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Okay, so this is officially the last Night World FanFiction I'm starting until I finish one. Like always, all the main characters are included. They are all humans and well yeah thats all I really need to say.

My idea is to make this story kind of scary, but I don't know how that will work out.

I do hope you enjoy it though :)

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters.

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Echo's Of My Scream

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An invitation brought them all together to an indoor amusement park. They ignored the warnings thinking of this as a game. Soon enough things went from funny to terrifying. They were stuck in a place where their nightmares came to life.

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Chapter 1; Warnings

The final bell rang announcing that classes where over until next Monday- but for the students it announced freedom and weekend. Meaning, bags were needed to be packed, plans were needed to be made and homework was needed to be forgotten, all to simply enjoy Saturday, Sunday and what was left of Friday.

Halls were packed with students and bags as minutes passed. Most had decided to go with the simple plan of visiting family members while others just planned on going away for the weekend to enjoy their time with their friends. It was guaranteed that at least 75% of the student would be gone over the weekend, while the remaining 25% -which would be classified as the lazier and boring population of students- would stay in campus.

That 25% either had nowhere to go or they had to much work to worry about. Some students actually preferred staying seeing how with more then half the students gone, the campus would be close to pretty much empty. Having some peace and quite was not a bad idea, specially if you have a lot in your mind.

By the time the sun was already down and the stars and moon started to light up the dark sky, the gates of the campus were being closed. Students had until eight thirty to leave campus because gates were to be closed at exactly nine. From then on, no one could leave or enter, unless of course an emergency. This rule applied to all the days of the week, so on Sunday, they students that had left for the weekend would have to return before nine, or they could simply wait for the next day in which the gates would be open at 10am.

If you were caught trying to sneak out or enter the campus between 9pm and 10am you would be in for a huge punishment decided by the school board- a punishment they couldn't afford.

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Stupid park. Jezebel thought as she hugged herself while letting the air blow her hair back. She looked straight ahead noticing she was still nowhere near her destination, which was the other side of the park- for now. The fact that it was pitch dark and all she had was a small portable flashlight didn't help to make her little walk easier. The wind had decided to blow harder then usual seeing how a storm was set to come tomorrow late afternoon, but of course she didn't bother thinking about that earlier today when she made up her mind on going in the first place.

She walked at normal speed as she aimed the flashlight towards the ground, making sure she wouldn't trip on anything. What are you going to trip on Jez, a dead body? She thought sarcastically as she tightened the grip she had on the flashlight. "I should have taken the bus" she said to herself already feeling uncomfortable with the darkness. To think a park should have post lights. She thought to herself while quickening her pace.

She had walked way to many times through this park to even count them, so when she noticed that small hole on the ground she knew right away she was almost out of the park. She relaxed a little deciding to slow her pace as her muscles also relaxed. She was breathing heavily and her throat was starting to burn for the desire of a drink. She cursed for forgetting her water bottle before she heard a faint sound from behind her.

Jez reacted fast turning her head around while she still kept walking. The darkness kept her from seeing anything yet she was still looking behind her as her foot hit a rock causing her to fall. The flashlight went flying out of her hand and when it made contact with the ground it immediately turned off. Fuck. Jez cursed as she stood up and went to reach for the flashlight.

Her heart nearly stopped when instead of a flashlight, Jez ended up touching something that seemed to be a shoe. She thought of screaming or maybe just running away, but seeing how the park was deserted and dark she decided both options where useless. Jez stood there frozen as she waited for something to happen.

Sure enough, before she knew it, she was closing her eyes because they had been attacked by light- light coming from her flashlight. "Sorry" a deep voice said. She knew right away it was a guy talking seeing how the voice sounded manly. "I didn't mean to scare you- or hurt you" When the burn from her eyes had finally faded she got a chance to look at the owner of the voice.

She had expected an old man with a smirk on his face ready to rape her or something. Instead, she found herself looking at a young boy, probably around her age, with a worried expression. Taken aback Jez took a step backwards while she blinked twice. "I'm not going to hurt you!" the guy quickly exclaimed as he started to look even more worried.

"Uhm, okay" Jez said failing to find any other words. She stared at the guy in front of her for a moment studding him silently before she noticed the small patch on his shirt. "You go to GrayFade?" she asked while pointing at the patch.

He nodded before handing back her flashlight. "Galen Drache" He said while stretching out his hand. "Junior" he said with a smile. "I assume you go there as well?" He asked as Jez shook his hand.

