“Right, where did I put my
phone? I put it on the table this
morning,” said Captain Blue, scratching his head. “I know I did!”
Blue was in his room, on
Skybase, packing his holiday bag for a three-day break with his best friend,
Scarlet. Joining them were Captain Grey
and Lieutenant Green.
They were heading to the UK to
an old 18th Century mansion, in the middle of nowhere, in Scotland
near the east coast. It had been built
on a 100 acre plot that was never developed on beforehand. The name the owner
had given his home was, “Mystery Mansion”, due to the fact not much information
was known about the place. Grey knew the
owner of this huge house and asked if he and some friends could stay there for
a few days whilst he was away on holiday.
The owner had lived there for over 30 years and he never once wanted to
leave its historic walls.
“Ah, there you are!” Blue said smiling, as he found his phone on
top of his oven. Then he suddenly
realised. “How did you get all the way over there?” he said. “Hmm, strange. I must have poltergeists in my room!” He put his phone in his suitcase, closed it
up, grabbed it and went to meet the others on the Swift. That was one perk of being a Captain: you got
to travel in comfort and style.
After a few minutes, Blue
reached Vehicle Bay and walked to the Swift, carrying his well-packed suitcase. The others were already on board.
“Hi, Adam,” said Scarlet,
sitting nearest to the door. “Got
everything?”
“Yup, think so.” Blue walked further in, put his suitcase away
in a compartment and sat down.
“You know, Adam, you won’t be
doing a huge amount for the next three days.
I mean can you cope with that?”
Grey said, smiling. Scarlet
laughed a little.
“Yes, I think I can,” Blue said
with an unhappy look on his face. “The
house does sound like it has a lot of ‘goings on`. So that should keep me busy.”
“Yes, it does. It‘s said it has been haunted since it was
built back in the 18th Century,” Grey said in an excited voice.
“Cool!” said Green. “Who haunts
it?”
“Oh, come on!” said Scarlet,
shaking his head. “You don’t believe in
that stuff, do you?”
“After what
the Mysterons can do?” She leaned in to him. ”Yes, Paul, I do. I’m surprised you don’t,” she said, sitting
back in her seat again.
“Yeah, well, I don’t believe in
things I can’t see. A Mysteron I can
punch in the face. A ghost, what face? ”
Scarlet replied.
“Right, Captains, Lieutenant, we
are on our way up,” a voice said through the comm.
Just then everyone jolted as
the Swift headed upwards to the runway.
“Anyway, as I was saying,” said
Grey, “most of the house is haunted, apparently, by two children and their
mother.”
“Oh, that is so sad!” Green
said with a sad look upon her face. “What happened to them?”
“Well, as it goes, the two
children, twins, died when they were five. They were apparently killed by their
father. His wife, their mum, apparently, had an affair with another
man. He found out, and to get back at her, he killed their daughters by
stabbing them with a pair of scissors!”
A voice then came thought the comm. again:
“Captains, Lieutenant,
we‘re about to take off. E.T.A.,
three hours.”
The captains and Lieutenant Green sat back in
their seats and the Swift shot down the runway and up into the air. Blue continued the topic.
“Sick man,” he said in anger.
“Why kill their daughters? Why, if you must, not kill their mother
instead?” Green said with a wobble to
her voice.
“It was for two reasons really,”
Grey said. “One she loved those girls more than life itself, so what better way
to make her suffer? Two, he didn’t know how long she had being ‘seeing’ this other
man, so wasn’t sure whether the twins were his...”
“Oh, come on!” Blue said with a continued anger in his
voice. “That’s just plain evil! You have to be sick in the head to think about killing them in the first place.
So what if they weren’t his? You
don’t kill kids!”
“What happened to the
mother?” enquired
Scarlet.
“She hung herself. She couldn’t get over the fact her own
husband killed them and that they were never coming back.”
“God. That is just so sad,” Green said looking
down.
“Apparently, she is not a very
pleasant ghost either. She protects her
daughters like crazy. She goes everywhere they go, or should I say, floats. She will
hurt anyone if she thinks they might hurt her children,” Grey continued.
“Hurt them, how?” asked Blue.
“She either scares you into
leaving or physically hurts you. By that I mean, she throws things at you, or
at her worst she’s ‘pushed` people down the stairs,” Grey explained, making sure they heard him
correctly.
