Hello everybody! This is a new story idea I just suddenly came up with about a week ago after playing this creepy horror game I discovered. The game is for the PSP from the Playstation Network called, "Corpse Party". I usually don't play horror games, but something about this drew me in, and I ended up liking it. It was formatted kind of like script form in that the stuff they say make up most of the game. Tie that in with a few selected images that they post on certain scenes of people looking psychotic paired with creepy script and lots of creepy moaning and screaming sounds, it makes for a great horror game.
With that said, it strangely inspired me to create a story based on the horror genre. However, this will be my first stab at making a horror story. For those of you who read my old incomplete story, "The Core of Crisis," you might be considering that horror. Actually, that was more on the action and adventure side more than horror, so that doesn't count with me. This one doesn't have any fighting scenes and are instead going to be replaced by scare scenes.
And since I said that this is my first attempt at horror, I'm going to be creating the plot of this story that follows the guidelines similar to the game, "Corpse Party". Of course, I'm going to be changing a few things here and there to make it into my own story, but those who did play the horror game would most likely find snippets of similarities here and there. Other than that, the rest of the story you don't find familiar are my own creations.
With all that said, I hope that you enjoy this first chapter. Naturally, there isn't going to be much if any horror in the first chapter because it's basically just the introduction. And what's a horror story based off of "Corpse Party" without a lot of main characters in it? So for this chapter, most of the main characters are going to be introduced, and that means a lot of people are going to be talking. I've tried to make it as simple to know who's talking as possible, but I apologize in advance if there are still confusing parts on who's talking.
With all that now out of the way, I'll let you all go ahead and read the first chapter of the new story with a horror twist on it. Please leave a review telling me how you think I did since this really is the first time I'm going to be writing descriptive horror. They really help me when I make new stories in knowing how the people are liking it. So until the next update to this or any of my other stories everybody!
And as a side note, I know I rated this story M, but that's only because there's most likely going to be gory scenes coming up a bit later into the progression of the story. And I also try to keep from using major curse words in all of my stories, but I think that this story is going to be one of those rare occurrences where you're going to see me actually type in curse words every now and then that you can't see in a rated T story. So that's the explanation on the rating. And don't get used to seeing M stories from me; I very rarely ever consider writing one.
Chapter 1: One Last Bout of Innocent Fun
Once upon a time in a time since before any of us were even in the process of being born, there was a simple elementary school that was named Destati Sisterhood Elementary. In Latin, Destati stands for destiny, and the people felt that it was destiny that granted them the creation of a new school. And after a couple of decades, some former students who graduated from the elementary school grew to become famous people such as inventors and actors. This helped to gain the school more recognition in belief that the elementary school would help shape the destinies of any student who attended for the better.
After about twenty-five years of accepting only female students, the school decided to start also accepting male students. Not wanting to take away the name Destati from the original name, they decided to rename it as Destati Communion Elementary. It was believed to be the beginning of even more future geniuses.
However, everything was not as peaceful as it seemed to be. As even more time passed on, a new principal was hired to watch over the school after the previous one passed away due to old age. Everyone felt comfortable with the new principal being that it was the first one's rather successful son. He was well-known with all the faculty members, and the students had come to quickly accept him because of his constant appearances at the school every now and then before becoming principal.
Unfortunately, destiny itself seemed to have other plans in mind, these ones more terrible than amazing, for this school upon the introduction of the new principal. After being in the job for a few years, everything was running as well as they used to be. However, a terrible tragedy had befallen the school on one sad and rainy day. The school's nurse beloved by both teachers and students alike had suffered an unfortunate and tragic accident. Apparently, she was walking on the stairs before losing her balance and tumbling to the floor below. She died instantly, and the school was never the same after that.
After this terrible accident took place, many other strange and tragic incidents began to occur and further plague the name of Destati Communion Elementary. Students of the school had begun to mysteriously disappear without any warning whatsoever. They would be seen hanging out with their friends one moment, and then they'd be reported missing on the next day. They were never to be seen by anybody again.
