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  • Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
  • Theme: Horror
  • Subject: Horror / Scary
  • Published: 01/16/2026

Tournament Of Terror R1:Dragis VS Maniac

By Josiah Boxum
Born 2009, M, from Russell Kansas, United States

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A comfortable night in the middle of a beautiful Kansas pasture. Birds were chirping, almost as if watching something or talking to one another. The wind was blowing eerily, making a sort of dull whistling sound.
The group of cheerleaders took a moment to appreciate the view before setting up their post-state championship picnic. It had been their school’s first victory in a decade, and they were going to celebrate on this beautiful night! They finished setting up and began eating.
After a while, the 5 girls looked around and saw the UGLIEST looking man they ever saw, but didn’t care much other than the fact that he looked worse than a melted corpse, and the natural primordial fear of seeing someone so disturbing.
The creep was inhumanly tall and heavy, roughly 7 feet, 410-420 pounds. Up close, the girls would have noticed it was a combination of muscle and fat. That was highly unusual for where they were from, as they were used to skinny nerds or bulking jocks.
His skin was similar to a zombie's, hanging off him in some parts, firm in others, and even gone in a few places. And it was yellow-white and pale, which couldn’t be told by the moonlight. And was also the same color as his hair and eyes.
“Eww, look at that FREAK!,” said one of the girls that didn’t immediately look away, giggling. Then they noticed his face. It had very large, wide eyes and a long, sinister grin, with wild hair rivaling Einstein’s, and a very loud, cold, and high-pitched laugh.
At this point, the girls knew they shouldn’t be there. They didn’t notice that he also had a large sledgehammer with a ½ foot long metal spike on each end until he started sprinting at them, swinging his bloody hammer wildly! And his name was Maniac, which one of the girls saw on the hammer part of the weapon.
The girls, unable to look at him any more and concluding that he was probably retarted and should move away from him, picked up their things and quickly walked to another spot. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t look back.
Maniac began sprinting at the girls with surprising speed, considering how out of shape he looked, and was swinging his hammer wildly! Somehow, despite the fact that he was laughing like an insane person and sprinting towards them, they didn’t notice. Until they remembered they were forgetting someone and turned around.
The first hit was a direct hit to one of the girl’s heads. She died the moment the hammer made contact with her head; her skull was instantly crushed and her entire head flew from its body as well as her entire spine.
The other girls were sprinting away from that crazy motherf**ker at that point, their only concern being their own survival. Well, aside from the one that had her friend’s skull bust through her heart and lungs a moment later. That sent the girls into a full blown, nightmare-level panic mode.
A few miles away, a hideous creature could smell the blood, taste the delicious violence. It opened its red snake-like eyes and grinned its bloody mouth, revealing 3 rows of long, sharp pointed teeth!
Without wasting a moment, Dragis spread his powerful paper-like wings and shot up in the air. He snarled and looked for carnage, and found it quickly. Maniac noticed him,too, but misinterpreted Dragis as a weird looking bird.
It wasn’t until Maniac literally flattened one of the girls that he noticed something was wrong. Not because he was a mass murderer that would have made Jeffery Dahmer and Ted Buddy run and hide. No, it was the fact that for some reason, his feet weren’t touching the ground!
He looked up and saw the bird-man-creature thing carrying him higher and higher into the air, and Maniac didn’t like being touched without his permission! He swung his hammer until he hit Dragis in the eye, causing the demon-like creature to let go.
However, Maniac was still swinging wildly, not realizing he wasn’t being held anymore until he fell face-first into the ground. Not even slightly bothered by the death defying moment, Maniac stood and began looking for the bird-man. Then, sensing Dragis behind him, he quickly turned around, grabbed Dragis by the throat, and threw him a good 20 feet into the woods before pursuing his original victims again.
Dragis was in absolute shock. This was supposed to be a quick snatch-and-grab. Simple. Efficient. Ruthless. But thus far he had only received a sledgehammer to the eye! It didn’t help that he wasn’t used to being thrown around like a football by a fatass with a hammer, either. That in particular made this very, very personal.
Dragis opened his mouth and let out the loudest, scratchiest, impossible sounding shockwave aimed not at Maniac, but his victims. Naturally, the moment the shockwave hit them they popped like balloons, splattering their chaser, Maniac, in their blood and bones.
Maniac stopped dead in his tracks, pun intended. He touched his face and felt the blood of his would-be victims, then wiped it off. He looked around for a bit, wondering how he did that, and then it occurred to him that he DIDN’T do that, even though they were supposed to be his victims. He turned around slowly, slightly growling when he saw Dragis.
“Wrauahaaaaa!!!” Maniac walked to his nearby shed, picked up his 3-bladed steel chainsaw and his steel chain, put the chainsaw on his back, and began sprinting furiously towards Dragis, who was also flying towards Maniac!
Maniac threw his chain at Dragis, aiming directly at his heart. Dragis sidestepped the chain and grabbed the middle of it to throw Maniac, who was still holding onto the other end. Maniac, in turn, delivered a brutal blow to the back of Dragis’s head, which made the demon go cross-eyed for a second as Maniac crashed behind him after being thrown.
By the time Dragis recovered, he was having one of his wings sawed off! Maniac was determined to slowly pull the bird-man apart, piece by piece. Unknown to Maniac, Dragis was ruled by the pain of himself and others, but he also knew when enough was enough for him.
Dragis bit him hard and deep in the neck and ripped the piece off! After not even noticing for a second, Maniac suddenly screamed his blood curling scream! Maniac grabbed the back of Dragis’s throat and attempted to do the same thing Dragis did to him but with his hand. However, he underestimated his strength and ripped off the demon's head! And with that brutal action, Maniac won the first round in the Tournament of Terror!
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Kankana Kriti

01/17/2026

This is a dark and intense story. It's a thrilling and unsettling tale !!

This is a dark and intense story. It's a thrilling and unsettling tale !!

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Kankana Kriti

01/18/2026

Sure would love to read more of these !!

Sure would love to read more of these !!

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Josiah Boxum

01/17/2026

Should I make another one?1

Should I make another one?1

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Josiah Boxum

01/17/2026

THANKS!!!

THANKS!!!

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Denise Arnault

01/16/2026

That was more gory than I personally prefer but the action detail was creative. I think the story would benefit from more dialogue explaining how the characters felt about what was happening. Not a bad story over all but it feels like it needs more work to be complete.

That was more gory than I personally prefer but the action detail was creative. I think the story would benefit from more dialogue explaining how the characters felt about what was happening. Not a bad story over all but it feels like it needs more work to be complete.

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Josiah Boxum

01/16/2026

I plan too! Thanks! Okay, now say there was a rematch that actually explains how they got there and what each of them was thinking?!

I plan too! Thanks! Okay, now say there was a rematch that actually explains how they got there and what each of them was thinking?!

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Josiah Boxum

01/16/2026

Cool!

Cool!

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