Student Work 2010-2011
In October, 6th grade students had the chance to enter a 'finish the spooky story' contest for the Columbus Dispatch. We submitted stories with permission from parents, and the following students also got permission to have their story endings posted here!
The Original Spooky Story http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/now/stories/2010/09/21/Story_beginning.html?sid=101
"Oh, no!" the old man said as he opened the door. "I totally forgot about Halloween!"
My best friend, Austin, clenched his fists. Because he was dressed as a weightlifter - complete with huge fake stomach muscles - this really made him look scary.
"How can anyone forget Halloween?" Austin growled.
He glared at the man. I remembered that Austin had said, now that we were finally old enough to trick or treat without any grown-ups along, maybe it'd be fun to play some pranks while we collected candy.
"Never mind," I said quickly. All I wanted was candy. "We'll just go to the next house."
"That's a long way away," Austin's little sister, Chloe, grumbled. We were stuck taking her trick-or-treating with us. She was wearing a princess costume with high heels she could barely walk in.
"We'll take turns carrying you," I said. She was only 4. Four-year-olds don't weigh that much, do they?
"I'm so sorry," the man apologized. "I always buy candy for trick-or-treaters. It's just, we're getting ready to move, and I've been so busy packing . . ." Suddenly his whole face lit up under his bushy eyebrows. "I know what to give you! Something even better than candy! Wait right there!"
He whirled around and disappeared back into the house. He left the door ajar, but I couldn't see what he was doing because there weren't any lights on in his hallway.
Actually, now that I thought about it, I couldn't see any lights on in his entire house. I shivered.
"Just a minute, I've almost got it . . ." the man called out to us.
"It's going to be raisins or organic crackers or something like that," Austin mumbled. "Something healthful. Or some trash he just doesn't want to move. He's so asking to be pranked. Want to let the air out of his tires?"
"Oh, come on," I said. "We shouldn't do that. Didn't he give you candy last year?"
We were in Austin's neighborhood, not mine.
"I've never been trick-or-treating on this street before," Austin said. "Mom and Dad always made us go the other direction."
Was it just my imagination, or did Mr. Tough Guy Austin sound a little worried now, too?
"Maybe we should go back to the streets you know," I said. "Maybe . . . "
I didn't have time to say anything else, because the old man came back just then. He stepped out the door, into the glow of the street lights. He wasn't holding raisin boxes or organic crackers or trash. He was giving us . . .
Our Endings - Click the name of the student to read his or her story ending.
Aasha Alani Allan Anonymous Antalicia Brittney Gwyneth Isaiah Jamie Jean
Jonathan Jose Kamaryn Rikki Ryan Sariah Tajah Talia Vicente
Name: Aasha
He was giving us a chain saw with blood on the end. As he was walking towards us with the chain saw he grabbed Chloe. As he was pulling her by her arm, Austin and I ran to her. The old man said, “ If you want her back you will have to come get her out of here.” As Austin and I ran into the house the old man grabbed us. Then went to get Chloe. When he got Chloe he threw all of us into his shed which was filled with chain saws and blood.
As Austin was thrown in the shed he hit his head on the back wall, his ear just started bleeding. Then he hit his arm on a chain saw, so it began to bleed. Austin and I put our heads up to the door. The old man was on the phone telling his friends that they can come chop the shed down at ten o’clock sharp. So Austin and I started making a plan. Chloe said, “ WHAT’S GOING ON? ” in a yelling voice.
“Nothing,” Austin said in a calm voice.
“Ok, I got it,” I said.
“Got what?’ said Austin.
“A plan,” I said. “When the old man goes inside we will cut down the shed ourselves.”
When the old man went inside he let his friends in, and said, “The saws are out back by the door.”
As one friend began to saw down the shed another friend joined in. When the shed fell to the ground, the old man had a very evil laugh. After the laugh we were standing right behind them. Then I said, “LOOK BEHIND YOU.”
Then the old man said “HAPPY HALLOWEEN kids.” Then the old man said, “Come inside I have lots of candy.” When we all went inside it was like candy heaven. We all left but really didn’t want to.
As we walked home, all we did was talk turns talking about how scared we all were. Then as we walked into the house my mom asked us if we had fun. We all said together that “THIS WAS THE BEST HALLOWEEN EVER”.
He was giving us a key with a box.
Then he said to Austin and I, “Open this box and you’ll find what you seek if you don’t you’ll never peek.” So we opened the box and it was empty so we ditched the box and we were very disappointed.
So Austin and I ran away faster than a bolt of lightning striking out of the sky staggering into the ground.
