The House on Haunted Hill

October is here! That means Halloween themed stories :)

I really didn't know whether I should just post the whole story or divide it up, but I decided it will be three parts and I will publish one every other day (or every day if I can't wait) but the complete story will be published by the 5th.

I wrote this story for my creative writing class at school (cuz I can XD) but I had changed a few things, including the names. I wrote it keeping in mind that I would probably upload it to FF. This story is just for fun and in no way supposed to be accurate, you'll see why...

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Ninjago because LEGO does and they are too awesome for words.

Anyways, enjoy my first Halloween one-shot! :)

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Part One

The sun was beginning to set on the night of Halloween. In a small neighborhood at the top of a steep hill, six best friends were getting ready for the scares they knew the night would bring. They had been planning for this night all year, and were finally ready to see if it had been worth the wait.

The door to one of the small buildings opened, and a teenage boy walked out of the green house. He had wavy blonde hair and was dressed up like a dragon, wearing a gold long-sleeve shirt and pants, each with detailed dragon scales drawn on. He also had fake gold-and-green wings.

He walked over to another one of the miniature houses, this one painted red. "Kai?" He called, knocking on the door. "You ready?"

"Just a second!" A voice responded from inside the house. A few moments later, a boy with spiky brown hair emerged. He wore an all-black costume, with a skeleton painted on the front. "Now I'm ready."

The blonde nodded. "Cool costume," he remarked.

"Yours is better," Kai said. "How come you always have the coolest Halloween costume, Lloyd?"

He shrugged. "Growing up, Halloween was the biggest holiday for me, what with my father being evil and all."

Kai nodded. "I see," he remarked. "I always loved Halloween, too. I loved the decorations, the costumes, and scaring my sister." He laughed. "She was better at pranks than I was, though."

"Yeah, Nya got us good with the giant snakes last year," Lloyd added.

"Talking about me, are you?"

Kai and Lloyd turned around to see a shorter girl standing behind them. She was dressed up like a Samurai, wearing red armor complete with two large fake swords.

"Woah!" Kai exclaimed. "Awesome Samurai costume, sis!"

"Thanks," the girl responded. "Let's see, we have a skeleton, and a…uh…" She tried to think of what Lloyd's costume was.

"A dragon," Lloyd told her. "Dang, Nya, I knew this wasn't the most obvious costume, but I didn't think it was that hard to tell."

Kai laughed. "I got it," he said. "Though, I was kinda expecting you to be a golden dragon." He glanced over at the other small rooms. "You guys wanna see if the others are ready?"

"Yeah," Nya agreed. "I'll bet ten bucks Jay will be the last one. He can take forever."

"I'll call your bet," Kai said. "Cole will be the last one. I heard his costume is super realistic."

The three walked over to wait in front of the other houses. After a few minutes, the door to the white-painted house opened. A tall, blonde boy walked out, dressed as a silver robot.

"Great costumes, friends," he said. "Are we ready to go?"

"Thanks, Zane," Lloyd replied. "I like your costume, too. It's very accurate."

"We're almost ready," Kai told him. "Just waiting on Jay and Cole."

"Oh, well in that case, we could be waiting a while," Zane joked. He walked up to the black house and knocked on the door.

"I'll be out in a few more minutes," a voice called.

Zane stepped away from the door and waited for his friends to finish up. As he did so, one of them came out of the blue house.

"I'm finally done!" He exclaimed. He was wearing a snake costume, with green fake scales, fangs, and a rattling tail. "So, what do ya think?"

Kai turned to his little sister. "Fork it over," he said.

Nya rolled her brown eyes and handed him a ten-dollar bill. "I like it, Jay," she told the snake-boy. "Now we just need Cole and we're good to go."

As if on cue, the door to the final house opened and a black-haired boy strolled out. He had a transparent green sheet over his head, making him look like a somewhat realistic ghost. Underneath he wore all black.

"It took you an hour to put a sheet over your head?" Jay queried, earning him a glare from his ghostly friend.

"Don't listen to him," Lloyd said. "You look really cool, Cole."

"Thanks," Cole responded. "Now that we're all ready, who wants to get our Halloween on?"

"Sounds good," Kai agreed. "Zane and I found a really spooky haunted house we can check out."

"Indeed," the nindroid said. "It seemed really creepy and cool."

"Where?" Jay asked. "I haven't seen any haunted houses around lately, which is weird, 'cause it's Halloween today."

"Yeah," Kai said. "It's about an hour's drive away from the city. We were on our way back from the Campground a few days ago when we found it. It's on what we call 'Haunted Hill.'"

"Oh, so it really is in the middle of nowhere," Cole remarked.

Zane nodded. "That's what makes it even scarier."

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Nya asked. "Lead the way, Zane. To the haunted house!"

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After driving for about sixty minutes, the group arrived at a black three-story house. The windows were broken, many of the boards were loose, and the house was leaning slightly to one side. The sun had almost completely set, leaving the sky a very dark blue, and dead trees were scattered around the house, silhouettes against the full moon.

"Well, this looks haunted, all right," Lloyd remarked.

Kai looked to the golden dragon. "So, what's the plan?" He asked.

Lloyd turned to face his friends, who were all looking to him for ideas. "We don't know what's in there," he said. "So no matter what, we have to stick together. Got it?"

The others nodded. Lloyd took a deep breath and walked up to the old, cracked door. He cautiously pushed it open. All six of them walked slowly into the giant house, taking in the scene in front of them. The door locked behind them, making a click sound.

They were in a large, dark room. The only light came through the windows, solely from the moon. On the far right hand side of the room, there was an old staircase, leading upwards toward the other floors. The room was mostly empty, other than a few torn white sheets on the floor.

The group followed Lloyd as he led the way to the staircase. They were all quiet, more curious than afraid. Eventually, they made their way up the stairs, and all six stood in a second room. This one was about half the size of the bottom story, also empty, but with a door in one of the walls.

"Shall we?" Kai asked.

Lloyd shrugged. "I guess."

They carefully walked over to the door, filing one at a time into the other room. It was the size of the previous, and it also had a staircase leading to the top floor. However, it was completely filled with fog.

"I can hardly see in here," Jay complained.

"Yeah," Cole said. "What's with all the fog?"

"It's a haunted house, remember?" Kai told them. "Fog is kinda scary."

Jay rolled his eyes. "Fog is not scary," he argued.

"Yes, it is," Kai said.

"Nope."

"Guys, stop!" Nya ordered. "This is supposed to be fun."

Suddenly, a surprised yell erupted from across the room.

"Lloyd?" Zane called. "Was that you?"

Lloyd was standing at the other side of the room, within ten feet of his team but still out of sight. "Y-yeah," he stuttered. He was face to face with a slightly disfigured brown bear animatronic. "Guys, we need to get out of here."

"Why?" Jay teased. "Scared?"

"I mean, we better get out of this room or I've got a feeling we'll be spending more than five nights at Freddy's."

"That doesn't sound good," Cole remarked.

Lloyd shook his head. "It's not."

"Let's get out of here," Nya said. She headed up the stairs, the others following close behind.

Lloyd looked back nervously, relieved to see that the animatronic hadn't moved. He hurried up the staircase after his friends. There was a door at the top, and Jay closed it behind the group.

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I hope you liked it! Next chapter comes out the 2nd or 3rd. Please review XD

Have a great month my Ninja Warriors! :D

- Cinder