Ghost Hunter: CyberNerf (Alternative Draft)
NOTE TO READERS: This is an alternative draft that we wrote for Saving Rose. It's the same story, but written differently. If you read both, we'd love to hear which you prefer!
After Ned's family inherited an old mansion falling apart at the seams, Ned began to play pranks on his six older siblings, trying to convince them the house was haunted. But Ned might as well have been invisible because his family wasn't fooled. Ned was just a nuisance and he really just wanted attention. His dad nagged him to pick up a tool kit and help with the chores, but Ned had a more important job-hunting imaginary ghosts with his Foam Blaster 10,000. It was the only gift he'd ever received that wasn't a hand-me-down. Sometimes the foam darts accidentally got stuck on his siblings' foreheads and that was usually his cue to run upstairs, lock himself in his room, and play his favorite online game, CyberGhost, while he let one of his siblings cool off. But when an anonymous offline player messages Ned to tell him that they need help stopping a ghost invasion IRL, Ned feels important for the first time in his life. He knew it was just a game, but could they actually be serious?
