Chapter 7: Aria Makes More Friends
In the Graveyard:
Rudy and Snap are still looking for Aria and they need to find her fast. But the problem is that they practically looked everywhere and are running out of places to look.
"Aria!" Rudy screams looking for Aria.
"Aria! Where are you?" Snap screams looking for her too.
"Where is she?" Snap asks worried.
"I don't know but we still need to find her," Rudy answers.
"But we looked all over the graveyard where else she can be?" Snap asks panicky.
Rudy starts to think for a bit trying to figure out where else Aria can be. Then it hit him, there's only one place they haven't checked.
"I know of one place we haven't look," Rudy says.
"Where Rudy?" Snap asks questionably.
"You know where," Rudy answers. Then makes his way to where he thinks Aria is.
"I do?" Snap asks confusedly.
At the Concert with the Skull head:
Apparently this is where Rudy thinks Aria might be in there and it's the only place they haven't looked, so the Concert Skull hast to be it. He remembers from the last time he been here it's actually bigger inside. The only problem is that Snap doesn't like the idea at all.
"Rudy you can't serious?" Snap says sacredly.
"It's the only place we haven't looked," Rudy answers. Then he decides to head inside to see if he can find Aria.
"It's your funeral," Snap replies concernedly.
And with that, they go into the giant skull to see if Aria really is in there. They both hope that Aria is alright and hasn't got herself into trouble.
In the Dining Room:
Jacko thought it will be a good idea to get Aria acquainted with some of the other monsters in the graveyard so she will be more open up to others, since he can tell she's pretty shy. Though, Jako is more interested in getting acquainted with Aria and to learn more about her.
Just then a walking scarecrow comes over and says, "Hey Jacko I see you got yourself a girlfriend and a mighty cute one I might add."
"Oh, I'm not sure I'm that cute," Aria replies blushing.
"Don't sell yourself short you need to sell yourself tall get it because you're tall," Scrappy says acting like a comedian, a really bad one.
"Is that suppose to be a joke?" Aria asks questionably while looking at Jakco.
All Jacko does is groans and put his hand on his forehead, simply because he is always annoyed by Scrappy's bad jokes.
"Trying to tell more of your bad jokes aren't you, Scrappy," A young mad scientist, with wild black hair comes out to see Scrappy and the others.
"Hey Poindexter. How it going, Science Geek?" Scrappy says with great glee.
"I told you I'm not a geek. I'm just very well read and intelligent," Poindexter says annoyed.
Scrappy is getting upset about Poindexter not being the fun type and cheerfully says, "Come on, you need to have some fun once in awhile or else you'll be in pieces?"
The two are about to get on each other in some kind of fight. It almost comes into a fight until...
"Hey guys," A girl's voice calls.
Everyone turns to see a witch and a ghost. The witch has dark green skin wearing a witch's outfit with a broom stick and wearing black and orange striped tights and black boots. The ghost floating behind her is white wearing a small red bow tie on it's neck
"Wisteria," Poindexter and Scrappy say together happily.
"Hello Wisteria how are you doing my ghoulish friend?" Poindexter replies happily
"Oh brother, you got to be more settle with the ladies. I got a spider cupcake just for you," Scrappy replies trying to give her a cupcake.
Poindexter adjust his glasses and firmly says, "Trying to bribe her with sweets. Honestly Scrappy, you need to be more practical with these things."
As they are walking, Wisteria notice someone she never see before with Jacko and she wants to introduce herself to her. With that, Wisteria and her ghost friends walk over to where Jacko and his new friend is, hoping to say hi to her.
Wisteria asks, "Hey Jacko, who your new friend?"
When Wisteria asks, Scrappy and Poindexter decides to walk towards her so they can introduce themselves to her as well and ask her what is her name.
"Guys this is Aria. Aria this is Scrappy, Poindexter, Wisteria, and Wisp." Jacko says.
"Hello," Aria replies with a smile.
"Hi Aria, it's really nice to meet, I'm Wisteria and this is my ghost friend Wisp," Wisteria replies as her ghost friend is floating behind her.
"Ooooooooh!" Whisp replies.
"It's nice to meet you," Aria replies.
"Yeah. I'm Scrappy," Scrappy replies happily.
"And I'm Poindexter," Poindexter says.
"Hello," Aria says happily.
"So what's bring you here? Probably going to see the concert tonight right?" Scrappy asks.
"I guess so," Aria answers shyly.
Scrappy smiles big and says, "Good because you're going to love seeing my comedy routine."
"My science presentation is going to be spectacular," Poindexter brags.
"More like boring," Scrappy says with annoyance.
"It is not, and your routines are terrible," Poindexter yells angrily at Scrappy.
"It is not and besides your routine is pathetic," Scrappy screams angrily.
"Take that back," Poindexter yells angrily.
And then Scrappy and Poindexter starts to fight about their performance for tonight.
"No they're not!"
"Yes they are!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is not, is not, is not!"
"Is too, is too, is too!"
Not including Poindexter and Scrappy, Jacko, Wisteria, and Wisp are seeing that Aria is not feeling to comfortable seeing the two arguing to loudly and with anger.
Wisteria is starting to get very angry about them arguing so much that she decides to break them up and stop them from arguing, again.
She angrily screams, "Well you two stop that arguing!"
