Episode 18: Frightful Female Phantasms

It was wonderful to be back after solving a bunch of cases in Japan, thwarting the latest schemes of the Dark Master the sworn enemy of the Z-Team and all that is good (and perhaps lesser of some evils). Life had returned to normal in the House of Mouse, but the threat of any form of darkness was ever present, in any way at any time or even any where including outside of the nightclub. Zack kept his Threat Detector out on the table just in case any supernatural threat arises, same with Mickey keeping the guidebook out as well, in case there was something to look up. Zack peered at the rest of his team, while everyone was getting served.

"Alright Z-Team, great work in Japan, but let's not get lax about it….." he said, first pleased, but then on a more cautious note. "The forces of darkness are getting stronger and the enemies are going to be much harder to defeat…." the Z-Team nodded, unsurprisingly at this. "I even believe that some of what we have defeated may have a possibility of returning when we least expect it…." Zack began to get even more cautious in his announcement, the team members eyes widened in fright at the mere prospect of that.

"You mean perhaps some of those horrible abominations can be brought back to life?!" Mickey replied with shock.

"Oh yes, Dakmogon's powers are incredible, he'll do whatever it takes to prevent us from accomplishing our goals, you've already seen what he did to us in Japan, especially to me!"

"Too bad we can't find any more spells or something..." replied Simba, Nala nodded in reply.

"Sakura's philosophy is less is more and what you have, appreciate it, besides having more power will just make you no better than Dakmogon's forces."

"And let's not forget about Dr. Venom's scientific evil genius, who knows what sorts of diabolical things we could brew in that twisted mind of his!" added Elsa, the rest nodded.

"Exactly, though we'll need to stay on alert for any more of the 13 ghosts, we'll need those to enter Dakmogon's domain…." Just then, the Threat Detector started up, and at the same time, Pluto began sniffing around the area that they were in and then stopped just before looking towards the stage and began barking. Zack, Elsa, Simba, Nala, Mulan and Donald followed the Threat Detector, while Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Moana, Aladdin and Jasmine followed Pluto. Following the Threat Detector, it led the 6 person group to one end of the nightclub and materializing in front of them was the ghost of a late teenage girl wearing a prom dress and a tiara on top of her head with a nasty scowl on her face. At the same time, the other group stopped before Pluto and there materialized the ghost of a young woman wearing gypsy clothes, adorned with jewelry, with an eccentric smile on her face.

"Gawrsh she shore is purty!" Goofy got enamored with her, but the rest weren't so sure about it as the ghost approached him with open arms as if getting ready for a dance, Goofy did the same. As soon as the two met, he felt something go out of his pocket. Turning his head, he noticed the ghost took his wallet. "Hey that's mine! Come back here!" Goofy got mad in an instant, and that group chased after her through the night club until they were able to surround her and 4 of them readied themselves for magic. Immediately after surrounding her the 4 launched their spells at this thieving ghosts which caused the gypsy ghost to drop Goofy's wallet, which Pluto was able to snag before any damage to it occurred.

While all that was happening, Zack's group chased after the angry prom queen ghost, unlike the devious, yet relatively harmless gypsy ghost, this one was in an all-out rage, flinging tables, utensils, chairs and anything she could get her hands on trying to attack everyone in sight. As she flung objects, she let out a frightening banshee-like wail, which sent the patrons, good, bad, or neutral scampering before she even threw a few tables, it turned into a game of dodge for this Z-Team group. Trying to aim spells proved to be difficult as the ghost was mighty fast and relentless, hardly giving the group a chance. Luckily, Elsa managed to slip far away, while holding the Shadow Bane, and launched her ice magic at the angry prom queen ghost, immobilizing her up the shoulders in ice, giving Zack the opening he needed. He threw out the chest and chanted: " Nefeato Cacond Diaboz Evivan!" which opened the chest and began to absorb the prom queen ghost, just in time for the other group to hand over the gypsy ghost and both were all sucked into the chest in a matter of seconds, and the chest slammed shut.

"Two more in the box!" shouted Mickey with glee as the patrons and staff applauded, relieved that the double threat was neutralized. Zack approached Elsa with a pleased smile.

"Well done Elsa, you taught her that she needs to chill!" He said approvingly, to which she nodded.

"What is the secret of these two ghosts?" asked Mickey.

"Alright the sweet one was from Romania in 1600's, her name is Rebekiah, beautiful yet very devious often robbing people blind, most likely men as she has them in a sweet dance, that was until one drifter came by, caught her in dance, and then stabbed her in the back literally." Zack informed his team.

Pluto came up and gave Goofy his stolen wallet back, it was completely unharmed, who in return rubbed his head in appreciation.

"The angry prom queen ghost was that of Christiane Vanee, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, who just about had it all. Popular in school, and with tutored to success life couldn't be more perfect, but all this soon proved to be her own undoing. On the night of the prom, she caught her prom king with another girl. In a furious, jealousy fueled rage, she started on a rampage messing up tables, shoving people around, until caught by school staff, getting herself expelled before graduating. The next day while driving to perform some community service, she caught her ex-boyfriend and attempted to run him down, chasing him to a cliff side where she drove over and perished in a horrible crash."

"Wow, shows to go that living a great life isn't always the best option…." replied Minnie. Simba and Nala detected a presence and darted off in search of what they were detecting. Just outside, in the alley they found the source: two Shadow Monks with some teleportation devices. Not wasting any time the king and queen pounced on the perpetrators who sent the ghosts, who immediately disintegrated upon the impact of the two pounces. No sooner were the foes vanquished, then the rest of the Z-Team caught up.

"So….it seems that these frequent attacks are from Shadow Monks coming to this place often..." Zack said with concern.

"What will this mean Zack?" asked Mickey.

"Yeah, I have a feeling that our favorite place has now become a hot spot for paranormal activity and panic…." added Donald.

"We'll have to tell everyone inside to keep the place closed until we stop this madness once and for all!" replied Zack to all.

"Okay…..might not be what we want, but this has to be done…." added Minnie. The Z-Team returned inside the nightclub and got on stage to deliver the news, Zack took the microphone.

"I know what all of you are thinking of why I'm up on stage..." he stared. "But I'm afraid we're going to have to do the unthinkable for all of your safeties, and that is, we're going to have to keep the nightclub closed for a while..." the patrons and staff were in a murmur at this news. "These paranormal attacks are frequenting at an alarming rate, it would seem the Dark Master knows everything, and will stop at nothing to get what he wants from all of you, your pain, suffering, and even your souls to build himself and his army. So I recommend you all stay in your home worlds like your life depends on it. Don't worry we'll stop the Dark Master's forces as much as we can, for your sakes!" The entire nightclub on hearing this obliged, even the landlord Pete agreed to this.