THE
HAUNTED MANSION "Final Part"
SPLINTER
As the Turtles, Masters and Ninjara are making their way through the
mansion's cemetary looking for that back gate they hear music surrounding them
and the sky was filled with flying spirits. They passed a group of
musicians who paid no attention to their presence, one was playing a guitar,
another a fiddle, another a banjo. There was a fourth playing a bass
guitar and a drummer pounding out the tempo on a gravestone. Nearby are 5
marble bust statues on a raised platform singing with the music in a barbershop
rendition, i.e. Grim Grinning Ghosts.
GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS THEME SONG
When the
crypt doors creak and the tombstones quake.
Spooks come
out for a swinging wake.
Happy
haunts materialize and begin to vocalize.
Grim
grinning ghosts come out to socialize!
Now don't
close your eyes and don't try to hide.
Or a silly
spook may sit by your side.
Shrouded in
a daft disguise they pretend to terrorize.
Grim
grinning ghosts come out to socialize!
As the moon
climbs high over dead oak trees.
Spooks
arrive for the midnight spree.
Creepy
creeps with eerie eyes start to shriek and harmonize.
Grim
grinning ghosts come out to socialize.
When you
hear the knell of a funeral bell.
Weird glows
gleam where spirits dwell.
Restless
bones etherize rise as spooks of every size.
Hmhmmhmmm-wahahahahahahahahaah!
APRIL
O'NEIL
Ninjara, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, Machine, Olympus,
Superstar, Red Dragon, Turbo, Tsunami, Star Warrior, Panther, Great Wolf, Tiger
Claw saw a king and queen balancing a teeter-totter on a gravestone with their
daughter, a princess swinging in a swing pushed by her brother, the
prince. There was a hearse stuck in the mud, the driver or coachman
talking with a duchess sitting atop the carriage sipping tea, the coffin had
slipped out and its contents a shrouded corpse sitting upright inside its
casket also was sipping a cup of tea. Behind the hearse on a hill a group
of phantoms with glowing eyes were enjoying a bicycle ride through the trees
and tombstones.
CASEY JONES
Not far away stood 2 opera theater spooks dressed in Viking costumes, arms
around each other and wailing away to the night sky...and a huge masked
executioner singing a duet with a medieval decapitated knight who held his
singing head in his extended hand.
RAPHAEL
<Complains>
There's that crow again. <Spots the black bird following them>
NINJARA
I wonder why we always end up seeing it wherever we went?
MICHAELANGELO
I hope it does not intend to possess any of us!
HERB PEREZ
That I would not want to happen to any of us.
MIKE
BERNARDO
I agree...
DONATELLO
Maybe it wants to tell us something.
LEONARDO
Oh, really? <Curious> About what?
CROW
<Calls out>
Caw-caw! Beware my friends, caw-caw! They may try to follow you
home...caw-caw-caw!
SPLINTER
Then it spread its wings and flew away, leaving the friends staring after
it in stunned disbelief. None of them had any idea what it meant by that
remark.
NINJARA
Turbo? A-are you sure we're going the right way?
MIKE
BERNARDO
I believe so, there's only one path. But it looks like there's something
up ahead.
APRIL
O'NEIL
Sure enough, a large object comes into view in front of the friends.
CHRIS
CASAMASSA
That's a crypt or vault where deceased loved ones are laid to rest.
ERIC BETTS
And, it's the one by the fence so...it's the way out.
ALL 4
TURTLES
THE WAY OUT??? YAAAAAAAAY!!!
NINJARA
YES!!! <Excited> At last, the EXIT has been found!
HAKIM
ALSTON
Come on, stay close and whatever happens, don't stop for nothing or don't look
back.
HOSUNG PAK
Right behind you, brother.
HOYUNG PAK
Me too.
HEIN NGUYEN
Home, here we come.
RICHARD
BRANDEN
Yeehaaw!
JAMIE
WEBSTER
The end to this nightmare and hopefully we do not experience it again.
JOHNNY LEE
SMITH
Count on it, I'm not coming back here again as long as I live!
SPLINTER
The mortals ran laughing, shouting, cheering in triumph into the open stone
door of the crypt vault and down a flight of stone steps. Still running
down the dank interior of this burial chamber they passed rows of coffins &
urns positioned along both walls, set into nooks & crannies. Just
then they heard a strange, mocking voice calling to them in the darkness.
UNSEEN
VOICE
HURRY BACK...HURRY BACK...
LEONARDO
Now who's doing the talking?
DONATELLO
Maybe it's the Ghost Host again?
RAPHAEL
Doesn't sound like him, though.
MICHAELANGELO
Whoa, no way...that's not the Ghost Host's voice we kept hearing on our
tour. That sounds like a female voice calling us.
NINJARA
Duh??? <Shocked>
CASEY JONES
Sure enough, as they got closer the source of the unseen voice came into
view. It was a miniature woman, probably the size of a midget wrestler
wearing a bridal gown similar to the one worn by the ghost bride in the attic,
holding a bouquet of flowers and speaking to the mortals.
LITTLE
LEOTA
BE SURE TO BRING YOUR DEATH CERTIFICATE...IF YOU DECIDE TO JOIN US...MAKE FINAL
ARRANGEMENTS NOW...WE'VE BEEN DYING, AHEM, TO HAVE YOU...HMHMMHMMMHMHMMHMMM...
APRIL
O'NEIL
Then she simply faded away like a mirage before the eyes of the humans
& mutants. Not bothering to hang around and see if she would pop up
again and repeat the same message the friends ran like crazy through the crypt
and up another flight of stone steps to pass through another open door and
discovered they were standing outside the fence by the back gate area!
ALL 4
TURTLES
WE MADE IT, WE ESCAPED THE MANSION!
MIKE
BERNARDO
Finally, our so-called guided tour has ended.
HAKIM
ALSTON
Let's start for home before Splinter, Casey and April get worried and go
searching for us.
SPLINTER
But before any of them could make a move for home, the Ghost Host's voice
floated down from somewhere within the walls of the manor to say goodbye.
GHOST HOST
DID YOU ENJOY YOUR VISIT?...<Sound of bells tolling the hour> I TOLD YOU
YOU WOULD NOT BE HARMED...THANK YOU FOR SPENDING SOME TIME WITH US...COME
AGAIN...BRING YOUR FRIENDS IF THEY BELIEVE THIS STORY YOU TELL...I HAVE TO GO
NOW, IT IS MIDNIGHT...PLEASANT DREAMS...<Then erupts into giggling
laughter> HMHMMHMMM...HMHMMHMMMAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH...
APRIL
O'NEIL
Everybody just SCREAMED! Then spun on their heels and RAN! And
did not stop running till the mansion was far away and out of sight and still
they kept running and in the end, the Turtles, Masters and Ninjara made it
safely home before we even decided to go searching for them.
SPLINTER
And that concludes our story of THE HAUNTED MANSION. Do come again
soon as we have more interesting tales to share.
CASEY JONES
Yes, more exciting adventures of the Ninja Turtles, WMAC Masters, myself,
April, Ninjara and Splinter. Asta-la-vista-baby!
THE
END