Chapter 5
Belize was finishing up putting the party streamers around the ball room of the house, he then hears knocks at the door, Belize hesitated a couple of seconds and almost fell off the ladder, but he regained his balance before he fell.
Belize started to get off the ladder before he almost falls again, he slowly puts his foot down just having a feeling he shouldn't put his foot down, he stopped and moved his foot a little to the right, once he put his foot down he looked where he was about to step and saw a rusted nail was poking out of the board.
"Phew that was close." Belize said, then the knocking was continued Belize put the paint on the counter and started to walk through the living room and up to the door, he opened it. "Welcome to the party, Rose won't be here until a little later, Lammy is distracting her for now." Belize looked at the open door, and saw no one there.
Belize rubbed his eyes and shut the door, he took a few steps heading back to the ball room, but hears knocking at the door, he turns around and opens it, standing there was a light blue anteater and lavender beaver, "Welcome to the party, Rose wont be here until a little later, Lammy is distracting her until everyone gets here." Sniffles and Toothy nodded.
"Belize, why is this the location for her party, aren't you worried, that the antiquity of the place wont fall apart while we're here, or risk it collapsing on Rose?" Belize just laughed, Sniffles, don't worry about it, okay? I have made sure that the place is less dangerous, and the room in which the party is being held is also restricted." Sniffles looked around a little cautious about the place. Toothy just walked in and went straight to the couch and sat down.
"Oh before I forget, how long were you at the door?" Sniffles looked at Belize "We were only there for about twenty eight seconds until you opened the door. Why?" Belize sighed, and was debating with himself if he was going crazy or not, "Oh I was just wondering, normally my response time to the door is fast, even when I'm in the middle of something."
Sniffles shrugged and started to inspect everything trying to make sure it won't fall apart on him. Belize went back to the ball room to finish putting up the streamers, the second he walked through the door he had a feeling he better turn around, he turned and started walking to the door again, he stopped and looked at the door thinking. He was about to turn and go back to the ball room, but there was more knocks at the door, Belize opened it.
"Hey Belize, Sorry I cant make it to the party, for very long, I will stay until Rose gets here, but I cant stay much longer, I am going to continue my works to recreate yours." Kayser said before Belize could say anything, he looked around, "Where's Miltera?" Kayser looked around, "Well she should be here soon, what time is Rose supposed to show up?"
"Well she should be here in about three hours." Kayser pulled out a calendar journal and checked his schedule; he saw he could stay at least two hours longer. "Okay good, I can be here a little longer then I thought then." Belize smiled, "Well great, now we just need to wait for more guests."
Belize, Kayser, Sniffles, and Toothy sat in the living room watching the television until the next guest arrive, but none shown up. Belize looked at the time and saw that it was one hour until Lammy brought Rose to the surprise party. Belize started to panic just a little, but then had a little revenge tactic he was going to use on the guest.
"Hey guys, seems the party is just going to be for us, no one else showing up yet, lets have a bit of fun messing with them when, or if they get here." Toothy and Kayser had a slight perk of interest, but Sniffles was still a little worried about the house collapsing on them.
"How do you suppose we can have fun Belize?" Toothy said while looking around to see if there were any cameras or tricks that will activate and scare him near to death. "Well we will just start making little disappearing acts, once the four of us disappear then we start activating the haunted house and make them think it's really haunted."
"Yeah, that could work, let's do it." Belize smiled just as there was another knock at the door, Belize slowly walked over to it and opened it, standing outside the door, was a red porcupine with flakes around in her hair, a midnight black badger with a crescent moon over his right eye and a solid black abyss stripe down his back, a light blue skunk with a flower on her head and an air freshener that looked like a pine tree around her neck.
"Welcome to the party, Rose will be here shortly, but do please have a little refreshment that is not set up on the table in the ball room; anything on there is for everyone when the party starts." Belize then looked at the three guests and sighed, "Also cutting a bit close don't you think?" Belize said.
"Well sorry we would have been here earlier, but Petunia had to make sure her house was cleaned, sanitized and spotless before she would even leave the house." The badger said. Belize sighed looked at Petunia, "Don't worry, I made sure that this place was nearly as spotless as I could in the time I had to wait for more to show up, but whatever things are going to be interesting soon."
Belize looked all around outside and saw no one was on the street, he stuck his head back in the house and shut the door, the minute he turned there was more knocks, Belize jumped for a second and then calmed down as fast as he could and opened the door again.
"Hel-" Belize was knocked over by a mint green bear, being pushed by a tan bear in an orange suit, being pushed by a dark grey furred wolf with red tipped ears, dragon like birthmark on her forehead going down the back to a blood red tail trying to get out of the road before a lavender mole driving a stick shift car came careening down the road at her.
Belize got up from the pile-up, "What the hell was that for?" Belize then looked outside and saw the car nearly clip the wolf as he saw the blood red strands of fur fly in the wind. "Umm never mind, forget I asked… Any way welcome, to the party, there's room restrictions that anyone can enter, and places only I and a couple others can go, for now sit in the living room have a snack and just wait until Rose gets here."
