After the two men shook hands, Hunter stepped up.
"Okay now that we got all that lovey dovey crap and that Peck dude out of the way, we need to tell you what we found at the hotel."
"What did you find?" Ray asked "Wait...before you proceed, wse need to discuss this with Pete, Egon and Winston..."
Ray gathered up Egon, Winston and Peter into the Rec room where they degenerates and Ray were currently at. Once all of the Ghostbusters got comfortable, Shawn began with thier story.
"I found a hidden library at the hotel that was covered up by a 'Danger. Do not Enter' sign'" Shawn said to the group of men.
"We went inside" Sophia continued "And found not only books, but many many books that dealt with witchcraft and rising people from the dead."
"Oh that's wonderful" Peter said sarcastically.
"I found a Huckleberry Finn book and pulled it out because I wondered what a book like that was doing in a whole library dedicated to death and witchraft. So when I pulled it out, I went down this trapdoor that led from the library to the basement.""
"That book was there, probably for easy identification" Egon said
"Easy identification?" Sophia asked, curiously. "You mean that book was there so that Leonard could remember which book opened the trapdoor?"
"Precisely." Egon replied
"That makes better sence" Hunter said, in complete understanding "So what I was saying is that I went to the basement and found...uh...a pile of human bones in the pattern of a pentagram with some dried blood and an upside down cross."
"Oh wow..." Ray said with wide eyes
"So Leonard was a satanist. " Winston stated
"Yes. I skimmed through the book and found it was a spellbook full of love spells." Hunter replied to him
"I had no idea satanists cast spells" Shawn said wide eyes
"It seems our architect combined Satanism with the Wiccan belif." Peter thought aloud. "We need to see it for ourselves for further analyzation"
Degeneration X and the Ghostbusters arrived back at the Red Lillac as the degenerates led them to the library first. Once they stepped insdie the dusty place, Egon took out his PKE meter and began scanning the bookshelves and walls with it.
"Here's the trapdoor." Hunter said to them as he stood over the spot.
The guys approached Hunter's spot and looked down.
"I'm not going first" Peter said
"Someone has to" Winston replied "Someone with a flashlight perferably"
Everyone turned their heads to Ray, who was the only one with a flashlight on him. He rolled his eyes
"Alright, fine!"
Ray jumped through the trapdoor and landed right on his feet. He lit the flashlight as he staggered to get up when he noticed the satanic sacrifice in front of him
"Oh my god." he said aloud
"Told you!" Hunter said
Ray held his PKE meter in front of it. The little lights lit up and the two rods stood up gently.
"This stuff is hot" he said to the group
He got closer to the spellbook and the lights began flashing even more as the rods went completely errect.
"Especially this spellbook"
Ray scanned the book and picked it up when he noticed the secret door behind the sacrifice
"Hey guys," He called out to Shawn Hunter ans Sophia "did you find a secret passageway when you were down here?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you guys abut that" Hunter said "The passageway leads to the attic."
"This place still has an attic?" Peter asked
"yeah and its still full of knick knacks belonging to Felicity." Shawn replied to him.
"Show us" Winston told them.
"In order for us to show you guys, we have to go down there." Shawn replied uneasily
Shawn went down first, then quickly caught his fiancee as she fell down. The remainigng Ghostbusters quickly followed the degenerates and soon Ray up the stone stairs with their PKE meters in hand.
After some long minutes, the groups arrived at the attic. The guys put on thier ecto goggles and scanned the room. Egon noticed the trunk Sophia had discovered earlier and tried to open it.
"I'm very curious about the inside of the trunk." Egon told Hunter
Sophia lifted the trunk and found the key, in which she used to open the trunk.
"I found some of her stuff in here such as a journal,and a rosary that came with a pamphlet stating her first holy communion."
"A Catholic engaged to a Satanist." Peter said aloud "That makes a wonderful fairytale don't you think?"
"But the question is, 'why would a catholic be engaged to a satanist?'" Ray asked
"Maybe she didn't know..." Hunter offered with a shrug "Or maybe she just wasn't a devoted Catholic"
"She's a hypocrite!" Sophia exclaimed "I'm not super religious either, but at least I'm not the one engaged to a satanist."
"The Heart wants what the Heart wants I guess" Shawn quoted.
"No" Ray said as he looked up from the open spellbook in his hand "The heart wants what Leonard told her to want."
"Wait...what?" Sophia asked
"It seems like Leonard cast spells on Felicity so that she could fall in love with him."
"I was right!" Shawn cheered "Wow, I'm good!"
"Well it didn't work since she cheated on him." Sophia said
"Well wouldnt you cheat on your satanic fiancee for another guy?" Hunter asked her
"My fiancee wouldnt even be satanic in the first place" Sophia retorted
"Good." Shawn said "Because I wouldnt approve"
"Because you're the real fiancee..." Hunter said slowly.
"Yes Hunter that was the joke" Sophia said as she rolled her eyes
"So lets get all this together" Winston began "The guy wanted a Catholic girl to marry him, so maybe he was trying to convert her."
"That seems like a possibility" Egon said "It would be alot easier for us if maybe she left behind some evidence."
Sophia's eyes grew wide and she remembered Felicity's journal in her pocket
"Actually, I have something of hers that I found"
She got out the journal
"I took this when I found the rosary. I thought it would be helpful to solving this ghost thing once and for all."
Egon took the journal from her and looked inside it. Each of the pages were a bit yellow from aging, but the ink and penmenship was still pretty legible for being over a hundred years old.