“Pushing
people down the stairs!” Scarlet said in shock.
“Oh yes, she’s not afraid to do
anything.”
“I don’t think I want go there
now,” said Green, sliding down in her seat.
“Sounds like something
interesting could happen,” Blue retorted smiling.
“Well, we will be there soon,
so you will be able to feel the hairs rise on the back of your neck!” said Grey.
“Cool!” Blue exclaimed, sitting on the edge of his
seat. Green just looked at him.
“Well, that’s what some people
say happens in that place. It could be
total nonsense,” Grey added, light-heartedly.
The others just looked at him in disbelief.
“You say all that but it might
not even be true!” Blue said in disappointment. “I hope for your sake it is true. Or I would have to kill you for scaring
Serena for nothing, and for getting my hopes up.”
Scarlet rolled his eyes. ‘Yeah right,’ he thought.
***
Once the Swift landed at the
small airport called, ‘Wee Lock Airport,’ which was close to a small town
called Lock Town, the passengers walked off with their suitcases and saw a big
old grey Volvo waiting for them.
“Here’s our taxi,” said Grey
with a smile. He pointed a finger at the car.
The captains and Green just looked each other.
“That old wreck is our taxi? Will it make it there?” Scarlet said.
Grey gave him a stare. “Yes it will.
The driver is one of my father’s friends. He will be driving us there.” He then looked round back to his friends and
whispered, “He won’t come out of the car, he doesn’t always communicate very
well.”
“It’s not far from here, is
it?” asked Green.
“No, about thirty minutes, why?”
“Good, because I find these
quiet people a bit strange.”
“Does he have a name,
Ian?” asked
Blue.
“Yup, but I can’t remember it.”
They all climbed into the car
and sat on the black leather seats.
“Hi, mate!” Grey said to the driver. “These are my friends, Paul, Serena and
Adam.”
The driver looked in the rear view mirror,
nodded and then drove off to the mansion.
Scarlet didn’t really enjoy
sitting in the backseats, as they had sunk in the middle and he could feel the
bumps go through his spine.
‘I think
my spine is going to shatter before we even get there!’ he thought to
himself, tensing up his body.
“Oh, Ian, you never mentioned
what happened to the father?” asked Green.
“No one knows. He just
disappeared after the murders.”
Twenty minutes later the driver
pulled up to a huge gate. It had a
roller coaster shape, witch was a silver colour covered with rust, with plenty
of weeds entwined in the railings. There
was a plaque shaped like a child in the middle, which split in two when the
gates opened. “Wow, that gate is huge!” Green said in amazement.
“You should see the mansion,”
Grey replied with a big smile.
“Part of me wants to, but if
it’s haunted, the other half off me just wants to stay put!” Green said, shivering slightly.
The driver got out and walked
to the gate, took the keys out of his pocket and opened the big lock with one
big key. Just as he was about to try and heave one of the huge gates open, a ghostly child’s face came out of the image
and went through the driver, who fell backwards in shock, and went through the
car, and through the passengers. Then
there was a faint child’s laugh as it disappeared.
“WHAT
WAS THAT!?” screamed Green. The others
jumped out of their seats and were looking out the windows
“It looked like a child’s face!” Grey said in a shaky voice.
“Where the hell did it come from?” Blue said trying to calm his voice and not
move. But he couldn’t anyway because Green was leaning against him and holding on
to him tight, her face buried in his chest.
“I don’t know and I don’t care. Just make sure it doesn’t come back!” she said in a
muffled voice.
“Oh, come on, you’re all
imagining things,” Scarlet retorted. “I
didn’t see any face come through the window.”
“But it was there, Paul,” Grey
protested.
“The only thing I see is a
scared expression on Serena’s face. So
stop it, please.”
Scarlet got out of the car and
saw the driver on the ground, shaking like a leaf. He ran over and knelt down. “Are you ok,
sir?”
The man shook his head and
grabbed onto Scarlet’s arm.
“I thought the talk wasn’t
true! I never believed the stories of
the children,” he said, his voice shaking.
Scarlet helped him up and the
man ran to the back off the car and hid. Scarlet noticed something shimmering on
the ground; it was the keys.
‘The driver must have dropped them when he fell,’
he thought. He picked them up and put them in his jeans’
pocket. He then saw Grey slowly getting out
from the car and looking at the gates.
