It's The Same, Wherever You Go

Chapter Six

Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spangler

On the outside of Beacon Hills, California, home to its own little pack of werewolves, a white van pulled up to the sign that read, "Beacon Hills".

"Is this the right place, Ed?" a young adult with short black hair, and dark brown eyes asked the driver. Raising the camera in his hands, he zoomed in on the sign.

"Has to be, Harry," the other man said, his blue eyes looking at the city they were about to enter, behind his glasses. His hand ran through his dark blond, slightly curly hair. "This is it," Ed stated, a small grin on his face forming. "The city that's going to make us very famous. Let's get out and do an intro."

The two boys climbed out of the van they were in, and Harry held the camera as Ed walked over to the sign and stood very dramatically, like he was seriously thinking about the simple sign that read, "Beacon Hills".

"And, go!" Harry stated, letting the camera roll.

"Beacon Hills," Ed started, his fingers gliding over the letters on the sign. "A quiet, cozy city to some. But to men like us, professional paranormal investigators, my associate Harry and I know what truly hides here." Ed paused and walked over to the camera. "In this city, there's a house known in the city as 'The Hale House'. Now, in this house lived a very large family, but they died in a very tragic fire roughly a decade ago, most of the family burning alive."

"Those poor souls," Harry said softly, mourning.

Ed glared at Harry to keep his mouth shut before continuing his "dramatic" retelling. "Anyway, after the fire, some people have claimed to hear strange noises in the woods. Like moanings, and screams. Sometimes even howls of pain!" Ed stepped up and looked directly into the camera. "And just a few weeks ago, a couple of hikers found the lower half of a body. But what's interesting is that three teenagers found the top half. Buried right beside the Hale house," Ed continued. "Obviously, something supernatural is happening in that house, and we're going to figure out what." Ed looked up at Harry and made a hand motion across his neck, signaling Harry to cut filming. When the dark haired boy made no move to stop filming. "Harry! Stop the damn camera!"

"Oh! Sorry!" Harry apologized. "Oh man, Ed, that was so good! Do we have anything else on the girl?"

"Just that she was found by some kids, and that it was labeled as an animal attack."

"PSSSSH!" Harry scoffed at the information. "Poor ignorant souls, they don't know what's really out there, do they?"

"No they don't, Harry," Ed said, climbing back into the van. "That's why there's guys like us. We're going to protect this town!"

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The following day Ed and Harry went into town and began asking where the Hale house was. Their first stop? The sheriff department. They walked inside and walked to the front desk.

"Hello, ma'am," Harry said politely, glancing down at the paper she just signed, revealing her name, Tiana. "We're journalists and we're writing a cover story about the body found up by the old Hale home, can you give me directions there, miss Tiana?"

The lady behind the desk, Tiana, raised an eyebrow. "You two? Journalists?" she asked, clearly not believing them. "You two look more like something out of a Scooby-Doo episode trying to get into Old Man Jenkins house."

Harry opened his mouth, not believing what the woman was saying. "I beg yo-"

Tiana held up her hand, and then put her fist under her chin, raisin an eyebrow. "And why, pray tell, do you want to visit the burned house of a half a corpse for a story?" Tiana inquired. "The facts of which you could get in public records or through interviews there?"

"Uh . . ." Harry wracked his brains for an answer for the question.

"Ma'am, you wouldn't understand our REAL work here," Ed explained, already hearing the sarcasm under her sweet voice.

"Oh my," Tiana says softly, her voice becoming dangerously low. Tiana sneered at the two boys, her eyes narrowing in on them. "Aren't you just SO precious?" she growled out.

"Oh my god! What are you two idiots doing here?!" a strangely familiar voice rang out from the back of the office, making Ed and Harry turn and look.

There stood a girl with short, sandy blond hair, and green eyes that would make Rapunzel jealous. She stood about at Harry's height, and she was wearing what looked like a school jersey, and had a Lacrosse stick in her hand. But there was something painfully familiar about her, but they couldn't place it.

"Do you know these two yahoos, Jaydra?" Tiana asked.

"JAYDRA?!" Ed exclaimed. "As in Winchester? The three that got us arrested?!"

"Arrested?" Tiana raised an eyebrow.

"Okay, my brothers and I were looking around this old house that had some murder happen there, and these two knuckleheads were there. When the police showed up, we left, and these two didn't," Jaydra stated, narrowing her eyes at the two boys, silently telling them to keep their mouths shut. "So they got busted."

"It was still your fault!" Harry accused pointing his finger at her.

