The team and other Superwolves and I then continued on. Soon, we noticed a familiar looking sign in the sky above us: the exit sign!
"There it is!" Someone ahead of us said happily. "There's the exit!"
"Richard!" I said.
Richard, the pirate book, and a new book that resembled a fairy, turned around. Richard immediately ran to us as the two books kept up with him.
"Where have you been?" Sam asked.
"Adventure led me away from you guys." Richard explained as he pointed to the pirate book.
The rest of us glared at him.
"You knew something dangerous was in that hole the whole time didn't you?" Molly said angrily to Adventure.
"You what?" The fairy book gasped to Adventure.
"Yeah, but I thought you guys would be able to handle it." Adventure explained, actually looking confused as to why we were angry.
"Well we couldn't!" Misty snapped. "We almost got killed twice!"
Adventure looked confused and shocked.
"Calm down guys, the three of us haven't been through a picnic either." Richard said.
The team and other Superwolves and I calmed down.
"Just don't do that again okay?" I said to Adventure.
Adventure nodded.
"Say, who's your new friend?" Eliza asked.
"I'm Fantasy." The fairy book curtsied sweetly. "So you guys know this short story too?"
"Yeah, according to Richard he's Adventure." T-Bone said.
"Honey that's what they all say." Fantasy said.
"Hey! I already told you that I'm a classic!" Adventure snapped.
"Mm-hm, and as I already said: a classic misprint." Fantasy retorted.
"Why you old sea serpent…!" Adventure yelled.
"All right! Come on I don't need to hear all that again." Richard interrupted. "Let's just get to the exit."
"'Fantasy', she's a bloody nightmare." Adventure muttered.
"Comedians and their favorite routines." I chuckled.
"I'm Adventure, not some crummy joke book!" Adventure growled.
"Watch it! I like joke books." I warned him.
"He's a joke of a book to me." Fantasy muttered.
Luckily, Adventure didn't hear that one.
We continued on until we neared an open gate in front of a very spooky house. Most of us knew right away that it was haunted.
"Looks like the only way to reach the exit is through that there house." Adventure said.
"No way I'm going in there." Richard said, a little scared.
"It's your only chance boy, it's just a house."
"Yeah but seventy percent of all accidents are household related." Richard explained.
I decided not to ask him if the house being haunted increases the percentage. I wouldn't have been sarcastic about it either.
The team and other Superwolves and I ran ahead of Richard and the two books, just missing the sign on the gate's post and the scrawl below that. Fantasy noticed both the sign and the scrawl as she and Richard and Adventure followed, but we didn't hear her read the names out loud.
"Go ahead matey," Adventure said as we reached the front steps. "I'm…I'm right behind ye."
Richard climbed up the steps, but when he reached the front door he hesitated for a moment.
"Well, ring the bell." Adventure said.
Richard did, and something suddenly screamed as it fell off the balcony above us! The thing landed harmlessly in Richard's arms and we saw that it was another book.
"Good catch." Fantasy complimented Richard.
"H-here, take it!" Richard said, apparently a little nervous about this new visitor.
This book didn't seem to resemble any characters unlike Adventure or Fantasy. Instead he looked like a book that hadn't been taken care of properly. He also had arms that were too long in proportion to his body.
"Isn't he sweet." Fantasy said, referring to the new book.
She then made kissing sounds – the kind used when seeing a baby. This caused the team and other Superwolves and I to automatically like Fantasy: she obviously wasn't prejudice.
"Oh I scared you," The new book apologized. "I'm sorry."
"You shouldn't judge a book by its cover." Fantasy pointed out to Richard, patting the new book on the head. "Look he's smiling!"
The new book indeed was smiling, but it was a practically toothless smile.
"That's a smile?" Richard said aside to Fantasy, looking a little disgusted.
"All right, teatime's over!" Adventure said, a little impatient. "Let's start navigatin' this house!"
"Huh? No, wait don't go in there!" The new book pleaded as he scrambled out of Richard's arms and cut Adventure off. "It's scary inside!"
"Ha!" Adventure said. "I ain't afeared a nothin'!"
"I'm afraid." The new book admitted.
"Of what?" Richard asked.
"Of…" the new book did a sort of bogeyman move with sort of monster scream sound "and…" he then cowered with a scream "and…" he then leapt into the air in a sort of monster pounce with a sort of 'boogala' sound "and…" then he screamed like a girl who was about to die of fright and collapsed in a dead position complete with a flower.
