I did quite well really. I managed to get to the end of chapter 6 before being disturbed by Donald SLAMMING my bedroom door open and yelling, at the top of his voice. "DELLA!"

I jumped and ripped the headphones out my ears with a: "WHAT!?"

"The boys!" Was Donald's urgent reply. By the time I looked over at him he was gone and I threw back the covers, stuck my leg on, which took longer than I would like, then ran after him, yelling.

"What do you mean 'the boys'!? Donald!?"

I skidded round a corner, saw them all running towards me, was like: "What's wrong?" But didn't even manage to finish the sentence cos they all legged it past me, Louie like.

"Sorry Mom, can't talk! Running away!"

I was gonna ask him what he meant, but just at that moment there was a ear-splitting shriek and I turned to see this pale ghost, female, with brown waist-length hair and wearing a nightie flying towards me at great speed.

So I screamed and legged it as well. Which might seem strange seeing as I'm Della Duck, fearsome adventeress and survivor of space, but there's a time and a place for asking crazy ghosts what they're doing and when you're being chased through a corridore at three o clock in the morning by them: is not it.

I sped up and managed to get level with Donald. "What the hell is going on!?" I shrieked at him.

"The kids decided to go exploring in Scrooge's treasure room." He yelled back. "WITHOUT PERMISSION! And while they were THERE-!"

Cue blood-curling screech cutting of Donald's explanation, so I guess I better fill in the blank's because I'm still trying to get my head around it as well.

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[About an hour and an half prior to the ghost from the land of Hades showing up: In Louie's bedroom.]

"Hah, I win!" Dewey cowed. They were playing some online game that they tried to explain to me and I just didn't get. I think it involved killing people or somthing? Anyway...

"Ugh. This is boring." Millie whined.

Webby looked at her anxiously. "What do you mean, boring?" She asked, anxiously. "This is meant to be fun!"

Millie looked at her like she was mad. "Fun? Watching the boys stab each other repeatedly? Hardly."

The boys looked sidewards at each other guiltily. "What do you want to do then, Millie?" Huey asked.

She grinned. "I thought you'd, like, NEVER ask!" She put her phone down and said, excitedly. "Have you ever played 'Never have I ever?'"

The boys hadn't. Which I was REALLY shocked to hear, considering me and Donald used to play it a lot. We discovered it was a good bonding game to play with new friends. And it got REALLY competitive. I still remember Donald yelling at Pete that YES he HAD gone to Australia and he had the hat to prove it. Mortimer refused to believe it even when Donald produced said hat, complete with a boomerang he had brought and a picture of him posing next to a kangaroo. I say posing next to it. Being punched by it. Turns out Kangaroo's hate Donnie with a passion. Who knew?

So the game started. And by all accounts it went very well, up until Alvin said. "Never have I ever...climbed a mountain."

Louie and Millie put their fingers down. Huey, Dewey, Webby + Alvin's fingers stayed up.

Millie lost it. "No you havn't!" She snapped. "There's no way ALL of you have climbed a mountain!"

"Yes we have!" Dewey shot back.

"Yeah." Huey backed him up. "We climbed Mount Neverst."

Millie scowled. "You have NOT." She said.

"Have to."

"Prove it!"

And that was it. Those two childish words were what started this WHOLE thing. Cos the BOYS decided it was a good idea to TAKE Alvin and Millie to Scrooge's treasure room to PROVE to them all the AWSOME stuff we [okey, they] had been doing over the past couple of years.

By the time they got to the room, Huey was already having seconds thoughts. "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." He said, in an excellent impression of Chuckie.

"C'mon Huey." Dewey said. "We've been in this room before. We know EVERYTHING in it. I tell you what - I'LL be the guide!"

So Dewey led them round the room, pointing out all the stuff he knew about the items in there. While he was talking Millie was looking confused. "Did you say something?"She asked Alvin, who shook his head.

Shr frowned and looked round the room. "I keep hearing this voice..."

By now the boys and Webby had overheard this. [Not difficult. Your voice does echoe in that room. I think it's the high ceilings.] And Huey was like. "What voice?"

"This, kinda, lovely, musical voice." Millie said. "Like someone singing opera or something."

Huey started flicking through the J.W.G. frantically. "Sounds like a Siren..." He said.

There was a beat, then Louie said. "Don't you need to be near the SEA to hear a Siren, Hubert? What with them being mermaids and all?"

"Well, they're not technically mermaids-" Huey began.

"SO Millie." Dewey interupted. "Where's this weird sound coming from?"

So Millie led them over to a display cases which housed a necklace with a jaw-dropping amber stone in the middle of it. It looked gorgeous.

"Does this thing lift?" Millie asked, looking round the display case.

The kids looked at each other. "I'm not sure that's a good idea..." Huey began.

"I found it!" Millie said, popping the case open.

"Okey, even I think this is a bit sketchy." Louie said.

"Yeah, let's put it back-" Alvin said, trying to calm everything down.

"SHUT UP!" Millie snapped before looking at the necklace like she was Golem. "It's so beautiful..." She picked up the necklace, looked at it like it was the most beautiful thing in the universe, then snapped at Alvin. "Help me put it on!"

To terrified to refuse Alvin, with shaking hands, took the necklace of her and undid it clasp before putting it round her neck.

While this was going on, Webby leaned into Dewey and hissed. "This is weird, Dewey. I'm gonna get Granny."

A beat and then. "I think that's a great idea Webby."