I asked Austin, “Do you maybe think there was a reason your mom never let us go down this street?”
Austin thought about it for a second then said, “Yeah, wonder why that is”
Before I could reply Austin put Chloe on his back and we ran back to where we knew.
Then if we weren’t scared enough a man in a black trench coat and black hat and shoes- this man was covered in all black. “Man it was scary,” I said.
We were scared a better word for that is frightened as we could have ever been. But we stood there as still as a deer when lights flash upon its eyes.
I whispered to Chloe and Austin, “Don’t move please don’t move.”
Chloe responded in the small voice as small as you trying to hear a mouse eat a piece of cheese, “Okay.” Austin was so scared he didn’t even respond
Just then the old ma or whoever he or she was stopped right in front of us and we ran for the hills like a group of kids running after the ice cream truck.
Then we had to take a short break
Chloe got too heavy. Who knew 4year olds could get so heavy?
Then we got to Austin’s house barely being able to breathe. We had just enough breath to make it up the drive way.
We got in the door and his mom looked so worried.
Austin’s mom Megan said, “What happened to you guys?”
Then her face turned from worried to mad.
Then at the same time we all said, “Wait wait wait, here’s the story…”
Name: Allan
When the old man came back from the door he gave Austin a magnificent thing a golden Halloween costume. “It shines like the stars on a midnight sky,” said Chloe. When Austin received the costume he did not want to trick or treat he wanted to go home.
When he got home he quickly took a shower and when he got out of the shower he locked himself in his room. I noticed so I knocked on the door and said, “Open up the door.”
The door squeaked a little so I opened it up and saw Austin just staring at the costume very passionately. I was kind of frightened I asked what was wrong. He said, “the costume is beautiful.” I freaked out for a little bit.
I said, “Mom is making dinner so come down.” Austin came downstairs ate slushy spaghetti and went back to his room without a word.
The next day I took the costume to my room just to see what would happen. When Austin woke up he was perfectly fine. He brushed his teeth said, “Good morning, and even took a shower. This day was normal. I asked Austin why he didn’t talk yesterday, he said, “What are you talking about?”
I started getting confused. I said, “Never mind.” Later the next day I put the costume in his room to see what would happen .
When Austin woke up he looked at it again. I was shocked and thrilled to find out that the costume was making him do this. I told my mom she said to have a look at the costume I took the costume from him and looked at the label it said, “Caution: can cause hypnosis.” When I I looked at that I quickly went to the old man’s house I knocked on the door. Nobody answered so I opened the door myself. It creaked really bad .I went to the only room I could see it was in the middle of the hallway I opened the door when I entered I got locked five minutes later the door opened I ran to my house that’s when I knew this was the best Halloween ever.
He was giving us…
two old chests and told us to open them ONLY at home. And if our parents asked, “Where did you get those chests?” we were to reply ‘Somewhere’. I was getting really, really scared, thinking ‘maybe there are bloody knifes in my chest’. Or maybe a body part or- Chloe reminded us of our promise. I volunteered to take first turn.
“We should go home,” Austin said.
“Why? We barely have ½ of a bag of candy,” I whined.
“I’ll tell you why ’cause I’m tired of walking and if you don’t go any faster I’ll yell,” Chloe cried.
“Let’s just go to my house. I’m dying to open this,” Austin said giving the chest a good shake.
I silently admitted that I too, was very curious. So we ran all the way to Austin’s house, which was only about 2 blocks, but if anybody had seen us they would have seen 3 kids that looked like they had run 3 marathons, in a row. We jogged up the stairs, dropped Chloe off in her room, then marched to Austin’s room locked the door.
This was the moment. As we were struggling to pry open the chest it spoke. Austin’s chest SPOKE! OUT LOUD! TO US! It said “Password please. Hint, Mixes with cake but not lake.”
It was obvious enough- milk. I said, “Milk,” quite bravely. It opened without Austin or me touching it. And in it was a puppy. A real live breathing puppy, it looked like a dashund. It was adorable I loved it. Austin liked it too. The second I saw it I was washed over with a sense of relief. It wasn’t a bloody knife. “Whew,” I breathed a sigh.
“I’ll take care of Pirate here. So why don’t you just open up your chest and see what is in it,” Austin said with much more compassion that I had ever heard from him. So I went, over same riddle same answer no difference except for the fact that there was no puppy. Only a ton of books all American classics but none I had ever read before. The only thing was that the books were tiny, smaller that the palm of your hand. Except for the fact that when you touched them, the books turned huge, the size of a student desk. The stories were old classics like ‘Cinderella’,’Huckleberry Finn’ and of course ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer’. And dozens and dozens more, there were almost a hundred probably.