Over time, many dark and strange rumors began to spread about these sad and mysterious disappearances. All of them had one thing in common. They claimed that the nurse who died within the walls of the school was haunting the hallways and abducting any and all children her ghostly eyes rested on. It all stemmed under the knowledge that she had dearly loved all the children of the school when she was alive, and it continued on to say that she abducted them because she was feeling lonely.
And in a span of just two years after these incidents started occurring, many children had suddenly disappeared without any explanation. As a result, the school was forced to close its doors under the terrible reputation it had gained because of all this. Apparently, it was its destiny to reach its greatest high before falling to the lowest low it could possibly achieve. And in a few more short months, the school was demolished and thus buried that sad and tragic memories embedded within its walls.
Over the rubble of where the school once stood now stands another school. Unlike its predecessor, this one catered to only high school students. It's called Destiny Island High. This time, the name was just in respect to the name of the island it was built on rather than naming it after what was once considered a grand name. It's just like your other average everyday high school that educates your other average students.
However, there are many rumors surrounding this school now because of the area it was built over. While most of them were just nothing but nonsense created by rumor-spreading teenagers, one sticks out with even the members of the faculty simply because of the history the grounds that the school was built on hides. It's said that the spirit of the poor nurse who died in the previous elementary school now haunts the halls of this high school when darkness befalls around this school.
On every night that is a mirror image of the day she died, she is said to appear in the hallways calling out to anybody who might still be in the school. Rumor has it she died at around seven in the evening, so that would be the time her spirit comes out during a rainy night. She's said to be saying over and over again in her ghostly voice, "Why are you still here…? Why are you still here…? You must go home now... If not, then I'll have you stay and keep me company…forever!" It would always be this same chant over and over again while searching every classroom for stragglers.
And when you don't comply with her request, she'll continue on with her search for you, almost as if her ghostly senses constantly warning her to the presence of a living human nearby. Once she discovers where you are, she'll slowly approach you with emotionless eyes that could freeze over an already frozen lake trained only on you. She'll continue to moan out that same sentence in that same paralyzing voice while creeping ever closer to you with every passing second. And if you still don't comply, she'll just simply stare at you with those dead and empty eyes until suddenly… … …
"AAAAHHHH!" a scream suddenly pierced the relatively empty classroom just as the sound of thunder thundering close by was heard. In less than a second later, more screams were heard accompanying the first one. The only source of light in the entire room was one lit candle set on the classroom floor in the center of a circle of people sitting around it and screaming their heads off. The silhouettes of the people that flickered on the walls seemed to only add more to the intense creepiness that permeated the room. That and the screams all but sent the creepiness level straight through the roof.
"Wow, I didn't think my storytelling skills were that good," a girl's voice suddenly said through her fits of laughter while trying to talk over the collective screams. Apparently, she was not in the least bit startled by the sudden sharp crack of thunder that permeated through the rather tense and creepy atmosphere. "And I was just trying to put some story sense in an old school rumor. Maybe I should seriously consider becoming an author someday. Or maybe I could pass myself off as a paranormal adventurer. Either way, I think I could get a good career that could have something to do with creepy."
"Damn, that stupid thunder came at such a flipping bad time!" one of the people in the circle exclaimed with his hand over his furiously beating heart once he finally stopped his bout of screams. He then shook his head in an attempt to clear his currently scattered mind, causing his unusually spiky brown hair to jostle every which way and his blue sleeveless vest to fall off his shoulders a bit. "The damn thing nearly scared the literal crap out of me! I know I'm not going to sleep well tonight."
"Never in a million years would I have thought that my creepy stories would make you start screaming your head off," the girl who was the only one who did not scream say with an amused chuckle as she stood up and walked over towards a nearby door where she then flipped a light switch. She then added while tossing her auburn hair behind her, "It was so totally worth it just to see what I say to be the greatest reaction to a horror story in all of history. I still can't believe that you actually scream like a girl, Sora!"
"I gotta hand it to you, Kairi; that was definitely the funniest response I've ever heard come from Sora in my entire life!" one of the people in the group who had long silver hair said with a laugh while adjusting his black sleeveless vest. Everybody else that was in the room with them was starting to relax themselves after that scare and get onto their feet. "I never thought that you scream like a little scared girl. Oh, I'm going to remember that for as long as I live. I just wish I had a recorder with me when you did that so I'd have a record of it to show off to my future kids."
