After weeks of unexplained murders, the ominous unknown killer is still on the rise. After little evidence has been found, a young boy states that he survived one of the killer's attacks and bravely tells his story. 
"I had a bad dream and I woke up in the middle of the night," says the boy, "I saw that for some reason the window was open, even though I remember it being closed before I went to bed. I got up and shut it once more. Afterwards, I simply crawled under my covers and tried to get back to sleep. That's when I had a strange feeling, like someone was watching me. I looked up, and nearly jumped out of my bed. There, in the little ray of light, illuminating from between my curtains, were a pair of two eyes. These weren't regular eyes; they were dark, ominous eyes. They were bordered in black and… just plain out terrified me. That's when I saw his mouth. A long, horrendous smile that made every hair on my body stand up. The figure stood there, watching me. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he said it. A simple phrase, but said in a way only a mad man could speak. 
"He said, 'Go To Sleep.' I let out a scream, that's what sent him at me. He pulled up a knife; aiming at my heart. He jumped on top of my bed. I fought him back; I kicked, I punched, I rolled around, trying to knock him off me. That's when my dad busted in. The man threw the knife, it went into my dad's shoulder. The man probably would've finished him off, if one of the neighbors hadn't alerted the police. 
"They drove into the parking lot, and ran towards the door. The man turned and ran down the hallway. I heard a smash, like glass breaking. As I came out of my room, I saw the window that was pointing towards the back of my house was broken. I looked out it to see him vanish into the distance. I can tell you one thing, I will never forget that face. Those cold, evil eyes, and that psychotic smile. They will never leave my head." 
Police are still on the look for this man. If you see anyone that fits the description in this story, please contact your local police department. 
Nophono and his family had just moved into a new neighborhood. His dad had gotten a promotion at work, and they thought it would be best to live in one of those "fancy" neighborhoods. Nophono and his brother Soyak couldn't complain though. A new, better house. What was not to love? As they were getting unpacked, one of their neighbors came by. 
"Hello," she said, "I'm Nobaldi; I live across the street from you. Well, I just wanted to introduce my self and to introduce my son." She turns around and calls her son over. "Caca, these are our new neighbors." Caca said hi and ran back to play in his yard. 
"Well," said Nophono's mom, "I'm Margaret, and this is my husband Peter, and my two sons, Nophono and Soyak." They each introduced themselves, and then Nobaldi invited them to her son's birthday. Nophono and his brother were about to object, when their mother said that they would love to. When Nophono and his family are done packing, Nophono went up to his mom. 
"Mom, why would you invite us to some kid's party? If you haven't noticed, I'm not some dumb kid." 
"Nophono," said his mother, "We just moved here; we should show that we want to spend time with our neighbors. Now, we're going to that party, and that's final." Nophono started to talk, but stopped himself, knowing that he couldn't do anything. Whenever his mom said something, it was final. He walked up to his room and plopped down on his bed. He sat there looking at his ceiling when suddenly, he got a weird feeling. Not so much a pain, but… a weird feeling. He dismissed it as just some random feeling. He heard his mother call him down to get his stuff, and he walked down to get it. 
The next day, Nophono walked down stairs to get breakfast and got ready for school. As he sat there, eating his breakfast, he once again got that feeling. This time it was stronger. It gave him a slight tugging pain, but he once again dismissed it. As he and Soyak finished breakfast, they walked down to the bus stop. They sat there waiting for the bus, and then, all of a sudden, some kid on a skateboard jumped over them, only inches above their laps. They both jumped back in surprise. "Hey, what the hell?"
The kid landed and turned back to them. He kicked his skate board up and caught it with his hands. The kid seems to be about twelve; one year younger than Nophono. He wears a Aeropostale shirt and ripped blue jeans. 
"Well, well, well. It looks like we got some new meat." Suddenly, two other kids appeared. One was super skinny and the other was huge. "Well, since you're new here, I'd like to introduce ourselves, over there is Keith." Nophono and Soyak looked over to the skinny kid. He had a dopey face that you would expect a sidekick to have. "And he's Troy." They looked over at the fat kid. Talk about a tub of lard. This kid looked like he hadn't exercised since he was crawling. 
