My Haunting Story

by Talbert2103

The Friendship Games: The Event Begins

When we approached the field, it was one like I never saw before. There were a lot of minigames like Dirt Biking, Archery, and the new minigame that we do not know of, and many more to come. We all then went to the locker room to get ready for the event. Once I was ready, Principle Cinch came up to me and ask something.

"Hey, Michael," Cinch said.

I turned around and said, "Yeah, what is it?"

"Just real quick, have any of your weird nightmares come back yet?" Cinch asked.

"Uhh, no actually," I answered, "Not since Lemon Zest kissed me."

"Good," Cinch said, "Let's hope they don't come back during this event."

"Don't we all," I said.

"We're about to start soon, so you can relax when you're done already," Cinch said, 'Maybe talk to your friends when they're done getting ready alright."

"Okay," I said.

Then Cinch walked off.

This minigame is called Archery like many of you know. In this game, me, Lemon Zest, and the two CHS students doing Archery have run through obstacles and shoot each target while through the obstacles and at the final target we have to hit a bullseye to move on. Lemon will be the first to go and after that, I'll be next.

"Alright, here we go," I said.

When we got to the minigame I look over to my right and see the four principals sitting down on one of those things that people sit at some sort of theater, you know what I'm talking about, right? Anyways, I see them there and they're started to talk about this game.

"Attention all students" Cinch said.

While they were talking I started to look around and I see people here excited to see the event happening including some people I know. My mom, my dad, my sister name Rachel, my grandparents, and my friends. William Rolland, Shannon, Kenna, her sister, her friends, Kevin Orepeza, and Jody Plascencia. Everyone I know are here to see the event and me. Quick question is, will Natasha see me on television? we'll never know until later.

"No way," I said shocked.

"What," Lemon said, "What is it?"

"My families' here," I said, "Including my friends."

"Really?" Lemon said, "Where are they?"

"There," I said pointing at them.

"Oh I see them," Lemon said, "That's cool, do they know you're gonna be here?"

"Well my family knows but my friends don't," I said, "We agreed to keep this a surprise when they see me here."

"Ooh," Lemon said, "That's a nice one."

"Their's just one thing," I said.

"And what is that?" Lemon said.

"Natasha," I said.

"Huh," Lemon said while thinking about what I mean, "Ohh,"

"If she sees me," I said.

"Then she'll won't expect it," Lemon said smiling.

"That's right," I said smiling as well.

Soon as they were done talking about the start of the event, they started to reveal the JROTC Colour Gaurd.

"Now, before we start this thing, many of you want to know what JROTC Colour Gaurd is," Celestia said.

"So now, we're gonna reveal who the JROTC Colour Gaurd is," Luna said.

"About time," I said.

"Well, give a warm welcome to the Kearny Highschool JROTC Colour Gaurd," Cadence said.

That got me surprised and shocked when they said that, not only my friends are gonna get surprised when they see me but also the Kearny High school students are gonna be surprised.

After they did their Colour Gaurd job at the start of this event they started to call up the students of the Archery game, first, they call up the two CHS students in this and then we'll be called up next.

"And for the Crystal Prep students doing this," Cinch said, "First up is Lemon Zest,"

They cheered while Lemon got up.

"And last but not least, Michael Talbert," Cadence said.

That's when I started to show my face to my friends and the Kearny Colour Gaurd.

In Natasha's house, Natasha, her parents, and her siblings were getting ready to watch the games but they don't know I'm gonna be in it.

"This is so EXCITING!" Natasha said.

"Yeah, but who are we gonna cheer for?" Her dad said.

"I don't know," She said, "Maybe we can find out,"

Once they started to call up the people doing archery, they're gonna be shocked when they see me.

"And not but least, Michael Talbert," Cadence said.

When she said that, they were all surprised.

"Wait, what," Natasha said.

I showed myself to everyone and they were all freaking out.

"OH MY GOD! ARE SERIOUS?!" Nickolas said.

"I can't believe it," Natasha said surprised, "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!"

They were all excited that I'm apart of this event, even Natasha is the most excited one.

"I think we know what team to cheer on," Her dad said.

