Lion Dojo

Working Title: Fu from Beyond the Computer

Ghost Attacks People

For the longest time, I figured this story happened because of the 2008 housing crisis.

Like the housing crisis, the important decisions were made long before anything started to go wrong. The year was 2006, I was fourteen years old, and my family thought the housing bubble would never end. My parents had bought a new house with their money, not too far from the old one, but farther from the offices.

To celebrate, my parents decided to buy something for me. At that time, I didn't actually want to buy anything, so I scoured the store for the cheapest possible thing. Finally, I found it: a flimsy DVD case with an eerie bat face on it titled "The Bat King of Bats". It cost 75 cents, and even though my parents insisted I buy something else, they finally caved after I attempted to buy school supplies.

I was the only one watching as the Digiview Entertainment logo played, because my parents refused to watch it with me. After that intro, the film started with what sounded like someone talking in a noisy, crowded room. As much as I strained my ears, I couldn't understand what they were saying.

After about five minutes of this, I gave up. But when I pointed the remote at the screen, the noise became a high-pitched screech at least three times louder. A grey half-melted face lunged at me from behind the screen. I