left the room, feeling like the news was really fake and lost confidence that he could save someone's case.

The body arrived at the morgue, it was so pale and covered in blood. Ann, the assistant, got chills about how scary it looked.

She then looked at the body's name and remembered that there was a murder scene in GreenLand. Ann went to her table and opened her laptop. She researched about the case, of how this happened to the body.

Then suddenly, someone knocked on the window, three times.

It was very gentle at first. But then, it knocked so loudly that the window would break at any moment. She panicked and the lights began flickering. 

"You are a filthy traitor. Ann." someone whispered.

"No, I never did anything." Ann replied. The lights flickered so fast. She was so scared at that time.

The phone rang, she didn't hesitate but did not answer it. The phone rang again. But the second time, she finally answered it.

No one was talking.

She put the phone back again.

Everything became silent. The phone rang once again, she was so confused of whoever is doing this to her. She answered angrily. 

"Who are you to troll me?!" she said. 

"I know you. Very well. You. are a. little. shit." 

"Oh shut the hell up" . She hung up and slammed it down but then, the body began floating in a T-pose.

 

"Where's the holy water?!". Ann ran away as fast as she could going through the hallway.

The hallway was getting longer and longer as she ran but she couldn't stop. Someone's chasing her and can literally kill her.

The walls and the floor began to crack. Black roots started to come out of the cracks and chased her. Blood was everywhere.

Ann entered a room with no lights. She pants and sighs and says 

"What was that...". 

Someone replied "It was your sins." The room lit up, revealing bodies that are hanging and some are chopped off.

There were so many flies and she got out of the room immediately.

Ann looked around and saw a man sleeping in a chair. She woke him up without even thinking.

Finally, the man woke up and told her "Why are you here?"

Ann woke up in an afternoon, it is when the body was about to arrive at the morgue.

She immediately looked for the closed sign and put it on the entrance. 

"Was it all a dream? Who was that man..?", she was so confused.

Someone knocked at the door. 

"Who's there?" 

"Anyone" he replied to her. 

"Tell me who exactly you are before I open this door!" she shouted.

"Heh, you are so weak to be that badass huh. Don't think of calling the cops. And don't think of going to the backdoor."

"But why" no one answered. 

"Hello? Are you there?" she was nervous about what was happening to her.

Someone knocked again, she nervously asked who it was. It turned out to be her best friend.

Ann let her in and told her about what was going on right now. 

"I think you're just kidding me, Ann? I mean, how could this be possible".

She replied "Yuri, I am not joki-". Someone knocked on the door again but it was a violent and strong knock.

They backed out and grabbed a knife. 

"No shit I am opening that door." Yuri said.

"Hey there guys! Do you want to see things that you can't see?".

They disagreed with his offer and shouted "Shut up!".

"Oh no, I'm so... Scared! Haha! Bet I can see you right here right now!"

Ann and Yuri ran into the bathroom and locked it.

Yuri decided to call the police. "Hey, don't call the police! Don't!" 

"But why?"

"Someone told me to not call the police and not to go in the backdoor" 

"But Ann, why are you listening to people you don't know" Ann was speechless.

She couldn't react to what she's seeing right now. 

"It's you," Ann said to her. 

"Hmmm?" Yuri replied. 

"Yuri. You are not Yuri! Get the hell out of here!" 

"Too late," Yuri replied while smiling at her. She stabbed her with the knife twelve times.

Ann tried to fight back but she's too "weak". The Boy removed the wig and the makeup, revealing his true identity. 

"Are you happy now, Ann. You will never see your friend now. I'll look after you. In hell" he laughed at his poor victim.

He left the house and left blood trails in case someone followed him.

He went back to the forest and waited for someone to be the next victim.

Years have passed, unknown murders are still on.

Sasha was looking for a job, she found this big building and went there but they rejected her. She still looked for more jobs but eventually she didn't find any.

Sasha never gave up until he found this store who was hiring.

She asked the cashier. "Do you need more workers?" 

"Yes definitely."

"Okay can I get it"

"Sure you can, but I must warn you. Many have quit this job."

"Well, I won't and I'll promise that"

The cashier smiled at her and she left the store. Sasha went home and told him where she got accepted.

Her husband, Luke, spilled all the water for how shocked he was. 

"El Fuego de Store?! That store is cursed!"

"It's just all myths stop it"

"No it's real-"

"Bla- bla- you should be happy that I got a job" 

"No, that's not a normal job. You are risking your life in danger."

