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Chapter 1: The New Kid
"Where am I," thought a familiar little red-head as she found herself laying down on something cold. She couldn't identify what she was laying on, but all she could feel was that it was cold and soft. She attempted to open her eyes to find out where she was, but was shocked to find out she couldn't. No matter how much she tried, her eyes appeared to have been glued shut, as they wouldn't even budge. She then tried to call out for someone, anyone to help her, but when she opened her mouth, no sound came out! Needless to say, Cat was starting to freak out by now. "What's going on, why can't I open my eyes or talk? Please, if someon's out there, please help me," she practically shouted in her head. Suddenly, she heard something that would further frighten her experience.
"Cat...Cat...Caterina...Caterina...Cat," whispered a ghostly echo somewhere around Cat . At hearing this, Cats' fear increased as she didn't recognize the voice at all. "Cat, Caterina, Cat," the voice continued to call out to her, as she noticed that it was growing louder, and that she was getting colder and colder with each passing second.
"Oh my God, who'se there? Come on, move body move," she shouted into her head again, as the voice grew louder and louder. "Move, come on move, move, move!" Then, the second she felt as if something was breathing on her, her eyes immediatly shot open, and she sat straight up. As she looked around, she saw no one; actually, she couldn't see a thing due to the area around her being covered by the darkness of the night. "Hello, is anyone out there," she asked as she stood up, and began walking through the dark area, which she could tell at least was a forest. All throughout this forest, hardly any sound penetrated the near absolute peace and tranqulity of these woods. In fact, the only sounds that could be heard were the sounds of the wind stirring up leaves from the ground, said leaves crunching under her feet, and the sound of Cats' own voice. She then looked up into the sky, and saw that it was completly illuminated by both the full moon, and the nights' stars. At seeing this, she had to admit, despite the eerie darkness that surrounded her, this was truly beautiful.
"Caterina..Caterina...Cat," whispered suddenly the same ghostly echo as before. At hearing this eerie voice again, Cat quickly turned around to locate the source of it, but saw no one. Suddnly, she haerd the sound of leves crumbling under the feet behind her, and turned around again, but saw nothing.
"Hello, is someone there," she asked, fear obvious in her voice, yet again, she recieved no response. The footsteps then became quicker in pace, until she could tell that whatever was making the sound was running. "Okay, if someone's out there, could you please say something, you're really scaring me!"Suddenly, she felt a hand come onto her shoulder, and without thinking, she balled her hand into a fist, and swung it into the direction of the hand.
"Woah! Cat, you almost punched me in the face," shouted a familiar brunette, as she moved out of the way at the las second, just barely avoiding Cats' fist.
"Oh my God Tori, I'm so sorry! Are you okay," asked Cat, worried that she might have hurt her friend.
"Yeah Cat, I'm okay, see," Tori replied, assuring Cat that she was alright.
"Wait, what're you doing out here anyway?"
"I came to get you, now come on, everyone's waiting," replied Tori, as she grabbed Cat's arm and began to drag her to some location, most likely where the others were waiting for them.
"Wait, why is everyone waiting for us," asked Cat, totally clueless. Tori then stopped and turned back to Cat, a look of disbelief plastered on her face.
"Sikowitz invited everyone in his class out here to watch the annual "Fireworks Extravaganza" the Pyro Club's having out here. While we were waiting, you said you had to go to the bathroom, but you were gone for a long time. We all started to get worried, so I came out here to look for you." Cat then suddenly jumped at Tori, attacking her with a giant bear hug. "Cat, Cat, I can't breathe!" At hearing that, Cat let her go, but not before giving her one final squeeze.
"Thank you Tori, you're such a good friend," said Cat, happy that one of her friends would risk coming out into the scary woods just to find her.
"Your welcome, but you seriously don't remember any of that?"
"No, none of it. The only thing I can remember is waking up in this scary forest," Cat answered truthfully. At hearing this, Tori put her hand on Cats' forehead, checking her bodys' temperature.
