Ghost game ( Halloween)
Chapter 5 – Game diedline
The figure stepped fully out of the swirling vortex, dragging the storm of shattered glass behind it like a living cloak. Its body was made of fragments faces, eyes, mouths, hands all shifting beneath the surface as if trapped souls were struggling to break free.
Lina, Kai, and Rina couldn't move.
Not because they didn't want to but because the air itself had frozen around them.
The figure's voice rumbled through the room, ancient and layered.
"All sins confessed the game can finally proceed."
Kai forced air into his lungs. "Who… what are you?"
The creature lifted its head. Its form flickered, glitch-like, as if reality itself struggled to contain it. In one moment it looked human. In the next, a towering silhouette with hollow eyes. Then a mass of shadows.
"I am the Master of the Game.The keeper of the mirror.The collector of souls who dare to play."
The mirrors around them began to glow again but this time, they reflected not images…
but names.
Names of past players.
Names scratched in blood.
Names crossed out one by one.
Lina stared in horror as three new names formed at the bottom.
Lina.. Kai.. Rina
Her mark burned hotter, brighter, cracking her skin with lines of glowing red.
The Master glided closer.
"The Ghost Game demands a host.
Maya was chosen… but Maya cheated."
Rina gasped softly. "Cheated? How?"
The Master's many voices twisted into a distorted laugh.
"She refused to continue the chain.
She broke the mirror's will, so the burden passed to the next soul who touched it."
Slowly, its faceless head turned toward Lina.
"You."
Lina stumbled back, but the ground shook and threw her forward. Shards of glass shot up, forming a ring around her like jagged teeth.
Kai roared, "Leave her alone!"
He tried to run to her, but invisible hands yanked him backward and pinned him to the wall. Rina screamed and tried to pull him free, but she too was thrown into a mirror that swallowed her shadow.
None of them could reach each other.
The Master extended a hand made of broken reflections.
"The Host bears the guilt of all players before them.Their soul anchors the game.Their pain feeds it, their life sustains it."
Lina shook her head, tears falling. "I don't want this! I never wanted any of this!"
The shadows under the Master's voice deepened.
"Wanting is irrelevant.The Game chooses."
The vortex behind it roared again voices, screams, whispers of hundreds of trapped souls all crying out at once.
Kai shouted desperately, "Take me instead! Take me!"
Rina sobbed, "Please don't take her! She's done nothing!"
The Master turned its fractured gaze toward them.
"Sacrifice is permitted…but only if the chosen Host accepts the exchange."
Lina froze.
The floor cracked beneath her, splitting open to reveal an endless void of mirrors each one showing Maya, twisted versions of herself, others who had died, others who had begged.
The Master's voice slithered around her.
"Choose, Lina take your place as Host…
or give up one friend to replace you."
Kai struggled violently. "LINA! Don't you dare choose me!"
Rina cried out, shaking. "Lina, listen your life matters too!"
The room darkened.
The mirrors screamed.
The mark on Lina's arm ignited.
The Master stepped closer.
"Choose."
Lina closed her eyes, trembling as the shadows reached for her.
And with a voice barely more than a whisper, she said.
"I… choose"
The Choice That Breaks the Game
Silence fell.
A silence so heavy, even the mirrors held their breath.
Lina's voice trembled in the air, unfinished
"I… choose"
But before the final word left her lips, the mark on her arm flared violently. The ground cracked beneath her, the mirrors screeched, and the Master leaned in, its shattered face stretching with anticipation.
"Speak, Host."
Kai shook against the invisible force pinning him to the wall, blood dripping from his wrists where unseen hands gripped him too tight.
"LINA! THINK! Don't say anything! Don't give it what it wants!"
Rina's voice echoed from the mirror that swallowed her shadow moments ago.
Her reflection appeared pressed against the glass, terrified.
"Lina! Don't sacrifice yourself OR us! There must be another way!"
But the Game didn't care.
The room shrank.
The shadows curled.
The vortex behind the Master pulsed like a beating heart.
The Master raised a hand its pieces shifting into a grotesque smile.
"Your decision seals the fate of all players.
Choose wisely, Lina… or choose quickly."
Lina's lips parted again.
But then something changed.
A small, sharp crack traveled across the mirror ring around her.One shard… then another… then twenty… began vibrating.
Lina's eyes widened.
Rina's reflection flickered.
Kai gasped as the force holding him weakened for a single heartbeat. The mark on Lina's arm stopped burning.
The Master's many faces froze.
"…What is this impurity?"
Lina looked down.
Her mark the glowing, cursed red lines began turning white.
A color the Game had never seen.
The Master recoiled.
"Impossible."
Lina lifted her arm, stunned.
"I I didn't do anything…"
The white lines pulsed.
