Mountains of Mystery

Mystery Revealed

"So, is this where you first came out?" Elly pointed to the well in the garden of Abraham, Daniel, and Beth's home.

Gobreta looked around, "I think so... but maybe not. It was a little bit smaller than that." Gobreta went over to the flower beds. "Oh it was that way!" She looked around the flowers and seemed to get stuck. "I don't see any more wells over here..."

Ben saw a little garden gnome. "Look at this wet little gnome." He said, "Why did they put it right next to the sprinkler?"

"Let me see that 'sparkler', dang nab it! That was the well I shot out of!" Gobreta shrieked. "Boy did that hurt."

"Wait what. You shot out of this sprinkler?" Ben said.

"Yeah it hurt like a dickens." Gobreta said. "Me back is still bent." She pointed over her shoulder to her back.

"Well that explains the hump." Ben whispered. Elly heard and shot him a "you're being rude, again" look.

"Well that jives with my theory." Elly said. "I think we know, in general, that Gobreta is the source of the ectoplasm."

"The ecta what?" Gobreta asked.

"This ooze that is coming from you. It's ectoplasm." Jack said.

"It most certainly is not!" Gobreta said. "I do not 'ooze'. I am a lady."

"I mean, it's not that you are an ooey gooey oozing goozing goblin, but you are a curious cute creature from far, fantastic fun and fabulous fable, and that's why you are oozing ectoplasm." Vicky tried to explain.

"Um, say it again?" Gobreta was confused.

"What our vulpine (that is a fancy word for 'fox') friend is trying to say, is that because you came here from another dimension, when you interact with this world ectoplasm comes out. If one of us were in your world, we would ooze ectoplasm." Doctor Van Der Waal explained.

"So it's not me, it's my batwings and newt eyes?" Gobreta asked, as she pulled a little bag of snacks out of her hat. She began crunching and munching batwings and newt eyes.

"It's not you, it's you being here. We need to send you home." Elly said.

"Okay, I like where you are going with this." Gobreta said. "I would like to go home."

"So, when Gobreta came through this sprinkler. This sprinkler, right, it gets its water from the same source as the well. The aquifer under this mountain." Elly explained.

"Oh and that wet wild well water was a ooey gooey oozified by our green, grinning groupmate Gobreta!" Vicky said. "And the sick sorry sad sister and brother got some inedible, eccentric ectoplasm in their water!"

Jack began hopping up and down. "Oh we need them to drink different water!"

"Is it possible to get the ectoplasm out of the water?" Ben asked. "If not, won't more people get sick?"

Doctor Van Der Waal had an idea. "If Gobreta goes back to Goblin Island by going through this sprinkler, all the ectoplasm will stick onto her and it'll go back to Goblin Island with her."

"I am not going back into that sparkler. PERIOD." Gobreta turned around and sat down on the ground with her back to the group and continued to munch on her snacks.

Ben snapped his fingers. "Eureka! If all the water is connected in the aquifer, maybe she can just go down the well instead of squeezing into that tiny sprinkler."

Gobreta turned around. "I would go down the well, but never through that sparkler." She finished her snacks and put the bag back under her hat. "But once I am down there, how do I get home?"

"I have an idea," said Jack. "Use the ectoplasm sensor to find the path back to your world."

"But if I bring the sensor to my world, won't it create ectoplasm there and make people sick?" Gobreta asked.

"Yes, but instead of that, we'll tie a rope onto it. When you tug on the rope hard twice, we'll pull the sensor backup to us." Elly said, as she grabbed a bit of rope from the shed in the garden.

"Wow, you guys work great as a team." Gobreta said. "This land is spooky, and the flowers are stinky, but the people are sure helpful." Gobreta took the sensor and jumped to the edge of the well. "Good bye everyone, if you are ever in Goblin Island, look me up! It's 'Gobreta Gobringer', I live on Glibglob lane in Gloomyton. Goodbye!" She dove head-first down the well.

Not long after she jumped, there were two tough tugs on the rope. Ben then pulled the sensor up by the rope, and sometime before he finished, all the ectoplasm disappeared in a poof. It turns out Doctor Van Der Waal was right. "Well, I am the world's foremost expert on ectoplasm," he said with a wink.

"C'mon, guys! Let's go see Beth and Daniel!!!" shouted Jack, jumping into the air really, really, high.

"I will have to go back to my lab and write down what I've learned. See you someday soon!" Doctor Van Der Waal said. Then he said, "HO HE HA!!!!!" very loudly. Ben, Elly, Jack, and Vicky waved goodbye. Then they all went back to Abraham's house.

"You're back! Great! Do whatever until dinner." Abraham said when they got back. Jack and Vicky had to tell their forest friends about the water, so they said goodbye as well. Ben and Elly went upstairs to see their cousins.

After telling Beth and Daniel the story, the secrets and the solution to the mystery Beth and Daniel became elated. Within a couple of days, they returned back to normal and by the end of the trip, Beth and Daniel had been introduced to Jack, Vicky and Doctor Van Der Waal. On a warm Saturday night, everyone had a lovely barbeque at Doctor Van Der Waal's patio. Only one thing was missing: the nibnobs.

~The End~