"And I," said the first kid, "am Randy. Now, for all the kids in this neighborhood there is a small price for bus fare, if you catch my drift." Soyak stood up, ready to punch the lights out of the kid's eyes when one of his friends pulled a knife on him. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, I had hoped you would be more cooperative, but it seems we must do this the hard way." The kid walked up to Soyak and took his wallet out of his pocket. Nophono got that feeling again. Now, it was truly strong; a burning sensation. He stood up, but Soyak gestured him to sit down. Nophono ignored him and walked up to the kid.
"Listen here you little punk, give back my bro's wallet or else." Randy put the wallet in his pocket and pulled out his own knife. 
"Oh? And what will you do?" Just as he finished the sentence, Nophono popped the kid in the nose. As Randy reached for his face, Nophono grabbed the kid's wrist and broke it. Randy screamed and Nophono grabbed the knife from his hand. Troy and Keith rushed Nophono, but Nophono was too quick. He threw Randy to the ground. Keith lashed out at him, but Nophono ducked and stabbed him in the arm. Keith dropped his knife and fell to the ground screaming. Troy rushed him too, but Nophono didn't even need the knife. He just punched Troy straight in the stomach and Troy went down. As he fell, he puked all over. Soyak could do nothing but look in amazement at Nophono. 
"Nophono how'd you?" that was all he said. They saw the bus coming and knew they'd be blamed for the whole thing. So they started running as fast as they could. As they ran, they looked back and saw the bus driver rushing over to Randy and the others. As Nophono and Soyak made it to school, they didn't dare tell what happened. All they did was sit and listen. Soyak just thought of that as his brother beating up a few kids, but Nophono knew it was more. It was something, scary. As he got that feeling he felt how powerful it was, the urge to just, hurt someone. He didn't like how it sounded, but he couldn't help feeling happy. He felt that strange feeling go away, and stay away for the entire day of school. Even as he walked home due to the whole thing near the bus stop, and how now he probably wouldn't be taking the bus anymore, he felt happy. When he got home his parents asked him how his day was, and he said, in a somewhat ominous voice, "It was a wonderful day." Next morning, he heard a knock at his front door. He walked down to find two police officers at the door, his mother looking back at him with an angry look. 
"Nophono, these officers tell me that you attacked three kids. That it wasn't regular fighting, and that they were stabbed. Stabbed, son!" Nophono's gaze fell to the floor, showing his mother that it was true. 
"Mom, they were the ones who pulled the knives on me and Soyak." 
"Son," said one of the cops," We found three kids, two stabbed, one having a bruise on his stomach, and we have witnesses proving that you fled the scene. Now, what does that tell us?" Nophono knew it was no use. He could say him and Soyak had been attacked, but then there was no proof it was not them who attacked first. They couldn't say that they weren't fleeing, because truth be told they were. So Nophono couldn't defend himself or Soyak. 
"Son, call down your brother." Nophono couldn't do it, since it was him who beat up all the kids. 
"Sir, it...it was me. I was the one who beat up the kids. Soyak tried to hold me back, but he couldn't stop me." The cop looked at his partner and they both nod. 
"Well kid, looks like a year in Juvy..." 
"Wait!" says Soyak. They all looked up to see him holding a knife. The officers pulled their guns and locked them on Soyak. 
"It was me, I beat up those little punks. Have the marks to prove it." He lifted up his sleeves to reveal cuts and bruises, as if he was in a struggle. 
"Son, just put the knife down," said the officer. Soyak held up the knife and dropped it to the ground. He put his hands up and walked over to the cops. 
"No Soyak, it was me! I did it!" Nophono had tears running down his face. 
"Huh, poor bro. Trying to take the blame for what I did. Well, take me away." The police led Soyak out to the patrol car. 
"Soyak, tell them it was me! Tell them! I was the one who beat up those kids!" Nophono's mother put her hands on his shoulders. 
