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"Payback, Sticky. Were you and your little whore 'frolicking' in the woods?"
"I will claw your eyes out!" yelled Amanda, but was held back by Sid.
"What is going on?" Sid demanded.
"Let me go! You will be hearing from my attorney!"
Sid saw his father in handcuffs, being held by some officers.
"DAD?!"
"Don't do this!" Aswin cried as the officers lead him out of the house. Sid tried to run after them, but was held back and pushed to the ground by some remaining officers.
"Get this sucker over to the station!" The Chief ordered.
Aswin was forced into the car while Robert could only watch in shock and horror at what was going on.
"Uncle Robert! What happened?!"
"These men came in and started wrecking the place! They had a warrant, but I wasn't able to get a good look at it. Something about stolen property."
"Wait, the pin." whispered Sid to Robert. "It's the only reason they would be here. They want the footage from today."
"Hey Sticky! Where is it?!" yelled Sarah.
"Don't worry, I hid it down in the basement." whispered Robert.
"Where's what?" said Sid.
"Don't play dumb with me! Where's that stupid pin at?!"
"I won't tell you anything!"
"Okay then. Reed, beat it out of him."
Robert was held tight as Sid was thrown to the ground and the officer started whacking him with their batons.
"Stop it! STOP IT!" screamed Amanda.
"Where. Is. It?!" Sarah said with anger and impatience.
"PLEASE! STOOPPPPP!" Amanda screamed on the top of her lungs, but then suddenly, something banged against the basement door. Everyone halted and looked towards the door. Without a warning, it flung open and the mummy bursted out, letting out a raspy moan.
"Holy shit! What the fuck is that!?"
The officers started shooting at it, but the bullets had no effect. Then the mummy let out a loud scream and the officers all bolted out of the house in fear and hopped into the car without looking back. Chief Maas drove off with Sarah in the passenger seat and Aswin in the backseat. Sid looked at the reanimated corpse in shock.
"Uh...thanks?" said Sid.
The mummy moaned in response.
"Sid! Oh my god, are you ok?!" Amanda asked hysterically.
"Yeah-OW!" He held his side ache with pain.
"Let's get you patched up." said Robert.
"What about my dad?!"
"I'll make a few calls. We'll get this fixed."
Amanda looked petrified when she saw the mummy before her. He shared back at her with it's empty eye sockets, sending a chill down her spine. But she couldn't freak out. She couldn't scream.
"Amanda, it probably thinks you're a queen or something." said Robert. "Try giving it a command."
She nodded and took a deep breath.
"Kneel before your queen." She said with authority.
But then suddenly, out of nowhere, the undead pharaoh spoke, but it came out in gasping words as if he were having a stroke.
"Y-You...are...not...m-my...queen." It said in perfect, yet fragile English.
Amanda's eyes widened when it did.
"It talks! Oh my god!" cried Amanda.
"Who are you?" asked Sid.
"I...am...Prince...Khor-Rhu." The mummy answered.
"How are you able to speak?" asked Robert.
"Learned...from...museum."
"And how are you alive?"
"G-greeeeen...mist..."
"Green mist? What does that mean?" asked Amanda.
"After I awoke...there was green mist clouding...my vision." Khor-Rhu explained. "I managed to peer from my sarcophagus to see the mist emitting from a strange box embroidered with the words..."Slappy"."
Robert felt his world shook at that familiar name. "No. This can't be." He whispered.
"What are you saying?" asked Amanda.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out the enchantment note. "Sweet god, what have I done?" whispered Robert to himself.
"YOU READ THE SPELL?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!"
"Amanda, calm down." said Sid.
"I AM COMPLETELY CALM!"
"Could have fooled me." said the mummy.
"So, there's a crazy dummy wandering around and my dad was taken to jail. Things couldn't get any worse."
They heard a roar in the distance and screams of people.
"I spoke too soon." deadpanned Sid.
"Excuse me." said Sid as he rushed out the door.
"Wait, Sid!" cried Amanda.
But he was already out on the street. Robert then chased after him, so make sure nothing strange happens. Sure enough, Sid came across the neighborhood streets and found a fallen street light, sparkling. That's when he noticed the familiar form of the white-haired creature running down the road.
"Sid!" shouted Robert from behind him.
Sid continued to run toward the white-haired creature. He veered left in order to cut it off at the pass. He jumped out and that caused the ape-like creature to cry out.
"WHOA! Easy there! I'm not gonna hurt you! I want to help!"
The creature looked at him in confusion and eyed him closely, sniffing him. Sid held his hand out to it and the creature curiously followed his example. It poked his hand with it's large fingers and held onto him tightly. Then Robert finally arrived at the scene. Sid looked at him and the creature froze.
"It's okay! He won't hurt anyone." Sid begged.
Robert walked up cautiously to the creature as it's eyes fell upon him. "I recognize you. You're the Abominable Snowman of Pasadena."
"The what?" asked Sid.
Back at the house, they managed to squeeze the yeti into the house where it was know sitting in the living room with the Khor-Rhu and the lawn gnomes were just casually doing normal business, curiously checking things out. Amanda and Khor-Rhu couldn't stop staring at the giant frozen ape-man that looked almost too big to fit in the room.
