For this chapter I was thinking of throwing in my two cents and do my own reference to the ring I hope you enjoy.
It was a nice normal day in the farmhouse ,in the kitchen we find Gina, Gavin and Muriel having a conversation in the kitchen ,while Courage was eating dog food in the cornor
"I must admit mom, if I didn't know better I'd say you barely have anything growing around here " says Gavin ,looking out the kitchen window at the desert wasteland that their home is surrounded in.
Muriel proceeds to reply " I dont blame ya Gavin, I can't even remember the last time we even grew a bud ever since you've left" looking back at the wasteland, before saying "but I assure you Eustace and I still manage to get through ok."
"Oh what about you Gavin dear, how is life in the big city been treating you all?" Asks Muriel
Gavin proceeds to tell her about it saying " oh I assure you mom, we have been doing great for ourselves. I in fact happen to work for a company that provides the best appliance manufacturing company to exist on the entire planet."
Muriel amazed at his sons accomplishment aside from being a parent ,says "what a fancy title for yourself, but what about you Gina dear?" To which the red head replies "well it isn't much really ,just taking care of the girls as their mother, while I practice acting in my spare time of course, I hope be a T.V. star or maybe even a movie star ."
Muriel impressed simply replies "oh my, that does sound like a very interesting goal Gina" only for Gina to say "I know ,but I'm still happy raising our sweet little girls" before Muriel says "I'm sure ya are dear ,I know that I'm happy living here with Eustace in this cozy farmhouse."
Hearing this Courage raises his head from his food to look up at his owner, letting out a worried wine. Muriel seeing this ,then bashfully smiles and says "oh and of course, how can I forget Courage" in which the pink dog now satisfied, returns to his meal.
Meanwhile in the living room ,we find Eustace sitting in his chair watching T.V. ,Katy was sitting on the couch on her phone reading messages from freinds ,while Madeline was playing around with Muriels rocking chair rocking back and forth on it.
Suddenly just as a show was returning from commerceal break ,the T.V. began to show static much to Eustace's annoyance, as he gets up from his chair to try and fix the T.V. by repeatingly banging the top of it with his fist, but to no result angering the old farmer as he then begins to hit it from the side.
"Eustace what is all the fuss about?" Muriel asks ,walking into the living room with the couple following behind her, as Eustace blatently replies "the darn T.V.s broken!" before he proceeds to try and get it working again.
Gina then proceeds to giggle at Eustace's misfortune, before asking him what he intends to do, to which Eustace proceeds to say "I'm getting me toolbox" but before he can even leave the room, Madeline stops him pointing to the set saying "look!", on the T.V. screen we see the T.V then begin to show clip after clip of very strange scenery.
Eustace as well as the rest of the family where all very confused by what they where watching, before the screen begins to turn to black for a few seconds then it begins to show a still image of a small white dot, inside of a hexagon, thats inside of a very huge circle.
"What in the world is that?" Asks Muriel ,while the rest of the family stare on in confusion at what it could be, suddenly they hear the phone from the kitchen begin to ring ,Gavin proceeds to go into the kitchen to answer it.
When he does, all he heard on the other line was a shrill voice that whispered "Your home is mine" over three times, before Gavin proceeds to ask " who is this?" All the voice replied however was "very soon...Your home is mine."
"Who is it Gavin?" Asks Muriel walking into the Kitchen with Gina and Eustace, then Gina asks him "what is it they want?" All Gavin replied was "I- I don't know ,all I'm hearing is whispering on the other line, something about the farmhouse" Eustace walks over to Gavin before he rips the phone from his hands, and proceeds to bring the phone toward his face telling the strange caller "we don't want any ,so shove off!" Hanging up on the said person afterwards.
Once Eustace did so the four return to the living room, the T.V. suddenly returned to it's scheduled program, before Eustace returns to his chair and continues to watch his show in peace.
Courage meanwhile, after what he had witnessed with the family, he began to wonder about the strange things that just happened the T.V. going to static one minute then showing strange imagery the next, the strange mysterious caller, and of course the symbol that appeared on the T.V.
The next day in the afternoon ,we find the family was in the dining room spending time together playing charades, before Courage suddenly heard a noise that was coming from the living room, Courage letting his curiousity get the better of him decides to investigate without disrupting the family's game.
What he found in the living room left the pink dog shocked, as he saw the T.V. mysteriously turned on showing static on the screen, confused Courage proceeded to carefully approach the set ,before seeing something attempting to break through the screen startling Courage a little more.
