My Original Short Stories

A plane in the night cuts through the air as it makes its way to the airport in Tokyo. Onboarding the plane is Junji, who is casually enjoying his flight as he vigorously devours his beef bourguignon. Next to him is his close colleague, John, who, along with him, prepares to reach Tokyo after three years of studying in America. As a plane approaches Tokyo, a breathtaking view of Tokyo’s spectacular landscape puts everyone in awe. John glances outside and excitedly jumps off his seat. Jung’s always been a friend with a combination of intelligence and humor, the qualities that Junji desires yet has been hiding. “Are there any insects that are native only to Japan?” asked John, having never been to Japan, Junji, having been asked the same question for the twentieth time, snapped back, ”Shut Up!” As the plane slowly entered the airspace of Tokyo, the pilots found themselves lost and confused as the entire airport of Tokyo was presumably dark. The night sky of Tokyo was as mysterious as the secrets whispered by the stars. As they neared the terminal, they attempted to contact the communications at the control towers. However, the control tower was like an echo in any empty canyon, and there was nothing but long silence. On board the plane in the cabin, they hear a distorted announcement from the pilot. The pilot then realized how large of a safety hazard a landing without outside help could be. Under the instructions of the pilot, the co-pilot immediately reminded the passengers to fasten their seat belts and that they were going to make an emergency landing on an unused runway. After receiving the announcement, Junji and his friend John are both in disbelief and confusion back in their passenger seats at the back of the plane. Amid the chaos, the flight attendants moved with grace under enormous pressure as they attempted to calm the passengers down. Abruptly, the plane goes dark. “WHAT IS GOING ON?” Junji asked his friend as people around them began to fear. “I DON’T KNOW! HOLD ON,” John answered while curling himself up like a ball. Fear spread like wildfire, and some began to break down, and some began to pray. Life was on a thin thread. Junji, groping around for his seat belt, managed to fasten it tightly. The plane slowly began to descend. However, Unlike the grayish color the runway of the track was supposed to be, the pilots noticed it as a bright red. “LOOK OUTSIDE!!!!” one of the passengers screamed, and everyone began to peer through the window. They found multiple gigantified blood worms slithering the runway and devouring each other viciously. The plane, on its descent, managed to maintain a certain angle. They make an impact. The airplane’s wheels smash through the thousands of worms surrounding the plane, spreading their insides and tinting it in a deep dark red. Moments before the final collision, the plane's captain could only scream in terror at the hopelessness they found in their current situation. The front windows of the plane were smashed in the process, resulting in the pilot's immediate death, being squashed by the insect remains. Every passenger in the front area of the plane also succumbed to the same fate, as the insides of the worms overran them. The plane began to lose its velocity and came to a stop. Only ten people survived, as they were fortunate to have been seated at the very end of the plane. Junji, also being a passenger in the back seat, saw a wall of blood and flesh filling the entire plane. He questioned whether they were okay with his limited space with his friend and the remaining passengers. They heard a woman. “EMILY!!” screamed the woman. Junji immediately unfastened his seatbelt to approach the woman. He saw her broken face as she continued to sob. “Are you okay?” Junji, in a soft voice, asked. “Oh Lord, my daughter was two seats ahead of me!” “Save her!” Her emotions were rushing out. Junji, being a surgeon and also having been dealing with telling parents that their children passed back in the hospital multiple times, said to her that her daughter was simply gone. She then proceeded to walk into the wall of flesh, taking out one of the blood worms' large teeth and swiftly cutting her neck, putting her life to an abrupt end. Junji, realizing he couldn't save her, threw her body onto a plane seat, letting her rest before her last breath left her body. He then began to gain the attention of the passengers, who were just as shocked and distressed as he was. However, among the now nine passengers, the three older men, unable to bear their current situation with their old hearts, asked Junji to bring the tooth. They then proceeded to end their life. With only six remaining, Junji began asking each person their previous occupations and names. There was one construction worker named