Kat was board...Casper was off doing chores for his uncles who were doing God only knows what and her dad was out with a client leaving Kat to flicker through the five channels of the T.V. for half an hour wishing something at least half decent would come on. Kat flung her head back in audible frustration when her wish hadn't come true. Kat then began to wonder about something that surprisingly enough didn't come across her mind earlier. What was Casper's school life like? Kat decided that she had nothing better to do so she headed up to the room in the attic which held quite a few boxes that she has not checked out yet.
Opening the first box Kat came across, she found a small collection of old photo's. Kat picked up a few and examined them. They were rather big, held a ripple of bumps all around the edges and was yellow and brown, why do people call them 'black and white' photo's when they obviously weren t? Anyway, the first picture was of what Kat could have guessed is a family photo. In it were a man and a woman stood next to each other with none other than the handsome boy she danced with at her Halloween party, Casper. He stood right in the middle of his two parents. They were standing just outside of the mansion they lived in. It looked a lot less creepy ninety years ago. The second photo was a cute little boy about one to two years old in what looks like a fur coat...The little boy had a cheeky little grin that could only belong to Casper. Kat smiled at how cute he was. The third was of what Kat could guess as Casper's mother, she was wearing the dress Casper had given to her to wear to the party. His mother was pretty, she had long hair and her hair was lighter that her husbands, she was probably blonde like Casper.
Kat rumbled through a few more photos when she spotted another box but smaller, this had caught her attention by the light coming in from the windows, well, that part of the window just happened to be a little less dirty than all the others. Kat made her way over to the box, ignoring the cobwebs, she opened it with a little difficulty. Inside she found wrinkled papers, browned with age with a small Christ on them saying underneath;
'Broben Willows High School'
Kat had found Casper's old school reports. It seems our friendly, little ghost was a little prankster. Kat read that Casper had shoved frogs in all of the girls desks, put glue on his teachers chair and had scared a girl by dropping a spider on her head. All in the same day. Kat giggled at this report picturing Casper actually doing that. At that moment, as if on cue Casper came gliding through the walls and his eyes lit up when he saw Kat.
"Hey Kat! I've been looking all over for you!" Casper glided over to where she was sitting.
"Hello Casper, could you explain this?" Kat asked handing him the report. Casper grabbed the paper and read it.
"Hey! I remember doing this!" Casper laughed.
"What made you come up with those ideas?" Kat asked curiously. Casper thought for a minute sitting on the box he was hovering over.
"Well...everybody hated out teacher, Mr. Rigsby he was called, Oh, but he wasn't in that day,
we had Mr. Randall, the substitute, he was a little better, but of course I got a whip on the hands several times for the glue prank and five detentions..."
"You got whipped on the hands?" Kat was supprised, that was against the law.
"Yea, it wasn't illegal back then."
"Did it hurt?" Kat felt sorry for all children back in those days.
"Well, yea, It left red lines on your hands, sometimes they bled." Kat made a noise through her teeth and shuddered. "The frogs were just a random prank...and I kinda had a crush on the girl I put the spider on, I was really supprised that she wasn't really scared by it..."
"You had a high school crush?" Casper scratched the back of his neck, obviously embarrased but he could tell Kat anything.
"Yea, thinking about it, she resembled you quite a lot..." Kat blushed at hearing his words. "Hmmhmm...and if I remember correctly, she just suddenly appeared and mysteriously vanished."
"Really? How strange..."
"Yea, it was. I saw her later that day after school with strange cloves on..."
"Strange cloves? How was they strange?" Kat asked picturing a girl in a fat penguin suit.
(Sorry but I can't think of anything else...)
"Yea, she was wearing jeans and a red T-shirt, they, like the pen, wasn t made till years after."
"What pen?" Kat asked getting a little confused. Did he say anything about a pen...?
"Well, During class, she didn't have an ink pot, but she had a pen similar to what you would see today."
"Really?" Kat asked in more confusion. Ink pots??? Oh yea, the pens ran out every like,
five seconds and you always have to dunk your pens in to refill it...
"Yea, strange isn't it? She was only there for a day as well..." Casper remembered something more, "I think She asked me to remember where something is buried..."
"Really? where?"
"I dunno, I forgot...Hey! Do you know what my classmates called me?" Casper suddenly said out of nowhere.
"What?" Kat said smiling. It's probably got something to do with all the pranks he pulled...
"The fordge master, the prankster and the code breaker!" Casper was really remembering a flood of memory's long forgotten and was indeed happy to remember them.
"Ok, I understand where they got the prankster from but forage master? code breaker?" Kat was going to be supprised by what he was going to say next.
"Yea! I could forage anybody's signature and handwriting and I could break any code lock!"
And there was that cheeky smirk of his.
"Woa! You could be a master thief or a secret agent! Where did you learn those?" Kat was practically gawking. All those sick notes he could write for me...
"I didn't, I learned it myself...I was a little trouble maker you know..." Casper's cheeky smirk widened and a mischievous glint sparkled in his eye. Casper and Kat laughed for a while as Casper told Kat about all the mischief he could remember had gotten into. Casper then suddenly remembered the had to make dinner before his uncles got too angry with waiting and Casper zoomed downstairs. Leaving Kat to take one last look around before walking to the door. As she was walked towards the door, Kat noticed something slightly shinning lying on the box to her right, it was a very large, old brass key with a swirly pattern on the top. Kat picked it up, wiped the old dirt off it and examined the old thing for a bit before placing it in her pocket.
