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Noah and Cody got into the car. In their matching angel and devil costumes (that were Cody's idea.) as they were going to a Halloween party. Hosted by Geoff. Cody had full on wings and a halo. Full shebang. And Noah was just in a red sweater and horns. Cody TRIED to get him to wear a tail but he said no. The Ghostbusters song played on the radio as they slid into the warm car, contrasting to the cold outside. Cody tapped the car door along to the beat. Singing the song as Noah focused on driving, occasionally mumbling lyrics under his breath. Pulling onto a deserted dirt path. Noah made some comment about how this was the wrong way but soon enough they heard music.
Around 30 minutes later they got to the party. Before Cody could step out Noah grabbed his wrist. "Cody. We're adults now. Don't do anything stupid." Cody smiled brightly, leaning over and catching Noahs lips in a quick but loving kiss. "Got it! No doing anything stupid!" Noah looked at the dark woods surrounding the home. And then back at Cody. "No going into the spooky woods." "Got it! No scary woods for the Codemeister." Noah seemed satisfied enough with that answer. Letting go of his wrist and stepping out of the car with Cody. Truth be told he recognized the woods but didn't know why.
Music blasted from the home as they walked in. Everyone smelt like cheap alcohol and sweat, it was at someone's house- Noah didn't know specifically who. But it was pretty decently sized. Better than any of Noah's homes throughout the years. So probably someone who instead of letting their time on total drama go to waste, actually went on to use that the best they could. Cody and Noah stuck together for around 20 minutes before Cody went off to go socialize with his friends.
Noah sighed when he lost sight of his lover, sitting on a couch and immediately grimacing and tearing his hand away upon accidentally touching his hand to something sticky on the armrest. He stood up and went elsewhere. He eventually stumbled to the backyard. Sighing in relief upon seeing no one out there due to the cold autumn air and because the party was only inside. He sat on a porch chair and opened his bag. Pulling out a book and picking up where he left off. The yard was beautiful, but overgrown. Flowers grew everywhere upon the vines growing everywhere, and of course. The awful woods. He got settled in quickly, not believing in scary things out in the woods beside bears. Eventually however he heard.. Rustling?
He looked up and saw nothing. He looked back at his book, adjusting his glasses before he heard more noises. He looked up again and saw nothing. "Hello?" He spoke aloud. No response. Nothing running away.. Silent. It was already getting dark. He heard more rustling soon enough and slowly closed his book, putting it back in his bag and sneaking to the woods.
He leaned down... Slowly.. And then grabbed the bush. Looking into it and seeing... Nothing. Nothing there. "Huh.. that's-" Suddenly he was grabbed by the back of the sweater, yanked back and letting out a yelp. He turned around and saw..
Katt. A friend of his. Not on total drama. Fame was too much for her apparently. But they were close, meeting at the wedding of Noahs brother. "Katt what the fuck." "Hi Noah!!! ^_^" She waved at him, chipped dark red nail polish on her hands. She was in a Jason Voorhees costume. With tattered clothes and the mask. Her dark brown curly hair with blonde streaks was wild and down. "How are you even here? You aren't a total drama contestant- actually I don't wanna know." She picked him up and flipped him onto her shoulder and then she dragged him into the woods, he didn't resist at all. Accepting this was probably something stupid that would waste his time but knowing she wouldn't harm him.
They got to an abandoned house. "What the hell Katt... What is this." She put him down "We're gonna do spooky ghost shit!" Noah sighed, pushing the already open door forward. An ominous creek emanated through the air as they stepped forward.
The house was disgusting. Worn down. And clearly hadn't been occupied in over 80 years, maybe more. The rotting wooden floorboards creaked as both of their weights pressed down on the planks. they eventually got to a small clearing in a living room. Katt plopped down onto the floor, the planks letting out an angry loud bang. Noah followed more elegantly. A "creeeaaakk" sounded out as he lowered himself onto the floor, trying not to break it like his companion. A grimace on his face as he moved, only disappearing seconds after he settled and knew he wasn't about to get a face full of splinters. He leaned onto his hand and looked at his companion.