"Hmm, you feel alright, but we should still get you checked out when we get back." And with that, they continued towards their location. As they kept walking for several more minutes, Cat suddenly asked-
"Hey Tori, did you hear someone calling my name?"
"Uh yeah, that was me Cat."
"No, there was someone else calling me. It sounded like a man, and it sounded like a ghost."
"A ghost," asked Tori, becoming intrigued by what Cat was telling.
"Yeah, and not like those funny ghosts in cartoons. But like the ones you hear in those scary movies like...like-"
"The Exorcist," asked Tori, finishing Cats' thought.
"Yeah like that, it was really scary too," Cat replied, grasping on to Toris' arm, fear begining to engulf her again just at the memory of it. "Tori, promise me you won't let anything get me," Cat asked her, looking at her with her innocent brown eyes.
"Yes Cat, I promise."
"Yay, thank you Tori," she cheered, hugging Tori again.
"Cat, losing oxygen, fast," Tori warned her, as Cat quickly let go. Then, no sooner after that little conversation, the two finally made it back to camp grounds where the rest of their class was gathered. "Hey guys I'm back, and look who I found," she announced, showing everyone that she had retrieved Cat. Upon seeing said red-head, their friends either gave them a warm smile, or a relieved sigh escaped thier mouth, happy to see Cat was safe.
"Aww man, shooting stars are rip-offs," shouted Rex in dismaiy.
"Why d'ya say that," asked Beck, though feeling he may not like the answer.
"Cuz, I wished on one that Cat'd get eaten by a bear or something!"
"What's that suppose to mean," Cat shouted.
"It means I didn't want you to come back," laughed Rex.
"Robbie," Tori shouted, walking over to him and smacking his arm.
"Ow! It wasn't me, it was Rex," Robbie pleaded.
"Oh sure, blame the puppet," replied Jade, sitting next to Beck, her head leaned against his shoulder, and his arm around her waist.
"He's not a puppet!"
"Yeah, I really don't care," she replied, going back to messin with her hair.
" Attention everyone, attention, I've made fire! Now we can alert the others and have them help us find them," screamed Sikowitz, as he ran out of the forest.
"Uh, Sikowitz," started Andre, signaling Sikowtz to look in his direction. Once he did, he saw that Tori and Cat had returned.
"Ah yes, glad to see that you're both okay. By the way Cat, I hope you enjoyed your pee. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to let the Pyro Club know that everyone's alright, and then the show'll begin." And with that, Sikowitz ran back into the forest.
"I hate that stupid Pyro Club," Jade suddenly blurted out.
"Why," asked Tori
"None of your business," she shouted, not wanting Tori to know.
"Jade," Beck started, giving Jade a sincere look as he continued. "Jade tried out for the Pyro Club a few months ago, but they rejected her."
"How come," Cat asked, becoming interested in the conversation.
"They thought her ideas were...too dangerous," Beck answered. At hearing this, the others all thought of what could Jade have possibly suggested that would have scared a club of fire users.
"Bunch of chickens," added Jade. "I mean who dosen't love seeing somenone shoot an apple off someone's head?"
"Well that's not so bad," admitted Andre, with the others agreeing with him, as they didn't find that too dangerous.
"Yeah, but Jade suggested that they use chainsaws," addmitted Beck.
"Chainsaws," asked Robbie, becoming freightened.
"No, not chainsaws, flaming chainsaws," Jade corrected him.
"Woman, are you psycho," asked Rex.
"Probably," Jade responded as if it was an average question. After that, somewhat awkward conversation, the group continued to talk amongst eachother. Jade, talking to and making out with Beck. Cat, going over to Robbie and having a conversation about something, but then getting into an argument with Rex. Tori, once seeing that Cat wasn't paying attention, snuck over to Andre, and whispered into his ear-
"Cat's been acting funny."
"Whad'ya mean," he whispered back.
"When I found her, she said she didn't remember how she got there. I checked to see if she was sick or something, but she felt fine. And get this, she said she didn't hear me calling her name while I was out there, but said she heard some ghost calling her."
