Chapter 1

Alice was what one might call a persistent fool.

Whenever Sookie had time between her business classes and hanging out with friends, she had been going back to the haunted house, intent on proving those ghosties wrong. They couldn't keep her away! No matter how many times they've scared her or tried to kill her.

Needless to say, it has been a trying month for the house's residents.

"The orange-haired idiot is back."

"Hey!" The orange-haired Tinkerbell look-a-like protested.

"She didn't mean you, Mo." The pirate captain sighed.

"I knew that!"

The vampire thinks that she should have.

"So what's our plan today, leader?" The red-clad devil looked to the yuki-onna in white.

"Hmm... my cold isn't working so well after her many visits. Any ideas?"

"Every time I make something float, she just complains about not being able to fly." Which the fairy kind of understood, being able to fly was awesome.

"I've already used every single doll in my collection. She doesn't even blink an eye at them!" The Pinocchio puppet really needed a new set of scarier dolls.

"She jumps whenever I drop heavy furniture in front of her or behind her. But that's it." The floating superhero shrugged.

"I burn the flowers and plants in vases and she just comments about bringing a watering can. Burnt paintings or anything else, a carpenter." The devil could admit to herself that their latest intruder has been oh so entertaining.

"The idiot likes my bats now. Something about a Batman." The vampire wasn't so entertained by their intruder, seeing her as more of a nuisance.

"She's gotten really good at dodging my knives. She even tries to throw them herself now." The pirate captain could attest to that, the sound of shattering vases and windows a common thing now.

The yuki-onna took this all in and deliberated to herself.

"Well, if we've already used all of our usual tricks, there's only one thing left to do."

"You don't mean..." The mermaid and white rabbit caught on to what she implied.

"That's right. What's worse than being scared?"

The last few days were really odd to Sookie. It was like all of a sudden the Monster House (what she took to calling it) decided Eh, it's been fun and all scaring you, but I'm gonna take a break now, thanks. Sookie was free to explore all of the rooms in the house, and that was that.

But it wasn't like one of those cool house tours she watched on YouTube, it was old, plain, and BORING. She was bored as hell