More mayhem in the Haunted Mansion. Madame Leota, Jamie Padgett (coffin ghost), Ludwig (piano ghost) and others are owned by Disney. I only own Kim, Jody and Sakura. Warning: This chapter has sex references. If you are offended by anything in this story, then please do not read anymore.
Ghost Host: Our friends had an exciting night in the graveyard. The Phantom Five sang to them, so did the Jones Family Opera Singers. They met the Hitchhiking Ghosts and Little Leota, who seems to have grown a soft spot for young Jody. Plus what does Madame Leota have in store for Kim. Find out next!
Chapter 5: Spooky Situations
Rays of sunlight shone through the dusty windows of the Haunted Mansion. Kim stirred in bed and looked about. Sakura was still asleep in her bed, her hand flopped over the edge, and drool hung from her open mouth.
"No, I do not want to go on Pirates of the Caribbean!" cried Sakura in her sleep.
Kim smiled then looked over to Jody, who was actually sleeping upside-down in midair. Kim raised an eyebrow. Jody then woke up, looked at Kim and blinked stupidly.
"Why are you standing on your head?" he asked drowsily.
"I'm not. You're upside-down," said Kim.
Jody looked into a nearby mirror and noticed that he was. He spun around in midair and laughed.
"Guess I was," said Jody.
Kim giggled and then looked at Jody. The two looked at eachother, their eyes lost in eachother's. Sakura then woke up and stared at the two.
"Am I interrupting something?" she asked, taking Kim and Jody out of their trances.
"Er… what?" asked Kim dumbly.
"Never mind," said Sakura and walked out of the room, through the door.
Kim and Jody smiled at eachother and walked out of the room too.
The three stepped into the ballroom. Kim turned to the others.
"So, what are we gonna do today?" asked Kim.
"I'm going to go find the library. I heard a ghost speak of one," said Sakura.
"And I'm going to go and…er…do something which I haven't thought of," said Jody, his eyes shifting about.
"Okay. I'm gonna go and explore some more. You guys can meet up with me, later," said Kim and the three went their separate ways.
Jody sneaked out of the mansion, and dashed across the graveyard to Little Leota's crypt. He entered and looked about excitedly, his heart beating rapidly. The Hitchhiking Ghosts were no where in sight.
"So you did hurry back," said a female seductive voice.
Jody smiled and turned around. Little Leota sat on a ledge and jumped down to face Jody.
"Hi," he said.
"Hi," replied Little Leota, stepping up to Jody.
She raised a hand ran it through Jody's hair. She then moved her head forward and kissed him passionately. Jody couldn't resist her, and moved his hands and wrapped them around her waste. Her arms wrapped themselves around his neck and the two kissed passionately for ages.
Kim walked down a corridor and came into some sort of conservatory. In the middle of the conservatory was a large black coffin placed on a table. Dead plants were placed around the coffin. The lid of the coffin was nailed shut. Then a muffled voice cried out from within the coffin.
"Let me out of here! Let me out"
Kim approached the coffin and knocked on it.
"Hello?" she called.
"Who's there?" replied the man in the coffin.
"Kim,"
"Kim who?"
"Kim Ghostly,"
"Everybody's a comedian! You think it's funny that I'm trapped in here don't you! Well when I get out, you're going to be put in here and see what it's like to be stuffed up in a coffin with the lid nailed down!" screamed the coffin man.
"Whoa! Hold on, I'm not laughing at you. I feel sorry for you being in there," said Kim.
"That's what the last ghoul said!" screamed the coffin ghost and the lid suddenly started to open up and two skeleton hands came up.
Kim screamed and ran down the corridor. She ran down a dark corridor, the walls covered in a grotesque wallpaper design with demon faces patterned across the blue background. A series of doors were on both sides of the walls. They were all locked from the outside.
And yet each door had come alive in horrible ways. Guests trapped within screamed and shouted for helping. Panicking people knocked furiously on the wooden doors from the inside; door knockers rattled madly. One door leaked out blood; another was engulfed in spiders which all crawled out of the keyhole. One was wedged open from the top and two skeleton hands were propped over the top. A grotesque growling came from behind the door. The groans and moans for help became for inhuman and terrifying. Kim was frightened beyond belief. Then she spotted a door with the word EXIT on it. She gracefully opened the door, but discovered a snake pit in it. She slammed the door shut and ran on, tears streaming down her face.
She ran into a small room, where a golden grandfather clock stood. It appeared to be made of demons, the hands and the chimer made of forked tongues and tails. As the hour hand stayed put on the our…13 o'clock…the minute hand spun around madly backwards. Then the clock seemed to roar at Kim and a giant shadow of a demon's claw rose up from behind the claw, reaching for Kim.