"Uh-huh," They all said.

When I got there I see my friends and the Colour Gaurd of Kearny surprised to see me again.

I laughed and said, "Look at them,"

"Yep," Lemon said, "I see them alright,"

They were all shocked when they saw me in this event.

"Are you kidding me," Kenna said.

"Michael goes to Crystal Prep and he's apart of the event?" Jody said.

"I think so," One of Kenna's friends said.

"I can't believe he's in this," Stella said.

"So how was the surprise that we did," Laura said.

"We all was not expecting it," William said.

"Yeah, I can't believe it," Another one of Kenna's friends said.

"I think we know what school to cheer on I guess, right everyone?" Kevin said.

"YEAH!" They all said except for Shannon.

"Hey, you okay there Shannon?" Jody said.

Shannon finally snapped out of it and said, "Oh, yeah, it's just that... I didn't see that coming,"

"So, are you cheering for Crystal Prep because of Michael?" Wes said.

"Is that even a question?" Shannon said, "OF COURSE I AM!"

"Cool," Rachel said.

When the principals stopped talking about how the game works, Lemon and I got ready to go.

"Get ready, get set, go!" Cadence said while sounding out the horn by using an airhorn.

Lemon ran first, she went through every obstacle no problem, shot every target, some were bullseyes and some were not but it doesn't matter. When she got to the final target, she shot her bow and it made a bullseye. That was my cue, I then started to run. I made every obstacle by sliding over, dodging them, and jumping over them, I bet my friends are going crazy how I'm passing through these. I'm also shooting every target and all I'm getting is all nothing but bullseyes. When I got to the final target, I then aimed my bow at the target and shot it making it a bullseye. My family, my friends, the Colour Gaurd, Natasha and her family were going crazy about what I did.

Next up is the dirt bike race, same thing as the Archery game, two people goes first, then two other people goes next. When the minigame started, a voice in my head said something to me.

"You will not be allowed to be alive Michael," The voice said.

"What the," I said.

"What, what is it?" Lemon said.

"A voice in my head said something," I said.

"And what did it say?" Lemon asked.

"It said 'You will not be allowed to be alive Michael'" I answered.

"What?" Lemon said, "How's that even happening?"

"I don't know," I said, "Whatever it was, it's not going to end well,"

It is 11 not and it's time that the new minigame to be revealed and when they say it, will leave me shocked.

"Alright, now it's time to reveal that new game," Celestia said, "Cinch, would you tell them what is it?"

"It would be my pleasure," Cinch said, "Today's new minigame is called, 'Survival',"

At first, I didn't know what it was about.

"Four teams would pick a weapon of their choice, step on this here teleporter, and go to a map that our world don't know, to be honest," Cinch said.

We all laughed including the four principals.

"But, your main objective to survive as long as you can, the team who survives the longest, wins," Cinch said.

"Oh, okay," I said, "Now I'm starting to get this."

"Alright let's get team CHS up first, and they are, Flash Sentry, Hoops, Score, and Octavia," Luna said.

When they called them up, the four teams went up with the weapons chosen, when I saw them, I was not expecting it.

"What," I said.

"What is it," Sunny said.

"Those weapons, I know what they are," I said.

"Then what is it," Lemon said.

"Those are the weapons from a video game," I said.

"What video game is it?" Sugarcoat asked.

"Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare," I answered.

"Seriously," Indigo said, "What are those weapons called then?"

"The BAL-27, the TAC-19, MORS, Pytaek, Atlas-45, the ASM1, and the MAHAM," I said.

"Wow, you do know your weapons for video games, I'll give you that," Sweet Sour said.

When they got ready, they teleported to a map I know, "Riot," if I know this map, then I know what's gonna happen at round 11. This is going to be interesting.

We were watching them fight against enemies one by one until round 10, they were soo many of them, that they failed to go to the bonus round, I then went to the room where you get the weapons at and started picking what weapons I want. So I grabbed an assault rifle called the HBRa-3 w/ Hybrid, Advanced Rifling, and a grenade launcher. My second weapon is called the EM-1 w/ Red Dot Sight, Foregrip, Heat Sink, and Quickdraw. My third and last weapon is called the RW-1 w/ RW Scope, Advanced Rifling, Tac-Knife, and Quickdraw. For my 2 Exo launcher, I chose Impact Granade and EMP Grenade and for my Exo ability, I chose Cloak to get out of sticky situations. After I got what I chose, I then went to the room's door to get ready for them to call me in, I got everything ready to go for this.

