Hey one, hey all, Merry Christmas! If you don't believe in Christmas, Happy Holidays to whatever you celebrate! Guess what? As a treat, I'm going to finish every story I wrote. That includes the ones I'm stuck on, too, so if they're terrible, don't worry, I'll fix it soon. I'll also create two new stories, so be on the lookout for those. Have a very Merry Christmas (or Kwanza, or Hanukah or whatever you celebrate) and a happy new year.

Oh, yeah, before I forget, I do not own any High School Musical characters, or Halloweentown characters or Ashley Tisdale. Sucks to be me right now… *sigh*

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And without further ado, *nervous giggle* uh… *clears throat* the chapter you've being dying for! Who are those evil masked people and what do they want with Ryan?!?

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"Sharpay, just calm down." Troy soothed. "Who can't have Ryan?" Sharpay sat up, burying her face in her hands. She took a deep breath and looked up at the rest of her friends.

"Well, first, you can start by calling me my real name." she said simply. "Sharon."

Troy, looking shocked, stood up quickly. Gabriella's eyes widened, and Chad and Taylor had identical expressions of anger.

"You lied to us?" Troy asked numbly.

"Why are you so surprised?" Chad laughed harshly. "She lies all the time."

"No, no," Sharpay insisted, shaking her head. "You don't understand." She took another deep breath and started her story.

"My name is Sharon Anne Dalloway. Ethan (A/N: Bet you can guess who that is, huh? *winks*) is Riley's twin, not mine. I mean, Ryan," she repeated softly. "Riley, or Ryan, is my older brother."

"My biological parents were, needless to say, a little harsh. After my dad went to jail, my mother became worse and worse, taking out all her problems on us." She paused, the story becoming painful. "She started plotting ways to get Dad out of jail. Pretty soon, she succeeded."

"Ethan had helped put Dad in jail, so when Dad came back…" she looked away. "Let's just say that it didn't go very well." Finally, Sharon smiled a little bit, remembering.

"Ethan was always the most protective, taking blows that were meant for us, making sure we were never hurt." She sighed. "He made a plan to land both our parents in jail. It just didn't go very well."

"Riley saw what happened, but basically, Ethan and Mom and Dad all fell over the cliff. Ethan was found a few days later with pneumonia, but he was alive." She looked away again. "Our parents weren't so lucky."

Gabriella found her voice, but it shook a little. "You said your dad went to jail," Sharon swallowed, nodding. "What…for?"

"He…" Sharon looked uncomfortable. "Almost took over an entire town. I guess he planned to make sure it stayed the way it was, because something happened the year before that, well, allowed unknown people into the town. People who weren't the same as the people who in the town."

"Anyways, after that, we decided we had enough and moved to New Mexico, where we were adopted. Ethan stayed in… stayed, and we adapted new names, new personalities, and that was the end of that." She laughed bitterly. "Until now."

"Those masked people who came into the hospital?" Taylor asked.

"Three guesses."

"No way," Gabriella gasped.

"Yep." Sharon replied cheerfully. "Loving Mummy and Daddy come back from the dead to take revenge on their family."

"I guess that makes sense," Chad admitted finally. "But there's one thing I don't get."

"Shoot." Sharon said.

"Ryan, Riley, said that the people in black had orders to take him alive. Orders."

Sharon thought for a moment. "You're right," she said excitedly. "They were working for someone else!"

"Yeah, but that just adds to the list of questions." Troy pointed out. "Like, for instance, what do they want with Ry-Riley?"

He looked around at the helpless room. Doctors bustled about, trying to pick up after the mess, and policemen were questioning witnesses. The whole room was a mess, and nobody seemed to have the answer.

You don't know how easy it would be to stop here… *crowd boos* okay, okay! I know you want to see Ryan, err, Riley, and besides, it's Christmas! The story goes on…

It would be so easy to wish himself away from this place. But that would be giving his parents what they want. And he didn't know why they were working for someone else, or who, but they were going to enjoy every minute of torturing him for what they wanted.

Riley gritted his teeth against the gag in his mouth. They were doing this old style. They want him to use magic to save himself. He had ropes wrapped around his wrists, which were painfully positioned behind his back. There was even a cloth in his mouth. It was like watching one of those human movies, except he was the one scared to death.

He figured out how they came back for himself, even though they gloated about it every minute they could get a word in. The cliff diving was a cover-up, and a bloody clever one too. They knew that if everyone thought they were dead, they would grant magic back to every one of the family. So they got their magic back. And they wanted his, too.

Riley's minds wandered for a bit, until it rested on his identical twin brother. Ethan. He was so far from home. Went to college at Witch University, where, apparently, he met up with Marnie again and saved Halloweentown. Again.

He wondered what his brother was doing at the moment, and had to use most of the will power he had not to send him a telepathic message. That would be using magic, and if he used magic, his parents would catch it, drain the rest of it, and then, probably kill him.

The door opened, and light poured into the little room he was being held captive in. Riley blinked. He looked around, getting a first taste of sight since his kidnapping.

There wasn't much to see. It was a bedroom with three outlets, no windows, and absolutely no furniture whatsoever.

"Hello, Riley," his father mocked from the doorway, but said nothing. Not that he could, anyways. The human gag was surprisingly effective.

"You're being tough." He said disapprovingly. "Ethan was the stubborn one." He sighed. "Oh, well. I guess some of that rubbed off on you." He held up a very nasty looking needle and pushed up Riley's sleeve. Riley felt a spurt of panic rush through him, and he jerked away as the needle grazed his skin.

Dad frowned. "Come on, Riley, it's not going to hurt." Riley shook his head and rolled his bright blue eyes over his gag.

"Too bad." His father reached over, grabbed a fistful of Riley's hair and jerked his face close. He stuck the needle into Riley's arm, and Riley winced from the pain. He glared at his father, but anger turned to surprise when his muscles stopped working. His entire system turned off, and only his mind was active. He sent one last look of pure terror at his father before his eyes closed. What were they going to do to him?

So… yeah. That was sure a shocker, wasn't it? I kinda surprised myself. I didn't know it would go that smoothly. Oh yeah, that chemical that he shoved into Riley's arm? It's real. It's like, banned in all 50 states and most of Europe. You basically can't move, except your brain is active. You can form thoughts, like omigodomigodomigod, what the heck is going on??? but you can't turn your head. You can't even swallow or blink. Or breathe. It shuts down your lungs, too, and you have to breathe out of a tube. Yeahhhh, the plan is to get Riley to use magic to save himself, since he doesn't have a breathing tube to keep him alive. Heheheheh, I feel so evil…

Oh, yeah, I NEED HELP!!! Does anyone know Ethan's dad's name? 'Cause right now I can only call him "his father" or "Dad" and I'm not exactly connected to a Halloweentown High movie. If anyone can help, please do.

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