@ the Phantom, are you Will T?

Day 4~

Balletandbow was sitting on one of the outside balconies. It was early morning, though the sun had already risen.  She heard a resounding crash and sighed.  Ditto, her SE, had somehow found a way to climb onto the roof and was now running around on it, jumping up and down trying to wake up the occupants of room four.

"Ditto!" She yelled.

"I didn't do it!" (Crash)

"Ditto!!!"

"It wasn't me, honest!" (CRASH)

"DITTO!!!"

All right, all right."  Ditto whined as he climbed off the roof and back onto the balcony.  Balletandbow heard someone shouting from somewhere inside the adjacent room.  Ditto sniggered.

"Uhg.  Come on, let's go back inside.  It's probably time for breakfast."  They walked back inside the castle and to the breakfast hall.  Ditto ran over instantly to the buffet line (knocking a few people down on the way and running through a ghost staff member) and started piling the odd assortment of breakfast foods onto his plate.

Balletandbow rolled her eyes and got her own plate.  After she had her food.  She went and found an empty seat next to Chester (the captcha), Indigo, and Gossomer.

"Hey Balletandbow!" Said Indigo as she yawned.  "Sorry, I'm so sleepy.  Was there some big animal stuck on the roof earlier?  I heard a loud crash that woke me up."  Balletandbow coughed.

"What is this green stuff, Gsmr?" Asked Chester in his common Captcha tongue.

"Uhg.  I agree Chester! What in the world is that green stuff on your plate, Gossomer?"  Balletandbow asked.

"Uuuh, I think it might be pea soup?" He answered.

"Liquified broccoli?" Guessed Indigo.

"Wait!  Dn't eet that!  It says wht it is on the mnnu!" Yelped Charles, but it was too late.  Gossomer had already taken a huge spoonful of the green stuff.  Gossomer's face twitched and convulsed for a moment, then he somehow managed to swallow.  His face was turning an odd shade of green.

"That...was not..pea soup." He managed to choke out.  Chester gave Indigo the menu and guiltily pointed at one of the dishes.

"Oo, Chester just found that green stuff on the menu when you were eating it."  She grimmaced when she read the caption.  "Bullfrog broth."  Gossomer turned even greener.  Just then, the chatter in the hall stopped.  Everyone at the table looked up.

"Phtm is here!" Said Chester, pointing to the entrance of the hall.  Everyone at the table followed his gaze.  Sure enough, there was then a loud pop, and there stood the phantom, red smoke swirling and dispersing around him.

"Good morning friends!" It boomed. "I trust that you all had a good night sleep last night after our rigorous maze navigating yesterday!  Tragically, however, as you know, our dear friend HAB passed on after a manticore somehow hot into the maze.  But, still, there was a winner.  The first team to make it out of the maze was Stan, Katydid, Lilycat, and Surprise.  You will be receiving your prize via mail from Quickenmoans!  Congratulations!" Everyone applauded. "Now onto today's activities!  Today, we will be participating in a haunted house tour! We will be breaking into tour groups, and then heading out to the many haunted places in this area!" He then listed the groups, the locations that they would see, and other instructions.  After they were done with breakfast, they all met outside the castle.  They were broken up into groups of four, as usual.  Buses (like the ones they had arrived on) were waiting outside for them,  Balletandbow was paired up with Gossomer, Chester, Indigo, and September, and Cortana, so they loaded up into their bus and headed out.

Since they were flying, it didn't take them long to get to their destination. The house they were going to tour was called the Barrow Mansion. It was a old, run down, abandoned house tucked away in the middle of nowhere. It was a huge house. It was a victorian design, though the windows were smashed, the wood was rotting, and the house looked very, very haunted. 

Everyone got out, and escorted by a ghost staff member, they went inside.  The inside was almost as dilapidated as the outside, but the house looked like it had been abandoned all of a sudden, like the Darrow family had simply packed their stuff and walked out the door.  The entry hall was carpeted by a dilapidated, mothe eaten rug, there was a huge candle chandelier with melted stubs that were once the lights, and old vases and pots at the basse of a large staircase leading to the upstairs.  In the living room, there were couches, tables, chairs, a piano sitting in one corner.  The ghost guide explained how the Darrows had immigrated from Great Britain to live here.  They had been a wealthy, aristocratic family that had little to do with any of their neighbors. (Which were not numerous, given the house's very e9xcluded placement.)  The guide told about their previous life in England, and then some about their life here.  They hadn't been here long before they had gone insane and had to be taken away from their home.  The legend was that they were visited by a witch disguised as a beggar.  She asked the Darrows if she could borrow some salt (the witch needed it for a spell).  The Darrows, however, refused and practically slammed the door in the witch's face.  When that happened, the witch was furious and cast a curse on the family, causing all to go insane.  When the Darrows died, their spirits came back to haunt the mansion.  Everyone was weirded out by this.  The mansion definately looked like nowhere that ghosts would live. Just then, they heard a small groan. Not loud, but soft, like someone was upstairs.

