At school, the girls were excited that they have a history report on their hometown of Hartfeld. They didn't know what to write about. "I've got one," Rochelle said. "Why not a report on the old Arnlace Estate?"
"Arnlace Estate?" Peggy asked. "What's that?"
The entire student body was petrified by this, because Peggy didn't know anything about it. "You never heard of the legend of Arnlace Estate?" Mahi asked. "It's a haunted legend of Hartfeld."
"You tell her," Addison said. "You're the keeper of the story, after all."
"It all started in the 1900s of Hartfeld," Rochelle explained. "Ernest Arnlace was a wealthy tailor who sold the best silks and fabrics in town. Most of them were black like the dark of night. On the night of his 45th birthday, he was supposed to make an elaborate suit to make his grand eterance. Unfortunately, his sewing machine malfunctioned and made it go out of control. He became completely tangled up in the star fabric, went to the window, and fell down, costing his life."
Peggy became petrified by the scary story, so she hugged Mahi. "Every year on his birthday," Rochelle said, "his ghost returns to seek his vengeance for not helping him with his sewing. There are four signs that his ghost approaches. First: the rush of cold air goes into the cabin. Second: you can here the sewing machine working, even when its not operating. Third: thunder will clash. And finally: his ghost will appear, tossing broken glass towards his victims."
Everyone else ran away, except for Dagger and Merula, who loved the story so much. "Enough, Arnlace," Rayne said. "You want Principal McLean to give you detention again?"
"Not really," Rochelle replied. "I'm tired of cafeteria dinners."
Rochelle, Lara, and Sasha walked off, but Rochelle stopped for a moment. "Did I forget to mention," she said, "his birthday is tonight?"
"What does that mean?" Peggy asked.
"It means that someone will be seeing his ghost," Sasha explained. "So I dare you and your stupid friends to spend the night with us to prove that Ernest Arnlace's ghost is real."
PRIMA was petrified by this, but they didn't want Rochelle to keep scaring high schoolers with the legend of Ernest Arnlace, so they decided to do what she said.
XxoxX
Later that night, the girls showed up at Arnlace Estate wearing gothic apparel. Rochelle, Lara, and Sasha were wearing jackets. When PRIMA got up to the estate, Rochelle, Sasha, and Lara were petrified by this. "What's with the goth getup?" asked Rochelle. "You look like something from 'The Addams Family'."
"We thought we could spend the night in the old house while wearing the right apparel," Isadora explained. "I sewed these up for Rockin Bonanza for when Lollapalooza comes to Hartfeld, though it's unlikely that would happen. Usually, that happens in Chicago."
In her bag, Isadora brought out chocolate. "You brought chocolate with you?" Lara asked. "Because chocolate breaks me out in pimples."
"Hey," Rayne replied. "We need to eat something."
Inside, they saw that Dagger and Merula were there. "We're here to see the haunting of Ernest Arnlace," Merula explained.
"We do this every year to see his ghost," Dagger explained. "But frankly, we fall asleep before we get a chance to see him. We feel the cold air, hear the sewing machine, the lightning bolts, and the broken glass, but not once we saw his ghost."
"Boy," Lara said. "The legend of Arnlace Estate really got into their heads."
Outside, Madrid was spying on them. That's when he saw Dagger kissing Isadora and got jealous. He summoned the Jeivan tailors. "Tailors," he said, "do something about Dagger."
XxoxX
Later, PRIMA, Rochelle, Lara, and Sasha were looking around the old manor and the stuff left behind. Peggy and Mahi found an old timey record player where they danced to a slow song, Isadora and Rayne found some old books written in the style of the 20th century, Addison found a piano and played "Fur Elise" on it, Sasha and Lara checked out some old painting which were boring to them, and Rochelle was obeserving some old furniture. "Dagger!" shouted Merula.
Merula rushed into the foyer to find Rochelle. "I can't find Dagger anywhere," panicked Merula.
"Are you sure he's not in the Cemetery of Stupid?" Rochelle insulted.
"I'm serious," Merula said. "I think he's been rocker-napped."
"What's with all the griping?" snapped Sasha. "Can't you see were making fun of some old paintings."
"Tweedle Roll thinks Tweedle Rock has been kidnapped," Rochelle answered.
Isadora and Rayne heard what was going on, and they knew they had to save him fast. They rounded up the rest PRIMA and were ready to save the dude in distress.
Guardians Unite
They flew around the house until Isadora found her boyfriend unconscious on the floor. "He won't wake up my Isadora," Madrid smiled evilly. "Now that Sleeping Scary is in his coma, you'll be mine."
Isadora used her supersonic breath on him. "Leave me alone, you Monstruo. Kidnapping my Dagger so you could have me all to yourself. That's not a good way to admit your feelings. You know nothing about true love."
"Me encanta tu forma de hablar (I love the way you talk)," Madrid said in Spanish.
"Wow," Isadora replied. "You are persistent. Whenever I see people that are really persistent, they get a little forceful and a little yandere-ish. Sometimes they have to take no for an answer - like the time Tobias wanted to check out that Jim Blind movie, but Tia Delfina wouldn't let him, so he snuck out and stole $20 from Damien. He placed it back afterwards. Luckily he got caught, because the dollar he took had a rip at the front and the replacement one didn't. He got the $20 from the manager of the movie. One of his sons is classmates with Toby."
Suddenly, they saw Ernest Arnlace's ghost. Mahi and Rayne were about to attack, but Peggy stopped him. They remembered the part where no one helped Ernest to help him with his suit. This gave Isadora an idea.
XxoxX
Later she finished up the suit that Ernest was suppose to finish. "Thank you, young lady," he said. "You have finished my task."
Ernest disappeared without a trace, meaning that he was finally resting in peace.
"I think they went this way!" shouted Merula.
Dagger was starting to wake up from his little coma. PRIMA quickly changed back to their regular selves in the nick of time, just as Dagger was fully awake.
Lara, Sasha, Rochelle, and Merula came in to see the suit that Isadora finished. "Would you look at that?" said Lara. "A suit."
"I checked his size," Isadora explained, "and Ernest shares the same size as Dagger, so he should wear it at our next gig."
"Thank you, Isadora," Dagger replies as he peck-cheeked her.
"Awwww," Merula smiled.
"Yuck!" Rochelle, Sasha, and Lara growled.
"Where is our next gig anyway?" asked Mahi.
XxoxX
The next night, our heroes were at the cemetery performing their version of "I Wanna Rock" from Twisted Sister. Dagger wore the suit that Isadora made for him while Isadora, Mahin, Addison, and Merula wore 1900s-styled costumes for the occasion.
Peggy and Rayne were very proud of themselves, because not only they lifted the curse, but they also got As on their history assignments.
As they were performing, Rochelle wondered if Peggy and Rayne saw the ghost. "We did," replied Peggy. "And he's really friendlier than you thought."
Rochelle, Sasha, and Lara were petrified, because they found out that Ernest was nice. This meant one thing: they lost the dare.
Rochelle started to throw a temper tantrum when the security guard kicked them out for annoying the patrons at the concert.
As Peggy and Rayne smiled at Rochelle's punishment, Peggy noticed a grave with a card on it. The grave said "Here lies Ernest Arnlace," and the card had a hand-drawn sewing machine on it.
It read,
Dear Peggy, Rayne, Isadora, Mahi, and Addison
Thanks for lifting the haunting at my estate.
I tried to convince patrons to finish my suit,
But they were too scared to do it.
Merula and Dagger were too amazed to complete it
It has been the best birthday present I've ever had.
Sincerely, Ernest Arnlace
Peggy and Rayne smiled.
The End.
