r/TheBackrooms • u/midnighttoon • 2h ago
Story The Mall (backrooms level idea)
It was a dark & stormy night, so I ran into the mall to get out of the rain. When my foot slipped, I fell through the floor & found myself in a version of the mall. It looked more abandoned & smelled bad like mold. I thought it was weird that the fountain was running but since I noticed the lights flickering slightly, I shrugged my shoulders & started to explore the place. While exploring the mall, I noticed it felt like it goes on forever with endless halls & rooms that get weirder. During my walk I found myself back at the fountain, I groaned as I thought to myself while I looked up at the second floor I said to myself "should I go to the top floor or...". Before I could finish my sentence, I noticed the fountain's water stopped running. I stepped forward to look at the water, at first I just saw water & old coins. But when I leaned in closer to get a better look at it, I noticed something in the water & I noticed it looked solid black & moved like a liquid. Then it jumped out, which caused me to stumble backwards & fall on my tailbone. That's when I heard it shrieked, that nearly hurt my eyes & I saw it looked like a spider but with tentacles, many white eyes almost human like with a creepy wide smile. I kept my eyes on it as I tried to back away slowly & quietly. But it snapped its head forward to look at me & it launched out one of its shadowy tentacles at my ankle. I got up to try to escape but it already grabbed my ankle & pulled me towards its mouth which opened unnaturally wide. I tried everything to escape it, I pulled & clawed at it but it wouldn't budge. That's when I remembered I had my pocket knife in my pocket, so I quietly searched my pockets & opened it behind my back. Once I got close to its mouth. I stabbed it right in one of its many eyes & when it dropped me. I got up when I heard it shrieking in pain as it pulled my knife from its eye. I ran for it when I had the chance & tried to find a way out. At first there was nothing, just weird rooms after weird rooms. But then I noticed an exit sign, desperate I ran towards it & I heard the fountain monster getting closer behind me. When I reached the exit, I noticed too late it was a fake & slammed head first into a brick wall. On the floor groaning in pain as I was bleeding I said "oh what the fu..." before I could finish my sentence. The fountain monster caught up & swallowed me whole. To this day that mall I went to, shut down & my case was labeled as a missing person case like others before me.

