Episode 32: The Haunted Holiday
One day at Townsville High School, Berry and her friends: Paul, Duchess, Chris, Robert, and their other friend Albert are looking at one of the bulletin boards. They find something very strange about one of the papers.
"Um, I don't remember auditioning any play?" Berry questions.
"Me either. But it said that I'll be playing the mysterious butler, and you're playing the inspector of police," Albert replies.
"And it looks like I'm playing as the inspector's assistant," Chris says.
"Well bro, it looks like you and I are going to be the married couple for this play," Duchess says.
"Yeah. We'll be playing ad the Count and Countess Riverdale," Paul replies.
"And I'm playing the ghost of the old owner of the mansion. Cool," Robert says.
"But still, I wonder how we end up being in the school play." Berry questions.
Berry's question is answer when she and the others hear, "Hi guys."
The gang turn around to see Casey walking towards the, with a clipboard in her hand.
The gang say, "Hi Casey."
"I am so excited. I was put in charge to being the organizer and the director of the school play. I took the liberty to cast you guys roles in the play. I can't wait to start doing our play," Casey says in excitement.
"So what play are we doing?" Robert asks.
"Easy, we'll be doing the play… The Haunted Holiday," Casey says in a spooky tone.
Then happily says, "Now let's get to the gym so we can start rehearsals."
Everyone begin to walk to the gym with Casey taking the lead.
When Casey opens the door, everyone gasp in shock to see the gym. The gym floor is covered in water, and the pipes are leaking out water. The plumbers are trying to fix the pipes.
"What happen here?!" Chris asks in shock.
Just then, one of the plumbers answers, "Sorry kids, but the pipes has exploded here, and the gym will have to be closed for a few weeks."
"A few weeks," Casey says in disappointment.
Berry shows a smile, "Don't worry Casey, I'm sure we can do the play… But at a different place of course."
After school, the teens walk on the street to figure out where they have have the play now.
Casey sighs, and asks, "Where are we going to find another stage at this time?"
"Well, there are a few places we can do it at. The community center, the park, and maybe at the old theater downtown," Chris suggests.
"I don't know about the old theater, Chris. You know that place is haunted," Albert worriedly says.
"Haunted?" Berry, Paul and Duchess question.
"What do you mean the old theater is haunted?" Paul asks.
"That's right you guys didn't know. Well, legend said that the old theater was closed down after a play has gone wrong," Robert answers.
"What happen?" Duchess asks.
"Well there was an actor who was played as the phantom, but the boy who was playing the phantom fell through a trapdoor and disappeared. And he was never seen again," Albert scaredly explains.
"Never?" Berry asks.
"Never," Albert answers.
Casey scoffs, "Come on Albert, you know ghost don't exist."
"Uh Casey, we lived in a town that is full of supervillains and evil magic. I think a ghost is something that will be seen at Townsville right now," Berry clarifies.
"Good point. Either way the show must go on, so let's go to the old theater," Casey says.
The group of friends begin to walk down the sidewalk to head to the old theater. But the Gang Green Gang who has been in the alley close by, hear the conversation.
"The old theater huh," Ace says, thinking of an idea.
And an idea hits him, "Boys, I think I just come up with an idea to have some."
"Come on boys, melts head to the old theater downtown," Ace says to his crew.
The Gang Green Gang decide to follow Berry and her friends to the old theater.
At the front of the old theater. The building has old blue paint at the front, worn out black roof, and the sign is tilted and old. In fact, the theater is not only old, but it's also…
"This place is a little spooky," Duchess worriedly replies.
"Yeah. It looks like no one hasn't been there in years," Paul agrees.
"Well, let's go inside and get this play started," Casey says, walking up the door.
She turns to Berry, and asks, "Berry can you take the wooden boards off the door?"
"Sure," Berry answers.
Berry walks to the door that is covers with wooden board bolted up. Her uses her super strength to take the wooden boards off the nails and bolts. Soon the pathway is clear. Berry opens the door, and walks inside the building. Casey and the others follow in.
Just then, the Gang Green Gang sneaks inside the theater while the group of friends aren't looking.
Berry and her friends walk down the stairs next to the seat to see the stage. The stage wooden floor seems to be fine. However, the curtains are torn, worn, and covered in cobwebs. The chairs are also covered in cobwebs and dust.
"It looks like we need to clean this mess before we can get started," Albert says.
"Don't worry, leave everything to me," Duchess says.
