The Haunted School
The Haunted School
Klaus Schilling
Rating: PG 13
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoey 101 , Drake & Josh , iCarly , Unfabulous , Naked Bros , True Jackson VP , Ned's Declassified SSG
Fandoms Zoey 101 , Drake & Josh , iCarly , Unfabulous , Naked Bros , True Jackson VP , Ned's Declassified SSG Genre Gothic Romance Novel, Mystery, Spiritual, Horror, Fluff, Family, Friendship, Science Fiction Characters Dustin Brooks/Megan Parker/Nevel Papperman, Zoey Brooks/Geena Fabiano/True Jackson, Chase Matthews/Addie Singer, Logan Reese/Maris Bingham/Patti Perez/Cranberry/Missy Meany, Quinn Pensky/Josh Nichols/Simon Nelson Cooke, Lola Martinez/Drake Parker,Dana Cruz/Chuck Javers,Jenifer Mosely/Stacey Dillsen, ... ... Summary Forks off from Zoey 101 canon after Curse At PCA. Many new students. The ghost of Charles Galloway is still secretly around. Who, if anyone, may recognise this and resolve his mystery?
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Relief?
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The Day After
Zoey was exhausted. That idiot of wrestling coach had forced her to make it into his team. And he treated her like dirt. She had to work out every minute. There was no sense in it, given that even Duke Blatzberg [ 1] , the dumbest of all wrestling oxen, was in no better condition than Zoey, yet he had not to go through that insane workout.
Quinn and Lola started massaging Zoey from head to toey. They took turns with Chase and Michael.
Quinn remarked that girls were more agile than boys, and this was going to be Zoeuy's chance in the county championships.
Zoey's task was nowhere easy: She was supposed to mess with Chuck Javers, a raging bully who maimed his opponents without a trace of remorse. She trembled and shivered for the mere thought.
"Don't worry ..." Chase told Zoey. "My cousin Corey [ 2] from Phonix is coming soon. He is a skilled karate fighter and may beat Javers up when he hurts you. I already wanted to call him when Vince Blake had threatened me, but Vincent has destroyed my cellular phone.[ 3] "
Zoey thanked Chase ironically for his concern.
At least it was easier to fight Chuck Javers than to fight a ghost like Charles Galloway.
Zoey was happy that Galloway was gone for good, wasn't he?
At the same time in a sushi factory near San Diego ...
Drake Parker and Joshuah Nichols were exhausted. They had been working at the conveyor belt for several hours straight. They needed the money in order to repay their parents for the loss of the furniture. [ 4] They had been stupid enough to leave the house key to strangers whom they had thought to be from some game show. Alas, they were thieves who cleaned half of the apartment.
The caporal yelled: "Hey guys! You suck at the belt! Tomorrow, you will deliver the stuff, instead. " She looked at some sheet. "This is the address ... a sushi bar in Malibu ..."
At home, Drake and Josh were already awaited by their evil sister Megan Parker.
"Hey boobs!" Megan grinned. She used to namecall her brothers like that.
Drake and Josh shivered in expectation of a vicious prank. "Leave us alone! Tomorrow, we have to deliver a load of dead fish and other orange stuff to a sushi bar on a campus of a boarding school at Malibu."
"A boarding school?" Megan's eyes widened. "I've always wanted to go to a boarding school with cool kids. No boobs, no perverted step dad, no ..."
"Dream on!" Drake took a closer look at the destination sheet. "Hey, I think to know that school ... it's the Pacific Coast Academy"
Josh tried to employ his brain, but he didn't get far.
"I've played at their spring party,[ 5] that was like two years ago!" Drake smiled. "There was that hot blonde ... Zoey was her name ..."
Josh was annoyed by Drake's attitude of making out with every pretty girl. He twitched. "Now I remember ... Zoey Brooks had made those T-shirts for your band?"
Drake nodded.
Megan scratched her head. "Take me with you!" The alternative were terrible pranks.
Drake and Josh had learnt to give in, just for the sake of survival.
Drake Returns To PCA
Drake, Josh, and Megan arrived at the PCA. They went straight to a restaurant named Sushi Rocks.
"Sorry, I'm looking for a certian Cafou ..."
"Kazu ... That's me!" Kazu grinned. "You're from the Sushi Plant?"
Drake nodded.
"He's right!" Josh remarked.
So far, nobody had recognised Drake in his delivery boy outfit and his fishy smell.
"Hey, aren't you a rock artist?" Kazu scratched his head. "Drake Parker, right?"
