'SKIZZ IS GONE!' 

'WHAT?!' Jimmy squealed. 

'Oh GROW UP! He's probably around the corner... or it's just a trick or something. There's no ghost.' Joel scoffed. 

'He- he was here! He was right here! I swear there was no time for him to run away!' Stammered back Tango, eyes wide. 'He was right here!'

'He was one of the people the ghosts could've killed... his name began with S.'

'Oh no... no no no this isn't good...' Scar whimpered. Cub put an arm around his shoulder.

'It's ok. I won't let the ghost kill you.' Scar's worry tripled.

'You... think this is real?' 

'I don't know... I didn't see him run off.'

'He must've run off! Surely someone saw him going...'

'My eyes did not view Skizzleman running.' Joe explained Joeishly. 'But nor did they view Skizzleman at all at the time when Mr Skadoodle McMurderface was rumoured to, as his name suggested, murdered him.'

'Did anyone see the ghost taking him?! Doc? Ren?'

'Thine King didst not witness any foul unearthly...'

'Don't worry, Ren. It's just a prank.' Joel tried to ignore the fact that he could be taken next. All the group had huddled closer together, entering one of the bedrooms. Pearl approached a tour guide.

'Hey, excuse me, but... is this place... haunted?' 

'Oh, yes.' The tour guide replied, perfectly seriously. 'Very haunted... Skadoodle McMurderface and Jeremy Spirit still roam these halls. But they haven't taken anyone in over 100 years, so don't worry.' 

'But- but who's called Skadoodle McMurderface?! That's not a name!' Insisted Joel.

'OH MY GOSH TANGO PROTECT ME THE GHOST IS TAKING ME!' Jimmy screamed. 'IT'S JEREMY SPIRIT! HE'S TAKING ME!' 

'JIMMY NO!' Tango grabbed his Rancher's hands, trying to save him from the ghost pulling him away. But there was nothing he could do. The ghost was too strong and Jimmy disappeared behind a curtain.

'JIMMY!' 

'Well, I guess I stand corrected... come along now, we're going to have a look at the clock in the courtyard...' the tour-guide walked off with their group, a few of whom had taken photos but were nonchalant about the ghostly activity.

'I'm leaving Grian here.' Doc called. 

'Don't leave him here!' Scar insisted. 'We can't separate! The ghost will kill him!'

'Jimmy! Jimmy are you here?!' Tango sobbed, unable to find his Rancher.

'I... I kinda wanna separate and see that clock.' Bdubs muttered. 'Etho?'

'I'll see it too.'

'JIMMY AND SKIZZ ARE DEAD!' Impulse screamed. 'And you want to see a CLOCK?!'

'Impulse, I'm sure everything will be ok...' Martyn tried to intervene. 'Seriously.'

'Why is the ghost called Skadoodle McMurder face?! I made up that name as a JOKE! How was I actually correct?!' Tango wailed.

'The ghost heard us.' Cub figured. 'It...'

Smash.

Ren screamed as the chandelier smashed right next to where she stood. Cub pulled Scar away from danger. Grian was still asleep, but now Martyn was begging for him to wake up and help.

'YoOooOoUuUuuUu cannot surviIIiIiIIiiVe!' Came a ghostly wail from the ceiling. 'NoOoOoOoOoone of YooOooOoouuUuUuu will surviIiIiiIiiiIiiIiIiiiIiiiiiiiIIiiIIIive!' 

'GRIAN WAKE UP! THERE'S A GHOST!' Martyn yelled. Movement. Grian opened his eyes.

'You do realise I've been pretending to sleep this entire time?'

'WHAT?!'

'I didn't want to walk around everywhere! And Doc was happy to carry me... so a ghosty ghost yoinked Jimmy and Skizz? Like Phasmophobia? And Scar and Joel are next?'

'It said it's going to kill all of us!'

'Oh. Well... maybe we leave?'

'We can't! Bdubs and Etho have run off to look at clocks!'

'Clocks?! Then we find them and then get out! Come on!'

So the group set off to find their missing friends. Joel was at the front, then Pearl, Joe, Cub, with Scar still clinging tight to him, Grian, Doc, Tango, Impulse, Zedaph, and at the back Martyn and Ren. 

'OUT OF THE WAY WE'RE RUNNING FROM A GHOST!' Joel screeched as they passed a family with 3 children, two of whom were already yelling and the third of whom now started pestering their mum about if ghosts were real or not. They reached the courtyard.

Well, most of them did.

'Where's Ren?' Martyn realised as they stopped. 

'SERIOUSLY?! Right, keep a close eye on everyone... I see the clock there and... ETHO! BDUBS! COME BACK TO US! THE GHOST TOOK REN TOO!' Grian yelled. The two approaching again.

'Have you SEEN the clock?! It's so cool!'

'CUB HELP!'

Everyone turned to see Scar, who'd been left alone for half a second, dangling from the second storey window. Cub grabbed his legs.

'LET HIM GO OR I KILL YOU!'

'THEY'RE ALREAY DEAD, CUB! YOU CAN'T KILL THEM AGAIN!'

'I SEE SKIZZ AND JIMMY! I CAN SEE DEAD PEOPLE! I CAN SEE DEAD PEOPLE!' Scar continued to wail. 'HELP!' But the strength of Grian and Cub was too little as Scar was pulled into the window and out of sight.

'SCAR I'M COMING!'

In the centre of the courtyard was a replica sword-in-the-stone. Cub ran over, pulling out said sword with no difficulty. Someone gasped, yelling that he was now king. But he had no time to enjoy his new royal status, clawing his way up the castle walls like medieval spiderman, rolling into the window.

'GIVE MY FRIEND BACK!' He cried, raising the sword above...

Skizz?

'Hiya buddy! Ren, close the window!' A nod. Cub dropped the sword, realisint.

'Holy smokes...'

'There's no ghost.' Skizz explained as Cub burst out laughing.  Outside, the others were still screeching about a double murder.

'Martyn's idea. Didn't realise you'd all be fooled.'

'He got a tour guide to pretend it was real.' Scar mumbled

'Absolutely! We can do whatever we...'

Smash.

A rock flew through, smashing window, nearly hitting Scar.

'STOP KILLING US! OR I'LL DESTROY EVERYTHING!' 

'Joel please...'

'AAAAAAAAAAAA!'

Now a knight's helmet appeared next to them through the other window. Skizz backed out the way of the flying shards of glass. More smashes outside, clangs, screams. 

'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! THOSE WINDOWS ARE FROM 1551!' 

'JOEL! IT WAS A PRANK!'

Silence. The 'ghosts' all hurried to the windows.

'What.'

'Joel, I was pranking everyone...' Martyn repeated. The stone in Joel's hands dropped to the ground. Bdubs was crying about him threatening to break the clock. It wasn't long until everyone was united again in the mess of the courtyard, all of them banned from every returning and forced to pay a huge fine for damages. However, since Cub was now officially king according to a surprising number of people, this was revoked, and he was allowed to keep the sword as they returned back to the holiday home to relax.

This got very chaotic very quickly

No regrets