Chapter 1: The Report
Samantha, or just Sam, Manson groaned.
She was sat in her mythology class with her two best friends Tucker Foley and Valerie Grey at either side of her and they were all bored out of their little minds.
Tucker Foley was a huge techno-geek that Sam had met in kindergarten.
Valerie use to be a popular kid in school but after her Dad got fired and they lost all their money she was kicked out; after that she became good friends with Sam and Tucker.
Valerie was a 16 year old African-American girl, with long, black curly hair and dark green eyes. She seemed to be a little more muscular and corpulent then Sam and Tucker. She wore a yellow sleeveless shirt and orange skirt with white tennis shoes. She also wore an orange headband, yellow triangular earrings, an orange necklace and had two bracelets on each wrist, one yellow and the other orange.
Tucker was a 16 year old who wore a long-sleeve yellow shirt, a black belt, green cargo pants, brown boots, glasses and a red beret.
Sam was also a 16 year old and a self-proclaimed goth who was fascinated with the subliminal and nether-worldly and was a very outspoken ultra-recyclo-vegetarian. She wore pale purple lipstick and has short black hair with a small ponytail at the top of her head held back by a green hair tie. She also wore a black choker around her neck and a black tank top exposing her midriff with a purple oval in the centre.
She also wore a black striped skirt with a green crosshatch design, purple leggings and black boots along with black bracelets around her wrists.
Normally she would love to be in her mythology class but trust me, if you had Mr Lancer as your teacher you would understand. Sam was suddenly snapped out of her half-sleepily state by Mr. Lancer's sudden announcement.
"I want you all to work either in threes or pairs to write a report about one of these mythical creatures. You have one week." Mr. Lancer said. He then handed a card to each of the groups.
Paulina and Dash were given Vampires, Kwan and Star were given Dragons and Sam, Tucker and Valerie were given Ghosts...
"How are we supposed to write a report about Ghosts?! We know next to nothing about them! We're so going to fail this report!" Tucker exclaimed as they left the school.
The girls just rolled their eyes at their friend's antics.
"What's to know about them? They're monsters and a myth." Valerie glared.
"The library at my house should have something on Ghosts." Sam said and they headed for her house. The library at her house was huge and it took an hour until Valerie found one large, old book about Ghosts.
Sam grabbed the book and started reading out loud:
Ghosts are beings from another dimension know as 'The Ghost Zone', which is parallel to our world. Ghosts are made not born. In the centre of every Ghosts' chests is a core which is sort of like a Human's heart and brain combined.
There are different types of Ghost cores and each one has it's own land.
These are: Water from the Far Frozen, Fire from Lava Falls, Earth from the Diamond Canyon, Plant from Skulker Island, Lightning Storm Haven and Shadow from the Valley Of Shadows. When a human screams in fear for the first time that is when a Ghost is created.
They start out as a defenceless speck that flies to the nearest Ghost Portal.
Once there the speck floats around the Ghost Zone aimlessly until it arrives at one of the six Kindergartens. There they are placed and sealed in small stone pillars to keep them safe and allow them to grow.
Meanwhile Ghosts who are already formed go to the human world to collect fear because all Ghost need fear to survive.
The more fear they feed off of the stronger and stronger they become. They also bring fear back to the Kindergartens so the specks can feed and grow. Once their are strong enough to break free from their pillar they take their first form.
There are six leaders for these mighty realms and they form a council known as the Great Authority.
The leaders of these realms are known as Frostbite, Ember McClain, Hotep RA, Undergrowth, Vortex and the Fright Knight. The council obey only one being and that is the King/Queen of the Ghost Zone.
The King/Queen is the most powerful Ghost in the Ghost Zone but their cores are also incredibly fragile.
If the King/Queen is shattered their power is then passed into the next nation, dictated by the cyclic order: fire, water, shadows, plant, lightning and earth. This cycle can only be broken if the core of the new King/Queen has not taken it's first form.
At the start of the 16th century there was a 100 year war between Humans and Ghosts.
The Humans were sick and tired of the Ghosts terrorising them and wanted it end. Just when it seemed that the Ghosts were unstoppable and the war was in their favour, King Pariah Dark was shattered by the Fenton Family.
Since King Pariah Dark was of the fire cores his successor was intended to be a water core.
However, after King Pariah Dark was shattered the Humans attacked and destroyed the Far Frozen Kindergarten, intending to destroy the new King/Queen before they took their first form. The new King/Queen never appeared after the attack so it seemed they were successful. Once again it was the Fenton Family that ordered the attack on the kindergarten.
"Whoa, whoa, wait! The Fenton family, as in Jazz Fenton from school?" Tucker asked, pausing from the notes he was taking. "That's what it says." Sam replied. "Well her parents are Ghost Hunters remember." Valerie reminded them.
"I just thought they were a little weird." He shrugged. Sam looked at her watch and realised that it was almost 7pm.
"You guys better head home, we'll finish our report tomorrow." Sam sighed as she placed the book back on the shelf. All three teens were completely unaware they were being watched...