"Nophono please, you don't have to lie. We know it's Soyak, you can stop." Nophono watched helplessly as the cop car speeds off with Soyak inside. A few minutes later Nophono's dad pulled into the driveway, seeing Nophono's face and knowing something was wrong. 
"Son, son what is it?" Nophono couldn't answer. His vocal cords were strained from crying. Instead, Nophono's mother walked his father inside to break the bad news to him as Nophono wept in the driveway. After an hour or so Nophono walked back in to the house, seeing that his parents were both shocked, sad, and disappointed. He couldn't look at them. He couldn't see how they thought of Soyak when it was his fault. He just went to sleep, trying to get the whole thing off his mind. Two days went by, with no word from Soyak at JDC. No friends to hang out with. Nothing but sadness and guilt. That is until Saturday, when Nophono is woke up by his mother, with a happy, sunshiny face. 
"Nophono, it's the day." she said as she opened up the curtains and let light flood into his room. 
"What, what's today?" asked Nophono as he stirs awake. 
"Why, it's Caca's party." He was now fully awake. 
"Mom, you're joking, right? You don't expect me to go to some kid's party after..." There was a long pause. 
"Nophono, we both know what happened. I think this party could be the thing that brightens up the past days. Now, get dressed." Nophono's mother walked out of the room and downstairs to get ready herself. He fought himself to get up. He picked out a random shirt and pair of jeans and walked down stairs. He saw his mother and father all dressed up; his mother in a dress and his father in a suit. He thought, why they would ever wear such fancy clothes to a kid's party? 
"Son, is that all your going to wear?" said Nophono's mom. 
"Better than wearing too much." he said. His mother pushed down the feeling to yell at him and hid it with a smile. 
"Now Nophono, we may be over-dressed, but this is how you go if you want to make an impression." said his father. Nophono grunted and went back up to his room. 
"I don't have any fancy clothes!" he yelled down stairs. 
"Just pick out something." called his mother. He looked around in his closet for what he would call fancy. He found a pair of black dress pants he had for special occasions and an undershirt. He couldn't find a shirt to go with it though. He looked around, and found only striped and patterned shirts. None of which go with dress pants. Finally he found a white hoodie and put it on. 
"You're wearing that?" they both said. His mother looked at her watch. "Oh, no time to change. Let's just go." She said as she herded Nophono and his father out the door. They crossed the street over to Nobaldi and Caca's house. They knocked on the door and at it appeared that Nobaldi, just like his parents, way over-dressed. As they walked inside all Nophono could see were adults, no kids. 
"The kids are out in the yard. Nophono, how about you go and meet some of them?" said Nobaldi. 
Nophono walked outside to a yard full of kids. They were running around in weird cowboy costumes and shooting each other with plastic guns. He might as well be standing in a Toys R Us. Suddenly a kid came up to him and handed him a toy gun and hat. 
"Hey. Wanna pway?" he said. 
"Ah, no kid. I'm way too old for this stuff." The kid looked at him with that weird puppydog face. 
"Pwease?" said the kid. "Fine," said Nophono. He put on the hat and started to pretend shoot at the kids. At first he thought it was totally ridiculous, but then he started to actually have fun. It might not have been super cool, but it was the first time he had done something that took his mind off of Soyak. So he played with the kids for a while, until he heard a noise. A weird rolling noise. Then it hit him. Randy, Troy, and Keith all jumped over the fence on their skateboards. Nophono dropped the fake gun and ripped off the hat. Randy looked at Nophono with a burning hatred. 
"Hello, Nophono, is it?" he said. "We have some unfinished business." Nophono saw his bruised nose." I think we're even. I beat the crap out of you, and you get my brother sent to JDC." 
Randy got an angry look in his eyes. "Oh no, I don't go for even, I go for winning. You may have kicked our asses that one day, but not today." As he said that Randy rushed at Nophono. They both fell to the ground. Randy punched Nophono in the nose, and Nophono grabbed him by the ears and head butted him. Nophono pushed Randy off of him and both rose to their feet. Kids were screaming and parents were running out of the house. Troy and Keith both pulled guns out of their pockets. 
