Since I believe the 59th book in the original series never got a sequel I decided to write my own.
Here's a preview of the first chapter as in the original boon it's told from 12 year old Tommy Frazer's 1st person P.O.V.
As the bright light formed all around us all we could see was nothing but eye blinding brightness so much I was forced to cover my eyes as was Ben right beside me the other kids were also seemly confused as many screamed out "Hey What's going on-What's with the bright light all of a sudden?" But I didn't know or think of what to tell them or Ben for that matter as he turned to me,I could barely make out his face in all the eerie white blinding light mouthing
"Tommy what's going on?" I had no clue but somehow I had a pretty good idea to where this bright light was about to transport us...
Once the white bright light cleared up my fear and exact thoughts were confirmed as all we could see was nothing but a very familiar looking classroom devoid of any and all color I heard Ben moan "Oh no not again...we're stuck back here?"
"Uh Ben I think that photographer was that Mr. Chameleon guy the 1947 kids told us about and...that he must have sent us back to..." I paused hoping this was all a illusion,a wild dream and that we were still back at the school dance I pinched my skin several times but no doubt I was in the same place and not waking up anytime soon "There's no doubt we's back in...Grayworld..." I finished blanklyI
More to come soon
As the rest of the black and white classroom came into focus I had no problems noticing that everything was intact the numerous desk chairs,the charcoal colored chalkboard and of course the elevator which was on permanent closed mode the only difference was that both me and Ben were still in solid bright color
"Tommy..." He muttered again "Why are we back here?" I shivered not knowing what to say to him except
"I...I already told you that photographer dude Mr. Chameleon...he must have..." But Ben interrupted me with a bewildered look
"Hold on you mean that evil guy who trapped Seth,Thalia and all those kids here in the first place? But that was years ago I thought he must be dead or something how could he have survived after..."
"No time to worry about that Ben!" I said sharply noticing the grayness starting to creep up as it did previously and I felt goose pimples appear all over my body but fought the fear back down "No time to worry about that what's more important is how in the heck we're going to get out of here,I do not want to be stuck in black and white a 2nd time!" As I started to walk over to the door like before it was bolted shut not even the knob worked and I slumped against the door in defeat but Ben grabbed my arm and wrenched me to my feet
"Hold up Tommy you notice anything odd?" I brushed myself off as I stood up and headed back over to one of the desks and sat down
"Yeah what?" I ask noticing my tennis shoes were already losing their color Ben paid no attention to his fading colors
"The other kids,our classmates from our school,where are they at? I mean were
n't they also in the photo too? So shouldn't they be here with us?" I looked around in awe and confusion and realized he was right there was in fact no one else around except for the two of us
"Yeah! You're right we got to figure out what happened to them too...you don't suppose they're out there with those other crazy kids,the ones who spit all that oily stuff on their clothes do you?" He shrugged also plopping down in a chair
"I hope not anyway where do you think Seth and the others are at? I mean shouldn't they be right here..." His voice trailed off as behind the same tall book cabinet the five gray kids all popped up as before wide-eyed at the two of us
"Hey-it's Tommy and Ben!" Eddie cried as the five charged forward this time staying back as me and Ben got up slowly from our chairs
"What are you two doing back here?" Seth asked arching a eyebrow I noticing the gray starting to slowly slide up my khakis the brown fading to dull gray textures struggled to reply but Ben still not caring about his vanishing colorful self spoke up for me
"Long story short that photographer guy who put you all here it ends up he's still alive and did the same to Tommy and me as well as the other kids in our class and we need a way to escape before we end up like you permanently! Speaking of which none of you have seen any other kids with clothes like ours by any chance have you? I mean there are over two dozen of them..." But Eloise still with her sickly hoarse voice shook her head
"No we certainly haven't seen anyone else with clothes like yours other than you yourselves Ben and we certainly would have seen anyone coming in and out of here." Finally I spoke up
"Are you...you sure? Because there's a very good chance that they could be out there with your other classmates..." But Seth interrupted
"No as Eloise said they would have appeared here first Tommy whatever your other classmates are they're not anywhere here." Ben and I exchanged bewildered glances
"Then where are they?" He muttered to me "If they're not here..." But noticing the gray was creeping up my shorts I cut him off looking back at the five kids noticing someone else was missing
"Where's Thalia?"
I'm right here." She said seemly appearing out of nowhere and I gasped at the sight of her where her hair was once blonde and curly,now it had a almost grandmotherly appearance and her sparkling blue dress had lost its shine completely like her friends she was now in black and white only her eyes which were contact lenses somehow maintained their bright blue color she had been sitting in the very last desk chair and her eyes were puffy it looked like she had been crying beforehand but she stood up staring at the two of us "You...you were sent back here?" She choked out
"Yeah by the photographer Mr Chameleon." Mary said gloomily Thalia gasped clutching her mouth with both hands
"What? Oh...oh no I didn't want you two or the other kids from 1997 to be sent here!" She cried out sitting back down and holding her face in her hands Mary went over to console her by placing a hand on her shoulders
"It's not your fault Thalia none of us knew this was going to happen." Mary said firmly but the girl shook her head even more
"Bu...but it is! If I hadn't escaped the first time around none of this would have happened! I'm so sorry Ben and Tommy that this happened to you..." She said with a few tears appearing in her eyes but I shook my head
"Don't be stupid! If it weren't for you and Ben I wouldn't have known anyone here I'm technically the new kid remember?" But now wasn't the time for jokes as all the faces in the room was more somber than ever "Yeah right sorry but first thing we got to do is find out where the other members of Ben and my class are at." I informed them
"But what about our graying skin?" Ben reminded me finally glancing down at his own black and white jeans
"No problem Thalia can just create another red window with her lipstick..." I started but I stopped once I saw her shaking her head sadly standing back up
"Tommy I can't..." She pulled out her lipstick tube from one of her dress pockets unscrewing the cap to show us the now gray lipstick once bright red
"OH NO!" I moaned but she gloomily nodded
"I'm really sorry but it faded to gray right after you and Ben went through the wall there's nothing any of us can do to escape..." She put it up again as both Ben and me groaned
"So in other words we're both stuck here for good!" I finished utterly defeated.
The story's not quite over yet.