ParanormalCommunity is hosting a magazine for Halloween!
...or do I mean #WATTOWEEN .
Come read stories and poems gathered from the Collective of the Wattpad Paranormal Research Society, along with featured columns:
*HORRORscopes for October!
* Dre...
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The Wattpad Paranormal Research Society has to train their latest recruits somehow!
Follow the initiates as they learn about common paranormal lore, tropes, and objects at the school for Wattpad's best kept secret society.
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ORIENTATION
Ah, the Wattpad Paranormal Research Society: Kay's home away from home ever since she learned to make her own meals and take care of the house.
With her mind, of course.
When her mother had asked her to make the house "spotless" when she got home from school, she hadn't expected to find Kay cowering on the floor with the coats and dishes and papers flying around her. Or the furniture floating off the floor. Or the kitchen on fire.
But she had learned to control all that here at the Paranormal Academy. As a senior student and member of the academy's Inhuman Resources internship program, it was her duty to greet the new initiates for orientation.
Kay stood at the top of one of four grand staircases and smiled at the crowd gathering below her around a glowing crystal fountain in the central atrium.
All the species were mingling, for the most part. The vampires were hiding in the shadowy corners away from the open light but that was to be expected. The witches were already finding each other and forming groups. The Fae were pranking the humans, of course. The humans were discussing how everyone had been given a candle. They had to fill out a questionnaire (in a dark room, lit only by a single spotlight, as was standard) before hand, but when would they get their results, and what did that have to do with the color of the candle?
Kay, on the eastern staircase, held up a yellow candle to start the ceremony. Its light beamed to the crystal figure in the fountain and fractured out to light all the other yellow candles. Her fellow interns held up their candles as well to call their group to them. Green for the northern staircase, red for the southern, and blue for the western.
The atrium was filled with a beautiful rainbow light. Kay looked down at her half of a heart shaped necklace she kept under her blouse and her bright smile faded. She had met Rho, or Agent #17 as they were called now that they had graduated, in this room over five years ago. They took a while to warm up to her, but Rho had given her the friendship necklace right before they left to get their mentor as a Seeker. They had given her the half that said "Best", saying it suited Kay. She hoped that one day they would return her feelings, but with them off in the field all the time...
Kay shook her head and reapplied her best smile for the initiates staring up at her with confused and nervous faces.
Suddenly, half of them ducked, while the other half looked up around them. A gentle, cheerful voice filled everyone's minds:
"Hey, Collective!" Said Agent #2, the coordinator and security director who coordinated everything in the WPRS on behalf of the Magistra. Kay had seen the Magistra once at Rho's -- she meant, at #17's graduation. The Magistra was a terrifying and beautiful being who took the form of a woman made of ethereal light.