"A ghost?"
"Yeah, a ghost."
"You sure it wasn't just the wind," he joked.
"I don't know, I didn't ask her. But she definetly heard something that freaked her out, cuz, when she told me, she tensed up, and she looked really freaked," she informed him. Andre then looked at Tori's eyes, and saw that her eyes held a look of concern in them, convincing him to go check on Cat. Andre and Tori then took a look at Cat, who was still arguing at Rex about something, then looked at eachother and nodded their heads. They then stood up and made their way over to Cat. When they finally reached her, she still hadn't noticed them until Tori spoke. "Cat, we need to talk."
"Sure, about what?" Just then, a bright light flashed above them, causing them all to stare into the sky to see a group of fireworks exploding above them.
"It's starting, it's starting! Everyone, take your seats, it's staring," shouted an excited Sikowitz, as he ran back to his class. The class of teenagers were caught in awe at the beautiful display above them. Even though there were the occasional simple fireworks that simply exploded in the air, there were also fireworks which when exploded, turned into fascinating pictues and figures.
"Woah, this is amazing," exclaimed a random boy in thier class.
"Yeah, Sikowitz, this is awesome," agreed a girl next to him.
"Ah don't thank me, thank my cousin for letting us all come out here and watch."
"I thought you said your nephew was in the club," informed Tori.
"Did I know," replied Sikowitz, returning to the show, as did the others. They were all so captivated by this, that they were nearly, if not completly oblivious to their surroundings. That is until suddenly, an unusual chill blew by them, causing everyone to shiver, however, they simply ignored it. But the chill continued to blow over them, almost as if it were a type of creature, trying to wrap itself around them. Then, out of nowhere, the ghostly voice returned, but this time, it sounded like it was practically inside her head.
"Cat...Caterina...Cat!"
"No, not again," Cat sreamed as she fell to her knees, grasping her head.
"Cat, hey Cat, what's wrong," asked a worried Tori, as she kneeled down to her friend.
"The voice, it's back, it's back!"
"What voice? What's she talking about," asked Jade, becoming worried by her friends' actions.
"Cat..Caterina..Caterina..Cat!"
"Make it stop please, make it stop!" From Cats' perspective, the voice was nearly screaming at her, but to everyone else, they couldn't hear a thing. Suddenly, the sky began to grow darker, and the temperature began to drop incredibly. The class then looked up, and saw that a giant dark cloud was overlapping the stary sky. They then looked into the forest and saw what looked like black mist approaching them, however, even though it looked like mist, they addmitted there was something eerie about it. As it grew closer, Sikowitz went a little closer to the mist, a slowly allowed himself to be engulfed by it.
"Sikowitz," asked Tori nervously, waiting for a response from her teacher. Then, they heard Sikowitz utter a blood curdling scream, terrorfying them all.
"Run," shouted Beck as they all began to run away from the mist. As they all began running for their lives, they saw that the mist was picking up speed, as it began to capture them all, until only Cat and her friends were left.
"Come on, hurry up," shouted Andre, as the mist was closing in on them. Just when it was about to capture them, it stopped for some reason. However, the group was in no mood to stop and see why, as they continued to run deeper into the forest, until they couldn't see the mist anymore. by the time they stopped running, they were all out of breath and were too caught in shock to say anything. That is until Jade shouted-
"What the chizz was that?"
"I don't know, but it looks like we're the only ones it didn't get," replied Andre.
"Alright, let's all calm down, find a way out of here, and get the police. Maybe they can help us find out what's going on," instructed Beck. The others all agreed and were ready to continue on into the forest, when Cat suddenly started screaming again. They all then felt the familiar chill in front of them, as they looked and saw the mist coming at them. They were just about to turn around and run, but they saw that it was also coming in from the back as well!
"Oh man, we're done for man," shouted Rex in dismay. As the mist closed in on them, they all huddled around each other, waiting for the inevitable. Then, in one single second, the mist, swept over them all, capturing them in it's grasp, leaving Cat alone, alone in the darkness.