"So... What do we even do now." She smiled. That stupid fucking grin she had when she was about to do something that would probably kill them. She slid off her backpack and zipped it open, the noise ringing out in the quiet building. She pulled out.. Oh dear god. A ouija board. "No- Nope. I am NOT doing this one, honey." He moved to stand up but Katt just put her hands up and laughed. "okay okay... NO ouija boards... Yet." She whispered that last word before continuing. "Soo instead we can... Uh.." She thought for a moment, tapping her finger to her chin, something she had never done before and will (probably) never do again. She pointed her finger up like a lightbulb appeared above her head. "NECROMANCY!-" "ABSOLUTELY NOT." she frowned at her friend. Giving him puppy dog eyes, her almost red eyes glimmered in the low amount of light from her flashlight she was poitning directly in her face. Ow. which failed horribly, he already had one dumb brunette to deal with, he was basically immune now.
He pushed her face away. She sighed. "Okay FINNNEEEEEEEE.. Bloody mary?" "I would love an actual bloody mary right now." She sighed dramatically again. "What about charlie charlie? Something easy to start us off!! And it's windy!! You can disprove it!!" Just then a breeze went through the house. Causing both of them to shiver. "Okay. Fine. But if we die to murder demons-" "We won't!!" She spoke while getting paper and glittery pencils out of her backpack. "..probably-" Noah raised an eyebrow. "What was that?" She smiled, and replied in a sing song voice. "Nothing!!!~"
Katt wrote yes and no with her handwriting in 2 opposite corners each. Then placed one pencil horizontally then one vertically. She pulled away and watched for a second. She whispered to Noah. "You wanna do it first..?" He whispered back. "Why me..?" she leaned closer to him. "you're the guest..!" "we're both guests this isnt our house..! wait why are we whispering-" Then, Katts voice rung out loudly. No more whispering then. "CHARLIE CHARLIE ARE YOU THERE!?..we are charlie kirrkk.." the pencil moved slowly to no. "..." ".." Katts voice rung out again. "Who the fuck-... Rose Rose you there-" The pencil flipped to yes and Katt lost her absolute shit. Jumping up like a cat who got frightened. She ran out of that house so fast she left a trail of dust, literally. She sat in dust. Ew.
Noah rolled his eyes and asked more questions where he got nonsensical answers. He sighed and grabbed the paper, tearing it and going outside. Where he saw Katt just staring into the woods. He tapped her shoulder and she turned slowly, her eyes dark brown chocolate eyes sparkled in the moonlight. "Oh. Hey Noah! Fancy seeing you here!" "What was that? You freaked out." She shrugged. "Oh nothing!!! Just.. Uh. Oh hey whats that over there!" She pointed to the woods where she was looking and Noah turned.
His heart dropped to his stomach as he made out the shape of a human. Well.. Something like it. It's torso was stretched, not just its torso.. It's arms reached the ground and it's legs were skeletal, like it had been stretched out. It seemed to be around 9 feet tall. Noah covered his mouth and staggered back. Covering his mouth. Time slowed for Noah as the creature and him had a staring contest. It smelt like mildew and metal. It stood. Unsettling. Watching. Lurking.
Katt called out to him, now at the porch again. "SLOWPOKE!!" he whipped his head around and saw her. Calm as ever. An empty red shade stared at his brown eyes. He looked back and saw... Nothing. A gust of wind hit them again. "Dude come inside it'll get cold!" Noah looked back again. And slowly walked to the porch, holding himself. Must've been the light. Maybe his glasses were outdated already.
They settled back down. Katt already cycling through her backpack again, pulling out a bottle of alcohol she most definitely stole, snacks, board games, and then shockingly an entire fucking hammer that was bigger than her? He chose to ignore that one as it created a hole in the floor. She pulled out a ouija board again. She held it up to him with begging in her crimson eyes. He sighed. "Yeah sure. Why not. Lets get cursed."
