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Name: Brittany's Mansion: The Story
Author: angewomon2000
Rating: G
Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor
Chapters: 6
Words: 4577
Published: 11/17/01
Updated: 11/17/01
Complete: No
Description: Brittany wins a spooky mansion through the sweeptakes and Jam decides to check it out with her, only when they get there, Jam disappears, leaving Brittany with her fear of ghosts all alone in a spooky adventure to rescue her older brother! R/R
Disclaimer (By Author): The events in this story are from Luigi's Mansion on the Nintendo Gamecube, as well as from my own imagination. Brittany and
the Ghost Hunter, as well as the ghosts from Snowboard Kids 2 and
Atlus's other specters belong to them and of course.... Jam. Everyone
else belongs to me. Enjoy.
Story
Chapter 1: Inheriting The Mansion
It was just another one of those days where everything could go either
right or wrong. Brittany and Jam, as everyone knew were world famous..
Okay, Jam a lot more than Brittany, but they were still famous, were
at their home watching TV. Their favorite quiz show was on.... Who
Wants to be a Millionaire. But tonight, they were watching the show
for there was a sweeptakes going on. It was called the Snow Town
Sweeptakes Extravaganza, and the prizes were usually pretty good,
people say.
" I think I have the winner this time," said Jam who held his ticket
in his hands. He was certainly attached to it.
" Well, I think it's anyone's guess. You could win, and yet you could
lose. It's just the way things go," said Brittany. She was the smarter
of the two Kuehnemund children for she would often see Jam buy a
ticket for that sweeptakes each week, where the younger and taller
girl would buy one every month.
" I'm gonna win," said Jam.
" You sound like Slash when he's trying to find a treasure full of
coins, or about to win a race down Quicksand Valley," said Brittany.
This often went on each week as Jam kept getting desperate over
winning. Brittany also had a ticket, because she decided to buy one...
Okay so buy wouldn't be what to say in this case. Jam forced her to
buy a ticket. Brittany usually tries to get out of it and Jam often
caved in, but this time he used Brittany's favorite object to get her
to do it. You would too if your brother tried to sell something that
meant a lot to you.
" It's time," said Jam.
" Oh, joy. Well, since I have a ticket, I guess I'll watch and see who
wins what," said Brittany. The announce of the sweeptakes came on, and
the two siblings knew who it was. It was Mr. Dog. He often ran the
sweeptakes because no one else wanted to.
" Hey everybody, it's time for the sweeptakes and this week, we have 3
prizes to give away. Now, watch as the Sweeptakes Bin reveals the
first set of numbers." The machine spewed out six numbers.
" I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win," said Jam. Brittany just groaned and
went back to watching the winners get revealed.
" The winning numbers for the third prize are.... 1, 11, 22, 33, 44,
55, and the bonus.... 66," said Mr. Dog.
" I had a feeling that particular order of numbers would come up. I
didn't get them and I see Jam didn't either otherwise he would be
jumping for joy as well as break something," said Brittany. A eskimo
from Alaska won the prize of a years supply of cookies and milk. Hey!
What did you except for a Snow Town Sweeptakes?
" Okay, here are the second set of numbers. Whoever has the numbers
shown, will win second prize, and here they are....4, 17, 29, 38, 47,
55, and the bonus is.... 61. The winner will receive second prize of
1000 snowboards," said Mr. Dog.
" Oh my gosh! I won. I WON! YAHOOOO!!!!!!!! My luck has finally won me
the sweeptakes, but er.... Who gets the number one prize?" asked Jam.
" Good question," answered Brittany.
" And now, for the number one prize this week. Here come the numbers..
8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56.... And the bonus number is 64. Whoever has that
number is our big winner," said Mr. Dog.
" Well, I won second prize and I'll pick it up in the morning, but I
wonder who won first prize anyway. Whoever he is must be lucky and
happy right now," said Jam. He looked at Brittany and saw that she had
tilted over and was completely shocked. Jam was worried, but then he
noticed that Brittany still had his ticket in her hand. Jam pried
open his sister's fingers and looked at the ticket. The numbers on the
ticket matched the same numbers for the grand prize. " Brittany, you
are the grand prize winner."
" The prize for the winning ticket is this beautiful, yet mysterious
mansion somewhere around here," said Mr. Dog.
" I won? I don't believe it, but I did. What am I supposed to do with
a house?" asked Brittany.
" You inherit it," replied Jam.
" That's done through a will, not a lottery," said Brittany.
" Eh, it happens. Come on, let's go to bed and in the morning, we'll
go into town and get our prizes," said Jam. He began to walk into the
bedroom. Brittany was still amazed that she had won a mansion, but
what she didn't know, was that this mansion was different from other
mansions. The thing that was different about it....will be perhaps her
biggest dream....or maybe her worst nightmare.