Drake insisted in whispering. "Yes, I am, but don't make a fuss about it." Drake preferred not to incite the masses of fangirls that he probably had on this campus. "But one thing ... do you know a certain Zoey Brooks? An old friend of mine ..."
Kazu nodded. "Sure! Ms. Brooks is one of our school's wrestling team members, so she should be here any moment, as the team has a union before the wrestling matches."
Megan was annoyed by Drake's obvious attempts.
Along came the wrestlers.
Drake had no problem remembering Zoey. He stepped up to her. "Hi Zoey, could we ..." His voice was suggestive.
Josh poked Drake in the ribs. "What he wants to say, we need new shirts for the band."
A rather short middle school boy stormed the bar. "Zoey ... is the ghost still around? I'm afraid ..."
"Dustin! The ghost is gone!" Zoey sighed. Her little brother was still afraid. She tried to excuse him.
Drake and Josh wondered about the ghost.
Megan needed a guide for a tour around the campus, as she was interested in joining this wonderful school. "May I borrow your little brother for a campus tour?"
Zoey nodded solemnly. When Megan and Dustin were out on the open campus, she told Drake and Josh about Charles Galloway, making Josh twitch and Drake tremble.
The coach of the wrestling team was a bit annoyed.
Drake wasn't very much astonished about girls in the wrestler team. He had once lost to Lucy, one of his ex-girlfriends Drake & Josh : Girl Powerin a wrestling match. He decided better not to bother Zoey again with any makeout attempt whatsoever, for he feared ending up all bruised and broken.
Dustin showed Megan around.
"I've seen they sell Japanese candy in the sushi pub!" Megan beamed. She could die for Japanese candy. She had started dating a guy named Corey Matthews just in order to get at more of it. It was hard to get at them without suitable connections.
Dustin nodded. "Yeah, that's great. I love all sorts of candy, not just Japanese one."
Megan chuckled.
"So ... how are you related to Drake?" Dustin wanted to know.
Megan told Dustin about her elder brothers, or, as she called them, the boobs.
"Cool! You must be the coolest girl in your classes, with such a brother!" Dustin beamed.
Megan sighed. "I do love Drake and I'm proud of him, but he's such a jerk, he needs his regular kicks in the hindside." She chuckled, and this made Dustin chuckle as well. "Anyways, it's a bit annoying beoing known as the little sister of someone. I wish that Drake got referred to as my elder brother, instead." She sighed deeply.
"Sorry, I didn't know that, but I definitely should ..." Dustin was embarassed. "See, Zoey is usually someone I can relay her, and I realy love her as my elder sister, but sometime she gets overprotective, yet, as of recent, she often neglects me, the more she hangs out with those boys and girls of her grade..."
Megan nodded. She felt often enough in a similar way about Drake and even Josh. "Maybe we should show more them that we need them, and that they should care about us?"
Dustin nodded, but they did not exactly know how to do that.
"You've talked about a ghost ... I've read something on Californiabn School News Channel, so that happened on here?" Megan wondered.
Dustin confirmed Megan's assumption. "Yeah! And it scares me ..." Dustin shrugged. "I look under my bed each night before sleeping ..."
Megan chuckled. "I've been afraid of ghosts when I was younger. But I've learnt to play the oboe, and I tell you, with music, it's possible to conjure and command the deceased ..."
Dustin was impressed.
Megan told Dustin to keep this secret, for the time being. Not even her best friend Janie was aware of that. But Dustin was the first boy she felt really comfy with, and next to whom she could be herself. As of yet, she didn't know why, but times were sure going to come ...
The wrestling team had just left the bar.
Kazu was activationg the plasma screen in the guests' room. "Quinn Pensky has tuned that thing, and the local campus channel. Now we can watch the wrestling matches live from here!" Kazu beamed.
Josh remembered something. "Quinn Pensky? I've heard about her ... she has been the winner of last year's state-wide science fair!"
"Who cares?" Drake shrugged with ignorance
Josh stared oddly at Drake. "I do! Quinn must be very cool! She has beaten Mindy! And you know what that means!"
"Sure!" Drake grumbled. "It means she's just another dork!"
Josh was annoyed. "I admire Quinn!"
Kazu stepped up to Drake. "In a few weeks, we will have our annual Open Mike Nite. I'm sort of a sponsor of the event. So I ask you ..."
Drake beamed.
"Sure!Josh answered for Drake. Maybe that was going to be the occasion for Josh to have a conversation with Quinn about advanced molecular chemistry. He knew that she was up to that. He had tried to talk about it with Mindy, but she had always distracted him with kisses and stuff. And Mindy enjoyed to abuse each understandable gap in Josh's knowledge in order to make him appear as an idiot."
