Gather round the campfire, fellas.

Welcome to my bonfire story! This is going to be a traditional-style killer story but with real people from the amino as the main characters! Nothing in the post is real, it is all FICTION! Nothing in this story has happened, and it hopefully never will. Sorry if you were portrayed in a way you aren’t really comfortable with in this story. If you are really upset then PM and I will change the name of the character for you. Read ahead with caution, as there may be some swears and mature themes, as well as spooks…

note: Serpentine is called Matthew in the story, kronos07 is referred to as Jack in the story, and Josh is called Grady because why not.

Hello, lads. Sit down on a comfy chair, take out some hot cocoa, have a handful of pumpkin seeds, and listen closely. I’m here to tell you a story. My name is Bruce, I was leader on NSA before the breakdown occurred, it was a great place, there were lads upon lads left and right, everywhere you looked there were just lads waiting to be talked to. It was the place to be. That is why I worked so hard to keep it together. But some things, you just can’t control. All it took was one weekend to have 7 less lads on the platform, and have the entire place break down. I have done my research, talking to countless witnesses, just to find out what really went down on that weekend of October 27th-29th 2018. I will now recall this information here so that as many people as possible have it. You need the full story, and I have it. Sit down, did you forget, just relax, we’ll be here for a bit.

This goes back to Friday October 27th, it all started in a private voice chat on this amino called “Neversleep v3.1.” Some were having a conversation about another leader by the name of DogGirl. Meet our first group of : Octo, Jewel, ethanglide, Serpentine, Kronos07, Dae, and Obby. I like to call them the neversleep lads. Two other people happened to be in the voice chat though, Lia and Natalie.

“Guys guys, did you see DogGirl’s new post?” Asked Dae.

“Oh my god, yes. I swear she cannot spell a word to save her own life,” Jack responded. “She spelled the word ‘monday’ as mindiy.”

“Oh okay.” Octo added.

“DogGirl more like DumbGirl amirite lads?!” Said Ethan.

“I don't understand why she even makes posts, it’s just about work hours. If she isn’t even working on good posts then she shouldn’t bother at all. Who cares.” Jewel added.

“Wait what were you guys talking about again?” Serpentine asked.

“They are being rude to DogGirl.” Explained Lia. “Why are you all being so harsh?”

“I would rather hang out with Steve than talk about DogGirl, what a boring subject. If she won’t ObBE my gf then I don’t care about her.” Said Obby. “Speaking of, I’m gonna log off for the night. I have some plans.”

“Yeah, me too. I found this cool looking flower I want to go put up in my room. It’s got a few black spots on it that look like eyes and a face. So I got something to talk to when I’m on my own.” Serpentine said.

“Ah, it’s a big day for you two.” Said Dae. “I’m getting off too. See you all later.”

Everyone said their goodbyes, and logged off for the night. But Lia and Natalie stuck

around for a few moments.

“That was pretty harsh.” Said Natalie. “Should we do anything about this, Lia?”

“We can’t just be bystanders, we should tell DogGirl about this.” Lia explained. “She deserves to know. Then she can do what she wants with that information.”

“I agree, Lia. I’ll see you tomorrow, bye.” Natalie logged off right after notifying DogGirl of the situation.

That night, Obby had plans with Minecraft Steve. Just two lads hanging out. Obby hadn’t seen Steve in years, and he was excited to finally see him again. He was pouring the tea when Steve knocked on the door. Obby was shaking so much that he spilled a little. After an internal scolding, Obby ran up to the door to greet Steve as fast as he could. He swung open the door and there he was, standing tall in all of his blocky glory.

“Hey, Obby!” Exclaimed Steve. “You’ve gotten to be a tall chap in the last two years, what have they been feeding you?”

“Ah, it’s been so long my guy!” Obby bellowed. “Come in, have some Tea!” They got to the table and started chatting up a storm, catching up on everything they missed.

“Obby, my eyes feel a little weird.. I can’t describe the feeling. I think I may be coming down with something.” Said Steve.

“Nah don’t worry mate. This tea, has baileys in it.” Obby winked. “I had something a little extra planned for tonight. Come upstairs.”

Steve was hesitant but decided to follow. He wasn’t sure what to think about Obby putting baileys in the tea without telling him, he wasn’t really able to think straight at all. What did he have planned up there? But Obby was a good friend, so everything should be fine. Steve struggled up the stairs and saw Obby leaning against the wall, holding a controller out in his hand, offering it to Steve. He walking in and grabbed the controller, a blocky smile appeared on his face when he saw the new mario party set up on the TV.

