Merciless | A Sidemen Horror Story

Chapter 1

It was a late night at the Sidemen house. Vik, Simon, JJ, and Josh were all up in their rooms working hard editing their videos ready to be uploaded for the following day.

The atmosphere around the house was silent, apart from the occasional shouting coming from JJ's room, but that was a normal occurrence that everybody was used to.

It wasn't a normal night for Vik, he was feeling tired at 2:00 am which isn't his normal sleeping pattern, he normally feels tired and falls asleep at 8:00 am but this wasn't the case tonight. Vik was staring into space at the bright light being projected from his computer screens, falling in and out of consciousness.

Vik then cast his full attention at the half-edited video loaded on his screen. It was a GTA video with Josh and Simon, and it never fails to make his viewers laugh. Vik loved producing content that his viewers loved to watch and when he would finally upload a video, after hours of editing, he would feel an overwhelming amount of satisfaction and happiness inside.

But tonight he wasn't feeling himself.

Vik decided to go downstairs and grab a Red Ball, it isn't his normal choice of drink but he needed a big boost of energy so he could finish his editing.

He made his way to the fridge and bent down to grab the drink from the bottom shelf, it was tucked away behind a leftover bag of chicken from Nandos. Typical.

As he wrapped his fingers around the ice cold drink he heard loud rustling noises coming from outside the window. he bolted up in shock and walked over to the window to investigate.

But nothing. just darkness.

Vik's head was whizzing with different explanations of what it could have been. could be the neighbor's dog or could've been the wind against the trees, Vik brushed off those thoughts and made his way back up to his room.

Half way up the stairs he heard creaking and tapping sounds coming from above him, Vik was starting to get worried now as he has never heard these noises before at this time at night, he bent his head to look around his surroundings.

but nothing again.

He stands anxiously outside his bedroom door, looking one last time around him for anything suspicious. water started running down his hand due to Vik's sweaty palms wrapped tightly around the cold Red Ball.

He entered his room and walked slowly towards his desk and sits himself down, as he's about to crack open the Red Ball he hears the same tapping sounds from earlier. Vik was sat paralyzed in fear, he is now fully awake at this moment.

his ears follow the sound and his senses tell him that it is coming from his bathroom, Vik looks the closed door up and down, unsure on what to do, his head tells him that it's probably just water leaking out the tap and it's nothing to worry about.

He turns around and faces the screens, about to continue his editing, when his thoughts were interrupted by his phone ringing. who would phone me at this time? he turns the phone around to see who was calling. 'Unknown' Vik was intrigued so he decided to answer.

"U-um who is this?" Vik stuttered.

"Hello, Vikkstar!" The voice was deep and unrecognizable to him.

"Who is this?" Vik questioned.

"You tell me, Vik," the caller said in an amused tone of voice.

"Sorry I don't know who you are."

"What's your favourite scary movie?" The caller asked.

"Um, I don't watch scary movies, sorry. and um who is this?" Vik was confused at why the caller would ask this question, and he was starting to think it was a prank by someone in the house.

"Josh, is this you? because I really need to edit right now." Vik said in frustration.

"My name isn't Josh Vik."

"Is your name Simon, Harry, JJ, Tobi or Ethan by any chance?" Vik said bluntly.

"No Vik." the caller cackled at the end of the phone in amusement.

"Then who are you?" anger was starting to bubble up in Vik, which rarely happens to him.

"Why don't you check your bathroom." as soon all the caller said these words, wave after wave of anxiety and fear hit him straight in the face. he didn't know what to do, he turned on his chair and stared closely at the door, his hand trembling trying to come up with something to say to the mystery caller.

"W-what do you mean-n?" Vik stuttered in fear then the call ended. a long buzz sound was played on the phone, triggering a feeling that Vik has never felt before.

He decided to face his fears and stand up and walk slowly towards the door, he kept hesitating in every step, half way to the bathroom he dropped his phone on the floor without even realizing it, he was so numb with fear he didn't even notice.

as he approached the door, the tapping got louder each step he took, he placed his hand on the handle and turned it slowly, trembling with each turn. he closed his eyes and opened the door half-way, a gasp slipped from his lips as he was mentally preparing for what he was about to see.

But there was nobody there, just an empty bathroom.

he slowly opened his eyes to reveal what was lurking in the room, as he looked around the room he noticed the tap was leaking with water and he didn't turn it off properly. Vik huffed in frustration as this was all a joke and he was scared for nothing.

He walked over to the tap and switched it off properly, as he did so he felt a cold breeze tickle his neck and a dark object in the corner of his eye.

As he looked up he was horrified at what he was staring at.

Vik was greeted by a person all dressed in black with a black cloth mask covering their face, as Vik's eyes drifted down the person he noticed that they were holding a shiny rectangular object, fitting the description of a butcher knife.

Before Vik could open his mouth to scream, he saw the person lunge at him at full speed grabbing his mouth so he couldn't be heard by the rest of the guys.

Vik looked up at the persons face with tears running down his face in horror. before he could fight back, the large butcher knife came crashing towards his face and collided with his dark brown eye. tiers now being replaced with blood as it was pouring out of his eyes like a waterfall. then blood started overflowing and spitting out of his trembling mouth once the killer removed his freezing strong hand.

The killer stood back and admired the pain and suffering this poor innocent man was going through. you could notice a grin forming on the killers face under the mask because of the thin cloth slowly curving up, suggesting that they were impressed at how this all turned out for them.

Vik crashed to the floor on his knees, never taking his only visible eye of the killer. his blood was running down his body at a fast pace and he didn't have much time left on this earth.

He slowly lied down on the floor in defeat as the excruciating pain was getting the best of him, his body was shutting down and he was seeing white blurry patches on the ceiling

he was almost dead when the killer leaned over his body and removed their mask, revealing who they were to Vik.

Vik's last ever memory was him using his only eye and making eye contact with the human that ended his life so soon.