"Uh, I know how you feel." Richard sympathized.
Jimmy E and Shaggy and Scooby nodded in agreement.
"Horror always has sad endings." The new book said sadly.
"Horror?" Lupin said. "Is that your name?"
The new book nodded sadly.
"I come from a world of happy endings." Fantasy smiled. "Why don't you come with us?"
"Yeah!" Richard agreed, finally warming up to Horror. "And maybe you can help us through the house."
"Through the house?" Horror repeated, unsure; he then hesitated with comical expressions that seemed a bit ape-like to me.
"You can do it." Fantasy said.
"'Kay." Horror said. "Friend?" He asked, holding out an arm.
Richard gulped before preparing to accept Horror's arm…but then a spider crawled along Horror's arm. Horror sheepishly grabbed the spider and tossed it back into his pages before taking Richard's hand.
"Come on." Horror said, leading us up the steps.
Horror then opened the door and nervously looked inside as rats scurried away. As we started to enter, we only saw more evidence of the house being haunted without literally seeing a soul in sight.
"He-hello?" Richard said. "A-anybody home?"
Suddenly, the windows slammed!
"What was that?" Horror said nervously.
The door behind us slammed! Mystery Inc. and I were the only ones not startled though, this was a very old haunted-anything feature.
"Nevermore!" A raven cawed as it flew off the top of the doorway and over Richard's head.
"Get me outta here!" Richard cried as he desperately grabbed a doorknob
Instead of the door opening the doorknob flew out of his hands and hit Ed on the head.
"EVIL DOORKNOB!" Ed cried.
"RUN AWAY!" The Eds cried as they ran down a hallway.
"Eds! You get back here this instant!" I called after them.
"EDS!" The team and other Superwolves and I called angrily as we followed them.
We didn't know that Richard and the books hadn't followed us...
Later, we ended up in a room where we discovered the Eds cowering behind a couch. We quickly moved over to the couch's left and Rolph, disgusted, forced them out into the open. The rest of us glared at them…until Tintin saw something in front of us.
"Uh-oh, I now know what kind of haunted house this is." He said. "A mad scientist's laboratory."
Sure enough, there was a table covered in potions in various scientists' equipment. Soon, Richard and the books showed up along with a friendly looking man holding a cane and lantern. Since the room had a fireplace nearby and a chandelier, the man turned the lantern off and left it behind him.
A.N. In the movie it seemed as if Richard and the books stayed in the same room, but if you concentrate on the man leading them away you can see that they go past the couch and not just near it. Besides, no scientist would leave his laboratory out in the open, he'd put it in a different room. I will admit that it's weird that he has the same decorations both his entrance area and laboratory room, but then aren't all mad scientists eccentric?
"Every man is possessed of both good…and evil." The man said, apparently finishing whatever he was saying to Richard. "But enough of that."
Richard, Adventure, and Fantasy passed in front of the potions table as the man was talking, while Horror walked on top of the table – and ended up looking handsome behind a large bottle of potion! It was only a distorted image though, because Horror of course still had his real face the whole time. My friends chuckled, but stopped because for once I hadn't even smiled. Instead, I had on a 'heavy in thought' expression.
"What's wrong?" Clifford asked.
"Nothing, it's just that what he said about 'good and evil' seemed familiar somehow." I explained.
"Anyone care for a drink?" The man asked as he poured red liquid into a glass.
To the team, other Superwolves, and my shock it turned lime green just before the man put an olive in it!
"I'll have a go with you doc." Adventure said.
Adventure sniffed the drink the man had given him, but then noticed Horror approaching.
"Stay back! This is a man's drink!" Adventure held a hand out to keep Horror at bay.
"Can I have the olive?" Horror asked excitedly.
He moved closer to Adventure a little too hard, causing Adventure to lose his grip on the glass. The drink sailed through the air and landed on the floor.
"Uh-oh." Horror said.
"Now look what you've done!" Adventure said angrily.
We all suddenly stared as the spilled drink burnt right through the floor! Then we noticed that the man was about to drink the very same liquid!
"No! No, no!" Richard cried.
"Don't drink it! Don't, don't, don't drink…!" Horror cried at the same time.
"No, don't, no! Don' t drink it!" The team and other Superwolves and I cried at the same time.