“Hell yeah! Drunk mario party time!” Exclaimed Steve. They went and sat down on the couch and started to set up a game.

“I knew you would like it. One sec, if you go over here then talk to this toad then ca-” Obby was cut off by a pain in the side of his neck. His vision started to blur even more than the baileys made them. But through the blurriness he could still make out the red dripping down his arm. Steve screamed out loud at the horrors.

Standing over the dying Obby was a girl. She knelt down and whispered in Obby’s ear, “I’ll show you something to care about, twat.” She then twisted the knife. At this point Steve had backed into a corner, jaw dropped, horrified at the scene that was unfolding in front of him. His instincts took over and he bolted out of the house.

The next morning, the people of NSA were all exposed to the tragedy. A post appeared on Obby’s page. The body of the post included only one sentence. It read “I woud rathar die than be nice to people on the intrenet.” I was spelled wrong. Then attached to the text was a picture of Obby’s corpse on the ground with the knife still stuck in his neck. This had obviously become the talk of the town all across the amino. The staff were not able to delete the post for some reason. Everytime that I personally tried, it would always say that an error occurred. It was really bad, nobody knew what had happened to Obby. Released police investigations showed that the killer had covered their tracks very well. It still surprises me to this day how someone who can’t figure out how to spell correctly can find a way to cover up a murder. All that was known was that the criminal was around a 5’4’’ female from Steve’s description. It’s quite impressive, really. But too bad, Obby and Steve never got to finish their mario party game.

The neversleep lads went about their lives as usual that day, they had their voice chat, but with one less member than usual. There was a change in mood though, less jokes had been cracked, less silly subjects being talked about, and less talking overall really. Everyone was still shocked at what had shown up on the latest feed. They had no idea why it had happened. After everyone logged off, they were sure to fall asleep with one eye open, just in case, an insurance policy if you will.

3 hours had ed since that last voice chat, and all but one were asleep. Jewel still lay awake at this late hour, she couldn’t seem to fall asleep. She couldn’t stop thinking about what happened to Obby and why it happened. Frustrated that she could not fall asleep, Jewel decided to turn on the lights and go write her feelings down on a loose piece of paper on her desk, for that may let her get it all out of her system.

I’m writing this because maybe I can get all of these thoughts out my head. Why did Obby die? Why was that post made? What does “I would rather die than be nice to people on the internet” mean? And why on earth is it spelled so bad? I hope I can answer all of these questions without running out of space on the page. I think that it was someone on the inside because why would some random criminal know about amino, and know that Obby had an . I also think that the body text of the post has a big part of the puzzle. Was Obby mean to someone recently? Maybe last night before he-

That was where the note was cut short. That’s all she wrote, as they say. We have the piece of paper so we can read it. It was ended with the pencil mark sliding off the edge of the paper, as if she was making a quick retreat from where she was while still having the pencil on the page.

Jewel heard a noise and jumped back in her bed after turning off the lights as fast as she could. She had thought that her parents were outside and she didn’t want them knowing that she was up so late, but then shortly after realized that she was home alone that night. Panic took over Jewel’s body when the doorknob of her bedroom started to turn. Fight or flight? Fight or flight. Instead of either of those, Jewel was petrified, unable to move because of the immense amount of fear. The door swung open and slammed onto the wall, bouncing back a bit and making a loud noise. Jewel noticed a figure walk into the room, it was around 5’4’’ and had a bob haircut. That had to be it, that had to be the killer. Jewel came to with her fate, closed her eyes, and braced for impact. However what she anticipated, did not happen.

The killer turned on the lights and struck the knife into Jewel’s desk, leaving it stuck up. Then sat down on the bed in front of Jewel and started popped a piece of gum in her mouth and began to chew. “So, Jewel. I have come to make a deal with you.”

Jewel opened her eyes, gasped, and fell backwards. She squinted her eyes to make out who she was looking at. She had seen that red bob haircut and that purple lipstick somewhere before, in pictures! That was DogGirl! She was the killer, it made some sense. She was an insider, knew about amino, and can’t spell very well on a phone keyboard. But her being here only made like 30 more questions appear in her head. Jewel assessed the situation to find out how to behave, does she run and scream, attack, say nothing? She decided on keeping calm to see what DogGirl wanted before making any more decisions, she didn’t have the knife anymore so perhaps that was a sign of peace. “So are you going to kill me too or what?” Jewel asked.

“Your choice really.” DogGirl answered and grinned.

“What do you mean by that.”

“A little birdy told me that you and your friends were saying some mean things about me.” Explained DogGirl. “Do you have any idea what I have to put up with being a leader on this amino. Constant harassment, every single day. But most of the time it’s just from low level obvious trolls in comment sections. But when I hear about high level active saying mean things about me behind my back. It puts me over the edge. Now everyone will be sorry they ever said anything bad about me.”

