Goosebumps Adventures
is a Goosebumps fanfic by Stone-Man85, though it more closely resembles an original Magical Girl series (of the Magical Girl Warrior kind). In fact, the only thing that's Goosebumps-ish are the Monsters of the Week, which are usually various monsters that appeared throughout the books.
Anyway, fifteen-year-old Courtney McRaven Keller, along with her widowed mother and her Annoying Younger Sibling Max, have just moved to Amityville. Courtney has a hard time adjusting, but then again, she has always been a loner and she's never really made any friends.
However, her life changes forever when applies to work at a Halloween store. The store owner, John D. Stranger, hires her on the spot, gives her a book, and essentially tells her that her job is to make sure no one ever reads the book aloud, least of all her.
You can probably guess what happened next.
So the book turns out to be a Sealed Evil in a Can that housed a slew of dangerous and evil monsters. It turns out, however, that Courtney is also The Chosen One, and now, with the help of her newly-formed True Companions, (who call themselves the Night-Bumpers), she must re-capture the creatures and re-seal them into the book. In other words, a Goosebumps version of the cartoon series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.
Uses many Anime Character Types and Anime tropes despite the setting and series. The story is even divided up in multiple StoryArcs. Oh, and character profiles can be found at the end of the most recent chapters.
The author has since expanded the universe of Goosebumps Adventures with several other fanfics, including Goosebumps Adventure and AKH: Curse of the Mummy, a crossover with Gargoyles, Full Moon High, a side story set in the same universe but with different characters, and the upcoming Goosebumps Adventure: Stone and Darkness.
Goosebumps Adventures provides examples of:
- Cursed with Awesome: Gestalts like Elsa are whirling machines of death that were never human, but want to be like them...which would be an impossible goal, except they can hide their cybernetic parts at will except for the bolts which hold their heads to their bodies, which can be easily concealed via turtleneck. Immediately pointed out by Justin, which causes Elsa to quit with the Supernatural Angst.
- Dead Fic: This story hasn't updated since July 16th, 2015.
- Muggles Do It Better: In Chapter 18, Alex rams the Cerberus into the Monster of the Week (who at that point literally shrugged off everything the superpowered kids threw at him) and pins him to a wall long enough for Justin to cut off his head!
- Naked People Are Funny: Priscilla and her cronies are grabbed by the Haunted Mask-possessed Courtney while changing in the school locker room, and transformed into more monsters to serve her. After the Mask is defeated, they return to normal but with no memory of what happened, leaving them naked and confused in the town cemetery. The following chapter reveals they had to streak home, and just enough people glimpsed them to start humiliating rumors. When Courtney and Justin hear this, it's all they can do not to crack up in Priscilla's face.
- Non-Action Guy: Alex. Lilith even calls him "the normal one of the group".
- Our Zombies Are Different: Of both Type V and Type P varieties. Type P zombies are also flesh-eaters, and their bite can spread the infection. However, there IS a cure for a zombie bite....lemon juice. Chapter 22 shows that zombies can retain their intelligence and that they have their own society, including shops where they can buy replacements for rotted off body parts.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Courtney and Justin both insist this even though Everyone Can See It.
- Super Mode: Justin's Kinsmir-Blade allows him to transform into a half-werewolf, half-vampire! But he can't always control it.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Courtney has latent magical powers due to being descended from a bloodline of Wiccans.
- Transplanted Character Fic: A few Goosebumps monsters and R.L. Stine himself have guest star appearances in this fanfic. Other than that, this fic has pretty much nothing to do with Goosebumps.
- Weirdness Magnet: Trouble follows Courtney wherever she goes, which she lampshades in Chapter 21. However, in a subversion, weird and supernatural incidents have been going on even BEFORE Courtney moved into town.