The man drank it! He then suddenly hunched over in pain and tossed his glass right into the fire! The fire immediately began to glow green, bathing everything in green light! Then it looked as if electricity was pouring through the man before he glowed and turned into an x-ray for a few moments! The man started to slump over toward Richard and the books and placed one of his hands on Richard's arm. The hand suddenly deformed and grew hairs! Richard gave a cry of fright and broke free as the rest of us gasped. We all then stared wide-eyed with shock as the man threw his head back and laughed maniacally before covering his face with his hands! Richard and the books backed into the couch as we cowered by the wall.
"Dr….Jekyll?" Fantasy said. "Dr. J?"
DR. JEKYLL? Those of us who knew about that particular book moaned.
"My name is…" Dr. Jekyll, who wasn't Dr. Jekyll, said. "MR. HYDE!"
He uncovered his face to reveal fangs and glowing green and red eyes on the face of a crazy man! We all screamed! Horror quickly ran under Mr. Hyde's legs and leapt onto the chandelier. Mr. Hyde then started smashing his potions off of the table and hitting the floor maniacally with his cane before preparing to attack! Just then, the ceiling above the chandelier splintered. The chandelier then fell, causing Mr. Hyde to try to keep from getting hit by the chandelier. This resulted in him falling backwards into the hole Adventure's drink had caused.
"The stairs mateys! The stairs!" Adventure cried as we started to run away.
"Help master! Don't leave me!" Horror cried.
Startled, we turned to discover that he was trapped in the chandelier's chains! What was worse was that Hyde was holding onto another chain and pulling on it: Horror was about to fall into the hole too!
"This is no way to treat a library book." Horror muttered before crying desperately: "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"
A candle fell off the chandelier, and we could hear Mr. Hyde laughing evilly as the candle fell into the hole.
"Sanctuary!" Horror cried again, trying to stop by digging his fingers into the floor.
"Honey you got to help him!" Fantasy said to Richard.
"But…I...I…." Richard hesitated.
"*Ohh!*" Fantasy said in frustration before flying over to help Horror. "At least this wand is good for something."
She flicked her wand, causing it to catch on fire, and then used it as a blowtorch to free Horror from the chains. Later the team and other Superwolves and I found out that her wand only works in the Fantasy Section.
"Come on!" Adventure said.
We then paused at two stairways: up and down.
"Which way?" Adventure asked.
"Down, definitely down." Horror said…until downstairs started glowing a spooky red glow. "No, up! Up! Definitely up! Up! Up! Up!" Horror panicked.
I was in the back, so I noticed something that no one else did.
"You guys go on ahead!" I ordered.
Richard and the books, completely freaked out, obeyed but the team and other Superwolves stayed to find out why I was staying behind. It was to hold off Hyde! He somehow had made it out of the hole! The strange thing was, his eyes were now glowing entirely red without any green! I dodged his cane a few times, but he managed to knock me out anyway! Not for long though, a few seconds later I woke up and saw that he was about to finished me off! But before he could bring his cane down I noticed that he was in front of the hole again, so I kicked him in the stomach. He fell through he floor again, this time for good. I then ran back to the team and we started to catch up with Richard and the books. Danny and I were the only ones willing to continue though, because a whole bunch of ghosts were in front of us.
"Guys come on!" I said. "These ghosts are harmless!"
"Rhy ron't rhink ro." Scooby shook his head, frightened.
"Oh here." Danny said
At that, he used his ghost ray on most of the ghosts. Those that he missed screamed in fright and disappeared.
We then started going up the stairs. Later, we suddenly started to feel hot for no reason. The cause wasn't in front of us, so Lupin turned around to see if it was behind us…and it was.
"LAVA!" He cried.
We turned around, screamed, and ran away! Oh no, lava! One of the most dangerous organic substances on the planet! Even Jenny and Stitch, who are both lava proof, ran away in fright since we all had a bad feeling that this was no ordinary lava. Strangely, the staircase suddenly seemed longer than it had been before.
"It's official: we have now encountered everything!" Scrappy said.
"I agree, this is the first time I've heard of lava in even a haunted house!" Velma agreed.
"Personally I would've preferred hearing about it than actually encounter it!" Daphne added.
The rest of us all nodded in agreement.
Unfortunately, as we continued ruining we didn't notice Rudy getting his leg caught in a hole on a stair!
"Doggone it!" He said as he desperately tried to pull his leg free; this alerted us to him.
"Rudy! NOO!" Penny S cried, running to him.
Unexpectedly, she lost her balance as if something had grabbed her foot and almost fell over, but I caught her with my muzzle just in time.
