Ah Knights!

Chapter 1: Lightning, not just a pretty light show.

It was the first weekend of the summer and in Macy's opinion it was going to be the best. Her parents were going out of town, her older brother was going camping with his friends and she was going to have the house to herself for four days. Of course she wasn't going to be alone, her best friend Tina was coming over to celebrate their newfound freedom. After they both successfully managed to graduate from that dreaded institution known as high school.

Despite their friend Jason's insistence that they have a party, the girls decided just hanging out, not having to worry about anything for four days was a much better plan. Even though he was constantly trying to convince them otherwise.

"Oh, come on Mace," Came his voice over the phone as he whined in Macy's ear. "What's more fun then a party?"

"I can think of lots of things." She retorted as she left her bedroom.

"Give me one good reason?"

"I'll give you four." She stated walking down the stairs to the ground floor. "One, I grew up with the morons who would be most likely to show up at this party, I know them, they practically live by the motto 'It's not a party until the cops show up'. Two I just graduated managing to finally get rid of said morons, I don't want them in my house."

She went on getting herself a glass of water. She could tell Jason was rolling his eyes at her even over the phone. "Three, I like my house in one piece and I'm sure my parents do too." She paused to take a drink as she descended the basement stairs. "And four, the whole point of this weekend is to kick back, relax, and not have to worry about anything."

"So then don't worry about it." He replied overly optimistic. "I'll take care of the whole thing." Stifling a laugh she pulled a DVD from a shelf.

"Oh that fills me with confidence." She giggled as she turned on the big screen TV that was built into the wall under the stairs.

"Gee, you have so much faith in me…" Jason replied dryly.

"Of course." She beamed sitting down as the start menu for 'King Arthur' appeared on the screen. "For the last time I'm not having a party, if you wanna come by, feel free, but NO party."

"Okay, okay… kill joy…"

"Aw, you know you love me." She mocked sensing more eye-rolling coming from the other end of the conversation. "Look I'm watching a movie, I'll talk to you later okay?"

"Alright, see ya…"

"Later…" Tossing the phone aside she settled back to watch her movie in peace.

A while later when she was just starting to get into the show Macy perked up as if she sensed something. Quickly, fumbling with the remote she paused the movie, leaving the knights frozen on the screen while Vanora was cut off mid song. She bolted up the stairs, raced down the hallway and threw open the front door.

On the porch was a girl, brown eyes wide with surprise giving her the deer-in-headlights appearance with her hand still raised and ready to knock. "Hi," Macy greeted her with a wide grin.

Tina just blinked lowering her arm. "How do you do that?" She asked slowly entering the house.

"It's a gift." Macy replied shutting the door as Tina dropped her bags in the hall.

"You heard the car didn't you?"

"That too…" They smirked as they went into the kitchen, Tina awkwardly carrying one of the bags with her.

"What's with the bag?"

Tina managed to lift the heavy load up on the counter, a wide grin spread across her face. "I come bearing gifts." She opened the bag and began pulling out several bottles and lining them up on the counter.

Macy stared open mouthed as her best friend produced around three hundred dollars worth of plundered liquor. "Do you happen to have an extra liver in there." Macy commented with a slightly nervous laugh. "Where the hell did you get all this?" She paused as a thought came to her. "Did you rob the liquor store? Because I'm warning you now I will turn you in for the reward money."

"Sherry Leigh's post graduation party." Tina informed with a very proud smirk.

"But we weren't invited to that party."

Tina's smirk became a wide smile. "I know."

"So you what? You just stole her liquor?"

"I took what was owed to me." She stated matter-of-factly walking to the fridge and pulling out a bottle of coke. "It was the only good thing that ever came out of living next-door to that bitch for fifteen years." Macy just laughed.

Sherry Leigh was the alpha of the 'in group' in high school, and her and her two groupie clones had been Tina and Macy's sworn enemies since the second grade. Although the gloves really didn't start to come off until earlier that year, almost a month after the new school year had started.

"How did you get a hold of it?"

Tina just laughed to her self as she reminisced. "I lifted it from her garage." She sighed dreamily. "It was quite the mission." Macy grabbed two glasses, giggling to herself at the mental picture of Tina crawling through the bushes, liquor bottles in hand, Mission Impossible theme playing in the background.

"Mace, you should have been there," Tina continued in between fits of laughter. "I… I heard Sherry scream an hour latter from the garage…" They each mixed themselves a drink of rum and coke as Tina pulled herself together. "Ah… was she ever pissed…"

Still giggling Macy raised her glass "I purpose a toast… To getting back at skanky bitches."

"I'll drink to that…" Tina put in her drink already half gone.

"But more importantly, to freedom."

"I'll drink to that…" Macy's glass was met by Tina's almost empty one. "To freedom… until collage."

"You just had to ruin it, didn't you?"

Tina smirked over the rim of her glass. "So now that we are well on our way to needing our stomachs pumped, what else is there to do?" Macy almost choked on her drink as she remembered her long forgotten movie, still paused down stairs.

"Well I was watching a movie down stairs when you showed up."

"Which one?" Tina inquired refilling her glass.

Macy hesitated. "King Arthur."

"Oh God, no!"

"Oh come on Tina, it's a good movie," Tina just put her hands up and shook her head in protest. "I know you'd like it."

"No, I refuse to watch it, and with good reason."

Macy stifled a laugh. "Good reason my ass! The only reason you wont watch it is because Kira Knightly's in it and the only reason you wont watch any movie with Kira Knightly in it, is because she kissed Orlando Bloom at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean."