"What was that?" Said Cortana.

"Stay calm, guys." Said Indigo. "It's probably the wind."

"That's what they always say Indi, and it NEVER IS!" Said September.

"Come on, let's check it out." Said Balletandbow.  She walked slowly out of the living room and back to the entry hall.  They heard the moan again, louder this time.

Cortana looked at the staff member.  "What do you think? I mean you're a ghost yourself."

The cast member looked nervous. "Ma'am, I'm a tour guide, I don't know nothing about insane cursed spirits."

"Perfect." She said.  They started to slowly walk up the stairs to the second floor, then kept walking down a long hallway, the groans getting louder all the time.

"Wait, stop!" Said September.  Chester said something in captcha excitiedly.

"Yeah!" Said September in response. "Guys, I think it's coming from behind that door at the end of the hallway! The bedroom!" But then the groaning promptly stopped.

"Ooof course." Said Gossomer.

Balletandbow led the others slowly to the end of the hall, leaned over and opened the door.  Everyone was astounded by what they saw.  A transparent lady was sitting on the foot of the bed, moaning.

"Whoa! Is that Ms. Darrow?" Asked Cortana.

"Yeah, I think it is!" Indigo said.

"Ms. Darrow?" Said September, taking a step forward.  The ghost looked up.

"Who are you?" Asked the ghostly lady.  Then she put her head back in her hands and started to moan again.

"What's the matter?" Asked Balletandbow.

The lady looked up again.  "Another one of you was here.  They set a trap in my poor mansion." (Moan)

"Wait, one of us? What do you mean?" Cortana asked.

She pointed as Cortana. "You - YOU! You have no right to e here! LEAVE!" She screamed, floating up into the air.  Ms. Darrow flew up and disappeared through the ceiling.

"Oh, no." Said Chester. "The mrdr is here!"

"You're right, Chester. The murdered is here." Said Balletandbow. "Guys, this is a trap, we need to go! Now!"

"Wait, murderer?" Said Gossomer.

"Yes! These past few deaths we've had haven't been accidents.  Someone in the hotel is a killer, and he or she planted a trap here. Let's get out of here!" They all ran for the door, which had somehow shut itself.  They pushed, the door was stuck.

"Wait, I'll get it!" Said Cortana, she rushed forward and grabbed the handle.

"NO CRTA!" Yelled Chester, but it was too late.  As soon as Cortana yanked the door, it swung open.  But someone had booby trapped the door, as soon as it opened, the floor underneath dropped out and Cortana fell into the hole, disappearing into the blackness.

R.I.P. Cortana, or is it? 

Day 4~

Balletandbow was sitting on one of the outside balconies. It was early morning, though the sun had already risen.  She heard a resounding crash and sighed.  Ditto, her SE, had somehow found a way to climb onto the roof and was now running around on it, jumping up and down trying to wake up the occupants of room four.

"Ditto!" She yelled.

"I didn't do it!" (Crash)

"Ditto!!!"

"It wasn't me, honest!" (CRASH)

"DITTO!!!"

All right, all right."  Ditto whined as he climbed off the roof and back onto the balcony.  Balletandbow heard someone shouting from somewhere inside the adjacent room.  Ditto sniggered.

"Uhg.  Come on, let's go back inside.  It's probably time for breakfast."  They walked back inside the castle and to the breakfast hall.  Ditto ran over instantly to the buffet line (knocking a few people down on the way and running through a ghost staff member) and started piling the odd assortment of breakfast foods onto his plate.

Balletandbow rolled her eyes and got her own plate.  After she had her food.  She went and found an empty seat next to Chester (the captcha), Indigo, and Gossomer.

"Hey Balletandbow!" Said Indigo as she yawned.  "Sorry, I'm so sleepy.  Was there some big animal stuck on the roof earlier?  I heard a loud crash that woke me up."  Balletandbow coughed.

