Ghostxels Stories

Story 8 - The Other Side

As we arrived to the lab, Camillot and Vulk both arrived too.  They had two swords in their hand and I think they came to help us.  We ran through the doors and headed up to Frozzo's office.  When we got here, Frozzo was sitting in his chair, looking at a newspaper.  He looked up at me and asked "What are you doing here?".

"I'm sorry sir but, can you show us the way to the Netherworld?" I aaked him.

He sighed as he got off his desk.  "Come on.  I'll show you."

We went through a giant metal door and inside is a room.  There are giant jars with dead mixels in it and a port hole door on the other side.  The scientists gave us a walkie talkie and some oxygen tank backpacks with gas masks.  They opened the port hole door, and on the other side, there is a lab that has been abandoned since the 1940s.

"Please." Frozzo warned, "Be careful."

Sakura held Snotrina in her arms as we stepped through the door and into the dark world.  When we stepped out of the lab, the city looked abandoned.  The cars are rusted, the street lamps are flickering, the buildings are cracked with chains all over, and the sky is dark green.

"Come on, guys.  Let's go find my friends." I waved.

We suddenly saw someone standing in the light while stitching it's neck.  Is it stitching it's head back on?  We walked closer and closer until it is revealed to be Nurp.  He was stitching his head back on after it got cut off.

"Volectro!  About time!  These ghosts must've chopped my head off and I've been waiting for you to come." He waved.

Meanwhile, Cobrax, Wizwuz, Footi and Tiketz arrived in a giant cave and found their friend, Torts, who is floating in the air.  Cobrax has a ghost tail where his actual tail should be with blood dripping down, Wizwuz's body acts like a slinky, Footi was burnt with her overall dress all torned, and Tiketz had a bullet hole in his chest and bleeding from his head.

"Torts.  Torts?" Cobrax called out, "Here.  Let me bring her down from here."  He grabbed her legs and pulled her down until her feet had landed on the ground.  Her eyes are blank with no pupils and she never moved an inch.

"Torts?  Torts!  Why isn't she waking up?!" Wizwuz yelled.

"Guys.  Look." Footi pointed up and they all looked up.  A bunch of dead mixels are up in the air.

"The dead mixels." Cobrax noticed.

"They're...  Floating?" Tiketz wondered.

The six mixels and I came down from the hole and found Cobrax and the rest who are trying to wake up Torts.  Cobrax kissed her and her eyes went back to normal as she gasped to take her breath.  Zorch saw Flain standing right next to an old paddle car crying.

"Flain?  Is that you?" Zorch asked.

"Zorch...  I missed you so much." Flain murmured, "I need a hug.  Please."

"Zorch.  It's not him." Nurp warned him.

I saw another Flain floating in the air.  I grabbed my gun and walked up to Flain (or whoever that is).

"I just miss you so much." Flain cried.

I pointed the gun on his forehead and he began to cry.

"I'm sorry but, you're not Flain."

I pulled the trigger and it shot a bullet right through his forehead.  He fell over on his back like a floor lamp falling over.  Everybody fell to the ground and woke up.  They all looked at me and at Flain.  He suddenly began to shake.  His feet turned into saddle shoes, he grew fangs and turned into a tall Glowkie.  He stood up and opened his eyes.  I shot him in the head and he shook and stopped bleeding.  He was about to bite my head off but I blocked his mouth with an old tennis racket.  He shook me crazily and threw me over, knocking my glasses off.  He spat the racket out and grabbed me like a mantis.  My vision is blurry and I felt sad and scared.

"You let him go right now!" Wizwuz yelled.

"No." Poltergeist Vampos growled, "He's staying here with me.  Forever."

"Just go!  All of you, just go!  Leave me here." I sobbed.

"Yes." Poltergeist Vampos began, "All of you can leave, and he can stay here forever as I will rest in this place for another five years.  As I do, all of you can enjoy a happy life without him.  Or...  I'll take out all of you...  So I will have a taste of your flesh as I feed up on your fears!" He ripped my arms off and kicked me down and started munching them, "You're all tasty, Just like him."

Cobrax gave out a frown.  "Volectro." He began, "I'm sorry.  But I will say these things.  One, you punched me in the face and made my nose bleed and made me cry.  Two, you made me go into a crooked mansion and I almost got killed.  Three, you could've saved me but I died." He grabbed a baseball bat, "Now four, we're gonna kill this stupid bat."

My arms reappeared as yellow transparent ghost arms.  I put my glasses back on and shouted, "Welcome to the mixels club, moron!"

Poltergeist Vampos roared and I gave him a powerful punch as Cobrax whacked him with a baseball bat.  Poltergeist Vampos shook out his blood and we all grabbed our weapons and began to beat him down.  As we beat him, he was in every form of our biggest fears but we are not scared anymore.  After one last hit, he fell over, moaning in pain.

"That smarts on me, eh?" He giggled.

"Well." I began, "I'm not even afraid of you.  So was Sakura.  None of us are scared.  Not anymore.  Now, you're the one who's afraid.  Because, now, you are going to starve."

He felt scared as I realized an ancient ring that he's wearing.

"Time to say goodbye." I taunted.

I pulled the ring off his finger and he flashed a bright light.  The light faded out as he revealed to be his normal form.  His was wearing a white century shirt with a collar, black pants and a pair of buckle shoes.  He stood up and looked at his hands and then at everyone.

"I'm... Vamposius B. Fangton.  And... You saved me... From this curse." He uttered.

"So, you were cursed from that ring?" I asked.

"Yes." Vamposius sighed, "I found it in an ancient tenple.  When I put it on, I became a monster, haunting and eating mixels every five years.  I've been using Crackley as my partner.  And we became ghost kings."

"It true.  Vamposius?" Crackley noticed.  Vamposius saw him and made a sorrow face.

"I'm sorry I made you a monster." He sighed.

"That's okay.  We all made mistakes." Crackley laughed.

"Well.  We didn't you are a monster." I smiled, "You're just a Glowkie with a very special gift."

Vamposius smiled at me.  "Thank you for everything.  Now, go."

We all then walked out of the cave to find a way back home.

Author's note: I can't believe it.  Poltergeist Vampos had turned out to be a Glowkie who was cursed.  The good thing is Volectro and everybody else had free'd him for good.