Just then, something begins to finally come out of the screen real slowly, before it reveals itself to be a glitching pale hand reaching out from the screen toward the frightened animal.
That's when Courage begins to scream in fright at what he's just seen, before rushing back to the dining room to warn the family, Muriel concerned after seeing the look of fear on Courage's face, asks him "Courage are you alright what's wrong?"
Courage despite speaking gibberish, attempts to tell the family what he saw in the living room, morphing into a blue horned monster coming out of the T.V., before he returns to speaking gibberish while pointing toward the direction of the living room.
"I think Courage is trying to tell us something" Gavin says ,Courage nods his head with agreement ,as he proceeds to escort the family to the living room.
But when they enter, the T.V. was strangely turned off ,the hand that was coming out of it had dissapeared, everyone in the room then proceeded to look at Courage with confused and dissapointed faces. Courage tries to explain himself ,but sadly cant find the right words.
Everyone but Muriel and Gavin return back to the Dining room ,as Eustace proceeds to blurt out to Courage "stupid dog!" Much to the pink dog's dismay, Muriel then approaches Courage and says "I'm sure whatever you saw is gone now Courage", Gavin still concerned says "I dont know mother ,by how he was acting I could have sworn it was something serious."
Afterwards the two return with the others back to the dining room, Courage says to himself "I know what I saw." Suddenly the T.V. proceeded to turn itself back on again, only for Courage to see on the screen the strange still image from yesterday, Courage without hesitation proceeded to conveniently pull out a camera and snap a picture of it before it dissapeared ,he knew whatever was trying to come out of the T.V. was definately an unwelcomed threat he needed to investigate.
Later that night after everyone's asleep, we find Courage in the attic on the computer for research on some of todays happenings, scanning the picture he took into the scanner, before seating himself in front of the monitor for results.
After a minute, the computer proceeds to show the image of the said symbol, as it explains " The symbol before you was once a logo to an an old studio, by the name Teletransport studios before it was shut down in the late sixties"
Afterwards, the computer replies" one of the stars of the said studios goes simply by the name Agatha ,a spoiled, awful ,young seven year old child star whose life was taken from her too soon " as it proceeds to show Courage a black and white photo of the said girl wearing nineteen fifties style clothes with short curly black hair, looking as if she where posing for a self portrait.
Continuing on, the computer proceeds to present to Courage an article about her death, as it says "during one of her movie productions ,there happened to be an accident that involved a blowtorch and rollerskates, which ended up burning every inch of her body" frightning poor Courage when he hears this.
"And now to this day the soul of young Agatha still continues to wander the earth ,using the Teletransport logo symbol as a portalway transporting herself anywhere she pleases, through telecommunication mediums or televisions as you call it. "presenting a picture of two T.V. Sets apart from each other, and inbetween is an arrow going from one T.V. to the other.
It then finishes its history description ,saying "If anyone where unfortunate enough to see the symbol on their screen ,they are given a few days through phone calls telling them to leave whatever home she arrives in, otherwise the civilions who reside in it become the victoms of Agatha's wrath, no matter who it is."
Hearing all this ,Courage worriedly begins typing up the following "how do I get rid of Agatha ,before she attacks people?"
The answer given by his computer was "The only way to get Agatha out of your house, is to block off her only means of entry, before she enters your home" with that said, Courage proceeded to type in "how do I block out Agatha from my home?"
All it answers Courage is " how else do you keep strangers away from your door?" Much to Courage's stress, before he decides to to leave the attic after carefully closing the door, Courage decides to go downstairs for a glass of water ,before going back to bed since he has only a few days before Agatha enters the farmhouse, Courage beleived he had alot of time to think... Oh how he thought wrong.
After getiing a glass of water, Courage the makes his way back to bed but just as he passes by the living room ,he suddenly stops when he notices the T.V. unexpectedly turn on. However instead of seeing static on the screen , Courage instead saw the screen flash bright blue before it proceeds to show the symbol ,then something proceeds to slowly come out of the T.V. glitching and twitching the process.
What came out was a very frightning spirit with very pale white skin, very messy long hair that reached her back ,an old tattered dress and a rotting face that looked as if it had been scratched, this was no doubt the spirit of Agatha.
Courage quickly begins running to Eustace and Muriel's bedroom screaming in fear ,when he enters his screaming proceeds to wake them up, as Muriel begins to ask her beloved dog "Courage what are ya doin up so late?" Only for Courage to warn his owners of the threat downstairs, forming into the T.V. with eyes and sharp teeth, despite the family still unable to understand him.