“Well, Grey, do you want to
continue?” Scarlet asked.
“Yes, I do, but I’m not sure if
Serena can go any further. She’s really
scared,” Grey replied.
“Adam will look after her,”
said Scarlet
Scarlet walked up to the gates
and asked Grey to help him open one. They
heaved the huge squeaky gate slowly open.
Nothing scary happened this time.
“It’s ok, Serena. You can look now,” said Blue in a soft voice.
“Paul and Ian have opened one gate and nothing has happened.”
Green didn’t want to lift her
head as she was still too scared. “Are
you sure, Adam?”
“Yes, I promise.” Green slowly looked up and saw nothing. She then let go of Blue and slowly sat up but
was still staying close to him.
Scarlet and Grey walked back to
the old wreck of a car. Scarlet couldn’t
see the driver behind the car. He looked
everywhere but there was no sign of him.
All he could see were some trees and bushes on each side of the road. He then joined Grey. “Hmm.
Where has he gone? He can’t have just
vanished?”
They both got back into the
car, deciding he would drive the remainder of the way, took the wheel. He drove
into the grounds and parked the car right in front of the front door, just in case
they needed a quick escape. They all got
out. Green was still holding on to Blue.
The driver had waited for the
team to leave the car from behind a nearby bush. He then ran and opened the door, almost
pulling it off in the process. He
started the car and shot backwards, then turned it around and drove off. Scarlet, Blue and Green
watched in horror as he left, whilst Grey ran after him, shouting at him to
stop the car.
“OI! COME BACK!
YOU CAN’T LEAVE US HERE! YOU COWARD!”
But the driver wasn’t listening. Grey stopped running and watched the car turn
into a blip in the distance.
“I’LL WRING YOUR MISERABLE NECK
NEXT TIME I SEE YOU!” Grey shouted
waving his fist in the air. Scarlet jogged next to him.
“Great, now we don’t have a
getaway car if anything happens,” he said in a mix of annoyance and anger.
Grey walked back to the others,
with Scarlet following close behind.
“How do we
get back now?!” Green said with panic in
her voice and rubbing her arms as she had goose bumps. Adam pulled her close again.
“We get a taxi,” Grey said
looking at her.
“If they’ll come out to this
place,” Scarlet replied, looking around.
“I’ll bribe them!” Blue said with determination in his
tone. “Well, now we’re here, we should
go and investigate.”
They all turned round to look
at the mansion and they were all hoping nothing was going to happen.
The mansion had a huge wooden front door with
a lion knocker in the middle and two big dog statues either side of it. The rest of the front of the house wasn’t
looking in too good a condition, but had a line up of amazingly detailed angel
statues. On the second floor, a big angel was placed on the centre of the roof,
as though guarding the place.
The captains looked around whilst
walking up the big chunky stairs to the front door. They reached the top and all looked at each
other. Green was starting to think
something else could come out and scare her.
“You can let go of my arm,
Serena,” said Blue with a smile. “I’m right
here, I won’t leave you.” “I know, but I
feel even safer if I hold on to you,” Green replied with a quick flash of a smile.
Grey was given the keys by
Scarlet and he unlocked the door. Then he twisted the knocker to the right and
tried to push the door open. He needed a
bit of help from Scarlet. It creaked
open and the team looked inside, and one by one they walked into the magnificent
hall.
“Wow!
Look at that massive stairwell!” said Blue.
It was a smooth spiral shape with
thick rusted metal bars. Moulded animal shapes ran from the top to the bottom.
“You could slide all the way
down on that!” joked
Grey.
Scarlet was looking around the
massive hall, admiring all the oil paintings, statues, big plants and all the
gold trimming you could think of.
“I think Colonel White would
love this place for its architecture alone.
Right up his alley,” he said smiling.
“Right, the rooms are up here,
guys,” Grey said, pointing to the top of the stairs. “You’ll each get one, and believe me they
will be a nice size.”
“You can basically swing a cat
in them then?” joked
Blue.
As they all headed up the
creaky stairs, Green felt something was watching them. She looked over her shoulder but no one was
there.
Blue took the first room,
nearest the stairs, on the right hand side.
Scarlet had the next. Green the room after and Grey the last one up the
corridor.
They all went inside and looked
over the accommodations that they would be sleeping in for the next three days. Each room was the same as the next, apart
from the picture hanging above the huge fireplace.
