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PurpleCobra247: I intended to make the ending creepy as sort of preparation for the story. Glad you like it. I'll try and make it creepier as it goes on so I'll be relying on reviewers to know how well I did.
Nightw2: Exchanges between characters seem my strong point. I do think about them as much as I can. If I have any more updating delay's I'll let you know.
acosta pérez josé ramiro: As a certain little black duck would say, 'Pronoun trouble', sorry, couldn't resist. Anyway, apology accepted. It's an easy mistake to make, especially when you're in a rush. I do it sometimes as well so you're not alone. I know what you mean about the villains underestimating the kids. A friend of mine once said "It's either the cute small ones with puppy dog eyes or the really old guys with walking sticks that kick the crap out of you." On the subject of the guest list, I left out Wile E coyote because he had come after Bugs in the past but it is mostly a favourites thing (no offence).
Once again, sorry for the delay. On top of loosing access to a Pc, I also had a severe hayfever attack. I'm still not completely better but I'll try as hard as I can to update. There's a small bit of tragedy in this chapter as well as some horror.
VanishingsEveryone was staring at the space where Jessica had been standing. They noticed her yo-yo on the floor but there was no sign as to where she had gone. Lola fell to her knees and started crying. Bugs knelt beside her and put his arm around her.
"Come on, she probably wondered off when the lights went out." Daffy suggested. This did nothing to help Lola.
"Doc, Jess isn't like that. She has never wandered off very far from us." Bugs said sternly.
"Are you saying someone took her away?" Babs asked. Bugs turned solemn.
"I hate to admit it, but that's the most likely thing that's happened." Bugs replied.
"Who'd want to take her?" Lola managed to ask in between her tears.
"Someone who snuck into the mansion before we arrived." Shirley replied.
"Darn sneaks." Buster muttered.
"Shirley, can you sense Jessica's life force?" Tweety asked.
"All I can sense is evil." Shirley replied.
"That isn't good." Sylvester moaned.
"We've got to find Jess before anything happens to her." Bugs said. His usual calm face was starting to weaken.
"So why don't we go looking for her? A searching that is." Foghorn asked.
"Foghorn's right, we're not going to accomplish anything by just standing around." Tweety added. Bugs and Lola climbed to their feet. Lola wiped away her tears and turned serious.
"Come on, let's split up and find her!" Lola shouted.
"Just, how are we going to split up?" Daffy asked.
"I think we'd all rather go with out partners." Buster said.
"As long as we find Jessica, I don't care how we split up." Lola shouted.
"Ok, let's search this mansion until we find her." Aaooga said. Everyone went with their partners and children to different parts of the mansion in a hunt for Jessica.
The rat in the basement had seen the incident from the viewing mist. Keeping it active, it looked away and towards the wall. It's face showed a look of anger.
"Great, there's a psychic among them. That can only mean trouble" The rat muttered in annoyance. It turned again to face an opening and raised it's paw. Another zombie rose up from the ground. This one was different. It was that of a bear. There was still some fur on the skin but most of it was rotting flesh. It was holding a small skeleton.
"Bring me the skeleton." The rat instructed. The zombie bear came to the altar and placed the skeleton next to the rat. The skeleton was that of a small bird. The rat then pointed towards the mist in the air.
"See that small female duck, capture her and bring her here." The rat ordered. The zombie roared and went through a secret passage and up to the surface. The rat turned it's attention to the skeleton next to it.
"Not much longer now." The rat said evilly.
Plucky and Shirley had made their way into a long hallway in the mansion. There were doors on each side of the corridor and chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. The floor was covered in a rich golden carpet with red canary shapes. Plucky looked at all the doors and moaned.
"Jessica could be in anyone of these doors." Plucky said in despair.
"We have to search everywhere." Shirley replied. She walked over to a door on the right hand side and grabbed the doorknob.
"I'll check the doors on the right, you check the doors on the left." Shirley instructed.
"Why can't you just sense Jessica's life?" Plucky asked.
"I'm trying, but I can't sense her at all. All I sense is a dark force." Shirley replied.
