At The Hamster Wheel Pet Shop, Shelly was going through with the pups on who was getting euthanized. "How I wish to know how euthanization is done," she groaned. "Better do my weekly expiration date check."
In another part of the pet store, Swinger and Kirby were both looking at monkey food that has expired, so they could use them for fertilizer for the Parejas' garden. Swinger was dressed as an astronaut while Kirby was dressed as a wizard. By the door, they saw a black figure with a scythe, thinking he was the magician Mr. Hayato hired for the kids at the Halloween party at Roadhouse Fantasia. He was, in actuality, the Grim Reaper of Endsville, New York. Kirby picked him up, very excited that the "magician" was here.
"Put me down, man!" Grim shouted. "I have some reaping to do!"
XxoxX
Later, they arrived at Roadhouse Fantasia where they met the Klue Queens. Leah was dressed as a witch, Kaylin was dressed as a princess, Estrella was dressed as cat, Rylie was dressed as a mummy, Tania was dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein, and Paige was dressed as a calaca.
"Kirby," Leah said, "you brought someone in a Grim Reaper costume."
"Actually-" Grim replied as Mr. Hayato dressed as a soda jock came in.
"No time for small talk," Mr. Hayato replied. "The kids are figuratively turning into monsters."
"Figuratively?" replied Grim as he smiled. "These are normal kids."
"They are," Mr. Hayato worriedly replied. "Now get up there and start performing."
As Grim was getting onstage, Helen, Issac, and Martin noticed something strange about him. Helen was dressed as Captain Sun, Issac was dressed as Diamond, and Martin was dressed as a Shinkomon trainer.
Billie, Miley, and Zara were dressed as flamenco dancers. "Hola, losers!" shouted Billie. "How do you like our dresses? They're real and are imported from Spain."
"That's great," Estrella said. "Did you get one for Isla?"
"We purposefully didn't get one for Isla," Zara explained. "Figure that Halloween could make her cry this year."
Isla showed up dressed as a magician. "It's my magician costume," she explained. "I figure I could show off some magic tricks while we're waiting for the main act shows up."
"Isla," Billie said, "this is the lamest idea you ever had."
"Come on," Isla replied. "This will be a great chance for the Friendly Scouts to have fun after trick or treating."
"Lame," Billie growled. "You're a two-left handed magician."
Isla was a bit hurt but decided to get some candy apples because they were her favorite candy. Paige was looking at her watch, wondering where the magician was.
"I'm afraid we have two problems," said Peter said as he came in dressed in some of his dirty rapper clothes and a cowboy hat, clown shoes, and a Hawaiian lei. His friends were dressed in the same costumes as well. "The magician we hired has been kidnapped, and that skeleton magician is terrorizing the children."
"How did you know?" Paige asked.
"It's the top story on the afternoon news," Peter answered as he showed the Lititz Heights app.
When Paige and Estrella looked up, they saw Grim making moving paper picado in the form of hankies. "I'm starting to think that's the REAL Grim Reaper," Estrella whispered.
"Whoa," Maniac Mel said. "No wonder his scythe is so real."
"The boys and I are going to help you investigate who's behind the kidnapping," Peter said as he and his friends placed on Groucho Marx glasses as their only disguise.
"Oh, please," Estrella interjected. "Who would be that dumb to fall for those disguises?" But they didn't listen; instead, they took off.
Issac came in asking about the missing magician. "Who is the magician who was supposed to entertain the kids anyway?"
"Khloe Khloeidescope," Estrella explained, "originally Khloe Pearce. She's famous for her changing eyes. She can change them from red, to blue, to heliotrope. Most of her magic words involved with color like, 'Hocus Purpleocus'."
"But where did she start out?" Issac asked.
"She was one the assistant for Dennis Daring," answered Estrella as she showed a Viewtube video of a clip from "The Kelly Philbin Show."
On Kelly Philbin's talk show, Kelly was interviewing Dennis Daring about his past. Dennis wore an elaborate suit and had an eyepatch. "I was once a star of the magical eye," Dennis explained. "In fact, this is the reason I lost mine. During my last performance, I was doing the boomerang knife throw act. Unfortunately, one of the knives went haywire and cut out my eye."
"These days," Estrella said, "he runs his own web show 'The Daring School of Mystic', and the ratings are low as the tides."
"Any other suspects?" Helen asked.
"Maybe Tang," suggested Estrella. "If I know the press, they would do anything to learn the secrets of the magician. Plus there's her magic rival, Kamari the Magical. Dennis admits in his interviews that he's jealous of Khloe, but seems to have another reason."
Suspects
Dennis Daring - Former magician who is also vain.
Kamari the Magical - Khloe's rival.
Tang Yanghui - Wants to figure out how Khloe's magical eyes work.
XxoxX
Grim saw a young Koharu dressed as a butterfly going to the buffet. He knew that she would choke on some of it. Rylie saw what was going and knew that Koharu was too young to die. With a few quick hip hop moves, she saved the bouncing baby.
"Reapy! Reapy!" shouted Koharu.
"Listen, bud," Rylie growled. "We know you're the REAL Grim Reaper. As punishment for trying to kill Koharu, you're going to help us solve a mystery."
"Anything but that, man," replied Grim. "You have no idea what it's like to handle kids. It happened to me before in Endsville, New York."
XxoxX
Later, Leah was going out with a baby carriage. "I hope you're okay in those baby clothes, Kirby," she said to the little puffball.
In the carriage, Kirby was sucking on a baby bottle and playing with baby toys. They decided to head up to the police station to hear reports of a kidnapping. Unfortunately, the evening shift crew were too busy celebrating Halloween by giving out candy. The only one not celebrating was Chief Hess, who was hard at work investigating the disappearance.
"McBruce," asked Chief Hess, "what's with the baby carriage?"