Green was telling herself that
the ghosts couldn’t harm her like the Mysterons could - and did. So really, she
shouldn’t be scared. It was starting to
help. She wasn’t feeling quite as
nervous. ‘I think maybe I should share a
room with someone if something happens. ‘I’ll ask if Adam would like to,’
she thought to herself. After all, what a perfect way to get nearer to him.
Scarlet was looking out the
window, which looked out over the front garden, and saw a woman walking past
the flowerbeds that covered one half off the lawn. She then turned around and
looked behind her. Scarlet turned his head to look at what she was looking at;
he saw nothing. He returned his
attention to the woman. Before his eyes, she then just seemed to disappear.
Scarlet looked in all directions
but could see nothing. Where did she go?
Surely he wasn’t seeing things?
He stepped back and thought about it for a moment.
Green walked to Blue’s room and knocked on his open door.
“Come in, Serena. What do you think of the accommodations?” he said with his
arms out-stretched.
“I don’t like them, they’re too
big,” she answered, walking into his room.
“But, I don’t feel as scared as I did when we walked in.”
“That’s good.”
“Yeah, well, I’m not sure how
I’d feel if I keep hearing strange noises.
I’m a tough woman, but something like that could turn me again into what
I was earlier.”
“You’ll be fine. But if
you do get scared again, you could share my room.”
“So you’re offering then?” she
said looking at him with her big brown eyes.
He looked back at her and
smiled. “Yeah... I believe I just did.
Yes, I’m offering.”
He couldn’t believe she just
asked him so bluntly. But he couldn’t turn down a damsel in distress who was
named Serena.
Green sighed with relief. “I don’t want to intrude or anything. If you’re not sure, then please just tell me.” She saw he was slightly hesitant. “I know
it’s a bit weird me asking you this.”
“No, no... It’s fine. It’s just…” He rubbed the back of his
neck. “I’ve never shared a room with a
colleague before. Anyway,” he said, now
smiling, “There’s plenty of room, it’s a big bed.” He walked over to it. “I’ll just... hmm... put something down the
middle! How’s that idea?” “Yeah, sure,” she said, smiling.
Just then Grey walked into
Blue’s room along with Scarlet.
“Hi, guys. Hope I’m not interrupting anything? But you won’t believe this!” said Grey with
excitement. “Paul has just seen a woman
out of his window, but then she just disappeared! Like Houdini!
He turned around for a split second and when he looked back, poof, gone!”
“It could be the ghostly figure
of the mother?” joked
Blue.
“Oh, could be, Adam!”
“Hey, I don’t know what exactly happened to
her! She was there, and then she
wasn’t! She didn’t look like a ghost to
me!” Scarlet replied.
“So we saw a child’s face earlier, heard what
sounded like a child’s laugh and now Paul might have seen the mother?” replied
Grey with continued excitement.
“I hope she can cook!” joked
Blue. Just as Grey was about to carry on with the hot topic, there was a massive
slamming noise which seemed to be coming from down stairs. The team was started by the sound.
“WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!” screamed Green, who looked at Blue whilst walking to him.
The others were looking out the
door, their ears pricked.
“No one else meant to be here, Ian?” asked
Scarlet.
“No, no one,” replied Grey.
“Stay here, Serena, we’ll take
a look,” said Blue.
“No, I’m not, Adam. I’m coming with you.”
They all went to the doorway. They
looked either side of the hallway, then they walked
slowly to the stairs, keeping watch in all directions.
Grey and Scarlet looked down
the stairs and saw nothing.
Scarlet looked at the front
door and thought of something. “Did we close the front door when we came in?” he asked, looking at
Grey.
“No, we didn’t,” Grey said, now
starting to sound a bit worried.
“There’s no breeze to shut it, and anyway, it couldn’t move that door,
it’s too big and heavy.” Scarlet and
Grey continued to look at each other.
“The ghosts aren’t going to
kick us out this early!” Green said.
“They might try.” Adam
responded looking at her.
“Adam, there are NO ghosts!” Scarlet protested.
“And
what is it we witnessed up until now, then?” Blue challenged.
“I’m sure there’s a logical
explanation to where this woman I saw might have disappeared to – and to also
explain the phenomenon at the gate.”