"Jezebel Kai. Junior as well" she told him while nodding. After they shook hands, awkward silence took over. They stood quietly waiting for each other to say something as the wind started blowing leafs all over them. "So what are you doing out here?" Jez finally asked realising she needed to start walking again before she froze to death.

"Oh, uhm" Galen hesitated. "I was actually on my way to this place, but I got lost" he explained while rubbing his neck with his right hand.

"Where are you going?" Jez asked as she started playing with her fingers.

"Uhm, I don't really know" he admitted before giving her a small smile. "The street is called vere-something"

"Vereor?" she asked uneasy as she tried to remember where she had seen that name before.

"Yes!" he exclaimed "Do you know where it is?"

"Uhm, not really- but I think…" Jez paused as she pulled out a little paper from her pocket. Once Galen saw the paper his eyes widened before snatching it away from Jez. He scanned through it before giving her a questioning gaze. "What?" she asked confused.

"Looks like we are going to the same place"

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As a cloud passed by covering the moon, five of them stood by the street. The only light they had was coming from a very old looking post light, so apart from that small area near the post light, the place was completely dark. Silence had taken over after they had learned each others names. It wasn't until ten minutes after, that one of the girls manned up and started making conversation.

"So you two are not related?" Poppy asked as she pointed towards the two boys in front of her that had the same bored expression on their face.

"Nope" They both said at the same time clearly annoyed at the fact that she would think something like that. "We are not related" said the guy with the ash-blonde hair, also known as Ash.

"Could have fooled me" Hannah, the girl standing besides Poppy said while stretching her arms. Poppy slightly giggled as she crossed her arms feeling the cold breeze.

"Just because we have the same last name, doesn't exactly mean we have to be related" the one with the darker hair -Delos- said while Ash nodded in agreement.

"Oh whatever" Raksha mumbled annoyed already cursing softly, she was mad at herself for being where she was; outside in the cold with a bunch of idiots when she could easily be at her dorm sleeping with the heater on.

"Someone is pms'ing" said a new voice coming from the other side of the street. Raksha turned around to glare at a guy wearing a leather jacket as she heard Delos and Ash chuckle while Poppy and Hannah tried hiding the smile on their face.

"Excuse me?" she asked with annoyance.

"I'm sure you heard me"

Raksha raised her eyebrow before her right hand formed into a fist. She opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by another voice. "Now, now. No need to start a fight" six heads turned east as a guy came walking towards them with his hands in his pockets and his scarf moving violently thanks to the wind.

"So let me guess" Ash spoke once both the new guys had made their towards the little group he was currently in. "You both go to GrayFade, your Juniors and you're here because you got this interesting invitation promising you would have the most exciting night of you life." The two new guys looked at each other before nodding their heads in unison. "Join the club" Ash said with fake enthusiasm. "I'm Ash Redfern. I'm also a junior at GrayFade just like everyone else" he said gesturing towards the rest of the people around him.

"I'm Morgead Blackthorn" said the guy with the leather jacket as he looked at everyone with a bored expression far to similar to Delos and Ash's expression.

"And I'm David Blackburn" said the guy with the scarf as he nodded politely. No one shook hands seeing how they all had their hands hidden away because of the cold. Instead they just said their names.

"Poppy North"

"Hannah Snow"

"Raksha Keller"

"And I'm Delos Redfern- and no, I'm not related to Ash" He said before letting out a heavy sigh.

"I'm John Quinn" A voice from behind them said as the wind blew harder this time. They all turned around to see a two girls and two boy make their way towards them "We heard everything you said" John said while pointing at Ash. "And you guessed it. Juniors, GrayFade, invitation."

They all nodded greeting the four new members of their little 'group.' "My name is Thea Harman." said a tall girl with blonde hair and brown eyes.

"Thierry Descouedres" said the other guy giving everyone a warm smile.

"Gillian Lennox" the smallest of the four new members said as she had her arms wrapt around her small body.

Everyone stayed quiet as they looked at each other with pure confusing. No one knew what to say or what to do. They were back to an awkward silence. No one really moved or said anything. But once again, a girl manned up and decided to make conversation. "How come we all go to the same school, yet I've never seen any of you?" Hannah was the one to ask as she looked at everyone for a response.

It was Raksha who had answered her question first. "Well miss popular, you may have not seen any of us" Hannah flinched as Raksha spoke every word with pure venom. "But I do recall seeing some of you in my classes"

"Yup, same here" David said glancing at everyone before nodding his head. Soon enough everyone had admitted seeing each other on campus, but one thing was certain. This was probably the first time any of them were speaking to each other. "It's kind of weird if you think about it" David commented as he glanced up at the sky.