"This is the Abominable Snowman of Pasadena?" asked Amanda.
"Yeah, I know this sounds crazy, even for me, but we should try and take this slow." responded Robert.
"Now, it appears that Slappy is behind all this. I need to find him and get rid of him. That would put an end to whatever spell he's put forth."
"Yeah. But, what about my dad? The police chief is gonna tear him apart!"
"Let me make some calls to a few friends."
Lenny was down in his basement once again playing Call of Duty: Black Ops.
"NO! Where was my cover fire?! You pieces of..." He was interrupted by Robert's call. "What do you want?"
"Lenny, I need your hacking skills. Aswin's got arrested illegally by the police chief."
"Why should I help you? I don't feel like going to prison! There's no WiFI there!"
"Look, Aswin needs our help and we need your expertise on getting him out. This will be like one of your video games but in real life."
"Hmmmm...does this mean I get to be the Eagle Eye?"
"You got it." said Robert.
"I'm in! Just give me a few minutes to prepare. I'll contact you again."
"Good. I have two others who might want to help."
Jared and Caleb were at the bar again playing pool.
"Don't even think about tryin' to hustle me man." warned Caleb.
"I wouldn't dream of it, mate." smirked Jared. Just as he was about to strike, his phone went off. "What?"
"Jared? It's R.L. Stine. Is Caleb with you?"
Jared put the phone on speaker.
"He's here."
"What's up?"
"How do you guys feel about taking down a corrupt police chief?"
Both Caleb and Jared smiled at the thought.
"That sounds mighty good there, mate."
Robert just left to pick to the up. Sid sat in the room gazing at the giant yeti before him, Amanda and Khor-Rhu.
"Do you have a name?" asked Sid.
The creature grunted and shrugged it's shoulders.
"Why don't we name it?" said Amanda.
"Well, what do you suggest?" asked Sid.
"Ummm, Kanok?"
"Eh, too much." Sid shook his head. "How about Snowball?"
"That's a bit cliche." said Amanda. "Iceman?"
The Abominable Snowman looked at her confused and grunted in disapproval. Sid gave her a "really?" look.
"You're right." Amanda stated.
"Tenzin?" replied Khor-Rhu.
The two teens looked at him confused before the creature made sounds of agreement.
"I think he likes it." smiled Amanda.
"Tenzin?" repeated Sid. "That's not very bad."
Meanwhile, Robert had Caleb and Jared in his car. He told them the story of why Aswin was arrested.
"Are you kiddin' me, man." yelled Caleb.
"That's a load of bollocks." cried Jared.
"I know, but after tonight that stupid chief is going to get what he deserves."
"I've had conflict with Chief Maas and it never ends well for me." stated Jared.
"Before you got put behind bars." Caleb added.
"So how are we going to do this?" asked Jared.
"I've called Lenny in to use his hacking skills to get into the system. We're gonna catch up with him at his house." said Robert.
A few minutes later, they pulled up to Lenny's house. His mother was out working. They headed down into the basement.
"Ah, gentleman, welcome to my lair." The gamer joked.
"What are you? A villain?" snarked Caleb.
"Anyway, what do you got, Lenny?" asked Robert.
"It's complicated." said Lenny. "I think whoever has this pin put a protective virus on it."
"Come on, you're the expert." urged Robert.
"I-I'm working on it." said Lenny.
"Hey! Lenny! We're out of Redbulls!" A younger boy's voice called from upstairs.
"Not now Kenny!"
Kenny, an 11-year old boy with dirty blonde hair, along with another boy, his friend, Westlake, came down.
"Bro! Seriously, we need our Redbull!"
"Well, why don't you and Westlake go get some?!"
"Dude! My board's messed up and mom's got the car!" Then he smiled. "Unless you want me to use yours."
"You ain't touchin' my baby!"
"Oh, what's this?" A devious grin came to Kenny's face as he held up car keys.
Lenny's face became full of shock and fury. "You wouldn't dare."
Then Kenny took off with Westlake up the steps and Lenny chased after them.
"Kenny!" He shouted. "Gimme those keys!"
"Not so fast, fat boy." cried Caleb grabbing Lenny's shirt collar.
"We need you working on this right now." said Robert.
"UGH! Fine!"
Lenny sat back down and got to work.
Meanwhile, Kenny and Westlake were outside on the driveway and laughing their heads off.
"I can't believe you managed to get those keys!" said Westlake.
"I know right, my bro's such a douche!"
"Do you even know who to drive?" asked Westlake.
"I learned it from playing one of brother's video games." said Kenny hopping into the driver's seat.
"That's not the same." Westlake said. "This is real life."
"I know what I'm doing." Kenny replied, putting the keys into the ignition and turning the car on.
"Where are we going?" asked Westlake.
"The cornfields." Kenny said.
But unbeknownst to them, Slappy was hiding in the trunk of the car. The two made a pit stop at the store and made it to the cornfields.
The yeti (or Tenzin) was looking over the family photos. He observed one frame of Aswin, his wife and a younger Sid with curiosity. Sid noticed and walked over.
"That was a great day. I remember how much fun we had at the park."