Chapter 2: Where Is The Mansion That Brittany Had Won?
The next morning, the Kuehnemund siblings went into town to pick up
their lottery prizes. Jam just couldn't wait any longer to get his
prize, so Brittany had to hold him down a few times along the way,
and it wasn't easy.
" Jam, the more you do this, the more people will think you're insane,"
said Brittany.
" I know, but it's just that I can't believe that I won all those
snowboards, and yet you got yourself your own mansion. Now, that's
lucky," said Jam.
" I guess," said Brittany.
" But?" asked Jam.
" What happens if I don't like the house? I can't really return it to
the sweepstakes people as they'll just tell me to keep it. Unless I
decide to give it to someone later," said Brittany.
" All I can suggest to you is to try it out for a few days and if
you're not satisfied, you can give it to someone, for a fair price,"
said Jam. Brittany liked that idea and she felt a little better, but
when they got to their destination, balloons were thrown in their
honor. " Holy cow, and it isn't even my birthday yet," said Brittany.
" You guys won the prizes? Well, who won what?" asked the man at the
counter.
" I won the snowboards, and she won the grand prize," replied Jam.
" Okay, I think I've got all that. Boy, it isn't easy when you have to
go through about 20,000,000 tickets each week. Jam, here is your ticket
for the thousand snowboards, and Brittany, here is your prize," said
the man.
" What's this?" asked Brittany. The man had given her a picture of a
building.
" That's the house you inherited by winning this sweepstakes. That
picture tells you what it looks like and where to find it," replied
the man.
" So, where is it?" asked Brittany.
" Somewhere in the woods on top of a lonely hill," replied the man.
That made Brittany get worried again, for she wasn't a fan of scary
places. The picture alone was enough to scare off anyone who looked at
it for a good 20 seconds or so. Jam told his sister to relax and that
they would visit the mansion tonight.
" Tonight?" exclaimed Brittany.
" Why not? You inherited it, so you should visit it and sleep there
for a night or two. You don't have to live there, just go there once a
week," said Jam.
" Well....okay. You talked me into it," said Brittany.
" It won't be so bad," said Jam. Later that night, the Kuehnemund
siblings journeyed to the house Brittany had inherited. Luckily, the
picture also had a map on the back of it to show them where to go.
Indeed it was out of town, and in the woods, and then....
" That must be the place up there," said Jam.
" It looks scarier than the picture," added Brittany.
" You worry too much," said Jam.
" It's a living," said Brittany. The mansion did look scary and
Brittany decide to change the batteries in her flashlight in case
there was no light inside, but when she turned her back for that one
moment, a gust of wind blew across her back and when she turned around,
Jam was gone.
" Jam?" asked Brittany. There was no answer. It was as if he'd vanished
on the spot or something else might have happened.
Chapter 3: Jam's Missing
Brittany was now afraid of what had transpired. Jam had just vanished
without a trace and the only lead was the mansion Brittany had won. She
had a feeling of dread about this place ever since she won it.
" Gulp! I guess I'll have to go inside and see if Jam is in there,"
she said to herself.
With her flashlight at hand, Brittany began to walk slowly through the
front garden of the mansion. It was scary no matter what time of day
it was. She used the flashlight to see what was around her. All she
saw was statues that looked absolutely weird and the grass looked
worse than the statues.
" I won this place? It's a disaster area," she said to herself. She
continued to around the front and it was just too weird. The statues
seem to have minds of their own, due to the way they were sculpted. It
gave a feeling of horror.
" Speaking of horror, it's a good thing I brought my pink mini-computer
with me. I can use it to play in case I get bored, or maybe if I
modify it a bit, I can use it to store any info I get in this house,
as well as a convert it into a map of the house and provide me with a
view of a room I might be in."
In other words, she can use it to keep track of her equipment as well
as other functions.
" I just said that."
Anyway, Brittany had searched the entire garden and found no trace of
her brother anywhere. She knew that she had no choice but to go inside
and see if he was there. She walked slowly to the front door, her
breath chilled the cold night air, for she was very afraid of this
whole situation.
" Well, at least the door is well made." She fiddled about with the
doorknob and it was locked. The key had to be somewhere. The girl
Snowboard Kid decided to take another look in the garden for a key.
Her search didn't go too well at first, because she didn't know what
to do. Of course, this was her mansion so she could afford to mess up
the garden a little bit.
" Ah ha! I've found it!" she said happily. The key was buried in a
small patch of dirt, right by the front door. All that searching and
it was this close the whole time. Brittany bent down to pick the key
up, when a cold chill hit her from behind. It didn't do much other
than startle her.
" What was that?" she asked herself.
She looked behind her, and there was nothing there at all. Something
did come by, and yet no one else was in the area.