“Look, the smallest room will
be the kitchen,” Grey said. “I’ll take
you there. We should be safe from
anything else that might happen.”
“Well hopefully long enough for
Adam to eat something,” commented Scarlet.
“I am famished,” Blue retorted.
“Okay, so where is that kitchen?”
“Down the stairs
and to the left.”
Whilst they started walking
down to the ground floor, they didn’t notice the ghosts of the children and the
mother behind them at the top of the stairs.
The ghosts were followed by two green circles, which started moving over
their ethereal ‘bodies’. The circles
then disappeared, leaving the children’s and their mother’s eyes glowing green.
Once the team reached the
kitchen, Grey turned the knob to find it wasn’t locked. They walked in, and
Grey, the last one to enter, shut the door behind them. They all sat around a big,
solid oak table.
“This is a small kitchen for
such a huge place,” said Green.
“Yeah it is,” Grey replied,
looking inside the cupboards.
Green decided to make them all
hot chocolate drinks, as Grey had found some whilst searching the cupboard. An
hour passed and nothing happened. No
noises or any other sort of activity.
They were rather enjoying the
silence. Even Green seemed happy. But it
wasn’t to last.
“I’m going to walk out and take
a look around, as it‘s quiet,” said Scarlet.
“Come back in one piece, won’t
you?” said Grey.
“I intend to,” Scarlet replied,
slightly smiling.
He left the room and turned
right to walk down the huge hallway. Just
as he reached the magnificent stairwell, he felt something fall on his head.
“OUCH!” he yelped. He put his hand on his head and looked around
but couldn’t see anyone. He looked at his
feet and discovered a book, lying on the floor, with blood on the bottom edge. Scarlet looked at his hand and saw blood on
his fingers.
“It must have fallen from
somewhere,” he said. He looked round and couldn’t see any shelves with books
on. ‘Now it can’t be those ghosts,’ he
told himself. ‘There’s no such thing! Or is there?’ He bent down and picked up the book. Then he suddenly remembered what Grey said
earlier, about the mother ‘pushing’ people down the stairs. He whirled round, but didn’t see anyone
behind him or near the stairs. So
he walked back to the kitchen, quickly.
“I think one of those ghosts of
yours threw a book at me!” Scarlet said
out loud, rubbing his head.
“Are you ok, Paul?” Blue said, getting up and taking a look. “Sit down.”
“I’ll get some warm water and a
cloth,” Green said, rushing to the sink.
“It does hurt a bit,” replied Scarlet. He felt his head throb a little.
Green came back with a bowl of
warm water and a cloth she got from the cupboard under the sink. “Okay, Paul, I’m going to clean it up a bit,
so it may well hurt a little.”
“That won’t be necessary,”
Scarlet protested. “It’s nothing, a
little cut. You know it’ll be completely healed in a little while.”
“I know, but still, it needs to be cleaned,” Green
retorted. “You can’t leave it
unattended, Paul.”
While
Green played nice nurse to Scarlet’s injury, the team were unaware the daughters
were floating towards them.
“There you go.
All cleaned.”
“Thanks, Serena. You’re a very
good nurse.”
Grey turned round to face the
door, when he saw the ghosts of the two girls hovering there, staring at them.
They both held some wicked-looking scissors.
“Guys? We’ve got company!”
The others looked round and saw
the ghosts and their glowing green eyes.
“Oh, come on! No way!” Blue
exclaimed, looking stunned. “Please say their eyes are meant to glow, and in
Paul’s favourite colour? Surely the Mysterons can’t take over ghosts as well?”
“That’s impossible,” Scarlet muttered, but this
time with uncertainty. “There are NO
such things as GHOSTS! And certainly NOT Mysteronised ghosts!”
The ghosts lifted their arms
and the two pairs of scissors were thrown towards them. One went through Blue‘s arm, near his
shoulder and the other pair just narrowly missed Grey, as he dived out of the
way.
“OW!” Blue yelled as he dropped to his knees in
shock and pain.
“ADAM!” Green rushed over to him, followed by Scarlet. “I’ll get a
cloth and tie it above the wound,” she said, trying not to panic. “Don’t pull
the scissors out, it could be helping to stop the blood from pouring out.”
“Well, I guess that answers your questions,
guys,” Grey replied nervously, whilst keeping an eye on the ghosts. “You okay,
Adam?”
