A/N: In the last chapter, Sherman received another call from Ghostface, now everyone is talking about him and how he survived an attack from the murderer of Abby. Also, Penny got a Ghostface costume from Jill planning on scaring Sherman with it, but Jill fails to warn her of the consequences of what would happen if she did what she did but Penny didn't wanna hear it. This is where we left off. Enjoy!
Sherman was now eating lunch with Hayden and Mason. Hayden was thinking deeply at what Sherman had said in class and wanted to ask him more about it.
"So, Sherman. I really liked what you said in class about how this guy was making their own real life fan fiction of 'Stab'. But can you explain to me how that's possible exactly?" asked Hayden. Sherman took a deep breath and spoke.
"Well, just like in 'Stab' there has to be a certain set of rules depending on what kind of setting or what number sequel they're on" Sherman explained.
"I wasn't in there with you to hear it, so can you tell me the rules of making a scary movie fan fiction?" asked Mason. Sherman then took a piece of paper out of his notebook that was inside his bag and a pencil.
"Rule number one: The virgin always survives" Sherman said writing it down on the paper.
"Rule number two: No sex, drugs, or alcohol. All those things lead to death by a psycho in a mask" Sherman said after writing the words down.
"Okay, those are two rules. Any others?" asked Mason.
"Rule number three: Each character has different traits that make them the type of person you'd see in a horror movie" said Sherman writing another rule down.
"What do you mean?" asked Hayden.
"Each horror movie has to have one of each social clique in the group of possible future victims. There's the athlete, the joker, the nerd, the sex addict, the bully, the junkie, and then the virgin" said Sherman, making sure Hayden was getting what he was saying.
"Oh, those types of traits. I got it now" said Hayden, letting Sherman continue explaining the rules to Mason.
"And finally... Rule number four: Anyone you know can be the killer" Sherman said. Mason and Hayden looked all around them to look at the other classmates minding their own business, eating lunch, or talking with friends.
"If that's true... then who's really the guy in the mask?" Mason asked.
"I don't have any clues or leads as to who it is or why he's copying the Ghostface killer from the Woodsboro murders" Sherman explained. Hayden then looked to see a black cloaked person wearing a Ghostface mask, not knowing it was Penny, Mason felt his heart start beating rapidly in his chest after seeing this. One girl saw this as well and began screaming, thinking it was really Ghostface. Sherman looked behind him and saw that Ghostface raised their (Unknown to Sherman and the others, fake) knife and tried to stab Sherman, but he jumped to the side and landed on the floor.
"Sherman! Run!" one of the other students said and tried running away, but Ghostface now had Sherman in a choke hold and had their arm tightly around Sherman's neck, making him cough.
"This is so awesome" Penny said in her head smiling behind the mask.
"Let me go!" Sherman begged.
"Not until you beg like a dog" Penny thought to herself in her head. What Sherman did next was totally unexpected, he bit Ghostface on the arm and made them release a female shriek.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Penny screamed in pain clutching her arm and removing the mask. Sherman, Hayden, Mason, and everybody else was in total shock, not by Sherman biting his attacker, but who was behind that mask.
"Penny!? Why the Hell would you do that!?" Sherman screamed, tears close to falling down his cheeks.
"You bit me!" Penny screamed, ignoring Sherman's question.
"We don't care that he bit you. You deserved it!" one male student called out.
"You realize that you're wearing the exact same costume Sherman's attacker and Abby's killer wore!? What would have happened if the cops thought you were the killer!?" Mason said approaching Penny and chewed her out for her stupid actions.
"The knife was fake, and it was just a joke" Penny said trying to defend her actions.
"Doesn't matter, you almost choked Sherman to death. If he had died people would have thought you were the killer. Do you want that!?" Hayden asked. Before anybody else could say anything a security guard who had been watching everything from the entrance to the lunch room took both Penny and Sherman to the principal's office.
In the office, both preteen's parents were called and Penny was now being scolded by both her parents, the principal, and Mr. Peabody.
"I'm sorry. I was only joking" said Penny, on the verge of puking from all the anxiety her body was taking in from so many people being extremely angry and disappointed with her.
"Dressing up as the murderer who attacked my son the day after the assault took place is not a joke, young lady" said Mr. Peabody with his paws on his sides. Penny's eyes looked like they were close to letting out tears of fear.
"Sherman was Abby's friend too. How do you think Abby would like to see you picking on her friend like that?" asked Patty Peterson, Penny's mother.
"Don't forget the boy is just as guilty. He bit my daughter" Paul Peterson said, trying to defend his daughter.
"She was choking me! I had to do something, and I thought the real killer was in the school, it was reasonable!" Sherman said standing up from his seat and clenching his hand into a fist, angry that the father was to defend his attacker.
"Doesn't matter" an unknown voice said coming from the back. Everyone turned their heads to see a fat woman with black hair clad in pink and had a mole on her cheek.
"Biting is for dogs, there's something wrong with the boy and how he's being raised" the woman said. Sherman wanted to run up to the woman and punch her but he knew Peabody would hold him back.