" This is getting too scary for me. But I have to be brave in order to
find Jam. I just wish that he wasn't inside this house, but somewhere
on the outside." Brittany gathered up his confidence and walked once
again to the door. She inserted the key into the lock and turned it.
It made a loud click to insure success. The door could now be opened.
The only thing that bothered Brittany was who placed that key in the
dirt instead of by the porch where she was standing now? And another
thing that bothered her as well, was that chill she received while
picking the key up. None of it made any sense, and Brittany wasn't
about to start to second-guess her own theories and opinions, no matter
how weird they were....okay, so she did second-guess them.
" Maybe that chill was just the wind, or maybe it was something else."
" Why was the key in the dirt and not on the porch? It could have been
blown away by that chill, or maybe someone else put it there, or
maybe.... Holy cow! All this is too weird for me."
Brittany finally got to her senses and slowly but surely, he opened
the door. As the door opened, she lit her flashlight and poked her head
into the mansion.
" Hello?"
Chapter 4: The Haunting Of The Haunted House
There was silence as Brittany peered into the main entrance room of
the mansion. There was a staircase which lead up to the next floor,
and a white cloth covering something, and two more doors. One of which
was locked and there was no key to it.
" Hmmm, I have a bad feeling about this place," she said to herself.
The room was lit up a bit, but not enough, so she shone her flashlight.
The décor wasn't too bad, but the white cloth was what Brittany was
interested in. She began to walk up to it as it seemed out of place to
the rest of the room.
" It feels so smooth, but why would anyone leave something like this
here. It's too tempting to take, but then again, something might be
under it." she said to herself. As she was about to pull on it, she
felt a chill, similar to the one that was outside, but it made no
sense. Since when do you get a chill indoors?
" Hello?" Brittany asked nervously. No one said anything.
" Is anyone there?" she asked. Again, no one said anything. " This is
getting too weird for me. I feel like someone is behind me, and yet no
one is saying anything. Could I be just a imagining that chill? NO! I
couldn't be. This is so real, that is really scaring me. I have to
turn around and see what I am up against." she thought. She gulped and
turned around....
No one was there.
" Huh?"
Then, the chill hit her again, this time from behind her but with
someone breathing as well. This time, someone was there, but the
question was who? Brittany wasted no time and spun around to face the
chill....and what she saw was enough to scare anyone out of their skin,
as well as scream so loud, you could be heard from across the planet.
She saw....
.... A ghost! But this ghost was white and had a face that could turn
a warrior into a quivering jelly if she stared just long enough.
Brittany was shocked with horror, but she was unable to make a sound
as she stared into the black eyes of the ghost in front of her. A
sweatdrop fell from her head as the ghost made the first....and only
move.
" Boo!!!!"
" WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Brittany screamed as she leaped out
of her pink sleeveless shirt and dress with her shorts and hit her
head on the ceiling fan before crashing down into her clothes again.
Her head was throbbing with pain, not to mention horror.
" Boo!!!!" said the ghost again.
" WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Brittany screamed again and ran
out the front door so fast, she could be mistaken for the Road Runner.
She ran out of the mansion's gardens before stopping a few meters down
the road.
" Whew! That was a close call. What kind of mansion did I win anyway?"
she asked herself. " Perhaps I can tell you." " YAAAHHH!!!!" screamed
Brittany.
Chapter 5: Mrs. Ghost Hunter
Brittany jumped right out of her clothes and back into them as she saw
a funny looking girl standing next to her. " Holy cow! Did you have
to do that?" she asked.
" I am sorry for startling you," said the girl.
" Startle? That's a startle? That was a more like scare the girl
snowboarder out of her wits than a startle," said Brittany.
" Well, whatever. Now, can you tell me why you are here at a place
like this?" asked the girl.
" I am the owner of this mansion for I won it on this contest and now
I've come to check it out," replied Brittany.
" Checking out was the right motive that I saw in you. Why, the way
you ran out of the house screaming your head off, you must have been
running at Mach 3 or maybe faster than that, if such a thing was
possible," said the girl. Brittany blushed.
" I was running for I was scared by the ghosts," said Brittany.
" Ghosts, eh? I've been watching this house for paranormal activity
and I have detected it within the mansion. Of course I needed someone
to test my theory to see if the place was haunted. Then you came along
and did my test without me even asking you to help out," said the girl.
" What?" exclaimed Brittany.
" Exactly! But.... My test isn't exactly as complete as you think. I
need only one more thing to be sure of paranormal activity.... An
actual specimen. Or in your intelligence.... a spook," said the girl.
Brittany felt insulted.
" Well, I'm going back in there to find my brother," she said as she
fiddled about with her flashlight.