The main problem was the puppy. What would they do about it? Would or should they just say ‘I found it in the street’? Oh,well that was Austin’s problem he was sure that was his puppy so I suppose these are my books.
I hear his parents coming. Austin runs fast as lighting downstairs carrying the puppy. He kneels and begs for the puppy.
His parents say, “Are you O.K? Pirate is already our dog.”
Now it was Austin’s turn to look confused. I figure it must be magic.
THE END FOR NOW
He was giving us a sack. The sack looked old. Like the man got it from a trash can. It was tan and said “ potatoes” on it with a red ribbon that had red yarn falling from it.
“A sack,” Austin grumbled. “A sack. I would have rather had raisins.”
“A sack.” agreed Chloe.
“Look in the sack but not right now, later. Remember you didn’t get it from Billy.” The old man told them.
“Billy? Who is that,” I asked curiously.
“Me. Tell no one,” Billy said.
Just then all the lights on the street went out in the neighborhood.
“I got to go. But if you need something to prank with, what is inside that sack is the best thing to get him,” said Billy.
“Get who?” I asked.
“People. Now go,” said Billy quickly. Then he dashed into the house.
“That’s the weirdest old man I ever put my eyes on,” Austin said.
“Yah I’m scared,” whispered Chloe.
“Don’t worry you’re with us,” I assured her. “But that’s weird how all the lights went on when he went in the house.”
‘Now you think I can open it Antalicia?” Austin said happily.
“I guess,” I unsurely said.
“That’s weird its green glow stuff,” Austin said.
The glow looked weird. Like you could see the bottom of the bag. I could also pick it up.
Right then the green glow started to bubble. Then it exploded all over our bodies.
“My costume,” Chloe cried. “I’m supposed to be a princess of a castle not a swamp.”
“Stop being such a baby,” Austin grumbled.
“Austin she’s your sister what do you expect,” I told him.
Just then we turned invisible and started to float.
“Ahh we’re ghostS,” cried Chloe.
“Now I know why it’s perfect for prank, this is so cool we got to prank,” Austin stated.
“Okay I’m in. lets prank,” I said.
We knocked on a random door and a elderly lady with a cane opened the door.
“Trick or treat you’re the one we want to eat,” we all said trying to be scary.
“You’re not taking my money,” said the old lady hitting us with her cane.
“Okay that hurts lets go back to the old man so we can get this stuff off,” I cried.
“Yah I really don’t like being hit by old ladies,” Austin moAned “Get off of me you old bat.”
“Ouch,” cried Chloe.
We went back to Billy’s house.
“Get this stuff off of us,” I yelled
“Say please,” said Billy.
“Get this stuff off of us please,” I yelled furiously.
“Okay ghosts, you can get off of them now,” he said. “There were ghosts on you. I told them to get in the bag and make you fly and help you prank but I guess it didn’t go well. Thanks anyways guys.”
“Ghosts,” we all cried running to Austin’s house.
We went to Austin’s house.
“Mom ghosts!” cried Austin.
“Mommy!” cried Chloe.
“It’s true,” I cried.
“You went to Billy’s house,” Austin’s mom said. “That Billy’s always trying scare kids telling them he forgot candy and saying what he gave them was ghosts. That’s why we never go down there. He has the whole neighborhood doing it expect for Mrs. Candance she’s always thinking someone’s going to take her money.”
“What I don’t get it,” Austin said.
“You will understand when you get older. Some people just are cruel to kids.” his mom said.
“Next time we’ll listen,” said Au stin.
“Good night mom,” Chloe and Austin said together.
Now I know when I go to Austin’s for Halloween to go to the neighborhoods his mom goes to.
Name: Brittney
He wasn’t holding raisin boxes or organic crackers or trash. He was giving us a nasty, wet, gushy and slimy brain.
“I can barely think, because it feels like the old man has taken my brain out of my head,” Austin said. I was really having a hard time thinking too. “Why would that mean old man do something like that in front of my four year old sister?” Chloe burst out crying like a rainfall coming from her eyes.
After Chloe started to cry, Austin thought that he was going to be in big trouble. Then Chloe and Austin started to walk home and the old man was following them. So then Chloe started to cry, again. And she cried even more this time and ran the other direction. While she was running across the street she did not see a car coming so it hit her.
“Do not tell me that you are dead,” Austin said. I felt her heart and it was not beating.
The old man had finally caught up with them and had snatched Austin by his shirt. Austin had felt the old man’s fat, saggy arm and could feel the sweat from the old man’s under arms. The old man had dragged Austin to his house and put him into a dark terrifying closet where he felt roaches tugging on his feet. When he looked down his socks where all chewed up. He started to get really grossed out.