"Which means…" Plucky began.
"Don't think like that!" Shirley snapped, realising what he was going to say.
"Sorry." Plucky said. Shirley returned to face the door.
"This is what I get for dating a mind reader." Plucky muttered to himself. Shirley learned what he said and just laughed quietly.
"If we weren't dating I would've zapped him." Shirley muttered. She opened the door in front of her and looked inside. It was seemingly empty, but Shirley could sense another presence that she couldn't recognise. There was no life but there was will. Shirley began to sweat, fearing the dark presence.
"I know your there, whatever you are." Shirley said nervously. She cautiously walked into the room and turned on the light. The room was completely empty, not even a carpet on the floor. Shirley turned around and walked back to the doorway. Plucky was looking at her.
"Are you ok? You sounded scared." Plucky asked.
"I thought there was something else in that room besides me." Shirley replied. As she said this, a zombie bear appeared behind her, causing Plucky to tremble.
"Shirley! Behind you!" Plucky shouted. Shirley spun around and saw the zombie behind her. Before she could act, it grabbed her and dragged her back into the room. As the zombie entered the room , the light in the room turned off. Plucky ran into the room and turned the light back on. There was no sign of the bear or Shirley.
Tweety and Aaooga were in the kitchen of the mansion. It was of a very modern design with all the modern utilities you'd find. Like most of the house, the kitchen was gold with canary shapes on the wall. The kitchen was completely stocked with cooking utensils, cutlery etc. It was mostly impressive but Daffy had forgotten one detail.
"All this stuff is too big for us to use." Tweety muttered.
"Otherwise, it's a nice kitchen." Aaooga added.
"Jessica isn't anywhere obvious here." Tweety said.
"We'd better be sure." Aaooga replied. They flew around the room opening all the cupboards. After a few minutes of searching they were satisfied that they'd searched the room thoroughly enough.
"Well, she's not in here." Tweety said.
"Hope someone finds her." Aaooga added.
"Where shall we search now?" Tweety asked.
"Don't know." Aaooga replied. A mist then filled the room.
"I'm getting that déjà vu feeling again." Tweety muttered.
"Why would this place be haunted when it's only just been built?" Aaooga asked.
"I can only think of the possibility that the ground itself is haunted." Tweety replied. The mist then took on the form of a canary. It was a canary that Tweety recognised and was shocked to see.
"Trina?" Tweety asked.
"Who?" Aaooga asked back. The ghost just nodded and spelt out…
'I, T, S, G, O, O, D, T, O, S, E, E, Y, O, U, T, W, E, E, T, Y!'
"Do you know this canary?" Aaooga asked.
"She's my ex." Tweety replied.
"Your ex?" Aaooga asked.
"She was my girlfriend for a couple of months during the two year span when I was a wild canary." Tweety replied.
"What happened?" Aaooga asked. Tweety turned mournful.
"She was killed in a tragic storm." Tweety replied.
Flashback
Tweety and Trina were sitting in a bird nest that they'd built together. The bird nest was on an apple tree on the edge of the forest. It was a cloudy night and the two were tired after a difficult day avoiding cats. The two were looking up at the sky, Trina resting her head on Tweety. It was the middle of spring
"Shame about all the clouds otherwise this would be a pretty romantic night." Tweety said.
"Perhaps tomorrow will be better." Trina said reassuringly.
"Hope so." Tweety replied, putting his arm around Trina. The clouds were still gathering and it began to rain. The wind also began to pick up speed.
"Luckily the leaves are sheltering the nest." Tweety said.
"I said I had expert judgement didn't I?" Trina asked jokingly. Tweety yawned.
"Well, I think we might as well get some sleep." Tweety said. Trina looked at him.
"Ok, I think I'll get some sleep too." Trina replied, yawning as well. They leaned closer and were about to kiss when a lightning bolt came crashing down.
"Yikes, I don't think we'll be getting some sleep anytime soon." Tweety remarked. Another lightning bolt came down and hit the tree. The tree caught fire and began to fall.