"Stay away!" cried Kim and turned around for any means for escape.
Kim's miracle came to her, when she saw a curtain ahead, covering a dark room. Kim ran through the curtain and entered a pitch black room. Kim looked about desperately and then collapsed to her knees and cried. She thought she was alone in this place, a passage to oblivion. Then, a friendly female voice spoke up.
"Goblins and ghoulies from last Halloween; awaken the spirits with your tambourines. Child, why do you cry?" said the voice.
"'Cause I'm scared," sobbed Kim, believing her mind was speaking to her.
"Do not be frightened, my child. This place is full of friendly spirits, although some ofthem are cruel," said the woman.
"Huh? What? Who are you?" asked Kim, realising that the woman's voice was real.
"Come to the chair, and you'll see," said the woman. "I may be able to help you."
"You will. Oh, thankyou!" cried Kim. "You don't know how much this means to me and I really…"
Kim approached an armchair, but soon discovered that the chair was empty.
"Where are you?" asked Kim suspiciously.
"Look towards the glass ball, and answer will be revealed to all," said the woman.
Kim looked before the chair and saw a round table appear. On the table sat a flickering candle and several tarot cards scattered around. In the middle of the table stood a misty crystal ball. Kim's eyed widened as the green mist in the ball moved aside to a disembodied head of a woman. She had curly brown hair and glowing green eyes. Her red lips were curled in a sly smile. Her face being a ghoulish yellow-green, this woman seemed very untrustworthy and looked like something out of a bad horror movie.
"Oh my..." said Kim is shock, peering into the crystal ball.
"Surprise?" asked the woman.
"Yep. Who are you anyway?" replied Kim.
"I am Madame Leota, seer of all and voices to the spirits, at your service," said the woman. "Now child, do not underestimate my powers as I have been developing them over the years I have been imprisoned in this ball."
"Let's see some of your powers then," said Kim.
Madame Leota smirked, closed her eyes and concentrated. Kim thought it would be best to take a seat, in case anything crazy happened. Suddenly, Madame Leota's ball floated up into the air, an illuminated green glow escaped from it. The table floated up from the ground as well, and as did Kim's chair. The table span around clockwise, which Kim in her chair rocketed about in the opposite direction. Suddenly, the tarot cards, candle, and musical instruments and other such items and furniture leapt up from the ground and started floating in midair.
"As you wish!" cried Madame Leota as her eyes snapped open.
"Whoa! This isn't really what I had in miiinnnddddd!" screamed Kim as she went spinning around the floating table.
"Serpents, and spiders, tail of a rat, call in the spirits wherever they're at," said Madame Leota.
Screams and groans started to echo throughout the room, and a raven cawed.
"Rap on a table, it's time to respond; send us a message from somewhere beyond,"
Two floating tables collided with eachother in mid-flight.
"Goblins and ghoulies from last halloween; awaken the spirits with your tambourine,"
A tambourine rattled crazily and evil cackling echoed across the room.
"Creepies and crawlies, toads in a pond. Let there be music from regions beyond!"
All of the instruments spinning about all played at once. Kim felt very queasy.
"Wizards and witches, wherever you dwell. Give us a hint, by ringing the bell!"
A bell rang softly and suddenly, the entire madness stopped and the table, chair and objects went crashing to the floor. Kim was breathing heavily, her face screwed up. Leota pleasantly floated back down into the crystal ball's holder and smiled.
"I guess that's what you'd call showing off," said Madame Leota. "Did you enjoy that, child?"
"Yeah…it was…something," said Kim and collapsed to the floor.
Sakura sat in a dusty armchair, reading the Christmas Carol. She was in the mansion's library, a large room full of millions of shelves, and many dusty books. A ladder wobbled dramatically as an invisible ghost tried to place two books on a high shelf. Sakura closed the book and placed it back in the shelf she got it from. She looked about bored and looked down the line of books that lay before her. There were such books as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Casper the Friendly Ghost and others.
"Don't you have anything interesting to read?" asked Sakura to a nearby ghost.
"Our library is well-stocked with priceless editions. Only ghost stories, of course. And marble busts of the greatest ghost writers the literary world has ever known. They have all retired here to the Haunted Mansion," replied the ghost.
Sakura looked over to some marble busts, which seemed to stare back at her jealously. As if protecting their beloved ghost stories.
"Okay, thanks for that," said Sakura uncertainly.
Just then, a butler ghost of some sorts entered the library and bowed respectively.
"Pardon the intrusion, but Mr. Baroketch is about to begin his "concert"," said the butler. "If you'd kindly step your way into piano parlour."
