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Things around in Orlando are getting strange.  This all started a few months back when my friend JT found this strange-looking black book with some cryptic writing on it.  I told him not to touch it, but since then, he's been strange and so has Orlando.  Let's see what really happened...

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"Yo, JT man what are you doing down there?"  Julie asks, walking down the stairs to JT's basement.

"I'm reading, what does it look like Ms. Sheridan?  I know you're not a blonde, but sometimes you act like one," JT says, flipping to another page in the strange looking book.

"Hush it mister JT, cause you're a diva, doesn't mean I'm going to let you get away with those bitchy wisecracks."  Julie tells him as she sits down across from him.

"Yeah whateva trick," JT says, laughing at the look on her face.

Flipping to another page in the book, JT stops laughing and stares blankly at the page, almost in a trance-like state.

"Don't be calling me no damn trick JT, I don't sleep around with everybody, you know who I'm saving it for."  Julie tells him as she gets up from her spot in front of him and waves her hand in front of his face.  "Did you hear what I said?"

Julie stood there for a few minutes just looking at JT as he continues to stare at the page in the book.

"Come on JT, stop playing diva," Julie says, snapping her fingers as JT didn't move an inch.  "JT!  Come on now, you're starting to scare me here."

Shaking JT's hand, His gaze didn't leave the book and he still didn't move an inch.  Getting pissed off at her friend, Julie grabbed the book and slung it to the floor as JT started blinking his eyes.

"You have some damn nerve to try and scare me like that JT.  Don't be playing no games with me man," Julie says, walking over to where the book was, picks it up and places it on the table where JT was.

"What?  What are you talking about Jules?"  JT asks her as he looks around the room.  "What's going on here?"

"What do you mean what's going on here?"  Julie asks him.  "You were reading something in that damn book and annoying me."

"Reading?  What was I reading?"  JT asks her as he opens the book and it starts to glow.

"What the fuck is that?"  Julie asks, stepping back from the table as JT gets up, still holding the book in his hands.

"It's like the book is alive, it's talking to me in my mind."  JT tells her as his body starts to glow and swirls of light float above his head.

"JT what's going on here?  You set up some strange lights in here?"  Julie asks him.

"Aza Meya Loza Naru..."  JT speaks as Julie steps back again.

"JT!  What the hell is going on here!?"  Julie scrams as the lights that were swirling around JT start to swirl around her too.  "JT!"

"Caio Zimbala Matao!"  JT continues to speak as the swirls fly through Julie's body and then flies through his own.

"What the hell just happened here?"  Julie asks as she saw some of the strange lights flow up the basement stairs.

"What are you talking about Jules?"  JT asks her as he sat down in the chair and held his head.  "Damn, I got a bad ass headache."

"JT something strange just happened here man.  Didn't you see the lights?"  Julie asks him, sitting next to him.

"What lights?  What are you talking about?"  JT asks her as she shakes her head.

"JT that book, that book did something to you and I think it did something to me," Julie says as she touches the book.  "This thing...this thing is wrong!"

"What are you talking about Julie?"  JT asks her as he stands up.

"This book did something to us; I just don't know what it did."  Julie tells him as she stands up too.  "I just know something bad is going to happen as long as this book's around."

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Having a bad day with rehearsals and an equally bad time at the meeting he and the rest of the guys of 'N Sync just had, Joshua Chasez decides to leave his friends for a bit and go for a walk to clear his head.  Walking a few blocks from his and Justin's home, he discovers that he's in an unknown part of the area.  Reaching into his pocket for his cell phone, he notices that it's not there and that he doesn't have a means to call someone to pick him up.  Looking around, JC decides to go to the house across the street to see if he could use the phone.  Walking up the pavement and arriving at the door, before JC could knock, a strange feeling struck him and he fell down on the front porch.

Coming to a few minutes later, JC sits there on the porch rubbing his head as the door opens and there stood a tall black man and a young white girl.  Looking at each other and then at him, the girl leans down and helps him to his feet.  Brushing off his clothes, he looks between the two of them and then look behind him, noticing that it was getting dark outside.

"Ah hi, what were you doing on the floor?"  JT asks him, staring at the JC now.

"I...uh...well I don't know.  I remember coming to knock, but I never knocked.  I...I ah wanted to use the phone so I could call someone to pick me up."  JC tells the man.

"I see.  So how did you get on the floor?"  JT asks him as JC rubs his head, hoping that would bring the answer to him.

"I don't know how I got on the floor.  That's something I can't remember," JC says, not taking his eyes off of JT.

"Behave JT.  Just over look him.  Is there something we can do for you?"  Julie asks him.

"Do you like have a phone that I can use so I can call someone to come get me?"  JC asks as his eyes start glowing and the telephone appeared before him floating in midair.

"Oh my fucking God!"  Julie screams as she and JT steps back from JC and the phone.

"Wha...why is the phone doing that?"  JC asks stepping back too.

"You asked for it, you got it!"  JT screams as he grabs Julie by the hand and runs back into the house, slamming the door behind them.

Breathing heavy and looking at each other, JT and Julie both run down to the basement to get that strange book.  Arriving in front of the book, JT grabs it first and the book opens on its on and starts flipping pages.

"Oh hell naw, this is some stupid shit from that `Charmed' television show," JT says as Julie looks at him with an evil look on her face.

"This isn't fucking funny JT!  This is some serious shit here!  He made the damn phone appear in front of him!"  Julie shouts, sounding like she was about to hyperventilate.

"Julie calm down for a bit.  We have to look at things and see what actually happened.  Maybe the answer is in the book somewhere," JT says as the book start flipping pages and Julie screams and her eyes start glowing as she and the book start floating.

"Como Esta Luna Ni!  Sema Nura Yoo Maiki!  Vampyr Latis!"  Julie shouts as the book floats from her hands and she falls to the floor as some strange energy projects from the book, knocking out the windows in the basement and flying free.

"I don't like the sounds of that, I don't like that at all!"  JT shouts as his eyes start glowing and the sound of his voice knocks a hole in the wall.  "What the hell is wrong with us?"

"Maybe I can answer that," A tall blonde-haired white man says standing there with JC next to him.

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In a cemetery clear across town, the energy that had been expelled from the book came to the end of its journey and settled on top of a lone grave.  This energy was no regular energy, in laymen's terms, it was the spectral remains or essence so to speak of the skeletal remains or person, whichever you prefer that was below in the coffin.  Sinking into the ground and reaching its desired target, the ground starts to rumble and a hand punches through the dirt, causing the headstone of the grave to explode.

"Finally, after so long, I've been awaken from my dreaded slumber!  Where is that wretched bitch Nadya Strong!  I shall find her and suck the meat off of her bones!"  The dead thing says as his body turns to mist and he disappears.

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Justin Timberlake, sitting out in the backyard waiting on his best friend to come home gets a little bit worried that he hasn't heard anything from JC yet.  Getting up and walking around the backyard, he looks around and sees what looks like a strange fog rolling in.  Turning around to go back into the house, he trips over something in the yard and falls to the ground as the fog settled around his body.

"Hello Justin," Justin hears around him, but didn't see anything as he looks around.  "I've missed you little man."

"Who are you?  Where are you?"  Justin calls out, trying to put a face to the familiar voice..

"Don't you worry about that my boy, all you need to worry about is that I will be seeing you," the voice says as the fog disappears and Justin is left sitting on the ground looking around the backyard for any signs of who it was that was there talking to him.

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To Be Continued...