Hey-o, everyone! It me again, the King of 2211, forming at you with yet another Sly Cooper fic in a haunted house, only this time, it's based on the "Phantom Manor" ride in Disneyland Paris. I admit, I've never really been to Paris, or any other country outside the U.S., besides Niagara Falls, Canada, but I hope this'll be enough. Anyway, Sly Cooper is owned by Sanzaru and SuckerPunch, the rides and characters from them belong to Disney, Peter and Company is owned by Jonathan Ponikvar, The Roomies are owned by its owner, but the one OC is mine. Enjoy!

Prologue: Tales of the Ravenswoods

Old Thunder Mesa, Texas.

One of the largest ghost towns and popular tourist attractions next to the Alamo.

Our story in this quaint, little ghost town begins with one of the most haunted house in all of Texas, the abandoned Ravenswoods mansion. You may not believe it, but beauty once lived in this house . . . And beauty lives here still. I tell no lie, during the 1800s this ghost town was once a flourishing boomtown, which was also the base of one of the largest mining companies during those times.

The story truly begins with a prospecting man who owned the mansion and went by the name of Henry Ravenswood, a wealthy businessman, who was also the founder of the Thunder Mesa Mining Company at Big Thunder Mountain and lived on Boot Hill with his wife, Martha. It would also be on this hill, which overlooked the boomtown and river below, that the couple would have a daughter and only child, of whom they loved very much, Melanie Ravenswood.

Big Thunder Mountain was thought by the local Native American tribe to be home to a powerful spirit known as the Thunder Bird, which would take the form of unnaturally large bird of prey. According to the local legends, it's wrath could be materialized into a nasty storm or a terrible earthquake. However, Ravenswood believe in such ridiculous stories and urged his workers to continue. Though he was warned more than once about how angry the spirits of the mountain would become if the settlers did not stop mining, he mere shrugged them off. As time went by, the gold in Big Thunder Mountain began to run short, which also made the miners dig deeper into the mountain.

Melanie would grow from a little girl to a beautiful young woman, who had caught the eyes of the many young men in Thunder Mesa, though Melanie had eyes for one. As she grew, she would meet a young boy, who would grow up to be a train engineer and fall in love with Melanie; a feeling that she would return. It was not long after that the engineer had proposed to take the hand of the Ravenswood heiress' hand in marriage, which she had happily accepted. Though Henry was happy for his daughter at first and consented with plans for the wedding, he later found out that his daughter's beau wanted to take her away from Thunder Mesa, which enraged the matriarch and had vowed to do everything in his power to keep them from being wed.

His useless attempts never went into motion a titanic earthquake had struck Thunder Mesa in 1860, which had led to the death of Henry and Martha. It appears that the warnings that were ignored had come true, lead to the awakening of the Thunder Bird; the Ravenswood family was never seen again after that.

After being buried for several years, the story of what really happened had finally came out of the rubble . . .

On Melanie's wedding day months after the funeral of her departed parents, a mysterious and unknown spectral figure called the "Phantom" had appeared at the manor. As Melanie was busy preparing in her room, the Phantom lured her suite to the attic where he was hanged by the neck from the rafters.

In the ballroom, the bride sat all alone and as the hours went by, there was still of the groom anywhere. Guests slowly filed away, leaving Melanie alone in the house with the mansion's staff of maids and butlers. "Some day", she would tell herself, "he will come". And so, never taking off her dress or dropping her bouquet of flows, in preparation of her loved one's return, she wandered the house aimlessly, singing melancholy songs of lost love.

The Phantom, who still lurked deep in the mansion, laughed at her human devotion to her intended husband. One after another, the Phantom would in invite his dead, demonic friends from the afterlife to fill the house in an eternal party. The shape of the house was slowly transformed by the forces of evil.

Years passed.

Inside and outside, the Victorian mansion had slowly started to decay. Dusty cobwebs covered every inch, the disheartened staff not caring or it was rumored that Melanie had lost her mind. She wondered the for years and years, softly singing to her groom, while all around her the ghosts and demons would revel and dance. No matter where she would go around the mansion or how many times she'd pass by, Melanie was constant reminded of the wedding she wish she had, but never happened. As she did all this, the manor was filled to the brim by the Phantom's eternally cruel laughter as it carried through the walls of the house. Outside, the once beautiful grounds began to fall apart and quickly started to crumble. The gilded staircase and structure were dotted with mold and every tree and plant that grew on the grounds surrounding the property died almost instantly.

As if sensing that evil had inherited and took over the mansion, inside and out, nothing living ever trotted there anymore. None the less, Melanie kept hold of her hopes and dreams, waiting for the love of her life to return one day, but never truly figured why he had "left" in the first place.

The earthquake that took the life of Melanie's parents had cut a huge gouge in the west hall of the property and in the now crumbling ghost town of Old Thunder Mesa. The deserted buildings were rumored to be called "Phantom Canyon", the dark supernatural area of the town and anyone who had dared to enter the ghastly old town late at night would never be seen again.

To this day, no one knows if Melanie Ravenswood is still alive in the old mansion atop Boot Hill, but if she did, she'd be over one hundred years old. The sound of her beautiful voice still carries and echoes over the town at night though, through the walls of the mansion and wind at night. It has even been reported that unexplained lights have been sighted inside the house itself.

Some nights, when the moon is full and the sky is clear of clouds, you can still hear the lonely mourning of the bride, the maniacal laughter of the Phantom, and the faint tinkle of glass and laughter of party guests. Whether or not she is still alive, what is well-known is that the poor Melanie never left the crumbling mansion, even with the occupying spirits, as she still waits for her groom until Judgement Day.

Many believe the Phantom to be the spirit of her father, Henry Ravenswood, seeking vengeance from beyond the grave; others believe it to be a spirit of pure evil and was brought unto the young Melanie Ravenswood.

That story had been told over and over among the residence of New Thunder Mesa for almost two hundred years . . . but a new story begins as a class of High School students would dare to brave what's inside . . . and finally free the tormented from its walls . . .