"Alright so they made it to round 10," Celestia said, "Now it's time to call in Team CP (Crystal Prep)."

"That's right but on this team, it's only one person," Luna said, "Will he beat their record on his own, let's find out now."

"Cadence, would you like to call him in?" Cinch said.

"Most certainly," Cadence said, "We have a boy who did very well at the Archery team."

When she said that, everyone started to cheer.

"And now he's gonna be in Survival," Cadence said, "And that boy is Michael Talbert."

That's when I got out of the room with my gear and went to the teleporter, my friends could not believe the gear I have on me, especially the principals.

"Wooow," Celestia said, "That's alot of things he has on him,"

"Hmhmm," Luna said, "I'll say,"

"Hey, Michael?" Cadence said.

I turned to them and yelled out, "YEAH?!"

"Why do have that many things on you?" Cinch said.

"BECAUSE SOMETHING INTERESTING IS GOING TO HAPPEN ON A CERTAIN ROUND!" I yelled out.

"Oh, and what round is it?" Celestia said.

"JUST WAIT AND SEE!" I answered loudly.

I started to load my weapons and giving them a signal that I'm ready to go.

"Good luck, Michael," Lemon said.

"You're gonna need it," Indigo said.

I then nodded and the teleporter started and teleports me to the map.

In the map Riot, I looked around and it was the same map from Advanced Warfare.

"Alright, let's do this," I said.

The game then started and I was running to cover already and aiming my gun at to whatever comes at me, soon as the round started I see some enemies running at me so I started shooting them making them easily put down. Round two started and it wasn't hard as well, they were easily put down by me. It was easy until round 5, drones in the sky started shooting at me but were easily shot down. The crowd started to go wild on my marksman skills being spot on. Round six wasn't that hard, but on round 7 a warbird came in and started shooting me. So I ran inside the building to where you can buy new weapons, launchers, abilities, etc. Including buying more ammo.

"I shouldn't have chosen a rocket launcher," I said.

"Why not use your grenade launcher then," Lemon said.

Everyone in the real world can hear and talk to me.

"It's not close enough, too far for it to hit him," I said, I then saw some consoles, "Maybe."

I got up and went to a console of guns, I used the points I got and bought a rocket launcher called the Stinger.

"This'll do for sure," I said.

I went out and see the Warbird so I aimed the rocket at him, got a few locks on him and shot four of them and the chopper making it go down to the ground.

"And the Warbird is destroyed," I said.

The crowd cheered for me.

Round 8 was a bit hard but not to me until round 9. Two enemy AST comes in, I easily got the first one down by using my ASM1 that I bought with my own points, I had an idea to kill the last AST but it won't be easy. the last AST got up to me, so I shot an EMP grenade at him leaving deactivated for a while so I shot it again twice, I then exo jumped over him. I was behind the enemy AST so I find a yellow switch, so I pulled it and turned to the right, opening the AST suit up. I then grabbed him and pulled him to the ground. And then I pulled out my RW-1 and shot him in the head killing him instantly leaving the round to end.

The crowd cheered that I made it to round 10.

"Alright, he made it to Team CHS's current record," Celestia said.

"Will he beat their record," Luna said, "Find out now."

"But it will not be easy," Cinch said.

I then looked at the suit and have an idea of how to beat round 10, that made the Shadowboltz know that I'm thinking.

"I think I know what he's thinking," Lemon said.

"Yeah me as well," Sunny said.

"We all do," Indigo said.

After that, I went inside the suit.

"I KNEW IT!" Lemon said.

When I got inside, the suit closed up and everything started powering up.

"AST powering up complete, weapons ready. Main gun ready, Missiles ready, Swarm Missiles ready, Ping ready, Trophy ready,"

"That voice means he's ready to go destroy the enemies," Luna said.