When the old man had walked into the room he had a humongous knife in his hands. I couldn’t think of anything because I had already knew that it was not going to be a happy ending for me. So the old man had snatched me out of the closet and just released him to go home.
When Austin got home he had to explain everything that happened. So then the worst part that he had to tell was that his sister had died. So then the next week they had to go to the funeral and the old man was there and he gave his apologies. So then they became good friends.
Name Gwyneth
A choice to choose his right or left hand. I chose right, it was just a head, we all laughed. He showed us what was in the other hand, it was an eyeball. We continued to laugh until I slowly looked up and saw the the old Halloween-forgetting man’s eye was gone.
Austin hollered “RUN JOSH RUUUUUNNN!”
And I did. Chloe followed, but she tripped over those darn high heels. I quickly ran back and looked around and she was nowhere to be seen. Josh and I started to yell “CHLOE CHLOE!” We kept yelling but I suddenly I couldn’t hear Austin anymore, so I decided to look next to me, and what do you know, he was gone! Luckily I found a trail of candy leading to the woods, and of course, I followed it. I heard a crunching noise getting faster and faster and it sounded like it was heading for me! **blackout**
I found myself in a dark room staring straight up at the old wooden ceiling, I wondered why it was so dark then I thought twice and suddenly I knew where I was, in the old mans house. I got up, and started walking, trying to avoid the sound of the floor creaking. Then all of the sudden I tripped because it was so dark!!! And I guess I pulled some kind of secret trigger. I fell into a room full of people with their eyes gone!!!
I didn’t know what to do so I screamed......and yes to tell you the truth…I did scream like a girl. Austin came out of a box and covered my mouth. I tried to give him a great big bear hug because I thought I had lost him, but he rejected me. Not too much later Chloe came out and tapped my on the shoulder. She told me she missed me.
I answered “I missed you too”
Chloe said, “Don’t get too exited because that old man told us if he hears one more word out of us there is going to be severe consequences. I guess I kind of zoned her out so I looked down because I thought I felt something crawling on my foot. IT WAS A HUGE TARANTULA!!!! I couldn’t help it so I screamed.
The old cranky man came out and yelled, “I thought I told you kids to keep it quiet!!”
Chloe whispered, “I told you so”
The old man walked away slowly. As he was walking I noticed a zipper on the back of his head. I quickly ran up to him and unzipped it. You wouldn’t believe who it really was, MY MOM!!! I was so angry I could hardly even spit out any words. Then all the people with their eyes “supposedly” missing popped out of there costumes. By this time I was filled with anger, Chloe and Austin weren’t too thrilled either. We were so angry we couldn’t even continue to trick or treat.
Name: Isaiah
He was giving us a remote and he said “Whenever you get in trouble push the pause button and you’ll see what happens.”
So the kids walk away and they were saying,”Well that was weird.” They carry on and they get a lot of candy. Latter that day I get in trouble for eating too much candy so I push the button, my mom froze. I pushed play and she totally forgot about the incident, I walked away and thought this can work.
The next day I went alone to the man’s house and I opened the door and no one was there. I walked down the hall and opened the first door. I slowly opened the door and, “SSSUUUPPPRRRIIISSSEEE!!!!!!!!!” Everyone yelled.
“For me? Thanks,” I said.
“It was all a trick, the remote, the neighbor was dad, mom tricked you. We all did,” said my sister.
The party went on and it was awesome.
Name: Jamie
he was giving us a……… key.
“This key is very special. In my house there are many locks. I could never find the door this key fits into. So here is what I say to you, if you come inside I will stop time so your parents will never find you. But if you choose not to keep the key, each night you will have a nightmare,” said the bushy eye browed, yellow teethed, wrinkled faced old man in a very suspenseful way.
“Will you turn on the lights in the house?” Austin asked.
“You need not to see what’s inside my house. The key will guide you.”
“What else will happen?”
“Every day you do not find what I am looking for something bad will happen, but the reward is better than all the candy in the world.”
“Ok,” all three of us said simultaneously.
We hobbled into the dark depressing house. Nothing was visible. It was darker than pitch black darkness. All of the sudden the key lit up.
“Oh WOW!!” said the old man surprised.
“You said the key would light up, there is nothing to it right?” I asked afraid of his answer.
“Oh right sometimes this old brain needs rewiring!” the old man said, but it seemed like he was hiding something.
