The next day, Jib had decided to set the last phase of his plan into action. Eddy was still grounded, guaranteeing that the boy would be home all day.

"Setting the last phase of Operation: Revenge of the Ghost into action," Jib said to himself as he saw Eddy sitting sadly on his bed.

It's gone, Eddy thought to himself, Who could have taken it? Eddy couldn't have done anything about it right now. He was grounded for, like, ever! Even longer due to the fact he had stayed out late when he was still grounded. He couldn't even contact Ed, Edd, or Bella.

Jib flashed an evily wicked smile as he thought about the last phase. He was planning to scare the poor boy out of his house! That would definitely be good revenge, add to that the other part of his plan...sure, it involved someone who he didn't want revenge on, but he really wanted revenge on Eddy, and this was the perfect way to get it.

Eddy yelled suddenly as he saw something forming on the wall! It looked like...a message? It eerily looked like it was written in blood.

Jib was writing a message on the wall with red paint on his fingers. It took awhile, but it was worth it to see the boy's pale face as he read the message written in blood-red paint:

REVENGE

Eddy stared, pale-faced and frozen, at the message on the wall. He yelled again when one of his records flew off the dresser in the corner and smash against the wall above his head.

"AHH!" Eddy shouted and ran to his bedroom door, but his parents had locked him in his room. He ran instead to the door leading outside, but Jib threw the dresser against the door, blocking the boy's exit.

This is fun, Jib thought to himself, smiling widely.

"HELP!" Eddy pounded on his window, but no-one could hear him. Either that or everyone was ignoring him because they knew he was grounded.

Jib closed the blinds of the window suddenly, scaring Eddy and making him back up.

"What's happening?!" Eddy yelled.

Jib frowned slightly, confused on how the boy didn't get what Jib was doing, and threw another record at the message in red paint on the wall, reminding Eddy what was going on.

"Revenge for what?!" Eddy asked. He didn't usually believe in ghosts or whatever this was, but what other explanation did he have?

Jib wrote a message on a piece of paper when Eddy wasn't looking, folded it into a paper airplane, and threw it at the back of Eddy's head.

Eddy looked down behind him and picked up the paper, unfolding it and reading:

'Sending me to live in a dump.'

Eddy stared at the words in fear. They were written in red pen, making it look, again, like blood. He thought for a minute before his eyes widened. The Lemon Brook dump? But, did that mean...?

"Jib?" Eddy whispered fearfully, "He's...real?"

Jib threw another message at Eddy.

'You bet I am.'

Eddy read the note, his face becoming paler with every second. He had to get out of here. But how? Eddy eyed his window, coming up with an idea. He broke the window and jumped through it into the yard. Jib yelled out. This wasn't supposed to happen yet! He had to stall Eddy.

Jib quickly set up a trap- a net in the tree- and caught Eddy in it.

He'll be in that for a while, Jib thought, rushing off for the next and final phase of the plan.

Jib found Bella alone in the woods, in a big flower field. He hated to do this to the pretty girl, but this was the best was to make Eddy regret what he did.

"I'm sorry, Bella," Jib whispered before knocking out a surprised and now terrified Bella.

Bella woke up in the old abandoned house, somehow tied to a chair and gagged so she couldn't talk. She looked around fearfully. Why didn't she bring Felice with her to the woods? She could have gone to get help!

Bella's scream was muffled when she saw Jib enter the house. He smiled slightly to see that Bella was awake.

"Sorry to do this to you, Bella," Jib apologized, "But it's the only way to truly get my revenge."

Bella looked confused and made a questioning noise.

"Oh, right, you probably want to know what's happening," Jib said, "Well..."

Jib was on the bus, watching the boy who had tried to trap him throw his bags carelessly into the bus's storage area. He turned his gaze to his sobbing friend, Ed. Jib was going to miss the boy, but he had said his work here was done.

Jib watched Ed cry onto Edd's shoulder as Bella patted Ed's back. Jib shed a single tear as he watched his only friend sob uncontrollably. The bus started to move, and Jib was on his way to the hotel that Eddy had found for him.

Hours later, Jib was asleep as the bus slowed to a stop.

"Lemon Brook!" The bus driver called.