"Sh-shut up, Riku!" the teenager called Sora spat out with an angry pout before crossing his arms on his chest. He then quickly decided to put his hands in the pockets of his red shorts before adding, "It's not like I was the only one screaming when that stupid thunder sounded anyway! Everybody else started screaming."
"Only because you were the one who first started screaming like some poor girl getting raped to death," a blond haired guy in camo clothing from the right of the guy responded with a cheeky grin. "Who would've thought that Roxas' older brother was such a sissy at heart? I can't wait to tell him about this."
"You tell him and you die, Hayner!" the spiky haired teen deadpanned while choosing to ignore that poor comparison the other attempted at making. The others around them began chuckling again at the bickering taking place. "I'll make you wish that you never became best friends with him in the first place."
Both Sora and Hayner once belonged to a separate group of friends when they were in high school. They did not really communicate with each other in any way, shape, or form being that they had no reason to. The only reason the two different groups ended up becoming into the good friends they are now with each other was because of Sora's little brother being friends with everybody and managing to bring them altogether. Otherwise, they would probably still be just ignoring each other and throwing insults whenever possible. The two teens still do that from time to time, but now it was more out of fun than anything else.
"Hey, it isn't like he doesn't already know that you're a sissy or anything like that," the blond haired guy previously addressed as Hayner continued to tease the poor brown spiky haired teen in good nature while innocently shrugging his shoulders. "I do find it interesting, though, how he seems to act serious a lot more often than you do, and you're supposed to be the older sibling. It's like you two managed to switch bodies at some point in time and been living within the other for all this time."
"That's because you've been hanging out with him a lot longer than everybody in this room combined!" the spiky haired teen countered angrily as he tried to defend his admittedly embarrassing outburst from earlier. Apparently, he was taking all of this just a bit too seriously rather than with a grain of salt. "And you somehow managed to miss me all this time until our freshman year of high school during P.E. Of course you'd think that he's more serious than me. You couldn't ask for a more biased opinion than that!"
"Oh, there they go again," a long blond haired girl said with a sigh as she got up from the floor they were all sitting on and moving towards one of the many nearby desks after smoothing out the wrinkles in her simple white summer dress. It was clear by the way they looked and were made that they were currently inside a school. And judging by how old everybody in the room looked, they were all high school students inside a high school classroom. "Why does Hayner always have to find some way to aggravate Sora when he knows he tends to take some things seriously? It's not like they have anything to prove from when they were two different groups of friends. It just doesn't make any sense."
"I think that's just their strange way of keeping their old rivalry from before they really got to know each other alive while still staying friends at the same time, Naminé," a brown haired slightly chubby guy responded with a shrug of his shoulders as he approached the girl who had just taken a seat on one of the desk chairs. "After all, they did start being kind of competitive with each other when they were on opposite teams one day during P.E. Then again, Hayner's always kind of been a bit stubborn like that in that he doesn't want to change his main attitude from being teasingly argumentative to sounding more reasonable. As long as he doesn't start causing trouble with it or even go so far as to start chronically skipping school again, then most of us can live with it."
"And Sora's always had that childish quality in his overall behavior for the past two years since I've been friends with him," the teenager continued to explain as both he and the girl named Naminé watched the two finally stop their argument and help the long red auburn haired girl called Kairi put away a candle and some other props that are mainly used for a dark night or, in this case, creepy story telling. He then continued on after putting his hands into his jeans pockets, "I don't know if he does acts like that on purpose just to try and make the other people feel guilty, but he likes to seem very serious on things he feels strongly about. And that also includes things like the playful argument they just finished. I guess that's where his childish argumentative side stems from."
"Hmm, I guess it's okay so long as it doesn't turn into something crazy like you said," Naminé responded with a shrug of her shoulders as she reached into a nearby backpack and took out a notebook and a pack of colored pencils. She then said as she turned to an empty white page and took out a colored pencil, "I better draw a picture of this so I won't forget about it no matter where I'm at."