"That's about right," Cinch said.

I then extended my arm which a chain gun started loading with my four fingers on the stick and my thumb on the trigger.

"Okay, gotta be honest, that was pretty awesome," Cadence said.

"You know it," Celestia said.

"This is so AWESOME!" Rainbow said.

"Alright, time to beat this round to go to an interesting round," I said.

"Interesting round?" Luna said, "Wonder what's gonna be?"

"Guess we'll find out after this round," Cinch said.

The round started and alot of enemies, they were ground troops, and AST, drones, and a Warbird. So I started to take out the ground troops, managed to kill the AST with the main missile, shot down the Warbird by using my Swarm Missiles, and shot down the drones successfully ending the round.

"Oh my god, he actually did it," Celestia said.

"He did say it's gonna be an interesting round coming up," Luna said.

"And we're gonna find out now," Celestia said.

I got out of the AST getting ready for the final round of this map, it's going to be creepy and scary but I'm ready for it.

"And the round started," Luna said, "Drone swarm, huh."

"Wonder what's it gonna do?" Celestia said.

"Here comes the creepy and scary round," I said.

Drones were swarming around for a few seconds until they stop and self-destructed leaving gas out, knocking me out.

"What just happened?!" Cinch said.

The crowd gasped at what happened.

"Gas came out," Celestia said.

They have no idea of what happened until a voice was heard.

"Team, team," The voice said, "Do you copy, over?"

"What's he saying?" Celestia said.

"I don't know," Luna said.

The voice spoke again.

"Team, this is Sentinal 2-1, name's Gideon," The man named Gideon said, "Does anyone one copy?"

"So, his name is Gideon," Cinch said.

I woke up finding myself in the map covered with green gas making it a little hard to see. I checked my weapons but only have the Atlas-45.

"Where did his awesome gear go?" Cadence said.

I then walked around and found something on the ground, it was the HBRa-3 again, so I picked it up and loaded the gun.

"Okay, so he got his gun back," Cinch said, "But it doesn't have his attachments on."

"And his other weapons are on the ground somewhere in the map," Cadence said.

I heard a noise so I immediately turned around with my gun aiming, I looked around and saw nothing because of the gas.

"Okay, this is starting to get creepy and scary right now," Luna said with a worried face on her.

"Well, he did say it's gonna be creepy and scary," Celestia said with the same expression, "Hope he's ready though?"

"I'm scared," Fluttershy said fearfully.

"It's okay Fluttershy," Twilight said comforting her.

I kept looking around until I hear footsteps to my right, but as soon I turned, something jumps at me, tackling me to the ground.

"AHH!" I screamed out.

The person was trying to like eat me so I tried to reach for my gun but couldn't, so I took out my new pistol and shot him in the head multiple time, killing him instantly. I then got up and picked my gun up, then I looked at the dead corpse.

"Alright," I said, "These people aren't using guns anymore."

"What does that mean?" Luna said.

"I don't know," Celestia said.

"I think I know," Jody said.

"If these guys don't have guns anymore," I said, "Then I'm fighting against Zombies now."

"ZOMBIES!" Luna yelled out.

The crowd and everyone in this event gasped, I was fighting against zombies now.

"Oh my god," Applejack said.

"He's fighting against zombies now," Laura said.

I then heard something from the distance and it was zombies and it was a hoard of zombies, I started shooting at them but they were too many of them so started running, there were some zombies ahead so I killed and dodged some of them out of the way.

"Exos are back online," Gideon said, "Use boost jumps and dodges to get out of situations."

"Finally," I said exo jumping over some zombies.

I then did an exo slam that killed some of the zombies. I kept running and shooting until it gave me the option to escape.

"Extraction is on its way," Gideon said, "You got 30 seconds to escape, move it."

I then started moving the extraction point.

"Come on, escape," Sunny said.

I kept running until I made to the extraction point, I then stopped running, turned around, and started shooting them. I kept shooting until it finally all clear.

"You got 10 seconds, MOVE!" Gideon said.

I turned around went outside, I closed doors behind me, I then sparked out a flare and held it in the air.

"LZ's up ahead," Gideon said, "Get ready to bail out."

