STARRING Sniffles
FEATURING Toothy Flaky Maple Lifty n’ Shifty
Sniffles stopped the van just outside of the building, grinning over at Toothy who was sitting in the passenger seat. It was already getting dark out as he and Toothy got out of the van. Maple was sitting in the back with Flaky, who already seemed to not be doing okay. But Maple was doing a good job consoling her for now. Sniffles opened up the back doors of the van and started opening up all the boxes containing his ghost hunting equipment. He handed Toothy an EMF reader and a flashlight. He then looked at Maple who basically carried Flaky out and put her on her feet. She was still very nervous, but he reached down and grabbed her hand. She looked up and smiled a bit, squeezing his hand as it brought her some comfort. He then walked to the back of the truck. Sniffles had a flashlight ready for both of them. He then handed Maple a thermometer and an EMF reader. He then took one look at Flaky and started wondering if she was even fit to be here, so he didn’t give her any ghost hunting equipment, which didn’t seem to bother her at all. Sniffles put his hands on his hips. “Alright team! Remember, this ghost is reported to be scary, but not mean! Make sure to respect the ghost and to not provoke it!” Toothy nodded, Maple nodded, and Flaky cowered behind Maple. “Alright! Now let’s go see something cool!” Sniffles started off towards the house and the others all followed him to the door.
From behind a bush, Shifty turned to Lifty as they saw the group all go to the house and started chuckling, Lifty quickly followed suit.
The group all entered the dark, eerie house and started slowly but surely doing baseline checks around. They turned the light in the living room on and decided that it would be their base of operations. Sniffles looked at Maple. “Me and toothy will check out upstairs! You and Flaky can check out this first floor!” Maple nodded and looked around. “Sounds good! Say uhh… meet back here in an hour?” Sniffles looked at his watch. “Make it 30 minutes, let’s not get too sunk into it just yet…” Maple nodded his head. “Sounds good! See you in 30!” Flaky hadn’t let go of Maple’s hand. Now that they were about to break off she only started gripping it tighter as Maple slowly but surely ventured into another room.
Sniffles and Toothy both had big grins as they found their way to the stairs and started walking up. Toothy turned his EMF reader on and started waving it around whilst Sniffles did the same. They wouldn’t detect anything for some time, but after a bit, Sniffles noticed his thing starting to show some signals. He smiled and got a little giddy as he eagerly waved it around, following the trail for a bit. Though eventually the source went to a tv, which made Sniffles sigh. “Ugh… I thought these things didn’t detect home electronics!” He sighed in frustration as he walked away and Toothy quickly followed, both of them missing the looming face hovering just above the TV. Sniffles put his EMF reader back in his belt and pulled out the thermometer. They ventured around upstairs a bit before both of them felt a chill go down their spine. Sniffles refreshed the thermometer and saw it dip quite a few degrees for a moment. He reached for his EMF reader but he was instantly frozen in fear as he heard some knocking on the window. He and Toothy both quickly darted their attention over. They saw a white figure with giant black eyes and a wicked grin looking at them, both of them panicked and ran away in their own directions, Toothy heading back to the bedroom they were just in and Sniffles into the upstairs bathroom.
Lifty chuckled as he gave Shifty a thumbs up. “Oh you scared them so good!” Shifty pumped his fist in the air in victory. “These chumps are sure to drop everything and run soon enough!” Shifty lowered his fake ghost and set it down as the two of them scurried off again.
Toothy put his back against the tv stand as he rapidly started breathing, panicked as he looked around the room all over, making sure there wasn’t anything in the room with him. He breathed a sigh of relief as he reassured himself that he was alone. The looming ghost reappeared over the tv again and looked down at Toothy with a grin. It put two hands on the top of the tv and slowly started to push it over the edge. Toothy heard a little creak and looked up. “Huh?” … “WHA-.” The tv fell off and fell onto his head. His face got mostly submerged into all the sharp debris chunks and got halfway through the tv as the many cuts and the shock from the still plugged in tv killed him in just a few moments. — Maple and Flaky were now in a downstairs bedroom, more specifically they were in an off-shoot bathroom. Flaky was still glued by the hip to Maples side as he waved the EMF reader around. “Listen Flaky, how many times do I have to say it, ghosts aren’t real, we are just here to support our friend Sniffles!” Flaky shivered a bit. “But what about that weird creaking!” Maple sighed. “it was probably one of them upstairs.” “And all the loud whooshing sounds?!?” Flaky quickly followed up. “It’s windy outside Flaky…” “Okay but what about the tapping on the window?!?” Maples eyes suddenly opened wide. “The tapping on the what?!?” Flaky quickly jumped up and pointed at the window. Maple went over and took a gander and saw a bush right next to the window, he waited a minute and then heard and saw a stick from the bush tap the window. “Oh… now that… that’s a bit scary… heheh…” he lets out a bit of a worried breath. He turns to Flaky and puts on a reassuring smile, but as he does, suddenly the lightbulb in the room with them exploded. Flaky screamed in pure terror as she tried to pull Maple out of the room and back to the safe room. He actually kind of went with her, but at the doorway he heard a strange noise in the room that he couldn’t discern, he looked at Flaky, then back at the room. “Alright Flaky, I just wanna check something out, you go wait in the living room and I’ll be right there!” Flaky seemed to hate that idea, but eventually the light from the living room lured her over. Maple walked back into the bedroom and walked up to the window and crouched down. Feeling around with his hands to see if he could find the source of whatever he heard. Behind him, the mattress on the bed slowly started rising up, eventually he got disinterested in the noise and got up, he turned around to head back to the door, but instantly he noticed the bed was now standing up. He saw a figure smiling at him as it pushed the mattress over. Maple couldn’t react in time as the mattress fell onto him and forced him to crash through some furniture and crushed him to death on the floor.