"Are you drawing us in your notebook again, Naminé?" another feminine voice joined into the conversation. Looking up, both the blond haired girl and the slightly chubby guy she was talking to saw another teenage girl with shoulder length light brown hair standing in front of them. She had on a light orange summer shirt and white shorts on. "I swear; all the things you create in there look almost exactly like the real event. It's almost as if you're a magician working your magic with the colored pencils!"
"Hee, hee, thanks, Ollete," Naminé thanked the other as her cheeks began to turn slightly red from embarrassment before returning to her artwork of the scene in front of her. "But I'm not really all that good. I just draw what I see as best as I can. I'm sure there are a couple of other students here who're better than me."
"But they're practically just as good if not better than pictures taken from an expensive camera," the other girl called Ollete continued to compliment her with a warm smile as she stole a glance at the beginnings of the picture. "You can practically see and feel all the emotions from when the moment it was first drawn. Nobody could put as much soul in their pictures like you can. Don't you agree with that, Pence?"
"Ollete's definitely right on that," the slightly chubby guy now known to be Pence agreed with a smile and a small nod of his head as she watched the blond start to put dark shades as a base for creating the figures and background. "I still have that picture you created and made copies of from when we first became friends with each other pinned over my bed. I laugh every time I see it and remember both Hayner and Sora struggling to give each other noogies as a way to officiate the start of a new friendship. You even drew in Roxas when he stepped in to try and separate the two thinking that they were picking a fight with each other while the rest of us were just standing around laughing at the whole thing."
"Oh, stop it, Pence!" the blond girl responded as she stopped drawing momentarily in order to try and control the strengthening blush further coloring her cheeks. Either she was not to hearing her artwork being complimented, or she was a really modest girl. "I'm really not all that good with my sketches like you say I am. You know it's embarrassing to hear you give me so much praise like that."
"Well, I figured that I say it now before tomorrow comes around," Pence said with a shrug of his shoulders as his smile faltered a bit. "After all, tonight's basically the last time we'll all get a chance to hang out together like this. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't really want tonight to end any time soon."
"Hey, are you guys really planning on making us do all the work here?" Hayner called out from across the classroom where he was currently straightening up some of the desks piled to the side in linear lines. "There's no way we can get this classroom back to the way it was before we had our after-school summer party. We still have to come here tomorrow, and we promised our Homeroom teacher that it'd be all fixed up before we left. I'd love to go home before they go and lock us all in, you know?"
"Hayner, I'm sure that security and whatever teachers that haven't left yet check all the classrooms before deciding to lock up," Ollete stated in a light chastising voice while rolling her eyes at her friend's rudeness. "It's only common sense. And can't you see that Pence and I were trying to have a nice chat with Naminé? It's not like we were purposefully trying to make you and the others do all the cleaning. We just wanted to have one last meaningfuland undisturbed conversation before we're forced to leave," she added with strong emphasis to further show how annoyed she was.
"We know that this is her last day with us before she moves, Ollete," Sora announced while being careful as to not sound inconsiderate as he finished moving one of the desks before going to another one. "But it's not like we won't get some time to talk with her after we're done with the cleaning. Just help us out a bit, and we won't bug you when you start delving into your girly conversations again."
"Last time I checked Sora, I'm a guy," the slightly chubby teen said with a playful frown before starting to help with the cleanup process. "Don't go tying me in with conversations that revolve mainly about girl stuff. I was just trying to see what Naminé was drawing. Anyway, let's help clean this place up."
"Do you guys want me to help you out?" the blond girl asked as she started to put her colored pencil behind her ear and closed her sketchbook without waiting for an answer. "I'll be there right after I finish putting my stuff away."
"Nah, you go ahead and keep on drawing," Riku responded with a wave of his hand before flashing her a warm smile. "You're right now drawing the last picture of us together, and I'm sure that everybody wants you to finish it so that we can all have a copy of it and remember everything about tonight."