The strangest thing about the house was the locks were the only thing that lit up in the house and when they did it lit up like fireworks. We tried the first lock and….. nothing. Then we came across the second lock and………….nothing.Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh , etc and ………………NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn’t think much of it but when we were trying to unlock the locks I didn’t hear Chloe at all. She would usually whine about how bad her legs hurt but I didn’t hear a peep.
All of the sudden the old man said in a grumble, “You should have luck in the cellar.”
I didn’t ever like the word cellar. One day my aunt got killed in a cellar like this. Could this be her house? Will we get killed?
As we walked downstairs I felt a breeze.
“Sorry the window must be open,” the old man said in a non -caring way.
As I was walking I heard Austin say, “Ouch, I just stubbed my toe.”
“Sorry I don’t clean,” said the old man in the same non-caring way he said when he was talking about the window.
Just then I put the pieces together….he led us to….. a ……..graveyard.
“The key fits into one of these graves,” said the old man.
I hit a rock hard ,freezing cold tomb stone. Then I saw some thing glowing. I knew that that there will be a lock here. I opened one and I saw a pair of eyes. Something grabbed me and I pushed it off. Just then I only saw two pairs of eyes. Me and Austin.
“I see another glowing light and I don’t see anything else,” I said to Austin.
“Well,ok………………………………………ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” screamed Austin.
“Oh no, now I really have to find it before I get captured,” I said sad and scared.
Just then I heard a voice. The voice was saying, “You’re getting closer and closer to doom. I was trying to run from the voice in my head. I stumbled from hitting a tombstone and started digging into the grave and put the key in the lock in the trapdoor. I found the latch and opened it. I could feel the pull into the hole under the trap door. There was this weird figure that looked like the old man. The only difference was that there was something that was like a costume ripping off and the person , whoever it was, showed its real self. It was the devil.
The devil lured us or in this case me, into his trap. But things were topsy turvy today and I pushed the devil in the trap door. As he went in the darkness went down with him. Chloe and Austin came back happily.
All of the sudden I was in my bed. Then I woke up to the voices of Chloe and Austin. Austin said, “Wake up Jessie we are going trick or treating on a different road tonight.”
“Maybe we shouldn’t.”
He was giving us a gold skull. When we saw it, we were amazed.
“Is that real gold?” I asked
“Yea,” the old man said. “My grandpa found it
in a haunted house, I can remember it as if it was yesterday
when she gave it to me ninety years ago.” he said.
“I am warning don’t stare at it in the eye, legends say that if you
do stare at it in the eye something will happen to you.”
“Can we take it now?” I asked. I was thrilled to take it home, but
right when the old man gave it to me he suddenly vanished
and turned into dust.
“What happened?” Austin asked with a scared voice.
“I don’t know,” I said, as my heart was beating faster
than a baby’s heart.
“Ohh, ohh I know, he died strangely,” said Chloe.
While I was holding the gold skull, I noticed a key on the back of the skulls
head. I opened the back of the skulls’ head and there was a small
strange looking devil. I almost looked at his big red eyes, but
Chloe looked, I guess she was to tempted to look, she vanished
and also turned into dust. We quickly dropped the skull and ran off.
We ran two blocks and when we stopped the skull stopped on my hands,
I was scared for a moment because the skull was making a growling sound
like if it was mad at me, just me. I think it was saying my name “Jean”.
I quickly put the skull on my bag.
“What are you doing?” Austin asked.
“Let’s go home, I have an idea,” I said.
“But wait,” Austin said. “I need to find my sister.”
“Wait lets try this first,” I said.
We quickly ran home. Once we got homes, I took out a hammer and wacked the
skull, but it didn’t work it only made the small devil madder and he got out.
Austin looked at his eyes and vanished too. I quickly grabbed the hammer and smacked the small devil. I opened his eyes and I stared at it and vanished. I appeared in a dark world where I couldn’t see anything at all. Lucky me I had a flashlight in my bag. I took it out, and turned it on. When I turned it on all I could see was flying ghosts. Then, I found the old man.
“Where are we?” I asked.
Name: Jonathan
He wasn’t giving us raisin boxes or organic crackers or junk. He was giving us a box that had shiny coins with special rocks. Austin said, “Really that’s so dumb.”
I will not take all of that. Then Austin’s little sister started to cry because she wanted those coins and rocks. “Fine I will take them just for you.” So they started running and the box broke and Chloe was picking them up .They got home. Their mom said, “Where did you get that from?”
They said, “We went over the other side of the street to trick or treat but the man’s door we knocked on forgot to buy candy for the kids .So he gave us a box with this coins and rocks that Chloe wanted so we brought them so Chloe can play with them .That night they all went to sleep. The next day the man came for his box and they opened the door and he said he wanted all of it back. So Austin wen to get it but the man disappeared. They were looking for him but didn’t find him so they went to put on clothes to look for him. They ate and started to look for him.
