A/N: Here is chapter 2 of 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman in 'The Conjuring''. Now Peabody and Sherman are not only getting Sherman's famous person report done, but they're helping famous ghost and demon hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren solve the mystery of a haunted house. So, here is where we left off. Enjoy!
After spending their first night at the Warren's place, Peabody and Sherman were in the back seats of Ed and Lorraine's car in their way to the Perron residence. When they arrived, the car was parked in front of a large white house that looked very old.
"This is the place, alright" Ed said as all four of them got out the car. When they got to the porch, Lorraine knocked on the door, and Roger Perron and Carolyn Perron answered the door.
"Come on in" Roger said, inviting the four of them into the house.
"Kids, this is Mr. and Mrs. Warren and their friends Mr. Peabody and his son Sherman" Carolyn introduced them to their five daughters.
"Good morning, girls. It's nice to meet you" Mr. Peabody said. The youngest daughter gasped and got wide eyed and showed a smile.
"A talking dog! I told you they could!" she shouted to the middle daughter, who rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"These are our daughters, Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy, and April" said Roger.
"Hi" they said at separate times. Sherman just waved to them. He looked around the living room to see bedding and mattresses and pillows on the floor.
'With everything going on right now, they're probably too afraid to sleep in their own rooms' Sherman thought to himself. Peabody turned to Carolyn and spoke.
"Anyways, where did this all begin?" Carolyn had no problem complying with the beagle's questions.
"When we began smelling something awful. It smells like something just died" Carolyn said.
"A deathly smell is normally a sign of demonic activity" said Lorraine. Ed then noticed the doors to another room were tied shut by ropes at the knobs. Roger spoke as soon as he saw Ed staring at the tied shut knobs.
"Oh, that's to keep those doors shut to stop the banging. Because it just bangs all night long" Roger said as he tapped on the wall three times with his hand.
"Does it come in threes?" Ed asked. Roger nodded.
"Sometimes it's meant as an insult to the trinity. The father, the son, the holy spirit" Ed explained. Sherman got a little creeped out but then followed Peabody, Roger, Ed, Lorraine, and Carolyn up the stairs.
"The clocks stop at three o' seven every morning" said Carolyn as they got to the top floor to where the stairs ended. Sherman walked over to some picture frames sitting on the table and picked one up to reveal the glass in the frames had been cracked. Roger recognized Sherman observing the glass and spoke.
"We had to take those down because something kept knocking them down off the walls at night" he said.
After a while of looking around the house, Lorraine went down to the basement to take a look. Sherman was about to follow her down but Peabody stopped him.
"Sherman, I have a job for you. The youngest daughter hes been seeing this boy named 'Rory' I need you to talk to April about it. She's in her room right now. Can you handle it?" asked Peabody.
"Sure" said the boy walking upstairs to see April playing tea party with her dolls and on the plastic table next to the fake teapot was a wooden octagon shaped music box that looked like a circus tent and had a wind up key on the side.
"Hi there" said Sherman as he walked inside and sat down in front of April on the other end of the table.
"Hi, Sherman" April greeted.
"So, Mr. Peabody tells me you have a little imaginary friend?" asked Sherman with a smile.
"He's not imaginary, and his name is Rory. He lives here too" April told him.
"Oh really?" asked Sherman playfully.
"Yeah, but he's always sad" she said.
"Why's that?" Sherman asked with en eyebrow raised.
"He won't tell me. But, I think something bad happened to him" April explained.
"Do you wanna see him?" she asked. Sherman just shrugged and said "Uh, sure". April handed Sherman the circus tent shaped music box.
"When the music stops, you'll see him in the mirror standing behind you" she said. Sherman got a look that was just plain confused. He lifted the lid of the box to reveal a circular mirror with a white spiral pattern painted on the mirror with some of the paint faded. On the bottom of the music box was a little white clown with yellow fake hair and a blue hat, and a red nose.
"Well, here it goes" Sherman says aloud to himself as he winds up the key and the music began playing. The clown head popped up and down and the mirror on the bottom of the lid of the box rotated clockwise. Sherman looked into the mirror as the music played and when the music began to slow down, he saw something in the mirror. A pale white skinned boy with a black bowl haircut, hie eyes eyes are black all around. The boy's clothes were a black long sleeved shirt with a white pilgrim-like collar, and black shorts.
"Woah!" Sherman shouted in surprise after seeing the boy in the mirror. He fell backwards out the chair and then looked behind him to see that there was no boy, he was gone.
"Are you okay?" April asked. Sherman looked up to April.
"Yeah, just a little jumpy that's all" Sherman said as he got up and dusted himself off.
"Thanks for showing me, April" Sherman said.
"Your welcome" April said with her hands behind her back and a smile. Sherman giggled a bit nervously and sped out the room.
"Mr. Peabody! Mr. Peabody!" shouted Sherman as he ran outside to the backyard to see his dog-father with Ed and Lorraine standing underneath a tree and in front of a dock that lead to a lake that looked big enough for fishing.
"What's wrong?" asked the white beagle.
"I saw Rory. He was standing behind me in the mirror" said Sherman. Peabody's eyes widened and looked down to his hind paws in concern.
"Well, you're not the only one scared by this experience. Lorraine said something terrible happened in this house when she used her abilities in the basement" Peabody explained. Lorraine was a natural-born psychic and it helped with her and her husband's cases. Lorraine looked behind her and up to the tree with a look of horror on her face.
"Oh my God" she whispered.
"What's wrong?" asked Peabody.
"What is it?" Ed asked. Only Lorraine could see what she saw. But hanging from the tree on a rope noose was a woman in a white satin night-down. Peabody, Sherman, and Ed looked to where Lorraine is looking to see nothing. But even if they couldn't see what Lorraine saw, with Peabody listening to her in the basement and Sherman seeing Rory, they all knew officially that the house was haunted.
A/N: It's confirmed! The house is haunted! Keep in mind 'The Conjuring' was based on an actual case study by Ed and Lorraine Warren (Their most famous case is known as the Amityville Horror, which some of you are already familiar with). Also, in the movie, Lorraine is the one that sees Rory, but I decided for the sake of horror, have Sherman see the pale skinned pilgrim boy ghost in the music box mirror. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!