"Let's get out of here!" Trina shouted. They flew away from the nest when a branch fell off the tree and Landed on Trina's back. The branch was heavy enough to knock her to the ground and pin her there. Tweety looked in horror and flew down to help her. He picked up Trina's hand and carefully pulled her out from under the branch. Her body was badly burned and her back had been cut open. Tweety carried her into a nearby hollow log. Luckily the log was empty.
"Trina!" Tweety said in panic.
"Tweety, are you ok?" Trina asked.
"What about you?" Tweety asked.
"I…don't think I'll last…much longer." Trina gasped.
"Trina, please don't die!" Tweety begged. Trina slowly put her hand on Tweety's face.
"Tweety, please…live on…without me." Trina said. Tears slowly trickled down Tweety's face.
"Trina, I…" Tweety began but Trina cut him off.
"I…want what's…best for you." Trina said. Tweety started crying.
"What can I do without you?" Tweety asked. His eyes were flooding tears.
"You'll find…someone else…I'm…certain Goodbye…my…love." Trina replied. She gave a light cough and then fell motionless. Her face turned white and her chest stopped moving. Tweety checked her hand and found no pulse. He then realised that Trina was truly dead. He knelt down and cried through the rest of the night.
End flashback
At the end of the flashback, Tweety broke down and started crying again. Aaooga went up to him and put her arm around him.
"Tweety, I know your pain. A similar thing happened to me before." Aaooga said reassuringly. Tweety looked at her.
"Really?" Tweety asked. He was still sobbing.
"Yes, but I'll tell you another time. We have more important issues." Aaooga replied. Tweety was able to stop crying.
"You're right, we need to find Jessica." Tweety said. They looked back towards Trina's ghost.
"Do you know where Jessica went?" Tweety asked. The ghost shook her head.
"Ok, what were you doing here anyway?" Tweety asked. Trina spelt out…
'I, D, O, N, T, K, N, O, W, A, N, E, N, E, R ,G, Y, B, R, O, U, G, H, T, M, E, H, E, R ,E!' Her ghost then disappeared.
"What do we do now?" Aaooga asked..
"We continue our search for Jessica." Tweety replied.
Sylvester, Penelope and Sylvester Jr. had found their way to a large rectangular room. It was decorated like all the others. It had a long table in the centre and empty bookshelves along the edge.
"An empty library" Sylvester Jr. remarked.
"Obviously Jessica isn't in here." Sylvester said.
"I hope she's ok." Penelope added.
"If her parents are anything to go by, she'll be fine." Sylvester reassured. Sylvester Jr. spotted a rat in the corner.
"Let's see if I can catch that mouse before father." Sylvester Jr. said to himself, not being able to tell the difference between a mouse or a rat. He ran after the rat and pounced on it's tail. The rat turned around and snarled.
"Why is this mouse so vicious?" Sylvester Jr. asked himself. He picked up the rat and began to walk back to Sylvester. The rat then bit Sylvester Jr. on the arm, causing him to scream in pain. Sylvester and Penelope turned and saw the rat attacking Sylvester Jr. The rat was now running up Sylvester Jr's arm and to his throat.
"Get off my son!" Sylvester shouted. He reached his son in time to see the rat bite Sylvester Jr. in the back of the neck. Sylvester reached for the rat but a rotting arm reached out and grabbed Sylvester's hand. Sylvester jr. fell unconscious to the floor and Sylvester started struggling with the arm that had grabbed him. Penelope ran up but was grabbed by the legs by another arm. They both struggled but were eventually pulled through the wall. They were then able to see their captors better, two human zombies.
"Eep." Sylvester mumbled. Penelope screamed and started struggling. She was then grabbed by some more zombies so she couldn't escape. The two were dragged deeper into the mansion. Sylvester Jr. remained unconscious but was eventually found by a small rabbit.
(A/N: Phew, another chapter done. I actually found it hard to get some inspiration for this chapter. I had to re-read the first story. Anyway, who found Sly jr. You'll have to wait and see. Read and review for now.)