Author's note: I am starting a new series of stories that is called "Things That Could Go Wrong". It is basically about scary, dangerous, life threatening and overall horrible things that happen at the Tipton or to Zack and Cody. These stories are intended to be more or less short, using some coarse language, and most of them scary. The first one in the series is called "Things That Could Go Wrong: Demonic Virus". I "borrowed" this idea from my favorite show, Supernatural, from the episode "Croatoan". The next stories in the series will mostly be about man-made problems rather than terror created by something out of this world. Please read and review. I really hope you enjoy this!

Things That Could Go Wrong: Demonic Virus

Chapter One

It was darkening, and the streetlights were turning on, one by one. Snowflakes were sprinkling to the ground and melting, like tiny, white bits of cotton candy. Hardly any cars passed by the Tipton, which was unusual for downtown, Boston at 5:30 PM. Cody Martin was standing at the window of his hotel suite where he lived with his mother and his twin brother. He was observing the snowflakes, watching them dissolve on the frosty glass. He saw a long, silver limousine pull up in front of the hotel, and a young woman in a white, luxury fur coat headed inside the hotel, no luggage with her.

"Cody, you coming?" Zack called from across the room.

"Where?" Cody asked his twin.

"To Bob's house. He has a skating rink on his backyard and he invited us to go play hockey with him, remember?" Zack replied quickly.

"Oh, yeah…" Cody has completely forgot, "Can I bring my figure skates and do some figure skating after?"

Zack rolled his eyes, "Yeah, whatever. Come on!" He knew that if he made fun of his brother, Cody wouldn't come and there would be an odd number of people, so the teams wouldn't have the same amount of players. Not that Cody qualified as a player… he was better off as a cheerleader, thought Zack.

Zack and Cody were downstairs, in the lobby, about to leave. Then, Cody saw the woman from the limo. She was checking into the hotel, and Cody was glad. He wasn't usually the one to take a major interest in women, unlike his brother Zack, but this woman, she was gorgeous! A lot older that him, but gorgeous. He stared at her, and for a split second, he saw her eyes change color. It was like nothing he ever seen before. Her eyes turned a golden shade of yellow, then turn into pitch black, and with a sparkle, they returned to her usual light blue. Cody was mesmerized by her, hypnotized almost, but most of all, frightened to death. He quickly turned around and kept walking.

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Zack's team (Zack, Cody, Tapeworm, and two other kids named Phil and Jenna) were losing badly to Bob and his team of extremely good hockey players. Cody was standing around, his tongue sticking out to catch the snow, not even paying attention to the game a bit. He saw something round and shiny heading his way, so he pushed it away with his hockey stick. The shiny, round puck flew rapidly towards the net and straight in.

"Whoa! Cody, I never knew you could play hockey like that!" shouted his teammates.

"It was just my reflexes," he explained.

"Well, Codester, tell your reflexes to keep playing for you, 'cause whoever they are, they're gonna win the game!" Zack shouted. And so they won the game.

"Good game," people mumbled to each other as they headed in the direction of their homes (or hotel in Zack and Cody's case), "Bye," "See you later."

"Cody, that was great!" Zack told Cody. It was the only nice thing Zack told his twin brother all week.

"I wasn't even thinking about the game," Cody admitted.

"Then what were you thinking about?"

"Well, there's this girl…"

"Ooh!" Zack was surprised that Cody was thinking about girls.

"Well, not that much of a girl, but she is HOT! She checked into the hotel today and I saw her. Her eyes… so scary… her eyes turned yellow, then they turned black, like the white part of her eye was all black too, and then they turned back to normal… it was so scary!"

"What the heck do you mean, 'turned'? They didn't just suddenly change color… I mean she must have put in contact lenses or something…" Zack assumed.

"No! They just changed color. I don't know how, but they did," Cody argued.

"Well then, you must have spent too much time in the cold and you can't see properly," Zack said, then he opened the door to the Tipton and put on a mischievous smile, like he did right before he told Cody about a plan he just got. "I feel like some hot chocolate, don't you?"

"Yeah, but we're all out of chocolate powder. And mom can't go buy some because she's out of town." Zack and Cody's mother Carey was out on a trip to visit her sick mother in another city, leaving the twins home alone for two days of their winter break. She was supposed to return tomorrow.

"Yeah, but I hear they make special, really good hot chocolate to sell to all the snobby guests who come to the restaurant in the Tipton, and they make it in the kitchen. Which means if we walk in and nobody is looking, we get all the hot chocolate with marshmallows and whipped cream, and whatever else they put in it," Zack explained.

"Oh, that's a great idea!" Cody exclaimed.

"Great ideas are the only kind I come up with," Zack boasted.

They made sure Mr. Moseby was busy with a customer, and not watching their every move, and ran over to the kitchen.

"Ahh!! Helpe me! I am a being attackede!" Zack and Cody heard chef Paolo's cries for help coming from the kitchen. "Helpe me!"

"Oh no! Something is wrong!" yelled Cody.

"Nah, chef Paolo is probably just being a drama queen," Zack replied, and turned the doorknob. It didn't budge. The door was locked.

"HELP!"

"We have to help him!" Cody peeked a little bit into the keyhole. It was good that the kitchen's doorknob was slightly old-fashioned with a keyhole which allowed you to see the other side of the room.

"Oh yeah," Zack mumbled sarcastically, "We gotta save him from being attacked by his 'Ducks a la Paolo' that rose from the dead and started attacking him."

"It's that woman," Cody whispered. He saw her, but not chef Paolo, "The one with the weird eyes!" He moved aside so that Zack could take a look.

"What the hell is she doing?" Zack whispered back.

"I don't know, but we've got to get help!" Cody answered.

"HELP ME, THIS CRAZY WOMAN IS CUTTING ME UP!" yelled chef Paolo.

"No time!" Zack said, his voice low, "Check this out, I saw this in a movie once," he took out a large paper clip from his pocket, unfolded it and slid it into the lock. He twisted it a little, turned it to the other side, then shook it a bit and the lock clicked. Zack gave the doorknob a pull and the door creaked open.

"What is she doing?" whispered Zack.

"I don't know," Cody replied, terrified of what he was seeing. The woman with the weird eyes was standing, a knife clenched tightly in her hand. There was a large cut on chef Paolo's arm, and an identical cut on hers. She held her arm over chef Paolo's and let her blood drip onto his.

TO BE CONTINUED

Thank you for reading!!! Wonder what happens next? What is that weird-eyed woman doing? What did she do to chef Paolo? What will she do to Zack and Cody? Then review my story! I'm not publishing the next chapter until I get at least seven reviews for this one. I hope you enjoyed my story so far!