“Oh, never felt better.”
“Good,” Grey sighed.
Then out of the blue the girls
started speaking, without moving their lips, together, as one voice:
“THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE
MYSTERONS. WE KNOW YOU ARE HERE, SCARLET.
WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL WE KILL YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS. YOU HAVE NO WEAPONS TO PROTECT YOU. THIS TIME,
WE WILL PREVAIL.”
Just then, the room started
shaking and all of the plates, cups, dishes, saucepans and ornaments were falling
off the shelves. But the sharpest
objects were hovering in mid air: the knives, the forks, and meat slicers. The
deadly weapons started floating towards the ghosts.
“I think I know how this is
going to end,” Scarlet said, wincing.
“We need to lift that table up or we’re all
going to join them,” Grey said quickly. “Come on!”
Grey and Scarlet knelt behind
the table and started to try and lift it up.
It wasn’t budging.
“Too heavy!” Grey moaned.
A couple of knives went right
over their heads and drove themselves into the cupboard behind them.
“God, that was close! We have to get this table up!” groaned Grey.
Other sharps items flew by,
narrowly missing them. Blue then pulled the scissors out of his arm and, not
hearing Green’s protests, hurried to his companions’ side. They heaved and
heaved and the table was getting higher and higher till it was flat on its
side. The ghosts threw the rest of their arsenal at them, but they drove
themselves into the table.
Blue let himself fall on his
bottom. “God, that hurts!” he said through gritted teeth, reaching for his wounded
shoulder.
“I told you not to pull out those
scissors,” Green said in a strong tone. “Now keep the pressure on it!”
“We have to stop them, or
they’ll kill us,” Scarlet said.
Once the pounding and whizzing
stopped, Scarlet peeped round the corner. The ghost’s of the two little girls
were just floating there, their green eyes staring into empty space.
“They’ve used up all their weapons
now,” Scarlet said quietly.
“Good, but how do we fight back, considering they’re
ghosts?” asked Blue. Scarlet sat back
down behind the table and tried to figure out a way for them to counter-attack.
But before he could think for long, the table started wobbling. Grey moved closer to a corner and peeped
round. He saw a taller woman – a ghost as well – who was floating between the
two girls. She was also staring at the
table with glowing green eyes, just like the girls.“Damn! I’m guessing this is the mother that’s turned
up. Just what we need.”
The table then started shaking
more violently.
“We’d better hold on to it or
it will probably be used on us!” Scarlet
said, gripping the table as tight as he could.
Blue decided to use his good
arm and hang onto a spare leg. All their
strength was really being tested. It was
getting harder and harder to try to keep the table still.
“I can’t hold on much longer!”
groaned Green. But suddenly there was a massive pull and the table went up in
the air, making everyone get lifted up slightly till letting go. They quickly scrambled out of the way, and
the table fell back to the floor. It
just missed them.
“What the hell are you two spoilt brats and your mother doing?!” a booming male voice
shouted out. “Well, answer me?!”
“YOU ARE IN OUR WAY,” the children
replied.
“What? What are you going
on about? And what happened to your
eyes?” the male voice asked.
The ghosts then made the table
hover over the Spectrum officers and moved it so its legs were facing the
ceiling. The team saw the figure of a man standing right in front of them. He
wore dark trousers, a black jacket and white shirt in the style of the early 19th
century.
Scarlet saw a chance. “RUN
FOR IT!” he
yelled.
They got up and ran, two of
them running through the man and through the other ghosts, and then rushing all
the way to the shut door. Grey opened it
so hard that it slammed the wall behind it and made a loud bang. The table
began to follow them, but the ghostly man stopped it.
“No, you three, don’t!” He slammed the table back on the floor. “Don’t you three know who I am? I am your
husband! I am your father! You must obey
me!”
The ghosts ignored him and just
followed the team.
“Brats!” he said angrily. “Woman! You come
back here!” He followed them out.
The Spectrum officers found a
hiding place in the closet not far from the stairwell. Green opened the door
just a fraction, and saw the ghosts looking around for them, but the male ghost
was having none of it. He put his arms
out and magically pulled all three of them back to him.
“I have them, so I suggest, wherever
you people are, that you leave, now! I’m
opening the door for you.”
They heard the door open, the
creeks of the hinges echoing through the hall.