A soft light seeped into the floor.. Into the mirrors.Into the air.
Kai shouted, "Lina! That's not normal what's happening?!"
Rina whispered from the mirror, "It's rejecting something… but what?"
The Master backed away for the first time, its voice trembling with a distorted echo.
"A mark cannot purify on its own… unless…"
Lina slowly lifted her head.
"Unless what?"
The Master's fractured body shook, glitching violently.
"Unless the Host carries a truth stronger than fear."
The white light spread, cracking the mirror circle beneath Lina.
One piece exploded outward.
The vortex behind the Master shrank.
The screams inside it stuttered as if startled.
Kai's restraints shattered, and he dropped to the floor, gasping.
Rina's glass prison burst into shards, releasing her shadow.
The Game itself trembled.
Lina took a step forward, her voice trembling but steady.
"I wasn't choosing to sacrifice anyone…
I was choosing to break the Game."
The Master hissed.
"The Ghost Game cannot be broken."
Lina raised her white lit arm.
"Then why are you afraid?"
The Master's screams ripped through the room as the light hit it, its body glitching, dissolving, reforming.
The vortex spun out of control.
The mirrors cracked, one by one.
Kai pulled Lina close.
Rina grabbed her hand from the other side.
The Master tried to reform, but its voice shattered into static.
"This is not your power this is the power of"
It didn't finish.
The room erupted into blinding white light.
And the Game for the first time in centuries began to lose control.
When Light Awakens the Dead
The white light swallowed everything.
The screams faded.
The mirrors dissolved.
Even the Master's shadow disintegrated into dust.
For a moment, there was no room.No air.No floor beneath their feet.
Just endless silence.
Then A heartbeat.
Not human.
Not alive.
A thundering pulse that echoed through their bones.
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
Kai clutched Lina's hand tighter.
Rina stood shaking, her breath shallow.
"Where… are we?" she whispered.
The light dimmed slowly, painfully revealing their surroundings.
They were no longer in the mirror room.
They were standing in a vast, endless void, black as ink, with floating fragments of broken mirrors drifting like shattered galaxies around them.
Each mirror fragment showed a face some human, some twisted, some crying, some screaming, all of them dead.
Lina swallowed hard. "This… this is the heart of the Game."
The ground beneath them pulsed again.
BOOM.
Kai took a step back. "No… something's under us."
Rina grabbed his arm. "Look!"
From the darkness below, a massive shape began rising… like a creature unfurling from the bottom of a nightmare.
Hands hundreds of them gripped the edges of the void.Faces layered, overlapping blinked awake.Dead eyes gleamed like cold stars.
A voice that was not the Master's
A voice older, deeper, colder
slithered out from the darkness.
"You have broken the Host mark."
The thing rose higher.
"But you have not broken me."
Lina stumbled backward as the true form of the Game revealed itself.
A colossal being made of every lost soul who had ever played.A shifting mountain of bodies, eyes, and shadows.
The True Master of the Game.
Kai whispered, "That… thing… that wasn't the real Master…?"
Lina shook her head. "The one before was only a vessel. A puppet."
Rina trembled, voice barely audible. "This is the real one…"
The creature's thousands of voices layered over one another, turning the air into a vibrating hum.
"You purified the Host mark."
"You disrupted the chain."
"But the Game continues."
Lina's arm glowed white again but now the light flickered, struggling.
As if the Game's heart was consuming it.
Lina clutched her arm. "It's… weakening…"
The True Master stretched out its massive, corpse-like hand.
"Return the mark."
"Restore balance."
"Or be consumed with the others."
Suddenly, the mirrors around them lit up with the faces of all those who had died in past rounds.
The boy from the bathroom.The girl with the rope.The man with the stitched mouth.
Hundreds more.
All whispering in unison
"End it…or join us…"
Lina shook her head violently. "No! I won't let you take us!"
But the creature only laughed a sound like bones grinding.
"You think the Game fears your light?"
It stretched its massive arm farther.
The void cracked.The mirror fragments trembled.
Rina cried, "Lina, your mark ! It's turning black!"
Lina looked down and horror surged through her chest.
The white glow was rapidly being swallowed by a creeping black stain crawling up her veins.
Kai grabbed her shoulders. "Lina, look at me! Stay with us HEY!"
But she was shaking uncontrollably.
The True Master whispered to her.
"You cannot break the Game…"
"Because you were never meant to leave it."
The void shook harder.
Lina's legs buckled.
A mirror fragment floated down in front of her.
It showed a reflection not of her…but of someone standing behind her.
The reflection whispered:
"Lina… run."
Kai and Rina spun around but there was nothing behind her.
The voice whispered again.
"He's coming."
The True Master roared
BOOOOM.
The void split apart.
And the light on Lina's arm died completely.