"You clearly don't know what happened" said Sherman pointing to the Ghostface mask Penny wore that was sitting on the Principal's desk, as well as the cloak and fake knife.
"Doesn't matter. What does matter is that Peabody's parenting techniques need to be called into question" the woman said.
"I'm sorry, who are you exactly?" asked Patty.
"I am Ms. Grunion from the Bureau of Child Safety and Protection" the woman said, the principal then spoke up.
"We're required by law to call them in, just in case of any incidents" said the Principal.
"You couldn't have bent the law for one second!?" Peabody exclaimed in rage.
"Ms. Grunion please listen to reason. What Penny did wasn't teasing, it was just brutal bullying. Not to mention Sherman was attacked by the same guy who killed the poor Bates girl wearing that exact same costume" said the principal. Everyone's angry eyes except Penny's were on Grunion.
"These petty little killings are nothing compared to that mutt's parenting skills" Grunion said pointing one crimson nail polished index finger at the white beagle standing next to his son with a paw on his shoulder.
"If you even dare to try and conduct an inspection in my house I swear to God I will sue you so hard your job will have no choice to fire you and sleep in regret knowing they made a mistake in hiring you" said Peabody growling. Then, when Grunion was about to speak against Peabody's threat, the door opened again and the same officer that helped Sherman after he was attacked by Ghostface the day before came in.
"Ma'am, please step away from the boy and his father" the officer said showing off his badge to her.
"You have no right to tell me what to do" Grunion said, being so stupid as to challenge an officer of the law.
"Ma'am, if you do not cease your harassment of this family I will arrest you" said the officer. She shut up the minute the word 'Arrest' came out of the officer's mouth.
"Thank you, now if you'd please leave this office. I have to confiscate this costume until the real killer is caught" said the officer taking the Ghostface costume and placing it in an evidence bag. Penny then spoke up.
"Wait! That's not mine, it's my friend Jill's. She lent it to me" said Penny.
"I'm sorry but until the real killer is caught we have to take this away" said the officer. Sherman smiled at this and winked at the officer who winked back with a smile. Grunion did as she was asked to and left the office growling.
Grunion then made her way to the parking lot in front of the school and found her Subaru and got into it. She then shut the door and tried to turn on the ignition but she felt nothing in the ignition, the keys were gone.
"Oh great" Grunion said irritated, clearly this wasn't the first time she lost her keys. When she dumped out the contents of her purse onto the passenger seat, her phone inside her jacket pocket began ringing and then she took it out and answered it.
"Hello?" Grunion asked.
"I'm not interrupting anything am I? You look pretty irritated" said the dark eerie voice of Ghostface. Grunion then looked around to see if anyone was looking at her while using their cell phone, but found nobody.
"Where are you?" asked Grunion.
"Take a guess" said Ghostface.
"You're in your car aren't you?" asked Grunion looking around to see if anyone was in the cars parked behind her.
"If I was in a car, don't you think there would be music playing or the engine would be making noise in the background?" asked Ghostface. Grunion then got even more freaked out and looked around even more for her keys but found nothing. A knocking was heard at her car door so she looked to see Ghostface holding her keys.
"Ahhhhhh!" Grunion screamed before Ghostface punched through the window and made glass fall onto the concrete and on Grunion's lap. She kept on screaming and screaming as she backed away from Ghostface but he began crawling in through the window he had just broken. Grunion reached behind her to try and open the door, but her hand kept slipping off the door handle due to her complete fear. Ghostface then lunged his knife into her left leg.
"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!" screamed Grunion as she kicked Ghostface in his mask with the leg he didn't stab. Ghostface took the knife out her leg and tried to make another stab, but Grunion successfully opened the other door and began running into Central Park away from her car with a limp and bleeding leg.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Grunion whined with one leg covering the cut and getting blood all over it. She tripped on a rock and then started limping away from the trail, hoping to lose Ghostface in the woods. When she got to a big wooded area, she was alone and thought that he lost her.
"Thank God, he's gone" Grunion muttered.
"Not yet I'm not" said a voice from behind her. She turned behind her to see Ghostface getting ready to make another cut with the blade he had gripped tightly in his hand. Grunion screamed and fell backwards and picked a broken tree branch off the ground and tried to use it as a makeshift weapon against Ghostface and to knock the knife out of his hand but the minute she tried to swing it towards Ghostface but grabbed it and yanked it out of her hand easily.
"Oh no! Dear God please! No!" Grunion begged before Ghostface lunged the branch right though her forehead. Once the body stopped twitching and moving and coughing blood Ghostface walked away from the corpse and further into the woods of Central Park.
A/N: Ta-Da! Chapter 5 is now done! Penny just did the stupidest thing in her entire life, dressing up like real life serial killer to bully Penny, and Grunion made a cameo (I say cameo because she's only in just this chapter since her life got cut short by Ghostface) but now that we know all the suspects, who do you think is behind the mask? More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!