Chapter 26: Pranks a Lot
Luan and Leni are walking up to a place called "Palace of Pranks."
"Well Leni, here it is. The palace of pranks." Luan said. "The greatest novelty shop in Royal Woods. All the greatest pranksters shop here. This is where I got my gag jelly bean can."
Luan shows her jelly bean can.
"Ooh, jellybeans! Gimme." Leni took the can and tried to open it.
"Leni, wait! It's a booby trap, remember?"
"Nice try Luan, but it's not gonna work this time. I'm gonna have some of your delicious jelly be-"
Leni opened the can and a bunch of fake spiders came out. Leni screams. "Spiders! And where's the jelly beans?"
Luan laughs. "That gets funnier every time you fall for it Leni. Come on, let's go inside."
"Jelly beans?" Leni said sadly.
Luan opened the front doors of the palace and sniffed the air. "Nothing compares to the smell of cheap plastic novelty items. Pranks, gags, and gross out toys as far as the eye can see. Isn't it everything I said it would be Leni?"
Leni was in an aisle and found another jelly bean can.
"Yay! Jelly beans!" Once again, Leni fell for the gag and a bunch of fake spiders fly everywhere. "Dang it. Not again."
Luan laughs.
"Good to see you Luan." Said a man wearing a clown nose and a bowler hat. "How's my number one customer doing?"
"Great Frank." Luan responded. "This is my sister Leni. She wanted to learn more about pranks."
"Well, it's pleasure to meet you." Frank went to shake hands with her, only for to get shocked. She screamed and sucked on her hand. Frank laughs.
"That's your first lesson miss. The grand daddy of all pranks. The joy buzzer."
Leni looked closely at Frank's joy buzzer he had on his hand. "I don't get it."
"You don't have to get it." Frank explained. "The prank is for the enjoyment of the prankster."
"You see Leni? Frank here is the master." Luan stated. "I learned alot about pranks from him."
The two girls followed Frank to his counter.
"Ok Frank, let's see what else you've got." Luan said.
"Well this came in just this morning." Frank pulled out a box of chewing gum and gave one to Leni. "Have some gum."
Leni took it and chewed it. Suddenly, her lips started to pucker up.
"Ha Ha! Sour chewing gum! Only 9.95!" Frank said.
Now Leni's whole face was puckered up.
"I don't get it." She said in a muffled voice.
"What can we get for one dollar?" Luan asked.
"Well, one dollar will get you this fake dollar." Frank said showing a gag dollar. "Fool your friends into thinking you've got a real dollar."
"What else have you got?"
"A whoopie cushion?"
"Nah."
"Fake vomit?"
"No."
"Real vomit?"
"Eww! Don't you have anything good?"
"Well, there is one prank I've been saving for a top of the line prankster." Frank took out a can. "Invisible spray."
Luan took the can. "Wow. Invisible spray."
"But I can see it." Leni said.
"Gee Leni, just think of the pranks we can pull with this." Luan said. She paid Frank.
"Good choice. Now be careful with that stuff girls. It stains clothes." Frank said.
"Thanks Frank." Luan said. She and Leni left the shop.
Now the two siblings were standing outside with the can of invisible spray.
"Here it is Leni. The ultimate prank. Invisible spray." Luan said.
"Like, what are we gonna do with it?" Leni asked.
"I know! We'll spray the park bench and sit on it. And when people walk by, we'll be floating in midair!"
The girls imagine themselves floating in midair at the park and a crowd of people witness this.
"They're floating in midair!" One man said.
"How do they do that?" A woman wondered.
They come back to reality.
"That's the ultimate prank!" Leni said. "Good idea Luan."
"Well let's get started!" Luan said.
"Wait, that stuff stains clothes, right?" Leni asked.
"Oh, you're right." Luan said.
"But I've got an idea." Leni said.
Cut to the Loud House. Leni and Luan come out wearing sweaters and baggy pants.
"These ugly sweaters and pants from Aunt Ruth are perfect to wear for a prank like this." Leni said.
"Good thinking. Nobody likes these." Luan said. "Ok Leni, give me the can."
Leni held the can closely to her. "I think since spraying the park bench was my idea, I should get to spray it."
"Leni, spraying the park bench was my idea."
"Yeah, but I said it was a good idea."
"Gimme that thing!" Luan and Leni started to fight over the can. Leni accidentally sprayed Luan's right arm causing it to become invisible.
"Aah! Righty!" Luan exclaimed.
"I gotta hand it to you Luan. You look kinda funny." Leni commented and laughs.
