𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟

listen up

The air was still, it was so still someone could describe it as deathly. The leaves crushed beneath the feet of you and your friends as you entered the Snuggly Duckling.

"Guys, it's been a year since we freed Ruthless Ruth from here!" Rapunzel said. The room responded to the comment with a bit of a spook. A lot of them were worried about her coming back. "It's okay. She's free now, she's not coming back."

"So what exactly happened that night?" You asked Rapunzel wondering what all of the stir was about. Everyone seemed to have a bit of a spook by the mention of that person's name.

"Well, there was a sudden chill in the room and the doors were locked shut," Rapunzel said and the doors made a loud thud against the frame. People looked at each other and Big Nose jumped into Attila's arms. "Um, maybe that was the wind." Everyone looked at Rapunzel, there was no wind while they were outside.

After a couple seconds of silence, Rapunzel continued her story. "Then there was a ghostly cackle." In the pub, there was an echo of a spirit and everyone then realized that there was no way that the wind outside could have replicated something so chilling.

"Um, Blondie," Eugene said when he realized that the moose head that was mounted on the wall was possessed by a blue spirit.

"Oh," Rapunzel said. Then she looked around at the other things in the pub. A bunch of things went flying with everyone dodging them. A glass was going straight at your head, you dodged it and the glass shattered on the wall behind you. You looked back wondering what had just happened.

All of the instruments gathered together and then sent one another to a person. Shorty got a huge tuba flown at him and he then got stuck in it. Eugene had a flute whack him right in the nose, or should I say smolder. Rapunzel had the piano seat pick her up and take her to a levitating piano.

"This is strange." You said as you were passed a tambourine and Varian caught some cymbals. The room seemed to spin as a mix of colors catastrophically cascaded upon everyone. Greens, blues, purples, and oranges flew across the room in a large vibrant haze.

"If I wasn't forced to clap these cymbals together I would be freaking out," Varian commented. The instruments created a not-so-peaceful symphony of sounds and a vortex spun out of proportions. Making a loud crash against the floorboards, people scattered away from the large commotion in the center of the pub.

"I'm back!" Ruthless Ruth said with a turn of her see-through body. There were some screams from the others and Rapunzel went up to her old friend.

"Ruth! If I could I would be giving you a large hug." She told the ghost. Ruthless Ruth blew the princess a kiss and everyone was startled by their exchange. Well, not everyone, maybe just Eugene, Varian, and you.

You walked over to the ghost. "I thought you were freed. Rapunzel was just sharing the story of what had happened two years ago."

"I was." Ruthless Ruth told you. "I'm back again because I was summoned."

"Summoned? How and by who?" Eugene asked the levitating figure. Ruth looked confused as well.

"I have no clue why I'm here besides that, maybe because there's a full moon out tonight?"

"It doesn't matter how or why you're here we're just happy that we get to see you again. Right everyone?" Everyone looked at Rapunzel's needy face and then nodded.

"Well, I'll just go and meet everyone, there are a couple of new people here right?" Ruthless looked around the room while Rapunzel did her scan as well. You walked over to Varian and you guys whispered.

"This is strange right, not Corona strange, even stranger." You said.

"After all that I've been through I don't know what's strange anymore."