" Okay, if you insist, but I know that you'll be back here in less
time than before. Unless of course, you are feeling much braver," said
the girl. Brittany said goodbye and walked back to the mansion.... But
she did run quite a distance. Fortunately, she had been given a map
that led right back to the mansion. She took it out and looked at it.
It showed the way back. Brittany began to walk back with her
flashlight on in front of her. She walked slowly and the wind was
blowing all about her.
" There it is again." The mansion looked worse than before but Brittany
walked right up to the entrance and opened the door again. This time
she was ready. The main room was darker than it was the first time she
went in.
" Jam!!!!" she cried, but no one answered. The plumber walked around
until he found a door. It wasn't locked so she slowly opened it and
entered the next room. This one was also dark, yet it had a table and
several chairs around it. Brittany took out her mini-computer and she
adjusted it to give her a view of the room.
" Mooooooaaaaaaaannnnnnn!!!!"
" Uh-oh!" Brittany said to herself. She knew that there was a ghost
around, but where it was she didn't know.
" Mooooooaaaaaaaaannnnnn!!!!"
" Hello?" asked the young girl snowboarder who was shaking. The wind
from before was blowing all around her. Then, it struck!
Chapter 6: Brittany, The Girl Snowboarder Ghostbuster!
Brittany managed to turn around just in time to see what "IT" was that
struck her. She then turned ghostly white and then some and she ran in
the first direction that came into her head. SMACK! She found herself
crashing head first into a tall cupboard, and worse yet, one of the
objects inside it fell out and hit her on the head with a BONK!
" Did anyone get the license plate of that truck that hit me?" she
moaned as she fell unconscious. She woke a few minutes later and she
woke up to something that she didn’t really want to see. A ghost; she
was staring face to face with a ghost. A drop of sweat rolled down
Brittany’s head and for a minute, she couldn’t move at all. The
ghost’s appearance kept her frozen on the spot, literally.
" Who are you?" asked the ghost.
" Brittany." was the answer.
" What kind of answer is that supposed to be?" asked the host.
" A pretty good one," replied Brittany nervously.
" This is our home and we don’t like to be disturbed by someone such
as the likes of you. Now, leave this place at once, and never return,"
said the ghost.
" Wait a minute. I won this house in a big contest and I even have the
Land Title Deed to prove that I’m the owner. Besides, my brother is
missing and I know that he is here somewhere," said Brittany. She
pulled the deed long enough for the ghost to see it before putting it
away again.
" That deed is the real McCoy alright. So you may own this house, but
we ghosts and spirits are the masters of this place," said the ghost.
" Look, I don’t have time for this. I’m going to find my brother,"
said Brittany.
" Stop!" shouted the ghost.
" Who is a going to stop me?" asked Brittany.
" Us!" More ghosts started to appear from every corner of the room and
they all surrounded Brittany. And then they sprang on her. The young
girl snowboarder couldn’t handle so many ghosts at once and she fainted
after seeing the first 20 or so of them. A while later, she woke up
once again and found herself back outside the mansion. Could the
ghosts have thrown her out? Or maybe someone else got her out.
" It’s about time you woke up. I was getting worried about you."
" YAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
" ?"
" Would you stop doing that to me? If I have a one more panic attack,
I’ll go crazy," shouted Brittany.
" Take it easy. If I hadn’t dragged you outside in time, there wouldn’t
be much of you left to do anything. Now, listen to me carefully. I
want to help you find your brother," said the girl.
" Why do you want to help me?" asked Brittany, who had a puzzled look
on her face.
" You want to save your brother in there, don’t you? Well, I specify
in the paranormal activity so I can help you out. Here, I want you to
have this. It’s a little something that I’ve been working on," replied
the girl.
" What is it?" asked Brittany.
" This is my Ghost Catching Machine. It does resemble a mere vacuum
cleaner, but it can suck up ghosts with the best of them. It can also
house your flashlight whenever you’re in a dark room, or you can use
it to shine the light onto the ghosts. Oh, and can I have your computer
for a moment," replied the girl.
" Okay," said Brittany and she handed it over. The girl went over to a
bench and started to fiddle about with it for about 3 minutes before
she gave it back. " What did you do?"
" I have modified your mini-computer so that it can now keep track of
anything you pick up while exploring the mansion. It can also show you
a map of the house and your location inside, and it has a first person
feature on it," replied the girl.
" Anything else?" asked Brittany.
" Yes, and it is the most important feature. Your mini-computer also
acts as a communicator. You can contact me at anytime, and vice versa
for myself. There, you are now ready to enter the mansion," replied
the girl.
" Thank you; oh, and my name is Brittany Kuehnemund."
" I am Claris Sinclair." Brittany, armed to the teeth was ready to do
some ghostbusting and she slowly walked back up the pathway to the
mansion.
