Chapter 5:
Locker Search
As the three of us started to walk through the hallway of the school, we heard some loud noises coming from the crawl space. We all looked at each other with panicked expressions.
All of Us: SLAPPY!
We started running down the hallway, but we didn't know where to run too.
Me: Lets try running into one of the classrooms!
Joey: We can't! All the doors are locked!
Me: We should find the keys than!
Joey: All we need is that card with the spell, though!
Me: We still need some place to hide! We can't hide in these hallways, or else Slappy will find us easily.
Joey: I don't know where the school would keep the classroom keys... maybe in the office... I don't know.
Me: Maybe... where's the office?
Joey: The floor above, follow me!
I gave Joey the flashlight so he would know where to go.
Joey: Um... this is gonna sound weird, but even with this flashlight, it's still really hard to see in this school, so... it's gonna be hard to tell where we are and what floor were on.
Me: (worriedly) I don't care, just get us to the office before Slappy finds us!
Slappy's hysterical laughter filled the hallway. I looked at Joey very worriedly.
Me: (scared) We have to move now!
Again, I grabbed Lindsey's hand and we quickly followed Joey through the hallway.
Joey: (whispering) If you see some stairs, let me know...
When we reached the end of the hallway, we didn't see any stairs. We all started to panic as we heard Slappy come closer to us.
Slappy: (calling out/ slowly) Where are you?... heh heh heeehh...
Lindsey: (scared) We have to get out of here!
Me and Joey: Ssshh!!
Slappy: (calling out) I'll find you!! (maniac laughter)
Joey: (whispering/ slowly) The stairs... ... Oh, I found them!
Joey pointed to the left of Lindsey and started running up them. Me and Lindsey followed closely behind. When we got to the second floor, I looked shocked.
Me: (shocked) This floor looks exactly like the one we were just on!
Joey: (whispering) Ssh! I know, but it's really dark in here, so that's probably why.
Lindsey: (worriedly) I just want to get out of here...
Joey: (whispering) You two really need to keep your voices down! Slappy will find us faster if you two don't lower them!
Me: (quietly) Okay... okay... so, where is the office?
Joey: Just follow me.
We hurriedly followed Joey through the hallway (that looked just like the one we've been on.) I could barely make out the doors to the classrooms in the hallway, but suddenly Joey stopped us in our tracks. He shined the flashlight on a door that looked a little strange.
From the light of the flashlight, I could see a small white sign that read: Main Office.
Joey: (slowly) I have a feeling... this is locked, too...
Joey tried the door knob, but he was right, it was locked.
Joey: (sarcastic) Oh, great! Even I don't know what to do now!
The three of us suddenly heard Slappy again.
Slappy: (spooky) I can hear you... YAH HA HA HAH!!
Lindsey: (scared) Joey!...
Me: Lets try barging the door!
Joey: (sarcastic) Are you nuts?! (knocking on door) This door is VERY hard! --
Slappy: Knock on wood! (maniac laughter)
Me: (sarcastic) Yeah, well... Slappy kind of already knows where we are, so we have no choice!
Lindsey: (scared) I just want to get away from him!
Joey: Okay, on the count of three, we ram the door... one... two... THREE!
The three of us rammed the office door at the same time. The bad news is, the ramming part hurt VERY BADLY, but the good news is, that the door flung open without breaking down! We ran quickly inside and Joey shut and locked the door.
I and Lindsey sat on the ground in pain while Joey looked perfectly fine.
Me: (in pain) You don't look so hurt!
Joey: (being weird) I'm as strong as Hercules!
Me: (sarcastic) Uh-huh, whatever.
Lindsey: Lets find the keys before Slappy --
Suddenly, we heard the door knob to the office rattle furiously.
Slappy: (from other side of door) Let me in, kiddies!
Lindsey: (screaming)
Me: (worriedly) We have to find those keys... and QUICK!
Joey: (sarcastic) Yeah, but the bad part is, I have NO IDEA where the keys would be in here!
Me: Okay... than how about we look around the office... (hearing Slappy's voice) ... and quickly...
The office was pretty big, but hopefully it won't be too hard to find the keys to all the classrooms. The room consisted of a large desk right in the middle, some file cabinets to the right and left and a couple of smaller desks in the back of the room. By the file cabinets, there were two doors; one that leads into the principal's office and into the copy room.
As Lindsey and Joey quickly looked through the desks, I tried to open the copy room door.
Joey looked at me.
Joey: I think those rooms are locked too.
Me: (to myself) Darn it!
I walked over to the principal's door and tried that, and luckily, it opened. I turned to Joey and Lindsey.
Me: I'm gonna check it out in here. You can help me search as soon as you're done looking through these desks.
Joey: Sure...
I opened the door to the principal's office and walked in. The office was very disorganized, with papers all over the desk and floor, some file cabinets were left open, and some drawers were left open, too.
