It wasn't long before they were lost. The trail seemingly stopped in a small clearing.

"Now what are we going to do?" Mick asked

Nina shrugged, "Maybe there's some sort of hidden path?"

"Nina look!" Amber called, the ghost man was back, and he was pointing to a spot on the ground.

Nina ran to it, and started to clear the dirt around it, when it was gone she was able to read what was engraved on the stone slab.

"Mannus Collins. Died 1986. Survived by this son, Arghus Collins." Nina looked up, "You're Mannus."

The ghost nodded.

"Who's Arghus?" Amber asked

Nina pieced the puzzle together, "He's the vampire."

Mannus nodded grimly.

"Could you help us stop him?"

Mannus beckoned for them to follow him, and walked into the bushes. They walked along a barely worn footpath, when they were pretty far in Mannus disappeared.

"Mannus!" Nina called, Amber did the same.

"Wait." Alfie said "Whats that?"

He pointed the flashlight on an old wooden door, and then the rest of the stone building.

"I think this is what Mannus wanted us to see." Nina concluded.

"You don't say" Jerome commented sarcastically.

Nina rolled her eyes, "Amber and I will check it out, you guys stand guard." She ordered

"Do I have to?" Amber asked

Nina grabbed Amber by the wrist and pulled her in. The room was pitch black, it took them a couple minutes to find a light switch. It was a sort of workshop, with lots of doll parts and masks everywhere.

"Wow. Talk about lack of cleaning. They need a Trudy." Amber commented.

"There must be something here to help us," Nina said, she walked to a work bench, on it were stacks of books. Nina picked up the top most and thumbed through to the last entry.

"Amber here!" Nina called "It's a diary, listen to the last entry. 'I now know what Arghus is doing with my machine. He's making puppets out of humans. They seem to be alive from what I know, but someone must stop him. By March I will be gone, leaving him to complete his task.'"

Amber turned white, "Human puppets? Is that what Eddie, Mara, Joy and Poppy were? Human Puppets?"

Nina nodded "He's trying to turn us all into one."

"Okay. I think that's a big problem."

"You think?" Nina asked

Suddenly they heard an outcry from the boys, and they rushed in.

"The vampire!" Jerome exclaimed "He's coming."

They bolted the doors shut, and hid under the table. They heard the door being pounded on, then nothing.

"He's gone." Mick whispered

They climbed out from under the tables. Alfie continued into the next room and let out a gasp, "Whoa. I think Victor's been here."

The others walked into the room and found themselves in front of a table full of testubes and chemicals. In the center on a small podium was a small jar full of a clear gelatinous substance. Nina picked it up and read the label aloud "Concentrated puppet potion." She looked around to the others "Looks like we found what turned everyone into puppet" she turned it around and read the back,

"Its water soluble." She said.

"Is that why there are sprinklers everywhere?" Amber asked

Nina nodded "We need to get back up to the house."

"Do we have to?" Mick asked

They crept up the front steps of the house and opened the door, there was no sign of Arghus the Vampire. They walked up to the doors of the loading dock, which were unlocked. Instead of traveling in the cars, which gave Arghus full view of them, they walked it on foot.

The props were still moving as they walked on the tracks, but there was no loud music playing, giving the room a scarier feeling. When they were getting close to Eddie and the others, they heard the clanking of the car, which zoomed past them faster than when they had ridden it.

They continued on, though more cautiously, letting Mick lead. They hadn't gotten far at all before mick stopped.

"Sprinklers!" he said shining his flash light up to a yellow pipe. "We can just get up there-" he didn't finish his sentence as the same grim reaper dropped down on him, carrying him upwards.

"Mick!"

The grim reaper came back into sight, without Mick.

"We need to figure this out, and fast. Or else we'll all be wax puppets." Jerome stated.

"We need to get back up to the tower." She looked at the stones of the tower. "We can use these as a ladder." Nina put her flash light in her mouth and started to climb, she had a few close calls but ultimately made it. The others followed, though unwillingly. Nina tried to open the door to the control room with no luck.

"We could turn on the water main," Jerome suggested

They looked for the yellow pipes, on a narrow ledge; there was a small wheel to turn the water on. Nina looked at the ledge that circled the tower.

"I guess I'll have to turn it on," she said, slowly stepping on the ledge.

"Nina." Alfie said proudly with his chest puffed out. "I'll do it. After all I am, The Amazing Alfredo."

Nina stepped back and let Alfie start to walk along the ledge.

Jerome spoke up, "I'll help you buddy, and after all you aren't very strong." Jerome started to get on the ledge and caught up to Alfie. Alfie's foot slipped, but he grabbed a lantern holder just in time. Although it took Jerome's help for him to get his foot back up. They were able to get over to the other cat walk that led to where the water main was, but alfie's foot went through a weak board, and he got his leg stuck.

"Really Alfie?!" Amber called, and then she stepped on the ledge and started to make her way over to them. Jerome was able to get Alfie's leg out and they continued along. They walked along the windows, and stopped just under the valve.