"Let me try." Snap said; no luck, he ended up like Penny S: stuck.
Confused, we all looked at our feet and saw that some sort of sticky tar like substance had trapped us! At this point, the lava unexpectedly disappeared under the stairs just a few steps below Rudy. He relaxed with relief, but I had a bad feeling for some reason. The rest of the team and other Superwolves and I tried to break free from the tar, but it was no use…but then a burst of magic alerted us to the ceiling: a lever had magically appeared there! We realized that this could break us free from the tar, especially since the labels on the lever read 'sticky' and 'non-sticky', so those of us who could fly took turns trying to reach it. Unfortunately, not even Jenny nor the four of us had any luck. Fu-Fu, who had been flying the whole time and so was not stuck, then gave it a shot but the tar shot up a limb, grabbed him, and pulled him back to us!
"I don't think I want to know what this stuff really is." Addy winced.
Danny then gave it a shot, but even when he went intangible he still couldn't break free! He struggled and tried to fly towards the lever, but the tar put up a good fight.
"Better quit Danny it's at least as strong as you are." Alex called out to him.
"Maybe so but I've got a trick up my suit!" Danny called back.
He sure did, his top half split from his bottom half so that they were only connected by a stretchy wisp of ghost mist! His top half flew ahead…but the tar shot out a few limbs that grabbed Danny by the arms, stopping him just when he only needed another inch! Another tar limb then reached out, grabbed Danny by the neck, and poor Danny had to give up before the tar could choke him. The tar pulled him back in, and he ended up stuck in a lying position on the stairs.
"Okay, I really don't want to know what this stuff is." Samantha winced.
The rest of us winced in agreement.
"My turn!" George said, flying his Zooper plane to the lever.
He fortunately managed to dodge the tar limbs, and a claw attachment from the Zooper pulled the lever and caused the tar to disappear! We were free! Penny S was about to go to Rudy again, but I stopped her.
"I'll get him." I said.
But then I stopped myself: Jackie had already gone down to help Rudy! He smashed the stairs a little, freeing Rudy's leg. Unfortunately Rudy had sprained his leg a little when trying to free it so I went down to give him a ride. As the three of us started to go back, our friends screamed at something behind us…THERE WAS A GIANT LAVA SERPENT GLARING RIGHT AT US! Jackie, Rudy, and I screamed!
"Run, farewell," I said while running on air. "Adieu, goodbye, sayonara, and GANGWAAAAAAY!"
I then zipped over the others, who also had run away, but unfortunately Jackie had fallen behind!
"Jackie, hurry!" Uncle cried.
Jenny suddenly extended one of her arms in an attempt to save Jackie.
"Jenny no!" Brad said, stopping her by grabbing her arm gently. "It's not going to do anyone any good if your arm gets burnt off!"
"Brad's right Jenny, retract your arm." I agreed.
Jenny reluctantly obeyed with a sad look.
THE SERPENT COVERED JACKIE IN LAVA!
"JACKIE!" Jade cried. "NOOO!"
Unexpectedly, Jackie shook the lava off himself! He was all right!
"Talk later, let's get out of here!" Jackie said as he caught up with us.
The rest of us nodded and continued on. Danny, though, kept looking back at the lava serpent with a confused look.
"Wait a…that looks like that fire serpent from our last Adventure!" He said.
We looked and realized that he was right: it was the same serpent he saved us from during our last Adventure! That could only mean one thing…Voldemort is here! That was why we couldn't handle anything before, he had made sure of that happening! This also explained why everything had red eyes: he was controlling them!
Soon, we saw a door in front of us.
"Out of my way!" Eddy said rudely, pushing past us.
The rest of us glared at him as he tried to pull open the door, but he couldn't!
"It's locked!" He said.
Jimmy N studied the door for a moment, and rolled his eyes.
"Eddy stop." Jimmy N said as he opened the door…by pushing it.
Eddy walked outside, and then turned around to give Jimmy N a raspberry…and then screamed at something behind us.
"Behind you!" Jimmy N cried. "Run!"
The rest of us were confused, after all we were already running, but then we turned around…. ALONG WITH THE SERPENT THE LAVA HAD ALSO FORMED ITSELF INTO THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN, AND MR. HYDE! We screamed like never before, this time we were so terrified that it was indescribable! After we finished screaming we just stood there frozen with terror.
"Uh, Miranda," Ash finally spoke. "Any orders?"
