Back at camp, Calvin and Hobbes walked through the halls. Hobbes was naming the various ghosts he saw. Calvin didn't really believe him, but was interested about what his tiger said.
"There's a large spider up there..." Hobbes was saying, "and a cat on the TV...and a few sprites outside...and a Headless Horseman riding right for us."
They both did a double take. A huge flaming Headless Horseman was running down the hall, leaving flaming hoofmarks! A few kids in his path jumped out of the way.
"I can see the ghost, too!" screamed Calvin. The two of them ran the opposite direction, and around a small corridor. Waiting for them was a different corpse, this one named Static. Bolts of lightning rained from his hands.
"AAAHHH! Evil corpse!"
Calvin and Hobbes ran into the bathroom and glanced in the mirror to see their reflections had turned into skeletons.
"AAAHHH! Demented reflection!"
Running out of the bathroom, the boys found a mob of ghosts swarming around their heads.
"AAAHHH! Other things!"
In terror, they ran outside. Several sprites were waiting. One, named Aether, let out an incredibly loud shriek, sending Calvin and Hobbes running into the distance, through the wind and rain.
As the others ran around scaring those two, the Darkling told the two smallest ghosts, Firetail and Sparkle, a pair of ghost newts who had the power to spread fires, to continue searching for a child to preform the ritual.
"I am insulted!" said Firetail. "Just because we are the smallest ghosts, we have to keep searching instead of scaring!"
"Yes, it is a pity that we can't use our fire power to terrify these children," sighed Sparkle. "Worst of all, it shall take us forever to locate whomever we are looking for!"
"Wait! I have an idea! We shall recruit another ghost to help us!"
"Who isn't helping?"
The newts turned to a ghost hound named Buck snoozing next to them.
"Buck!" called Firetail. "WAKE UP!"
Sparkle set the dog's tail on fire, waking him.
"Hey! I'm the one with the name 'Firetail!' I should have done that!"
"Buck," Sparkle told him, "we want you to help us sniff out the child that can restore the Darkling!"
Using his nose, Buck sniffed out Ed, who sat in a closet, reading an "Evil Tim" comic. The newts gasped with happiness! It was the kid they were looking for!
"Look at that boy!" cried Firetail.
"Look at his comic!" cheered Sparkle. "He's the one!"
Eddy and Edd walked in, not seeing the invisible ghosts.
"Ed? Are you still reading that crap?" said Eddy, glancing into Ed's comic.
"But it is so good, Eddy!" said Ed, not even looking up. "See, here Evil Tim is summoning an evil batch of cows to go and do evil things evilly!"
The newts did a victory waltz down the hall.
Firetail and Sparkle: No one's bored like Darkling
Gives rewards like Darkling
And for real estate, no one's insured like Darkling
Finishing their reprise, they jumped onto Buck and road away.
And we'll help him in his great quest for evil
Boy, what a guy
Darkling!
"'And for real estate, no one's insured like Darkling?'" said Buck. "That's just stupid." Firetail looked confused. "I didn't know you could talk!"
"Yeah, there's a lot of things you don't know."