Name: Brittany's Mansion: The Story
Author: angewomon2000
Rating: G
Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor
Chapters: 6
Words: 4577
Published: 11/17/01
Updated: 11/17/01
Complete: No
Description: Brittany wins a spooky mansion through the sweeptakes and Jam decides to check it out with her, only when they get there, Jam disappears, leaving Brittany with her fear of ghosts all alone in a spooky adventure to rescue her older brother! R/R
Disclaimer (By Author): The events in this story are from Luigi's Mansion on the Nintendo Gamecube, as well as from my own imagination. Brittany and
the Ghost Hunter, as well as the ghosts from Snowboard Kids 2 and
Atlus's other specters belong to them and of course.... Jam. Everyone
else belongs to me. Enjoy.
Story
Chapter 1: Inheriting The Mansion
It was just another one of those days where everything could go either
right or wrong. Brittany and Jam, as everyone knew were world famous..
Okay, Jam a lot more than Brittany, but they were still famous, were
at their home watching TV. Their favorite quiz show was on.... Who
Wants to be a Millionaire. But tonight, they were watching the show
for there was a sweeptakes going on. It was called the Snow Town
Sweeptakes Extravaganza, and the prizes were usually pretty good,
people say.
" I think I have the winner this time," said Jam who held his ticket
in his hands. He was certainly attached to it.
" Well, I think it's anyone's guess. You could win, and yet you could
lose. It's just the way things go," said Brittany. She was the smarter
of the two Kuehnemund children for she would often see Jam buy a
ticket for that sweeptakes each week, where the younger and taller
girl would buy one every month.
" I'm gonna win," said Jam.
" You sound like Slash when he's trying to find a treasure full of
coins, or about to win a race down Quicksand Valley," said Brittany.
This often went on each week as Jam kept getting desperate over
winning. Brittany also had a ticket, because she decided to buy one...
Okay so buy wouldn't be what to say in this case. Jam forced her to
buy a ticket. Brittany usually tries to get out of it and Jam often
caved in, but this time he used Brittany's favorite object to get her
to do it. You would too if your brother tried to sell something that
meant a lot to you.
" It's time," said Jam.
" Oh, joy. Well, since I have a ticket, I guess I'll watch and see who
wins what," said Brittany. The announce of the sweeptakes came on, and
the two siblings knew who it was. It was Mr. Dog. He often ran the
sweeptakes because no one else wanted to.
" Hey everybody, it's time for the sweeptakes and this week, we have 3
prizes to give away. Now, watch as the Sweeptakes Bin reveals the
first set of numbers." The machine spewed out six numbers.
" I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win," said Jam. Brittany just groaned and
went back to watching the winners get revealed.
" The winning numbers for the third prize are.... 1, 11, 22, 33, 44,
55, and the bonus.... 66," said Mr. Dog.
" I had a feeling that particular order of numbers would come up. I
didn't get them and I see Jam didn't either otherwise he would be
jumping for joy as well as break something," said Brittany. A eskimo
from Alaska won the prize of a years supply of cookies and milk. Hey!
What did you except for a Snow Town Sweeptakes?
" Okay, here are the second set of numbers. Whoever has the numbers
shown, will win second prize, and here they are....4, 17, 29, 38, 47,
55, and the bonus is.... 61. The winner will receive second prize of
1000 snowboards," said Mr. Dog.
" Oh my gosh! I won. I WON! YAHOOOO!!!!!!!! My luck has finally won me
the sweeptakes, but er.... Who gets the number one prize?" asked Jam.
" Good question," answered Brittany.
" And now, for the number one prize this week. Here come the numbers..
8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56.... And the bonus number is 64. Whoever has that
number is our big winner," said Mr. Dog.
" Well, I won second prize and I'll pick it up in the morning, but I
wonder who won first prize anyway. Whoever he is must be lucky and
happy right now," said Jam. He looked at Brittany and saw that she had
tilted over and was completely shocked. Jam was worried, but then he
noticed that Brittany still had his ticket in her hand. Jam pried
open his sister's fingers and looked at the ticket. The numbers on the
ticket matched the same numbers for the grand prize. " Brittany, you
are the grand prize winner."
" The prize for the winning ticket is this beautiful, yet mysterious
mansion somewhere around here," said Mr. Dog.
" I won? I don't believe it, but I did. What am I supposed to do with
a house?" asked Brittany.
" You inherit it," replied Jam.
" That's done through a will, not a lottery," said Brittany.
" Eh, it happens. Come on, let's go to bed and in the morning, we'll
go into town and get our prizes," said Jam. He began to walk into the
bedroom. Brittany was still amazed that she had won a mansion, but
what she didn't know, was that this mansion was different from other
mansions. The thing that was different about it....will be perhaps her
biggest dream....or maybe her worst nightmare.
