Clock Tower:
The Frightful Event

One day, five friends all wake up to find themselves lock in a strange old mansion, with no way out! There they meet a creepy old woman, and they all become suspicious and plan to find a way out, together... But somebody has other plans for these five girls, and they are suddenly split up! Now it's up to Hannah, the protagonist of the story, to find and save her friends from a gory death by the hands of two murderers. Could this mansion be linked to past disappearences of teenage girls in the area? And what is that clock tower hiding, exactly...

Me: My first time writing a fanfic for Clock Tower... This has original(ish) characters in it. Okay, NOT original, they are my friends, myself and my younger sister. We all love Clock Tower, and they have given their permission for me to write them in the story.

I disclaim to owning all rights to Clock Tower.

My younger sister helped me with the story line a little bit. I love it when she helps... Yayness.

Okies... The village is possibly make-believe (hopefully). We don't necessarily know (or care) which country we are in. It's a mystery, but I'll certainly think up a town name or something like that. Anywhoo... It's basically like the normal clock tower series... You run away, try not to get killed and save your friends from a terrible death. Of course, there is always one girl who will die and cannot live. Originally, that was my character, but my death-loving friend Rebecca declared that she wanted to die and not live, so, I live if that is how the story goes.

Okay, I will explain something about this story, so...

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This story and how it goes is based upon YOUR VOTES. I will, at the end of each chapter or at the beginning, give you a type of death, and who it goes to. You will HAVE to chose one death in order for me to continue this story. Whichever death gets the most votes, that death and the character who it belongs to will win and they will die by that death. Once that character dies, though, their death will not appear again. The main character can only let one friend live (my friend Hannah became upset by this, as she is the main character of this story). So... You will not always get the voting choice, but I will count up the votes and that will decide the fate of a person. This is the same for when I want you to vote for who Hannah will save. You can decide, and please, do vote. I don't care about reviews, just VOTE when I put up the Voting polls.

Thank you, and happy reading!

PROLOGUE

It was about 120 years ago, in the winter month. On ahill that loomed above a small town there stood and old, abandoned mansion which sat there, dark and gloomy, and behind it stood a large clock tower. The mansion and the town had been founded by a group of devoted Christians, who had used it to hold the homeless. They built the clock tower for a place to pray and worship. Years after, though, the mansion was converted into a psychiatric home, and it held over a hundred patients and more than two hundred doctors. Supposedly everyone that lived there were well cared for and lived happy lives, free from being tortured by the public. But that was far from the truth...
One night, there was a massacre of the psychiatric home, with only one unknown survivor. Nobody knew why somebody would murder so many innocent, yet sickly, people, or why a person would even dare to think of breaking into a psychiatric home. After many months of searching with no clues, the police gave up, and the psychiatric home was abandoned, its truth living deep within, waiting to be unearthed...

Now, five girls have been taken into the mansion as captors. Who will die, and who will survive? That is uncertain, as nobody knows how it will end. Can YOU determine their fate...?

In the Town

"Look, everyone. There's another article about more disappearences that have taken place!" cried a dark haired girl loudly, waving a gray newspaper towards her four friends, who were sitting around the living room of small cottage. The four girls looked up, their attention alert.

"More? How many has that been, huh...? Who is it this time, Chantelle?" called an auburn haired girl with glasses, and she bounded towards her sister, who held out the article to her older sister. The girl with the glasses took it from her, and scan-read it quickly. She held her breath for a mere second as the other three friends watched, wide-eyed.

"Oh, no! Not Fern, Susanne and Tara! How could they disappear, of all people!" she cried out, her voice high as Chantelle nodded sadly, her eyes cast to the floor and her lip turning to a frown as the other three friends gasped aloud, their eyes turning wider and their faces paler.

"What!? Let me see that! This can't be true!" a reddish-brown haired girl cried out, quickly snatching the newspaper from her friends' hands, not caring if she teared it or not, and read it. Her eyes went bigger and bigger as she read each true sentence. Her mouth dropped open, and the article fluttered to the groun when it slipped from her shaking fingers.

"No... It can't be! Kelly, this is not true!" she screamed out at her auburn haired friend who bit down on her lip, slowly nodding her head as the girl stared at her, tears forming in her large, brown eyes. The honey haired girl walked towards her, and put a comferting arm around her crying friends' shoulders.

"Hannah... I'm sorry, but... You know that everyone's been disappearing... It was probably inevitable, I mean, even we..." Kelly started, but she was cut off by Hannah, who glared at her through the tears,

"No! Don't even say it, Kelly! Susanne was only a baby! How could she have disappeared! She was always with her mother, or my mother... Why did she have to disappear!?" croaked Hannah loudly, then pushed her head into her hands as Kelly and Chantelle glanced at each other. They wanted to cry, too. They had all been friends with Fern and Tara, but Susanne was special to Hannah...

She was her cousin.

