Host, Please Be Honest! What Exactly Are You?



"Eye-eye, Boss!"

The kids didn't want any time debating, as they sneakily followed Gregory. 

They were still hiding from the elders, so they didn't have time to waste. 

It's just that they couldn't help wondering why these elders who they have known all their lives were suddenly so fast when moving. 

Augh~

Everyone braced themselves once they reached the base of the slope they called Box Hill. But they weren't done with their adventures just yet.

Damn. They wished they had hats to mimic their favorite 

"It's steep. Be careful."

"Right, boss." Many answered, inwardly swallowing hard. 

Perhaps to grownups, it doesn't look so difficult to do. But for kids like themselves, they felt like Indiana Jones climbing the temple of Zoom. 

Good guy. 

Gritting their teeth and looking at the slowly setting sun, everyone felt a sense of urgency.

The box hill was like many boxes placed on each other from big to small like a pyramid. 

The edges were so steep that they had to create human ladders and climb on each other to get onto the box above.

The hill was a little bare, mostly filled with large on top of each box surface. 

"Ah!" Someone exclaimed, as she just missed a step and almost fell to the lower box level. 

"Got you!" Ross quickly grabbed her, hoping the elders didn't hear her yelling. 

Everyone breathing grew heavy as they leaned behind several large rocks with their chests raising high and low from time to time.

"Did they see us?"

Helga peering between 2 rocks shook her head. "They didn't stop to look. My papa says old people don't hear well, so maybe that's why."

"So we're safe?"

"Looks that way."

"Focus."

Reaching the top, everyone took cover, peering down into the maze's center. 

So far so good. 

"Look! The boss was right! They were heading for the center after all."

. 

It was so strange.

As the figures gathered, a sense of malevolence filled the air. 

They began to sway from side to side with their faces obscured as they still kept their heads lowered from the setting sun.

What the hell were they doing? 

Then suddenly, the children saw something unbelievable!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha~

A guttural fleet of laughter echoed through the air, growing louder with each passing moment.

Every clang of laughter made their spines tingle and their palms sweaty. 

No one needed to speak, as they all thinned their lips promising not to scream.

Their eyes widened alongside the changing and twitching nodes of the elders down below.

Where are they dreaming? Were they truly seeing what they were seeing in this science-filled world? Good heavens of Science!

~Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!

A crackling noise followed with every twitch the elders made, a noise so loud they could hear it from their hiding places.

Can human bodies contort that way? What are you? Rubber man? ('0')

One of the children wet themselves, as they watched the most gruesome nightmarish thing of their lives, but it didn't end there.

The elders who were laughing with themselves, abruptly raised their heads, revealing unnatural smiles that stretched to their ears with sharp teeth that covered 2/3rds of their faces.

Blugh~

Several children couldn't take it, turning to the side and puking in disgust. 

Have you seen anything so ugly?

They had only seen a far away passing glimpse of the hideous faces, yet it was enough to make them puke out everything they had for lunch. 

"What are they? They're not our grandpa--!" 

Someone exclaimed in a panic, but Gregory was quick to cup their mouth with his hands. 

"I-I... we've got to be quiet."

 Do you think he too isn't freaking out too? 

Mommy... 

They just realized the world wasn't as scientific as it seemed. But the feeling of eeriness only grew stronger when the creatures all turned their necks their way. 

Some moved unnaturally, like a doll's head doing a slow slow, facing them. 

Oh No! They've been discovered! 

.

Go! Go! Go

All warning bells echoed in everyone's mind, as they quickly made a run for, not caring if they got injured on their way down. 

Some held hands running away, while others flared their hands in the air, crying as they foresaw their impending doom... especially those who knew their time was almost up. 

"Boss, boss! I just don't know if I'll have the strength. Did you see that thing? How do I protect my mom and dad from it?" 

You have no idea how scared the experience made them. 

Many were speaking, not knowing they have now developed a deep stuttering problem. 

Their eyes jumped maniacally, as though paranoid and their foreheads were now full of sweat.

Gregory tried to calm them as much as he could though he too felt it was an impossible battle. 

Sorry, his brain was still trying to comprehend how such things exist in their world.

The worst thing of it all was that he knew no one would believe them. 

If anything, people might say they have mental problems or have a crazy sense of imagination.

Don't think because they're kids they don't know about what happens when you get sent to the Looney bin. 

It's a place adults swear never to go, as you leave even more broken than you entered. 

Even Gregory had chills just thinking of the few movies he secretly watched concerning people who enter such places. 

They get locked up and tied to a chair or bed to be injected with strange fluids by creepy doctors and nurses.

In one movie, a guy was framed and sent in there by his wife and brother who wanted his fortune.

The things he witnessed there completely broke the man. At some point, they even illegally used him as a lab rat for underground experiments.

His parents think he was afraid of the family doctor because he was afraid of pointed needles, but his real fear came from the many evil doctors and nurses he saw on TV.

To him, they were just pretending and looking for an opportunity to give him a shot at their special fluid before kidnapping him for good. 

That's why when he visited a doctor, even a dentist, he was as vigilant as a hawk. 

Of course, rather than telling his parents his true fears, he would rather die with the problems inside unless it was his last hope.

After all, if he comes clean, this means he won't be able to watch adult-rated jam-packed action movies anymore. 

. 

"We've got to tell someone !" Helga advised still shaking in her shoes. "We've got to tell an adult. The poli-"

"No!" Gregory roared. "If we do say anything, we will be the ones locked up while those things roam free and terrorize our town. Do you want that to happen? Do you want your mom and dad to enter their bellies? Listen up! Like in Power Rangers, we have just become the world's latest heroes. It's up to us to save the day. Even if we tell someone, or must be someone who can believe us easily."

Plunging through the farmlands and woods, the group ran fell, ran, fell and ran away looking back from time to time 

Bam!

Helga stashed into something soft but sturdy and almost fell on her butt. 

"Officer Macy! Officer Trey!"

It was as if these officers were emitting heavenly light from the God of Science, as they seemed to glow in their hour of need.

Wooooo~

The children were crying, not caring about their dignity. 

Back up was here!

Both Macy and Trey looked at each other, wondering what sort of trauma could cause the children to cry, twitch and shake so much. 

They knew these fellows all too well in this old town. 

These children were not like big city folks that cry at every turn. 

No. 

These kids had grit and courage to do things, always getting a good scolding from their papas and mamas.

Just look at little Benjy. The poor guy had soiled himself in the pants which was too bizarre.

Officer Macy tilted to the side and spoke into her walkie. "This is Macy, we seem to be in a real situation over here~ I'm afraid we're gonna need some backup in case."

Her accent and her large cowboy police hat gave her a unique feel to any meeting her for the first time.

Macy frowned. Could it be a serial killer was on the loose?

Did they accidentally watch the killing of an innocent victim nearby? 

No! To the children, it was worse than that. 

"Breathe... Breathe... don't worry we've got you now. Just tell us what you saw."

Although the children swore not to tell the real truth, Officer Han Macy and Officer Li Trey were warm to them at this moment, making them want to trust them a little to believe their story.

Suddenly, their words get stuck in their throats, seeing another officer they recognized. 

Only, he was also an elder, who is now limping like the other elders in the field.

"Now, now, now... children~... What could have shaken it up so nicely?~ A big cat in the woods~A bug?..."

"Deputy Officer Mcgoil, sir!" Macy and Trey were very respectful, wanting to help the limping senior officer over.

But in a place they couldn't see, the senior officer suddenly gave a look to the children that drained all the color in their faces. 

[... We--See-You]