"What is this green stuff, Gsmr?" Asked Chester in his common Captcha tongue.

"Uhg.  I agree Chester! What in the world is that green stuff on your plate, Gossomer?"  Balletandbow asked.

"Uuuh, I think it might be pea soup?" He answered.

"Liquified broccoli?" Guessed Indigo.

"Wait!  Dn't eet that!  It says wht it is on the mnnu!" Yelped Charles, but it was too late.  Gossomer had already taken a huge spoonful of the green stuff.  Gossomer's face twitched and convulsed for a moment, then he somehow managed to swallow.  His face was turning an odd shade of green.

"That...was not..pea soup." He managed to choke out.  Chester gave Indigo the menu and guiltily pointed at one of the dishes.

"Oo, Chester just found that green stuff on the menu when you were eating it."  She grimmaced when she read the caption.  "Bullfrog broth."  Gossomer turned even greener.  Just then, the chatter in the hall stopped.  Everyone at the table looked up.

"Phtm is here!" Said Chester, pointing to the entrance of the hall.  Everyone at the table followed his gaze.  Sure enough, there was then a loud pop, and there stood the phantom, red smoke swirling and dispersing around him.

"Good morning friends!" It boomed. "I trust that you all had a good night sleep last night after our rigorous maze navigating yesterday!  Tragically, however, as you know, our dear friend HAB passed on after a manticore somehow hot into the maze.  But, still, there was a winner.  The first team to make it out of the maze was Stan, Katydid, Lilycat, and Surprise.  You will be receiving your prize via mail from Quickenmoans!  Congratulations!" Everyone applauded. "Now onto today's activities!  Today, we will be participating in a haunted house tour! We will be breaking into tour groups, and then heading out to the many haunted places in this area!" He then listed the groups, the locations that they would see, and other instructions.  After they were done with breakfast, they all met outside the castle.  They were broken up into groups of four, as usual.  Buses (like the ones they had arrived on) were waiting outside for them,  Balletandbow was paired up with Gossomer, Chester, Indigo, and September, and Cortana, so they loaded up into their bus and headed out.

Since they were flying, it didn't take them long to get to their destination. The house they were going to tour was called the Barrow Mansion. It was a old, run down, abandoned house tucked away in the middle of nowhere. It was a huge house. It was a victorian design, though the windows were smashed, the wood was rotting, and the house looked very, very haunted. 

Everyone got out, and escorted by a ghost staff member, they went inside.  The inside was almost as dilapidated as the outside, but the house looked like it had been abandoned all of a sudden, like the Darrow family had simply packed their stuff and walked out the door.  The entry hall was carpeted by a dilapidated, mothe eaten rug, there was a huge candle chandelier with melted stubs that were once the lights, and old vases and pots at the basse of a large staircase leading to the upstairs.  In the living room, there were couches, tables, chairs, a piano sitting in one corner.  The ghost guide explained how the Darrows had immigrated from Great Britain to live here.  They had been a wealthy, aristocratic family that had little to do with any of their neighbors. (Which were not numerous, given the house's very excluded placement.)  The guide told about their previous life in England, and then some about their life here.  They hadn't been here long before they had gone insane and had to be taken away from their home.  The legend was that they were visited by a witch disguised as a beggar.  She asked the Darrows if she could borrow some salt (the witch needed it for a spell).  The Darrows, however, refused and practically slammed the door in the witch's face.  When that happened, the witch was furious and cast a curse on the family, causing all to go insane.  When the Darrows died, their spirits came back to haunt the mansion.  Everyone was weirded out by this.  The mansion definately looked like nowhere that ghosts would live. Just then, they heard a small groan. Not loud, but soft, like someone was upstairs.

"What was that?" Said Cortana.

"Stay calm, guys." Said Indigo. "It's probably the wind."

"That's what they always say Indi, and it NEVER IS!" Said September.

"Come on, let's check it out." Said Balletandbow.  She walked slowly out of the living room and back to the entry hall.  They heard the moan again, louder this time.

Cortana looked at the staff member.  "What do you think? I mean you're a ghost yourself."

The cast member looked nervous. "Ma'am, I'm a tour guide, I don't know nothing about insane cursed spirits."

"Perfect." She said.  They started to slowly walk up the stairs to the second floor, then kept walking down a long hallway, the groans getting louder all the time.

"Wait, stop!" Said September.  Chester said something in captcha excitiedly.

