MR MIDNIGHT#61-DEATHMASTER

MR MIDNIGHT#61-WHO IS IN THAT COFFIN?DEATHMASTER(CHAPTER 1)

Chapter 1

What would you do if you found a strange letter in your bag at school?

Did I say strange?

More like evil!

A letter so terrifying, and so full of hate, that your heart almost stopped beating?

Well, that's exactly what happened to me. I was in class, and I opened my bag to take out a book, when my fingers brushed against a piece of paper.

I knew that it hadn't been there when I packed my bag the night before. And I also knew that my bag hadn't left my sight all morning.

I frowned, wondering what it was and how it had got there.

So I pulled it out, unfolded it, and read the words that would change my life forever.

TO: NINA HU

You will die.

You will pass from your world into mine.

You will be taken from the world you know, from all the familiar people you love, and nothing will ever be the same again.

You will see horrors and evil beyond anything you have ever imagined.

I will choose the time and the place for your departure. Your fate is in my hands.

You have no choice but to OBEY me.

Signed:

DEATHMASTER

My scream shattered the quiet of our classroom.

I fell back against my seat, my hands trembling, and the paper slipped from my fingers.

A babble of noise erupted around me.

I guess by now you know who I am. My name is Nina Hu, I'm a schoolgirl, and my horrors were just beginning...

At the next desk, my best friend, Chelsie Chua, dropped her pen with a squeal and peered at me over her glasses in horror.

"Nina!" she cried out. "What is it?"

Behind me, I heard Darren Tan scramble to his feet to see what had happened.

"Hey, what's up, Nina?" he shouted. "Did you see a snake?"

Our teacher was calling for silence as he ran across the room. Poor Mr Quek! I'd never seen him look so startled, so frazzled!

"Nina! What happened?" he demanded. "Are you ill?"

"The... the letter," I said feebly, pointing to where I'd dropped the piece of paper.

But it wasn't there.

I leaped up in panic, searching under my desk for it.

But the only thing there was - the floor.

The letter had completely VANISHED!