Scary School #2: Monsters on the March by Derek the Ghost

Author:Derek the Ghost
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

I opened the door for her and we walked into the foyer. Ghosts circled the black chandelier above the great white fountain. Petunia remembered what to do. She plucked one purple hair from her head and placed it carefully in the fountain’s pool. Jets of water shot up and the ghosts cheered with joy. One flew down and opened the door to the rest of the house.

“Thank you,” said Petunia.

“No, thank you,” said the ghost, placing Petunia’s hair on its white ghostly head.

As we walked down the haunted corridors, I told Petunia how lonesome I had been all summer with none of the kids around to write about. She said that she had had a very similar summer, with nothing to do but read.

“That’s funny,” I replied. “I couldn’t read a book even if I wanted to. My hands go straight through them.”

“How sad,” Petunia said, trying to pat my shoulder, but whooshing right through me.

“Luckily, I have a ghost pad and a ghost pen that never runs out of ink, so I can write all I want.”

We came to the end of the hallway to the door marked ROOM OF FUN.

“Is my class still in there?” Petunia asked me.

“I remember that everyone except you went in there on the last day of school. They started going down a slide and they haven’t come out since.”

Petunia opened the door to the Room of Fun, and a wave of sound crashed upon our ears. It sounded like a symphony of screaming and wheeing. Petunia bravely stepped into the pitch-black room and had to quickly catch her balance. She was standing on a ledge overlooking a deep, dark pit.

“Hello!” she called down into the pit. “Is anybody down there?”

“Petunia? Is that you?” It was the voice of her best friend, Frank, which is pronounced “Rachel.”

“Yes, it’s me!”

“Help us, Petunia! We’ve been going down this slide for three months and can’t get off!”

Petunia thought it was very strange that they had been sliding downward for so long, but they were still able to hear her. At a normal rate of descent, they should have already gone straight into the Earth’s core and been liquefied.

As Petunia’s eyes became adjusted to the darkness, she began walking gingerly along the edge of the pit, feeling the stone wall with her hands. When she got to the other end of the room, she felt something strange. One of the blocks of stone was much warmer than the others. She knocked on the stone and it crumbled away like sand, revealing a glowing lever behind it.

As soon as Petunia pulled on the lever, the symphony of sound came to a halt. Petunia realized that the screams and whees were not coming from her classmates. They were being blasted through speakers in order to mask another sound—the din of churning gears.

Lights came on, and Petunia could see into the pit. It didn’t look that deep at all. Perhaps twenty feet to the bottom. Her classmates were piled on top of one another.

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