December 22, 2017 - 3 days before Christmas
3:17 a.m
Lincoln woke up to yet another noise. This time, it was a really unpleasant grinding. It made Lincoln's skin crawl.
All of the Loud siblings met in the hall. "What is it this time?" Lynn complained.
"Is it the coffee maker again?" Lola asked.
Leni gasped. "You don't the coffee maker's...haunted?"
"I don't know." Lincoln scratched his head. "You don't think Tattletail got out again, do you?"
"It doesn't sound like him."
"Why don't we just go see what it is." Luan suggested, biting her lip.
Lincoln grabbed the flashlight and his sisters followed him downstairs. They went to the Christmas Tree, and the gift box was open again. "Seriously, how does he keep getting out?" Lincoln asked, eyes wide.
"Where is he? I don't hear him." Lana looked around the room.
"Maybe it has something to do with the grinding noise?" Lincoln suggested. The Louds went down to the basement, and the grinding noise got louder. Then, in the corner, was the source of the grinding noise.
"Is that Tattletail?" Lynn asked.
"No, Tattletail was purple and smaller." Lola explained.
"Could this be...another Tattletail?" Lisa asked.
Lisa could be right. This thing looked like Tattletail, but it was bigger and brown. Its head twisted with a piercing grinding noise. There was something right next to it. Lincoln picked it up. "What is this thing?"
Lori looked at it. "I don't know. A really pointless toy?"
Luna looked. "Guys, this is a cassette tape."
"A what?" The Louds asked.
"A cassette tape. It's what folks used to rock out back in the 90's. You can also watch movies with it." Luna explained. "I think this goes in here." Luna put the tape into the Tattletail.
"How do you know what a tape is?" Lucy asked.
"Mick Swagger has some really sick songs on tape. I collect them." Luna and the others listened to the toy, which was now playing music.
"The children thought Mama would never find them as long as she couldn't see them. Turn the page."
"I guess her name is Mama." Lincoln shrugged.
"But Mama could still here them. The pitter-patter of their little feet lead Mama right to them. Turn the page."
"This is creepy." Lucy shivered. The Louds were a little surprised to see her do that.
"Then Mama found the children, every last one, and put them right back to bed." Then, Mama turned off.
"Well that was...weird." Lori cringed.
"If that was tape, why didn't it stick to anything?" Leni asked.
"Maybe we should find out where Tattletail is." Lincoln suggested.
Then, Tattletail's laughter could be heard upstairs.
"Well, now we know where to find him!" Lincoln whipped out the flashlight, and Louds headed upstairs. They found the noise in Luna and Luan's room. Tattletail was sitting on the floor, in the middle of a bunch of different objects. Drums, CDs, prank supplies, clothes and a bunch of other stuff cluttered the room.
"Tattletail?" Luna didn't look happy. "What'd you do?"
"Look at what me did!" Tattletail laughed shamelessly.
"I think someone messed with Tattletail's mind!" Luan laughed. "Get it?"
The rest of her sibling groaned. Lola picked up Tattletail. "Show me Mama!" Tattletail demanded.
"I don't wanna." Lola groaned.
"Why don't we just make it happy." Lucy groaned. "That thing is starting to creep me out."
"I thought you loved creepy." Lisa questioned.
"Even I have my limits."
The Louds went downstairs. "Mama's over there." Lincoln mentioned.
"We know Lincoln. We were there." Lori remarked, sarcastically.
Lincoln shined the light in the corner, but Mama was gone. The Louds let out a short scream.
"Where'd she go?" Luan panicked.
"I'm freaking out! What's happening!?" Lana shed a tear, shivering.
"What are you up to!?" Lola shouted in Tattletail's face.
"Mama hates you." Tattletail responded.
"That's it! I'm wrapping you back up!"
The Louds were halfway up the stairs when Tattletail started complaining "Give me a treat! Give me a treat!"
Lola growled in anger. "RRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH! Why did I ever want this stupid toy!" Lola dashed up stairs, leaving her siblings behind. She took some of Dad's casserole and shoved it in Tattletail's mouth. While Tattletail devoured the casserole, there was a whimper coming from the dining room.
The rest of the Louds came in. "What was that?" Lincoln asked.
Lola shut the fridge door. "I...don't know." All the fire had drained from Lola's eyes. She gazed in fear at the source of the sound. The whimper was heard again. "Charles?"
Something flew through the air, and landed right at Lola's feet. It was a white dog leg. Blood splattered on the floor.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The Louds shrieked.
Then, something appeared at the entry, and Lincoln's flashlight went out.
"Mama's coming!" Mama looked different now. She now had glowing red LED eyes. Her head was spinning rapidly and now had six sharp teeth. She was moving toward the Louds.
The Louds let out another scream and dashed upstairs. Lola wrapped up Tattletail in ten seconds, threw him back under the tree and ran up with them. All of them ran into their rooms and shut the doors.
Luna and Luan ignored the mess, even though Luna kept stubbing her toes on the scattered objects. Nobody got any sleep that night either. They kept dreaming about a demonic Tattletail and bloody animal parts scattered all over the house.