"How so?" Thierry asked shivering as the cold wind hit his bare neck.

"How all of us don't actually know each other and yet we go to the same school- and lets not forget we are all here thanks to an invitation. This is all very suspicious." David explained as some of them nodded while others just shrugged.

"Couldn't agree more" a new voice spoke from the darkness. They turned their heads around from where they were hearing footsteps and soon enough five more people were making their way towards them. "Too suspicious if you ask me" a girl with long black hair and green eyes spoke as she walked next to another girl that had her arms wrapped around her. They both seemed very cold.

"Great, more people" Ash murmured before he introduced everyone that he knew. Some people gave him a surprised stare not believing he had actually remembered all their names.

"I'm Rashel Jordan and this is Mary-Lynnette Carter" She said gesturing towards the girl she was now cuddling with. "She kind of just tripped and bit her tongue so she wont be talking for a while" she explained as Mary-Lynnette gave everyone a smile and a small wave.

"I'm Maggie Neely" said a girl with wavy brown hair who had one arm wrapped around another guys waist as he had his arm around her shoulders.

"Eric Ross"

"And I'm James Rasmussen," the last 'new' guy said before letting out a sigh "assuming no one has said this before. Its actually nice meeting you all" he gave everyone a smile ignoring the comments about him being to nice for his own good made by Maggie.

"I've seen you around" Poppy told James as she shivered once again. "Your in my Law class, right?" James nodded as a response to her answer. "Well its nice meeting you too"

"Okay lets save all the love for later" Rashel begged as she ran a hand through her long dark hair. "For now, can we go inside. Its freezing!"

"We cant. The doors are locked"

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"I think we should turn right" Jez said aiming the flashlight to said direction.

"I think we should turn left" Galen shot back as he had his eyes locked on the other side.

"Well I'm turning ri-shit!" Galen quickly turned around as his eyes searched for Jez. She was on the floor- so he assumed seeing how he could see some movement, the flashlight had turned off.

"You okay?" He asked her as he heard her curse. "You broke the flashlight didn't you?" he didn't wait for her to answer seeing he knew he was right. He took out his cell-phone, which was going to turn of soon seeing how the battery was very low, and clicked the unlock bottom so the light came shinning out of the small device. He walked towards Jez and helped her get up. "How did you fall?"

"This tripped me" she explained casually as she showed Galen a small key that was on her hand.

"A key tripped you?" Galen asked raising an eyebrow, but before Jez could answer they heard someone shout.

"Anyone there?" the voice was deep and a little shaken, but it sounded trustworthy so Galen decided to yell back.

"Yup" Soon enough a guy with a leather jacket was standing next to Galen with a lighter on his hand.

"My name is Morgead" the guy told them before smirking "Let me guess. You two are juniors and happen to go to GrayFade, right?" Jez and Galen shared a look of confusion before nodding their heads. "Come with me" They followed Morgead who led them through a small path between two buildings that were located on the right side of the street they were currently at.

As soon as they got to the other side of the path, Jez and Galen were able to see a faint light coming from the far side of the street. As they got closer they noticed a bunch of people standing around that area. "Found two more" Morgead said as he went to sit next to a guy with ash-blonde hair. Ash quickly introduced everyone -still gaining shocked stares from some of the guys- before Galen and Jez introduced themselves.

"Well-" Poppy was about to explain the situation but she had stopped talking as soon as the light from the post-light turned off and a new light turned on. A light coming from the building in front of them. A building that had a sign written with red paint right above the door. 'Welcome' It said, but none of them felt very welcomed. They stared at the building in silence for a while before Mary-Lynnette started coughing.

"Its getting way to cold" Galen announced looking rather nervous.

"If only we could go inside" mumbled Hannah as she rubbed her hands together.

"We cant go inside?" Jez asked getting annoyed. "Why?"

"Door is locked" David told her as he pulled out a pack of gum from his pocket. He offered the group gum, some took a piece whiles others just shook their heads.

Galen gave Jez a look before he asked out loud "Do you think it will work?" They all gave both of them questioning gaze as Jez showed everyone the key she was holding. "It wouldn't hurt to try"

"Where did you get that?" Thea asked suspicious, Jez simply shrugged before explaining how she tripped on the key while walking. No one said anything as Delos took the key from Jez and walked towards the door.

