"Snap! Look out don'tcha know!" The Dairy King's voice called out of the darkness.

"AHH! RUDY HELP!" Snap's voice called out of the darkness.

There was then a "Snap? *OOF!*" and a loud thunk!

Rip turned the lantern back on. We girls got out of bed and quickly stood in the doorway, the boys too sat up…except for the Eds. What a sight! Rudy's bed, which was near the wall on the left side of the doorway – when your back is facing the entrance – was tipped over onto its side and the pillow and blankets lay on the ground. Rudy lay on his stomach, looking as if the wind had been knocked out of him. Then we noticed a lump of a blanket shivering in fright.

"Rudy what happened?" Penny S asked, concerned.

"Snap almost pulverized me…Snap?" Rudy said, noticing the shivering blanket lump. "Snap what's wrong?"

"H-h-he's a-a-a-after m-m-me!" Snap stammered.

"Who?"

Snap answered Rudy's question by pointing past Rudy's bed. Rudy climbed to the top of the knocked-over bed…and screamed in fright! We looked too and saw a grim reaper! Not our Grim either but a different Reaper, which is what I'm going to call him. Unfortunately Reaper's face was entirely hidden by the shadow of his hood, so we couldn't tell his identity! Reaper was pulling on the handle of his scythe, which was caught in Snap's bed. It apparently got caught in a spring, because when the scythe finally popped out a spring flew through the air and landed near the back of the tent. Looking there we saw that a hole had been cut into the wall. Obviously that was how Reaper had entered.

Suddenly Reaper ran over to Rudy and Snap with his scythe raise, he was going to kill and take them! Rudy and Snap screamed and closed their eyes! But then, metal clanged against metal and when Rudy and Snap opened their eyes they saw that Grim was holding Reaper back with his own scythe!

"What do you think you're doing?" Grim asked Reaper angrily. "We're not supposed to attack anyone like this! Now get out! Now!"

Grim managed to knock Reaper off his feet, causing him to land in the walkway in front of the doorway. After Reaper got back up both Reaper and Grim ran towards each other with their scythes raised.

"NOW!" Grim snapped.

At that Grim cut Reaper's scythe in half so that the top half spun outside. This time Reaper obeyed and left through the hole in the tent.

"Out of here!" Grim ordered one last time, swinging his scythe at the hole for good measure; he then grumbled to himself as he walked back to us.

"Thank you." Rudy said to Grim.

"Yeah, well he was making us look bad." Grim muttered.

"Grim." Billy said in a stern yet amused tone; he knew the real reason.

"Sorry, it's just not easy for reapers to make friends, considering our job and everything." Grim said before covering himself with the covers.

We decided to let the matter drop so that we could thank the Dairy King for warning Snap, but the Dairy King had already disappeared. That had to mean that an hour had passed and his shift was already over. Knowing the shock Snap got I told him he could sleep in Rudy's bed (much like how a kid would sleep in his parents bed) tonight, so we right-sided Rudy's bed and went back to our own. Unfortunately, we were so tired that we forgot about the hole.

Time passed….

Suddenly there was growling and barking and a "Rudy help! He got me!" We woke up again, and got a big shock: Snap lay on Rudy's bed still and pale!

"SNAP!" Rudy cried, rushing outside through the hole in the tent. "NOOOO!"

"Wulf stay with Danny!" I ordered as we ran outside after Rudy.

There we saw Reaper with a large handbag tied to his waist, a full moving one – Snap's soul was in it!

"Hiii-yaa!" Rudy cried, pouncing on Reaper. "Give me back Snap you Grim Creeper! Give him back to me! Let got of him, let go, let go! Give him back let go!"

Reaper did let go…of Rudy! Reaper grabbed Rudy by the leg and flung him off! Rudy slid through the ground, and as soon as he stopped he saw Reaper coming after him with a different non-broken scythe! Fortunately, Grim intercepted Reaper yet again, allowing Rudy to grab Snap's soul and run back to us with it. As Grim and Reaper struggled, Grim suddenly looked shocked.

"You!" He said angrily, apparently seeing what was hidden under the hood. "What do you think you're trying to do make us look bad?"

Instead of replying, Reaper struck Grim with his scythe so that Grim sailed through the air and cracked his spine on the tree!

"Grim!" Mandy and Billy cried, seeing their friend lying still on the ground.

We didn't have time to check on Grim, because Reaper was coming after Rudy! Rudy ran towards us desperately, he just had to save Snap! Suddenly Reaper brought down his scythe, and Snap sailed through the air.

Jenny, who had brought Snap's body with her, ended up knocked down as Snap re-entered his body. Brad helped Jenny up. When Snap got up we saw that he looked stone still and horrified, even for someone who had been attacked by a grim reaper.

"What's wrong with him?" Snowy asked.

"Zoners live forever." Penny S explained. "So it's shocking that a grim reaper would come after one especially considering that Snap's perfectly healthy…OH NO!"

We turned to where Penny S had just looked, and saw Rudy's soul lying on the ground! Reaper had struck him! Amazingly, and confusingly, Reaper started going after Rudy with his scythe again! And when I say Rudy I mean his soul, not his body. Rudy started running away to our left, thinking he could disappear among the trees. As Reaper ran after Rudy, a low sharp branch ripped through his hood. Rudy continued running, until he smacked into a tree!

"I thought ghosts could go through anything." Shaggy said, confused.

"Rudy's not quite a ghost yet," I explained. "He still has a chance to go back into his body and be alive again. Unfortunately the chance doesn't last very long and can be stopped by getting struck with the scythe again."

This explained what Reaper was up to, but as he raised his scythe on Rudy again, we saw that it wasn't a real Grim Reaper at all! The hood, ruined by the branch, fell down and we saw the ghost of a familiar enemy!

"Oh crud." The enemy said bitterly.

"SKRAWL!" We all cried angrily.

Yes, it was Skrawl! It was the ghost of Skrawl the whole time!

I quickly took out my watch, pressed a few buttons, and a hose/container combo came out. I aimed the nozzle of the hose at Skrawl, hit a button on the container, and a strange liquid drenched him! Skrawl started to melt and scream in pain as he….

"Wait a minute," Velma said. "I thought you couldn't kill a ghost."

"Thanks to Boss Jack and I found out how." I explained; Casper looked freaked out. "Oh relax this device only works on bad ghosts."

"That's good." Someone said weakly behind us.

We turned and saw Wulf and Danny! Fortunately Wulf was carrying Danny so we didn't have to be concerned about Danny wasting his energy. It was apparent that Danny wanted to know was going on, and that was confirmed when we asked him what he was doing out here. We then watched as the last bit of Skrawl melted away, and then Rudy ran back to his body. Unfortunately, when he leaped onto his body he ended up rolling away! Rudy walked back to his body and tried to disappear into an arm, but he ended up lifting it instead! Penny S tried to comfortingly place a hand on Rudy's shoulder, but her hand ended up going through his shoulder! He was a ghost, he was dead! Penny S and Snap both started sobbing. We heard extra sobbing to our left so we turned and saw the Tabooties, Mrs. Sanchez, and Rudy's friend Drew. Mrs. Tabootie was the one sobbing, and the other three hung their heads sadly while shedding tears. Just then a light shone down from the sky and picked up Rudy.

"B-bye guys." Rudy sobbed.

We were too miserable to say "Bye." back.