"No"

Luke went back to their room because his wife did not believe him.

"Oh silly Luke"

While she was cooking, she heard some knocks and taps on her window. Sasha looked at the window but nothing was there.

The lights flickered at an intense speed. Then, the lights went out.

It was so dark and quiet. Gladly, the power came back. She saw a boy standing in the corner of the kitchen.

The wind blew aggressively while she talked with him.

"Who are you to get in here?"

"Your worst nightmares."

The boy ran to her holding a knife. She went upstairs and went to their room.

Sasha locked the door and realized her husband was not there.

Sasha looked out the window and screamed for help but no one would even hear her. 

"What's happening?"

Sasha opened the door again gently. She looked back and forth and saw a figure.

It only has a head with long tentacles. It opened its mouth and ran towards her.

She went downstairs and when she stepped on the front door, she fell into piles of leaves.

When she turned around, a knife was heading towards her, aiming at the stomach. It landed perfectly, causing her to puke blood.

The boy twisted the knife.

 

"Are you having fun there?" the boy asked.

Sasha screamed in pain and she woke up in their bed, perfectly fine with her husband.

"Was it all a dream? What is happening to me?"

"What? What happened honey?"

"I dreamt about a boy and a figure chasing me and stabbed me"

"Yep, and that's a sign you need to quit the job."

"No, I can't. How can I raise our future child without money? We need money, okay?"

Suddenly, someone knocked at their front door. 

"Who's gonna get it?" Sasha asked.

"I'll go get it" Luke replied.

"Sure, because it might be that boy who killed me in my dream."

"Lets just open it both"

They went downstairs, Sasha was holding a pan. Luke opened the door and it was just Sasha's best friend, Carol.

"Hey! Long time no see! Frfr"

"Yes girl!"

"Hey I have a story for both of you and you're gonna love it!"

They let her in the room and sat on the couch.

"Juice?"

"No thank you, I just ate carbonara."

"Okay… Tell us the story now."

"So, I found this crazy store where there is said to be a cursed one. It was a very spooky store that no one even bought there. I think-"

"What was the name of the store specifically?" Sasha asked nervously.

"El Fuego de Store, ooh you might be very interested on thi-"

"Shit, I am fucking going to work there later at night!" 

"Want me to go with you, bestie?" Carol asked her excitedly.

"I mean sure, you can i guess" Sasha replied worriedly.

"Yes! Haha! I can finally learn how to work perfectly. You know I used to work at this restaurant and they were treating me so badly that I quit."

"How do they treat you?" Luke asked her while he was laughing so much.

"Uhm. They treat me like a cow, honestly, I'd just jump on a building than work in that piece of garbage."

"So you don't want to work in a garbage restaurant that treats you badly but you want to work in a cursed store to have some fun?"

"Exactly" Carol said it confidently.

Luke and Sasha were silent about her reply.

"You are crazy. Are you fucking for real?" Luke said

"I mean yeah, I'm pretty much ready!"

They walked to the store and danced in the rain. They were so happy that they are spending time together again after a month. 

"Finally, this is so fun! Whoo!" Sasha shouted.

"Exactly, I love this!"

They ran and ran and saw the house where a girl was stabbed twelve times. There were no traces about the murderer who did it. 

"Shit, did you know that the El Fuego De Store might be connected with the murderer that killed the girl." Carol told her about the information about the case.

"Maybe she killed herself?"

"It can be but also it can't be. It was connected with the store because the girl is from a morgue and she was doing some shits in the body. You know what I mean? So the body haunted her while that body is from a boy named Alfred in the El Fuego de Store which is the owner's son. It is said that Alfred was bullied many times and finally gave up on his life. He didn't kill himself, it's just they killed him. I don't know about the other infos about it but yeah. That store is really cursed."

They arrived at the store and Sasha asked the cashier.

"Hey, I'm that girl from yesterday. Name's Sasha, aight? So what is the job?"

"Janitor and Organizer" the cashier replied

"Hmm, great job! Hehe"

"That- is so freaking cringe." Carol can't help but laugh at her.

They went to the storage room to get some boxes and mop. They started cleaning and putting the boxes in the store.

The cashier was looking at them deep in their souls. She already knew what was about to happen next to both of them.

Sasha felt something was already off.

She went back to the storage room and brought boxes again. Eventually, she found a box that was dripping with blood. She called the cashier and Carol. 

"Hey, look at this, do you know what this is?"

"Probably just some ketchup. Oh dont worry dear, that must be just nothing." the cashier replied.