Dear Diary,
Being a well known architect seems like it's challenging. People from all over the city are asking for Leonard's helping hand, but he is so devoted to building our beautiful new home, he's been declining almost every job he was being offered. He's such a sweetheart. I'm glad mother and father arranged this marriage. I never knew Catholic men can be as sweet as he is...
"Whoah Whoah!" Peter inturrupted "Was she that stupid to not notice her husbands antics and figure out he wasn't Catholic?"
"Soon-to-be-husband" Ray corrected
"Well, look at that sacrifice." Shawn said "We didn't know he was Satanic until Hunter found the sacrifice. He was a sneaky guy and a good liar"
"So he used spells to make her belive the lie even more and fall for him?" Sophia asked
"And it looks like he got Mommy and Daddy to beleive him as well" Peter said
"Wow...this is intense" Winston commented
"So...dark magic does work then..." Shawn said uneasily.
The fact that he was a Christian dealing with Satanic stuff made him on edge. Sophia didn't blame him.
"It can be as powerful as prayer" Sophia told him "Good and Evil have to have a balance in life"
"That's true"
"Can I keep it?" Sophia asked Egon "I can read it some more and find out if there are other clues or things you should know about"
Egon handed the journal back to Sophia
"Ok"
"Whoah whoah whoah, shouldnt that be your job to find out the clues?" Hunter asked Egon
"Don't be rude, Hunt." Sophia responded "I'm sure they've got other clients besides us. That's why I offered."
"Plus, in the end they're gonna catch these pesky ghosts" Shawn told him "not us."
Hunter rolled his eyes "I guess"
Later that day, the Ghostbusters invited DX for dinner at a Chinese restraunt they were fond of, so the trio happily accepted the invitation. The two groups arrived inside the restraunt and the customers that were already there instantly recognized one group or the other. Many of the regular customers there knew the Ghostbusters but a few wrestling fans recognized DX. Both groups were used to the attntion, but they never liked it when people would haggle them for autographs epecially if they have bad timing asking that. After Sophia dropped off her sweater at a table, she headed to pick up her plate when she accidentally bumped into someone, making Felictiy's journal fall from her pocket.
"I'm sorry" said a little voice
Sophia looked down and saw a little boy about 4 years old, wearing a John Cena shirt.
"It's ok" she said kindly "I should be sorry, I didn't see you"
"Hey, you're in DX!" he pointed out happily "You're HBK's girlfriend right?"
"Uh yeah" she responded, not wanting to correct him
"Wow! You guys are cool!"
She smiled kindly at him "Well thank you, sir. You wanna meet Triple H and Shawn?"
The boy's eyes grew wide in amazement. "Yeah!"
"I'll call them" she told him "Hunter, Shawn!"
"What do you want now?" Hunter complained as he and his friend approached her with big plates of food.
He changed his attitude once he saw the boy in the John Cena shirt.
"This guy here wanted to meet you guys."
"Hi" the boy said shyly
"Hey man" Shawn greeted to him with a smile
"What's up?" Hunter asked
"Nothing" the boy responded as he looked at the ground "Just wanted to say hi."
"Well it was nice meeting you" Hunter said to him
"Ricky! Come over here sweetie!"
The little boy turned around and saw his mom wave to him
"I gotta go guys. My mom's calling me"
"nice meeting you Ricky" Sophia said as she waved bye to him.
He left to his mom and Sophia turned to the guys
"Why can't all fans be that cute and innocent?" she asked them
"No clue" Shawn said
He noticed the journal on the ground and picked it up.
"You dropped this"
"Thanks, Shawn"
She looked at the page it was on and read the journal entry.
Dear Diary,
I have met a charming young man named Charles Jones during my walk to the library this afternoon. He was so kind to me and spoke to me in the most polite manner as he gelped me find my books. I hope I meet him again...
Sophia skimmed though some pages and found the name Charles in many more entries. She read them until she came across this one entry...
Dear Diary,
This is going to seem blasphemous, since I beleive in the holy sanctity of marriage, but...I'm afirad i have fallen in love with Charles.
I couldn't help myself. He is such a sweet, handsome, Chritsian man with a good soul.
However, I was scared of telling him I was already engaged to another man. I thought I would loose him forever, but when he kissed me and we made love, I knew our love was meant to be.
"Guys." Sophia called to the guys once she found her voice
she arrived back at the table they were sharing and looked alarmed
"I read some journal entries and found out who the man Feleicty cheated on Leonard with was. His name was Charles Jones. "
"nice work." Ray told her knidly "But what was so awesome about this youns schmuck?" Peter asked
Well, uh...according to her entries, he was a sweet, handsome ...and a Christian"
Shawn nearly spat out his food when she said 'Christian'
"Okay, now I'm freaked!" he exclaimed
"Me too!" she said to him all panicky
"Why?" Winston asked her "whats going on?"
"This whole Felicty, Leonard and Charles thing is freaking me out way to much!" she exclaimed
"Sophia looks like Felicity right?" Shawn said slowly
The two groups nodded thir heads
"Well...I happen to be a Christian just like him."
"So?" Peter asked "So are millions of other people in the world."
"How many of those people were haunted by ghosts because my fiancee looks like a murder victim and I share a smiliarity with her lover?" Shawn asked him impatiently
He sighed ad sunk into his seat
"I feel like we've entered the Twilight Zone"
AN:Oh snap...again with the twists.
Thanks for being patient with me and continuning to read this story...I'll try hard to update often