When Wisteria screams, it catches the attention of everyone in the room including Poindexter and Scrappy. They both look at Wisteria with a surprised look on her face when they hear her scream with anger.
"Honestly, you two are going to scare our guest," Wisteria adds with anger.
"Sorry," Poindexter and Scrappy says shamefully.
Wisteria comes over to Aria and says, "I'm sorry about Poindexter and Scrappy, those two argue all the time."
"It's okay," Aria replies sounding calm.
As the friends start to get to know each other.
Just then a female voice calls out, "Hey guys!"
Everyone turn to see a skeleton girl wearing a dark blue dress, black boot, and a black fedora coming towards them while carrying a box full of decorations.
"Hi Chris, what brings you here?" Wisteria asks.
"I'm here to bring some more of the decoration," Chris says, showing them the box of the decor she's going to use.
Everyone, including Aria take a look at the box that fer full of cobwebs, candles, and other stuff to make the part spooky and exciting.
"Wow these are amazing," Wisteria says sounding impressed.
"Yeah. These are great decoration," Scrappy adds with a smile.
"They're just what we need for our festival," Poindexter replies.
Aria and everyone else are looking at some of the decorations and they can't wait to see them put around the area so it will look great. Jacko on the other hand, knows that Chris needs to get back to work.
He goes up to Chris and says, "Chris is there something you need to take care of."
Chris looks at Jacko and explains, "I know that, I just also came here to tell you that I just saw Ruby and Snap coming this way, something about looking for a someone name Aria or something."
Jacko groans with annoyance and says, "Oh right, I forgot about those two,"
Aria says while asking, "Um Jacko?"
"Yes Aria," Jacko replies.
"I know it may not be my business, but you seem to have some kind of problem with Rudy and Snap, is there... something wrong?" Aria asks sounding a bit concern.
Everyone starts to look at Aria when she asks about Jacko's problem with Rudy and Snap. The thing is, they don't want to bring that problem up.
Jacko says, "Yeah, it's a long story."
"Yeah, but it doesn't matter now that he got you in his life now," Scrappy replies with a grin on his face.
After hearing Scrappy saying that comment, Jacko and Aria looks at each other and then look away blushing like crazy. Even though they barely know each other, they both seem to like each other very much.
Aria starts to feel very embarrassed and shyly says, "Oh, um…. well I…"
Just then, Wisteria, Poindexter, and Chris angrily screams, "Scrappy!"
"I can't believe you would say something like that," Poindexter yells at Scrappy.
"Yeah, are you trying to embarrass them or something?" Wisteria asks in anger.
"Sometime I wonder if you actually think before you say something," Chris adds with anger.
"Sorry," Scrappy says feeling ashamed.
Aria comes in and says, "Guys, maybe you shouldn't be too hard on Scrappy. I'm sure he doesn't mean it."
At first, Chris, Wisteria, and Poindexter wants to angrily lecture Scrappy a little more, but know that he sometime doesn't think before he acts. So they decide to take Aria's request and go easy on him.
Chris says, "I guess we can leave you off with a warning, but no more funny business."
"Okay," Scrappy says still feeling a bit ashamed.
Just then Chris says, "Come on guys, we still need to get the concert ready for tonight."
"Yes mam!" Everyone, excluding Jacko and Aria say in the room agreeing to the idea.
With that, Chris, Poindexter, Wisteria, Whisp, and Scrappy begin to leave the dining room so they can get everything ready for the concert tonight. Just then Wisteria see something that really surprised her. She can see the nice outfit Aria is wearing and it's very familiar to her.
She shockley says, "Wait a minute!"
"What is it?" Aria asks.
Wisteria looks at the dress Aria is currently wearing and now she knows why that dress looks familiar. She made one of these clothes. Wisteria makes clothes not only for herself, but for others for special events. Scrappy and the others are stop in their tracks after Wisteria screams with a shock. They are wondering what kind of situation and Aria and Wisteria are getting to.
"These are the clothes I made for the party tonight," Wisteria says looking at the dress.
You mean the one for the guests?" Scrappy asks.
"That's the one," Wisteria answers.
After hearing it, Aria starts to feel embarrassed and guilty about taking this dress and wearing it without asking.
Aria sadly says, "I… I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take it without asking it's just... I need to use those clothes to hide myself."
"Hide from who?" Poindexter asks.
"From Skrawl," Aria sadly answers.
"Skrawl!" Everyone screams with a shock.
Aria simply nods her head in reply. From the looks on her face, the others can tell that something must have happened when she first arrive in the graveyard. An this Skrawl has something to do with it.
Wisteria turns to Jacko and asks, "Jacko, did something happened before you met Aria?"
Jacko sighs and answers, "Yes. And I'm afraid Aria needs help."
"Um Jacko, what is going on?" Poindexter asks.
Jacko doesn't want to explain about Aria's story, so he looks at Aria and to hoping what she think she should do. Aria on the other hand knows that Jacko wants everyone to tell them about her situation. She then nods her head in reply about telling. Jacko thinks it is best to tell them what is going on, so they decide to tell them about Aria's adventure and troubling encounter.
Little do they know, Skrawl and his beatle boys are spying on the group. Skrawl realize that as long as Jacko and his friends are around, getting Aria to be his hostage is going to be difficult. He needs to come up with a plan to get her away from them and he needs to do it before Rudy and Snap finds her first.
