One dark halloween night, four boys were walking back from a big high school party. They were very popular boys and were always doing things to be even more popular. As they walked past the old, so-called "haunted" graveyard, two of the boys began to talk about the statue of Victor Velnore, the fingerless killer. They were talking to the others in spooky voices saying, "Oh, didn't you hear? He finds a new teenager every halloween night, kills them, and cuts off their fingers, but just four."
The other boys just shrugged it off, but one said, "Oh, nobody needs a liar, that's just some joke."
"Oh, is it now!" said the other boys. " Well then , why don't you go prove that it is not true. Go get an axe, go in the graveyard, walk around his statue once, say his name twice, and then chop off four of the statue's fingers with the axe."
The other boys Johnny and Kyle were actually starting to shake in their boots. Then they toughened up and said, "Okay, we'll do it. No Problem!"
They went home, got an axe, and made their way back to the graveyard to meet the other boys, Ryan and Alex.
When Johnny and Kyle got to the graveyard, the rusty old gate squeaked open on it's own. A big howling gust of wind rustled the leaves, owls hooted, and the fog became thick.
As they walked down the dirt path, Johnny said to Kyle,"I'm not sure we should do this," and he walked out on Kyle.
Kyle replied, "Oh , you wimp. I don't need you anyway!"
Kyle arrived to see the big grime-covered gravestone staring him dead in the eye. Kyle whispered, "Maybe Johnny was right." Then he said, "Nah , I'll be tough and do it." He walked around the statue once and then he said, "Victor, Velnore." He chopped the fingers off, slice, slice, chop, chop. Then he ran, tumbled over a root, and fell onto his stomach. The axe went through the seam of his shirt. He tried to get up and run, but he thought Victore was holding onto his shirt. Kyle died of fright.
Right after the three other boys heard a heartwrenching roar for help, the three boys came running and saw him laying there. They flipped him onto his back and his eyes were wide open and his face was as white as a ghost. Alex, Ryan and Johnny all said at the same time, "HE'S DEAD!!!" Everything went dead silent. The boys turned around and the four fingers that were laying on the ground were in the shape of two V's, Victor Velnore.
I guess being tough was the worst thing Kyle did in his former life!
