Chapter 3
Horror Hotel
You guys are finally here. The hotel. "I don't know about this" friend 1 says. "It's gonna be ok" you say. You do the usual, split up, and search. "This is going to take a while" you say to the group. There are 17 floors to choose from. "How many different hotel rooms are there?" friend 2 asks. "I don't know" you say. "1,700 I think" friend 1 says. "Oh goodness" friend 2 says. I'll check the 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17th floors" you say. "I'll check the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4, 5, and 6th floors." friend 1 says. "I'll go with 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12th floors" friend 2 says. "Before we go in, take these" friend 2 says. You and friend 1 are handed a walkie talkie from friend 2. You begin to enter. Nervous as poopy, you slowly walk up the stairs. Floor 13. There are 100 rooms per floor. You check rooms 1-10. Nothing. You begin to enter room 11, when you hear something. CRASH! Glass shattering. You wait for your friends to contact you on your walkie talkie. Nothing. You wait 3 minutes. Nothing. You decide to enter the room. Glass on the floor. That isn't what creeps you out.
The glass has shattered in a way where the pieces spell the word "help". You get chills. You hear a beep on your walkie talkie. "Guys. This thing is freaking me out." friend 1 says. "What thing?" friend 2 asks. "Glass shattered and spelled 'I was here'". "Wait. Glass shattered on my level. It spelled 'help'". you say. "Guys..." friend 2 says. "Yeah?" friend 1 says. "Mine shattered too. It said 'I'm coming. No one is safe'". friend 2 says. Silence on all ends. Shaken up, you hear friend 2 say something. "Fingerprints!" friend 2 says. Adding it on to the notebook, you see the few options. Egui, banshee, yueri, and spirit. Seems like it should be fine. You continue going through the 13th floor. Nothing. You go to 14th floor. Immediately, the elevator randomly opens. Spooked, you think this floor has the favorite room. You check all the rooms. You finally reach the final 10 rooms. You go into each room. The ghost reader goes off. Two dots. You found the favorite room. You use your walkie talkie. "Guys. I found the favorite room" you say. "Nice" friend 2 says. "Where?" friend 1 asks. "Room 1497" you say. "We're heading up". You wait there, not knowing what to do. You guys are still on the walkie talkie. Friend 2 is on the way up when you hear friend 2 scream.
"GUYS! HELP ME!" friend 2 screams. You hear friend 1 from friend 2's walkie talkie. "What's going on?" you yell through the walkie talkie. Friend 1 says "A ghost is hunting, but only targeting friend 2. We're hiding in one of the bathrooms". "Wait" you say to them. You check your notebook to see the options again. Banshee, spirit, yueri, or egui. You read the egui's specialty. It is a ghost originating from China. It was once a person who felt they didn't have enough and were ungrateful. You read the last part. The egui hunts a specific person that possesses a specific item. Oh no. Right then, you hear them scream and the walkie talkie goes dead silent.
What was going to happen? You test the spiritual system. You ask "Can you give me a sign?" A voice replies "Your friend has what I'm looking for". At the same time, the reader goes off with rapid, loud beeps. 5 lights. You add both pieces of evidence to your book. The ghost is an Egui. You run to the door to attempt to open it, but it's locked. You push through it and break it down. You see friend 1 and 2 down the hall. You run to them. You tell them everything fast, and you guys run down all floors and back outside to the car. You wait outside, looking back at the hotel. "Lucky us" you say. "I think we should leave right now" friend 1 says. Friend 2 replies "Why?" "Look at the window to the floor you were hunted at friend 2" friend 1 says. At the window, you see a ghost smiling and waving at you guys. You're losing sanity. You get in the car and speed away from the hotel. "Not another one please" friend 2 says. "Too bad" you reply. You keep driving and finally reach your next place. Your old high school that has since been abandoned. Looking at each other, you see friend 1 and 2 are just as excited as you are. "This is gonna be good" you all say at the same time, running to the broken window.
Chapter 4
Old School
You guys squeeze through the window one at a time. Once inside, the group splits up. There are two parts together. You are in the new side. You check upstairs, friend 1 checks downstairs class rooms, and friend 2 checks the other rooms on the first floor. Nothing. You check on the second floor, but there's nothing. "Nothing here" you say on the walkie talkie. "Same" friend 1 and 2 say. You guys meet at the connecting area between the old building and new. You walk through the passage and are at the old building. "I'll check the auditorium" friend 2 says. "I'll check this floor" friend 1 says. "I'll go one floor up" you say. You and friend 2 go up a flight of stairs. Friend 2 walks up another to get to the auditorium. You check all the floors, and nothing. No sign of anything. "Nothing here. Anything for you guys?" you say. "Nothing" they both say. You head back down with friend 2 when you realize something.
