Backrooms Entity Novels & Stories

Charles continued: “I am not asking forgiveness.” “Good,” both Annas said. At the same time. Lucas whispered: “Definitely family.” Adult Anna almost smiled. Tess interrupted. “The deeper layer is destabilizing.” Elena looked up. “Because we're observing it?” “Partly.” Jonathan shook his head. “No.” He enlarged the signal. “Entity One’s severance exposed it.” “What does that mean?” “Continuance used Entity One as its oldest persistence reference.” “When it left, the reference moved.”

Ward said to himself. After a short while, the clean up crew arrived and they started loading up the monster remains to the main base. "This must be the first time we encountered something like this ever since the founding of the city." "Yeah, this will take us hours to clean all of this even with the help of the defense troops and the machinery." … "Hey, hey, this day was so much fun." one of the captains said. "Well, this is the first time we had something like this. It was thrilling killing monsters one after the other right?!" another one replied.

From there it moved like a living thing, crawling towards the window, black tendrils in search of the light. The entity passed through the window and rolled down the hull until it made contact with the sea where it lost its properties, turning to a slick that spread on the surface, an oiled eddy that powered beneath the waves under its own volition. Down it went, where things long-lost waited to receive it; darkness becoming one with darkness. *** The doors to the waiting room opened with a squeak and a squelch, the fast, heavy footfalls as the Userkafs entered, making it clear to Beatrice something was wrong.

Slowly, Abigail got up from her seat and walked towards the back corner booth, it was the only one with a window that looked out into the alley, she wanted to see what was going on. Abigail could not hear anything that was said, but she could tell the conversation was anything but calm. Suddenly she saw it, Mr.Goldbergs eyes flashed yellow, and Daniel’s flashed the color of midnight. She could believe what she had just seen. Abigail was completely engrossed as she watched pitch black wings extrude from Daniels back, he was the epitome of Death in its purest form.

Like a heartbeat under floorboards. "I'm coming, Jaynayah," I gritted out, the words snatched away by the psychic wind. I took another step. The resistance doubled. The ground beneath my feet shifted. The hard, slick obsidian softened, turning into a thick, viscous tar. It grabbed at my boots, sucking me down to my ankles. It was cold, freezing cold, leaking a numbness that tried to crawl up my shins. THIS IS THE MIRE OF HISTORY, the Entity mocked, its red eyes glowing high above the fiery core. THE WEIGHT OF CENTURIES OF OPPRESSION. YOUR KIND BUILT THIS SWAMP. NOW DROWN IN IT.

“We’re invoking a procedure, Jake so don't make us cite the bedrock My stomach dropped.I knew that tone. It was the sound of a trap snapping shut. “No,” I said, though my voice lacked its previous fire. “You’re not.” The woman’s eyes gleamed. “We are.” She lifted a thin tablet, etched with markings so old they barely registered as language anymore. “Emergent entity clause. Pre-pack. Pre-alpha. Pre-keeper.” I stared at it. “That clause was retired after the great culling.” “It was buried, not erased,” she corrected. I could hear my own heartbeat now slow and heavy.

Then for the first time it answered without certainty. …Unexpected interpretation. Nathan stepped closer again. “You’re wrong about her,” he said. “You’re wrong about all of this.” The entity turned slightly toward him. And then the darkness behind it shifted. Something else was coming through. Something older than even it. Ryker’s face changed instantly. “…No…” Ethan stepped back. “What now?” The entity’s voice lowered slightly. Correction layer activation detected. The white cracked again. And from beyond it another presence began to form.

Then it smiled. “You’re still too late.” Its body exploded with dark energy. Lyra jumped back as the creature ripped itself off her blade. Its wounds were already closing. “You can’t kill what’s already been reborn.” Lyra frowned. “What?” The creature pointed upward. “The moment the prison cracks… we are reborn.” Her system flashed again. [ANALYSIS COMPLETE] [ENTITY CORE DETECTED] Lyra’s eyes narrowed. “…Core?” A red marker appeared on the creature’s chest.

She was preparing to deliver her final killing blow, urging the courts to make an example of me, the social degenerate. Then it happened. The giant screen behind her flickered. Without warning, the giant LCD screen behind her flickered and changed. Her tear-streaked face disappeared from the screen. A black player interface took its place. Moments later, a crystal-clear audio recording blared through the speakers, reaching every corner of the hall and every livestream. The voices in the recording belonged to two people.

The Jun-Entity flickered, its features dissolving into static as its source code was ripped away. "Elara, stop! Your brain will fry!" Mina screamed, covering her ears as the Acoustic-Feedback (the high-pitched screech of overloaded systems) filled the room. Elara didn't stop. She felt her skull splitting, her identity being crushed under the weight of a hundred dead worlds. But she held on. She saw the "Remnants" in their cocoons outside start to glow with a soft, natural light—the ship’s parasitic grip was breaking. They were no longer batteries; they were just bodies again.