Chapter Three: Goblins, Ghouls and Ghosts

"I don't believe this! Still no reception!" Megan said trying to get a signal on her phone, "had to take a detour, 'twenty minute tops' yeah right!"

"Do you think it will stop raining son?" Michal asked.

"How should I know I'm not the wheater man" Megan said.

"Hey kids" Jason said peeking his head in.

"Hey Jason" Michal said.

"Listen I need to ask you two some questions" Jason said entering the room.

When Ramsley left the room Max searched the room while Jim took a seat at the desk.

"What do you think Max? 'Why hello madam, Ramsley why don't you fix the gentlemen a drink?' classy huh?"

"Yeah you'd fit right in" Max said from above looking at a self of books.

Jim then accidently knocked over his drink as Max looked down to see Jim muttering as he accidently knocked a statue head forward as a clank sound was heard and a secret passage opened on the bookshelf.

"Whoa!" Max said heading down below as Jim fixed the statue head as the door closed and pushed it down again as it reopened.

"Wow" Jim said.

"A secret passage" Max said.

"Interesting" Jim said as they approached as they stepped in, "I wonder what this leads too?"

"I don't know and I don't want to know" Max said as the door closed behind them.

"HEY!" Jim yelled as he and Max began banging on the closed door.

"Let us out!" Max yelled.

"Open this back up! Hey open up! Ramsley! Move the statue head!" Jim yelled.

"Crap!" Max grunted.

"Nothing?" Jason said.

"No, he never said anything to us" Michal said as he messed with thing on the desk and opened a music box as a man and woman dancing began to rise with a melody playing.

"Wow" Jason said as they both noticed in their reflection in the mirror of the music box a glowing blue light began to form behind them.

"MEGAN!" Michal screamed as he turned around and Jason summoned his Keyblades in both hands as Megan came running out of the bathroom and dropped her phone as a blue ball of light floated in the center of the room.

"What do you think it is?" Megan asked as Jason made his weapons vanish.

"Well it's obviously not hostile if it's not attacking" Jason said as Michal ran and hid behind Megan.

"It's a ghost ball!" Michal whispered.

"A Spirit Orb?" Jason corrected as he examined it closely as it approached the kids as they backed away and it flew across the room.

"I think it wants us to follow it" Megan said.

"I believe so too" Jason said.

"I think you both are crazy" Michal said as the spirit orb went through a door in the corner of the room.

"It does, it wants us to follow it" Megan said opening the door as she and Jason followed after it as Michal grabbed his backpack.

"Hey guys wait up!" Michal said running after them.

Later the spirit orb lead the three to an elevator as it unlocked and opened for them as Michal tried to walk back as Megan grabbed him.

"Come on" Megan said.

"Megan wait! You don't know when the last time that thing was inspected" Michal said.

"Just relax where is your sense of adventure?" Megan said as she and Jason stepped in.

"Don't worry kid, I got your back" Jason said as Michal walked in and the door closed.

"This is against my better judgment" Michal said as they headed up.

"What do you see?" Max asked a Jim looked into a peephole at the end of the passage they were in.

"Another hall" Jim said pushing open a portrait and into a new hall as Max and Jim stepped out seeing a hall of paintings as Jim picked up a lit candelabra as they headed down the hall.

"Hi!" Jim said as they walked down aware that with each painting they passed it turned into a horrible nightmarish version.

"Hello!" Max said.

"Anyone home?"

At the end of the hall Jim and Max eyes widen to see a door at the end creaking and moving with a breathing sound.

"Must be termites, some big ass termites that's all" Jim said.

"Yeah that's it, termites!" Max said as Jim reached for the door knob and opened it into a room with a phone ringing.

"You answer it" Max said as Jim picked up the phone.

"Hello?" Jim said as someone on the other end hung up as Jim set the phone down as they looked to the mirror as a crow above them cawed as Jim and Max both yelped.

"Damn crow!" Max said as he and Jim laughed as they looked to the mirror again to see they were both zombies as they both screamed.

"GAAAHH!"

"Oh my god!" Max yelled as they fell over as they both quickly got up to see they were normal.

"That is not right!" Max said.

"The spirit orb lead Jason, Michael and Megan into a attic full of old items as it lead them passed a dress and to a painting.

"Megan!" Michael said as they saw the painting looked like Sara.

"Mom?" Megan said.

"What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be up here! This is unspeakable! Unspeakable you have to leave!" Ezra one the mansion keepers said.

"Who is that?" Megan asked.

"That's none of your business that who it is, now get out of here its way past your bedtime!" Ezra said.

"Hey! I don't have a bed time!" Jason said as a maid with a tray of cookies appeared.

"Her name was Elizabeth, are you kids hungry? Does anyone want a cookie?" Emma the mansion maid said.

"Oh! I'd love one!" Jason said as the three all took a cookie.

"Cookies! Don't offer them cookies they're trespassers! Trespassers don't get cookies! It's none of their concern!" Ezra yelled.

"It is their concern they're involved!" Emma yelled.

Both their eyes widen as they looked to one direction.

"Hide! Hide!" Emma said leading Jason, Megan and Michal to a hiding spot as the two stood in line as Ramsley appeared.