Me: (to myself) there has to be an extra set of keys to the classroom somewhere... I just hope they're in here...
I walked over to the desk and started searching around it and than inside.
Me: Where are they?...
I opened the last drawer and searched around in it. Suddenly, Joey and Lindsey came into the room holding flashlights.
Lindsey: (happily) Look what we found in the desks!
Joey: You can have your flashlight back. Me and Linds have our OWN now!
Me: (sarcastic) Good for you -- (grabbing something) and I think I found the keys!
I cleared away some papers in a drawer to find a key chain with about over a hundred keys on it.
Joey: (shocked) Whoa...
Me: At least these keys are labeled.
Lindsey: Now we need to find Joey's locker.
Me: Lets make a plan first or safety guidelines --
The door of the office started to give off very loud banging noises.
Slappy: I'm gonna get ya... (maniac laughter)
Joey: (worriedly/ to me) If you're gonna say something, you better say it now, before that dummy breaks in here!
Me: Okay... um... I think we should split up in finding your locker. Joey, I want you to take Lindsey with you. I'll be fine... I just think that Slappy is bent on finding her.
Joey: Why do you say that?
Me: Don't you hear Slappy say "my bride" sometimes? I think he's talking about Lindsey.
Lindsey and Joey: (confused) Huh?!
Me: I saw this episode of Slappy where he wanted a bride, and it turned out that he wanted this little girl to be it! That's why I think he wants Lindsey.
Joey: (shocked) Whoa...
Lindsey: (scared) I don't want to marry Slappy! Yew!
Me: This is why I think you should stay with Joey, and since we're splitting up, I'm giving you two part of the keys on this key chain...
I took some keys off the key chain and handed them to Lindsey and Joey.
Me: We should mostly keep our flashlights off, or else we'll attract the attention of unwanted... um... dummies...
Joey: If we split up, than how are you supposed to open my locker, if you don't know the combination or the number of it?
I quickly looked around the office and found a piece of paper and a pen. I handed them to Joey.
Me: Write it here.
Joey wrote on the piece of paper and handed it to me.
Me: If one of us finds the "spell card", than lets meet by the exit doors of the school, and if you don't find it, just still meet in the spot, okay?
Lindsey: (worriedly) Okay...
The banging on the door got louder.
Me: Joey, do you think there's another way out of this office?
Joey: It's through the copy room, come on.
I grabbed my flashlight and than we quickly walked out of the principal's office and to the copy room, but unfortunately, it's still locked.
Me: One of us has the key, so search your keys!
The three of us frantically searched our keys to find the one that goes to the copy room. It's really hard to read the labels, since the writing is so small, but we don't have time to examine them more carefully...
Slappy: (barging the office door) YAH HA HA!! I'm gonna make you my slaves forever!
Lindsey: (shrieking)
Joey: (happily) I got it!
Joey quickly put the key in the key hole and than he jiggled the knob; the door opened instantly.
Joey: (quickly) Get in, get in! Hurry up!
The three of us ran inside and closed the door. Joey ran to the other door that led outside to the hallway and tried to open it, but unfortunately it too, required a key.
Joey: (worriedly) This is nuts! How the heck are we supposed to get anywhere, if we keep getting locked in?!
Now we had to look through our keys again, but we had to find the one that was labeled "main office."
Lindsey: I have it!
She quickly put the key and opened the door. The three of us ran out into the hallway, but we weren't safe.
Me: (whispering) We have to split up now, before Slappy realizes we're out here!
Joey: (whispering) I hope you find my locker... and the stairs!
Lindsey: (whispering) Be careful, Kyle!
Joey and Lindsey took off down a hall, about south of Slappy, and than I started to run to the west. I didn't want to turn on the flashlight, because Slappy would find me instantly!
The banging on the office doors finally stopped, and Slappy now realized that the three of us weren't in there anymore.
Me: (to myself) Where the heck are those stairs?
It was really hard for me to tell if there were stairs in the hallway or not, so I had to turn on the flashlight for a couple of seconds to see. Within those couple of seconds, Slappy noticed me.
Slappy: (happily) Hee hee heee... well, looky here! I finally found one of ya!
I shrieked in silence, and I knew I better find those stairs to the next level fast! I turned the flashlight back on to get a better view of my surroundings again, and than I began to run down the hall. At the end of the hall was another set of stairs.
Me: (happily) Yes! A close call!
I stormed up the stairs and shined my flashlight on some lockers.
Me: (to myself) This is it... now for Joey's locker...
I looked at the piece of paper Joey gave to me:
locker # 1098
combination: 17-34-12
I knew I had to find the locker before Slappy finds one of us. As I started to walk towards the lockers, I heard Slappy coming up the stairs. I panicked!
Slappy: (calling out) I'll find you girlie... yeeh hee hee heee...
Me: (scared) No...
I turned the flashlight off and pressed myself against the lockers so I could read the numbers better.