"Hannah, don't cry, please! We know that Susanne was dear to you... She was dear to everyone... Please, stop crying," begged Vanessa, the talle honey haired girl. Hannah just wailed even more. Nothing could comfert her. She needed to see her mother, desperately. She didn't want ti all to be true.

"I'm going home... I need to speak with my mother and aunty." she whispered hoarsely, turnig and flouncing off through the front door as Kelly, Chantelle and Vanessa watched her. They exchanged worried looks. Then, their silent, blonde-haired friend stood up from her space, and picked up the abandoned article on the floor.

She wasn't a friend of Tara or Fern's, but she knew them well enough to know that they were not careless in direction. They were also aware of abducters and such, so how they disappeared was a surprise...

A twisted grin suddenly spread across her face. Kelly, Chantelle and Vanessa knew what she was planning. It was written all over her pale face. She turned to them, her pale blue eyes shining in the dim afternoon light,

"We should investigate this," she grinned. Kelly gasped, shaking her head vigourousely. If anything, Kelly did not enjoy investigating. It was too scary, for one thing, and also quite dangerous, if anything. Chantelle's eyebrows rose high, and Vanessa shuffled slightly, shaking her head lightly as the blonde flapped the article, still grinning.

"Rebecca, no! It isn't fair on Hannah!" Chantelle started. Rebecca didn't look that bothered by it. She just wanted to invesitgate,

"Oh, come on, you three! I've been waiting for something like this, and now that it's happened to friends... Well, it could be us next, you never know. We should invesitgate, immediately! We could find out about the disappearences, and probably uncover a body or two..." she started, a smile spreading across her face at the thought of corpses. Kelly started to look slightly green when Rebecca mentioned the corpses,

"No... That's sick, Rebecca! How could you suggest something as terrible as that?" whispered Kelly, covering her mouth with a pale hand as Rebecca smirked. She didn't mind, but the others did. Vanessa shook her head again,

"Rebecca, we mustn't... Hannah is quite upset about this, and so are we... Our friends have disappeared! Please don't drag us into one of your detective ploys again! We were in so much trouble the last time!" cried Vanessa, hoping that she could sway Rebecca. Of course, that was nearly impossible with Rebecca. Once her mind was set, she was persistent to do whatever she wanted, with or without help.

"Oh, don't be such spoil sports! This could be our big chance to stop these disappearences and find those missing girls! Don't you want to protect Faire Brookes from the hands of abducters and stalkers? We need to act, women!" she yelled out, tearing the newspaper article into tiny pieces by accident. Chantelle, not liking the sudden mess, decided to clear it up, grumbling under her breath a little as Rebecca ranted about going on an adventure. Kelly and Vanessa looked upset and unsure about their friend,

"Rebecca... Of course we want to protect Faire Brookes, but... We are only young girls, barely women. Even Vanessa isn't a woman yet. Please, don't get eager over your idea. Let the police do their job!" cried Kelly, her voice pleading as Rebecca stared at her, glowering.

"The police? They can't do anything right! They just look around a little, take notes, then say 'sorry, nothing here. Bye!' and run off. They are lazy arses, if you ask me." she snorted as Kelly gasped,

"Rebecca! Don't say such a word! Act like a young lady should!" cried out Vanessa as Kelly shook her head disdainfully. Rebecca rolled her eyes, placing her hands on her hips as the girls stared at their loud friend, who wouldn't listen to them. She was set on her idea.

"I will say what I want! And you two can't stop me from investigating! I am going to look around for clues tomorrow at sunrise, and if I don't meet you at the creek, well... I'll know that you're all too chicken." she snapped huffily, and stomped off out the door as Kelly and Vanessa watched after her. A few minutes later, Chantelle appeared before them, looking around.

"Where's Rebecca?" she asked, blinking as Kelly sighed, and sat down on the floor,

"She went home in a bad mood... We won't agree to her plan, so she gets mad! Sometimes, that girl goes a little overboard." Kelly muttered, hanging her head so that her long hair covered her face. Vanessa and Chantelle stared at each other,

"I think I should get going. I will see you two tomorrow," Vanessa told her two friends. Chantelle nodded, and Vanessa was the last to leave. Once she was gone, Chantelle closed the door behind her, and she went to her room as Kelly sat on the floor, reading a piece of the torn newspaper article her sister had missed...

Meanwhile, in Hannah's house, there was a commotion; Hannah was crying in her room as her mother and aunt fought over who's fault it was for Susanne's disappearence. She pulled a pillow over her head to muffle the noise. Why? Why had Susanne disappeared so suddenly?

But as she lay on her bed, head covered by her pillow, she never noticed the shadow looming over her...

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Okay, that was the prologue, sorry if it was far too long and crappy... It is my first time writing this sort of story. It's gonna be hard writing the deaths... Eurgh, I'm going all jelloid just thinking about death! Anyways, I will give you the votes when I feel it is the perfect time for a character to die. Thank you for reading this prologue, and I hope you read future chapters.

Blue -Niagra

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