This was originally done as a project for school. I'll be updating it as more ideas for other characters and their adventures come into my mind. If you have any character ideas you can PM me or review. Please enjoy, comment, and favorite!
The haunted house loomed over Will Scott, like a giant four-headed monster. The two towers on the side were the tallest. The four corner towers all looked threatening somehow, menacing, evil. They weren't as tall as the other two towers, but darker, and not just in color. The whole house was black, except for the two side towers, which were gray.
Every year, the government sent up one representative from each state to the haunted house. Whoever survived one night in the house won. There were multiple winners each year, but never more than ten. Will didn't know why, but it kind of scared him.
He was the Nebraska representative this year and he wasn't happy about it. He was the 7th to show, and everyone had to go in at the same time so there weren't any unfair advantages. In other words, if anyone goes in early, they could die.
Will had been waiting for five hours, and now the representative from Hawaii, Ekana, was the only one left. All 49 other representatives were sitting around, waiting.
Will sat, looking at the building, and remembered the back-story of how the building became haunted. It was said to have started when these two friends had gone in, checking to see if it was haunted, back in 1739. It wasn't then, but the girls didn't know that. Will didn't know all the details, but soon they got in a fight. One girl found a knife on the ground and stabbed the other through the heart. She felt terrible immediately and stabbed herself in the same way. The first girl to die came back as a demon. The second, the knife wielder, became a zombie. The place had been haunted ever since. Everyone who died in there from then on became a part of the undead.
Finally, Ekana arrived. Nobody noticed him until he pushed open the gate that everyone had been waiting to open.
Everyone rushed ahead, hoping to get one of the bedrooms, which were apparently only in the six towers. Will was a fast runner, and sprinted to get to the front. Ekana was running at the same speed as him, and they ended up roommates for the night in the right side tower. Later he found out the side towers were the only rooms with bunk beds.
He was ready to crash when Ekana whispered, "Don't move." It was then that Will noticed the mummy curled up in a ball right next to the wall, sleeping. Ekana tiptoed over to it, and Will followed, although he was unsure what they were going to do.
Ekana motioned at one of the mummy's wrappings and Will instantly understood. He edged over to it uncertainly, grabbed it and pulled lightly. It started slowly unraveling. Unfortunately, it was enough to awaken the mummy. It opened its red eyes and looked as its shoulder, its ugly shoulder, began to show itself. It looked at the end of the wrapping and saw Will's hands. Its gaze slowly crawled up until his red eyes fixed themselves on Will's face.
The boys didn't hesitate. They fled from the room and quietly hid under the table in the downstairs kitchen. The mummy lumbered past them, through the hallway, and into another room. Will and Ekana crept back to their room and closed the door, locking it this time.
Will took a good look at their room. The small window they had was sealed. The paint on the walls had long been faded. Next to their bunk-bed was a small side table carrying a lamp.
"I'll take the bottom bunk," Ekana said breathlessly. Will just nodded. Ekana left the lamp on.
Will woke up an hour later to the sound of groaning. He opened his eyes. A ghost was floating in front of him. He grabbed his pillow and flung it at the ghost. It sailed straight through and hit the wall. Will scrambled to the edge of his bed. "Ekana!" No answer.
Will then saw the zombie and pieced together what happened. The ghost flew in through the door and killed Ekana. Ekana then became a zombie.
Ekana the zombie then tipped over the bed. Will fell and hit the ground hard, breaking two of his arms and legs. He only groaned, knowing he wouldn't make it to see the sun in the morning.