Previously;
"Okay so- you three go in, and we'll stand right here and wait- if it's a staircase, we all go inside. If it's not- we keep looking around down here." Taylor instructed Troy, Sharpay, and Gabriella as the six of them paused in front of the closed door.
"Okay. Let's go." Troy said bravely- reaching for the door handle. He took a deep breath and yanked the door wide open...
The House on Reaper Road
Chapter Five - Possessed?
The gang peered into the dark room. It was so dark, that they couldn't even tell where it ended or if it lead to anything.
"Is there any light switch somewhere?" Ryan asked dumbly. "You idiot! We already established that there are no lights anywhere in this house a while ago, dumbass!" Sharpay shreiked at her brother, who muttered a curse at her under his breath.
Gabriella swallowed. "Um guys...I changed my mind. I don't really think I want to go in there." she said reluctantly. Her friends all shot her death glares.
"What?" Chad spat out. "No sorry Gab, we already decided that it's you, Sharpay, and Troy." he said. Ryan shrugged "I'll go if she doesn't want to." the blonde boy said.
"But we need two boys and one girl to stay down here." Chad stated matter-of-factly.
"Please, your ram-the-door-down theory doesn't seem very logical anymore, cotton-candy head! Gabriella is probably five times stronger then Ryan will ever be!" Sharpay snapped.
"Are you calling me a wimp?!" Ryan demanded.
"No, I'm calling your girlfriend a-" Sharpay stopped at the looks both Gabriella and Ryan sent her way, and she remembered once again that she had promised to try to be nicer.
"Sorry." she muttered. "...But it's kind of true. No offense Ry, you're just not very strong. I don't believe you could ram a door down."
"Thanks a lot, Shar."
"Who said it was gonna lock anyways?" Troy spoke up. "Just in case." Sharpay told him.
"Like the last one." Taylor added in a whisper.
"Okay okay so wait, Ryan, Sharpay, and Troy are going in there?" Chad asked. The three of them nodded.
"Well, good luck!" Chad said over-enthusiastically. Sharpay rolled her eyes and told Taylor to hand over her mini flashlight.
"What?! No way! Use your cell phone!" Taylor squeeked gripping her mini flashlight tightly.
"Good lord Mckessie,calm down! That thing has more light then my cell phone and we're the ones going in there...or up there. Or wherever it leads to. You're just staying down here making sure the door doesn't close the whole time. You're not walking anywhere! Gimmie it!" Sharpay demanded.
"...Oh...fine." Taylor said reluctantly handing her flashlight over to the blonde girl in a defeated manner. Sharpay then handed it to Troy, who shone it inside the pit of darkness they were about to enter.
"Look! just like we thought- it's a staircase!"
"You sure you wanna go up there?" Chad mumbled. Ryan glared at him.
"Do we really have a choice!? Either that or YOU go up there, or all six of us are left here to rot!"
"Geeze man,calm down!" Chad said defensively.
"Okay, Okay. I think all of us need to calm ourselves a little.We're all freaking out and we can't snap just yet. We can't.We've gotta stick together and stay strong guys! I am optimistic that we will all make it out of here safe and alive! Now who's with me!?" Troy cheered enthusiastically- taking the role of optimist of the group since Ryan had now seemed to back out of it.
Sharpay laughed and wrapped her arms around Troy's neck."I am!" she said in between giggles. She really found her boyfriend's speech rediculous and yet funny.
"Yeah, and if you never make a weird speech like that again, so am I." Gabriella chipped in and despite the mood of the setting they were in, she couldn't supress a small smile.
"Then come on." Troy said tugging Sharpay up the stairs, followed be Ryan.
"Wait! How long are you guys going to be up there? How will we know to follow or not?" Taylor asked.
"Uh...we'll shout "Hey we found something!" really loud." Troy answered with a shrug- eager and brave to not be standing around wondering any longer. Taylor nodded and said okay.
The stairs creaked as the threesome made their way slowly up them. "We'll be back, or you'll come up." Troy said- saluting to his other three friends whom were staying at the door, who all nodded.
"Be safe Gabby." Ryan told his girlfriend, who offered him a weak smile and told him ditto and she loved him before he, Troy, and his sister dissappeared fully up the stairs...