"This is Koharu's old baby carriage," explained Leah. "We decided to use it for the mission, and the whole baby thing is to avoid suspicion."
"Since everyone is celebrating this creepy festival," growled Chief Hess, "I've been investigating the disappearance of Khloe Kaleidoscope. Reporters say that she disappeared at the Philadelphia International Airport and was brought in a limo by a bunch of men with trench coats."
"Men with trench coats, and a limo," replied Leah. "I don't think Mr. Hayato rented a limo recently."
Chief Hess knew that the Klue Queens were at it again. Before he had a chance to call Mr. Hayato, Grim came out of nowhere and told the chief that the Klue Queens should investigate. Traumatized with fear, the chief said, "I, ugh, need to help Kristi with trick or treating."
He ran out of the place in horror, much to the police officer's confusion.
XxoxX
Meanwhile, at the park, Kaylin, Estrella, and Rylie were going around the place when they bumped into an African-American magician, who was Kamari the Magical. He explained that he was here to secretly support Khloe Kalediscope and to admit his feelings to her. When they first met at the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, he had a major crush on her. Constantly, he sent secret love letters to her under the name of Magicob Marley. He never had a chance to tell her how he felt.
"The old bully love trick," said Kaylin.
"I know," Kamari the Magical admitted. "After I heard she got kidnapped by a bunch of strange men in trench coats and unwanted limo service, I had to do something. I'm glad I gave up my web show interview in Philly for this."
"But did you reschedule?" asked Estrella. "You don't wanna disappoint your fans."
"I already did," Kamari replied. "And this time I'm doing it with Khloe when we rescue her."
Paige, Tania, and Koharu were in front of Maxwell's Crematorium when they spotted a limousine. Out of the limo came a fabulous magician with different colored eyes, all bound and gagged. "It's Khloe," whispered Tania.
"And they're not suppose to use limos at funerals," whispered Paige. "Limos are like, happy, they should sell us hearse cars."
Only Khloe was able to hear them whisper, so she used her quick-changing eyes to turn them into a glow in dark eyes so no one would suspect. "It's a good thing Tokkori's going south for Halloween," whispered Paige. "He doesn't want kids stealing his gummy worms."
Out of the sky came Leah, Kirby, Grim, Kaylin, Kamari, Estrella, and Rylie. "Klue Queenies!" said Koharu.
"Yes, Koharu," whispered Paige. "Those are the Klue Queenies."
"We got your text," Leah replied, "and this is a clever place to hide a magician."
With a little lockpicking power by Leah and Tania, they snuck in and found Khloe in a glowing broom closet. Kamari freed her with a little Houdini magic he learned when they went to school.
"The Houdini escape trick," Khloe said with a Brooklyn accent. "Just like old times."
Kamari took a deep breath. "Khloe," he said, "remember the letters from Magicob Marley? Well, I'm him. I wanted to tell you, but you were pretty in the old days and I was the shyest kid in school."
"I had a feeling those letters were from you," replied Khloe as she took his hand, "all those magic tricks you pulled based on Charles Dickens tales."
"By the way," Paige said, "nice job with the glow-in-the-dark eyes."
"I had to do it," Khloe explained. "I always do that in case of an emergency."
Just then, the trenchcoat henchmen and their masked leader came in, paralyzed by her escape. Grim decided to hold them off. "Okay, Jodie," he whispered to his scythe. "You know what to do."
Unfortunately, the masked leader threw knives at them in a familiar matter. With one look of the magic wand on the ground, Grim had an idea, "Kirby," he shouted, "suck it up!"
With a gulp of the magician supplies, Kirby turned int Magic Kirby. He summoned a bunch of skeleton rabbits, who attacked the guards.
"How did you know that 'suck it up' is his trigger word?" asked Estrella.
"I've seen reports of you guys," Grim replied. "I'm quite impressed that the six of you can control a small alien."
"Now let's reveal the magical secret of this maniac," Leah said she unmasked the masked figure.
With one pull, it turned out to be...Dennis Daring.
XxoxX
Later, Tang Yanghui was arriving for a live scoop for Lititz Heights. Tang wondered why Dennis kidnapped Khloe. "During my magician days, " Dennis explained, "she wore the best outfits. After the ratings of my tutorial show were plummeting, I just had enough. So I decided to kidnap her to make the ratings rise again."
"You hired me for my good looks?" Khloe asked. "Plus those outfits were sweaty."
"How did you figure out that Dennis kidnapped Khloe?" asked Tang.
"You see," Tania said, "our first clue was the interview with Kelly Philbin. He was really upset not long after that accident and when you left. Then there were the low ratings on his web show, hinting that he needed to be back in the spotlight. Finally, there was the technique the mysterious figure used to attack us - it was the same one as the knife-throwing incident."
After Dennis and his crew got arrested, everyone decided to go back to the party, with Kamari as the magician's assistant.
Back at Roadhouse Fantasia, Peter, Maniac Me, Hoodster, and Santiago were bummed because they didn't get a chance to solve the mystery.
"Don't feel bad," said Issac. "At least Helen, Martin, and I get to look after the kids. Plus Isla pulled this amazing magic act to warm up the crowd."
"Yeah," Martin replied. "She did a few card tricks and made balloon animals."
"I didn't know Isla could do balloon animals," said Hoodster.
After Isla did one more balloon animal trick, she decided to rest her arms at a buffet table from using a mini-pump. Khloe Kalediscope and Kamari the Magical did wonderful magic tricks. While they were doing the show, Tania wondered something. "Has anyone seen Kirby?" she asked.
By the games, Kirby was bobbing for apples. He couldn't get one, so he sucked the whole thing up and everyone laughed.
The End.
Note: Maxwell's Crematorium is named after Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy creator Maxwell Atoms.