"The children are not in their room, neither are the two outsiders have you seen them?" Ramsley said.

"What children?" Emma said as Jason quickly lead the kids to a new spot as they crawled.

"What children? Her children" Ramsley said picking up the cookie tray, "the children she wasn't supposed to bring along with that brainless husband of hers!"

Emma and Ezra then both took a cookie and was about to bite as Ramsley glared at them as they quickly set the cookies back, "if I had to listen to another word from that insurable fool I think I would have burst!"

"Of course sir! What a fool!" Ezra said.

"Did I not tell her to come alone? Is it really too much to ask for a little cooperation? A little order?"

"Of course not sir"

"If you find the children bring them to me."

"Of course sir"

"The final arrangements had been made nothing future must interfere with the master plans" Ramsley said leaving.

'So this is all the master? What does he want with Sara?' Jason thought.

Jim and Max entered a room where they heard a woman voice and at the end of the hall they could see a glowing green crystal ball.

"Listen we heard your voice, listen we need your help we're trying to get out of here, sorry if I sound a little fragile but we just had ourselves a little freak show back there" Jim said.

"Are you kidding? Tell us how to get out of this place!" Max said.

"Goblins and Goulies from Last Halloween awaken the spirits with your tambourine"Madame Leota.

"We hear you but we don't see you, where are you?" Jim said as they looked for her.

"I am Madame Leota, seer of all, voice to the spirits, whom do you think?"she said turning her head to them as Jim and Max eyes widen.

Two chairs then flew up from behind and caught them and pined them to the table.

"Hey!"

"Let us go!" Max growled trying to break free like Jim.

"Hey what are you doing! Let us out of here!"

"Silence! Whom do you think?" Madame Leota said.

"I seeking a way out of here!" Jim growled.

"I want what he wants!" Max yelled.

"Then you must look within" Madame Leota said.

"I don't want to look within I want to look without are you deft?!" Jim said.

"There is great evil in this house, a devils curse, it seeks to destroy you" Madame Leota said.

"Why would anything seek to destroy me? I'm just here to sell the house okay?" Jim said.

"Dark spirits from the grave come forth, lift us from the black and show us show us the way back"Madame Leota said.

"Dark spirits? Hey no dark spirits! Don't you make no dark sprits come out!" Jim said.

"I'm with him!" Max said.

"Lift us, lift us to the light and carry us through this stormy night!"Madame Leota as her crystal ball began to lift into the air as the table and the chairs with Max and Jim in them lifted up.

"Hey! Hey! Put us down! I want to stay on the ground!" Jim yelled as they began to spin with instruments playing and spinning with them.

"Evil and darkness have fallen this night and to survive you must gain your sight, only the light can lead the way and then you will find your way home" Madame Leota said.

"There's no place like home! There's no place like home!" Jim said.

"Why did I have to run away!" Max yelled.

"Go Mr. Evers your family is at stake your very life is at stake! Save yourself! Release her! Release us all!"

"I'm getting queasy! I'm getting very queasy!" Jim yelled.

"I'm going to be sick!" Max yelled as Madame Leota laughed as everything stopped and droped.

"GAHHHHH!" Jim and Max yelled as they ran down the hall with the paying instruments chasing after them as they ran into a room and closed the door.

"Dad!" Michal yelled.

"Dad!" Megan yelled.

"Max!" Jason said.

"Michal! Megan! You okay?" Jim asked.

"Were fine thanks" Megan said.

"Get your things, let's get out of here let's go!" Jim said.

"But dad we have a problem" Megan said.

"Because of the rain? We're going to get a little wet let's find your mom and get out of here!" Jim said.

"I'm afraid that is not possible I'm afraid she can't leave" Ezra said.

"Why not?" Jim said as Ezra teleported below.

"Because she just can't."

"Oh!" Max and Jim both said jumping away.

"If I could tell I would, but since I can't I won't."

"How did you...look daddy having a little hillutionations come on let's go!" Jim said.

"They're ghosts dad" Megan said.

"They're not ghosts, they're hillutionations it was from that dinner, that chicken didn't taste right" Jim said as Emma teleported in front of him.

"Hey! It was not the chicken!" she yelled.

"Alright it's not the chicken! But were still getting out of here!"

"But dad we have to help them" Megan said.

"We can't help them, they're beyond help that is the nature of being dead."

"He is talking sense everyone should keep their noses in their own business" Ezra said.

"But dad we have to help them break the curse" Megan said.

"Why is everyone keep talking about this curse?! Wait a minute have you been talking to that crazy green gypsy in that giant paperweight?"

"Gypsy! He knows the gypsy!" Emma said.

"Yeah we know that crazy witch!" Max said.

"We have to go back to see her!"

"Go back! I aint going back!" Jim said.

"But dad!" Megan said.

"Hey she had us floating all around the room!"

"But dad!"

"She had us strapped to a chair spinning around the room and chased us with a marching band! I ain't going back! Forget it Capser!"

"But dad mom in trouble!" Michal said.

"What kind of trouble?" Jim asked as they lead him to the attic to show him the painting.

"Your wife is connected to this curse and the butler and master are behind all this" Jason said.

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