Chapter 1
Abandoned Factory
"Are you ready?" your friend asks you. "I don't know. This place is creepy," you reply. "Yeah, but there's 3 of us. Nothing can go wrong," your other friend replies. You decide that they are right, and enter the factory. Your goal is to find the type of ghost, as it has terrorized the past owner. You have permission to enter and were given the key. You have all of your gear to find a ghost. A ghost reader, thermometer, spiritual system, a book, orb spectacles, and a portable camera connected to a tablet. "How do we use these things?" friend 2 asks you. "For the ghost reader there are 5 lights. Each indicates something different. 1 light means we are safe. 2 means we are in a room the ghost mainly resides in. 3 or 4 means paranormal activity. 5... 5 means we'll get to that later. For the thermometer, we can track the temperatures to see the rooms the ghost likes. We can also use this for evidence. The spiritual system can tell if a spirit interacts with things. The book helps to see if the ghost wrote anything. The orb spectcles show us orbs if there are any. The camera and tablet show ghosts. Each of these shows a piece of evidence. Once we have three pieces, we have our ghost," you reply. "That's a lot to take in. Anyway, who takes what?" friend 2 asks. "I'll take the reader and spiritual system," you say. "I'll take the thermometer and book." friend 2 says. "Guess I'm stuck with the orb spectacles and camera." friend 1 says. You begin to split up, using your equipment.
You enter the main office. You hear a concerning noise coming from the ghost reader. The dots. There are two. "Guys! I found the favorite room!" you yell. "Cool! Which room and what does that mean?" friend 2 yells back. "The main office. Higher paranormal activity." you reply. Right then, you hear a crash. Glass shattered. From a window? The factory is pretty big. Three floors. You leave the office and look for glass. On the floor, there are shiny pieces. "What was that?" friend 2 asks. "I don't know. This might be a violent ghost" you reply. You continue on, searching for more clues. "How many pieces of evidence do we need?" friend 1 asks. "3. We have a bunch of things that could be." you reply. "What are they?" friend 1 asks. "Let me check this online notebook. You guys should have one too." you reply. You search the book, looking for evidence pieces. "I found it. Fingerprints, orbs, spirit communication, 5 lights on reader, writing, and freezing temperatures." you call out. "Most of these are found in the favorite room. Come over here" you say. Once you guys meet up, you discuss a plan.
You turn on the spirit system and ask the ghost its age. You here a faint voice reply 24. "Add that to our notebook. Who can it be?" you ask. "A bunch of ghosts. Spirit, demon, jinn, yueri, phantom, egui, mare, and wendigo." friend 1 says to you and friend 2. Oh no. Your stomach sinks. "A wendigo, mare, phantom, egui, and even demon?" you ask. "Yeah. What's the big deal?" friend 2 replies. "Each of those aren't very bad. You guys know the ghosts can... harm us right?" you say to them. "Oh no" friend 1 replies. "Well, what is each ghost's different perk." friend 2 asks. "Wendigo will makes us go insane and will eventually kill us. The mare hunts when lights are out. We have to find the power generator. The phantom and demon are very violent ghosts. The egui targets an item one of us posses." you say to your friends. You saw that their faces were normal, until you mentioned what the egui does.
Ghost white. Right then, you hear a violent beeping. You look at your reader and see it with 5 lights. "Uh guys? There is violent activity here." you say. "Add it to the notebook." friend 1 says. Once you do, there are only two options left. The phantom and the egui. Friend 2 puts on the orb spectacles. Friend 1 puts the book down on the floor. A few minutes go by, and you here a crash and see glass on the floor from the office window. "Guys! I saw an orb!" friend 1 calls out. You out it in to the notebook and see that it is a phantom. Looking at each other, you all grab the stuff you brought, race to the car, get in, and drive off. "Nice job guys" you finally say. "Yeah, that was entertaining." friend 1 says. "We should go somewhere else this time" friend 2 says. "We already are" you say. You continue driving for around 15 minutes, and finally reach your next destination. An arcade. Not any arcade however. Your main meet up. Arnold's Arcade
Chapter 2
Arnold's Arcade
As you pull into the parking lot, this thing looks massive. Since you were given permission, you enter and look around with the same equipment you each had at the factory. You split up with confidence this time, determined to find the ghost. This arcade is massive. Two floors full of arcade game stuff. Multiple rooms. This could take a while. As your friends both search the first floor, you go to the second floor. You check different rooms. Main arcade, VIP arcade, virtual reality zone, men's restroom, and women's restroom. Right as you are about to check the prize room, you hear a commotion downstairs.
