Fright Flight
Anarchy Awaits in the Air
Anarchy Awaits in the Air
I wake up in the airplane. I turn and notice the woman who sat next to me before I went to sleep is gone.
The lights are dim inside. The whole plane is empty. But the red-eye flight still moves in the dark night back home. No flight attendant is available. I panic and then unbuckle my seat belt and look down the back of the aisle.
Hello?” I scream. Towards the front, I yell again. But no answer comes. Bad turbulence occurs making the flight swerve slightly.
The seat belt sign and ding come on indicating to sit down. I almost fall down as I stubbornly head to the front where I hope the captain will be. I open it but find it empty. The plane is moving in the air at incredible speed and no one licensed or skilled is aboard.
I’m all alone and I am the only one to pilot this plane.
Fear grips my chest and I start to have a panic attack. I’m no one. I cannot figure out this strange situation, this horrific moment which there is no waking up from.
I run to the back as the plane turns and forces me down hitting my head on an armrest. I hold my head as it throbs.
The terrible turbulence comes back making my stomach sick. But I continue to the back of this giant aircraft. I find it barren yet again.
I call out again for anyone to come to my aid, but no one is here.
I’m all alone. Truly alone as the plane guides itself to its destruction unless I can take control. I sit down and start to contemplate and then am filled with furious tenacity heading for the front.
Then I see an old man sitting at the front in the first seat.
“Hello? Hey, you? You hear me?” Walking up terrified I know little of what this means. I grab his shoulder but his head falls back and I see the old man’s eyes are torn out of his skull. I gasp and fall back.
Darkness clouds my mind and anxiety fills me with dread.
What could do this? Why did the old man now appear?
Then I turn and see a wicked black shadow in the back. It disappears suddenly. Then the roughest turbulence of my life happens and I am thrust to the ceiling pinned forcefully as the lights go out. I am in complete blackness as the pain is torturous, my mind on the verge of madness, and my whole body shakes uncontrollably. I don’t know when it will be over but I am frightened it will never end.
I drop to the floor as the lights in the cabin come on again. I slowly get up as my back shoots with pain.
The corpse is gone. Looking up everyone stares at me. The whole plane is full again. They continue to look at me shocked and horrified.
“Sir, are you OK,” a young stewardess comes up to me. “You were lying on the floor for a while.”
“What? You didn’t- you didn’t see the black thing?”
“Sir? Let’s sit down.” The captain comes out.
“Captain!” I scream.
“I heard a passenger was on the floor,” he asks the flight attendant.
“Yes,” she says. Other attendants come to my aid. But I shoo them away.
“I’m fine, I’m fine. It was just… I don’t know.”
“You need some water, baby?” One says giving me some water.
“Thanks.” I sip it fast my heart racing. “You didn’t see it? The whole plane was empty.”
The captain raises his eyebrow and kneels down next to me. “Sir, everything alright? You gonna be OK?”
“Yeah, I uh… I think so. Thanks.”
“OK, well-”
The whole plane becomes ravaged by the worst turbulence again. And everyone is pushed and shoved suddenly. Violence is in the cabin and cursing is heard. The lights blackout.
I wake up on the floor as I come to myself. I look up again and see no one.
It’s empty again as fear comes back to haunt me in the darkest recesses of my soul. Then the lights flicker and everyone fades back in their seats.
But they’re all dead, hollow corpses. Everybody’s eyes are ripped out of their heads as I tremble and sit down holding my mouth. I start to cry.
And then I see a black figure come out of the pilot’s door. It is awful and fills my body with a bleakness.
“Did you like my art?” It says with words that chill my bones. I have no words to describe what this thing is or does to me. Its hideousness fogs my mind.
“I sure do appreciate an admirer. Come and I’ll show you more!” It seizes me and fills my nose and mouth with its filth. Breathing its dirty aura, it enters my soul.
As I come to myself I awake but I am too traumatized to have a sober reaction. I scream and writhe on the floor violently. The Captain and attendants pin me to the floor and some folks in first class scatter to the back.
“It fills me!” I scream endlessly. “Stop it! Stop it! Someone please! It’s going to kill all of us!” I shout with horror until the marshal comes and tries to shut me up.
But all the more I scream. At the corner of the marshal’s head, I see the dark and hideous face of a monster smiling with satisfaction.
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