Cindy heard a creaking noise sounds like a rocking chair going back and forth. "Uh, did anybody hear that?" Cindy asked the others.
"Hear what, Cin?" Sledgehammer asked his owner.
"A rocking chair... Creaking... Back and forth..." Cindy told her possum.
"I don't hear anything!" Abby told her. "Go back to sleep!"
Cindy shrugged and went back to sleep, but then heard a crackling noise. "Anyone hear that?!" she then asked, suddenly waking up again.
"SHUT UP, BUTLER!" Jo called out from the other room.
"But Jo, I heard a crackling!" Cindy defended.
"I don't wanna have to come in there!" Jo called out.
"I don't wanna have to come in there!" Cindy replied, almost like Stewie against Lois.
"I'm going to crackle you in a minute if you don't be quiet!" Jo threatened.
Cindy sighed and rolled over to get some sleep, but then she heard a humming to the song of the Wedding March. Her eyes widened, so she then ran out of the room only to bump into the Eds.
"Cindy, did ya hear that?" Eddy asked.
"The noises?" Cindy replied. "I sure did!"
They heard the crackling noise again and they ran away.
"It's such a shame that Jayna couldn't make it, but I'll get her something." Justin sighed as he was fixing his hair.
"It's nice of you to do that, dude." Trent smiled.
The Eds and Cindy went into their rooms in fright. Ed and Double D jumped in Trent's arms and Cindy and Eddy jumped into Justin's arms.
"What's going on?" Justin asked.
"Yeah, you guys are acting weird..." Trent added.
Cindy grew animated like Courage and pointed over to where she had heard the noise.
"A creaking noise..." Double D said.
"A crackling..." Ed added.
"The humming of The Wedding March!" Eddy concluded.
"You guys, it's just a coincidence." Trent said.
"Oh, yeah? Then who could be humming the Wedding March in an eerie tone?" Cindy glared slightly.
"I didn't hear anything." Justin told them.
"Come on," Eddy said. "We'll show you."
"What's there to show us?" Trent slightly deadpanned which sounded like his time with Gwen.
They all gathered in the other room while Trent and Justin waited for Cindy and the Eds to do what they needed to do.
"Okay, what's going on?" Bob asked.
"Yeah, you are ruining my beauty sleep." Samantha added.
"Xeno's too." Stacey said as she hugged her dog who had his own sleep mask.
"Butler, you and The Three Stooges better start talking." Jo demanded.
"We heard a creaking noise," Eddy said. "It sounded like a rocking chair going back and forth."
"And a crackling noise." Cindy added.
"And someone humming the Wedding March." Double D nodded.
"And we're in this room, why?" Jo deadpanned.
"To let you guys hear what we heard." Cindy clarified.
Everyone listened for a few minutes, but didn't hear anything.
"Fantastic, that was really riveting... NOT!" Jo deadpanned. "You wake me again, and you're gonna wish you were in a coma."
"But we all heard the stuff, really!" Eddy defended.
"Look, you guys probably had a nightmare or something, so why don't you just take a deep breath, splash cold water on your faces, and go back to sleep before Jo puts you to sleep?" Trent suggested.
"But honestly, we heard something," Eddy replied. "You guys gotta believe us!"
Jo, Trent, and Justin soon left as they looked annoyed and cranky. They then heard a crackling noise and everyone gasps as they saw two spirits: one was a man wearing a blue suit with a black jacket and the other one was a woman with long hair, wearing a red dress.
"Steven, look, ghosts!" Jackson pointed out.
Steven yawned and looked over.
"I think it's the ghosts that red guy was talking about." Jackson said to his best friend.
"Get the camera! Get the camera!" Steven told him.
"This is your warning," The man said firmly. "Leave this hotel."
"Or suffer the consequences." The woman added.
"Say Cheese!" Jackson said as he took pictures of the ghosts.
"Who are they?" Mike wondered.
"It's the ghosts of Herbert and Charlotte Milton." Bob said.
"Or someone just trying to scare us away." Mike deadpanned in her usual way.
"If you don't heed our warning, then YOU SHALL PAY!" Charlotte glared.
The two ghosts then vanished into thin air.
"Well, you heard them," Cindy said. "I say let's go."
The Eds agreed with Cindy and were about to leave until Jo, Justin, Mike, and Trent stopped them by grabbing their back of their shirts.
"Where are you guys going?" Jo asked.
"Anywhere but here, you heard those ghosts." Eddy pointed out.
"I don't want to pay the consequences, you guys!" Ed cried.
"You guys are staying right here!" Jo demanded.
"WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SO STUBBORN, JO?!" Cindy snapped. "Go ahead, beat the crap out of me for yelling at you, but have you ever stopped to think about what we wanna do? No, you only think of you and Justine! Go ahead and beat the heck out of me, I'm pretty much used to it by now, so do what you want and get it over with, I really don't care anymore!"
Jo was about to say or do something, but then stopped. "No."
"Huh?!" Mike, the Eds, June, and Cindy asked.
"Not worth my time anymore." Jo decided to quit.
"Uh, Jo, this is the part where you're supposed to beat me up." Cindy reminded.
"I don't care about that anymore." Jo said.
