Disclaimers: I do not own The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and "Star Wars". They belong to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George Lucas, Bioware, Electronic Arts, and Disney. All other canon material belongs to their respected owners. All original material belongs to me, the authoress of this fanfiction story.

Inspiration for Fanfic: Disney's "The Haunted Mansion", the 1999 film version, "The Haunting", and "Ghost Ship", especially on how these places became haunted.

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Welcome to the conclusion to my fanfiction mini-duology, The Chesapeake Manor, part of my Origin Series and my Long Series. :)

I know. It's a duology now. When I first worked on the first fanfic for this duology, I was convinced it was going to be a trilogy. Reality had other ideas for this fanfic, and so it became a duology.

Enjoy. :)

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The citizens of the First World fled the planet before its untimely destruction. They were scattered across the Universe, which was created by the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, as he created the First World beforehand, searching for their families in the many galaxies and worlds the Universe had to offer.

Empires rose and fell. Kingdoms became nomadic settlements, rising again to become Kingdoms. The time Before the First Age and the First Age were interesting. So many losses. So many deaths. It was only going to get worse in the Second Age, during the time when Parker Dooley adjusted to spirits trying to possess him, like his human wife, Eliza Bowler-Dooley, who had been killed by the Sith Emperor Vitiate's Force Lightning, when Parker became whole and good again.

Parker vowed vengeance on Vitiate, but didn't get his chance, for the Hero of Tython defeated Vitiate. And with that, Parker | Maranguan's empire, the Shadow Empire, fell to ruin, transforming from the lush, green planet Zafna to a barren broken planet called Teremode.

And so, we are caught up to recent events with the Chesapeake Manor, during the beginning of the Second Age, where more terrible events were about to ensue.

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Parker Dooley opened his eyes. His nostrils caught the smell of moldy jello. Flies zipped about the jello, making the jello and the little pieces of squid smell even worse. How long had this jello been sitting here? A day or two? Several hours? He didn't want to know. He just hoped he could figure out what happened to him.

Parker was a dragonoid with a thin, muscular frame. He had a humanoid, lizard-like body and a dragon-like head. His scales were smooth and in a light reddish color. His snout was short and had a tipped end pointed up towards the sky. His cat-like eyes blazed yellow as he looked about the table, trying to refocus on the room again. He had three-fingered frills, with black tips on the ends, that rested on the sides of his head. His horns were short, grey, curvy, and wavy, while his long, furry red ears sat in-between his horns and his frills. His black claws, resting on his fingers and his toes, were a little extended, signaling that danger was at hand. His black spikes ran from his back down to his medium-sized tail, which curled around his feet.

As Maranguan, Parker had red eyes with pinkish hues in the whites of his eyes, showing how villainous he had become. There were burns, bruises, and cuts on his body and head, during his time as Maranguan. As he became more like himself, more like Parker Dooley, his burns, bruises, and cuts vanished, while his eyes became yellow, but with a twist: red mist swirled in his yellow irises, signifying the good and evil that resided inside himself.

In his human-hobbit form, Parker resembled the gentle-hobbits Tobias—Parker's brother-in-law— and Parker's descendants, Terrence Dooley, Delphi, Dalpha, and Frodo Baggins. Parker, in this form, had bright blue eyes, a cleft in the chin, rosy cheeks whenever he was happy, pale skin, short pointy ears, fair elvish features, and soft, thick, curly dark brown hair on his head and the tops of his feet.

Today, he wore a white dress shirt, tan suspenders, and dark brown breeches. The miraculous thing about Parker, whenever he shapeshifted, was that his clothes transformed with him.

Of course, Parker couldn't dismiss the rapid shapeshifting he endured, thanks to his human wife Eliza Bowler-Dooley, now in spirit form and still retaining her brunette hair, pale skin, and green eyes, possessing him hours ago. That small act caused Parker to rapidly shapeshift between forms, including his human-hobbit form, his dragonoid form, and Maranguan, who showed up out of nowhere to cause poor Parker Dooley more grief than what was worth.

Maybe Maranguan would return, as he said one night, when the spirits convinced Parker Dooley to go back to the Portal Realm, just so his bloodline could continue. Maybe Maranguan wouldn't return. Either way, Parker knew the beast inside of him would return sooner or later, depending on the circumstances.

It was only a matter of when that moment would occur. For now, trouble brewed in the Chesapeake Manor. Parker was about to find out just how much trouble the Chesapeake Manor was in.

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Parker's focus returned fully.

He jumped back in surprise at the smell of carnage and blood dripping across the floor. His mouth gaped open at the sight of the corpses strewn about the ballroom floor. The red, blue, and green banners were in tatters, the stone balcony leading to the first floor was in ruins. Blood pooled out from the dead bodies, leaving dark red pools rippling away from the corpses.

Many of these corpses were still in their ballgowns and tuxedos, as if they were still dancing on the ballroom's dance floor.

This was not a sight Parker needed to see! What happened? And where was Frodo, Delphi, and Dalpha? He couldn't find them.

Seriously, what happened?

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Thanks for reading. :)