Chad sighed and sank down to the floor- he had become sick of standing around twenty minutes ago.
"They've been up there a while..." Taylor said sitting down next to him- their backs pressed against the door.
Gabriella paced nervously in front of them. "What if something happened?! What if they're in trouble up there?!" she asked- her heart filling with dread.
"Realx Gabby, what could have happened?" Chad asked- although he sounded more unsure then he'd intended. "Yeah, and how come you've suddenly become frightened? I thought you thought it was all just...historically fascinating?..." Taylor added. Gabriella bit her lip, swallowed loudly, and continued pacing.
"Well,when it comes to Ryan, I worry about him. He- they, could be in danger!"
"Come on Gab, this house is abandoned. I'm sure they're just having a thorough look around up there." Chad said trying to convince her.
If only I could convince myself first...
"Then if you're not scared, why didn't you go up there?!" Gabriella demanded- shreiking at Chad, who blinked.
"HEY GUYS?!" he suddenly shouted as loud as he could up the stairs. No reply.
"TROY?! SHARPAY?! RYAN?!" he shouted again. It was followed by dead silence and Chad's heart also leapt with panic. What if they were in trouble? What if they needed help?
"Well...we at least didn't hear any screams of agony. That's a plus." Chad said- trying to lighten the mood, but Gabriella and Taylor just blinked at him. He sighed.
"That's it, I'm going up there."
"What?!" the girls spat in a sputtered unison.
"I don't have a choice! I have to see what's taking them so long and if they're okay.I'll admit it, I'm a bit freaked myself. But they're my friends and I care about them. Even Sharpay- even though she can get pretty bitchy a lot of the time."
"Chad, we care about them to- but you're putting your own life at stake by going up there! Please don't do it." Taylor begged him.
"I have to, Tay. Don't worry, I'll only be a few."
"You're so brave Chad...I've gotta hand it to you." Gabriella whispered.
"My hero." Taylor muttered sarcastically- quite upset that he was going up there and he had seemed to have made up his mind, so there was no point in trying to stop him.
"Thanks, I'll be back soon." Chad said as he stood up from the floor. Taylor stood up as well and kissed him. A long, slow kiss.
"Be careful." she told him.
"Don't worry babe, I will." with that he nodded, and dissappeared quickly up the stairs- shouting his friend's names as he did so.
Taylor sighed and turned to Gabriella.
"He's doomed."
"Don't say that Tay! He's your own boyfriend! How can you be so doubtfu-" Gabriella stopped midsentence as she randomly felt her head begin to pound.
"Oh!" she called out- startled with pain as she gripped her forehead tightly with both hands.
"Gabby? What is it?" Taylor asked- quite alarmed. Gabriella opened her mouth to reply, but the pain in her throbbing head was unbearable, she couldn't even speak. She groaned and sank weakly to her knees- desperatley rubbing her forehead and the top of her head- where it hurt the most.
"Gabby!? Gab- what's wrong?!" Taylor shreiked- kneeling down next to her best friend extremely concerned. Then, she felt the air suddenly become cold. Deathly cold. She shivered.
"Gabby- why is it so cold!?"
But Gabriella could only moan and groan in reply in answer to her friend's question. Taylor shivered again.
"It's...it's freezing!" she sputtered- rubbing her arms furiously to try to warm them.
This is no ordinary cold...
It's a cold of death. A cold from the grave!
Next to her, Gabriella began wheezing.
"Gabby?!"
"Tay-" Gabriella managed to choke out.
"What's...happening...to...me?" she coughed and squeezed her eyes shut.She ground her teeh together tightly-clenching her jaw. She groaned again.
"T-the p-pain...ooooooh nooooo." she moaned helplessly and fell over sideways on the floor.
Taylor looked at her friend horrified and heard a faint clicking noise,it took her a moment to realize that it was her own teeth chattering ever so violently at the coldness. She let out a breath which she could see clearly. Her own breath looked like a puff of smoke.
"C-CHAD!! HELP U-US!!" she shouted as loud as she could. Gabriella began shreiking.
"GABBY!?"
"Tay...lor. HELP M-" Gabriella cut herself off with another shrill scream of agony. She could barely think. She felt as if she had a pounding, thundering, horrible brain freeze. She could also feel her heart thudding in her chest. She felt herself begin to shake violently.