Toji, a military officer named Mark, a simple housewife named Monet, and a seventeen-year-old boy named Duei-ying. Junji also introduced himself and his friend John. He told them that his friend was an entomologist and he was a surgeon who worked in America. Junji then told his friend John to open the only window that wasn't barricaded by the endless lumps of flesh. Outside, they could see thousands of large blood worms. “What species are they?” Junji asked. “Blood worms,” John replied in a questioning voice. “But it's odd that they only live in Europe,” he continued. Ignoring his last statement, Junji thought that worms would dry out once exposed to the sun and proposed to the team first to begin to dig through the flesh carefully. Everybody except the housewife, who refused to touch the disgusting flesh, began to get their hands dirty and dig through the tens of tons of flesh. After excavating the entire night, they saw a slight shine of light. The construction worker then shouted, “I found the exit!” Junji and everybody else began to run over. The stench of the worms had been engraved into their nose. They quickly cleared the exit and saw the giant worms in a dry husk, having been cooked by the scorching summer sun. The military officer stood in front and opened the airplane door. They suddenly hear a voice over the intercom. ”Passengers of plane M7-234, there had been a virus outbreak that perfectly synthesized the genes of all insects. This makes them grow exponentially. However, they also lose their life span significantly. We have sealed all exits except one located in the airport lounge. We wish you luck,” the voice from the intercom said. Without any time to think, they suddenly hear a buzzing frequency. They look around, and yet they see nothing. They hear a scream. “AHHHHHHHH!” The housewife screamed, being pierced by the neck. Dueiying, in shock, pushed her out of the plane and quickly retreated inside the plane while both Junji and Toji slammed the door shut. They were one person short. Knowing the vicious wasps outside, everybody lost hope. Even though they had tirelessly made their way to the exit, another problem awaited. Seeing his team’s morale down, Junji asks John if there is any presumable weakness to the wasp. John then opens his bag and flips through the multiple pages. “There!” John exclaimed. The multiple characteristics of wasps were written on the page, along with a delicate illustration. He then skimmed through each line, searching for helpful information he then pointed. Looking over his friend's shoulder, Junji read his friend's old tattered handwriting. In bold letters, it said wasps, being socializing insects and insects that develop utilizing teamwork, return to their nest at night to guard their sole monarch, the queen. We both exclaimed: “We just have to wait until night.” Behind Junji and John, the three men sat quietly from the window in the bright daylight. It was brilliant as a jewel, juxtaposing with reality. They could see the wasps taking the woman along with them as her head was popped with the viscous beak of its head. They heard a rumble in their stomachs. All of them had not eaten for almost a day now, and after the tiring digging they had to do, their hunger was insatiable. “There was a food cart I dug out near the back of the plane!” Then the construction worker shouted as he gladly recalled his memory. “Really?” Junji asked Junji received an affirmative response, and behind the construction worker, everybody hustled themselves back to the path they came from. They saw a silver tray full of drinks and snacks. The pre-cooked dishes were filled with flesh and were inedible, and therefore, after securing a large suitcase from a dead body, they quickly loaded their pockets. They then returned to the front of the plane and waited until sunset. After filling their stomachs with peanuts and coke, they looked outside and found it pitch dark. Not a single light was found. They peered out and found that they could no longer hear the buzzing frequency. They then slowly jumped off the plane and slowly made their way to the front door of the plane. They tried opening the door. However, because of the power outage, the door was sealed shut. Using the metal fire extinguisher, they smashed the door open. They walked through the shattered door. They turned on their flashlights using their cell phones. Duei Ying, Having recklessly used his phone to play games while resting, had no battery, and therefore, Junji and the construction worker led the way. They then found a large tunnel of darkness leading them deep into the ground. They avoided the tunnel only to find five giant ants that looked as striking as a creature from a nightmare. John immediately recognized them. “Wood ants,” he whispered. “Wood ants that big? What