"Yeah!" Said September in response. "Guys, I think it's coming from behind that door at the end of the hallway! The bedroom!" But then the groaning promptly stopped.

"Ooof course." Said Gossomer.

Balletandbow led the others slowly to the end of the hall, leaned over and opened the door.  Everyone was astounded by what they saw.  A transparent lady was sitting on the foot of the bed, moaning.

"Whoa! Is that Ms. Darrow?" Asked Cortana.

"Yeah, I think it is!" Indigo said.

"Ms. Darrow?" Said September, taking a step forward.  The ghost looked up.

"Who are you?" Asked the ghostly lady.  Then she put her head back in her hands and started to moan again.

"What's the matter?" Asked Balletandbow.

The lady looked up again.  "Another one of you was here.  They set a trap in my poor mansion." (Moan)

"Wait, one of us? What do you mean?" Cortana asked.

She pointed as Cortana. "You - YOU! You have no right to e here! LEAVE!" She screamed, floating up into the air.  Ms. Darrow flew up and disappeared through the ceiling.

"Oh, no." Said Chester. "The mrdr is here!"

"You're right, Chester. The murdered is here." Said Balletandbow. "Guys, this is a trap, we need to go! Now!"

"Wait, murderer?" Said Gossomer.

"Yes! These past few deaths we've had haven't been accidents.  Someone in the hotel is a killer, and he or she planted a trap here. Let's get out of here!" They all ran for the door, which had somehow shut itself.  They pushed, the door was stuck.

"Wait, I'll get it!" Said Cortana, she rushed forward and grabbed the handle.

"NO CRTA!" Yelled Chester, but it was too late.  As soon as Cortana yanked the door, it swung open.  But someone had booby trapped the door, as soon as it opened, the floor underneath dropped out and Cortana fell into the hole, disappearing into the blackness.

R.I.P. Cortana, or is it? 

Me likey!!!!!!1

then kept walking down a long hallway, the groans getting
louder all the time.

"Wait, stop!" Said September.  Chester
said something in captcha excitedly.

"Yeah!" Said September in response. "Guys,
I think it's coming from behind that door at the end of the hallway! The
bedroom!" But then the groaning promptly stopped.

"Ooof course." Said Gossomer.

Balletandbow led the others slowly to the end of the
hall, leaned over and opened the door.  Everyone was
astounded by what they saw.  A transparent lady was sitting on
the foot of the bed, moaning.

Sorry guys! That was a test run, and wasn['t soposed to be submitted. I've already submitted that day! I was just trying something out. If it's easier for you admins, you can delete it.

Hey, admins, if i copy and paste my story from word, would it mess up the words and paragraphs? Like, would it scatter the words over the page, or would it work okay?

Cappy said trex, rarr 

I'm not sure. People do copy and paste. I have an iMac and if I copy a document to Text Edit, then change it all to Plain Text it copies into Chatterbox OK. Maybe try it with a few sentences first to see. Or maybe someone else will know.

Admin

Day 5~

Brookeira was sitting at a table in the dining hall, eating her breakfast of puckled pickle pasteries and Witch's Stew.  She was sitting next to Pepper Star, who had her dog Bleu sitting next to her, Zaiden, and Spyro.  Well, Spyro wasn't really sitting, he was more of laying.  The table was not quite dragon sized.

Brookeira took another bite of her pickled puckle pastry. "You know, this is actually pretty good!" She said.

Spyro snapped up one of the pastries as well.  "Yeah, that is tasty!  It could use a little hotter sauce though."

"Hot sauce? On a pastry?" Said Pepper Star.  Spiro shrugged.  He reached across the table and picked up one of the bottles on the middle of the table.  It was marked in blood lettering that said 'hot sauce' on one side, and on the other it read 'Caution, do not consume if you are made of highly flammable materials.'

"Um, Spryo?" Brookeira said.  "Are you sure that's such a good idea?"  Spyro popped the top to the bottle and with a loud squelching sound, squeezed almost all the sauce onto his pastry.

"Oh boy." Said Zaiden. "Fyi, the fire extinguisher is right over there in that corner if anyone needs it." He waved his hand towards the glass fire box on the wall.