They held their hand over the planchette, candles Katt miraculously had lit around them. Noah spoke first, seemingly invested now. "Is there anyone here with us today?" They waited in silence for a few seconds, right when Noah was about to back out due to this obviously not working it started moving to yes. Katt smiled. Cheering silently before speaking. "Are you dead did you dieeee!!!" It started moving again, slowly and steadily to no. Noah raised an eyebrow, he knew it was Katt but decided to humor her. Afterall it was funny. He spoke up again. "What are you?" The planchette didn't move. Katt sighed. Noah piped up again. "What are you, mysterious entity." Finally it moved. It started spelling, first an M, then an A, slowly to R, and finishing with E. Noah scoffed. Mare? What was Katt getting at here, horse demon? Katt spoke up again. "Why are you here? It moved immediately. It spelt a pretty long phrase. After it finished spelling Katt verbalize it. " Kathreynrawsryenive?" Noah went through it in his head. "Katther.. Kattherine rose raine-ivy." Katt let out an "ohh.." Before speaking. "Kattherine rose raine ivy..! Wait isn't that my full name." Noahh let out a small laugh. Really? Horse ghost that knew her entire full name? Noah spoke up again. "Why do you want Katt." It moved immediately. Starting with L. Moving to O and V. Then E. "Oh my goodness the horse demon is in love with you. Is the horse ghost a girl?" It moved to No. "No chance sorry buddy." Katt spoke up. "Are you a boy?" It stayed on no. "Oh my goodness non binary ghost horse.." Katt spoke with wonder. Noah rolled his eyes. "Do you.. Like hay or carrots more?" It spelt out carrots. They kept playing the game, asking stupid questions to the "horse ghosr."
After awhile Katt spoke. "UGGHHH! This BLOWS! Lets do something else." Noah agreed immediately. This was quite repetitive. "Yeah. Lets do something else. Actually, let's eat." They haphazardly threw the board and the planchette back into the box, missing a crucial step in this game.
They ate some sandwiches Katt brought, then they decided to play bloody mary next. Katt brought a candle into the old rotted bathroom. They cleared the mirror of dust and whatever else was on it, no light was there except the small candle light. They held hands and looked at each other, then back in the mirror. They both took a deep breath and spoke in unison.
"Bloody Mary..." Nothing. Two pairs of brown eyes in the mirror. One set of doe eyes and one set of siren eyes. "Bloody mary.." Katt squeezed Noahs hand. "Bloody Mary!"-" Bloody Mary." Katt screamed it while Noah kept his voice calm and low. Nothing happened.
Brown looked into red as Noah looked at Katt. Who was smiling. She rolled her eyes. "Well that was boring! Lets do something else-" She grabbed his wrist and they left the bathroom. "Wait-" she was already looking through her bag for more activities. "I need to go take a leak." Noah spoke up suddenly, Katt just waved him off. "Don't get a disease from the ancient throne in there!" He left back to the bathroom.
Noah very quickly pissed we are not going into detail. He started walking out, passing the mirror on the way, he glanced at it and froze. There was a figure. Tall. Feminine. Wearing a beautiful blue dress, with short black hair. But she had no face. It was replaced with only leaves. She had a gaping hole in her torso, filled to the brim with plants. He heard the buzzing of flies from her rotting and smelt it. He turned in a flash and saw nothing. The smell of rot was still there. And he still heard the buzzing. He stumbled back, and turned to run out.
Katt was grabbing stuff from her bag. when suddenly Noah barged out from the bathroom. She shot up and went to support him. He was breathing heavily, all the dust couldn't be good right now. She helped him out, letting him lean on her. "..Woah man- okay. Let's go.. It's getting a bit late anyway and I kindaaa just pulled you away from those dear to you.." Noah didn't remember the walk, too busy trying to rationalize what he saw. But he came to when he realized Katt was gone. "..whuh..?" He saw footprints in the dirt. Converse. He followed them.
As he did the smell of blood got stronger. Rot. He gagged but kept going. He heard familiar buzzing as he approached areas where the footprints seemed desperate like running, another pair muddled them. The smell was strong and putrid and it suddenly hit as he found the source.
His heart dropped as he saw something covered in leaves. It felt awful. He kicked the leafs away and froze when he saw an arm- Katts arm, split from the elbow down. He stumbled back and covered his mouth, he felt sick. Why was her arm ripped off- who or what did this!-
He felt something touch he shoulder. He didn't want to turn. He held his breath. Trying to figure out how to get away when he heard a familiar voice.
