TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ADVENTURES
THE JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES
A Spooky Night In Disney's Haunted
Mansion
PART
4
The Ghost Host led Chan, Ninjara, Jade & Raphael
through another doorway and onto a balcony overlooking the
grand ballroom. A party was taking place one of the
strangest parties you've ever seen. There was a long dining
table covered with decayed food and wiltered flowers, spiderwebs
hung everywhere. It seemed to be a birthday party
and when a birthday ghost blew out the candles on a cake
several other ghosts disappeared. They reappeared to
congratulate the guest of honor for extinquishing the candles
in one breath. Those guests seated around the table
dressed in various party costumes are talking, laughing
and drinking wine. There was an elderly lady rocking &
reading a book beside the fireplace...when she rocked forwards
she disappeared. When she rocked back she too reappeared.
Several ghosts were playing on the chandelier over the massive
dining table...2 sitting arm in arm with glasses of wine
in their hands and chatting merrily while behind them a
gentleman hangs off the edge of the chandelier with his
hooked cane preventing him from falling to the floor below.
Other ghosts were waltzing around and around in circles
barely touching the furniture in their paths while an organist
played a haunting refrain on a pipe organ.
JADE
Whoa, I don't believe this.
NINJARA
This is crazy, I don't believe what I see.
RAPHAEL
Ghosts partying? No way man!
JACKIE CHAN
Sure looks like it, though. But I've never seen
anything like this either.
For awhile they stand mesmerized by the spooky scenario
before their eyes. None of them have ever seen ghosts
celebrating-having fun so to speak.
NINJARA
Why did we ever come into this house?
RAPHAEL
To escape from the storm, that was his idea. <Nods
to Chan>
JACKIE CHAN
Ok, go ahead. Blame it on me. <Looks annoyed>
I'm the one who got us trapped in the first place.
JADE
No, no. <Tries defending him> It's not your fault
Jackie, we all wanted to seek shelter from the storm but
not standing outside on the porch where we would get wet
& soaked. However we didn't expect the door to
swing shut on us.
NINJARA
Uh-huh...<Frowns> and now we're still looking for
that exit, hmmm?
JACKIE CHAN
We'll find it, we'll find it, don't worry.
RAPHAEL
I hope so...I'm getting tired of this spooky manor house.
Just then Jade spots another door at the opposite end
of the balcony open as if by unseen hands beckoning them
to enter.
JADE
Yo! <Gets their attention> Here's another door
at the other end of the balcony, come on! <Starts towards
it>
JACKIE CHAN
Wait! <Runs after her>
RAPHAEL
Wait for me brother.
NINJARA
Don't leave me behind!
Ninjara, Jackie, Raphael & Jade entered the door
and found themselves standing inside the unfinished attic
- a room filled almost from floor to ceiling with antiques
of various states of neglect, i.e. rugs, lamps, mirrors,
tables, chairs, toys, clothing, trunks, chests, all covered
in dust. Suddenly a loud thumping sound distracts them
for a second or two or three and they start searching for
its source.
RAPHAEL
What on earth is that?
JADE
Sounds like the Tell-Tale-Heart.
RAPHAEL
Agh! Not that scary story by Edgar Allen Poe!
JACKIE CHAN
But where is it coming from? <He starts looking>
I don't...
NINJARA
Aaah, aaaaaaaaaah...<Eyes wide, mouth agape> Guys???
JACKIE-JADE-RAPHAEL
WHAT?
NINJARA
LOOK! <Points trembling finger>
JACKIE-JADE-RAPHAEL
HUUUUUUUUUUUH!!! <Paralyzed with terror>
Standing before them was a ghost dressed as a bride. She
was strangly illuminated and her heart glowed red with each
heartbeat. Nearby against one wall stood a piano also neglect
and broken-down. Candelabrums sit atop the instrument
casting flickering shadows which reveals the outline-shape
of a person dressed in top hat & cape playing a somber
version of The Wedding March as he pounds the keys. As
the gang turned to run out the door another ghostly manifistation
appeared and blocked their way. He was a cloaked figure
with an evil grinning face a hatbox hung from his hands.
With each beat of his bride's heart his head disappeared
from his body and appeared in the hatbox.