"And the bitch almost ruined that movie for me too. Fortunately it had Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp so it made up for it."

"Well trust me the knights make up for her presents in this movie." Tina took a long drink contemplating it.

"Oh alright, we'll watch the damn movie." She said finally giving in to Macy's puppy eyes. "But can we get something to eat first? I'm hungry."

"Pizza?" Macy asked picking up the phone to order.

Fifteen minuets later the pizzas arrived and by that time a storm had started. Tina stood at the kitchen sink looking out the window as Macy walked in with three large boxes. "Suppers here." She said setting them down and ripping open the first box.

"So Shawn's going camping out in this?" Tina asked, indicating the storm as she too attacked the innocent pizza on the counter.

"No," She paused to swallow. "He went to Ray's house tonight, they're leaving in the morning." The two girls cringed as a particularly loud crash of thunder echoed through the house shaking it slightly. "I hope the power doesn't go out." Macy mused mixing herself another drink.

"I really hope the power doesn't go out, your house is creepy enough with the lights on." Tina handed her, her glass.

"My house is not creepy." Macy replied indignantly as she refilled Tina's glass.

"It is too."

"What is so creepy about it?" Macy demanded moving to the kitchen table, Tina reaching over her shoulder for another slice before sitting down too.

"It's an old farm house out in the middle of nowhere. It's the prime setting for like, every horror movie ever made."

"Oh come on…"

"I'm telling you…"

"You are so full of it."

"Okay, fine… just don't come whining to me when Mr. Ghostface comes through here looking for blood." Macy again had to laugh.

A good twenty minuets went by before the girls had finished the first pizza and the storm still raged outside most of those twenty minuets were spent just talking. The first bottle of Captain Morgan was gone and the girls decided they wanted to try something different.

Macy got up from her chair almost falling over as she went to get the shot glass. "Would you be careful, you're gonna hurt yourself." Tina laughed at her as she walked into the counter on her way to get the salt.

"I can't…" Macy had to support herself on the counter to keep from falling over because of her laughing so hard. "I can't help it," She said taking in a deep breath to calm herself down. "When I drink my coordination is the first thing to go." Grabbing the bottle of tequila she made her way back to the table.

Another loud crash of thunder filled the air followed by a streak of lightning that hit the power lines connecting to the house. For any who might have been watching through some very crafty camera angles they would have seen it send a shock through the electrical system, which found it's way to the DVD player down stairs. The jolt of electricity caused the power to go out, it was out for only about five seconds but it was long enough to freak Tina out significantly.

When the lights came back on Macy found she had jumped over two chairs and was now attached to her arm. Macy just laughed at her as Tina let go of her arm and glared, the moment however was cut short by the sound of a crash coming from the basement followed by a muffled voice. The girls found themselves suddenly sober as they both stared at the basement door on the other side of the kitchen, their eyes wide with fear.

Macy felt Tina reattach herself to her arm. "It's Mr. Ghostface…" Tina whispered over her shoulder earning a look form Macy.

"Are you kidding me?"

"Well someone is in your basement." Tina hissed. "What are you doing?" She promptly grabbed onto Macy's arm as she began walking towards the door.

"I'm going to go down and see." She whispered taking her arm back.

"Are you crazy? They'll see you coming down the stairs." Macy paused; Tina had a point. "What are we going to do now?" Tina asked urgently as another muffled voice came from downstairs, this one louder then before.

"Come on," Macy grabbed her arm dragging her down the hall. "I have a plan." She pulled her into the bathroom and opened the cupboard under the sink to reveal a hole in the floor.

"The laundry shoot?" Tina gave her a questioning look.

"Yeah, the door to the laundry room is shut so they wont see us coming." Tina looked down the small square hole into the laundry room below; the drop wasn't that long, and there was a pile of blankets underneath, though she still didn't think it was a good idea.

But that didn't matter because before she could protest Macy was already lowering herself down the hole. She crawled in backwards and supported herself on the edge of the shoot then lowered herself down feet first. Once her body was completely dangling from the shoot she let go, dropping and landing softly on the pile below.

"Come on…" She urged Tina softly; mentally kicking herself Tina followed her friend's lead. "Man…" Macy whispered to her as she helped her up. "It's a good thing I didn't wash those blankets earlier like my mom asked me to." She finished walking over to a closet and quietly opening it.

Tina was listening to the intruders at the door she couldn't make out what they were saying, their voices were too muffled, but it sounded as if they were arguing about something, and it seemed like there were a lot of them. She almost screamed when Macy tapped her on the shoulder but she had quickly covered her mouth.

"It's just me," She whispered removing her hand. "Now… hockey stick or baseball bat?" She asked holding up her brother's sports equipment.

Tina thought it over quickly. "Give me the hockey stick." Macy handed it over and traded places with Tina.

"Okay, on the count of three…" Tina nodded as Macy griped the door handle. "One… two… three." With that Macy whipped open the door and the girls charged into the rec room with a half assed battle cry, Tina's being mostly a strangled squeal.

The two girls stopped dead in their tracks as they found themselves at the end of eight blades, their 'weapons' slipped from their grasps, completely out of shock, and fell to the floor with a thud. The two stood frozen in place, wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the spectacle in front of them.

There standing before them were seven very rugged looking men, all had drawn their weapons the second the girls had charged into the room. Although they looked as equally confused as the girls, they also looked ready to put their very effective looking weapons to good use.

There was a silence as they all stared at each other, Macy and Tina still frozen at the end of the blades. The silence seemed to go on forever until Tina managed to find her voice.

"Sweet Jesus, I'll never drink again…"