"oh shit dude I was looking for that!" He spun around and saw Katt, armless like nothing happened. He stared at her as she just.. Picked her arm up. "I need thread and a needle to sew this back on- oh shit you good?" She looked at Noah who looked like he was about to vomit. She took a water bottle out of her bag and handed it to him. He took a deep breath and sipped a little bit. Fighting all his senses to run. He still felt sick, the water made him feel both worse and better. Katt sat against a tree and pulled out sewing stuff. She looked up and her eyes locked on his arm, the one opposite to her torn off one. "Yo dude, you need help with that?" He looked down and saw a nasty gash on his arm. Like a claw mark. He hadn't even noticed the burning until now. "Yeah." She proceeded to pat the spot next to her. He sat down as she pulled out medical supplies.
She had just finished patching up Noahs arm when they heard footsteps. They both turned and froze. Standing there, staring at them was the thing from before. Standing behind a tree, observing. Stalking. Katt reacted first. shooting up and grabbing Noahs arm hard. She held her own arm with the other hand as she booked it. Saying "Oops gotta go!!" as it watched them Skedaddle.
They ran for what felt like to Noah and his incredibly low stamina. Until eventually his legs gave out. He collapsed face first into mud, his glasses shockingly didn't break. He looked back to Katt and saw.. Her holding her severed arm toward his face. "Need.. A hand?" She spoke while trying not to snicker at her own joke. Noah was still in shock from the thing in the woods, and the everything else. "Katt wh.. What the fuck..?" She seemed to very quickly recognize the vibe as she put her arm in her bag and helped him up with her other arm. "Sorry. Sorry." He got on his feet slowly, immediately leaning onto Katt due to his legs being weak. He let out a yelp as she suddenly picked him up bridal style. "Lets go." She spoke, carrying him slowly. They got around 20 minutes from the exit when Noahs phone started blowing up with notifications. He grabbed it and opened it. his eyebrows furrowed as he saw the onslaught of notifications. And the time.
It had been 13 hours since they walked into those woods. Even though it felt like an hour- maybe 2. He scrolled through the notifications. Most from Cody and his mom. As well as his friends and siblings. He let out a quiet "what the fuck..?" that Katt didn't acknowledge. He started typing to Cody.
Cody, I'm alive.
He got a response in 3 seconds.
Cody.>MOAN
NO
NOAHF
NAOJ
NOIAB
NOAH
MU LVEO
WHERE ARE YOU
WHERE
WHERE ARE YOU
The woods outside of the place that party was at.
Cody.> THE SCARY ONSE???
IM ON MY WAY
STAY THERE BABY
ARE YOU INJURED???
Not badly.
CODY> IM 7 MINURESA AWYA ILY
👍
Noah started replying to other people. Reassuring everyone he was alive. When suddenly they stopped moving. "huh..?" he looked up and the breath suddenly disappeared from his lungs as he saw the thing again. Staring at them, the sunlight behind it bathing it in an orange light. It looked at them. Katt suddenly pulled a pistol out of her pocket and shot it in the stomach. It held its stomach and cried out. falling over and shaking around. Katt just stepped to the edge of the forest and put Noah down. she started beating the shit out of the monster. Noah got up and slowly stepped away as Katt yelled out a "call you later!" he scurried away and sat on the grass 9 feet away from the woods where the beating was obscured. he sat there for a minute just thinking until he heard a car pull up. He looked over and saw Cody running over. "NOAH-" Noah stood up, wincing at the apparent ache in his legs and back. Cody hugged him, sobbing into his chest. "BABY-" Noah rubbed his back. Reassuring him he was okay. Until he couldn't stand and fell into the smaller boy, causing him to also fall back. Cody finally noticed the giant gash on his arm, as well as one of his legs he got from his fall, he must've scraped it on something. "DUDE- WE HAVE TO-" "Cody..." He tried soothing Cody but instead the smaller boy got Noah into the car. Immediately turning the key in the engine and pulling out to get to the hospital as quick as possible as the gashes were already dirty. Noah stared out the window as Cody pulled out. He saw Katt bashing a black pile of... Something. With her fake machete from her costume, mask on now and her arm sewn back on. She looked at him, raising her mask up and giving a wave. He waved back. And then she disappeared from his sight.