"Just…one…word…." I answered. "AMSCRAAAAAY!"
The rest of the team and other Superwolves obeyed, though two of them took it a step further….
"Out of our way!" Double-Dee and Ed said as they ran past us.
This unfortunately resulted in them bumping into me and causing Rudy and I to fall over! Rudy and I fell through the stairs screaming as we disappeared!
"That's it the Eds are going down!" Jimmy E said angrily.
Everyone else glared in agreement and followed the Eds outside…except for two.
Penny S and Snap were mourning Rudy at the hole caused by Rudy and I when we fell down. As for me though, I knew I was being mourned in the back of my friends minds the whole time, it was just that they were too angry with the Eds to actually show it. Numbuh 274 would've showed more sadness than anger, but he had confidence that I would be able to save Rudy and myself. He didn't even bother to stay behind. As for Penny S and Snap however, Rudy always comes first. Noticing that they were still by the hole, Jenny used a retractable arm in order to grab Penny S and Snap and bring them to safety. Richard and the books greeted everyone on the other side of the door, and Richard asked them where I was. They explained, and Richard joined Penny S and Snap in mourning as the others cornered the Eds to the edge of the stone balcony we were on. They were getting ready to beat the Eds up….
"Hold it, that's enough!" I ordered.
Startled, everyone turned around and saw that I was alive with Rudy still on my back!
Actually, the team and other Superwolves shouldn't have been so surprised, but in their shock and anger over what Double-Dee and Ed did they forgot about my wings. I gently let Rudy down so that his friends could attend to him. Rudy at first seemed dead, but he woke up in Penny S's arms a few moments later. Overjoyed, Penny S kissed him – and he kissed her back – but this was off-screen since Camera was watching Richard and the books instead.
"Close the door!" Fantasy said quickly.
Richard and the other two books did. Fantasy then sealed the door handles with a skeleton bone – obviously they were waiting for us to arrive the whole time so that they could do that – while Richard ran up to me and hugged me. Secretly, I was the first friend he ever had and he was extremely grateful that I was alive. I hugged him back for a few moments, and then broke free so that I could approach the Eds.
"I…am…almost at the end of my rope here!" I said to them angrily; I wasn't even acting, even for our secret plan they had gone too far! "One more mistake, just one, no matter how small, and the three of you will become permanent Superwolf Watchers and will never join us on an Adventure again!"
That threat kept them quiet for the remainder of this particular trip.
I then stomped off to the edge of the balcony, which was no ordinary balcony. There were no railings nor anything like that, actually it looked more like an outside dungeon.
"Serves you dorks right!" Jonny said.
"You're lucky Miranda and Rudy are alive because I would've punched you off the wall!" Nazz added.
A few others gave the Eds raspberries, though nobody, not even Camera, noticed the Eds looking sad and guilty (only I did, that's how I knew).
After that, Jackie pulled out the dog talisman out of his pocket!
"I noticed that your bag was near me so I thought I'd use the dog talisman to help save Rudy." He explained as he gave Jade back the talisman.
"But I thought you didn't like using the talismans at all." Jade replied, both amazed and confused.
"I didn't…but then I got to thinking about what Miranda and Daphne both said, about the talismans coming in handy." Jackie explained. "They're right."
Jade grinned as she and the rest of my friends joined me at the edge of the wall. Richard looked down the wall nervously as he and the books too joined us.
"Down there?" Richard said, knowing what I was thinking. "I-I can't!"
Adventure leapt down. Fortunately the wall had places that made it easy to climb down.
"Come on boy!" Adventure called. "Even books have spines." He muttered to himself.
"Come master!" Horror called as the rest of us followed Adventure.
"I can do this, I can do this." Richard said to himself as he started to follow us.
He had stepped onto a ledge, but the ledge crumbled and he ended up falling onto a gargoyle head! Richard desperately clung on to the gargoyle as its eyes glowed red with a screech! But luckily, unknown to us, the Pagemaster's voice echoed in Richard's head and encouraged him:
Reach deep within yourself Richard and seize the courage.
Noticing a nearby vine, Richard grabbed it and swung down to the ledge that we were on! We all cheered!
"Yay! You did it! You did it! Yay! Yay!" Horror cheered.
"Grand boy!" Adventure cheered.
"Hooray, hooray, hooray." Horror cheered, hugging himself.
Richard only looked back towards the top of the wall.
"Wow." He said, obviously pleased with himself.