Chapter 2: Where Is The Mansion That Brittany Had Won?
The next morning, the Kuehnemund siblings went into town to pick up
their lottery prizes. Jam just couldn't wait any longer to get his
prize, so Brittany had to hold him down a few times along the way,
and it wasn't easy.
" Jam, the more you do this, the more people will think you're insane,"
said Brittany.
" I know, but it's just that I can't believe that I won all those
snowboards, and yet you got yourself your own mansion. Now, that's
lucky," said Jam.
" I guess," said Brittany.
" But?" asked Jam.
" What happens if I don't like the house? I can't really return it to
the sweepstakes people as they'll just tell me to keep it. Unless I
decide to give it to someone later," said Brittany.
" All I can suggest to you is to try it out for a few days and if
you're not satisfied, you can give it to someone, for a fair price,"
said Jam. Brittany liked that idea and she felt a little better, but
when they got to their destination, balloons were thrown in their
honor. " Holy cow, and it isn't even my birthday yet," said Brittany.
" You guys won the prizes? Well, who won what?" asked the man at the
counter.
" I won the snowboards, and she won the grand prize," replied Jam.
" Okay, I think I've got all that. Boy, it isn't easy when you have to
go through about 20,000,000 tickets each week. Jam, here is your ticket
for the thousand snowboards, and Brittany, here is your prize," said
the man.
" What's this?" asked Brittany. The man had given her a picture of a
building.
" That's the house you inherited by winning this sweepstakes. That
picture tells you what it looks like and where to find it," replied
the man.
" So, where is it?" asked Brittany.
" Somewhere in the woods on top of a lonely hill," replied the man.
That made Brittany get worried again, for she wasn't a fan of scary
places. The picture alone was enough to scare off anyone who looked at
it for a good 20 seconds or so. Jam told his sister to relax and that
they would visit the mansion tonight.
" Tonight?" exclaimed Brittany.
" Why not? You inherited it, so you should visit it and sleep there
for a night or two. You don't have to live there, just go there once a
week," said Jam.
" Well....okay. You talked me into it," said Brittany.
" It won't be so bad," said Jam. Later that night, the Kuehnemund
siblings journeyed to the house Brittany had inherited. Luckily, the
picture also had a map on the back of it to show them where to go.
Indeed it was out of town, and in the woods, and then....
" That must be the place up there," said Jam.
" It looks scarier than the picture," added Brittany.
" You worry too much," said Jam.
" It's a living," said Brittany. The mansion did look scary and
Brittany decide to change the batteries in her flashlight in case
there was no light inside, but when she turned her back for that one
moment, a gust of wind blew across her back and when she turned around,
Jam was gone.
" Jam?" asked Brittany. There was no answer. It was as if he'd vanished
on the spot or something else might have happened.
Chapter 3: Jam's Missing
Brittany was now afraid of what had transpired. Jam had just vanished
without a trace and the only lead was the mansion Brittany had won. She
had a feeling of dread about this place ever since she won it.
" Gulp! I guess I'll have to go inside and see if Jam is in there,"
she said to herself.
With her flashlight at hand, Brittany began to walk slowly through the
front garden of the mansion. It was scary no matter what time of day
it was. She used the flashlight to see what was around her. All she
saw was statues that looked absolutely weird and the grass looked
worse than the statues.
" I won this place? It's a disaster area," she said to herself. She
continued to around the front and it was just too weird. The statues
seem to have minds of their own, due to the way they were sculpted. It
gave a feeling of horror.
" Speaking of horror, it's a good thing I brought my pink mini-computer
with me. I can use it to play in case I get bored, or maybe if I
modify it a bit, I can use it to store any info I get in this house,
as well as a convert it into a map of the house and provide me with a
view of a room I might be in."
In other words, she can use it to keep track of her equipment as well
as other functions.
" I just said that."
Anyway, Brittany had searched the entire garden and found no trace of
her brother anywhere. She knew that she had no choice but to go inside
and see if he was there. She walked slowly to the front door, her
breath chilled the cold night air, for she was very afraid of this
whole situation.
" Well, at least the door is well made." She fiddled about with the
doorknob and it was locked. The key had to be somewhere. The girl
Snowboard Kid decided to take another look in the garden for a key.
Her search didn't go too well at first, because she didn't know what
to do. Of course, this was her mansion so she could afford to mess up
the garden a little bit.
" Ah ha! I've found it!" she said happily. The key was buried in a
small patch of dirt, right by the front door. All that searching and
it was this close the whole time. Brittany bent down to pick the key
up, when a cold chill hit her from behind. It didn't do much other
than startle her.
" What was that?" she asked herself.
She looked behind her, and there was nothing there at all. Something
did come by, and yet no one else was in the area.
