A/N Guess what! This story is the first one to be updated on my brand new pink laptop. :D

Thanks to all Reviewers!

Dedication: To Leo112 for reviewing. :D Thanks for the suggestions, I will most likely incorporate some of them into later chapters. :)

Tony shone the beam of the flashlight on the dusty floor of the room, sending a narrow stream of illumination forth to light their way. Not a whisper of wind sounded through the oppressively silent room as he and Biff ventured forth.

He flashed the light at the walls and saw a large spider scuttle up the wall. Tony shuddered. If he had to describe this place in a word, he'd definitely say 'creepy.' He was reminded of one of those horror movies where a group of teenagers are locked in a house or somewhere similar, while a murderer picks them off one by one.

It had even begun in the way of most such movies: with the disappearance of a girl. Tony shook his head to clear it, he was being paranoid, there was no reason to think that there was some kind of killer loose on the carnival grounds, maybe Iola had just taken a wrong turn when the lights went out, or something-

The sound of screams echoed through the fairground.

OR maybe there was a killer loose on the grounds picking them off one by one.

-Story Break-

Callie screamed loudly as her eyes trained on the large rat, its eyes glowing yellow in the dark. She stumbled backwards into her boyfriend. Frank looked vaguely disgusted by the large rodent but nowhere near as horrified as his girlfriend evidently was.

The rat was unfazed by her screams and stayed where it was staring at them in a decidedly creepy manner.

The two teenagers decided retreat to be the better part of valor and having ascertained that Iola was not in fact in the room hurriedly left the building.

The stepped outside into the muggy night air just as loud screams resounded across the fairground.

-Story Break-

Joe jumped off the rapidly spinning carousel, throwing his hands out to break his fall. He quickly stood up and yelled for Chet and Phil to try jumping off as well. As he said this, the merry go round seemed to pick up even more speed making it appear as a blur of color from where he stood.

He heard Phil shout from within the spinning contraption but was unable to see him amidst the blue of carousel horses.

"Phil? Chet? Are you guys okay?" Joe called out loudly. He received no response. The lights flickered and went out, the carousel ground to a stop. Joe heard what was unmistakably Chet stumble off the platform and collapse onto the ground. As he did this the lights turned back on and he was able to make out his friend seated on the ground holding his head. "Are you alright?" Joe asked making his way over to him.

"Just dizzy, that was like no spinning ride I ever wanted to go on." Chet replied. "And here I thought carousels were supposed to be a kiddy ride?"

Joe was about to reply when he noticed that Phil had not emerged from the carousel. "Where's Phil?" He asked.

"I don't know." Chet answered. "I would think he followed me off." Joe made a circuit of the carousel scanning the area for his friend. Unfortunately, Phil seemed to have disappeared, apparently into thin air much like Iola had a short while ago.

"What is going on here?" Joe wondered, a worried line appearing between his eyebrows.

Biff and Tony arrived next to them right then, having sprinted across the fairground towards the sound of the screaming.

"What happened?" Biff asked glancing around; obviously noticing that Phil was not with them.

"Where's Phil?" Tony asked.

"We don't know." Chet said grimly.

Joe opened his mouth to relate what happened only to be interrupted by the arrival of Frank and Callie.

"What happened?" Callie asked.

"Where's Phil?" Frank wondered.

"Is it just me or does it seem like we're having the same conversation over and over?" Joe wondered aloud to Chet.

"It's because we are having the same conversation over and over." Chet replied.

"Alright, well repeat it one more time." Frank requested.

"We were looking at the carousel and then it started spinning really fast," Joe began. "I jumped off, Chet and Phil didn't. I heard Phil start yelling, the lights went out, and when they came back on the carousel had stopped spinning, but Phil was gone."

"Exactly what is going on here?" Callie wondered. "First Iola, now Phil."

"Clearly we're in a bad horror movie." Tony replied benignly.

Seemingly, to lend further atmosphere to the horror movie-like atmosphere, the lights flickered but stayed on as the group of teenagers looked apprehensively around the fairground.

"Welcome to my fun house." The crackly voice sounded over the intercom and the group of teenagers visibly jumped. "You may have noticed that your numbers have dwindled." He informed them.

"That's one way of putting it." Joe muttered bitterly.

He was shushed by the others who were waiting for the voice to say more.

"You will find that one by one your friends disappear until just one of you is left," The voice continued as though Joe had never spoken. "Then you will all go to your requies aeterna. Good luck." And, with a high-pitched cackle of laughter the voice cut off and the teenagers were left standing alone in the middle of the deserted fairground.

A/N Review! Next update will be on Thursday.