Goosebumps

Chapter 7: Monsters Attack

Zach

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I walked into the gym where the dance is being taken place. Of course, the dancing that everyone is doing is, well... awful, as I made my way through the high schoolers with Hannah right behind me. "Excuse me," I said. "Coming through." I continued my way through the dancing crowd. "Come on. We gotta get to the stage." I turned to see that Hannah isn't behind me anymore, so I went back to her, seeing a happy smile on her face.

"So this is what a high school dance is like," she said thrilled.

"Uh, yeah..." I looked around, grabbing her hand, pulling her through the crowd. "Usually, the dancing's..." I looked around watching everyone doing their horrible dancing. "...better. But you get the idea."

"That what they call dancing?" Hannah asked.

I shrugged. "...I'm not sure," I answered honestly.

"Zach." I looked around, hearing my name being called, until I spotted my mom.

"Mom. Mom." I went up to her.

"Zach," she said. "I was so worried. I couldn't get hold of you or Lorraine."

"I know. I know. Mom, everyone in here is in danger. We have to barricade the school..." I saw a disbelief look on my mom's face.

"Oh, no, Zach." Mom shook her head. "Not this again..."

"He's telling you the truth." Hannah stepped forward and held out her hand. "I'm Hannah," she introduced. "I live next door."

"Alright. Okay, everyone, listen up. Okay?" Me, Hannah, including everyone else saw Champ on the stage, the music dying out when he started speaking into the microphone. "Okay. Everybody, you gotta listen up..."

"Champ." I looked back to see one of the teachers. "Get down," he said.

However, Champ didn't get off that stupid stage. "I have something to say..." he struggled as everyone stared at him from the floor. "Uh... wow. Okay...um..." Sweat came to his forehead. "Uh, okay, uh..." Rolling my eyes, I walked onto the stage. "Listen to my best friend, Zach." Champ shoved the microphone into my hands, almost making me drop it. "Just... Just tell them," he told me.

I rolled my eyes again. "Thanks, Champ." I brought the microphone up to my mouth and spoke into it. "Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Um... This is going to sound insane, but..." God, I can't believe I'm doing this. "...monsters have invaded Madison."

The reaction I got was laughter. They thought I was joking!

"Guys, it's the truth. Okay?" Champ tried to defend me, only to fail miserably. "He's telling the truth. It's... He's not making this up..."

"They've blocked every road in town," I kept on trying to tell them. "They've torn down the cell towers, and we've been cut off from the rest of the world. And they could be here any second, so we need to work to..."

"Ahh!" a kid yelled out, interrupting me. "He's right." He looked out the window then back at the crowd. "It's the Boogeyman. And he's picking his nose."

Everyone burst out laughing again. I let out a heavy breath. "I'm not making..."

"Ahh!" he yelled out again, looking out the window then back at the crowd again. "There's a giant bug, and it's eating everybody's cars!"

"Uh, it's getting old, dude," another one spoke, the laughter that is now dead.

"No, seriously!" Suddenly, the wall broke apart, and the kid was picked up by the praying mantis from outside, making everyone scream when they saw it.