A Nightmare Rides My Bus!
By: The Talking Absol
Chapter One: The New Kids in School
"Hey pizzaface! Don't turn around!"
Almost immediately, the boy to whom the statement was directed flew up from his position and ran like hell. He pushed his large round glasses up the bridge of his nose, and shuffled his loose bookbag strap up his shoulder a bit more. Panting heavily after only a few feet, he huffed and bolted for the large double doors to his school. As he trotted his feet up the steps, however, his shoelaces, which he had been trying to tie when the assault came, got wound up and caught on each other, and then under his shoes.
Walter McCarvic, as that was his name, immediately fell face-first into the steps, nearly breaking his nose and causing his glasses to fly off to an undetermined direction.
'Aw crap, not again…' his thoughts grumbled, and he was attempting to pick himself up when somebody else picked him up by the seat of his pants.
Walter may have been short for his age group, but the guy holding him made him look like a mouse. His bulging muscles flexed under his sweaty white shirt as they picked Walter up and turned him to face the three figures behind him.
The first one, David, laughed insanely. There were rumors he was always smuggling Ritalin into the school. He was the brains of the group, if you could call what he had in his skull "brains".
Walter whimpered, "What do you want?"
"You're late on your payment. Now, hand over your rent for your protection." Alan, the red-headed one next to David, said with a grin.
Walter grimaced. "Look, I don't have any today, okay? My moth-" He was interrupted when Billy suddenly began to shake him violently. Walter let out a series of unintellectual noises as he was violently thrust back and forth.
"B-But…" he stammered, and David stopped Billy when he grabbed Walter's shirt collar.
"Ya know, my old man said that there were only two thing to be certain of in life- death, and, uh…" he paused, his thought process going at its full speed. After an awkward silence, he grinned and finished, "Taxes! This is kinda like taxes. Welcome to life, shitface."
With that began a series of pummeling. Walter was too weak to defend himself, so he was thankful when a whistle blew and the boys fled like rats leaving a sinking ship. But Billy still kicked him one more time for good measure, leaving Walter curled up in a ball, wincing with pain, hands curled into his spiky orange hair.
"Hey!" Mr. Ader, the gym teacher, cried. He glared down at Walter, and then bent over and commanded, "Get up."
Walter winced and clutched his nose as he stood up on shaky, klutzy legs.
"Good. Now get to class."
Walter struggled to find his feet as the bell rang, signaling it was time to go to class. He sighed heavily, and brushed himself off, being sure to pick his glasses up. Grabbing his book bag, he headed into the school, still limping until his leg seemed to pop back into place.
Just another day at Mickley J. Kensworth K-8 school.
The class screamed and yelled, doing thing that were typical of a middle school classroom. The lights buzzed briefly as Walter walked in, but he knew it from their teacher's entrance. A shadow darkened the chalkboard behind the desk, and Mrs. Crooknuse appeared, looking like she'd been there the entire time.
Mrs. Crooknuse cleared her throat and the class became quiet. "Children." She said in her usual creepy monotone. "Today we have a flood of new…students. But unfortunately for you, we only get one of these…students." She motioned with her hand to a girl that also seemed to suddenly appear next to her.
The class was silent until Ms. Crooknuse coughed into her hand. "Well, aren't you going to introduce yourself?" she asked.
The girl jumped slightly, and then answered uniformly, "Sadaku. Sadaku…um… Morgan."
'Sadaku Morgan? What kind of a name is that? And why does it sound familiar…?' Walter wondered thoughtfully.
"What? Do your mixed parents have some kind of twisted -" David said, laughing, but Sadaku turned her head slightly, and there was an evil flash in her eye. David started choking, clutching his throat, as Sadaku straightened herself and took her seat, a smirk on her face.
She placed herself two seats up and a row to Walter's right. She put her books in her desk and flipped her long black hair as if it were a habit, and then sat forward, hands intertwined by the fingers.
Ms. Crooknuse coughed again, and then continued her lesson as David coughed up a black hairball.
…::Lunch::…
As if not satisfied with their "fight" earlier, the three boys were, once again, throwing Walter around. It was easy for them because Walter never bothered to defend himself. He figured he was like an opossum- if he simply played "dead," they would give up and go away. Luckily, it seemed to work most of the time.
David, Alan, and Billy were typical school bullies, but at the same time, they weren't. They'd been picking on Walter most of their school lives together, from kindergarten playgrounds up until this year of middle school. Walter didn't really know why they liked picking on him so much, but he'd grown used to it. With his scrawny build and weak personality, he made an easy target.
Oh, granted, he'd tried to defend himself before, but he found out the hard way that that was completely pointless and only attracted other students to laugh at him. More especially if he tried to get the teachers to help him.
Today, however, was different.
Billy already had Walter pinned up against the pillar supporting the ceiling to the lunch room, still holding him down for money, or simply humiliation.
"S-sorry! I said I didn't have any-" Walter cried.
The four boys suddenly became aware of a daunting presence beside them. Slowly, they turned their heads, expecting the worst…
…Until the four boys realized it came from Sadaku, standing a massive four-foot five. Walter's respect for her didn't diminish, but rather his worry for her health grew.