“DogGirl I am so sorr-”

“I have been hearing about this for a while now, and I have been holding in my anger. But it was been too long and if you blow up a balloon too much, it tends to pop.” DogGirl blew up her bubblegum and it exploded in Jewel’s face.

“Yeah but you can’t just go and ki-”

“Yeah yeah yeah, shut up. I’m just gonna cut to the chase. I know you are friends with these people, and you have information that I want to know. I’ll make this simple. If you don’t give me the information that I need, I have a sharpened knife over there sticking out of your desk with your name written all over it.”

This was a big decision to make. Jewel assessed the situation once more and saw that DogGirl had gotten a little cocky and had leaned back a bit to relax. She took this as an opportunity to strike as fast and hard as possible. Jewel shot her fist out at DogGirl’s nose as fast as she could. But apparently not fast enough. In one quick motion, DogGirl grabbed Jewel’s arm, yanked it onto the desk, picked up the knife, and pinned Jewel’s hand into the desk. Blood started to absorb into the paper. Jewel screamed and started to tear up. DogGirl left the knife there in Jewel’s hand as she walked out of the door. To Jewel, DogGirlwas now just a silhouette in the dark.

“I expect a list of your friend’s locations in my PMs in one hour. You still have one hand to type. If you tell anybody about what happened here…” DogGirl made a motion across her neck with her thumb.

The lights were turned off and DogGirl was gone. Jewel was left in the dark, crying with a knife in her hand, all on her own.

When I woke up the next morning, 3 more of these disturbing posts appeared on the latest tab. None of them could be removed. 3 more pictures of murdered kids, in 3 s of the victims, with 3 more… witty comments. That night, Kronos07, ethanglide, and Dae all kicked the bucket. Or rather had the bucket kicked for them. Still nobody knew who the killer was except for Jewel, who had not been active that day. Nobody had heard from her at all. Not really anyone was online that day because of the recent tragedies. 4 close friends had been killed, and nobody knew why. Most people had been avoiding NSA at this point. Not much good actually came from it. Since not much was happening, let me tell you about a different setting altogether. A setting… surprisingly lighthearted. It will be a nice break from all of this extreme stuff. You may be wondering where I got all of this information from, don’t worry, it will make sense in the end. Anyways, let’s make a journey to hell and back, shall we?

Hell was a pretty hot place, obviously. I was a long valley stretch in between two massive red volcanoes. The ground was blackish-red and had cracks everywhere. There were tiny anthills scattered around with gas shooting out of the top, and there were souls wandering around, bored with nothing to do. 4 of these souls were walking together though, our friends Dae, ethanglide, Kronos07, and Obby were all shooting the breeze while taking a stroll through Hell. They had been here for a few hours and had come to with their deaths. They were just walking around to see if there was anything that they could do. They were going to be there for a long time, so they might as well see what it had to offer. At one end of the valley, there was a giant castle with a red storm cloud circling above it, it looked like a highlight to the area, so that was where they were headed. When they arrived, the castle drawbridge automatically opened, so they walked in. They were greeted to a massive throne room by the creak of the drawbridge raising back up behind them. There was a long carpet leading up to the throne, with space on either side, like a church room with no chairs. The boys walked up the carpet and towards the throne. Where a large figure sat. Satan.

“Kneel before me.” Demanded Satan. Then the boys immediately kneeled down in respect for the king of the underworld. “Haha made you do it.”

“Excuse me?” Dae asked, still kneeling.

“You didn’t actually have to kneel. Stand back up lads, look, it’s me!”

Ethan stood up and squinted his eyes. Then saw it.

“Grady? Is that you?”

“HELL yeah bud! Satan wanted to make a halloween costume so he could get some candy this wednesday. So he gave me his powers and told me not to break anything for the week.”

Obby fainted.

“So, what brings you guys to Hell this hot evening?” Grady asked.

“We all f***ing died lol.” Answered Ethan.

“Oh, nice. I did that a few times with these powers already, the monsters on the other side of the volcanoes are quite dangerous. Speaking of, while you guys are here do wanna g-”

There was a poof noise from above and a spirit fell from the ceiling and landed on the floor. It was Octo.

“Another one bites the dust, huh.” Dae sighed.

Octo stood up, hyperventilating. “Where am I, what’s happening, DogGirl, wait is that Grady, Obby is on the floor?”