After Spyro was satisfied with the amount of hot sauce on his pastries, he put the bottle back onto the table, raised his head, and plunged it into the plate.  With one bite, he picked up all the pastries on his plate, chewed them up, and swallowed them.  But alas, the poor dragon should have taken the advice of his friends more seriously.  For a one second interval, he had swallowed, he looked perfectly happy and satisfied with the flavor, but after that...His face contorted, he gagged, shook his head violently, hissed, and then let out a huge roar that shook the whole room.  He staggered backwards, knocking over a few tables, and then he turned around and charged out of the room making all kind of strange gutteral sounds.

Pepper Star leaned over to Zaiden.  "You might want to get that extinguisher now."  She said.

Zaiden nodded and ran off after Spyro.  Just then, on cue, there was a loud bang and The Phantom appeared in an explosion of red smoke.

"Another wonderful morning to you my friends!" He boomed.  Waving grandly to all the guests.  "Today, you are in for a special treat.  We just received a large donation of real, magical, flying broomsticks thanks to an anonymous donor.  We worked late last night, constructing a makeshift field in the woods behind the castle, and I am happy to announce that we will be holding a Quidditch match today! Meet outside in the back of the castly in one hour, and the staff will show you to the field.  For those of you who do not know what quidditch is, I will explain the objective and the rules to you when we get out there."  With that, he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.  A buzz rose in the crowd of guests.  Real quidditch!

*****

The guests convened outside the castle wall awhile later.  Once everyone had arrived, the staff led them down a trail in the woods.  It went back for about a mile before the forest opened into a large clearing.  In the clearing was a large oval shaped field.  Around the edge of the field, large, multicolored flags hung from wooden poles that rose almost as high as the nearby trees.  At each end of the oval, there were three equally high wooden poles, except these poles had large wooden rings on the top.  The phantom sat out in the middle of the field.  Everyone gathered around him.

"All right everyone, here are the rules."  He held up a large, reddish, hard ball. "This is called a quaffle. Now when I say go, each team will mount.  Usually it takes years to learn to fly brooms, but these donated brooms are very easily handled, so that shouldn't be an issue.  He put down the quaffle and bent down and picked up a black, cannonball looking object.  "This is called a bludger, there will be two of these flying around at all times during play.  They have been magically charmed to fly, they will fly around trying to knock you off your brooms."  He put the bludger down, and picked up a small, gold colored ball with small dragonfly looking wings on it. "This is called a Snitch.  This ball will also be flying at high speeds around the stadium.  The first team to catch the Snitch earns 150 points and the game is automatically over.  Now, each member of the teams will be given very specific roles.  There will be seven players on each team on the field during the game. If one room doesn't have enough players for a game, like I said, a member of the staff will fill in.  Each team will consist of three Chasers, who will be the ones to throw the Quaffle around to each other; two Beaters, who will give each a one haded club, similar to a bat, to help protect team mates from bludgers, or hit them at the other team's Chasers if they have the quaffle.  The Keeper is basically the goalie.  His job is to keep the quaffle from passing through one of the hoops.  Now, for the team roles!" The Phantom waved his hand through the air, a large blue ball of energy blasted out.  It exploded midair, and created glowing letters that hovered in midair.  It listed each teams names and roles they would play.

Room 1: Hotairballoon, Bolten, and Daisy are Chasers; Brookeira is the Speaker, Misty and Ditto are Beaters.  A staff member will take the place of keeper.

Room 2: The Artist, Pepper Star, and Sweet Tea are Chasers; Zaiden and Chester are beaters, Chester is Seeker, and a staff member will be keeper.

Room 3: Bombett, Riddler, and Fia are chasers, Kaleidoscope Gryphon is seeker, and Leafmist will be Keeper.

Room 4: Gossomer, Lilycat, and Burt are Chasers; Waffle, and September are Beaters, and Indigo is Seeker, and Spyro will be our Keeper.

"So!" The Phantom said."First we have rooms two and four against each other.  So, if everyone would kindly get their supplies and join me on the field." Everyone went, picked out their brooms and other necessary gear and went out into the middle of the field with The Phantom. He put them on either side of him, blew a whistle, and then threw the quaffle into the air shouting,"Begin!"  Everyone zipped into the air and after the quaffle.  Chester and Indigo both shot after the Snitch, which had also been released along with the bludgers.  Thus started the Quidditch tournament match one!

R.I.P. No one...yet.

To be continued... 

Why it said Phantom meet i will never know;) 

Are you DRAGON or Will T.?

Yup! September and Artist guessed me. I'm Will! Sorry Katy! You're the keeper for room 1. Is that okay?