You rush downstairs, and see your friends looking at the window. "Look" friend 2 says. As you look closer, you see fingerprints. Evidence piece 1 found. You all enter it into the book. The options are banshee, mare, revenant, spirit, and shade. These options are a little bit better than the others. Banshee hunts one victim at a time, mare hunts at lights out, shade is shy and scared, spirit resides in the room it died in, and revenant is violent. You hear a massive crash upstairs. All of you run upstairs to see the prize counter glass is broken. You all look at each other puzzled. You check your reader, and it is normal. There is one last room on the second floor it could be. The laser tag zone. As you enter, you hear a beeping, and see two lights on the reader. Using the spiritual system, you ask the ghost "Where are you?". You hear a voice from the system say "Right behind you".
Horrified, you add it to the journal. Only three options left: Banshee, Shade, and Revenant. Who could it be? You search all of the laser tag zone. The vest room, storage closet, and play area. The play area is where the light was blinking. You check the play zone, friend 1 checks the storage closet, and friend 2 checks the vest room. "Hey guys! Get over here!" friend 2 calls out. You and friend 1 head over to friend 2. You both are scared, but calm down once you realize that a vest just fell. "The vest just fell" you say to friend 2. "No. You don't understand. It was too far from where it was put." friend 2 says back. You walk around, looking for which hook the vest belongs on. Once you reach it, you all look at each other in great fear. It is all the way across the room. You look back at the vest to see it is no longer there. "Dude I'm literally going to drop a massive one" friend 2 says. "Very funny, but be serious. Let's go back to the game area." You all walk there, but can all swear you hear another pair of footsteps. Once you get back to the game area, you guys are scared. Friend 1 puts on the orb spectacles and screams.
"What was that!?" you yell out questioning what happened. "I saw an orb" friend 1 says. "Yeah so?" friend 2 says. "I saw the ghost right in front of me. Orbs were behind it too." friend 1 says. As you guys fill in the last piece of information, you realize it is a banshee. The lights go out. Then in the corner, a translucent figure forms. You all rush downstairs and try to turn the door knob. It's locked. You see the figure descending down the stairs. Each of you decide to split up and hide. Friend 1 runs behind an arcade game. Friend 2 runs under an arcade game. You run into the restroom. You go into a stall and lock yourself in it. You also stand on the toilet seat to avoid people seeing your feet. While hiding, you hear the door open. Peaking through the top, you see the figure. It opens all the stalls and reaches yours at the end. The figure tries opening it. Then it looks under the stall at you. It crawls under the stall and approaches you. You pray for the best once it approaches you. Right as you think you're going to die, you wait. Nothing happens. You open your eyes and the figure is no longer there. "What?" you mutter to yourself. You rush out the bathroom and look for your friends. "Guys I was about to die" you say. "We know. We read something about it." friend 1 says. "What do you mean?" you ask. "Ghosts hunt people. You were the victim right now." friend 2 says. "Yeah so? It would have just scared me" you say. "No. It would've killed you" friend 2 says. "Oh my god. I thought I was gonna die" you say. You all rush out to the car. "I'll tell Arnold which ghost was stalking his arcade" you say. "Where should we go now?" friend 2 asks. "Another cool place" you say. "Which place?" friend 1 asks. "The hotel" you say.
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Creator: Brandon M