Jaydra ran her hand through her hair and grabbed the two idiots by their shirts and drug them back into a empty interrogation room. "Will you two keep your damn mouths shut?" she snapped, glaring at the two boys.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Ed asked, crossing his arms. "Trying to get another fresh lead from us?"

"I live here, dip shit!" Jaydra snapped, before rubbing her face. "What are you even doing here? There's no case here."

Harry laughed loudly. "She claims to live here, and she doesn't know about the Hale House!"

"The Hale House? You talking about the place with the fire and the dead body that was found there?" Jaydra asked, crossing her arms and smirking at the two boys. "I was one of the three teenagers that found the body of Laura Hale."

"YOU?!" Ed cried out. "Why didn't it say on the website?!"

"Because we're under eighteen and frankly, I didn't want my name on the damn news!" Jaydra hissed out. "Now, there's nothing here, so why don't you two just get in your van and leave!"

Ed laughed mockingly. "Of course you want us to leave so you can get all the fame for the Haunted Hale House."

"Say what now?"

Harry looked over at Ed and rolled his eyes dramatically. "Really, Winchester. You really think that after the fire and then the body found mutilated there, there's not going to be a haunting?"

Jaydra rubs her face. "Don't go there. You'll get yourselves killed."

Harry laughed as Ed walked out of the room. "She's worried! She finally realizes that we're professionals."

As the two walked out of the cell Jaydra rolled her eyes. "Idiots," she muttered, pulling out her cell phone. She scrolled through the names and goes down to the H's, and clicked on Derek Hale's name. "Derek?" she asked when someone answered.

"What?"

"Listen, two idiots that think they're paranormal investigators are on their way up to your house," Jaydra stated, smirking at the growl in his voice. "Listen, keep hidden, I'm gonna bring Scott and Stiles and we're gonna show them the true haunting at the Hale House."

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Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spangler pulled up to the half burned Hale house and looked at the place in amazement.

"Wow," Ed says, looking over the burned sections of the house. "Harry! Get the camera." Once his camera man was ready, Ed walked over to the grave beside the house. "Ready to film?"

"Yeah!" Harry says, excitedly. "And . . . Action!"

"And here we are, folks," Ed says into the camera, kneeling over the grave. "At the Hale House here in Beacon Hills, California. This here was the grave that the teenagers found Laura Hale. Let's see if we can communicate with her spirit." And with that, Ed reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small voice recorder. "Laura Hale, are you here with us?"

"Yeeeeeeessss~~" a raspy voice rang out, making Ed jump back.

"L-Laura?"

"Nooooo~~" the voice answered. "I am not Laura."

"T-Then who are you?!" Harry cried out.

"They're my friends!" a second voice screamed out behind the two boys, making them scream out. The voice then began laughing like crazy.

Ed and Harry turned around, and revealed that Jaydra and two other teens were there.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Ed screamed. "YOU RUINED THE WHOLE INVESTIGATION!"

"I told you! There's no ghost or anything paranormal here," Jaydra explained. "And my friends here, Scott and Stiles, can tell you the same."

"Well," the one named Stiles says, smirking over at Jaydra. "You never know what could happen in this house. Why don't you let them explore?"

"Listen to your friend, Winchester," Ed said, grabbing Harry by the arm and walking him over to the front door and smashing said door in.

"They're gonna get themselves killed," Scott muttered to Jaydra.

"Yeah, I know," Jaydra sighed, walking over to the door and leaning against the frame.

"Laura Hale!" Ed cried out into the house. "Are you here?" There was no answer.

"See?" Jaydra says, her and her two friends walk over to the two paranormal investigators. "Nothing is here."

"Oh my god!" Stiles squealed out, holding onto his arm, looking like he's straining against something.

"What is it?" Scott asked, looking at his arm. "Dude, you okay?"

"I...I think a ghost has me! I THINK LAURA IS TRYING TO COMMUNICATE!" Stiles shrieks out, walking over to Ed and Harry.

"Laura! What do you want to te- OW!" Harry cried out, when Stiles' punches Harry in the arm. "What was that for?!"

"I didn't do it!" Stiles defended. "Laura made me do it!"

"Laura doesn't make people do shit," a brand new voice growled out from the top of the stairs.

Ed and Harry slowly turned and seen a tall figure, maybe around six feet, standing there. He was built like a brickhouse, and he stood there with his arms crossed over his chest. His hair was a deep black color, and his face was covered in a dark stubble across his chin. But the strangest thing about the man was that his eyes were glowing bright blue.