"CHAD! TROY!" she heard Taylor plead desperatley up the stairs. Taylor's breath became loud and rapid, and then she felt her own pain.
She pain shot through her body as if she'd just taken a bullet in the head, and tons of sharp arrowheads on every other inch of flesh. She screamed and fell heavily next to Gabriella with a thud, who was shreiking her own head off.
"So...cold." she heard Gabriella moan,and then cry out again.
"What's...happening...to...us?!" Taylor demanded frantically- her chest heaving, her shoulders shaking as if she was having a seizure. She felt hot tears running down her cheeks.
"CHAD!" she cried out,at the same moment that Gabriella was calling for Ryan. The two helpless best friends kept on screaming, shreiking, and choking out their boyfriend's names until their pleads each just became an in-human, animal whine, and then everything grew silent as they felt and saw the cold and dark pit of blackness fall over them.
And the pain stopped.
And the world stopped spinning.
And all they could feel was a heavy feeling of hatred and evil down deep in their souls, and the desire to kill.
And nothing else.
What happened? Taylor thought, but her thoughts were interrupted as an intruder shouted something else at her in her thoughts in a bitter evil voice.
Shut up!!
And then she spoke out loud to Gabriella:
"Good work Elizabeth, we've got em now."
Taylor gasped, that was her voice alright, but it was not her speaking the words. And what was this feeling building up inside her? She suddenly felt powerful...so strong...as if she had the power to do the unthinkable. And what did she want to do?
Murder my friends.
That's right. Murder them. KILL THEM ALL! The other voice demanded. Taylor nodded and stood up from the floor.
"Abigail, you think we can do it?" Gabriella asked her. Taylor smirked evilly.
"Yes Elizabeth. Of course we can."
The two of them exchanged evil glances and climbed up the stairs-off to find Chad, Troy, Sharpay, and Ryan.
"Troy? Sharpay? Ryan? Where are you guys?" Chad called out to his friends.
"Chad? Is that you?" came Troy's voice from somewhere nearby. Chad let out a long sigh of relief.
"Yes! Where the hell are you guys!?"
He heard the shuffling of feet and the three of them appeared a few seconds later.
"Sorry. We were looking around. What are you doing up here?" Ryan asked him.
"Looking for you three! I've been calling your names for the last fifteen minutes! Me, Gabby, and Tay were worried sick!"
Troy scratched his head. "Really? We didn't hear you."
"Maybe it's soundproof up here or something." Sharpay suggested.
"Yeah, maybe." Chad muttered.
"Where are Gabriella and Taylor?" Ryan asked.
"Back downstairs. I told them I'd only be a few minutes. They're probably worried about us.Hey- did you guys find anything?"
Troy, Sharpay, and Ryan exchanged happy smiles before turning back to Chad.
"Yes!" they all cheered in victory. "We found an open window,we can see the outside from it.It's in the next room." Ryan said- gesturing to a room behind them.
"It's a long ways down, but we'll just shout out of it for help or something." Sharpay added.
"Yeah, it's better then nothing." Troy agreed.
"Now we can finally get the hell out of this creepy place!" Ryan finished.
"Awesome! Let's just go get the other two girls and- oh! Jesus christ! Oh it's you." Chad said as he turned around and came upon facing Taylor and Gabriella.
"What are you two doing up here?" he asked them. Taylor shrugged.
"You were taking to long." she answered. Gabriella just smirked and stared past him-over his shoulder, at Sharpay.
It is her body that I want.
NO! LEAVE SHARPAY ALONE!
Shut up!
"Did you guys find an exit?" Taylor asked Chad. He grinned and nodded.
"Yup. A window.Let's go." he said- taking her arm as he began pulling her towards the room. Taylor stole an evil glance back at Gabriella, and tore her arm away from Chad.
"Hey-" Chad started."What's the big idea? Come on Tay."
But Taylor ignored him and stepped around him to Sharpay. She grabbed a fistfull of the blonde's hair and began tugging at it.
"I remember having hair like this.I would spend hours and hours just brushing it-making it perfect. Everyone was jealous." Taylor whispered-mesmerized by Sharpay's perfect golden locks. She tugged harder.
