The monster within | Chapter Eight |

by creeperfeverdreams

Published July 23, 2024

12+ Violence Mature Content

In The monster within…

*This story is underneath my folder titled “The monster within…”. Gacha Club character designs are under my forum titled “My character designs <33”. This fanfic is based off the R.L. Stine movie called: “Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls”. It takes place a year after the events in the movie. Enjoy!*

NICOLE

We’ve agreed to meet up at my house. Now, we’re all in my living room. As usual, Luke is gorging himself on a bowl of chips. I’m going to have to clean the crumbs off the couch later, ugh.

Beth and Kellen are sitting on my parents’ loveseat, Kellen holding Beth close, because they’re such a hApPy cOupLe.

Well. No use just standing around in the hallway and watching them.

“Guys, me and Luke want to show you something. Come to the bathroom.” I say.

Kellen and Beth get up, but Luke is still eating. Why is he still eating? He’s apart of this too.

Oh my god, did he seriously forget that he’s wearing makeup?

“Luke, come on.”

“Just a minute!”

“Now.”

Luke hastily throws the bowl on the table and brushes the crumbs off his pants.

Why’s he so nervous all of a sudden? All I did was simply ask him to get up.

Eh, he’s a weird kid.

Comments & reviews · 2
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MothNBone
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MothNBone wrote a review Review · Aug 4, 2024

Hello Hello I hope you dont mind me popping in with a quick review. I think I've read one or two parts of this but not in order so I won't have full context. Please forgive me if I miss something or get something wrong. I will also apologize since this won't be a very long review today. With that being said let's get into it shall we?

Overall I found this a short but fairly engaging read. From the narration alone I got a lot of character from both Nicole and the others. Her annoyance came through very clearly and from the little context I have don't blame her for being annoyed. It seems as if things might be going down and everyone is too focused on food. By the looks of the last line, it might be because Luke is hiding something sinister. I don't get why she's waving it off so quickly if I'm not mistaken these characters have been around the block and should find this to be a huge red flag. I guess their trust will be put to the test just like Luke's poor make-up.

For feedback, I don't have too much to say this time around. However, I will warn you it will be pretty nitpicky. As always I'm not a professional and you don't have to take any feedback you don't want to.

Although we get a lot of character from the narration I do wish you described the MC's body language a bit more. you tell us she is in the hallway but you could show her annoyance a lot better by adding even a few little details. Take for example if she was pacing back and forth or tapping her fingers against the doorframe.

However, that is a very small thing so don't sweat it if you don't want to add it.

As always keep writing and remember to drink water! Dehydration is the scariest thing of all.

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kaitlyn
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kaitlyn wrote a review Review · Jul 25, 2024

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Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),

Hi! I'm Kate and I'm here to leave a quick review!!


First Impression

Well that was quite the addition here. A few more subtle little hints coming out about things that we very much need to be worrying for in this particular tale here.

Anyway let's get right to: Kate's Line by Line Reactions;

We’ve agreed to meet up at my house. Now, we’re all in my living room. As usual, Luke is gorging himself on a bowl of chips. I’m going to have to clean the crumbs off the couch later, ugh.

Beth and Kellen are sitting on my parents’ loveseat, Kellen holding Beth close, because they’re such a hApPy cOupLe.

Well. No use just standing around in the hallway and watching them.


Well looks like things are not going super great at the moment at least in this POV here. That couple do seem to be fairly happy but not everyone seems to be super happy about that development judging by the tone.

“Guys, me and Luke want to show you something. Come to the bathroom.” I say.

Kellen and Beth get up, but Luke is still eating. Why is he still eating? He’s apart of this too.

Oh my god, did he seriously forget that he’s wearing makeup?

“Luke, come on.”

“Just a minute!”

“Now.”


Oooh well looks like that makeup is going to end up in quite the state from the look of that. I did not remember that whoops and thought the stuffing the face would only be funny, but this is going to be quite something.

Luke hastily throws the bowl on the table and brushes the crumbs off his pants.

Why’s he so nervous all of a sudden? All I did was simply ask him to get up.

Eh, he’s a weird kid.


Well that definitely seems a little curious there that someone would feel nervous about that request but something tells me there is much more of a reason that just Luke being a little weird.

Aaand that's it for this oneee!!!

Overall

Overall I think you've done a great job as always, really setting things up nicely here. Looks like we're just about to run into something big here from the looks of things.

As always remember to: Take what you think was helpful and forget the rest!

Stay Safe and Have a Nice Day!
Kate


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