Then they herd a noise that said that box was haunted so they hurry to get the box to bury it. They started to bury it. They did it then it was night time so they went to sleep and never went to trick or treat over the other side of the street.
The old man first came up to us and said his name was MR. Hawthorn .He gave us 5 fools gold rings .He told us we could have them . After that Austin and I said,” Thanks”. Then we walked away on the side walk, until we were under the street light . Mr. Hawthorn yelled , “ Hey kids wait He asked us if we wanted him to join us on our trick or treating .Austin said “sure”.
I told Mr. Hawthorn we would be glad .When Austin, Chloe, Mr. Hawthorn ,and I kept on walking I asked Austin if ne had his compass he said” No”.
I asked Mr. Hawthorn ,’No’.
Austin turned to me and said “Didn’t you have a compass”.
‘I did but my pocket has a hole and I think it went through my pocket’, I replied.
‘How could you have you lost our only way back home “yelled back Austin .
‘Chloe is scared ,she wants to back home “.
I then said “I still have my com pass it was in my other pocket . So lets go trick or treating ok”.
We came up to a haunted house some body made ,and went in .We were excited. When they came out like 10 minutes later they heard the noise of the T.V. on the news channel. The news channel said “there is a robber around the town named Twin Creek’. That robber is the town where they were trick or treating.
The T.V. said “ the robbers name was Jacob Hawthorn”.
The owners turned of the T.V. Austin and I were trying to figure out what the last name was and we both whispered “MR. Hawthorn we are going back home its getting late.”
We ran back home. MR. Hawthorn saw what house we lived in and fallowed us. It was getting late so we went to bed. I saw my mom enter my room. I got scared because she was crying. My mom got the phone and in our room she called 911. I went out and saw Mr. Hawthorn. Mr. Hawthorn grabbed me and I screamed “ Let me go please. Mom help.”!!!
Mr. Hawthorn blind folded me. I could see nothing but I knew I was in a car. I herd police sirens and I was in a high speed chase. Police crashed the back of the Mr. Hawthorns car. The car flipped over , I was hurt and bleeding from my nose . The car was flipped over on its top. I woke up the next mourning in a hospital. MR. Hawthorn was in jail and I said “thank you officers for saving me.”
Name: Kamaryn
He was giving us a book. The book didn’t have a title. Austin and I were confused at first because we had never seen a book with no title before.
“Why is the book so big? It feels like it is 200 pounds,” I said.
The man didn’t reply he just walked back two houses with a mysterious face.
As we started to walk to other houses we noticed that the book did not have any pages. All there was a big old key inside a rectangular hole inside the book.
“I wonder what this key is for?” Austin asked me.
“Me too,” I replied.
Austin’s little sister Chloe said,” It might go to the houses behind you.”
Austin said,” Behind-“
He could not finish his statement because he was so surprised how scary this house was. As we started to walk towards the scary creepy house that was all black and was falling apart we heard some weird laughing we thought it was a witch but it wasn’t.
We all shivered. Even the birds flew away.
As we walked to the house we noticed the house house’s lights were flickering on and off and on and off.
Chloe said, “Maybe we should go home now, I’m a little scared.”
Austin replied,” There’s nothing to be sc-“
He could not finish either because when he tried to get his words out his mouth he saw…
Glowing ghosts go by so quick Austin dropped the book.
Chloe picked it up. We were scared then. We took the key then put the key into the door. It fit perfectly into the slot.
“I can’t believe you were right,” Austin said to Chloe.
As we all walked into the house we heard whispering. Then suddenly it got quiet. As we got closer the lights flicked on and we saw our friends and family yelled out,”TRICK OR TREAT!”
We all said at the same time,”You guys tricked us!”
….. Shiny objects. ‘Wow, what are these? Austin asked with excitement.
Chloe was concerned, ‘Is it chocolate.
‘No, Shh’ ,the old man said . It’s a secret, don’t tell anyone .
‘Well try ’, we all said in a rush, eager to know what they were.
‘This is not candy ‘, the old man whispered.
I’m sure you never seen anything like it.
‘Then what is it ‘, Chloe asked.
‘It’s GOLDEN COINS ‘, the man said in a mysterious voice.
‘Cool, where’d you get them, Austin and I said with a shock.
‘I’ll you a story how’ he said .When I was younger, about your age, I was trick or treating and I found them by an old mans house. Now I’m going to give these to you guys because I’m getting too old. These coins always brought me luck, and I think younger kids should have them, so they’ll be luckier.
