Hey all! I'm back with a short little story for everyone to read! I predict it'll be about 5-10 chapters. Anyway, this is my first story for Goosebumps, so please be nice. Disclaimer- I don't own Goosebumps, but I do have a few OCs in here that are mine.
Warnings-
Very important OCs
Horror
Possible Gore
Cursing
Plot- Trina's senior year in highschool, the family decides to visit a secluded and five-star hotel by the sea for their last summer vacation as a family. However, the mysterious hotel holds a villain they thought they had seen the last of years ago.
Note- In the storyline, we never learn Trina and Daniel's mother's name. And if it is told or said, I don't remember it. So, I made up one.
Revenge of the Dummy
Chapter 1
"Well kids, doesn't it look great?" Mary O'Dell asked enthusiastically as the seaside hotel came into view. Trina and Daniel sat forward eagerly to stare out the window and get their first glimpse of the Sunrise Hotel. The building was built like a fairytale mansion, five stories, balconies on all the rooms they could see, flat roof, indicating that perhaps there was a pool up there.
The building was pure white and the gardens around it were perfectly manicured. It was positioned just so, as when the sun came up, it would light just behind the hotel, giving it it's name.
"Looks awesome, Mom!" Daniel replied for the both of them. Trina smiled slightly at her younger brother's enthusiasm. When the two siblings had first learned of this trip, they had been upset to be forced to drop the plans they had over the summer with their friends. However, the two of them had slowly warmed to the idea, until they were soon bursting with excitement at the thought of going to this new hotel by the ocean in secluded northern Maine.
Daniel and Trina had never been particularly close, but when you took a look at other's and their relationship's with their siblings, one would say the two were closer than most. The thing was, though, Trina had just finished highschool, and soon she would be leaving for college, and Daniel was upset about it, although he would never admit it.
Danny O'Dell pulled his beat-up car in the half-circle drive of the hotel, and the family got out. Trina shielded her eyes from the bright afternoon sun, tipped her head back, and looked up at the hotel. Being closer now, she could see that some of the balconies had flower pots on them to brighten it up.
"Why don't you guys go explore? We'll get everything settled in. Meet us in the lobby in an hour and a half," Danny told the kids. It didn't matter how old they got, Daniel and Trina would always be their "kids".
Trina and Daniel took off to explore the garden maze to the left of the hotel first.
"Hey look, Trina, they left us a map," Daniel said as they reached the entrance to the maze. Yes, at the billboard at the beginning of the maze, advertizing the maze as a "beautiful and relaxing activity" was a bunch of little maps that you could carry around with you.
"Cool, maybe then we won't get lost because of your horrible sense of direction," Trina teased. Daniel smiled slightly and picked up one of the maps, then the two of them entered the maze.
The leafy walls were high and neatly trimmed, giving the illusion that the branches of the maze could touch the sky. Trina smiled and closed her eyes for a moment. The cool ocean breeze brushed her face gently, moving her hair into her face and breaking her moment of relaxation, causing her to open her eyes in annoyance to brush her long blond locks out of her face.
"Hey Trina, check this out!" Daniel called back to her. Trina had slowed down slightly when she had closed her eyes to enjoy the relaxing breeze. Speeding up, Trina walked quickly to catch up with Daniel and see what had spotted. The path opened into a wide clearing area, with benches and stone angels. Unlike the parts of the maze they'd already seen, this part was overgrown and unkept. Vines tangled around the angel's wings, as though to keep them grounded. Roses bloomed on the benches, making it impossible to sit on them, unless you wanted thorns in your ass.
"What the hell, Daniel?" Trina asked, slowly turning in a circle to get a good look at everything.
"I don't know. It's not even on the map," Daniel explained almost apologetically as he walked over to his sister and held out the map for her to look at for herself. Trina excepted the map and studied it closely. Daniel was right. This area wasn't on the map. It looked like no one had been to this area for years.
Before Trina could start to contemplate it too much, she heard rustling in the bushes off to the side. Normally she wouldn't be concerned and would dismiss it as just the wind, but the wind hadn't been blowing when the bushes rustled, so she looked up, just in time to see a little girl peering at them from behind a bush.
Wide green eyes locked with Trina's and then the girl darted out of her hiding place and took off down an overgrown path that also wasn't on the map.
"Hey, wait! Come back! We're not going to hurt you!" Daniel shouted, then took off after the little girl.
"Daniel? Hey! Wait!" Trina called. When Daniel didn't respond or even turn around, Trina raced after him.
The three raced through the overgrown areas of the maze, the little girl fleeing, Daniel chasing her, and Trina chasing Daniel. They dodged thorny branches that reached for them like arms, leapt over the roots sticking out of the ground. Daniel and Trina had a worse time of it, considering they had never been here before. The little girl easily evaded them, and soon, they lost sight of her altogether.
Trina was breathing heavily when she finally reached her brother. "Did you...catch up to her?" Trina asked, placing her hands on the back of her head and tipping her head back to stare at the sky.
"Does it look like I did?" Daniel demanded, scowling at his sister for the stupid question. Trina scowled right back. "That was kind of weird though. She seemed scared of us for some reason," he continued thoughtfully.
Trina nodded and added, "Yeah, what was that all about anyway?" Daniel just shrugged.
The two looked around warily. What was with this place?
And, voila, chapter 1. Hope you liked it. And I hope I did a good job adding some mysterious effects. So, review please, and be kind about it!