"No one interrupts or guts will fly!" they said. Randy pulled a knife on Nophono and stabbed it into his shoulder. 
Nophono screamed and fell to his knees. Randy started kicking him in the face. After three kicks Nophono grabs his foot and twists it, causing Randy to fall to the ground. Nophono stood up and walked towards the back door. Troy grabbed him. 
"Need some help?" He picks Nophono up by the back of the collar and throws him through the patio door. As Nophono tries to stand he is kicked down to the ground. Randy repeatedly starts kicking Nophono, until he starts to cough up blood. 
"Come on Nophono, fight me!" He picks Nophono up and throws him into the kitchen. Randy sees a bottle of vodka on the counter and smashes the glass over Nophono's head. 
"Fight!" He throws Nophono back into the living room. 
"Come on Nophono, look at me!" Nophono glances up, his face riddled with blood. "I was the one who got your brother sent to JDC! And now you're just gonna sit here and let him rot in there for a whole year! You should be ashamed!" Nophono starts to get up. 
"Oh, finally! you stand and fight!" Nophono is now to his feet, blood and vodka on his face. Once again he gets that strange feeling, the one in which he hasn't felt for a while. "Finally. He's up!" says Randy as he runs at Nophono. That's when it happens. Something inside Nophono snaps. His psyche is destroyed, all rational thinking is gone, all he can do, is kill. He grabs Randy and pile drives him to the ground. He gets on top of him and punches him straight in the heart. The punch causes Randy's heart to stop. As Randy gasps for breath. Nophono hammers down on him. Punch after punch, blood gushes from Randy's body, until he takes one final breath, and dies. 
Everyone is looking at Nophono now. The parents, the crying kids, even Troy and Keith. Although they easily break from their gaze and point their guns at Nophono. Nophono see's the guns trained on him and runs for the stairs. As he runs Troy and Keith let out fire on him, each shot missing. Nophono runs up the stairs. He hears Troy and Keith follow up behind. As they let out their final rounds of bullets Nophono ducks into the bathroom. He grabs the towel rack and rips it off the wall. Troy and Keith race in, knives ready. 
Troy swings his knife at Nophono, who backs away and bangs the towel rack into Troy's face. Troy goes down hard and now all that's left is Keith. He is more agile than Troy though, and ducks when Nophono swings the towel rack. He dropped the knife and grabbed Nophono by the neck. He pushed him into the wall. A thing of bleach fell down on top of him from the top shelf. It burnt both of them and they both started to scream. Nophono wiped his eyes as best as he could. He pulled back the towel rack and swung it straight into Keith's head. As he lay there, bleeding to death, he let out an ominous smile. 
"What's so funny?" asked Nophono. Keith pulled out a lighter and switched it on. "What's funny," he said, "Is that you're covered in bleach and alcohol." Nophono's eyes widened as Keith threw the lighter at him. As soon as the flame made contact with him, the flames ignited the alcohol in the vodka. While the alcohol burned him, the bleach bleached his skin. Nophono let out a terrible screech as he caught on fire. He tried to roll out the fire but it was no use, the alcohol had made him a walking inferno. He ran down the hall, and fell down the stairs. Everybody started screaming as they saw Nophono, now a man on fire, drop to the ground, nearly dead. The last thing Nophono saw was his mother and the other parents trying to extinguish the flame. That's when he passed out. 
When Nophono woke he had a cast wrapped around his face. He couldn't see anything, but he felt a cast on his shoulder, and stitches all over his body. He tried to stand up, but he realized that there was some tube in his arm, and when he tried to get up it fell out, and a nurse rushed in. 
"I don't think you can get out of bed just yet." she said as she put him back in his bed and re-inserted the tube. Nophono sat there, with no vision, no idea of what his surroundings were. Finally, after hours, he heard his mother. 