You never turned on the reader or it got turned off. "Great. We have to recheck all the rooms" friend 2 says. "I'll do it myself" you say. "No, we'll go with you" friend 1 says. Friend 2 doesn't say anything, but follows you. You check all the rooms, but nothing in the new building. "I don't know guys. Something isn't right" friend 2 says. "What do you mean?" you say. "I mean, wouldn't you have turned on the reader? How would it have turned off?" friend 2 says. "I don't know" you reply back. You continue going through the rooms. All of them. Nothing on the reader. "Wait" friend 1 says. "Isn't there a basement?" friend 1 continues.
You all stare at each other. What do you guys do? "Let's go down" you say. As the group descends, you hear something coming from down there. You check the two class rooms, dance area, and maintainence areas. Nothing. There has to be another room. At least you think there should be. Then you remember: the bathroom. You go in, and sure enough, two lights appear. You begin testing all the equipment. You attempt to use the spiritual system, but then you hear a noise coming from one of the stalls.
At the same time, you get 5 blinking lights on the reader. Looking at each other, you don't know if the ghost responded because of the system or just randomly. You add the pieces of evidence. Egui, banshee, jinn, yueri, and revenant. It can be any of these, but without evidence, you don't know for sure. "Put down the book" friend 1 says to friend 2. Friend 2 does, and also checks the temperature. "Freezing temperatures!" friend 2 says out. You add it to the notebook, and see 3 options. Revenant, jinn, and yueri. Right then, you hear very aggressive bangs. You walk up to the stall door and open it. There is something in the toilet, on the walls, and the toilet paper.
It's a red liquid everywhere. On the wall, it says "boo". You go back to the group. "There's ketchup everywhere. I don't think this ghost is a nice one" you say. "I agree" friend 2 says. Right before friend 1 says anything, the lights go out. You flick the lights back on to see more ketchup along the floor to the door. Strange for sure. The light goes out again, so you flick it back on. You hear a laugh coming from the stall again. Friend 2 walks over there, but one of the doors slam. This time the whole group goes over. You see... nothing. No ketchup. Everything clean. Right then, you hear a writing noise, and see a floating pencil writing. You approach it, but the pencil is dropped. The group walks over and sees writing. Adding it to the notebook, you see the final ghost. Revenant. "This one's a revenant. Very violent and fast" you say to the group. Right as the group was walking out, the door slams shut and you hear a lock noise from it.
You try opening the door. Locked. "What are we going to do?" friend 1 asks. "Break it down" friend 2 says. "On the count of 3, run into it" you say. You count down, and run to the door. The door opens and your are headed straight for the wall. You each stop in your tracks. Friend 2 stops right before the wall. "Let's go. Now" friend 1 says. You all run up the stairs, to the hall that connects the buildings, go to the new building, and climb out the window. When you're climbing out, something pulls you back in. Friend 1 and 2 pull you against the ghost and you all tumble onto the grass below. You look at them and they look at you. You all start walking to the car and get in. You start driving for a while. Everyone is silent for the car ride. "Thanks" you say to them. "All of us are best friends. If that means I'm going back into a haunted house to save one, I'm going to" friend 2 says. "Yeah. I'm not leaving anyone behind. We became friends when we were 7 years old, and now that we are 20, that isn't going to change" friend 1 says. "Anyway, where are we going to now?" friend 1 continues. "You know that mental asylum?" you say. "Oh no" friend 2 says. "Oh yes" you and friend 1 say.
Chapter 5
Mental Asylum
You arrive at the asylum. This is the coolest, scariest, and biggest place of them all so far. "This is creepy" friend 1 says. "No kidding" friend 2 says. "I say we stick together" you say to the group. "Agreed" friend 2 says. "Since we don't all have ghost readers anyway" friend 1 says. You guys go up to the door and try to open it. Locked. "Wait what?" friend 1 says. "I forgot the key" you say to them. "I'll be right back". You go to walk to the car and look for the key. Unlock the car door, and look for the key. Looking for it, you can't find it. "Did one of you guys take it?" you yell to the group. "No" they yell back. Then you notice something odd.
You see a woman standing in the field. Dressed all white in a dress. Creepy. You frantically look for the key and find it under the seat. You look back to the field and the woman is gone. You run back to the group and unlock the door. "Guys let's hurry this up" you say. This thing is massive, and you are all genuinely nervous. You step inside. You check the first floor quickly. Nothing. "How many floors are there?" friend 1 asks. "27" you reply. "I think we should leave now" friend 2 says. "We got ourselves into this already. Plus, the owners are giving us some money to find out what's terrorizing them" you say. Looking at each other, friend 2 sighs, and you continue. You check the second floor. When you are about to go on the third floor, you hear a knock on a window. You look and see it. Fingerprints. Not only fingerprints though. The woman in the dress.