Tenzin grunted and pointed at the woman.
"Oh, uh, she's no longer with us. She...she passed away."
Tenzin saw the sad look on Sid's face and pet him on the head causing Sid to smile a bit.
"Thanks."
Amanda was walking past the gnomes as they looked directly at her while she stepped over them carefully. One of them grabbed onto her leg playfully.
"Ah! Geez, don't scare me like that! I'll play with you guys later ok?"
Khor-Ru was reading over a book on the seven wonders of the world.
"So much has changed since I've ruled." He muttered with remorse.
Meanwhile, Sid decided to take a look in the basement to see for himself what else was down there. He flipped on the switch and looked around to see a mess of the green slime.
"Ugh! Looks like boogers." He grimaced.
It started moving toward an old brick and soon absorbed it.
"Uh, that's not good."
The brick grew to the size of a couch, nearly too big to fit where it was sitting. Sid grabbed the container the slime came from and suddenly, the green mess moved towards the container, climbing itself inside. The brick shrunk back to it's original size, amazing Sid. He looked at the label of the container.
"Monster Blood."
There was also a camera on a wooden table and he grabbed it, observing it with curiosity. Then there came a loud thump, jumping Sid out of his wits. He followed the noise toward the other room in the basement where the furnace and opening to the crawlspace was. There sat other antiques that Aswin had kept, along with a wooden coffin. What would his dad being doing with a coffin? Did he steal this from a cemetery? Then the loud thump came again, which was coming from the coffin. Sid was pale with fear. What could possibly be in there? A zombie? He could've run upstairs not looking back, but he stayed still, thinking about what was in there. Against his better judgement, Sid hesitantly grabbed the lid of the coffin and slowly opened it. Inside of it was a sickly pale man with shaggy black hair and dressed in all black. There were black rings around his eyes and he had the ears of an elf. But then Sid jumped back and fell over when the body opened it's eyes. The figure sat himself up from his coffin and looked right at Sid.
"You will do." He said.
"Do for what?"
"My dinner."
Then the mysterious figure lunged at him with his hands out which were sharp as knives, almost like claws. Sid ran out from the room, but the figure was already on top of him. The figure opened his mouth to reveal shape canines, meaning he was a vampire. Sid thrashed to try and free himself from his tight hold. The figure was about to sink his fangs into Sid's neck before he was smacked on the head by a lamp by Amanda.
"Don't ever touch him!" She shouted in anger.
The vampire clutched his head, getting off of Sid. Feeling disoriented and stunned from the blow, he fell on his butt to the floor.
"I...I wasn't going to hurt him. Much." said the vampire.
Khor-Ru rushed down the steps to see what was the commotion about.
"Really, Nightwing?" asked the mummy.
"Oh, come off it, bandages! I've been asleep for years and nothing to eat! How could I not be peckish?" The vampire, Count Nightwing, exclaimed.
"Still no excuse for attacking my boyfriend!" yelled Amanda.
"Easy there, girly! Now unless you don't want me attacking again, get me something to eat now!"
"We'll get you some meat or something. No bitching!" Amanda jibed.
"Oh, fine." Count Nightwing crossed his arms.
Amanda and Sid were inside the kitchen with a few gnomes.
"So there's live gnomes, a mummy and a vampire living in your basement this whole time?" asked Amanda.
"I really wouldn't put it that way, but I'm just as confused as you are." Sid said, looking in the fridge.
He looked over the contents and saw some red meat his dad was going to cook sometime.
"Let's hope he likes his steak super rare." said Sid taking the meat to the Count.
"Here you go. Happy?" snarled Amanda.
The centuries-old vampire snatched the plate from her, growling with hatred. He sniffed the meat on his plate before a taking a big bite out of it. He rather enjoyed it, believing it tasted better than blood. He began eating it like a wolf eating it's prey.
"For the love of Ra, have you no manners?" sighed Khor-Ru.
"Hey! I'm starving so I am allowed to eat it how I want!"
"Just shut up! Both of you! This day has been crazy enough already! What with having my dad carted off by some psycho crazy police chief and his equally psycho crazy daughter! On top of dealing with a mummy, a blood-hungry vampire, little gnomes running around and an abominable snowman! Could I for once not have monsters come at me?!"
Sid ran up the stairs and slammed the door to his room. Amanda debated whether or not to go up there but decided she would after a few minutes. Tenzin came over and sniffed her hair and giving her a confused expression.
"Hey, big guy." She said. "Should I talk to him?"
Tenzin grunted and pointed at himself and then hugged himself.
"Aww, you wanna give him hug? Hang on, I'll talk to him and then bring him down."
Amanda walked upstairs and knocked on the door.
"What?!"
"Sid, it's Amanda. Can I come in?"
There came a few second pause before Sid finally said, "Yes."
"Are you doing okay?" asked Amanda asked she entered.
"I don't know." sighed Sid.
Amanda sat down on the bed and pat the spot next to her. Sid sat down and Amanda immediately wrapped her arms around him. Sid moved his arms too and buried his face into her neck.
"Tenzin is worried about you." She said.
A/N: Await what happens in the next chapter, okay? Read and review.