"What the hell?! Get your hands off of my hair!" Sharpay shouted- alarmed. But Taylor only ignored her and pulled even harder.
"Those were the days. Every girl would kill to have my hair." she sighed and gave Sharpay's sun-kissed hair a hard yank, and Sharpay let out a yelp of pain.
"What's your problem, Taylor!? What is wrong with you?!" Sharpay demanded- stepping away from her and behind Troy who, as well as everyone except Gabriella, was giving Taylor a weird look.
"I also remember my perfect flawless face." Taylor said- advancing again towards Sharpay. Before anyone could say anything, she brought her right hand up and ran her thumb across Sharpay's baby-soft, smooth left cheek.
"Get away from me!" the blonde cried.
"Taylor- what are you doing?!" Troy asked- staring wide-eyed at her. But she ignored everyone.
"My silky smooth skin..." she whispered,more so to herself then to anyone else as Sharpay tried to pull her face away from Taylor's hand, who just gripped her cheek tighter.
What am I doing to Sharpay?! Leave her alone!
SHUT UP! I'm already in your body,don't make me kill you first!
GET OUT OF MY BODY!! YOU'RE DEAD! YOU'RE DEAD!!
'Taylor' scowled, pulled her hand back, and brought it back down hard on a now very pissed off and freaked out Sharpay's face, making a loud smack! as her hand touched her face.
Sharpay cried out and staggered backwards- gripping her throbbing red cheek in her hand.
"Taylor what is your problem?!" Chad asked his girlfriend in bewilderment. She just shook her head and tried to step closer to Sharpay,but Troy blocked her path. Taylor glanced back from Sharpay who looked horrified and was still carefully holding her cheek,to Troy's confused and freaked out face, to Gabriella's face which held a jealous expression. Taylor smirked and walked back over towards Gabriella.
"Don't worry. I'm just messing with her. You can still have our dear distant cousin's body for yourself." she whispered in Gabriella's ear- only loud enough for her to hear. She nodded.
"What the fuck?! Have you two gone lesbian or just psycho?!" Sharpay demanded.
"Sorry, but we don't believe in gay incest." 'Gabriella' told her. Then she glanced at Ryan and smiled. A cold, bitter smile that didn't go un-noticed by him.
"We never had a brother." she told him and then looked back at Sharpay. "You're lucky."
"Gabby? Are you feeling okay?" Ryan asked her. She ignored himand continued speaking to Sharpay.
"Is this guy your boyfriend?" she asked- gesturing to Troy who now had his arm wrapped protectively around Sharpay's waist.
"You already know he is! What is wrong with you and Taylor!?" Sharpay shreiked."You two are freaks!"
"Remember Timothy? He looked just like Sharpay's boyfriend." Gabriella smirked- looking at Taylor who nodded.
Who's Timothy?
My old boyfriend. NOW SHUT UP!
'Gabriella' was becoming very annoyed with her arguing thoughts as she went and stood in front of Troy.
"You're a fine looking fellow." she told him. Ryan and Sharpay gasped.
"Stay away from him!" Sharpay shouted furiousy- throwing herself in between Troy and Gabriella. Gabriella frowned.
I'll have him for myself once I get in her body.
NO! I LOVE RYAN! NOT TROY!
Yuck! Blonde boy?! He's my distant cousin, you moron!
HE'S MY BOYFRIEND!
Would you just shut up, Gabriella?! The more you annoy me the sooner I'll kill all your little pals.
"He'll be mine soon enough." Gabriella answered Sharpay with a shrug. Sharpay and Troy both gasped and shouted "Never!" at the same time.
"But Gabby! What about us?!" Ryan squeeked- his voice going up an octave. Gabriella scowled and glared at Ryan.
"Fuck you." she answered, and then turned her nose up.
"I'd never date my own cousin."
Gasps of confusion and shock echoed throughout the room, and suddenly Chad spoke up.
"I think I know what's going on here."
And then, taking everyone completely off guard, he lurched himself at Taylor.
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY GIRLFRIEND'S BODY!!"
A/N: Whewie! It's been a while since I've updated hasn't it?Well I kinda had writer's block,but today I was thinking about this story and the Gabriella/Taylor/Abigail/Elizabeth thing just hit me.lol. Please review.
-Serena/heSaidSheSaidx