Jib stood up sleepily and stepped off the bus, grabbing his luggage from the storage compartment. He looked at a piece of paper that had an address on it.

Jib found the address and was furious to find the Lemon Brook dump. Seething, Jib turned to exit the dump, but was caught by a garbage truck. He was dumped off deep in the piles of trash, and it took him forever to find his way out, but when he did, he swore revenge on that boy Eddy.

"...and that's why a swore revenge on that boy," Jib finished.

Bella stared at him, not sure if she was surprised or not to hear that Eddy did something like that.

Eddy finally got out of the net and dropped to the ground. He went to run to Ed's house, but found a note on his fence. He tore it off and turned red with fury but then pale as he read:

I have your girlfriend.

If you ever want to see her again,

Bring $100 to the

Old abandoned house.

Come by yourself, or else.

One hundred dollars? Where was Eddy supposed to get one hundred dollars? None of his scams ever worked, so he had no money! Maybe Edd would have an idea. Eddy ran to Edd's house, hoping against hope that Edd would figure something out.

Eddy burst into Edd's room, shaking.

"Eddy, how many times to I have to tell you to knock?" Edd frowned at his short friend.

"No time, sockhead!" Eddy cried, shoving the note into Edd's hands. Edd eyed Eddy questionably before reading the note and paling.

"W-what?!" Edd cried, "B-but, how are we supposed to come up with one hundred dollars?!"

"I thought you would know!" Eddy yelled, a little mad with his brainiac friend.

"Well, Bella does have quite a bit of money stored up from selling pizza, but-" Edd got cut off by Eddy.

"Perfect!" Eddy said, "Where is it?"

"-but," Edd continued, "She keeps it in a safe in her room."

Eddy groaned. Bella was always paranoid about lots of stuff. She would put her pizza money in a safe.

"Oh!" Edd suddenly remembered, "But I have just one hundred dollars from my newspaper route!" It would be all of his earnings, but he would immediately give up all the money in the world to save his step-sister.

"That's great!" Eddy yelled, "Give it!"

Edd opened his closet and picked up his piggy bank. It was a bit childish, a piggy bank, but he liked it. It was a shame he would have to smash it open, but anything for Bella. He picked up a hammer lying next to the piggy bank and broke it open.

"Thanks, sockhead!" Eddy grabbed the money and raced out the door to the old house. Edd would have come, but the note said 'Come by yourself, or else.'

Jib was waiting in the house in a chair in the the corner. He was still invisible, but Jib new that if he summoned enough strength, he could make himself visible and hearable for a few seconds to Eddy.

A loud and panicked knock sounded on the door. Jib stood up and opened the door to a worried Eddy. Eddy looked around and saw Bella, still tied to the chair.

"Bella!" Eddy cried, running over. Jib saw this and jumped in front of Eddy, throwing the boy backwards onto the floor. To Eddy, though, all he knew was an invisible froze and pushed him to the floor.

Jib, Eddy thought. Of course! He had to give him the money first. Duh! That's how ransoms always worked in the movies.

Suddenly, Eddy saw a boy form right in front of him! Eddy assumed this was Jib.

"Leave...money!" was all Jib could say before disappearing again. Wow, that took a lot of energy. He could never do it for long.

"O-ok," Eddy stuttered, taking the money out of his pocket and putting it on the floor, "H-here."

Jib picked up the bills, and to Eddy, they were just floating there in midair. The sight was creepy. Jib counted up one hundred dollars, plus a few more. Jib smiled at the extra money.

"S-so, c-can I have Bella back?" Eddy asked, what seemed to him, the air.

Jib nodded and untied the she-cat. As soon as he was done, Bella, with tears in her eyes, ran over to Eddy and flung her arms around him.

"Eddy!" Bella choked out through her tears. Eddy was crying, too, and he admitted it. This had been the toughest time of his life.

Jib watched the two embrace, before gathering up enough strength to make a very dramatic exit.

Jib appeared once more, but he was changed into a devil-looking creature that he had been sometimes when he and Ed played when they were little. He shrieked as Bella and Eddy screamed, and seemingly flew right out the door.

He wrote a quick note and paper airplaned it at Eddy before leaving for the last time:

Remember this, for, while I will never return, this might probably be the most traumatizing experience of your life, and I want you to remember it.

-Jib