"Hmm" he said while looking for lock. "this is stupid…" he mumbled annoyed after giving up on searching for a lock that clearly didn't exist. He leaned on the door and before he could reacted the door had opened forcing him to fall. He immediately stood up cursing as he rubbed the arm he landed on. "I thought you said it was locked!" He yelled at Raksha who was trying to hide a smile.

"It was." She said as she made her way towards him. "Remember we all tried opening it before" she reminded him as she stood in front of the wide open door. The others had also made their way towards the building.

"Shall we go in?" John asked as he looked inside the building. After a couple of whines and irrelevant comments about how creepy the building looked -mostly coming from the girls- they decided to go inside seeing how it was getting way too cold. Gillian and Thierry suggested just to head back to campus, but the majority voted against that idea seeing how the gates would be closed by now. That was the main reason why everyone was still there in the first place.

They all walked in following Delos who had been the first one to step foot in that building, Maggie and Eric where the last ones to walk in. Once everyone was inside Thierry decided to close the door because of the wind, but he never got the chance to because the door slammed closed by itself right before Thierry even touched it. "Weird" he mumbled before looking around the room they were currently in.

"What now?" James asked out loud to no one in particular.

Gillian was the one to answer after she shrugged. "We are all here because of the invitation right?" she asked as everyone nodded. "Well then what did it say?" she questioned as she looked around to see everyone looking rather confused. After asking if anyone had the invitation, John pulled it out before everyone else so he read it out loud;

"Not many dare, not many will. For we know what you hide, we know what you fear." As John finished reading the first line of words on the top of the page a candle placed on the wall of a hallway straight ahead turned on. He ignored the light as he continued reading. "Come, we plea, for fun we will give" another candle turned on, this time it was further down the hall. "a night to enjoy, full of memories to keep" another candle turned on, but instead of being on the wall, it was placed on a small table that was located right next to a black door. "Then at the bottom it gives us the address" John concluded as he focused his eyes on the hall in front of him.

No one had paid attention to John, because they didn't need to. The invitation had been so short that in the back of their minds they still remembered it from the first time they read it, instead as John had read the invitation out loud they all had their attention on the hall. They had failed to notice it earlier seeing how there hadn't been any lights. But as the three candles started lighting up, they were able to focus their curious eyes towards the only visible hallway.

Poppy was staring straight at the black door located at the end of the hall. From where she stood, she could notice some words carved on the door. Without thinking she started walking towards it, ignoring the faint warning coming from one of the girls.

Morgead and Delos had shared an amused smile before they followed Poppy towards the door. "What does it say?" asked Hannah who stood far away from the hall leaning against a wall. Next to her was Maggie and Eric who just like Hannah had decided to stay where they were. Rashel, Mary-Lynnette and Raksha stood in the middle of the hallway keeping a safe distance from the door just like James, Gillian and Thierry who stood behind them. Everyone else was near the door.

"Warning" Morgead read in a mocking tone "once you enter there is no way out until the end. You may only enter if all are together."

"The end?" Mary-Lynnette asked while taking her cell-phone out. "Does any one have a cell phone I can borrow? Mine just died" she explained as she waited for someone to offer their cell-phone.

"I would let you use mine" Ash spoke as he looked at his phone that he pulled out from his pocket. "But apparently its not working"

"My battery just died- it was fully charged thirty minutes ago!" Thea exclaimed as she continuously kept pressing the on/off button on her phone.

Galen glanced at his phone already knowing it was probably dead. He watched as everyone around him pulled out their phones. They all ended up with the same expression after they tried turning the phones on. "Looks like we wont be able to make any calls"

"Okay, I'm officially disturbed" Maggie spoke as she made her way to the main entrance door with Eric following right behind her. "I'm out of here" she said grabbing the handle on the door. To her dismay when she tried pulling the door open, it didn't even move an inch. Eric gave it a shot as well, but just like Maggie he failed. "Great" she yelled while crossing her arms.

"This is getting rather stupid" Hannah mumbled as she went to stand next to Maggie. "All this is just… too much. I'm starting to think this is all a stupid joke- a prank"

"Agreed" said Rashel as she looked around. "now the question is, who is the idiot behind the prank"

No one said anything as they looked at each other. Morgead was the one to receive most of the glares so he ended up getting annoyed. "Stop looking at me!" he snapped before rolling his eyes. "Why would I try to pull of a prank on you people? I barely even know you!"

