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The Rip
Last Updated : 2026-05-31
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Crescent Cove: Where the Tide Brings Death Gabe Mitchell once wore a badge with pride—until the night everything was ripped from him: his career, his marriage, and nearly his sanity. Now working as a private investigator and nursing an old bottle of whiskey, Gabe finds himself dragged back into the shadows of law enforcement when a series of brutal murders rocks the quiet coastal town of Crescent Cove. The victims? Teenagers. The method? Slashed throats, hollow eyes. And the message? Always the same—“The Rip” scrawled in blood near the bodies. But when the latest victim turns out to be one of his son Nick’s closest friends, Gabe is forced to confront the nightmare head-on. Each death brings the killer closer to Nick—and the line between man and monster grows harder to see. The deeper Gabe digs, the stranger things get: whispered legends of an ancient sea demon, occult symbols etched into driftwood, and eyes watching from the waves. The truth may not just threaten his son’s life—but the soul of the town itself. Now Gabe must uncover the darkness hiding beneath Crescent Cove before the tide rolls in again… and takes Nick with it.
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The Rip 32 The final battle
Behind the main school building, near the water mains, a low, unnatural vibration hummed from beneath the ground. The pipes began to shudder, rattling violently as unseen pressure built within. Joints strained, bolts groaned, and then—CRACK!Water exploded from the connections, gushing out in high-pressure bursts as something surged through the system and forced its way into the building.All at once, the school’s watering systems flared to life—spraying jets of water high into the air, their trajectories eerily aligned, all aimed in the direction of the gymnasium.Inside every school building, sinks, toilets, and utility rooms erupted. Faucets blasted open, showers turned into geysers, and pipes burst in fountains of chaos.Windows shattered outward as entire classrooms were gutted by forceful blasts of water, sending glass and debris into the air.The school was vomiting water in every direction—The demon had arrived.And it was hunting.Inside the gym, rock and roll blasted from
Last Updated : 2026-05-31The Rip 31 To face your demons
The Zodiac finally hit the sand with a jarring thud. Gabe and Nick clambered out, boots sinking into the wet shoreline. They both turned and watched in grim silence as the remains of Zodiac One were dragged beneath the surface in a tremendous splash.Gabe glanced at his son, whose wide, vacant stare betrayed the utter shattering of everything he thought he knew.“Now… do you believe me?”Nick didn’t speak. His face said it all.Gabe followed the ripple on the surface—watched as the monstrous current began shifting, creeping slowly away from the wreckage.“It’s moving,” he muttered.They both stared as the rip surged inland, crawling like a living thing toward the town… toward the high school grounds.Nick’s eyes went wide.“Oh, no… the formal!”He could see it clearly now: the school gym packed with over a hundred people—his friends, Rachel, Prue, Dean… all of them.Gabe caught the urgency in his son’s voice.Nick turned to him. “We’ve gotta go. We have to warn them—Rachel and Dean… t
Last Updated : 2026-05-31The Rip 30 What could have done it?
Nick didn’t answer. He just stared at Gabe, jaw tight, breathing through his nose like he was bracing for a punch.Susan laid the satellite printout on the bench between the kettle and the fruit bowl. Glossy paper slid over stray droplets Nick had splashed when he’d rinsed his mouth. She pinned the corners with whatever was close—an empty mug, a salt shaker, her phone, a sealed evidence pouch with a single hair inside.“Look,” she said.It wasn’t just a map. It was layered—shoreline, sewer grid, stormwater, mains. Over that: heat blooms, IR traces, EM spikes. A dotted thread began at Crescent Cove, curled past the wharf, then split like veins—one toward the school, one along the apartment blocks that climbed the hill.“These aren’t random hits,” Susan said. “They’re recency-weighted. Last forty-eight hours, brightest to oldest. School pool lights up like a Christmas tree—Jasmine, Nathan. Then this building—fifteen minutes before the call came in. Two signatures. They move through the
Last Updated : 2026-05-27The Rip 29 Gabe’s Apology
The shrill ring of Nick’s mobile phone shattered the stillness of the bedroom.The room was dim, lit only by the soft amber glow of a streetlight filtering through the blinds. Boxes of clothes still lined the walls—half-unpacked, a sign of a new life in motion. A queen-sized bed sat at the centre, flanked by mismatched bedside tables. It was a modest space, but it was theirs.Nick stirred, groaning. His left arm was draped across Rachel’s waist. He shifted carefully, reaching for the phone on the bedside table.“Hello?” he mumbled, rubbing sleep from his eyes.Gabe’s voice came through the speaker—quiet, but alert beneath the gravel of sleep.“Nick… it’s me. I just got off the phone with Dean. He sounded… off. Something’s happened. Something bad. The message was scrambled, but he mentioned Travis and Lisa. I’m on my way—I’ll be there in half an hour.”Nick blinked hard, forcing his brain to catch up. His father’s tone stirred something uneasy in him. He didn’t trust easily—not Gabe, n
Last Updated : 2026-05-27The Rip 3 Steak and Sunlight
The smell of grilled meat and hot coffee clung to the air of the small-town diner. Gabe and Joanne sat across from each other in their police uniforms, a quiet comfort between them as the late afternoon crowd murmured around them. The sun streamed through the wide windows, glinting off the silver b
The Rip 2 Nick
One Month Earlier — Period 4: Psych TalkThe classroom was a sauna with posters. Sun hammered the windows; the box fan in the corner coughed warm air and a bit of dust onto a row of Year 11s already half-feral from the heat. At the front, John Knotts—navy suit, shiny shoes, thick glasses, every inc
The Rip 1 The Crescent
On weekends, the local beach hut called The Crescent is busy as hell. It’s the only decent place in town to get a beer, a half-decent meal, and a view that makes the world seem a little less cruel. But today isn’t a weekend. It’s a weekday. Lunchtime, to be exact. And yet, here I am.A drunken midd
The Rip Prologue
Eons before the Earth became lush and green—before the rise of forests, oceans, and the dominion of man—the world was a scorched and barren wasteland, ruled by creatures of terrifying legend. In that primordial time, fourteen realms divided the known universe, each governed by deities and demonic e
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