“Yo, Octo is here too?!” Exclaimed Grady. “All the lads are here! Chill out for a second, I want to show you guys something.” Grady hit a button on the throne armrest and a screen lowered from the ceiling at the other side of the room. “This screen can show us what is currently happening in the live world. We even have a rewind button, but it only seems to rewind the screen by 5 minutes. Satan didn’t show me how to control this thing so I’m just gonna wing it. What do you guys want to see?”

“Umm.” Octo thought for a second. “Can we watch how I died, I didn’t really take in what happened.”

“Sure, Octo.” Grady controlled the screen to show how Octo was killed.

Octo was having a text conversation with DogGirl, it seemed normal. But what octo didn’t know was that DogGirl was looking through Octo’s window, waiting to pull the trigger. This is how the conversation went.

DogGirl: Alright listen up im going to make a deeal with you.

Octo: K

DogGirl: You can either tell me the location of your friends, or you die right now. I will give you 30 seconds to respond. Respond with either a yes or a no. Clock’s ticking Octo.

Octo: *thinking emoji*

DogGirl: Whatever

Then DogGirl pulled the trigger. Octo was instantly and painlessly killed, she was nicer about this one I guess. But somehow, Octo sent a message to DogGirl post-mortem. It read “oof.” That was it.

“Hey Octo we have talked about this.” Ethan said. “That’s breaking Ethan’s rule.”

“Shut up Ethan. I’m kinda pissed that I died in such a stupid way. I’m going to take a nap.”

“F in the chat lads.” Said Kronos. “Bye, Octo.”

“But wait, now we know that the killer is DogGirl. We need to tell the others, and fast!” Dae observed. “We just need to figure out how…”

“Ah don’t worry, Dae.” Grady explained. “If we get in with someone in the live world, they can let us back through many entrances, the tough part is communicating with someone. But I have some ideas that I can use with this new power of mine.”

The next day Serpentine was sitting outside talking to his plants and playing some tic tac toe by himself. He had been staying away from the internet, and he had frankly been going a little insane from the loss of his friends. He was just about to get the most insane tic tac toe combo when he felt a little gust of wind go by and some leaves blew onto the lawn. The leaves spelled something out. It looked to say “Can you hear us?” That was odd, Serpentine didn’t really hear anything. He went inside confused after finishing his tic tac toe game. But then the vase on the dinner table randomly tipped over and broke. This time the broken pieces of the vase spelled out a sentence. It read “listen close and deep inside.” Serpentine got a little scared and went for a walk outside after cleaning up the mess. What did the messages mean?

He was walking down the street when an elderly woman collapsed on the sidewalk. He ran over to go and help. “Are you okay?” He asked.

The woman motioned for serp to move in. Then she whispered in his ear, “Hear us within, listen closer.” She then got up and walked away.

This was too much for Matthew. It couldn’t be that there were all of these random messages telling him to listen. So Matthew sat below a tree and tried to find a voice inside of himself. He closed his eyes and concentrated as hard as he could. He started to make out some voices. It was his deceased lads!

“Is this moron gonna respond or what?” Asked Grady. “I know he can hear us, he’s sitting below that tree on the screen like an idiot with his eyes closed.”

“Calm down Josh.” Said Jack. “If he’s listening let’s just tell him what to do.”

“Kick the tree over you cuck!” Ethan yelled. “We have been waiting here for hours.”

Matthew opened his eyes and gasped. Were his friends alive? They were telling me to kick over the tree or something. How was he supposed to do that? Matt decided it was worth a try. He lightly tapped the tree with his foot and it toppled over onto a car. His friends came scurrying out of a hole in the ground. Matthew was delighted.

“Matthew!” Dae exclaimed. “We know who the killer was. We will explain later, quick give me your phone!”

Matthew gave Dae the phone and he called 911, explaining that DogGirl was the killer and they returned from Hell. It was a confusing call for the 911 call receivers, but within a day everything was sorted out. DogGirl was arrested by the police and amino posts were made saying everything was okay. It was a weird time for everybody, families, the entire internet was going crazy about kids that got resurrected. But most of the details were left confidential. Of course I can get these kids to tell me whatever I want them to, they don’t care about secrets. That’s why I am telling you this story to set the record straight. This is what happened, how, and why. This is everything that I know about the situation. There is only one more part. The neversleep lads and I were visiting Jewel in the hospital when another post surfaced on amino. It was from DogGirl. It was a selfie of her standing outside of the hospital we were at, the post had no captions. We don’t know if the photo is real or not, since DogGirl should be in prison. Only time will tell.

Thanks for reading my #bonfire entry! I think I did pretty well and I am proud of my story. Hope you all liked it! Sorry for being a day late judges by the way.