can they do?” Junji asked both curiously and fearfully. “They can spray acid over you, so make sure you stay alert,” said John with caution. Junji, believing it was better to find another way, told everybody to enter the hole. They, one by one, dropped in and began to navigate their way around the tunnel. Junji tightly grabbed onto the fire extinguisher further down. They then heard scattering. They stuck to the wall. A large ant had just passed them. More cautiously they proceeded to continue down the long dark shaft. They then faced a large intersection dividing between them. Not knowing where to go, John flipped a coin and landed on tails. They climbed up the narrow path and continued down the shaft as they saw a glimmer of light. “Light!” Duei-ying screamed excitedly. Then they heard rumbling, multiple ants feeling the vibration of Duei Ying’s jumping coming rushing to them. “You idiot!” The construction worker snapped. The ants came running and Junji and his friends began to make a sprint for the glimmer of light. They had finally found the airport shopping mall. The light was from a single television that for some reason had not lost power. They could see on the news that the wasps had reached the city and that the military had been slowly poisoning the wasps that came to the rural areas of the city. They then slowly began to unpack the blankets they packed from the plane. There were some red blemishes, however, they began to lay down on the cement floor. “Let's take shifts, so we can look out for other large insects” Junji suggested “Alright, I'll go first,” John replied. They then use their bags as pillows and have the fire extinguisher an accessible distance Junji and the others began to get comfortable as tomorrow they would make their way to the airport lounge. They had filled the exit hole with some rocks they found near so the ants could not enter. They then slowly began to drift away. The morning quickly arrived with Junji waking up first. “OH NO!!” Junji screamed Everybody hearing Junji's loud voice began to wake up. “What happened?” John asked still asleep “Duei Ying is GONE!” Junji replied quickly and in distress. They saw small white sticky substances near the top of the Duei-Ying blanket. John examined it and said it was spider webs. Realizing that the chance of finding Duei Ying Was extremely slim and also the fact that the spider could still be near Junji told everyone to quickly pack up as they would immediately head for the business lounge. They quickly took the escalator and made their way to the second floor. They then using the fire extinguisher again broke through the barricade of the airport lounge. As they peered to their right, they saw a large spider feasting on a dismembered Duei Ying. They all gasped in terror. “ Don’t touch the spider webs, Spiders can feel your vibration” John spoke quietly Junji, putting all of the information in his head, told everyone to follow him as he knew the exit’s location. They walked slowly to the opposite side of the Duei Ying feasting spider and saw the green exit sign. They then proceed in the direction of the green sign. The windows were completely enveloped in a thick webbing. They could smell the rotting flesh inside. They heard a loud thud. The construction worker had tripped on the webbing. The spider suddenly came rushing in their direction. “ RUN!!” Junji screamed. Everybody broke into a sprint, leaving everything behind. Junji, in a last-ditch effort, sprayed the fire extinguisher at the spider. The extinguisher had not helped and as the spider began to close in with Junji, The military officer had pushed Junji forward, losing his arm in the process. “Gahhhh” He groaned in agony. He, however, still persevered. The spider had stayed back devouring the officer’s hand. He’s losing too much blood! Junji thought. He then quickly wrapped his shirt around the soldier's arm to stop the blood loss. They then continued to reach for the exit. They opened the door and slammed it shut behind them. They could finally catch their breath. They were relieved. They descended the stairway and as they opened the door they saw outsiders. John and the construction worker began to cry. Tears of joy streamed down their faces. Another soldier began to notice them and quickly rushed over to help the injured man. Many others quickly rushed over. Junji and John then quickly said their farewell as Junji was going to go into surgery to save the man that saved his life. John wished him luck and riding the ambulance, Junji loaded the military soldier into the trunk and left. After 7 grueling hours of surgery, the man had pushed through. Junji finally caught his breath, sat down, and came to his hotel where John was already sleeping. He thought to himself I Made It! as he dozed off next to his friend.