"Alright J-maestro, boost me up." Jerome sighed and let Alfie step onto his hands.

Suddenly one of the props in the ride started flying towards them, causing them to fall through the window.

"Alfie!" Amber screamed, and finally stepped onto the catwalk. Nina followed amber, and they went to the broken window.

Alfie and Jerome landed in something soft. Alfie felt his face "I think we're alive." Then he stood up,

"Dude. Where are we?" they were in some sort of factory room, filled with a giant machine.

"Do you think this is the machine used to turn people into puppets?" Jerome asked, walking up to the control panel.

"Absolutely."

Alfie leaned over the end of a conveyor belt, looking at a tube that was dispensing the same gelatin stuff they saw earlier.

"He probably puts the person on this conveyor belt, then they get dumped with the puppet maker potion. Then they dry and become the puppet." Alfie theorized

Jerome wasn't listening, he was examining the control panel, curious he pulled a lever. The conveyor belt theat Alfie was leaning on turned on. Causing him to fall forward onto the belt.

"Jerome!" He yelled "Turn it off!" He was coming closer to the puppet potion that was now seeping even faster. His feet were already getting soaked with the potion. Jerome turned it off just before it got to his shins.

"Aw. Look what it did to my new trainers!" He swung his feet of the conveyor belt and succeeded in sticking his foot in a bucket. "And now my foot is stuck; great going Jerome." Jerome held back laughter as they tried to get the bucket off his foot, which was stuck due to the potion drying.

They heard screaming as Amber came falling down, also landing in the soft stuffing that they had landed in.

She stood up and gave Alfie a quizzical look, "Why is your foot stuck in a bucket?" she asked

"Long story." Alfie replied "Can you help us get it out?" Amber sighed and helped Jerome unstick alfies foot.

They had just gotten it unstuck as Nina came tumbling down.

"I still have the concentrated potion," She said holding up the bottle, "We should get rid of it."

"No you will not." Came a raspy voice, from behind the machine Arghus appeared. Amber screamed, and took a clove of garlic and threw it at him. Which he caught and then threw behind him.

"Give me the potion." He said.

"Never!" Amber screamed. Arghus picked her up and threw her onto the conveyor belt and started it up. Alfie and Jerome rushed to her rescue trying to pull her off. Arghus then walked towards nina.

He made a swipe for the potion, but Nina ducked and ran behind him. He caught her arm and took the potion from her.

"Stop!" she yelled, "Don't do it!"

He hesitated, long enough for Amber, Alfie, and Jerome to grab him and push him onto the Conveyor belt. Nina grabbed the potion, but then she felt a touch of sympathy for him. Letting her good side rule over, she ran to the control panel and shut the machine off.

She walked over to Arghus, who was still lying on the conveyor belt unable to get up because his legs were frozen. "You can make the right decision. You could've had friends, instead of pushing them away. You ruined that after turning the triplets into puppets. Although you could still change that, by letting us turn everyone back to normal." Arghus stared at her, the faintest hint of a smile on his face.

Then he grabbed the jar and used it to beak the shell that was on his legs. Then he ran away taking the potion with him. Nina ran after him followed by the others. But it was too late, he had already made it to the control room, and they were in the middle of the ride, giving him full ability to capture them.

"Arghus!" Nina screamed at him "Stop!"

Amber took her hand, "It looks like we've lost." She murmured.

The room went dark. Then a spotlight went up, on a ballerina, Patricia. Then another spotlight went up, on a boy in a graveyard. Fabian. Nina started to cry, she knew she was going to meet the same fate as them.

Then it started to rain.

Nina looked up at the tower, to see Arghus, smiling holding up a broken jar. Then she returned her attention to the puppets. They started to drip, becoming more life like every second. It wasn't long before everyone was back to normal.

It was a sweet reunion; there were hugs and kisses, and words of thanks; although they had to deal with three 12 year olds that were frozen for thirty years. Patricia was a bit upset that she was a ballerina, and Eddie sad that he had lost his trainers.

They packed up their stuff, realizing they had only been in the house for 24 hours.

Fabian and Nina were walking out together, hand in hand. Arghus had just told them that he would be turning the mansion into an amusement park, for everyone to come and have the spook of their life.

"You are amazing." Fabian told her

"What?"

"You were able to turn a man, who hated everyone, to a man who wants to make a fun land."

Nina laughed "I can be very persuasive."

"Yes. I know."

The others caught up with them, laughing.

"Hey. I can't believe I am looking forward, to going back to victor and the house." Eddie commented

"I can't believe that we were turned into live dolls" Poppy said

"Yes, yes." Joy laughed "We know. It was a weird adventure."

"Why do the weirdest things always happen to us?" Amber asked

"Maybe because we have a Chosen one, and an Osirion," Fabian guessed "Two people who aren't normal tend to attract not so normal situations."

Nina elbowed him in the ribs as they closed the gates behind them. Looking back at the house one more time.

~THE END~

Hey all, keep your eye out for my next fan fic: House of Anubis: Secret of the Seven Sins.

Thanks for reading.