Trouble at Camp

Chapter Five: Scary Stories…

After showers, Frank called everyone to the hall.

"Tonight's activity is telling spooky stories…so…who wants to go first?"

"Ooohhh no!" Raven said.

"OH YEAH! PICK ME! PICK ME!" Shouted Beast Boy and some other teens.

"Well, because you're all SO eager, I'll go first and I'll pick after that."

Most of the teens sat eagerly.

Frank began.

"I have a friend; he was driving on this freeway at night. There were plants on the sides of the roads. There were no other cars in sight…After half an hour, my friend saw some signs.

They said things like; WARNING: BEWARE! DEATH WILL COME SWIFTLY! And; DANGER: WATCH OUT! THE REAPER SHALL REAR ITS UGLY HEAD!

My friend laughed at these signs. Obviously, he thought someone was playing a practical joke. And then…

He saw black shadows, moving, in the bushes. Then he saw a pair of red glowing eyes in the bushes.

He stomped down on the accelerator. He heard wolf howls and crashes and crunches.

He refused to look back, until he reached the nearest town.

Then he saw that someone had thrown a chain with a bomb on one end of the chain, onto the back of the car. And at the other end, there was a single finger…"

"Pfft! That's not scary at all!" Beast Boy said.

"Well. Since you complained about the story, you tell the next one"

"Gladly.

In a house, there lived a grandmother, a boy and a girl.

One day, the three went to a fair. On one stall the boy and the girl noticed an interesting clock. There was a tag on it saying 'Free'.

The boy grabbed the clock.

"Are you sure you want that? It has a terrible curse." The person who was selling the clock said.

"Pfft! That's stupid superstition!" the girl said.

That night, when the two were about to go to sleep, they heard a noise.

"Tick, Tock, I'm opening the door"

The two ignored this and fell asleep.

The next night, they heard another noise.

"Tick, Tock, I'm walking up the stairs"

It couldn't have mean anything, could it?

The two children shrugged it off.

The night after that, they heard it again.

"Tick, Tock, I'm killing your grandmother"

The boy and girl, now freaked, ran out of their room, down the corridor.

They ran into their grandmother's bedroom and saw, in a puddle of blood, their grandmother. One of her eyes rolled out of her socket and looked up at them.

Screaming, they ran back to their room and slammed the door.

"Tick, Tock, I'm coming to get you"

They saw the door knob turning.

The two ran over to the window and jumped out of it and onto the roof.

As the glass shattered, the back of their hands were cut.

As they landed on the roof, a swarm of beetles crawled into their cuts, crawling under their skin, drinking their blood, eating their guts, devouring their bones and flesh, until all that was left of them was skin.

…And that was the tale of the Mickey Mouse clock!"

A few people chuckled lightly at that last statement, but everyone else was squirming.

"Can I tell a story?" May-Lin asked.

"Sure" Frank sat back.

"A girl is walking home from school. Walking down a road.

She met a crossroad. Not remembering which way to go, she turned left. The wrong way.

Before she knew it, she was walking through a forest.

There was a rustle, and an eerie noise rang out through the air.

"Hello? Who's that?" she called out.

Silence was her reply.

Then, the eerie noise came back…

Scared, she ran. She didn't know where she was running.

But she was running, deeper and deeper into the forest.

She reached the edge of a cliff, and the eerie noise ceased.

Panting, she turned around, to try to walk back and find her house.

But she was met with a pair of glaring red eyes and an axe.

Her screams rang out the city.

And now, her spirit walks through the forest and through the town.

Every day, you can hear her screaming, like the day she died.

And those unfortunate enough to cross her path, see a headless body, vowing to kill the one who killed her…"

"Big yawn" Robin stated, bored.

"Ooh…look at the time! Time for bed! Everyone get in your tents and have a peaceful night's sleep!" Frank said.

"Whatever" Sapphire said, as everyone got up and walked towards their tents.

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Starfire jerked forward, breathing heavily.

"Ooh…why did we have to hear stories of scary about deaths and blood? Now I am having mares of the night." She asked herself, shivering in fear.

Starfire got up and walked to the bathroom. She needed to splash her face with some cold water. That would make her feel better.

On her way back, She saw a figure. It was wearing a black cloak with a black hood.

The figure turned towards her and she saw three deformed faces.

"Kill…kill…" it muttered, seemingly floating towards Starfire.

She looked to a tent wall and saw a shadow. Starfire gasped.

She was about to shake Raven awake, but then she shook her head.

She looked up at the tent wall again.

The figure was gone.

"I must be so sleepy that I am seeing things that aren't really there. I think May-Lin called it "hallucinating"…?"

An eerie noise rang out.

Starfire shook Raven and Kate awake.

"Ugh…Starfire why'd you wake me up?"

"Friend Raven! There is a ghost!"

"Ghost's don't exist Starfire. Go to sleep."

The figure reappeared.

"Friend Raven, friend Kate, look!"

Raven and Kate gasped when they saw the figure.

Starfire leaned onto Raven, to keep away from the figure.

Raven fell backwards onto May-Lin.

"Heya Wazza...huh? What am I doing awake? And why are you two on top of me? You're squishing me!" May-Lin cried out, muffled.

Raven and Starfire got off May-Lin.

"What's up?"

"There's a ghost" Raven whispered, biting her lip.

"Ghost's don't exist!"

"Say that to the ghost" Kate told May-Lin, pointing at the shadow.

May-Lin looked it up and down.

"That's not a ghost"

"Yes it is"

"No it's not. I'll show you"

May-Lin unzipped the tent and got out.

Starfire and Raven watched the tent wall.

Another figure appeared and it grabbed the first figure's supposed ear.

The second figure dragged the first figure to the door of the tent, holding it in a headlock.

Raven, Kate and Starfire, began to back away. The first figure, the ghost, was wearing a black cloak and had three ugly, deformed, mutated faces.

"Does THIS look like a ghost to you?" May-Lin stated, tearing off the three faces of the monster.

Robin. Sapphire. Beast Boy.

"Hehe….Hi girls" Beast Boy said, nervously.

"Hehe…Nice night isn't it…?" Robin said nervously.

"Yeah…hehe…whoa look at the time, we'd better get to bed now bye!" Sapphire said hurriedly.

They tried to escape the headlock and run, but May-Lin wasn't going to let them go that easily.

"Um…it was just a joke…" Beast Boy said when he saw Starfire, Raven and Kate glaring at him angrily.

Kate cracked her knuckles. Starfire pulled out a baseball bat. Raven pointed at the three and moved her finger across her neck.

The three boys gulped.

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Dear Readers,

I was saddened when I read two or three of your poll replies. They really made me regret even putting up a poll. Those reviews were of people who threatened to flame me and otherwise.

I thank all the good reviewers for being reasonably kind about it.

It's because of the kind people that I searched my brain to find another plot for a different story.

I will post two stories after one or two of the current stories finish. Each with different pairings.

Reviewers who threatened me, note that I am doing this not because of you but because of the kind reviewers. Thank you and have a nice day!