Dustin and Megan entered the pub and sat down next to Drake and Josh. They wanted to watch Zoey in the ring, of course.
Drake sighed. "Too bad I haven't got my guitar on me, otherwise I'd heat up the atmosphere a bit ..."
"Take mine!" A voice was heard behind Drake. It was not quite unfamiliar to Drake and Megan.
"Addie!"[ 6] Drake, Josh, and Megan yelled unison. They had not expected to see Megan's former best friend again.
"I'm here in order to cheer for my wrestling team. Our star is heavy-weight Body Slam Bubba[ 7] ." Addie explained when she rendered her guitar unto Drake. "So who is Belleview's star wrestler? You're sure here in order to cheer for him, right?"
Really, Drake had not had known about the wrestling tournament until Kazu had said so. Even more, he did not know who was in Belleview's wrestling team.
Megan came to Drake's rescue. She was better informed than the boobs. "Lucy is going to fight in the middle weights' class, Witherspoon [ 8] for the heavy weights."
A shockwave went through Drake's bone and marrow. One of his ex-girlfriend was here, and he had not known of it. She had let him down because he was too much of a jerk.
Josh was equally consternated. When he had been the equipment manager for the football team, he had made cookies for the team. Witherspoon had turned sick from those. It was definitely not someone he was keen on seeing here.
Drake clamped his guitar when Zoey entered the ring for the first time.
But what was that? Her male opponent withdrew without reason.
Drake remembered when he thought that wrestling against girls was unmanly. Lucy had shown him another way. Now he was more careful and was never going to underestimate girls in the ring again.
"What a boob!" Megan remarked about that coward.
Dustin agreed wholeheartedly.
When Body Slam Bubba was called into the ring, Addie took the time to introduce two of her friends."These are Geena Fabiano and Zachariah Carter Schwartz!"
Her friends smiled.
"Zoey is impressive!" Carter Schwartz remarked. "She doesn't even look like a tomboy!"
Dustin nodded wholeheartedly. "Her main hobby is fashion design. She has already made T-shirts, right here for Drake, then backpacks, and a lot more!"
Geena's eyes twinkled. "Fashion design?" She had developed great ambitions towards that goal, as well!
"I don't think highly of the PCA athletes, but Zoey is different ..." Zach admitted. "I've played against their basket ball team, it sucked like hell! Especially their coach, he couldn't even pronounce sushi"
Coach Keller [ 9] , whom Zach had just defamed, stood right behind them, yelling into Kazu's direction. He was waiting impatiently for his California rolls.
They saw Jeremiah Trottman, the moderator of the broadcast. He was assisted by some bubbly, hot dark-haired girl who obviously had not as much knowledge about wrestling, way less than about cosmetics and good kissers.
"Hey! Kissing is my greatest gift, next to playing the guitar!" Drake beamed.
"That's Lola Martinez!" Dustin explained. "She's Zoey's roomie! She takes every chance to make it on TV, because she wants to become a Hollywood star soon."
Josh shuddered with disgust. The last Hollywood star actress he had come to know was Ashley Blake[ 10] , an arrogant diva. Lola was probably similar.
Drake's eyes bugged out. "Dustin ...may I meet that Lola girl?" He asked the dwarf.
"I may send you a picture of her bra ..." Dustin offered.
Josh explained that they were going to show up again for the Open Mike Night.
Unfortunately, the event was going to last past midnight, too long for kids like Megan and Dustin to stay up. Thus Megan was not allowed to accompany Drake.
"I'll ask Zoey to let Megan sleep in her dorm for that night ..." Dustin proposed.
Megan cheered.
Drake consented, against better judgement.
The screen showed how Duke Blatzberg, the heavy weight of PCA, was just sent flying by Body Slam Bubba.
"I'm not sure, but that Bubba guy looks a lot like Carl[ 11] , the boyfriend of the girls' dorm adviser, Coco" Dustin remarked.
"Carl is Bubba's elder brother!" Zach informed them.
Dustin was going to introduce Logan, Chase, Quinnn, and Michael to Drake and Josh, as soon as they were shown. Quinn's appearance made Josh swoon.
Megan unpacked her oboe. She twinkled into Dustin's direction, telling him to watch carefully. Then she started to support Drake's performance with an oboe backup.
None of the boys that Zoey should have faced so far had the guts to actually fight her, until the last one: Chuck Javers, the brutest jock of all. He was not heavier than Zoey, but full of muscles and devoid of brain. Zoey knew that it was hopeless. Quinn had told her to look for the weaknesses of Chuck, but there were none. The coach had wanted to feign an injury and sub Scottie for Zoey, for he was now fresh, but Zoey refused to obey to that lousy trick. Scotty was without a trace of a snowball's chance in a blast furnace, anyways.