David started to say something sarcastic, but his eyes bulged as he coughed up one long, black hair which he pulled slowly from his mouth. He glanced at her, made the "oh shit" face, and turned and ran out of the lunch room. Alan and Billy stared after him, and after a moment's hesitation, dropped everything and ran after their leader.
"Whew…" Walter breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to look up at Sadaku, who blew a strand of hair out of her face calmly and turned to walk back to her table amidst the sullen, sudden silence of the lunchroom. Everyone stared after her. No one had ever been able to scare David like that, save for his father.
"W-wait!" Walter half-yelped, gathering his things and jumping up after her. As was typical his first try at getting up from anything, he stumbled and fell again, but quickly recovered and leapt after her, catching up in a few strides just as she sat down with her new friends (or were they sisters? One had black hair and pale, greenish skin like her, and the other was much younger and she had brown hair).
She glared at him, still as silent as the grave. Walter felt an unintentional chill make its way down his spine, but he swallowed his brief fear.
"Thank you for saving me that was very nice of you okay bye." He said in one, short breath, and then turned on his heel to leave. In a split second, though, a cold, small hand had grabbed his shirt and pulled him around and shoved him down onto the seat next to Sadaku.
"Sit." She said in a hollow, gurgled voice. Walter briefly wondered if she had a small, electronic voice box in her, because it sounded like she was speaking through static.
"Um…ah…hi?" Walter said nervously, not used to being surrounded by girls.
There was a long, awkward silence before the little girl across from Sadaku took the position of introductions and the like.
"Hi. My name's Natalie." She said, and blinked up at him expectantly.
"Hi, um, I'm Walter." Walter said, feeling really, really strange, like they actually didn't want him there, but had made him sit just for the purpose of sitting.
"That's my sister, Sadaku." She said, pointing to Sadaku, "and this is my other sister, Yuki."
Yuki opened her mouth, and Walter could have sworn he heard a strange croaking noise, like that weird noise from the Grudge or something. But as soon as he heard it, it stopped and Yuki just shut her mouth very quickly and simply nodded at Walter. Walter blinked wearily.
"What…?" he started to ask.
"Uh…Yuki's a mute! She can't talk and stuff." Natalie said hurriedly.
Walter stared at them. He sighed, and then smiled and shrugged. "Nice to meet you." He said.
"Do you have sisters?" Natalie asked, cocking her head to the side like a normal little child would.
"Yeah, actually. Rachel and Misdreve, but she likes to be called Missy."
Natalie perked, eyes bright. "I met her today! In class! She's nice."
All throughout lunch, Walter noticed that the girls didn't eat or drink. Natalie excused this by saying they had already eaten, and Sadaku and Yuki just nodded to this. Walter found that strange…since lunch had only begun five minutes before he walked in. But, he didn't mind. He finally had someone to sit with, and for that, he was happy.
They had to part ways after lunch, and Walter had no other classes with the girls other than having a locker close to Sadaku. Natalie was in first grade, though, so it was only fitting that he no longer saw her.
Walter had expected to see the girls ride home on the buses, and he was right, for once. What surprised him, however, was when the three of them joined the bus with his two sisters for home.
Rachel, who was a year younger than Walter, filed her nails and pretended to ignore her brother and little sister sitting across from her, instead choosing to chatter with her best friend, Emily. She was actually very nice, but when around her friends she preferred to be "Miss Popular" rather than "Miss Family Girl."
Missy waved as Natalie and her sisters passed them and sat down several rows behind them, and Walter dared a glance just to check where they were. For some reason, he felt safer knowing where they were in relation to his sisters, whom he would at least try to guard with his life.
Not that he suspected them of anything, but it was better safe than sorry.
They even got off at the same stop, although the girls headed towards a house down the street while Walter, Rachel, and Missy's house was simply across from the bus stop in their quiet, suburban neighborhood. Before entering his house, though, Walter glanced once more as he saw the three enter a house not too far from his, although theirs was the supposedly "haunted" one that no one had bought for years. As he went inside, he speculated this.
Why hadn't he seen them on the bus that morning?
And more importantly, why hadn't he seen anyone move in there in the first place?
END CHAPTER ONE
OMG SO MANY CHANGES YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
The Creation theory no longer exists.
Walter is annoying and even more klutzy. And yes, this will hindrance him immensely.
Sadaku is now more like her actual self; quiet and venomous.
Charles is now a lone PI.
The Nightmare Hunters are a lot more involved.
There will only be one sequel.
Adrian, aka the Golden-Eyed man, will finally have a major role.
FC is a lot less involved.
My friends and I will make cameos, but other than that we will no longer be involved.
Rachel and Missy are less involved, and are now Walter's sisters.
Rose is just a crazy kid in school.
And most importantly…
There will be multiple betrayals.
Most of which I don't think any of you will actually see coming. I'm very excited for the new plotline. Soooo many twists.
Sadaku Morgan, Natalie, and Yuki do not belong to me. You'll see who they are eventually. If you already haven't figured out who they are from my stupid obvious hints. Walter, Mrs. Crooknuse, and Mr. Ader belong to me. David and is thugs are…just there. They're based off of people in real life, but those boys weren't so mean. XD
That is all. I must leave now.