"No one messes with Righty." Luan snatches the can From Leni. "We'll see how you like it!"
Luan sprays Leni in the stomach.
"Kinda gives you that empty feeling, doesn't it?" She joked.
Leni snatches the can back and sprays part of Luan's face. "Yeah. Eye see what you mean."
Luan takes the can back and sprays more of Leni's midsection. "No guts, no glory." (laughs)
Several bad puns later
Now the two siblings were completely invisible, making it look like the can of invisible spray was floating in the air.
"Hey! I think this thing is empty!" Leni said shaking the can.
Luan took it. "No! It can't be! How are we gonna pull off the ultimate prank? Thanks a lot Leni, you used the last of it."
Luan tosses the can away. "Let's go inside and wash this paint off."
"Hey Luan, Do you know what time it is?"
"Sure, it's..half past invisible."
"Gee, it's getting late."
They see their Dad by the front porch on his phone.
"Let's ask Dad." Luan said. "Hey Dad, Do you have the time?"
"Sure. It's 10 to 3."
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it."
"Don't mention what?" Leni asked.
Lynn Sr. saw there was no person there.
"Uh, who said that?" He asked nervously.
"I did."
"Aah! Ghosts!" Lynn Sr. screamed and turned white. He ran inside the house.
"Hey! I'm no ghost!" Leni yelled. "The nerve of that guy."
"Wait a minute Leni. My brain just hatched an idea." Luan said.
"Lay it on me."
"Ok, we're invisible right?"
"Yeah."
"If Dad thought we were ghosts, we could haunt everyone in Royal Woods! It's the ultimate prank!"
"Woo! Hi five!" The girls cheered and high fived.
"Let's go scare us some suckers." Luan said deviously.
In the Loud House, Lori comes out of the bathroom. She hears voices in her room and opens the door. She sees no one in there.
"Well that's funny. I literally thought I heard voices." Lori said.
Lori saw her ugly sweater. "And I thought I threw away that ugly sweater."
Then Lori saw her phone unplugged. "And I thought I had my phone charging."
And then what Lori saw next shocked her.
"And since when did I acquire all these pictures of Clyde?!"
There were pictures of Clyde of her bed. Then Lori heard voices and again and turned around.
"Wooo! We're ghosts! Woooo!" Luan and Leni were wearing sheets to cover themselves. Lori chuckled.
"I literally knew it was you guys." Lori said. "Alright, joke's over. Take off the sheets."
Lori takes off their sheets and gasps when see she doesn't see them. "It is ghosts!"
Lori screams and runs outside to Lisa's bunker. She bangs on it. Lisa opens it from inside.
"Do you mind? I'm studying here." Lisa said in her stoic voice.
"They're ghosts in the house." Lori stated.
"That's preposterous!" Lisa said. "There's no such thing as ghosts! That's something I'd expect to hear from Lucy. I mean, how can-"
Lisa was interrupted by the sound of ghosts wails that were next to her.
"Ghosts!" Lisa screamed. "Quick, get inside! My bunker should be ghost proof!"
She went into the bunker and Lori followed her. Luan and Leni laughed.
"Wow, we really scared them." Luan said.
"Who's gonna be our next victim?" Leni asked.
"A better question would be who isn't."
At Mr. Grouse's house, the old man is having leftover lasagna.
"Leftover lasagna. You will be mine." He said.
Suddenly, the lasagna was being eaten by someone else. It was Leni who ate it but she couldn't be seen. She burps.
"Excuse me."
Mr. Grouse runs out off screaming. "Ghosts!"
Next, Luan and Leni went to haunt Lynn Jr who was using her punching bag. Suddenly, the bag was moved out of the way and Lynn fell. Luan and Leni made more ghost noises.
"Ghosts!" Lynn jumped out the front window.
At the beach, a guy was surfing the wave. Another wave with the invisible sisters on a surfboard was seen next to him.
"Cowabunga!"
"Ghosts!" The guy fell off his board.
The girls continued to frighten more people.
"Ghosts!" Yelled Becky.
"Ghoooooosts!" Yelled Chad.
"Ghosts!" Yelled Flip.
"Ghosts!" Yelled Clyde.
"Toast." Said Rusty, showing his toast.
"Ghosts!" Yelled one guy in a bathroom stall.
Now Luan and Leni were reading the newspapers. Leni had hers upside down.
"It's official! We're the greatest pranksters ever! The whole town thinks we're ghosts!" Luan said.
"Yeah."