I then threw the flare but when it hits the ground, zombies behind me comes up and starts breaking the door down, I tried to fire my gun but wouldn't fire, so I removed the clip and it was empty, so I threw the gun down and started backing up. I turn to left and see more zombies above, so I turned around and started running.

"COME ONE, MICHAEL!" Natasha said, "GET OUT OF THERE!"

The crowd was yelling out "go, go, go," "get out of there," and stuff like that.

I then climbed over something that got knocked down, I looked behind me and see a swarm of them after me.

"Oh god," Fluttershy said completely scared.

Her friends were comforting her to calm her down.

"Oh god," I said.

I turned back around and kept running but I'm running to a dead end until Gideon said, "OVER HERE!"

When he said that, a Warbird came in out of cloak mode and started shooting at the zombies, I stopped running, turned around and see them getting gunned down.

"COME ON!" Gideon yelled out.

I turned around and he said, "MOVE IT!"

I then exo jumped on the chopper but I was about to fall until a man shows up, grabs my arm and pulled me in. I turned around and see him killing the zombies with his LMG.

"LET'S GO, LET'S GO!" He said.

The Warbird then got out of there, the man dropped his gun, he was a male guy with a beanie on his head, exo suit, and his armor that has a word "ATLAS" on it, I know this is Gideon.

"Hey, are you bitten?" Gideon said.

I looked at myself.

"Hey, look at me," Gideon said facing me, "ARE YOU BITTEN?!"

He then searched me and said, "What happened down there?"

After he checked me, he then said, "Alright, you're safe, you're safe now son, there's not many of us left."

We then heard screaming coming from below, Gideon went to the edge and said, "Jesus,"

We looked down and it was like millions of zombies jumping and climbing over the gate.

"Are you seeing this?!" Gideon said.

When he said that, a zombie shows up out of nowhere, grabs him, and throws him off the Warbird with my arm sticking out. After that, my body started fading, I was going back to the real world. When I got back, I looked at the screen. And it said, "Good job ATLAS," showing a word saying "VICTORY," I finally did it, Team CP has won.

"Oh my god," Celestia said, "He won."

"Then that means Crystal Prep won the minigame," Cinch said.

Everyone was cheering including the Crystal Prep students of what I did.

"That was awesome Micahel," Lemon said.

"Yeah, you really showed them," Indigo said.

"I... I did it," I said, "I DID IT!"

"Yeah you did," Sour Sweet said.

"God, that was so crazy," I said.

"Creepy and scary as well," Sugarcoat said.

"Yep," I said.

Then we moved on to the next minigame.

It's been a loong day in the Friendship Games, the Archery, the new minigame called Survival that I managed to beat. Now, We are getting ready for the last minigame of the games, and things get interesting.

"Welcome, ladies and Gentlemen to the last game of the event, whoever wins this one," Celestia said, "Whoever wins this one, will the win The Friendship Games."

"I'm so excited," Lemon said, "I can't wait for this."

"I'll say," I said.

"Can't wait to win," Indigo said.

While we were talking, something funny comes up to me.

"Hey, you okay?" Sunny said.

"Uh, yeah," I said, "Just have a bad feeling about this,"

"Why is that?" Lemon said.

"That voice that said to me that I'm not gonna be allowed to live," I said.

"Don't listen to it," Indigo said, "It's just messing with you,"

"And remember, If something comes at you, we got your back," Sweet Sour said, "Always."

"Yeah, We're with you," Sugarcoat said.

"Thanks," I said, "Means a lot to me,"

When we finished talking, the principals stopped talking and started the last game of the event.

"Let the final minigame," They all said, "BEGIN!"

When they said that we all hear footsteps from inside. We all don't know what's going on until a person comes out and it left me shocked.

"I'm looking for a boy name Michael Talbert," The person said.

"YOU!" I said.

"Ahh, here you are," He said.

"Please tell me I'm hallucinating," I said.

"No, you're not," Lemon said, "I see it,"

"Me too," Sunny said.

They all said they see what I'm seeing.

"I'm afraid that you are NOT hallucinating," He said, "This is real, VERY real,"