Once Kat was downstairs at the kitchen table, she started examining the key. It's a really pretty key...I wonder what it belongs to...
"Here ya go, Kat, Dr. Harvey..." Casper said placing some delicious looking quazine in front of them.
"Thanks, Casper." Ooo...that looks delicious...
"Thank you, Casper." Dr. Harvey said probably thinking the same thing.
Once Casper had finished serving the other three residents and after they left, he started cleaning the floor after them, shaking his head wondering why he even bothers.
"Well, then you two, I have to go, I've got a client in...ten minutes." Dr. Harvey said looking at his watch. After good-bye s from Kat and Casper, he quickly left.
"That was delicious, Casper." Kat complimented finishing the last of the chicken. Yummy...
"Thanks, I've not really had much practice on proper meals because my uncles eat ANYTHING, but I'm glad you liked it, Kat." Replied Casper grabbing the empty plates to wash up.
"You could be a chef and a secret agent, you know! I'll bet you'll be really good at it!" Kat said humeringly and Casper gave a little laugh. "How would you like to go on your first mission?"
"Sure, Kat! What do you have in mind?" Casper answered finishing off washing up. Kat fake thanked, knowing very well what she wanted to do.
"How about finding what this key unlocks?" Kat said whipping it out from her pocket.
"Cool, let's get on it now." And with that they speeded out of the kitchen. "Here, let me have a look at the key." Casper said and Kat handed him the key letting him examen it.
"I think it might belong to a door, a secret door." Kat suggested and Casper gave it a little think.
"Hmm...no it can't belong to a door, it's too big..."
"How about a money box?"
"No...still too big. The lock would have to be on something big as well." Casper said thinking what it could possibly fit.
"Like a valt?" Kat asked and Casper smiled.
"Yea, that would work!" Casper shouted in excitement. "But, before we do anything we have to write out on a piece of paper which rooms we have looked in, there are soo many rooms and secret passageways in this house that sometimes I even get lost..." Kat giggled and nodded in agreement. Casper and Kat made their way to Dr. Harvey's study where they borrowed a pen and a small, empty notebook.
"Well, where shall we start?" Kat asked exited about what she could find.
"Hmm...Well, since were here why not the study?" Casper said starting looking behind every wall which holds paintings.
"Sure, anything?" Casper shook his head.
"I'll mark off then...s-tu-d-y." Kat said writing in the first page of the note book. The kitchen, living room, all the bedrooms, library, laboratory and attic had nothing in them except Casper found a bookshelf with a false back, in the library, that lead to the bookshelf in the lab and several loose bricks in bedrooms to hide money in, before they had banks obviously. "We looked just about everywhere and still can't find anything..." Kat said looking a little disappointed.
"I know somewhere we haven't searched." Casper said smiling trying to cheer her up.
"Where?" Kat asked with a rey of hope.
"Your standing in it!" Casper flew around to search the massive hallway. "Hey! Kat!" Casper shouted popping his head out of a massive portrait of some guy she has been meaning to ask about, but not now.
"W-what!?" Kat said excitedly
"I found a valt here! It's only small but I think the key may fit!" Kat rushed over to the painting but was too short to reach it. "Let me." Casper said floating up a little and, with difficulty, opened the painting as if it was a door. Kat handed the key to Casper who popped it in the keyhole, gave Kat an exited look who returned the same glance and twisted it. The vault made a clicking sound and Casper opened it reveling a small metal box with a number combination lock. Casper quickly grabbed the box and put it on the floor to examine more. The box was dark brown and had a code swivel lock on it.
"Casper, this is where the code breaker proves himself." Kat said with a grin. Casper audibly nodded and handed it to Kat to hold for him while he placed his ear on the side of the box and carefully turned the wheel round one way and back to the other, Casper repeated this process before he heard a clicking sound on the box and it was open. Kat and Casper exchanged exited glanced before opening it.
"It's a book..." Ooo...I wonder what s in it...
"Well, read it." Casper said excitedly jumping up and down in the air. Kat taken it out, It was small, black and I think it's made out of leather. Opening it Kat noticed very fancy handwriting, it was probably a diary or a journal. Kat read the first few lines with Casper peering over her shoulder.
"My invention to bring back my son is working, I call it Lazarus, I have turned the TIME MACHINE!?" Kat stopped wide eyed and silently asking Casper if he knew about it but Casper mirrored her expression and Kat carried on reading. "...I have turned the time machine into a resurrection machine to bring my son back to life. I have not completely changed it so, both machines are operable with different settings. I decided to scrap the time machine because I have found that you cannot change the fabric of time, no matter how hard you try. It will always happen no matter what." Kat glanced back over to Casper, both in shock.
"Umm, Kat?" Casper asked in a strange tone. "That girl who mysteriously vanished...was she you?"
"I dunno...do you think so?" Could it possibly...?
"Well, it would answer afew questions." Casper said shrugging.
"Like what?"
"Like the pen, cloves, the fact that she knew my name before I told her..."
"She knew your name?" If she isn't me, was she stalking him?
"Well, I just remembered and-" Casper's eyes grew wide. "I just remembered where she told me she buried something!"
"What!? Where!?" Kat asked as quickly as possible as if his memory was on a timer.
"Follow me!" Casper said grabbing Kat's hand and leading her out of the house towards Friendship Bay's park.