Gillian, who had been one of the people glaring at Morgead shrugged before trying to reason with Morgead "It's just that you seem like the type to pull something like that" Rashel and Raksha nodded in agreement before Morgead snapped again causing an argument to start.

"Oh boy" Eric sighed as he leaned against the entrance door. He was watching in amusement as the argument between Morgead, Rashel, Gillian, Raksha- and now Ash, John and David got bigger by the second. "we are getting nowhere with this"

"You think?" Maggie questioned sarcastically as she leaned her head on Eric's shoulder.

"Are you two dating?" Hannah asked trying to ignore the shouting happening behind her.

"Nope, we just met like thirty minutes ago" Eric chuckled as he saw Hannah's expression change from curiosity to confusion. "We both took the bus to get here. It was a fifteen minute ride, so we talked for a while."

"We both hate my ex-boyfriend, so we became best friends" Maggie concluded Eric's little story as Hannah giggled. "Plus, we both play soccer"

"Interesting" Hannah cooed as the shouting coming from the other guys slowly faded. "What happened?" she asked as she noticed everyone staring towards the direction of the black door.

"I opened the door" Delos said casually as Hannah's eyes fell on the lock under the handle. The key Jezebel had found was in it. Delos pushed the door opened as it revealed a dark room.

"Are we going in?" James asked after a moment of silence.

"Are you crazy?" Poppy cried out. "Can you not read the big warning sign?" she pointed at the now open black door "I think it was carved there for a reason"

"Get realistic" Raksha told her while walking towards the door. "Clearly this is all a stupid joke" she stated as she stopped to stand right in front of the dark room in front of her. "We came here to have 'fun', right?" she asked everyone as one by one they nodded in agreement. "So, my guess is that this is the way to our 'fun'"

"I have a bad feeling about this" Gillian murmured nervously while she eyed the dark room. She didn't like this what so ever. "Its so dark in there"

"Come on guys" Thierry spoke as he made his way towards Raksha "She is right, what's the worst that could happen? I mean, its not like we are in a horror movie or something"

"Or something" Galen mused as he gave Maggie, Eric and Hannah a questioning gaze. They were the ones further away from the dark room.

"I'm not going in there" Maggie stated as she shook her head. "You guys can go"

"We cant" Delos announced annoyed. "Remember, the sign, we must all go together"

"Oh, so now your acknowledging the sign" Poppy snapped crossing her arms.

They all talked over it for a while. Delos, Thierry, Raksha and David ended up convincing everyone who didn't feel comfortable entering the room to enter it for the sake of the people who did want to go in. Everyone was convinced- everyone but Maggie.

"I rather just go back to GrayFade" she said not moving from where she stood alone. Eric and Hannah had already made their way towards the dark room.

"Can you go drag your girlfriend here, please?" Delos begged Eric already losing all his patience.

"She is not my girlfriend" Eric corrected him before facing Maggie "Come on, we are waiting for you" he called out while Maggie shook her head.

"Ugh! Annoying brat" Delos exclaimed as he made his way towards her. Maggie was about to open her mouth to yell at him for calling her a brat but before she knew it she was getting picked up and thrown over his shoulder as he ran back to where the other stood with amused expressions. "Lets go" Delos ordered ignoring the screaming coming from Maggie who was hitting his back hard.

"Okay" Raksha said stretching out the 'ay' before she walked inside the room while everyone followed her. Once all of them were inside the black door closed and the lights in the room turned on. The room was completely empty.

"You fucking asshole!" Maggie yelled as Delos finally put her down. "What gives you the fuckin-"

"Welcome" Maggie was cut short as a new voice interrupted her. Everyone's head shot up to see a small plasma TV hanging on the wall. The TV showed a straight line that went horizontally through the middle of the screen. Every time the new voice spoke the line moved making some sort of waves. "We are glad you are here" the voice was cold and rough, a male's voice. "this is your last warning."

"Last warning my ass" Hannah yelled as she tried opening the black door. "We are locked in here!"

"Don't leave any behind. Don't get lost in their lies. Don't give up until the last second. Don't get attached." with that said the monitor turned off leaving dead silence.

"Warning? Sounded more like suggestions" Thierry mused as he looked around the room after getting tired of the silence. "What now?" he asked noticing everyone was still standing quietly probably completely ignoring him.

"Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep; if I should die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take" They all turned to stare at Mary-Lynnette who had said those words with a whisper. She was staring straight at the floor and when everyone followed her gaze, they noticed the words were written all over the floor with red paint.

"Shit" was the last word heard before darkness took over.

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