The Disappearances of Rowland

"The Disappearances of Rowland" is the first episode of Updawn and the first episode of Season One.

Synopsis
In the early start of the summer in 1985, the town of Rowland is frightened when a demonic haunting clown feeds off the residents. Eight bullied children are forced to follow an adventure to stop it.

Plot
JUNE 1985 Rowland, Kansas

Over the town of Rowland, an 8-year-old boy is playing with his kite on the front yard of his house. A strong wind makes the kite fly off, the boy makes a run for it to get it back. But due to the strong wind, the kite flies fastly away to another street, he still follows it.

As he reaches the street, the kite is gone. But he hears a voice next to him telling him to come over. He sees a clown, with his kite, who introduces itself as Hamptus near the entrance of someone's backyard. He gestures the boy to come closer. When the boy gets closer to Hamptus, he kindly asks for his kite back, but instead Hamptus grabs his shoulders and bites his head.

The neighbor of the house exits the house by a childs scream. As she investigates the noise, terror fills her face after she finds a pool of blood near the entrance of her backyard. She runs back inside to call the Rowland Police Department.

Some days later, a bullied high schooler Allen Ampuratan along with his friends Nate Müller, Luke Demito, Pearson Rodham and Freddie Kellie finish class and run in trouble with an older bully Jason Gerzels and his gang of troubled teenagers.

Allen and his friends go to a convenience store called Grubby's Food and Co to get some snacks and magazines. Meanwhile, Amato Hashini, a young Japanese-American girl who is also bullied by many other girls in the same school is also in the convenience store buying snacks for her selfish brother and runs into Allen and his friends. As Allen leaves, he secretly starts to fall in love with her.

An overweight boy named Paolo Manluea who is bullied for being overweight rides around his bike and spots Jason and his gang riding from the distance with Barry Rawkhin's car. He makes a turn to another path to avoid getting into trouble with him. He stops near a tree to catch his breath from peddling. When he sees Hamptus inside someones house waving at him from a window, Hamptus widely opens his mouth, revealing his sharp teeth. This terrorizes Paolo causing him to ride off on his bike.

Inside her house, Amato arrives home. Her brother tells her to leave his snacks by the table beside him. As she goes to her room, she is disturbed by Hamptus's voice in the bathroom. She slowly enters to investigate where the voice was coming from. When she looks at the mirror, she sees Hamptus behind her with horrifying and disturbing red eyes and bloody teeth, but it was not there when she turned around. Terrified, she locks herself in her room and thinks about those boys she saw at the store, Allen mainly.

Meanwhile, Allen, Nate, Luke, Pearson and Freddie are wandering around the streets downtown. They inspect the missing posters of the victims in Rowland in an alley. However, none of them want to get involved in stuff like investigating as it could put them in danger and might end up missing too. The five boys separate on their way home.

On his way home, Nate is attacked by Hamptus in form of a decomposing rotten corpse. Allen discovers a book of a japanese poem called Tekasomo in the basement. While reading the poem out loud, he hears a voice of a Japanese woman behind him in the darkness of the basement. As the voice gets deeper, he is attacked by Hamptus in form of Tekasomo, the woman in the creepy poem. Luke is doing his History homework, distracted by a balloon flying over his window, he is attacked by Hamptus in a bigger version who teleports in his room and tries to kill him. Pearson is taking out the trash when he hears a voice coming from his backyard. He follows the voice leading him to his kitchen. As the voice fades away for a few seconds, he hears the voice again behind him and runs out of the room after seeing an undead deformed corpse of one of the missing victims. Hamptus finally goes after Freddie, who after playing an arcade game, attempts to kill him in form of a tall Gloomhag with decomposing skin and bloody discharged eyes.

The next day, Allen, Nate, Luke, Pearson and Freddie all meet up at a river beside the town of Rowland tramautised after being attacked by the same monster. All share each other stories of what they experienced the previous day. Paolo is ambushed by Jason and his gang, about to be beaten up and tortured, Paolo escapes and flees into the river chased after by Jason's gang. Paolo, all wet, stumbles across Allen and the boys who take Paolo to his house to help him clean up and get dressed, where they again meet and befriend Amato.

On her way home, Amato hears a voice from the storm drain. Curious, she approaches and looks over it. The voices speak again this time telling Amato to help them. Amato slowly approaches closer to the storm drain and looks closely in it. Suddenly, the hands of the deceased missing victims pop out of the storm drain trying to grab Amato, she backs away in time. The hands stick out further to her and blood starts to pour out of the gutter. Horrified, she runs off, the deceased missing victims's and the blood slide back into the storm drain. Later in the night: Allen enters the basement of his house, concerned if the japanese creature was still there. As he is about the exit the basement, he hears the womans voice speaking to him again, he sees her figure in the corner staring at him.

The seven children, who now formed and referred to themselves as "The Freaks Club", all realize that they are each being haunted by the same monster. They are now forced to find a way to stop Hamptus before it gets any further into Rowland residents.