"Thanks Belize, but that dang Mole, needs to get eye surgery or stop driving." The mint green bear said, "Don't worry Flippy, I am pretty sure, Sniffles is working on it?" Belize turned around and saw Sniffles slightly loosen up and playing a party game with Toothy, but was still a bit concerned about the place collapsing on them. "Well he needed to learn to loosen up a bit, so he's not even thinking about it for the moment." Flippy suspiciously eyed Belize "Yeah I guess. Hey Disco Bear, if I see you make a move on Flaky, Miltera, or any other female here, you will be thrown out the window. Do I make myself clear?"
Disco Bear sighed "Fine dude, you don't have to threaten the 'King of Disco'. "Flippy, Miltera and Belize glared at him, Disco Bear just smiled an awkward smile and started trying to side step his way from the group, Belize stopped in front of him, "Okay fine then, you don't want to be threatened." Belize held out his hand, "Then we shake on the promise that you will not try making your move on anyone here." Disco sighed and finally gave in.
"Okay fine, I won't pull my moves out on the foxy ladies here." Disco Bear and Belize shook hands and Belize stepped to the side "Agreed now enjoy the party everyone." Belize thinking about if anyone else is going to show up he shut the door sat and starred at it, after a couple minutes he turned around and kept his ears on the sound of knocking on the door, he went to the kitchen to refill the punch bowl.
Belize just having a weird feeling walked to the door and opened it, the minute he opened it, Pop and cub was just about to knock on the door, but instead of knocking on the door he knocked on Belize's face. "Oh Belize, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to…" Belize stopped him from continuing, "Don't worry about it, I should have waited until you knocked on the door before opening to greet." Belize reached down and patted Cub on the head "Come on in, there's still some time until Rose arrives." Pop picked up Cub and walked inside and put him down on the couch.
"Well Rose should be here in about thirty minutes, so we need to get everyone a spot to jump out and surprise Rose." Belize was then interrupted again by another knock, Belize just loudly whispered "Everyone just hide somewhere, and if its Rose I will greet her and then jump out, if its not then stay wherever you are" Miltera, Kayser and Petunia went into a closet, Toothy and Sniffles hid in the ball room. Disco Bear and Flaky hid behind the couch.
Belize looked around and saw everyone was completely out of sight, Belize went to the door and opened it, "Wel-" Belize was then grabbed and tossed on the ground, "I am shocked you were so vulnerable Coon, why would you give me the exact location of where you would be after you committed a crime, not smart of you." Belize got up "Lumpy you idiot, cant you go one day in that stupid uniform and not call me coon, or try to accuse me of everything wrong that goes on?" Lumpy started to reach for his belt to grab the tazer, but he stopped and looked around.
"You know what co—I mean Belize, you are right for once, I do need at least a day of not trying to catch you, and you somehow get away." He looked around and then sighed "Ill stay and enjoy the party, after that I will take you down." Belize sighed "Whatever, for the next nine hours after Rose gets here, it's her spotlight time." Lumpy looked around "Fine, after that we can continue the fun little game." Belize smiled that he finally didn't have to worry about 'Officer' Lumpy for a good while.
Belize looked at the door and saw someone outside that he has not seen before he gets up and walks outside, "Hello there…" Belize said to see what the figure would do, it didn't do anything but stepped forward into the light, showing a female golden brown squirrel, with a lavender bow in on her right ear. "H-hi, I'm new to the neighborhood." The squirrel stepped closer to the door, Belize was slightly mesmerized by her looks, but then started to think about Lammy.
"Oh umm welcome then. What's your name?" The squirrel walked up next to Belize "The names Michelle, but people for some reason call me Mich." Belize used his mind storage device and locked the name and the nickname in his memories, so he would almost never forget them. "Okay, my name is…" Before Belize could say anything Michelle answered for him "Belize… Right?" Belize was a little taken aback by how someone he never met yet knew who he was.
"H-how you know me?" Michelle looks around, "Oh I saw and kind of overheard what happened at the antiques store." Belize face palmed, how did he not notice that someone else witnessed the event? "He already put out another new bulletin on me, typical…" Michelle looked at him smiled and then looked at the house. "Ooh, a party in a haunted house how many are here?" Belize back tracked in his mind and counted everyone that shown up, "Well unless more show up, just twelve, thirteen if you want to join?" Belize smiled.
"Ill think about the offer, but I don't know thirteen people is a bit much don't you think?" Belize shrugged, "compared to other things, twelve is almost too little for a party, would you please attend?" Michelle sighed "Well since you asked nicely, said please, and I do love this location I guess I can stay for the party." Belize smiled and held onto Michelle's hand and leads her to the party.
'Seems this party is about to start, lets make things fun… Like you said Belize, everything will be fun.' A little sound timer was heard to the mysterious character 'Well time to set up and get prepared.'
A/N Okay, this was a little long, and yeah I didn't want to make too many show up, but I do think that the number I have can still make things interesting… If you think you have the culprit I would like to see if people got the clues or not on who it could be.