"WHAT IS THAT?!" friend 2 screams. "I SAW IT IN THE FIELD! RUN!" you say. You all run down to the first floor, but notice something. A staircase. Heading down. The asylum has a basement. You all run down the stairs and hide in one of the closests. "Quick, add it to the list of evidence" friend 1 says. You do, and see options. Banshee, demon, wendigo, mare, and shade. "This can't be good" friend 2 says. You get out of the closet and look in the basement. "It looks like a bomb shelter" you say. "Probably was" friend 2 says. You guys look in all the rooms. You then see a cut out in the wall. You push it open. It looks like a panic room. The two lights and the dots beep though. Friend 2 checks the temperature. "Freezing!" friend 2 says. You add it to the book. Mare, wendigo, and demon. Friend 1 puts on the orb spectacles. You ask a question through the spiritual system. "Where are you?" you ask the ghost. A voice then replies "in the basement".
You look at each other. You start feeling light headed. "What is the ghost?" friend 1 asks. You put the information in and find the ghost. "Guys. It's a wendigo" you say to the group. "Yeah, so?" friend 2 says. "They hunt more often based on our fear" you say. "We can't get out of here with getting past the ghost" friend 1 says. "Hold on" you say. "We're in a decently sized walk in closet. The lights are out, but maybe we can find a window or outside exit" you say. "I still think I have that flashlight" friend 1 says. Friend 1 pulls out the flashlight and turns it on. FLICK! No light, but at least it works. "No batteries" friend 1 says. "There has to be a window or something" you say. Right then, you hear violent knocking on the door.
"What do we do?" friend 2 says. "I think it's a hunt" friend 1 says. "The best thing we can do is just run out and hope for the best" you say. "On the count of three" friend 1 says. "One, two, three!" You guys open the door and run up the stairs, to the exit. Locked. The entrance/exit is locked. "I think we're trapped here until the hunt is over" you say. Right then, the door is unlocked, and you run out. Looking at the asylum, you are happy you survived this situation. "I'll report it to Mr. Anderson" you say. You and the group drive off to your next location. "Where are we going now?" friend 1 says. "The movie theater" you say.
Chapter 6
Scary Movies
You arrive at the movie theater. It's a decent sized movie theater, with two floors, a basement, and 12 movie rooms. "Well, let's get started" friend 1 says. You guys walk around, looking for rooms. You head into theater 1. Nothing. Theater 2. Nothing, but the screen randomly turns on and freaks you out. On the way to theater 3, there is a banging in the hall. You check to see what it was, and a movie poster fell down. You walk to it, and see it was a horror movie. That's creepy. You walk to theater 3 and the light goes off. Four lights. "What?" you say out loud. "What is it?" friend 2 asks. "Ghost reader says it's 4" you say. You've never seen that before. You split up and check the rooms. Nothing in any. "You guys find anything?" you say. "Freezing temperatures!" friend 2 says over the walkie talkie. "I'll add it to the book" you do, and see the options. Revenant, oni, demon, shade, and mare. "Where are you?" you ask. "In the basement. Where's friend ?" friend 2 asks. You listen closely and hear manic breathing from friend 1's walkie talkie.
"Friend 1?" friend 2 asks. You rush to the theaters 5-8 where friend 1 was supposed to search. You look around theater 5, 6, and 7. Nothing. You check theater 8. "Friend 1! Where are you?!" you call out. You hear a noise from theater 7. You rush back and hear it again. It's coming from behind a set of chairs. You proceed with caution, and see a translucent figure holding the walkie talkie. You hear the calls for help near the camera. You rush over and see friend 1 laying down and out of breath. "Someone's here" friend 1 said. "I saw them. They have the walkie talkie" you tell friend 1. You pick friend 1 up. You both run to the walkie talkie to see the ghost is no longer there. "It attacked me" friend 1 said. "Let's go to friend 2" you say. You both walk to the basement. You turn on the reader when you arrive to make sure it's the favorite room. It is. Behind you, a door slams shut.
"What was that?" friend 1 asks. "Don't know don't care. Let's hurry" you say. Friend 1 uses the orb specactles, friend 2 puts down the book, and you ask a question in the spirtual system. "Where are you?" you ask. Right then, the ghost reader ghost goes off violently. "5 lights!" you yell out. "Orbs!" friend 1 says. You add both pieces of evidence. It's a shade. "What's special about the shade?" friend 2 asks. You read the book and see the shade is shy around multiple people, but is violent when someone is alone. "Oh no" friend 1 says. "That's why it attacked me. I was alone". "Let's go now" friend 2 says. You run to the basement door and attempt to open it.
Locked. Oh no. "What do we do?" you ask. "Bust through the door" friend 1 says. You all ram into the door, and sure enough, it breaks open. You run out and to the car. "I'll tell Riley that a shade has been haunting his movie theater and the case is now closed" you say. You drive away and your friends look back at the theater. "Where to next?" friend 2 asks. "Mr. Tronic's hideout" you say. "That is super dangerous, right? I mean it is Alan Tronic. He was an old gang leader" friend 1 says. "He's paying us to find out what killed a bunch of members randomly. It's unknown to this day" you say as you pull up to the hideout. "Well, not anymore" you add, bracing yourself for what's to come.
More of these stories coming next newspaper!
Sorry if the information does not line up from the previous issue(s) (Ex: friend 1 has a camera in one story then has a ghost reader in the next chapter)
Creator: Brandon M