"Yeah, today's a day for you to take it easy, so you just relax and keep on doing what you love," Kairi added in a sort of faux happy tone as she took some books lying around on some desks and shuffled them to a bookcase. "And Riku's right; we all want to have a look at that picture you're working on before the night is over. Besides, we don't think it's fair for you to clean up on your last day with us."
"I-If you all insist," she responded with a small stutter at the attention she was receiving before deciding to return to her drawing. "I promise you all that I'll have this picture done before we're all ready to go home."
And for the next half an hour or so, six of the seven teenagers in the classroom were busy putting things back to the way they were all the way back to when class first started. Naminé simply sat from a slight distance watching the scene and recording it as best as she could on her sketchbook in an attempt to finish her last sketching of the group. They all made small talk every now and then, although the blond girl was more inclined to nod her head in agreement when she was addressed because she did not want to have to break her concentration too much.
Well, that's the new story for you all. Hope that you all ended up enjoying it as much as I had making this first chapter. Stay tuned for more chapters that will definitely have some horror moments in the future. For those who never played "Corpse Party", most of this will most likely be unfamiliar to you. To those who did, then some parts will still seem unfamiliar to you and even different.
Anyway, sorry to those who were thinking that this story was going to jump right into the horror on the first chapter. As you can see, there are a lot of main characters, seven of them already introduced with the eighth only spoken of slightly and the ninth not even mentioned. Then again, I always saw introductions as just parts where some of the characters are introduced to readers along with the smallest inklings of what the plot might be. I hope I managed to do that much with this.
And for those of you wondering, I'm going to be doing a short character bio so as to not have you all confused as to who's who. Also, I feel that putting their ages would further help you readers to maybe connect a bit to the characters like the creators of the Playstation 1 era and Kingdom Hearts series did.
Sora Hikari: 17 (A somewhat timid and childish teenager currently attending Destiny Island High as a Junior. He tries to help his friends out whenever he can.)
Riku Usuakari: 18 (A quiet but hardly shy Senior of Destiny Island High. He tends to keep to himself unless hanging around with those he considers his close friends.)
Kairi Oujo: 17 (A Destiny Island High Junior who's the class representative of her Homeroom class. She likes things that has to deal with the occult.)
Hayner Hatsuratsu: 16 (A Destiny Island High Sophomore who acts a bit like Sora. He used to act like a punk in his Freshman year before Pence and Ollete stepped in)
Pence Matomaru: 16 (A slightly chubby Sophomore of Destiny Island High. His ability to handle pressure well makes others think that he isn't afraid of anything, a far cry from the truth.)
Ollete Gouriteki: 16 (A Destiny Island High Junior who skipped her Sophomore year. She acts like the voice of reason with the group of friends whenever they try to do something irrational.)
Naminé Mumeishi: 17 (Kairi's cousin who's also at Destiny Island High as a Junior. She loves to make sketches of her and her friends depicting the situations they were once in.)
Well, that's it for the character bios. And yes, they are all obviously teenagers because they are high school students. I know I gave a very small insert about Roxas in the story, but that's not really enough to earn him a spot in this bio. But he might make it in the next chapter if he's lucky. And I also made a small mention in this author's note about there being a ninth main character, so maybe he or she would be able to come in then, too. I guess we all can only tell when the next chapter comes out. After all, even I have no idea how it's going to turn out until I actually start typing it out.
And for those of you wondering, each of those last names is Japanese for what I feel best reflects them. Hikari is light for Sora, Usuakari is twilight for Riku, Oujo is princess (Princess of light sounded ugly) for Kairi, Hatsuratsu is lively for Hayner, Matomaru is collected (like hardly startled) for Pence, Gouriteki is reasonable for Ollete, and Mumeishi is nobody (reflects her being a nobody from game) for Naminé.
Anyway, I hope that helps you out with a bit of their background information. I hope that you all don't forget to leave me a review before you move onto the next story. They are always very helpful, especially when I start on a new story and need feedback on what you're thinking about it. I always read them and take them into due consideration considering that they really have something good to say and not just simply saying it's bad and leaving it at that.
That's it for all of my pointless ranting to you all. Hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of this new story I'm creating for you all to read. Until the next update to this or any of my other stories on this site everybody!