Then she calls out, "Girls!"
Suddenly, three grown women dressed as maids appear. They all have light skin, brown tan hair, and hazel color eyes. They wear black dresses with white aprons, long white socks, black shoes, and wearing maid hats. One on the left wears a ponytail. The one on the right wears a braid. The last one has short hair with a small ponytail tied on the left side of her hair.
"Yes miss," The maids says.
"Can you three clean the theater so my friends and I can rehearse for the play?" Duchess asks.
"Yes miss," the maids answer.
With that the maids grab brooms, mops, and dusters, and begin to clean up the mess. They dust off all the chairs, sweep the floor, and clean up the rest of the theater. Soon the chairs and the stage is perfectly clean. Even the backstage and the entrance are clean. The three maids finish their cleaning and quickly return to be at front of a Duchess.
Duchess says, "That will be all girls."
"Yes miss," the three maids answer.
Then leaves in a blink of an eye.
"I think the stage is great now. Let's get on with the first scene, that will be Paul and Duchess," Casey says.
After getting the table, chairs and tea set ready, they are starting rehearsal for the first scene.
"Darling, I do like the new mansion we have purchased, but feels like something is missing," Duchess acts out.
"What will that be dear?" Paul acts.
"A family. It's been two years since we were married and we haven't been blessed with a child," Duchess acts.
Then Paul says his next line, "I know darling, but be patient. I'm sure if we pray more, we will be blessed with a child of our own."
Casey who is sitting in the char of the audience, "And then a thumping sound begins to surround the house."
Suddenly a loud thump appears, spooking the two on stage.
"That was great. Thank to did the sound effects," Casey says.
Backstage, Berry, Albert and, Robert look at each other with confused looks.
"I didn't do that," Robert says.
"Nether did I," Albert replies.
"Not me," Berry says, shaking her head.
They then hear Casey calling out, "Chris! Berry! Albert! We need you two for the next scene!"
"Um sure," Berry answers.
Sometime later, Berry is wearing a detective hat, Chris is wearing a smaller hat, and Albert is wearing a bow tie and holding a feather duster.
Berry acts her part, "Don't worry Count and Countess, me and my assistant will get to the bottom of this mystery."
"But inspector, how are we going to solve this mystery, when our mystery might be supernatural?" Chris asks.
"Don't worry my trusty assistant, everything has an explanation even within the supernatural. We'll start investigating the house from top to bottom. Where did the first place you hear the noise?" Berry says, performing her part.
"It happened upstairs in our room. Apparently, that is rumored to be where the first owner of the house sleeped before he died," Duchess answers.
Suddenly, the backdrop of the stage falls down, and the others quickly move out of the way. The crashing sound cause the dust to appear around the area.
"What happen?" Duchess asks in surprise.
"I don't know, but backdrops don't fall on their own," Berry answers.
Albert gulps in fright, "Unless it's the ghost of the boy who played the phantom."
"I keep telling you. There's no such thing as ghost," Casey denies.
"Well, the backdrop isn't damage so we can still put it up and continue with rehearsing," Berry says. Then she uses her telekinesis to lift the backdrop back up.
"Thanks Berry. Now onto rehearsal," Casey says.
Suddenly, they begin to hear thumping noises, and loud crashing sounds. Everyone yelp in fright, and gather together like baby chicks gathered together to keep warm from the cold.
"Wha-what's going on?" Duchess panics.
"I don't know. Something weird is going on," Robert answers in fright.
"It sounds like someone is in here or something," Berry answers.
Then Albert screams and panics, "Of course there's someone here, and we know exactly who it is! It was that young actor who disappeared! He must have come back to haunt this place! He'll… he'll get us!"
Suddenly, two ghosts come on stage while three walk down from the aisle in the audience seat. Everyone scream in fright, and begin to run away in fright. As they run away in fright from the ghost, Berry ends up tripping over something, and falls to the ground.
Casey and the others run out of the theater in a fright.
Berry lifts her head, and turn around to see the ghosts are gone. Suddenly, Berry hears laughing coming from the back of the stage. Curious, Berry decides to secretly float to the stage. She slowly flies over the stage until, she looks around to see the ghost.
The five ghost are laughing for some strange reason, and they take their skins off. Berry gasp in shock to see that those are not ghost at all, but the Gang Green Gang wearing sheets to look like ghost. The boys continue laughing with smiles on their faces.
"What a bunch of dopes," Ace says.