Then just as Courage tries to think of another way to explain, he was disrupted by Muriel's scream at the creature who just passed through their bedroom doorway, which happened to be Agatha.
"Who the heck are you?!" Eustace rudely asks the creature ,before Agatha proceeds to levitate both Eustace and Muriel from their bed ,while both of them began to scream much to Courage's fright ,before Agatha forcefully pulls them both toward her ,as she then proceeds to grab them both by their necks.
No matter how hard they try to struggle ,Agatha's grip over them was too strong to overcome, Agatha then proceeds to vanish before Courage's eyes.
Courage had to act fast ,so without a hint of hesitation Courage proceeded to try and wake up the others for help ,however when he first got to Gavin and Gina's room he finds their door was locked ,the same with Madeline and Katy's room.
"What do I do? What do I do!?" Courage begins tro ask himself worriedly ,only for his train of thought to be broken by Muriels voice calling for him from the living room shouting "Courage HEELP!"
All Courage could think of is only one idea to save his family, before rushing back into their bedroom ,but not before saying "Muriel I'll save you!"
Meanwhile in the living room ,we find the elderly couple now floating in place, before Agatha proceeds to push Muriel to the side before it turns all its attention to Eustace.
Then using one of her hands ,she proceeds to place it onto Eustace's face before she began to disfigure it ,all while Eustice howls in pain as his entire body then begins to glitch just like her, much to Muriel's fright as she continued to scream.
After about a minute or so ,she proceeds to drop Eustace onto the floor leaving him surprisingly unconcious ,before Agatha turns toward Muriel for she was next to receive the same treatment as the farmer. As Agatha slowly approaches her, Muriel begins to shake with terror then just as Agatha extends her hand toward the poor old lady's frightened face, she hears a voice behind call out to her saying "hey Agatha!"
Turning around toward the T.V ,she sees Courage beside it shouting "let the old lady go!" Agatha looks over to Courage, before doing as he says and dropping Muriel back onto the ground, before she proceeds to go after Courage.
As she does, Courage proceeds to hold Eustace's mallet over the T.V., thinking to himself "I hope this works" before bringing it down onto the set smashing it repeatedly as quick as he could until it was a pile of wood, gears ,and parts.
Afterwards Agatha who was almost nearing the dog ,suddenly begins to deteriorate ,she begins to scream in a very high pitch tone that continued on until she began to disentigrate into nothing, and just like that it was all over the family was now safe.
However Courage wasn't out of trouble just yet ,once Eustace regained conciousness, he then notices the pile of what remained of the T.V. ,Furiously Eustace approaches the pink dog ,saying "you stupid dog ,look what you did to my T.V.!"
Eustace standing before the poor frightened dog ,proceeds to ask it " lousy dog ,what do you got to say for yourself?" Courage however does not answer ,as he instead gives Eustace a look of surprise, much to the old farmer's confusion as he asks "WELL!"
"Oh now Eustace, don't make such a fuss Courage saved our lives after all" Muriel says standing up for Courage, before the rest of the family come downstairs, Gavin proceeds to ask in concern "what in the name of decency is going on down here?"
Only for Eustace to answer him with "the stupid dog wrecked the T.V.!" ,To which Katy proceeds to rhetorically asks "You where whining over an old T.V. set?" While raising a brow, then Gavin calms him down saying " easy there Dad ,why dont we just relax and talk about this in the morning ok? "
Eustace then begins to turn toward his family, and rudely ask" who asked you?" Only for Gavin as well as his wife, kids ,and Muriel to all give him the same surprised face as Courage. Once Eustace notices this ,he proceeds to ask "what are you all staring at?"
Katy begins to pull out her phone, before activating a mirror function on it, presenting to Eustace a reflection on his face ,which just so happens to now look like something out of a Picasso painting.
Eustace looking at his face did not like it one bit , all the others could do was either remain silent ,hold back a chuckle, or give their sympathys to him that night.
A week after the incident passed ,Gavin had gotten Eustace a new and very shiny flat screen T.V. on a very strong sturdy wood cabinet table as a kind gesture to make up for what Courage had done.
"Well dad, how are you enjoying the new set?" Asks Gavin ,sitting with the family on the couch in the living room , before we see Eustace in his chair ,still maintaining that same disfigured face as he simply grumbles while watching it.
Despite Eustace's disfigured look however ,thanks to Courage being hugged by Madeline, knew for a fact that at least the family is safe... For now.
That should do it for this chapter yes im going to be doing one shots for each chapter maybe a two parter anything goes thank you all for the support reviews are always welcome and the next chapter will be up soon.