"Honey, are you okay?" she asked. Nophono couldn't answer though, his face was covered, and he was unable to speak. "Oh honey, I have great news. After all the witnesses told the police that Randy confessed of trying to attack you, they decided to let Soyak go." This made Nophono almost bolt up, stopping halfway, remembering the tube coming out of his arm. "He'll be out by tomorrow, and then you two will be able to be together again." 
Nophono's mother hugs Nophono and says her goodbyes. The next couple of weeks were those where Nophono was visited by his family. Then came the day where his bandages were to be removed. His family were all there to see it, what he would look like. As the doctors unwrapped the bandages from Nophono's face everyone was on the edge of their seats. They waited until the last bandage holding the cover over his face was almost removed. 
"Let's hope for the best," said the doctor. He quickly pulls the cloth; letting the rest fall from Nophono's face. 
Nophono's mother screams at the sight of his face. Soyak and Nophono's dad stare awe-struck at his face. 
"What? What happened to my face?" Nophono said. He rushed out of bed and ran to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror and saw the cause of the distress. His face. It... it's horrible. His lips were burnt to a deep shade of red. His face was turned into a pure white color, and his hair singed from brown to black. He slowly put his hand to his face. It had a sort of leathery feel to it now. He looked back at his family then back at the mirror. 
"Nophono," said Soyak, "It's not that bad..." 
"Not that bad?" said Nophono," It's perfect!" His family were equally surprised. Nophono started laughing uncontrollably His parents noticed that his left eye and hand were twitching. 
"Uh... Nophono, are you okay?" 
"Okay? I've never felt more happy! Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaa, look at me. This face goes perfectly with me!" He couldn't stop laughing. He stroked his face feeling it. Looking at it in the mirror. What caused this? Well, you may recall that when Nophono was fighting Randy something in his mind, his sanity, snapped. Now he was left as a crazy killing machine, that is, his parents didn't know. 
"Doctor," said Nophono's mom, "Is my son... alright, you know. In the head?" 
"Oh yes, this behavior is typical for patients that have taken very large amounts of pain killers. If his behavior doesn't change in a few weeks, bring him back here, and we'll give him a psychological test." 
"Oh thank you doctor." Nophono's mother went over to Nophono." Nophono, sweety. It's time to go." 
Nophono looks away from the mirror, his face still formed into a crazy smile. "Kay mommy, ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa!" his mother took him by the shoulder and took him to get his clothes. 
"This is what came in," said the lady at the desk. Nophono's mom looked down to see the black dress pants and white hoodie her son wore. Now they were clean of blood and now stitched together. Nophono's mother led him to his room and made him put his clothes on. Then they left, not knowing that this was their final day of life. 
Later that night, Nophono's mother woke to a sound coming from the bathroom. It sounded as if someone was crying. She slowly walked over to see what it was. When she looked into the bathroom she saw a horrendous sight. Nophono had taken a knife and carved a smile into his cheeks. 
"Nophono, what are you doing?" asked his mother. 
Nophono looked over to his mother. "I couldn't keep smiling mommy. It hurt after awhile. Now, I can smile forever. Nophono's mother noticed his eyes, ringed in black. 
"Nophono, your eyes!" His eyes were seemingly never closing. 
"I couldn't see my face. I got tired and my eyes started to close. I burned out the eyelids so I could forever see myself; my new face." Nophono's mother slowly started to back away, seeing that her son was going insane. "What's wrong mommy? Aren't I beautiful? 
"Yes son," she said, "Yes you are. L-let me go get daddy, so he can see your face." She ran into the room and shook Nophono's dad from his sleep. "Honey, get the gun we..." She stopped as she saw Nophono in the doorway, holding a knife. 
"Mommy, you lied." That's the last thing they hear as Nophono rushes them with the knife, gutting both of them. 
His brother Soyak woke up, startled by some noise. He didn't hear anything else, so he just shut his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. As he was on the border of slumber, he got the strangest feeling that someone was watching him. He looked up, before Nophono's hand covered his mouth. He slowly raised the knife ready to plunge it into Soyak. Soyak thrashed here and there trying to escape Nophono's grip. 
"Shhhhhhh," Nophono said. "Just go to sleep."