Once we finally split them up, we was wondering what we were going to do with them. ‘Since the old man said they brought him good luck, maybe we could use them as good luck charms,’ I said. And so we did. We kept them with us the rest of our lives. Ever since that day, we got luckier and started trick or treating on that side of the neighborhood.A box with three locks and only one key. “What it is in it?” I asked.
The old man stated, “You will find out soon,” in a suspicious voice. We continued trick or treating.
Austin said, “I am bored. Lets go do some pranking. I even bought a lot of items like shaving cream, toilet paper, silly string and much much more. Lets t.p a car ok. We should do that car because that looks like a really old car. They wont be as mad, lets do it.”
“This is art?” I said. “Its midnight!” I said in a shocking voice. “Let’s go home see you later.”
The next day I opened the 1st lock and it said if you touched this box and don?t open the last lock by the stroke of midnight you will vanish off the face of the earth.
I showed Austin and he asked, “How are we gonna find the other keys?”
I said, “There’s a riddle in the box and it says: the first block to your house where everyone’s free to walk. The sidewalk,” I said. We started smashing the block, it took us 3 hours to find the key . We unlocked the 2nd lock and there was another riddle. It said: This last riddle will take a will take a skill of calculation, it is 50feet in front of your house as it is 20 feet below. “Lets go,” I said.
We grabbed a shovel and started digging, it was 7:00 when we started digging. Austin said, “If we don’t survive tonight I wont you to know that you were the best friend I ever had.”
“Same here,” I said. It was 11:59 when we found the key and I realized I left the box at the house. Me and Austin started running and we saw Chloe waiting at the door with the key. I put the key in and a beam of light came out of the box going in every direction, it was so bright you couldn’t see anything and then . . . . . . . .
Name: Sariah
He was giving us a toy. Austin got a toy robot, Chloe got a doll, and I got some baseball cards. We were so grateful we shock his wrinkly old hand and went on trick or treating. As we went went Chloe screamed ,Daniel to turn around ! She had droped her barbie doll’s shoe so we turned around to get her doll shoe and as she did her candy started to role out , so she picked it up so we could continue trick or treating.
We saw an aged house that are friends Jessica and Dj used to live in. They got
kidnapped last month May 12, 2008.Somethin made me stop at there house that gave me a flashback of the baseball cards that I had in my hand Dj showed this before especially because he kept repeating the same thing he hit he hit 100. Then right that Chole said chole also showed me this doll and plus it say’s her name on the back “Jessica” we looked at each other and ran to Austin house.
Then we got there and opened the door and the old man was talking to are parents and were telling them about a party tomorrow. The only reason mom was not getting all worked up was because she had new the man from the hospital when his wife needed care. And he was grateful that my mom saved his wife’s life. So that’s why he is goinginvite us to his party.
Then we heard them called down our names. So we Austin’s parents to see what they wanted, they said we were going to the party tomorrow so Daniel is staying the night for the party.
The next day we got and put on our costumes still thinking of why would someone kidnap some innocent kids. Later on it’s 9:00 and I am I front of a kidnapper’s .we see a bad party inside of all are heads even little Chloe’s head but not Ashton’s parents we did not even tell his parents about the problem we just kept it quiet with his parent’s we did not want to accuse a person who may not have even did anything so ashton’s parents’s do not know. We each grabbed hands and entered the house it was fun we danced weeat snacks and drinked punch. Me and Ashton snuck down stairs to see if we could get evedince that he was a kidnapper so looked around I checked left and Ashton checked right I kept looking but Ashton paused for a moment and said come look at this it was over 30 bodies so it was not the first tinme he killed they lokked all short so I am guessing that he only killed kids we turn around to go get help but we are stopped by something hard and I look up and see the old man he saying stuff like I AM GOING TO KILL YOU AND IF I LET YOU FREE AND YOU TELL ANYBODY I AM GOING TO KILL YOU BADLY.
As he is talking I see Chloe with a phone she always takes from mom she look at me and I give her a sisnal to get help and she call’s 911 and they come quickly and arrest him the police say’s thank you and makes me and Ashton under cover agents and we get a badge and spy gear.
Two mouths later were at my house for Christmas and my mom shouts Daniel you got a call from cops missing kid in my neighbor hood and we jump right on it.
Name: Tajah
‘He gave us a bucket of slimy eyeballs, why would you give us eyeballs?’
‘Hey kids just take the eyeballs,’ the man replied in an angry voice.
‘What’s that sound? I hear some kids screaming’.