Me: (reading/ whispering) 845... 844... crap! I'm not even close!
I glanced back at the stairs, and I could barely make out the figure of Slappy coming up! I ran down the hall, with my body still close to the lockers. Afterwards, I came to an intersection in the hallway, with rows of lockers going in all directions!
Me: (grumpily) Oh great... lets see... go... left.
I turned left and ran down that hallway until I couldn't hear Slappy that well. I gave a sigh of relief and started to look for the locker again.
Me: (reading/ whispering) 1085... 1086... this is it... I'm close!
I looked around to see if Lindsey and Joey were close.
Me: Where are they?
Suddenly, I heard Slappy coming close again; he was now at the intersection of the hallway.
Slappy: (thinking) Lets see... which way did the slave go... which way...
Me: !!
I quickly, but quietly walked down the hallway to find Joey's locker. I'm now more closer than ever!
Me: (reading/ whispering) 1095... 1096... 1097... 1098! Found it!
I went into my pants pocket to take out the little piece of paper, but when I did... something bad happened...
(Samba music) Ring, ring, ring, ring... ring, ring, ring... ring, ring, ring, ring... ring, ring...
My cell phone rang...
Me: (worriedly) Oh crap...
Slappy: (surprised) Aaaahh... just follow the music...
I grabbed my cell quickly and looked to see who it was; it was my dad. I didn't want to answer it, but I had too; and if I didn't, my dad would think something was wrong! I can't tell our parents that a dummy was chasing us around Joey's school! Like, there gonna believe us? I don't think so!
I pushed the talk button and put the phone up to my ear. Now I have to talk on the phone while trying to open up the locker before Slappy got to me!
Me: (trying to sound happy) Hi dad! ... ... No, everything's fine... ... nothing's wrong, it's just that you scared me when you called... ... ... no... yes... yes... ... um... Joey and Lindsey are sleeping right now...
Slappy: (in the distance) YAH HA HA HAH!!
Me: (on the phone/ trying to open locker) What? ... No, it's just a movie that I'm watching... ... nobody else is with us, dad! ... ... Okay... ... yes, I'll go to bed soon... ... I'm fine, really! ... ... Okay... love you, bye!
I quickly put the phone back in my pocket and worked on the locker combination; all I had was one more number, and hopefully it will open.
Slappy: Aw! Isn't that sweet! (hysterical laughter)
As I put the last number into the lock, I tried to open it... but it wouldn't budge...
Me: (shocked/ worriedly) What?! No!
Slappy was really close to me by now, I knew I had to find some way to open it. Than I thought of something...
Me: (to myself) If I bang on the locker in a certain spot, it should open... even though it's going to hurt...
I pressed my arm onto the locker and started banging all over it.
Me: (annoyed/ worriedly) Come on! Open up!
Slappy: YAH HA HA HA HA HAAAHH!!
Just as Slappy drew closer, the locker suddenly flung open, and with it, a bunch of papers came flying out. I saw the little piece of paper I wanted, so I grabbed it before it could get lost with the other flying papers.
Me: (to myself) In an episode I saw awhile ago... if I read this backwards, Slappy should become lifeless --
When I thought Slappy was close to me, he suddenly wasn't anymore. I looked around with a confused expression on my face. I turned on the flashlight to get a better view of the hallway, and I was right: Slappy wasn't near me anymore! Weird...
Me: (suspicious) That's weird...
I kept the flashlight on as I walked down the hallway. When I passed by some classrooms, I shined my flashlight on them to see what kind of class it was.
Me: Hmm... a laboratory, a chemistry class, biology...
As I continued to name the classrooms that I saw, there was one that caught my eye...
Me: An art classroom... hmm...
Without thinking, I grabbed the doorknob and the door opened. Even more weird!
Me: (happily) Cool! Without a key, too!
I went inside and looked around. The classroom was pretty neat looking, with lots and lots of drawings lining the walls, and some clay pots on shelves and cool looking statues in some corners. The student desks were all in perfectly lined rows.
I sat in one of the desks to rest my legs and feet. Suddenly, I heard Slappy's laugh again. I gasped loudly, as I got out of the desk and looked around for him. Just than, the classroom door slammed shut! I ran up to it and tried to open it, but it was locked!
I banged on the door for help, but than I thought of something. I took out the key chain and looked through the keys.
Me: (worriedly/ looking through keys) Please have the art key, please have the art key...
But unfortunately, I didn't have it.
Me: Crap! (sarcastic) This is just great!
I heard Slappy come up on the other side of the door.
Slappy: (from other side) One down, two more to go! HAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAHH!!
Me: (screaming) Let me out of here!
Slappy: Ssooo... you thought you could outsmart a dummy, eh? Well, the dummy has outsmarted YOU, kid! HEH HEH HEH HEH HEEEHH!!
Me: (banging on door) LET ME OUT!!
Slappy kept up that hysterical laughter as he went away from the door...