Sniffles heard a thud downstairs and checked his watch. 28 minutes had passed since they split up. He took some deep breaths and then finally got up and opened the door. “TOOTHY! ITS TIME TO GO BACK TO THE LIVING ROOM! TOOTHYYYYY!” He called out as he went to the top of the stairs. He waited for a minute, but all he heard was an eerie silence, so he just assumed Toothy was already downstairs and started down the stairs. Suddenly he heard some noises coming from his spirit box. He put on his headphones and turned the volume up a bit as he started listening closely, slowly continuing down the stairs as he did so. As he got close to the living room suddenly the spirit box started going crazy, blasting crazy loud voices constantly that we’re getting louder and louder, at first it seemed like just yelling and screaming, but eventually a voice started telling him to run and that his end was approaching. He got crazy freaked out, but right before he went to take the headphones off, he heard a loud screech that was so crazy loud it burst one of his ear drums and did significant damage to the other one. He threw his headphones down whilst completely discombobulated.
Flaky was still sitting on the couch, getting increasingly worried by Maple’s absence. She heard the sound of someone approaching, but right before they appeared, she heard the sound of short circuiting go through the whole house as the power went out. She just screamed and screamed until suddenly Sniffles appeared in her vision. She quickly ran up to him. “SNIFFLES SNIFFLES! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!” She looked in complete horror as she saw blood trickling down from his ears. Sniffles quietly muttered. “It’s time to leave… it’s time to leave…” Flaky’s eyed widened as she froze up in fear. Another figure started walking up behind Sniffles. Sniffles gave Flaky a little reassuring smile, but then the thing behind him grabbed his shoulders and let out a wicked banshee scream right into his ear. He yelled out in pain for a few seconds before his head just completely exploded. Flaky just raised her arms into the air and fully booked it as fast as she could to the door. To her surprise she actually got it open. With safety in sight she just screamed into the night as she ran away as fast as she could.
Shifty and Lifty dropped their shears as they both grinned and chuckled to eachother. Shifty closed the fuse box as Lifty put the stolen fuses into his pocket. They both listened to Flaky’s screaming and how it got quieter and quieter. “Mission success! Let’s go get all those gadgets and scram!” They both nodded and quickly ran off to the front door. They both got deep into the house without finding anything, but eventually they came across a pool of blood in the living room. Lifty scratched his head. “Huh? Did someone have an accident?” Shifty looked around and noticed the pool of blood was also all over the walls… and the ceiling… and-. His eyes widened as he turned around and saw Sniffles’ decapitated body… just standing there… with a knife in his hand. Shifty nudged his brother as he started backing away. Lifty groaned and looked around, saw Sniffles’, then with the slightest of movements from Sniffles they both charged off into the closet, quickly locking the door. They both huddled together and were both justifiably freaked the hell out. “YOU SAID THIS WOULD BE AN EASY SCARE AND GRAB! WHAT IS THAT THING?!?” “HECK IF I KNOW? HOW IS HE ALIVE WITHOUT A HEAD?!?” They were both cut off as a knife stabbed through the closet door. Lifty went to inspect the knife, but as he did a hand grabbed the back of his head and shoved his face into the blade, stabbing him crazy deep. Shifty quickly looked around the closet and saw a ton of shelves all lined with heavy objects around him. He looked up to see the spirit smiling at him before the top rows of every shelf suddenly gave out, causing an ever increasing snowball of things crashing down onto them. In just a moment, both of the raccoons got crushed down into smithereens. The end.