Warning: Genderbending, scary-ness?
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of FFVII or anything having to do with it, or these Urban Legends. Its almost impossible to trace the origins of them, anyway.
Spooky tales
Chapter 1: The Hook
Every Saturday night, the teens of Edge would all drive up to the uberly popular hangout; the look out above the city and party and have fun.
Cloud flicked open her ringing cell phone.
"Hey! Yeah, me and Zack are going to the look out tonight. Are you and Vincent going too? Neato! See you later!" The blonde closed the phone and tossed it on top of her unmade beds comforter.
Skipping over to her closet, she opened the door and plucked a hanger off the metal rod. Cloud went to the mirror on her wardrobe and smiled as she held the dress up to her body. This was going to be the best Saturday ever!
Zack drove his dads car up to his girlfriends house and honked the old, rusty sounding horn a couple of times. Cloud immedietly appeared outside and ran to the car.
"Ready?" the raven haired teen asked. Cloud nodded her head, short blonde locks bobbing giddily. Zack smirked and drove the clunker to their destination.
It was extremely dark as Zack quietly drove on the stretching road, deeper and deeper into the darkness. Call it female intution, but Clud thought there was something unsettling about the unusually empty road. There were no other headlights penetrating the darkness along with theirs.
Zack didn't notice the way his girlfriend clutched the bottom hem of her dress nervously. Wanting to break the unusual silence, Zack started to whistle a peppy tune.
A moment later they were driving on the dirt road that broke off from the main street and wound through a thinning forest. Zack stopped the car once they made it to the little cliff that looked over the lit city below. Rolling down his window, Zack stopped whistling and hung his arm out of the car and drummed his fingers along the side of the beat down car.
The vast look out was empty. Cloud started to get even more worried. Where was everyone? Today was Saturday, 9pm. Everyone else should have been here by now!
"Zack. . .where is everyone?" the blonde tried to keep her voice from shaking. Maybe she was just over thinking things, and Zack would reassure her.
The raven haired teen was oblivious to the frightened girl in the passenger seat next to him. He slung his arm over the back of his chairs headrest and twisted around to check out the window in the back seat.
Turning back around he waved a hand carelessly. "Don't worry, they'll be here soon. Here, lets put on the radio so it's not to quite." Cloud was thankful for her boyfriends suggestion as the silence-destroying music filled the car.
As she was slightly humming, Clouds eyes searched the area around her from outside the passenger window. It was so dark that she could only see a faint outline of the woods surrounding the car just about 5 feet away from her door.
A couple of songs later, Cloud was starting to get that heavy feeling in the pit of her stomach again. She turned to gaze at the road, BEGGING to see another pair of headlights. Nothing.
Spookily, a slight breeze started up, rustling some nearby tree's and bushes nearby. The sound made her jump.
"Hey, calm down. Stop being so scared over nothing." Zack said slightly agitated.
Cloud looked over to her boyfriend, eyes starting to water. "I can't help it if i'm scared! Its really dark and the others aren't here yet! Take me back home!" Cloud whimpered. Zack grumbled.
"Come on, there's nothing to worry about, so sit still and be quiet! They will be here soon." he shouted.
The couple continued to argue, Cloud pleading and begging for Zack to bring her home while Zack stubbornly refused, not wanting his fun to be ruined. Cloud cried, and Zack did nothing to comfort her.
"If no one comes in the next 5 minutes, i'm walking home!" announced Cloud hysterically. She didn't care if she had to walk alone in the dark. Something about being here out in the forbidding, dark open made her uneasy and really frightened.
Blue eyes rolled."Watever." Zack grunted.
Just then, the middle of the song currently playing got cut off by the announcer.
"Attention, everyone." the static sounding voice blared out of the old speakers. "A resident of the OldWoods mental institution has escaped. We advise everyone to stay inside; the escaped patient is very dangerous." Cloud felt her stomach drop, only to be eaten by a blackhole. OldWoods was just a mile from here!
The voice continued on the radio, "The escapee is easy to notice, he is wearing the institutions uniform. Also, on his hand rests a stainless steel, razor sharp hook. Please be careful, and if anyone spots a man of this description, call the authorities immedietly. Thank You." the song from earlier resumed playing.
Before Cloud could say anything, Zack put up a hand and spoke firmly. "We're not going anywhere. That crazy dude won't come all the way up here. Think reasonably."
Cloud couldn't do anything but sit there and wait for people who weren't coming. She didn't follow through with her threat of walking either, especially after the announcment on the radio.
Her teeth started to chatter, and her chilled fingers started to shake. Was the car starting to get cold or was it just her? Even if it was a humid summer night outside.
Every litle sound; a pigeon flying over the car, a squirel enjoying an acorn, and eventually, a twig snapping, pushed Cloud closer and closer to insanity.
"Zack. . .-" Cloud started, voice wavering.
He cut her off. "I don't want to hear it, Cloud." Zack said forcefully. Cloud shut her mouth, not wanting to fight again. He was already angry.
The eerie silence droned on, the only sound coming from the muffled sounding radio that Zack had lowered out of agitation.
Cloud strained her ears, hoping to pick out a far off sound of a cars engine as it rolled down the road behind them. It didn't matter whose car it was, just any automobile, so she'd be put at ease.
Once again, nothing answered Clouds distressed mental cries.
Cloud froze. Wait, What was that sound? It was soft at first, but then it got louder and louder.
"Do you hear that?" Cloud whisper-shouted. Zack ignored her with a huff.
She continued to listen. It sounded like the grating sound of. . .metal on metal. That was it for her.
Cloud brought her foot down. "Zack, drive me HOME. Now!" she shrieked her demand. Zack also had enough of Cloud's nonsense, and faster than the blink of an eye, he threw the car in reverse and rapidly backed out of the cleared area and zoomed straight to Cloud's house.
Zack got out the car and stomped over to the other side to open the door for Cloud, but stopped.
There, swinging on the door handle, was a razor sharp hook.
Scary? Yes, no maybe so? Yes, I genderbent Cloud so it'd fit more in the story xD The time period for this story is supposed to be like the time period for the movie Grease xD Anywho, this will be a spin-off fic about Urban Legends, featuring yours truly, Zack and Cloud! Woohoo! These chapters will be pretty short and might contain a bit of humour in 'em from time to time (If genderbending isn't already funny xD), also. But I hope to have quite a few of them for this fic. I want to keep these Urban Legends as PG as possible, no swearing, gore, or anything else of that nature. If you want a certain Urban Legend to see these two in, leave the name of it in a review and i'll see what I can do!
Review to tell me what you thought and to see more chapters!
~Sabby-Sama