"There's only one guy left to scare and we'll have pranked everybody in Royal Woods." Luan saw a picture of Lucy on the newspaper. "Lucy."
"It says she's not afraid of ghosts." Leni read.
"Yeah. Lucy doesn't get scared by spooky stuff cause she's all about spooky. But we'll scare her in a different way. Now here's the plan."
Soon at the Loud House, Lucy is the only one there because everyone else was scared off by the "ghosts". Lucy is in her room.
"Ghosts? Hah! I'm not scared of no ghost." Lucy said. "A new ghost means a new friend for me. That's why I've made a little get together. I've got black chocolate cookies. Blood red soda. Halloween themed music. Also, I've got poems I can read to them and I can show them my bats. And if none of this attracts them, I could wear my grim reaper costume. So come on ghosts, show yourselves."
Suddenly, the door opened. The "ghosts" were here. But this time, they made giggling sounds.
"Lucy Loud! We've come to play with you!"
Lucy had a confused look on her face.
"Huh?"
"We want to give you makeovers and decorate your room pink." Said one ghost.
They got out a makeup kit.
"Uh, no thanks. Stay back." Said Lucy, becoming nervous.
"Time to decorate." Said one ghost. Lucy's coffin was painted pink.
"Oh no. These aren't the spooky types, they're...the opposite."
Lucy started to get scared. That's when Lucy heard the ghost voices.
"I think Lucy needs a makeover!" Said one voice.
Lucy began to back away until she saw the lipstick next to her.
"Makeover time." Both voices said.
Lucy screamed. "I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!"
Lucy ran to the front door and tried to open it but couldn't because it was glued shut.
"You can't escape Lucy! We glued the door shut!" Invisible Luan said.
"You'll never get me!" Lucy tried to jump through the windows but they were replaced with rubber and she was thrown back.
"Nice try Lucy. But we replaced all the glass with rubber!" Invisible Leni said.
Lucy was so desperate to get out that she tried going through the pet door in the kitchen but it wouldn't open.
"Too late Lucy. We blocked the pet door with wood!"
Lucy got into a corner in the kitchen. "Please spirits, leave me be!"
As Lucy was cowering in fear, Luan and Leni giggled.
"We've got her good Luan."
"Wait Leni, I've got one more idea."
Leni got Edwin and a Lucy got a paintbrush with pink paint on it.
"Oh Lucy, it's time to give Edwin a makeover!" Invisible Luan said.
"No! You leave Edwin alone!" Lucy threw a bucket of water at them.
The bucket of water washed the paint off and washed off the invisible spray on Luan and Leni, making them visible again. The two sisters laughed. Lucy could now see them.
"Well, if it isn't Luan and Leni." Lucy said bitterly.
Luan and Leni stared at Lucy confused.
"I know not of these names which you speak." Luan said still acting like a ghost.
Leni looked down and realized they weren't invisible now.
"Psst Luan! You're visible again." Leni stated.
Luan notices now. "Uh oh."
Lucy walks up to them. "So you too are the Royal Woods Ghosts."
"We're really sorry Lucy!" Luan said. "Please don't put a curse on us!"
"Guys, it's cool. I should've expected this from a prankster like you Luan. I must admit that was a pretty good prank. Come on, laugh with me." Lucy laughed.
Leni and Luan hesitated but started to laugh along with Lucy. Then Lucy noticed what they were wearing.
"Uh, why are you guys wearing those ugly clothes?"
"The invisible spray stains clothes so we didn't mind wearing these." Luan explained.
"Oh. I see. Well, you better change out of those before someone sees you."
"Yeah, I think I'd die of embarrassment if that happened." Luan said.
"Me too." Leni said.
"Well, we don't want that, would we?" Lucy said. "You two prankster better get going."
"Lucy, thanks for being such a good sport." Luan said.
"Don't mention it."
Luan and Leni walked towards the living room.
"Well, Lucy took that rather well." Luan said.
"Yeah." Leni agreed.
Suddenly, a spotlight shined on the two sisters.
"The Loud House presents live ugly clothed pranksters starring the Royal Woods Ghosts!" Lucy was the one who shined the spotlight at the girls. The Loud family was suddenly in the living room, taking pictures of them and cheering. Along with other people like Mr. Grouse and Clyde. Lucy laughed. Leni and Luan's faces turned red from embarrassment.
"Leni?" Luan asked.
"Yeah?"
"We should've bought the whoopie cushion!"
Those pictures were probably gonna be posted on the internet now. But this was a prank Luan and Leni would never forget.