And quite unlike all the cowardly jerks before him, Javers did not refuse to fight a girl.
Suddenly, a wave of dance, music, and raised arms reached the arena. Drake's music performance had spread just like a domino cascade from Kazu's bar to the arena. The spectators stood up and sang along.
Chase Matthews clamped his guitar and played the same tune as Drake.
Take me to the Matador
He will know just what it's for
He will help me with my life
He will open every door
When Chuck Javers's in the ring
You need all the help you can
And the Mariachis sing
With the lonely mandoline
See those people shout out loud
Give me more and give me more
And I'm thinking to myself
Take me to the Matador
Take me to the Matador
He will fill and ease my soul
He will give me confidence
When I think I've lost control
He will help me with my muse
In the age of win and lose
He can help me with my love
Dance the dance that lovers do
Rumba with the velvet glove
To the Californian moon.
See one thousand violins
Golden oboes soar on high
Waves and waves of joyful hymns
Silver sonnets reach the sky
[ 12]
Zoey was totally inspired by Drake's performance, although he was a few houses away. She become stronger from minute to minute,
The battle was over. Javers was despaired. The judges had to declare Zoey the winner of the match.
Zoey was surprised, and so were Chase, Logan, Michael, Lola, and Quinn. How had she been able to beat Chuck Javers? No matter the reason, she was now escorted on her victory march across the campus.
Megan played the triumphal ode from G. Verdi's Aida.
Michael Barret joined with his flute.
A cellist [ 13] and a violinist [ 14] were nearby and followed their example.
Dustin started singing for his elder sister of whom he was endlessly proud.
A girl that was going to turn out as Lola's little sister arrived in time. Her voice was downright professional.
S'intrecci il loto al lauro
Sul crin dei vincitori!
Nembo gentil di fiori
Stenda sull' armi un vel!
Danziam, Californese,
Le mistiche carole,
Come d'intorno al sole
Danzano gli astri in ciel!
Vieni, o guerriero vindice,
Vieni a gioir con noi;
Sul passo degli eroi,
I lauri, i fior versiam!
Grazie agli Dei, agli Dei rendete
nel fortunato di!
[ 15]
Nothing could stop Zoey's stride across the campus.
Lola's eyes met briefly Drake's when she followed Zoey down the campus aisle. She was totally enchanted! Too bad there was no time left for this evening, but he was soon going to come back to the PCA for the Open Mike Night ...
Finally, Megan put her oboe back into the scabbard. She let her eyes stroll across the campus whom she had already enclosed in her heart. This was the school she wanted to go to, as soon as possible. But who was that guy next to Chase? No other than Corey, her boyfriend, sort of. Alas, Corey was too much of a jerk, and he had manners bruter than Drake's. Whereas Dustin was nice, sweet, clever, quirky, ... she swooned at the thought. Corey had never made her swoon, he had just promised her Japanese candy. Fortunately Zoey knew now where the candy was from: Kazu's bar. She could get soome of it from her friends at this school any time, so there was no longer any need to put up with Corey's disgusting habits. Seeing him standing there made her decision easy. "Corey, it's over!"
Corey wasn't really hurt. Like Drake, he had a long queue of girlfriends waiting.
Addie and Zack congratulated Bubba who had just defeated Jenifer Mosely from James K. Polk High in La Mesa.
Geena approached Zoey. "You're really a fashion designer? You certainly don't look like a wrestling ox ... or cow ..."
Zoey confirmed Geena's rumour.
Geena decided on site that she had to join the Pacific Coast Academy as soon as possible.
Jenifer Mosely, better known as Moze, went to her friends Simon Nelson Cook and Ned Bigby, sighing deeply. "I've been so close! But Bubba swept my into oblivion with his hip slam."
Cookie and Ned comforted their friend.
Cookie was up to something more: "There's Quinn Pensky, the greatest teenage engineer west of the Mississippi! I've got to meet her for instructions. I need to improve my built-in navigation systems ..." Cookie thought of himself as a cyborg. His garments were stuffed with electronic gadgets. And today he was so close to his idol Quinn.
Accidentlaly Josh had the same idea at the same time. He approached Quinn. Not being aware of Cookie's movement, the inevitable was going to happen: Crash!
While Zoey enjoyed her unexpected triumph, Chuck Javers felt destroyed. He went back to the car where his girlfriend Dana Cruz was waiting.
