TITLE: High School Horror
SUMMARY: Its getting late; a storm is brewing; this is the longest detention the 10 kids have ever served. Finally, it seems like it's all going to end when suddenly the whole school is put under quarantine due to an escaped murderer in the neighbourhood. Oh well, at least they're safe locked up in the school ... aren't they?
AUTHOR: .x.IcePrincess
GENRE: Romance/Horror
PAIRINGS: Mainly Troypay, Minor Ryella, Minor Chaylor, Minor Jelsi
RATING: M for character death
DISCLAIMER: I don't own HSM, all characters used in this story are copyright Disney Channel, the plot is entirely fictitious... blah, blah, blah ... you know the drill.
This is a rewrite of my original fic "Haunted High school Musical". I wouldn't usually write Ryella, but I've started taking a liking to it for some reason. I'll try to update often, but schoolwork may make that a problem. Anyways, enjoy
CHAPTER 1
Darkness was beginning to spread over Albuquerque. It was just seconds past 8 PM; the clock continued to tick and an ever slowing pace. The 10 children in Ms Darbus' detention yawned and fidgeted as they waited for their detention to end. Ms Darbus had fallen asleep several hours ago, but the students were too scared to wake her. There was a dull atmosphere: rain began to trickle slowly down the window panes; the strip lights were flickering; everything was near silent. It was 8:17 when Ms Darbus finally woke. She awoke to the sound of Sharpay Evans' sudden, unexpected coughing fit. She tiredly glanced at the clock, and then gasped as she became aware of the time.
"Goodness, children! Would you look at the time?" she stood up and brushed herself down, "I think that you've all spent long enough in this time to think about the error of your ways and I trust that we shall not have an incident like this again" Ms Darbus looked around at the 10 teens. Each one was sat bolt upright looking at Ms Darbus, scared to death that she would prolong the detention if they made so much as a single move.
"I'll just get my keys so I can lock up the school ..." she rummaged in her pockets for her keys, but with no luck, "Oh; it appears I've misplaced the keys. Why, this reminds me of that unforgettable time when I was understudy to the lead in a show on Broadway..." the teens absentmindedly groaned. In a desperate bid to avoid hearing the teacher's memoirs, someone gave a loud, deliberate cough and the retired thespian was brought back to her senses. "But perhaps now is not the time. Do excuse me while I fetch the keys from my bicycle basket. No one move until I return,"
The 10 students watched Ms Darbus pass the classroom window. As soon as she was out of sight, Troy Bolton, Gabriella Montez, Ryan Evans, Sharpay Evans, Chad Danforth, Taylor McKessie, Zeke Baylor, Kelsi Neilson, Jason Cross and Martha Cox jumped out of their seats. They stretched and fidgeted before starting up a conversation.
"8 hours!" said Chad incredulously as he stretched. "I can't believe we got put in a Saturday detention for 8 hours! No crime's bad enough to get that as a punishment."
"I don't know," said Kelsi, "What we did was pretty awful"
"But totally awesome fun!" Jason punched the air. Everyone agreed.
On the Thursday before the detention, the boys had come across Martha's secret stash of candy and soda, which included bottles of Mountain Dew, Root Beer, Pepsi Cola, Dr Pepper and Candy Bubbles packets of Pop Rocks, Candy Logs, Care Bear Sours Life Savers, Lightning Bugs, Skittles, Candy Canes, Oreos and Swedish Fish, bags of popcorn, bars of Hershey's chocolate, Reeses Cups, Sour Candy Foam, Too Tarts Sour Spray, packs of Cheetos, Doritos and Pringles, Butterfinger bars, packs of Kool Aid, Tootsie Frootsies, Bottle Caps, Gobstoppers, Nerds, Chewy Runts, Tootsie bars, Chocolate Wafers, Taffy, Mars bars and anything else they could possibly think of. After stuffing their faces, then tricking the girls into doing to same, the 10 teens were hyper. The sugar rush seemed to take over their minds, and somehow they managed enter they're next period classroom dancing like maniacs and singing a rousing chorus of Rihanna's umbrella. And that was how they'd ended up serving 8 hours.
While everyone was making a fuss over Thursday, Sharpay was silent, staring through the window.
"What is it Shar?" asked Ryan, leaving the crowd and joining her. "What's out there?"
"Nothing," she replied simply. The others began to notice Ryan and Sharpay, and walked over to the window.
"Nothing?"
"Absolutely nothing." Rain trickled down the window. Grey clouds settled over the town. A storm was brewing.
"What's so weird about nothing" Jason asked.
"Think about it. It's Saturday evening. Come rain or shine, people should be on their way to clubs and bars. Its party time" answered Martha.
"Hey, where's Miss Darbus? She's been gone a while" Taylor piped up.
"Looking at the clock, the others saw she had indeed been gone for almost 2 minutes.
"We should go check," said Zeke, "The old bat probably got held up telling some poor, innocent bystander about her understudy job"
"Yeah," the others laughed. The gathered their belongings and headed for the exit. They were half way there when disaster struck. The lights flickered off. The tanoid made a crackly sound, and then someone spoke over it.
"Students of East High, please remain calm. This is the Albuquerque State Police Force. A serial murderer has escaped from the Rio Grande Mental Asylum and is in the immediate area. This establishment has been placed under quarantine until the murderer is found and arrested. Thank you for your cooperation in this emergency."
The tanoid crackled once more. There were a few moments of silence. The juniors all looked at each other, half expecting, half hoping for one of them the shout out "I got you, it's just a joke!" Nothing of the sort happened.
It looked like this was going to be a long night
I think my rewrite is going to be better than the original (or at least I hope so). R & R people! Constructive criticism encouraged
Ice Princess xx
