It was a normal day of school, just like any other day, I came in to assembly, had lessons, ate my lunch, had more lessons, then waited for the bell to ring so I could go home, eat, and sleep.

However today, unlike what I just said, wasn’t a normal day for me. It’s the day of Halloween, my favourite day, and to make it even more special? There’s supposed to be a shooting star passing over when I get home, and I, ever the wish wanter, am going to make a wish!

I made my way home, thinking about what I want to wish for… A new bike, a PS3? Nah, too simple… What about some really off the wall stuff… What if I wished for one of my favourite characters to come to life! But who? I could always do Hank? Invitation? No… Inundation came out this year and I liked that? No… Pico? No, too young, I’m 16, I can’t be hanging around with young kids like that, I’d get bullied… 

Oh, on second thought, I know exactly who I want.

I finally got to my door, 3pm, and I was feeling very, VERY hungry. I go straight to my kitchen, walking around our huge counter, and trying to turn on the light… Still busted. I look to the counter, bread, peanut butter, and jam… Maybe a PB&J? Nah… I walk to my fridge in the semi-dark, there’s some left over Chinese food in here? 

“Well, don’t mind if I do!”

I had an hour to burn before I needed to do go to my roof and look for that star, so I decided to go on NewGrounds! I logged into my account, CaptainMyCaptain, and checked through everything! I had a couple of messages but I can check those in a minute, I checked the front paged games, Hobo Brawl, Grey-Matter, Glowstones… Hmm… Nothings really peaking my interest.

Well! Back to old reliable! With that I mean Interactive Buddy! Oh how I love that game.

I loaded it up, excited to play with rockets and grenades for a little while! But I should really get around to those messages… So I did! A few of them actually? A few normal spam and a few from my friends! I talked with my friends for a little while, one of them all the way over in Japan! We spoke about our days and everything, before they all headed away before I shot a message to my friend who lives just down the road!

CaptainMyCaptain: 15:12pm

“so! what are u gonna wish for?”

K1TTY090909: 15:14pm

“wat? ._.”

CaptainMyCaptain: 15:14pm

“from the star?”

K1TTY090909: 15:15pm

“u still wish on starz?!?!?1?! LOLZ xD”

CaptainMyCaptain: 15:15pm

“ow, my feelings. but yes, i do.”

CaptainMyCaptain: 15:16pm

“and actually! im going to wish for something REALLY COOL!”

K1TTY090909: 15:17pm

“oky wats that”

CaptainMyCaptain: 15:18pm

“im going to wish that tankman was real.”

CaptainMyCaptain: 15:25pm

“???”

K1TTY090909: 15:27pm

“sorry i was too buzy laughing!!!!1!!1 [i was making foodz]”

And with that I stopped messaging my friend. I went onto interactive buddy and blew away 30 minutes until I needed to go to the roof.

I climbed up onto the roof, I could see my whole street on here and the forest that back lots our house! I stared up at the sky, because it’s October it gets really dark out very quickly.

I waited.

Laying back I take in the sky, before spotting it! A beautiful star rocketing through the sky, I got on my knees and clamped my hands together, bowing my head.

“Please make tankman real, please make tankman real, please make tankman real!” I shouted before opening my eyes and looking back into the sky just to catch the star leaving the atmosphere.

I sure hope that works… but wishes probably take time, so I’m going to try and burn some.

I go back into my room, and sink some more hours into some games.

3 hours pass.

My parents should be home any minute now, so, I should head to bed, I don’t want them to catch me out around 7pm.

I lay my head on my pillow as I smile, hoping that my dream comes true, I slowly start to sleep, my eyes lulling as I pass out.

CRASH!

My eyes shoot open, a loud crash coming from down stairs. I turn over and check the time. 2am? I sit up in bed. My parents shouldn’t be awake? Oh no… Has someone broke in?

I stand next to my bed, grabbing a miniature flashlight as I go out into the hallway, I can hear quiet rustling downstairs. I don’t want to wake my mom and dad, they’ll be so mad, and I’d much rather be killed by a burglar than face my mom when she’s mad.

As I journey further down the stairs, a thought passes through my head… “wait… what if it’s tankman!” 

The mere thought of that made me excited, as I swallowed my fear and made my way downstairs, I try flicking the light switch… Again, busted… Good thing I brought my flash light. I wave my light through the living room and kitchen, searching for the source of the rustling that grows louder with every step I take.

I make out a figure in the dark, as I slowly shine my flashlight over it.

Tall… Clad in dark black clothes… A face as pale as snow… as my eyes focus, excitement takes over my heart! My wish came true! It’s Tankman, a giddy smile takes over my face! The rustling stops as he turns towards me! I’m finally getting to meet him! He turns around fully, his face… it’s… covered in jam? He must have been hungry and made a PB&J from the stuff I left on the counter! I walk towards him as I catch a sound in my ear, a weird, raspy sound? Like a broken vacuum? I search around for it, walls, ceiling and then floor before… I see something, a mess of red over the floor and… a shape? a human shape… I shine the light over it.

It’s my parents.

My parents, covered in blood.

Fear and confusion begins to take hold as I slowly begin to pan the light up over tankman, as it clears his waist, I see him holding a knife, thick viscous blood dripping from it, as the light carries on up it focuses on his face again…

A twisted, toothy grin shines from beneath his visor as his face fixes towards me. He opens his mouth, in a low gravelly tone, he makes a single sound.

“Ugh.”

Fear swells in my heart as I hit the ground running, I don’t hear his foot steps chasing after me, I don’t look back as I run up stairs. I need to contact my friend to let her know tankman is trying to kill me, she’s usually awake at this time, she could help me!

I wake my computer up and wait for it to turn on… A message, fills my screen…

K1TTY090909… 01:28am…

What I see is beyond words, a picture, of the mangled corpse of my friend… this… this can’t be real…

I feel like I need to scream but I can’t, I hear foot steps walking up the stairs to my room, I can’t run back out, he’s blocking the way down, how do I get out-

The window.

I unlock my window, stepping through it onto the roof and without a second thought I jump out, as I hit the ground, I stand back up, I feel a sharp throbbing pain in my ankle. I walk forward two steps, the agony growing worse as I turn around to look back at my window.

I see him. Standing in my window, staring at me, before turning around and leaving sight. I need to run, and run I do, as I run quickly into the forest I leave my house far behind me, the pain in my ankle growing worse and worse as I get far in, I look around with my flashlight. No one in sight, so I rest by a tree. This forest is too big for him to be able to find me that quickly, I need to rest. I turn my flashlight off, the natural moon light and my eyes refocusing help me see a little bit, I roll up my pants leg to look at my ankle. Swollen and bruised. That’s gonna be bad soon, as I calm down, my emotions start to flood in.

All I wanted to do was meet my favourite character, I never knew he was going to be a psychopath? Oh god what do I do, what do I-

A twig snaps.

My body freezes in fear, a coldness runs up my veins as I hear those foot steps again, getting closer, and closer. I grab my flashlight, my hands shaking like I’ve been hit with a taser.

My thumb slowly grazes the switch, as I flick it on.

He’s standing there. Right there. 

He looks down at me, the smile ever present on his face, he opens his mouth, a low, gravelly voice ringing out in the darkness around me, as he begins to step towards me…

“Ugh.”

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So! As you can tell, I’m not a writer. But! This has been my entry for the collab! I really hope you all enjoyed this!

I tried to lean into a lot of the cliches and cringe of creepypasta’s to make it enjoyable!

if anyone wants to do a dramatic reading or animation of this please do! And use Kevin MacLeod - Ice Demon, as a backing track for maximum cringe! XD