"You dare to lose? Against Zoey Brooks? " Dana still didn't get it. She had travelled back from Paris in order to date the toughest guy in the world, just in order to see him lose against her old enemy Zoey.
"But really ..." Chuck trembled. "I felt like something invisible held me ball and chain, a ghost or something ..."
"A ghost? You're dreaming!" Dan stared at Chuck. But she remembered the recent news about Charles Galloway. What had been going on? She decided to forget about the whole tournament and engage with her beloved Chuck in a private wrestling match.
After The Tournament
Drake, Josh, and Megan were on their way back to San Diego Belleview.
Drake sighed. "Yiu were right, Zoey would never .... but her roomie Lola is thousands of times hotter to the touch, and she's downright bubbly." He swoomned like nobody's business, almost taking all of his caution away.
Josh amonished Drake to pay attention. He was going to ride the van against the next tree, or into Opra. [ 16]
Usually, Megan would have laughed about the boobs, but she remained silent, swooning without a word.
Well, whatever the reason, in a few weeks, they were scheduled to meet Dustin, Lola, and Quinn again. At that point, they had no clue that they were going to make another field trip to the PCA, earlier than expected ...
Quinn, Lola, and Zoey went back to their dorms.
"I've seen Drake Parker! He has even smiled at me ..." Lola beamed. "I've heard he's the best kisser in California!"
"Maybe ... but he's also one of the greatest jerks." Zoey added.
"You're just envious because he's turned you down!" Lola boomed.
Zoey laughed. She had turned Drake down, not vice versa!
Quinn looked into her science book. "The probability for the crash between those two guys crashing randomly in front of my nose was ..."
"Grow up!" Lola growled.
Zoey had to separate her bickering roomies. "It is still scary how a few notes of music have turned the tide ... downright spooky ..."
Quinn chuckled. "I wonder what other science geeks think about Galloway ... I should ask Nichols and Cooke ..."
Cookie was bitterly disappointed because he had run into Josh when he had beeen so close to talking to Quinn about programming robots.
"You know how to reach her, so ..." Moze replied. "But I've lost the championship, and I'll be the eternal loser! Suzie will taunt me endlessly ... Especially as Zoey won. I'm so envious of her and could do something terrible to ..."
"Pease, the Moze that I know wouldn't do that ..." Ned begged his friend. "Maybe you should learn from Zoey ... I wish the three of us could transfer to the PCA ... the beach, the girls, hot music ..."
The three of them wished to return to the PCA soon again. Little was it beknownst unto them that the next occasion for that was just around the corner.
Addie felt fantastic. She had watched Body Slam Bubba winning the championship. She had borrowed her guitar to Drake, yes, the very great Drake.
Geena swooned. Zoey was going to be her idol, from now forever and one day. She was a brilliant designer from whom she could learn everything, and she attractted the boys faster than nectar attracted the bees. Geena wished to be so much like Zoey.
The only one disappointed was Zack. "You really like a school with all those rich spoilt kids? Come on! You could do a lot better!" Alas, it was two versus one. Zach stood no chance against the girls' decision. Thus he felt compelled to join the girls to the PCA, should they get approved.
Dustin fell asleep, and he had to think and dream about Megan. He was very curious about what she was able to do with her oboe. He wished to go through as many adventures as possible with Megan, the first girl that made him swoon from afar.
[ 1] Duke from iCarly : iHatch Chicks is here identified with Blatzberg. Both of are portrayed by the same actor and are dumb wrestling jocks
[ 2] Corey is taken from Drake & Josh : Megan's First Kiss where he dismantles Drake and Josh
[ 3] see The Great Vince Blake. Chase's cousin is there anonymous and unportrayed.
[ 4] Drake & Josh : I Love Sushi
[ 5] Spring Fling
[ 6] While being a star in Unfabulous, Addie also has got a cameo in Drake & Josh : Honor Council as a friend of Megan
[ 7] A minor role in a few third season epis of Unfabulous
[ 8] Drake & Josh : Football
[ 9] People Auction
[ 10] Drake & Josh : Little Diva
[ 11] in Hot Dean
[ 12] modified from Jeffries and Garlands, Take Me To The Matador which I don't own.
[ 13] seen in Hot Dean
[ 14] seen in The Radio
[ 15] Let lotus and laurel be wrought into a winner's crown, let a cloud of flowers enshroud the weapons! Let's dance, Californian girls, the mystic carols, just as the stars ance around the sun in the sky! Come on, champion, enjoy with us! Let's shed laurel and flowers while the heroes are passing by. Thank the gods for this fortunate day!
[ 16] Drake & Josh : Josh runs into Opra