‘The man says if you take the eyeballs maybe you can prank somebody.’
‘Hey that’s a good idea maybe we can him’ Austin whispered.
As I grabbed the bucket the old bushy eyed man grabbed me and I tried to run, he chased me all the way to the dead end of the street. While I was running I spotted some children locked in a basement of a neighbor of the old man, the children were screaming AHHH!!!!!
‘Hey man what’s your problem?” questioned Austin
‘Okay I kidnap children and I make them eat worms or if they don’t they starve on their own’. ‘Then if I lock their dead bodies in the basement closet’. Then the ones who I force to eat the worms get the poison shot’.
You’re a mean man, I am telling my mommy’ yelled Chloe.
Then after a day they turn into scary characters like Chukee, Jeepers Creepers; Jason and more.
The old man started to chase us with a chainsaw and he became a scary evil clown’. ‘He threatened to lock us up’.
‘Hey mark he is right behind you’.
‘Next thing I knew I was knocked out on the floor’.
‘But it was all one big scary nightmare’.
[Today is Halloween]
Name: Talia
He was giving us a book. It had no title on it. I was about to open it but he yelled, ‘NO!’
in a worried kind of voice . So I was just standing there burning up inside like a volcano, he winked at Austin and me then he shut his door in our face (note to self, that was plain rude) .
Chloe squeaked in a little voice, “What’s that?”
I swallowed a big gulp and said,“I don’t know.” Austin and I just keep looking at each other really crereed out and Mr. Tuff Guy on the other hand was sweating like crazy. We were crossing the street and I looked on both sides of the street there were no cars but out of nowhere a car was coming toward us and crashed into a house in front of us and we yelled then we stopped. Chloe was still yelling.
Austin said, “Be quiet.” . She was quiet as a bird. We walked slowly away from the car ad ran to the streets that Austin did know, until we were in front of Austin’s hous. I called my mom, and she told me that she was on her way.
Austin and I told our parents what happened , we explained, “A car crashed right in front of us”. Our parents did not believe us, so we took them to where the accident had happened .But when we got there, there was no car, it looked like nothing crashed into the house, so they did not believe us. They looked really mad at us. While we were walking back to the house I said to Austin, “Tomorrow after school meet me at the park under the tree.”
It was the next day . Morning Mom, bye Mom.”
“Dada wait,” she cried.
“What?” I said.
She looked at me for a still moment, then she said, “I would expect this from Austin but not you.”
“But it was true Mom,” I yelled, “You know what, just forget about it Mom”. The bus was here so I had to go and I was glad that way I did not have to stay there any longer. I got to the school saw Austin and Chloe. I ran toward them and gave Chloe a hug. Hours of school passed and finally the bell rang and I met Austin and Chloe. We started walking to the park, and we were quiet the whole walk there . We got to the tree and while we were sitting down I got out the book that the old man gave us and Austin said, “Why do you have that?”
“I want to know what it’s about.” While I was turning to the first page it said “Do not read further or you will face your fears”.
Austin said, “You know how the old man blinked at us?”
“Yeah,” I said. “What do you think he meant with that?”
“I really don’t know.”
I started to read it but then leaves were blowing everywhere, so when I shut the book the leaves dropped and Austin’s mom came to pick us up .We got in the car and we were all quiet. We got to his house and we went upstairs to Chloe’s room and it was really dark. We read THE BOOK to her and we heard something outside . We went outside and there was a big 3 headed monster. We got the book and it was the same thing but the good thing was that the book told how to get rid of it. We were really scared we got rid of it and we burned the book so no one could read it. Austin’s brother read the book he found it in the fire the book was not burned so he read it and …to be continued
We were waiting there for a couple of minutes. We heard his foot steps coming down the hallway .They were stared to see a silver sword when he came to the front steps they started to run.
Henry with the big muscel shirt on told me to come on. WE thought that the man was going to hurt us. Austins sister Iyana couldn’t run. Her shes kept on tripping her.
I ran back and picked her up. We ran all the way to Austin house. His mom and dad were there giving candy out. We went throught that door like lighting. They ran up to his room up the stairs. The mom went up to Austins room and seen what was wrong.
We were in his room in the closet. The mom said, are you okay? They explaind every thing to her she said “Mr.Bin” they wanted to freacted?. Out that she know him. She told us that he will never do something like that. She said go and have fun
We went on the same street they had seen bin out side putting some trash up. He saw them tring to hide. “They went very slowly He said” I just got back from the store, and I got candy. ‘We said ‘We said you’re not going to kill us. He said what I told you that. They said yes. Than they all engoid candy.