Cindy then pinched herself. "Nope, I'm not dreaming..." she then said. "Wow!"
"Take it easy..." Jo told her. "Look, I'm really not in the mood for this, so I'm going to bed, you guys better not call me again unless someone's dead or you will be."
"Jo's right, we all do need to get some sleep," Mike replied. "Then we'll come together and talk to Dakota in the morning about the ghosts."
"Do we have to?" Samantha asked. "I need my beauty sleep."
"Like that's any help." Steven whispered to Jackson.
With that, everyone went to sleep, even if they saw the ghosts.
The next day, both groups were dressed in their normal clothes and went downstairs to talk to Dakota.
"Dakota, can we talk?" Mike asked.
"Sure, Mike," Dakota smiled. "What's up?"
"Um... Well... It's about... 'The ghosts'." Mike said, using air quotes.
"Ghosts?" Dakota repeated.
"Do you know anything about Herbert and Charlotte Milton?" Brianna asked.
"Yes, they were my great-grandparents, but they weren't exactly the nicest people ever," Dakota replied. "In fact, they were rich people, but they really want the hotel, but my grandfather didn't want that, so they've wanted revenge ever since. They tried to destroy my grandfather, but it ended badly, but my grandfather told me the story that their spirits still haunt this place to this very day."
The others looked horrified, well, most of them, about this story.
"When I was little, I had my best friends, Brittany Rush and Lo Ridgemount sleep over for Halloween weekend, and my grandfather told us the story before bedtime," Dakota told the others. "I tried to tell everyone in the hotel that the ghosts were real, but because I was a little girl, and no one saw the ghosts with me, they didn't believe me."
"Wow... Heavy." Ashlyn commented.
"Do you think that they want you?" Trent asked.
"I don't know for sure," Dakota shrugged. "I hope not."
"Don't worry; we can help you," Mike promised before she walked with the two groups. "Well, gang, looks like we've got another mystery on our hands."
"And how do we solve it, Master Detective?" Abby joked.
"We gotta solve this mystery, and it might help if both groups work together," Mike said before looking over to Bob and the kids. "Wanna work with us? Together?"
"Well... I don't see why not?" Bob shrugged. "What have we got to lose?"
"I guess I could try it," Madeline replied. "I do love me a good ghost story."
"And I'll help to protect my Dark Princess." Alfred said.
"Shut up." Madeline told him.
"You wanna help too, Xeno?" Stacey asked.
Xeno barked and panted up to his owner.
"We're in!" Stacey smiled.
"We're in too." Travis, Drake, and Luna added.
"Steven and me are in," Jackson smiled. "We can get spooky footage."
"Wait a minute, you mean we have to work with these losers?!" Samantha asked.
"We don't even know them!" Linda added.
"Your choice if you wanna stay in the hotel room scared out of your underwear while we solve this case." Bob smirked towards the bratty girls.
"Besides, Sis, these guys seem strong enough to take care of themselves." Steven added to Linda.
Samantha and Linda just looked annoyed slightly.
"They may need human sacrifices, are you two willing to volunteer?" Madeline asked Samantha and Linda, dryly and cynical.
"All right! All right!" Samantha gave in.
"We'll help! We'll help!" Linda added.
Madeline soon had a creepy grin.
"So, should we split up?" Travis asked Mike.
"Yes, we'll mix it up," Mike nodded. "Duncan, Abby, Cindy, Spud, you guys take Alfred and Madeline."
"Aye-Aye, Captain." Spuds replied.
"Looks like you and me are together, my Dark Princess." Alfred said to Madeline.
"Oh, joy." Madeline rolled her eyes.
"Jo, Justin, Justine, you guys take Steven and Jackson." Mike said.
Steven and Jackson nodded as they were together since they had been friends for a long time.
"Fine, as long as they don't annoy me or ignore me with their excitement for ghosts." Jo replied.
"Ooh, who do I go with, sir?" Stacey asked Mike, raising her hand.
"Hold on a minute, kid," Mike told Stacey as she continued. "Sky and Sammy, you guys take Drake and Luna."
"Right." Sky nodded.
"Trent, Brianna, and Ashlyn, you guys take Samantha and Linda." Mike said.
"They better not annoy us to death." Ashlyn warned.
"We're not annoying!" Linda glared.
"I hate this already." Ashlyn glared back.
"Ed, Double D, and Eddy, you guys take Bob." Mike said.
"Oh, sure," Bob rolled his eyes. "Stick me with The Three Stooges."
"I love The Three Stooges." Stacey giggled.
"Then me, June, and Dee Dee will take Stacey and Travis." Mike then finalized.
"Yaaay!" Stacey and Dee Dee cheered and hugged each other.
"That sounds good to me." Travis said with a small shrug.
Ling-Ling looked at Xeno and growled at the dog.
"Ling-Ling, behave." Mike told her battle monster.
Xeno scratched behind his ear while looking at Ling-Ling.
"All right, everyone, split up." Mike told the others.
Everyone then split up with the group they had been assigned to.
"Okay, Xeno, it's time you start acting like a real dog." Bob told his niece's pet dog.
"Master~" Xeno ruffed while latching onto Bob's leg.
"Great..." Bob mumbled.