" This is getting too scary for me. But I have to be brave in order to
find Jam. I just wish that he wasn't inside this house, but somewhere
on the outside." Brittany gathered up his confidence and walked once
again to the door. She inserted the key into the lock and turned it.
It made a loud click to insure success. The door could now be opened.
The only thing that bothered Brittany was who placed that key in the
dirt instead of by the porch where she was standing now? And another
thing that bothered her as well, was that chill she received while
picking the key up. None of it made any sense, and Brittany wasn't
about to start to second-guess her own theories and opinions, no matter
how weird they were....okay, so she did second-guess them.
" Maybe that chill was just the wind, or maybe it was something else."
" Why was the key in the dirt and not on the porch? It could have been
blown away by that chill, or maybe someone else put it there, or
maybe.... Holy cow! All this is too weird for me."
Brittany finally got to her senses and slowly but surely, he opened
the door. As the door opened, she lit her flashlight and poked her head
into the mansion.
" Hello?"
Chapter 4: The Haunting Of The Haunted House
There was silence as Brittany peered into the main entrance room of
the mansion. There was a staircase which lead up to the next floor,
and a white cloth covering something, and two more doors. One of which
was locked and there was no key to it.
" Hmmm, I have a bad feeling about this place," she said to herself.
The room was lit up a bit, but not enough, so she shone her flashlight.
The décor wasn't too bad, but the white cloth was what Brittany was
interested in. She began to walk up to it as it seemed out of place to
the rest of the room.
" It feels so smooth, but why would anyone leave something like this
here. It's too tempting to take, but then again, something might be
under it." she said to herself. As she was about to pull on it, she
felt a chill, similar to the one that was outside, but it made no
sense. Since when do you get a chill indoors?
" Hello?" Brittany asked nervously. No one said anything.
" Is anyone there?" she asked. Again, no one said anything. " This is
getting too weird for me. I feel like someone is behind me, and yet no
one is saying anything. Could I be just a imagining that chill? NO! I
couldn't be. This is so real, that is really scaring me. I have to
turn around and see what I am up against." she thought. She gulped and
turned around....
No one was there.
" Huh?"
Then, the chill hit her again, this time from behind her but with
someone breathing as well. This time, someone was there, but the
question was who? Brittany wasted no time and spun around to face the
chill....and what she saw was enough to scare anyone out of their skin,
as well as scream so loud, you could be heard from across the planet.
She saw....
.... A ghost! But this ghost was white and had a face that could turn
a warrior into a quivering jelly if she stared just long enough.
Brittany was shocked with horror, but she was unable to make a sound
as she stared into the black eyes of the ghost in front of her. A
sweatdrop fell from her head as the ghost made the first....and only
move.
" Boo!!!!"
" WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Brittany screamed as she leaped out
of her pink sleeveless shirt and dress with her shorts and hit her
head on the ceiling fan before crashing down into her clothes again.
Her head was throbbing with pain, not to mention horror.
" Boo!!!!" said the ghost again.
" WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Brittany screamed again and ran
out the front door so fast, she could be mistaken for the Road Runner.
She ran out of the mansion's gardens before stopping a few meters down
the road.
" Whew! That was a close call. What kind of mansion did I win anyway?"
she asked herself. " Perhaps I can tell you." " YAAAHHH!!!!" screamed
Brittany.
Chapter 5: Mrs. Ghost Hunter
Brittany jumped right out of her clothes and back into them as she saw
a funny looking girl standing next to her. " Holy cow! Did you have
to do that?" she asked.
" I am sorry for startling you," said the girl.
" Startle? That's a startle? That was a more like scare the girl
snowboarder out of her wits than a startle," said Brittany.
" Well, whatever. Now, can you tell me why you are here at a place
like this?" asked the girl.
" I am the owner of this mansion for I won it on this contest and now
I've come to check it out," replied Brittany.
" Checking out was the right motive that I saw in you. Why, the way
you ran out of the house screaming your head off, you must have been
running at Mach 3 or maybe faster than that, if such a thing was
possible," said the girl. Brittany blushed.
" I was running for I was scared by the ghosts," said Brittany.
" Ghosts, eh? I've been watching this house for paranormal activity
and I have detected it within the mansion. Of course I needed someone
to test my theory to see if the place was haunted. Then you came along
and did my test without me even asking you to help out," said the girl.
" What?" exclaimed Brittany.
" Exactly! But.... My test isn't exactly as complete as you think. I
need only one more thing to be sure of paranormal activity.... An
actual specimen. Or in your intelligence.... a spook," said the girl.
Brittany felt insulted.
" Well, I'm going back in there to find my brother," she said as she
fiddled about with her flashlight.
