------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
But not all were happy. Down the hall, Ezra, Phineas, and Gus struggled with the anvil that was crushing them. They NEEDED to stop the wedding!
"Stupid Ghostmasters!" grumbled Gus.
"Theoretically, they could always get divorced afterwards," Phineas pointed out.
"Just keep pulling!" cried Ezra.
At that moment, Marie and Kevin ran by, not even noticing the ghosts. "Let's stop that wedding!" shouted Marie.
Ezra happily cheered the kids on. "Go, kids, go! That's the spirit! Right on! Win one for the Gipper! Live long and prosper!"
"We get it," said Gus.
"One more. God bless us, everyone!"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the wedding, Linus was just starting to deliver the service. "Dearly beloved, we are..."
Suddenly, Kevin and Marie burst in! Running through the isles, Kevin grabbed Nazz and pulled her away from Double D. "Nazz! Don't marry that dork!"
Marie, meanwhile, squeezed Double D in her arms. "C'mon, cutie, what does she have that I don't?"
"Common decency?" squeaked the bewildered groom.
In response, Marie got ready to punch him. ""Common decency? I'LL SHOW YOU COMMON DECENCY!"
Seeing there was trouble, the Ghostmasters turned invisible and threw Kevin and Marie out. Before anyone could react, the still-invisible Boo whispered to Linus. "Kid, you wanna hurry this thing up?"
"I don't know who said that," said Linus, "but they're right. Do you, Double D, take Nazz as..."
At that moment, Ezra, Gus, and Phineas burst in, having the honor of being the second party to interrupt the wedding.
"Luckily for us," Phineas said proudly, "your magic anvil had one weakness...CHEX MIX BOLD PARTY BLEND!"
The kids stared at the ghosts in a shocked silence, then screamed in terror.
Gus was annoyed. "Geez, we're not even trying to be scary! Wimps."
At the end of his rope, Boo froze everyone in place, then turned to the other trio. "What is your problem?! All we've been doing is trying to make these kids happy and you wanna ruin it!"
"You don't seem to get it," sighed Ezra. "They're not even in high school and you want to get them married!"
"But they'll like it!" argued Boo. "Who cares if it's mostly all based off of our magic, and that the feelings aren't real...and they're probably...not right for each other...anyway..." He sighed deeply. "We're evil," he sadly realized.
"You're not evil," said Phineas. "You were just..."
"Crazy," Gus summed up.
"We just wanted to help," murmured Wendell.
"Now the kids will never like us!" sobbed Quivers.
For the first time, Ezra began to feel real sympathy for the Ghostmaster Gang. They weren't evil. They just didn't understand. "Hey, hold on a second. It was an accident...kinda. And your hearts were in the right place, just a little twisted. But if you change things around now, they'll forgive you."
Boo looked up hopefully. "You think so?"
"Just take away the magic," advised Phineas. "If there wasn't anything there before, then there won't be anything now."
"Okay," agreed Boo. "Time for a reverse spell."
(To the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star")
These two kids are much too young
Wedding songs will not be sung
Love that's not true tends to burn
Cupid's arrows, please return!
The ghosts disappeared. Time started again. Nazz looked at Double D, with a dizzy sort of glance, as if just waking up. "What...what are we doing?"
"I'm not sure," Double D felt the same way. "The past few days are like a blur. I remember ghosts, a song or two, and a wedding."
Everyone was equally confused. Calvin looked around the gym walls and was surprised to see no pink. ""Hey, what happened to our prank?"
"Where did all these Valentine's come from?" asked Lucy, pulling out several cards she suddenly found herself holding.
"Why do I feel like Kevin and Marie beat me up?" moaned Marcus.
"Why do I have 'The Wedding Song' from Corpse Bride stuck in my head?" thought Snoopy.
"It appears that you two were about to get married," said Linus. "And I was going to perform it. Good grief."
Nazz didn't know what to say. "Double D, I don't know how this happened, but this is way too weird."
"Perhaps we should go somewhere alone?" Double D said hopefully. "Nazz, I don't know how to say this, but...I think I love you."
Nazz turned away. "This is crazy. I just...I can't, Double D. Sorry." She left.
"Nazz, wait!" called Eddy. "I'm single! Ed, get me a ring!"
"Do you think Nazz likes spider rings?" wondered Ed.
Double D sighed and walks outside. No one knew what to say or do after this. Of course, no one knew what had happened in the first place.
The ghosts watch sadly. "You did the right thing," Ezra assured Boo.
You know, I've really started to grow closer to the Ghostmaster guys. They've become surprisingly endearing. Too bad I don't know how to use them after this. There was a sequel to Ghostmaster that was planned for a while. If I haven't talked about that before, I probably will another time in more detail. It's probably not gonna happen.
And, no, I'm not ending the story on this note.