text: The General Himself The Face Keeper A town built on top of fire. 
   
   
     
   		The Face Keeper 
  		Written by Scotty Hicks 
  Deep within the woods that seem to consume West Virgina lived a old man that everyone knew only as the face keeper. He was said to be a metal patient that broke out of the insane silo about 20 years ago.No one knew why he broke out or if he even lived in the woods but no one would ever try to find him.A group of teenagers went camping but never returned,it's said that the face keeper caught them and torn their face off to put in his collection. This man was truly from the deepest pit of hell and would never be stopped. There has been people over the years that have tired to burn the woods, forcing him to leave and never return but it never worked.How can you catch a man that your not even sure is even alive anymore. One day about three years ago the police captain's daughter went missing.The captain tired to find her and had every police officer he could get helping him. She was never fount and after a while everyone blamed the Face Keeper for it.They blamed him because the last time she was saw was going into the woods where he is said to live. The captain lost his job because he shot a young man coming out of the woods,he thought it was the face keeper.The doctors that took care of the face keeper or Jack Ryan said that he had a book that was fount in his house that had human faces in it. He had ripped off faces of real people and kept them in a book like you would lives or something like that. The police tried to charge him with murder and put him in prison for the rest of his natural life but the insane silo doctor would not let them.The court ruled in the doctor's favor and said the this sick man was to remain in the silo for the rest of his life. They people were not at all pleased with what the judge said and later he was fount dead in his home. After a while the people of this small town started to thank that someone killed the judge in his home because of how he handled the sick and twisted killer. This town was built by the coal companies and once consumed it and now it was nothing more than a waste land.It didn't have anything to offer new companies or people to live here, it only had one store in the whole town that made its living by selling cigarettes and beer. Everyone in this town smoked and drank even the children. The one known as the face keeper was said to have been a doctor himself years ago but became up sect with other people's faces.He would take a large knife and cut the faces off the dead bodies in the city morgue and add them to his collection.It took the town's people a while to find out what he was doing but when they did they were very angry and tried to kill him.They forced him into the woods to live alone forever. When he would get hungry he would have to kill and eat whatever he could find out there. Most of the time he would eat worms and dead deer that he fount. This caused him to become very dirty and deformed. He would catch the people in the woods that were camping or hiking and kill them with his large knife. It used to be a butcher's knife and had a large blade that was used to cut the meat. After the judge was killed the police were on alert at all times for his killer but was never caught.The chief of police was fount with out his face about six months after the judge was killed. What was this sick person doing with the faces of the town's people.Was he using them as masks and wearing them or was he eating them for food. These were some of the thoughts that ran through the people's heads as they watched this faceless man be taken out of his home and put into a big black body bag. What was they going to do about this,they had to do something or all of them would most likely be killed.A group of old army men started a group and armed them with guns and flashlights.They sent out into the woods in search of this man but they would soon find themselves caught in the middle of the devil's playground.The group was made up of four people two army medic and two front line men. They were more than able to handle themselves if things got out of hand.They went into the middle of the woods and set up camp.The group didn't plan to leave until they fount this man and killed him.The group called themselves the black eagle and knew that the whole town was counting on them to get this man be for he could kill again. Jack was the head of the group and the most fearless man you will ever meet in your life, he killed a whole squad of Germans in WWII. Jimmy was the other front line man from WWII and we knew what he had to do. If they caught this man he was going to take his knife and cut his eyes out of his head. Jimmy went to take a piss about five minutes away from the camp.As he unzipped his paints and started to piss we couldn't help but thank that someone or something was watching him.He knew it had to be just his mind playing ticks on him  and finished pissing.As he headed back to camp he walked under a large tree and BANG something hit him in the head.It was a head of a young girl but her face was missing only blood,bones,and veins remained. He dropped the head and grabbed his gun.He fired off about seven shots to alert the others of what was going on. They loaded their guns and took of towards the sound of the gun shots. when the others got there they saw their friend with a tree limb sticking through his chest. He was dead but they noticed that his face was not missing.They pulled the man off the tree and fount a note carved into his back it read"I'm coming for the rest of you!"They didn't know what to do for him so they just left him there and went back to the camp. Upon reaching the camp they saw a large man with a very big knife in his hands.They unloaded their weapons on him but he dodged everyone of them.He charged them and one by one slit their throats.He dragged them back to his shack and hung them from the roof like a deer. Once he cut them open so all of their blood would drain out he cut their faces off and put them into his book. The people of the town knew that the group should have been back by now but they weren't. They couldn't help but thank the worst,they were dead and now the keeper was coming for them.They thought that he would kill them one by one just like he did the group.They went to the police station,the only place in the whole town that he bars on the windows and some place they could protect themselves or so they thought. Once they town's people got there they went to the radio room and tried to raise someone on the radio. There were only ten of them left in the whole town and it was winter time witch means that they wouldn't get the radio to work good enough to let the outside world know what was going on.The face keeper knew where they were all at he could smell them but he didn't go into the station yet.He knew that is they did luck up and get someone on the radio that there would be more people coming with guns and he would be killed. This town had a big problem it was built old coal mines.The whole town would burn from the ground up if someone would set charges to blow up the main mines and that is what the keeper had planed to do.He knew that once the snow left and the weather got better that there would be more people coming into the town and find his work.He set the charges to blow up once his heart rate went below normal.He had linked the dynamite to his heart monitor.If he was killed the charges would go off and the whole town would be on fire faster than anyone could get out! After doing this he headed back to the station to take care of the rest of the people. He kicked in the front door and they heard him so they locked themselves in the cells to keep him from getting them.This just made it easier for him to kill them because now they had not where or way to run.He told them that it was because of them that made him live in the woods for so long and eat thing they could not even imagine. He would stab them in the legs,arms,back, and hands but not enough to kill them.There was only one person that wasn't locked in the cells,Rick the town's mayor.He heard the screams of the people and went to get his gun.When he saw what this son of a bitch was doing to them he cocked his shot gun and just be for he pulled the trigger the keeper told him that he can not kill him that their lives depended on his life. The mayor didn't want to hear any of this and shot his chest out. Just be for the face keeper died he told them that their lives deepened on his but didn't tell them why.My heart monitor is linked to about fourteen charges on the main coal mines in this town, when it hits zero this town will burn for the underground up and kill everyone and everything here.BANG! The charges went and the people unlocked the cells and ran outside but they could already feel the fire under their feet as they ran. When the opened the door to the police station they couldn't believe what they saw.The whole town was burning and nothing could have stopped it. As the fires from the coal mines burned the people's skin began to melt and you could hear the scream for miles. This is the story of the Face Keeper. To this day that town is still on fire and will be for years to come.  
            		The End 
  "When fire consumes your soul only the devil can put you out" 
   
   
   
   Publication Date: July 17th 2010 https://www.bookrix.com/-generalhicks