Green saw that the ghost was
telling the truth. “He has them, let’s
get the hell out of here!” she said to the others.
Scarlet gave the nod and they all shot out of the closet, passing through the ghosts again,
and headed straight out of the front door. As they did so, they could hear the
male ghost’s loud voice echoing around the hall.
“I’d better call base to pick
us up!” Scarlet said getting his Spectra-Tech
out of his pocket and contacting Skybase.
“Thank God, you had yours at
hand!” said Blue. “Mine was in my suitcase!”
“Well, I guess I will have to
teach you three a lesson!”
The male ghost waved his arms to
pull the children and the woman up the stairs when they gathered their Mysteronised powers to fight him. The result was him being thrown against the
wall.
“What? You must all be possessed! I guess you three
are getting your own back on me? Well, I’m not finished yet!”
Just as he said those words, the daughters and
the mother’s eyes stopped glowing green.
“What’s happening?” the mother
cried in shock. What on earth were we
trying to kill those people for? I don’t
understand... What is going on?” At that point, she saw her husband, getting
ready for a fight. “You!
You found us! Where did you come from?
What’s going on?” The children
huddled against her as she spoke.
The father saw the expressions
on their faces and realised that they truly didn’t know what was happening.
“I have no idea why you were
trying to kill them,” he said. “That is not in your natures.”
“Yes, but, that all changed the
day you killed me and OUR little angels! Many people came to this place, but we just
wanted to be left alone. We just tried
to scare them – we never truly meant to kill.”
“You tried with these people.
And why were your eyes glowing green?” I don’t know... But I do remember. I knew what I was doing, but couldn’t stop
myself or my children. It’s like something had taken us over.” She looked at
him, all confused. “And how come you found us, after all these years? How did you
die? I hope that someone killed you
too!”
“Oh, a couple of people did,
when they heard I killed our ‘little angels’.
They didn’t understand why I did it so they beat me over the head with
something very heavy. I think it was
wooden blocks or something.”
“Who did it?” she asked with a
smile.
“Well if you must know, it was
several people in our village. Mainly the husbands. They called it justice. Putting me on trial
wasn’t enough.”
“Good. Perfect
justice.”
He started floating away,
mumbling to himself. “What do I care anyway?”
“Oh, you will do,” the mother
said. “I suggest you look to your right.
We have company.”
The father stopped floating and
said: “What? What are you...” He looked to his
right and saw a few other ghosts hovering about. “What the hell are these weaklings doing
here?” He yelled, recognising the ghosts
of the men and women, who killed him.
“Weaklings?” said the man
hovering at the front. “We are the ones who
killed you, so weaklings we are not.
We’re here to make sure you leave and never come back. You will never go
anywhere near your family again.” They hovered closer to make their point
further.
“Don’t worry, they are all
yours. I don’t want anything to do with
them again.” He floated out of the front
door and of into the distance.
Scarlet and the others, who had
just walked through the huge gates to leave the grounds, saw the man floating past
them.
“Thanks for saving us!” Scarlet yelled after him.
“Even though you’re a sicko,” Grey said in a quieter voice.
The ghost told them to never
return because he wouldn’t be around to save them next time.
“You need treatment, Adam!” Green said looking at his sleeve soaked with
blood.
“Yeah, it is rather sore,” Blue
had to admit.
Just then they heard a sound
coming from somewhere in the sky. Scarlet
looked up, putting his hand on his forehead so he could protect his eyes from
the sun and see what was coming.
“Look, it’s
Spectrum.” The others saw it too, and
watched as a Hummingbird landed not far from them. Once the craft had touched ground, they all
walked to it and saw the stairs lower in front of them. They climbed on board.
“Hi, guys. You all ok?” Magenta was at the helm of the
helicopter, and welcomed them with his usual cheeky smile. “The colonel told me
you needed an urgent lift.”
“Yeah, me and Ian are fine,” said
Green. “Paul too, considering his bump
to the head is nearly healed. But Adam’s arm really needs looking at. So please
just fly us home.”
Magenta looked at the
magnificent mansion whilst taking off.
“So Paul, does the bump on your
head make you believe in ghosts now?”
Grey asked hoping he would finely say
yes.
“I’ll let you know when we all
get back and when my legs stop shaking.”
“Wow! You’ll have to tell me everything when
we get back!” Magenta said in an excited
voice.
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