"Yeah. Bunch of dopes," Arturo agrees.
"We ssssure sssscared them good," Snake replies.
Grubber raspberry in reply.
"Yeah. That was fun, can we do it again?" Big Billy asks.
"Oh sure, if those suckers every decides to come back here. Then we can scare them even more," Ace answers.
Then all five laugh at Berry and her friends for being scared, and for the fun prank they play on them.
Berry grits her teeth in anger to hear that all of this is a prank. What's more, the Gang Green Gang scared her friends off in a fright.
With a huff Berry says, "Well… why those rotten delinquents… I'll fix them!"
Berry has an idea on how to teach these pranksters a lesson. She uses her telekinesis to shake one of the can loud, startling the gang.
"What was that?" Billy asks in fright.
"It's probably just the wind," Ace says trying to sound calm.
Berry chuckles as she covers her mouth. Then she knocks down the clothes rack, and wired cabinet to the ground. That cause the gang to jump in a fright.
"What was that this time?" Billy asks.
"Maybe it was knocked over by a mouse or something," Ace answers, starting to get scared.
Arturo worriedly asks, "What if this place really is haunted?"
"Don't' be silly, we pretended to be the ghost to scare those kids," Ace denies.
Berry then uses her power to lift up the sheets the gang use to lift them up in the air, and move them around like ghost. This make the boys shake and scream in fright.
"Thissss place really issss haunted," Snake scaredly replies.
"Come on you guys, I'll bet it's just a prank by those kids we saw come in here," Ace says, looking serious.
Ace walks over to the sheet, and says, "I'll show you there is not ghost here."
Ace grabs the sheet and takes it off, "There… there is no ghost here."
Ace looks at his friends with confused looks to see them scared and shaking.
"What's up with you guys?" Ace asks.
"Ace… behind you!" Arturo scaredly shouts.
Grubber does a raspberry in reply.
Ace turns around, and gasp to see a frightening sight. There is a blue boy spirit under the sheet. The ghost is wearing a long sleeve shirt, pants, boots, a belt, and a cape. Berry gasp in shock to see the boys.
The gang scream, "Ghost!"
The Gang Green Gang are so scared that they run out of the theater top speed.
The ghost boy laugh with a smile on the face. He turns around to see Berry on top of the stage.
He floats up to her, and says, "Hello, my name is Miguel. What's your name?"
"Um, my name is Berry. It's a pleasure to meet you," Berry says.
Then she asks, "Are you really a ghost?"
"Yes. I used to be a normal high school student who is doing a play of Phantom of the Opera. It's my favorite story. However, during the show, my understudied who was jealous of me, decided to try to steal my place in the show by trapping my under the stage. Sadly, the floor under the stage gave weigh, and I fallen deep down in a hole. The next thing I knew, I have been turned into a spirit, and I've been here ever since, "Miguel explains.
"That's awful," Berry replies with a sad expression.
"It was. Because people have seen me as a ghost, they all got scared and ran away. I was excited to see your play you and your friends are doing, but then those rotten boys show up," Miguel says.
"I see. So you want to see our play?" Berry replies.
Miguel nods his head, "Yes. I really love plays. So I travel around to see them."
Berry then has an idea.
After rounding up her friends back to the theaters, Berry explain to her friends about what happen.
"So you see Miguel is the ghost that everyone is talking about, and he helped me got rid of the Gang Green Gang," Berry explains.
"That's cool," Robert says.
"Thanks," Miguel says.
"Still, that wasn't a very nice trick the Gang Green Gang played on us," Duchess replies.
"Yeah. Glad to know that you guys taught them a lesson," Albert says.
"It's was not a problem," Miguel replies.
"So Miguel, Berry said that you want to see our play, and that you are a good actor?" Casey asks.
Miguel nods his head in reply.
Casey smiles as she has an idea.
Weeks later, the play is already started, and has come to the end in a great performance..
Casey narrates, "And so the Count and Countess were able to overcome the haunting of the mansion, and soon, their most fondest wish has been fulfilled. A new baby boy has come to their lives, and made them the most happiest couple in the world. The End."
Everyone clap and cheer for the wonderful play. Berry and her friends families and friends have come to see the play.
On stage, Casey, Berry, and the others take another bow. Berry look up, and smile to see Miguel is clapping and cheering from the top of the theater. Miguel takes out red roses and tossed on stage, one for each actor. Berry smiles, and wink her eye at Miguel, and the ghost wink back with a smile.