"Harry!" Ed squeaked out softly. "Are you getting this?!"

"I am! I am!"

Suddenly, the figure jumps down and stood right before the two paranormal investigators. "Get out of my house!" he growled out.

When the two didn't move from their spot, probably from fear, the figure did something that the boys never seen before. They watched in fear as the man's face features began to change. Hair grew around his cheeks, and his nose turned more wolf like. But the most terrifying thing about it, was the fact that four long canines elongated in his mouth, and claws grew from his fingers.

Like lightening, the man struck out and grabbed Harry's video camera and smashed it into tiny pieces in his bare hand. "GET OUT!" he roared loudly.

Ed and Harry scurried out of the house quickly, and once they made it to their white van, they turned and seen Jaydra running out, a panicked look on her face. Just as she made it to the final step and was about to make a run for the woods, the monster jumped out of the house and pinned Jaydra to the ground, his hand and claws covering her face.

"RUN!" Jaydra screamed. "ED! HARRY! GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!"

That was all the boys needed before their van raced away, the Hale House and the monster in it's rear view mirror.

ITSWYG

Not even ten minutes later, Ed and Harry were once again in front of Tiana, the receptionist at the police station.

"Now, I need to get a squad out to the Hale House, why?" Tiana asked, looking at the two idiots like they lost their minds.

"Because!" Ed panted out. "Someone's there! And she's hurt!"

"Who's hurt?" John Stilinski asked, walking out of his office. "What's going on?"

"Something attacked Jaydra Winchester at the Hale House! Some kind of creature!" Harry screamed out, his eyes full of terror.

"I was attacked by some monster . . .?" A painfully familiar voice called out, walking into the sheriff's office.

Ed and Harry turned around and looked like they seen a ghost. They screamed, loudly, jumping back against the receptionist desk. "A GHOST!" they both cried out.

Ed ran over and began looking her over for scars and bruises. "I-I-I don't get it! We seen something attack you!"

"What are you two idiots talking about? I was at my best friends house, practicing my Lacrosse skills," Jaydra stated, raising and eyebrow. "Are you two okay?"

"But . . . But . . ." Harry sputtered out.

"Oh, I went by the Hale House after my practice, remembering you two saying you were going to be there," Jaydra says, reaching into her Lacrosse bag and pulls out a camera that looks identically like the one the monster smashed. "I found this on the ground outside. You two must've dropped it."

Harry reaches out with shaky hands and takes the camera. "T-Thanks . . ."

"Now, you two said you were just getting some film for a story you two were writing, right?" the sandy blond haired girl asked, smiling brightly. "Well, since you got the footage, aren't you two heading back east?"

"Yeah!" Ed stated, noticing the strange looks he and his team mate were getting from the sheriff and the receptionist Tiana.

"Then I'll see you guys around!" she stated, heading back outside and climbing into her red Nissan Skyline.

When Ed and Harry looked out, they seen the man that attacked Jaydra look at them from her passenger seat, wearing sunglasses. He sent them an wickedly evil grin and brought a finger up to his lips and made a shushing noise before the two left the station.

ITSWYG

Ed and Harry raced themselves to the Beacon Hills county lines before they even thought about slowing down. The second they passed the sign with the city's name on it, they slowed down a bit and pulled over to the side of the road.

"Let's see the camera," Ed says quietly.

"Right," Harry agrees, pulling out the camera and rewinding the footage back to the beginning.

The whole intro was gone, and the only thing there was Jaydra on the screen leaned up against a tree. Seems like no one was around her, and she was holding the camera facing her.

"Hey Ed and Harry. You guys still shaken up?" the video asked, as the blond headed girl smirked into the frame. "I guess you may be, but I tried to warn you. There's nothing here at the Hale house." The video continued as the girl looked around the camera, obviously looking at the Hale House that was in front of her in the footage. "Nope, nothing out of the ordinary here. But let me just tell you guys something. Go get some kind of real job, okay? You don't want this life. Trust me. My dad was obsessed with this paranormal bullshit, and it didn't turn out good for him. Just get out." And with that the video cut off.

"Damn her," Ed cursed, glaring at the video. "She kept it so simple that if anyone else heard it, they'd think even SHE doesn't believe in ghosts! We can't use that!" Ed slammed his forehead against the steering wheel.

"What are we going to do?" Harry asked.

"Well, I'm not going back there," Ed stated. "Let's go find a real ghost to film."

And with that, the two guys that are going to become the Ghostfacers drove off into the night, heading back East, and leaving the terror of Beacon Hills in their rear view mirror.