" Okay, if you insist, but I know that you'll be back here in less
time than before. Unless of course, you are feeling much braver," said
the girl. Brittany said goodbye and walked back to the mansion.... But
she did run quite a distance. Fortunately, she had been given a map
that led right back to the mansion. She took it out and looked at it.
It showed the way back. Brittany began to walk back with her
flashlight on in front of her. She walked slowly and the wind was
blowing all about her.
" There it is again." The mansion looked worse than before but Brittany
walked right up to the entrance and opened the door again. This time
she was ready. The main room was darker than it was the first time she
went in.
" Jam!!!!" she cried, but no one answered. The plumber walked around
until he found a door. It wasn't locked so she slowly opened it and
entered the next room. This one was also dark, yet it had a table and
several chairs around it. Brittany took out her mini-computer and she
adjusted it to give her a view of the room.
" Mooooooaaaaaaaannnnnnn!!!!"
" Uh-oh!" Brittany said to herself. She knew that there was a ghost
around, but where it was she didn't know.
" Mooooooaaaaaaaaannnnnn!!!!"
" Hello?" asked the young girl snowboarder who was shaking. The wind
from before was blowing all around her. Then, it struck!
Chapter 6: Brittany, The Girl Snowboarder Ghostbuster!
Brittany managed to turn around just in time to see what "IT" was that
struck her. She then turned ghostly white and then some and she ran in
the first direction that came into her head. SMACK! She found herself
crashing head first into a tall cupboard, and worse yet, one of the
objects inside it fell out and hit her on the head with a BONK!
" Did anyone get the license plate of that truck that hit me?" she
moaned as she fell unconscious. She woke a few minutes later and she
woke up to something that she didn’t really want to see. A ghost; she
was staring face to face with a ghost. A drop of sweat rolled down
Brittany’s head and for a minute, she couldn’t move at all. The
ghost’s appearance kept her frozen on the spot, literally.
" Who are you?" asked the ghost.
" Brittany." was the answer.
" What kind of answer is that supposed to be?" asked the host.
" A pretty good one," replied Brittany nervously.
" This is our home and we don’t like to be disturbed by someone such
as the likes of you. Now, leave this place at once, and never return,"
said the ghost.
" Wait a minute. I won this house in a big contest and I even have the
Land Title Deed to prove that I’m the owner. Besides, my brother is
missing and I know that he is here somewhere," said Brittany. She
pulled the deed long enough for the ghost to see it before putting it
away again.
" That deed is the real McCoy alright. So you may own this house, but
we ghosts and spirits are the masters of this place," said the ghost.
" Look, I don’t have time for this. I’m going to find my brother,"
said Brittany.
" Stop!" shouted the ghost.
" Who is a going to stop me?" asked Brittany.
" Us!" More ghosts started to appear from every corner of the room and
they all surrounded Brittany. And then they sprang on her. The young
girl snowboarder couldn’t handle so many ghosts at once and she fainted
after seeing the first 20 or so of them. A while later, she woke up
once again and found herself back outside the mansion. Could the
ghosts have thrown her out? Or maybe someone else got her out.
" It’s about time you woke up. I was getting worried about you."
" YAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
" ?"
" Would you stop doing that to me? If I have a one more panic attack,
I’ll go crazy," shouted Brittany.
" Take it easy. If I hadn’t dragged you outside in time, there wouldn’t
be much of you left to do anything. Now, listen to me carefully. I
want to help you find your brother," said the girl.
" Why do you want to help me?" asked Brittany, who had a puzzled look
on her face.
" You want to save your brother in there, don’t you? Well, I specify
in the paranormal activity so I can help you out. Here, I want you to
have this. It’s a little something that I’ve been working on," replied
the girl.
" What is it?" asked Brittany.
" This is my Ghost Catching Machine. It does resemble a mere vacuum
cleaner, but it can suck up ghosts with the best of them. It can also
house your flashlight whenever you’re in a dark room, or you can use
it to shine the light onto the ghosts. Oh, and can I have your computer
for a moment," replied the girl.
" Okay," said Brittany and she handed it over. The girl went over to a
bench and started to fiddle about with it for about 3 minutes before
she gave it back. " What did you do?"
" I have modified your mini-computer so that it can now keep track of
anything you pick up while exploring the mansion. It can also show you
a map of the house and your location inside, and it has a first person
feature on it," replied the girl.
" Anything else?" asked Brittany.
" Yes, and it is the most important feature. Your mini-computer also
acts as a communicator. You can contact me at anytime, and vice versa
for myself. There, you are now ready to enter the mansion," replied
the girl.
" Thank you; oh, and my name is Brittany Kuehnemund."
" I am Claris Sinclair." Brittany, armed to the teeth was ready to do
some ghostbusting and she slowly walked back up the pathway to the
mansion.