Ghosts talked to eachother quietly and slowly followed the butler through a curtained archway. Sakura took an interest and followed them. The butler led them into a small room. In front of a window stood a dusty old black piano, the keys yellowed from age. A tiny amount of sunlight managed to creep its way through the grey curtains that were spread in front of the large window. Several music sheets were scattered across the floor, and a cobwebbed candelabrum sat on top of the piano.
Sakura took a seat at the back of the room. Other ghosts she'd met were there. Master Gracey, Carmen and Antonio the opera singers, Lillian O'Malley, who held an umbrella, and others.
"Hey there, kid," said a squeaky voice.
Sakura looked to her left and saw the Hitchhiking Ghosts materialising beside her.
"Hey guys. You came to see this Baroketch guy?" asked Sakura.
"Listen to him. Not see him," corrected Phineas.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Ludwig Von Baroketch!" announced the butler and the ghosts looked on as a shadow of a pianist bleeded over the stool in front of the piano and onto the carpet.
Sakura watched as the shadow of Ludwig cracked its fingers before hammering down on the piano keys and started playing God Save the Queen. The concert went on for an hour or so, and went well, until Gus got bored half way through the performance and started attacking the phantom pianist with his ball and chain.
Sakura, Gus, Phineas and Ezra were now quickly exiting the library as the pianist had started swearing his head off.
They four journeyed up a staircase, and Sakura had a close encounter with a giant spider, but Phineas came to her rescue by pulling a chainsaw out of his carpetbag and sawing the spiders to shreds. Sakura had ran on ahead, and found herself in what appeared to be a hallway which stretched into oblivion. The hallway was lined with doors on either side, each one shrinking as the corridor travelled on. Flickering chandeliers couldn't help this murky hallway, even if they tried. In the centre of the hallway floated a candelabrum, dancing about in midair.
The Hitchhiking Ghosts appeared behind Sakura and looked down the hallway at the floating candelabrum.
"Oh, that's Prudence. She's invisible," said Ezra. "Hey, Prudence!"
The candelabra stopped and suddenly bombdived down at Sakura. Sakura ducked and the candelabra missed and collided with the Hitchhiking Ghosts, knocking them over the banister and there was a loud thud on the floor below.
"Why did you do that for, Prudence!" snapped Sakura.
"Prudence is taking a little time out…" hissed a cold voice and Sakura gasped as a cloaked spirit appeared with red eyes. It was Ub.
"Who are you?" asked Sakura, backing away.
"I am Ub van der Iwerks, the original owner of the mansion, and I will destroy you ectoplasm form!" said Ub and lunged at Sakura.
Sakura screamed and ran down the corridor, Ub giving chase.
"So you're saying, if I find this old key for you, you can regain your powers and can send all of the ghosts into heaven?" asked Kim to Madame Leota.
"Yes, child. We will all be able to rest in peace, and I can finally get out of this ball," said Leota.
"Where do I start? This place is so old and full of junk, it will take years to find the key!" cried Kim.
"I have this prophecy that may help you," said Madame Leota. "Enter the gallery of morphing paintings, then travel down the dark stairs, and search for a box under one of the chairs. Find the bat statue that bares a clue; follow it and there the key will be in front of you."
"Okay, I will get this key for you," said Kim and turned to leave.
"Child, no one must no of this. Understand?" said Leota, her eyes gleaming.
"I understand," said Kim, and she vanished through a door.
Madame Leota watched the naïve girl walk away and her face formed into a sinister smirk.
"My revenge is on the horizon, doomsday is near. But this girl may tell someone, and my freedom in jeopardy I fear," she said.
Meanwhile, in the crypt, Jody found himself in an open coffin, with cushy pillows underneath him. He was literally naked, apart that he was wearing his black boxers. He lean chest and legs were exposed. Little Leota had one of her arms wrapped over his chest, the other wrapped underneath her back, and connecting with the other hand, keeping Jody in a lock. She opened her eyes and looked to the handsome young boy.
"Hey sexy," she greeted him.
"Hi," he nervously spoke.
"You don't have to be worried about doing this. I seduced millions of men, but you are different. You are special," said Little Leota, passionately smiling. He smiled back.
"But I'm only 14," said Jody.
"So am I," said Little Leota. She was in a modern day bra and a pair of black knickers. "Besides, we're ghosts, and we don't have rules anymore."
"Okay," said Jody.
Little Leota smirked and kissed him passionately. She then placed on hand on the end of his boxers and started to pull them down, shutting the coffin lid with her other hand.
The incantations Leota says are from the ride, and the spinning table thing is from the movie. I did say there were sex references in this. Jody is a popular hit with the ghouls, especially LL.