Chapter 7. Gumball the Hero (sort of)
Gumball didn't know how to get into the house. The hole was on the 2nd floor and going through the door would be too close. Gumball didn't have a plan. He just stood there, wide-eyed and dumb-looking.
Finally, he had enough courage to go through the door. He tried looking for a stick in the nearby forest grounds. When he found one, he ran with it across the huge front yard of the house and yelled, "I'm coming to saaave youuu!" with dramatic music in his mind.
As he came near the house, he started to hit the door in an attempt to break it.
After 15 minutes…
"Argh! It won't open!" Gumball said in frustration, "Now they'll all die – and it's all because of me!"
"Oh wait a sec, I never actually tried to open the door normally! Hehe" Gumball realized. He turned the knob and the door opened easily, "Haha! – huh?" Gumball got confused by the situation. Carrie was helping Tina and Ms. Simian!
Gumball quickly got in to help; the door shut tight behind him like the last time, but this time it didn't scare him. Gumball was glad to help.
"Throw the pepper at her!" Carrie screamed, "Ghosts don't like pepper!"
Gumball looked around him. Looks like Carrie have piled up pepper against the wall on the right side of Gumball. He frantically started to throw it at the ghost.
The previous owner of the house cried in pain and anger. Carrie was drawing a circle of pepper around her.
"Oh I get it! She's going to get rid of it forever!" Gumaball re-called. (Episode: The Flower) "But wait, where's Tina?!"
After an hour of constant battle, the circle of pepper was complete and Carrie has lit candles around it. It was calm and quiet.
"You guys go look for Tina," Carrie said, "I need some peace and quiet to complete this ritual. You all can wait outside the house and wait for me to come out."
Ms. Simian didn't say anything. She beckoned Gumball to follow her.
"You know where Tina is?" Gumball asked.
"She was in the basement supplying the pepper. She is big, so she could lift heavy weight," Ms. Simian replied, "Tina!"
"What?" Tina replied from downstairs, "Why is it so quiet all of a sudden?"
"We defeated the ghost," Gumball said cheerfully.
"Gumball?" Tina called, surprised.
"Yeah, I decided to stay back and help," Gumball said.
"It was about time we needed another hand," Ms. Simian.
"I didn't know that haunted houses have so much pepper in their basements," Gumball said.
"Yeah, it surprised me too," Tina said, "Good thing Carrie found this; if she didn't, we could have died."
"Yeah," Ms. Simian said.
"Come on, let's get out of this shack," Gumball said walking out the back-door. Ms. Simian and Tina followed.
Outside~
Tina: Where's Carrie?
Gumball: She says she needs to perform a ritual. Let's wait for her.
Ms. Simian: Where's the rest of the group?
Gumball: Rocky took them to find the nearest highway.
Carrie comes out through the front door and looks for the others. She meets them at the back of the Mansion.
Gumball: Hey! You are back! What did you do to the spirit?
Carrie: It's impossible to set the spirit free from this house, so I trapped her in a small closet and locked it from the outside. Where do we go now?
Gumball: I don't know. I didn't see which direction the group went.
Everybody looked worried about where to go. Suddenly, the small group heard footsteps. Someone was running towards them. "Be careful," Ms. Simian said, alerted by the noise. Then, far ahead in the corner of the back yard was Darwin. Gumball was quick to spot his brother, "It's Darwin!"
"Gumball!" Darwin called as he ran towards him and hugged, "I thought you were dead!"
"Rocky and the rest of the class found the highway!" Darwin said happily once he let go of Gumball.
The group seemed to be happy and followed Darwin through the forest to the highway. There, the rest of the class was extremely happy to see that Ms. Simian, Tina and Gumball survived. Finally, the group (those who made it alive) was safe…
Carrie also performed a ritual to set the spirit of Banana Joe, Terry and Alan's free from the mansion, but she didn't mention it in front of the group.