Haunted

An Invader ZIM story

Prologue: Ms Bitters looked around the class. She (or he) saw there were only four students left.

"Sara, you and Zita will be paired for this. Don't screw this up!!" The class grew silent. They knew this would be a problem. The problem was the last two students.

"Dib, you and ZIM will be paired up. Do something interesting!"

ZIM, who had not been paying attention, lifted his head. He raised an eye. Dib just sat there. Too mad to speak. Finally he stood up. He glared at ZIM, ZIM glared back.

"Everyone will have some time to talk about a topic. You have five minutes. If you don't come up with a topic, you probably won't go to college. Move." The kids scrambled to each other and began talking. ZIM and Dib just stood there. Finally they slowly walked to each other. Frustration in their eyes. Or maybe just more anger. Dib finally spoke.

"Soo…want to...um…do a project on ghosts, Bigfoot?" he smirked. "Aliens?" ZIM's eye twitched. He grabbed a book off the self. It was called List of projects that are interesting. Dib opened the book. His eyes widened. On the page was a supposedly haunted house. Dib's eyes met his enemy's for a second. Dib closed the book. "We're doing a project on that house." He declared. ZIM's eyes widened. "NO, we are not!" he opened the book again. He opened to a page that had different dog breeds on it. "We're doing a project on those." He announced. "NO we are not." "YES, we are." And so on and so on...

ZIM and Dib began to get really annoying. All of the other students-who had already picked their topic, kept telling them to "shut up!" Finally Ms. Bitters kicked them out. Along with the book. Finally Dib spoke up. "OK, ZIM you win...I'll do the project on dogs." He smirked. "But only because you are afraid." That got ZIM's attention. He shot up. "AFRAID?" he screeched. "ZIM is afraid of NOTHING! I WILL do this project!!" Dib smirked again. "So...Heh...Where is that house anyway?" Dib opened the book looking for the page. "Good question." He said. "It…is…in…" He found the page. The house was only one town away.

The two of them told their topic. said they had to prove the house was haunted to pass. She then dismissed them to start working. Dib accepted, ZIM looked…nervous??

I thought you said an invader was afraid of nothing? Dib wondered as they walked of the classroom. ZIM stopped walking. He looked around. "What?"

Did I really say that out loud??!! Dib wondered. He looked innocent and said "what?" ZIM shook it off and kept walking. Dib-who had the book in his hands- read a little about the house. "Hilagard Mansion was built around the 1800's. Three little girls lived there. Then one rainy day one of them mysteriously disappeared. When she was found, she was pronounced dead with strange wolf-like slashes on her neck, and was practically mauled." Dib made a face. "That's lovely" ZIM said. (Obviously not meaning it.) Dib looked down and continued.

"This mansion is located nowhere near any wolves, and her death is a mystery. Kathrin Alybayyer, sister of victim, stated she sworn she had seen bear prints in the yard after. Then they turned into human prints, and then wolf prints. She claims her sister was murdered by a 'shape shifter' [see page 89]" Dib stopped again. ZIM kept walking/marching/whatever he does. "C'MON FILTHY DIB-WORM!" he said, "marching" along. Dib looked at the book. "Don't you know what a shape shifter is???" ZIM rolled his eyes as if to say 'DUH!". He turned around. "Of course I don't filthy human." Then he marched away, ahead of Dib. Dib looked back at the book. "Kathrin also says she heard strange noises and howling downstairs in the yard every night. The doors would open and close on the stillest summer nights on their own. Blood would sometimes drip down the window. Once she said the blood drippings spelled out her name. The Alybayyer family moved out and no one ever moved in. The house has been investigated and is not yet officially proven haunted. Most injuries and murders occur near that house Anyone who walks in, is yet to come out." Dib slammed the book, and ran to keep up with his fast moving enemy. They then reached the house. ZIM, who looked a little sick/nervous himself (after hearing that "legend") marched right up to the door, and opened it. Both were sucked in.