NINJARA <Totally lost it>
We're trapped! There's no way out!
JACKIE CHAN
Hold the candles, I'll try to open this window.
The stuntman moves to one of the attic's dormer windows
and struggling with the stubborn sill pushes it outwards
so he can peer outside. The storm has ended or passed
on leaving behind a clear sky with twinkling stars and full
moon. A gentle breeze fills the air as Chan turns back to
call to his friends.
JACKIE CHAN
C'mon, we're in luck. There's a balcony out here.
RAPHAEL
You mean it's the way out?
JACKIE CHAN
What did you expect? <Smirks> I told you I would
find it.
RAPHAEL
I believed you all the way Chan. <Grins back>
JADE
Yay! <Excited> Finally we can escape from this
house.
NINJARA
Alright! <She too looks happy> Let's go!
Carefully they step through the window onto the catwalk-walkway
on the mansion's rooftop and stand there gazing at their
surroundings. From where they stood the friends had
a commanding bird's eye view of the property or mansion's
grounds. But they know time counts for them to find the
exit from this nightmare and return safely home before anything
else happens.
JACKIE CHAN
Watch your step. The rain made everything slippery.
JADE
The candles went out again.
JACKIE CHAN
Just leave them we're outside now. Everything's
going to be OK. Here's some steps down at the far
end.
He indicates a fire-escape leading to the ground far
below but the others staring at where the steps lead to
have fear written all over their faces.
RAPHAEL
But they lead to the cemetary!
NINJARA
I dunno about going in there.
JADE
Well, <Almost smirks> we can't go back inside there
<Nods head towards open window> or we'll get lost
again trying to find another exit.
NINJARA
What?! No way! Uh-uh, you're not making me
go back inside.
RAPHAEL
Me neither! Over my dead body.
JACKIE CHAN
Come on, it's the only way home. Besides we can
follow the path through the cemetary and it should lead
us to the back-gate near the fence and before you know it
we'll be free.
JADE
I'm with you Jackie, lead the way.
RAPHAEL
On second thought now that I think of it...perhaps we
should do as Chan says and proceed on our way through the
cemetary.
NINJARA <Looks at him uneasy>
You sure? We won't get lost in there?
JACKIE CHAN
I don't think so, I can see one path from here going
all the way <Stares straight ahead> to the far end
so I know we will not get lost.
NINJARA
Well...<Finally she agrees> In that case, I'm willing
to take my chances in there than back in there. <Jerks
thumb over shoulder at the mansion>
JADE
Cool, let's go.
RAPHAEL
Ladies first. <Gestures>
NINJARA
Thank you kindly Ralph. <Smiles> Will you guard
me?
RAPHAEL
Of course, <Bows> your wish is my command.
JADE
Hehehehehehe <Giggles> instant bodyguard.
RAPHAEL
Right you are lady. <Winks at her>
JACKIE CHAN
Oh good grief. <Rolls his eyes> Follow me gang
and stay close.
Then they begin their descent from the roof to the ground
making their way down the fire-escape until they reach the
ground level and pass through the open gates of the family
cemetary trying to find their way out of this living nightmare.
They passed the mansion's old caretaker holding a railroad
lantren too frightened to speak or move, his dog was cowering-whimpering
at his master's feet. Suddenly there was music all around
them and the sky was filled with flying spirits!!!
GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS
When the cryptdoors creak and the tombstones quake.
Spooks come out for a swinging wake.
Happy haunts materalize 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 disquise 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 errie eyes start to shriek and harmonize.
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize.
When you hear the nell of a funeral bell.
Wierd glows gleam where spirits dwell.
Restless bones etheralize rise as spooks of every size.
Hmhmhm-mwahahahahahahaah!!!
Chan, Jade, Raphael & Ninjara passed a group of musicians
who paid no attention to their presence. One was playing
a bagpipe another a harp and another a trumpet. There
was a hunchback playing a flute and a drummer pounding out
the tempo on a gravestone. There was a king and queen balancing
a teeter-totter on a gravestone while their daughter a princess
swings in a swing pushed by the prince. They saw a
hearse stuck in the mud, the driver talking with a duchess
sitting atop the vehicle sipping tea. The coffin had
slipped out and its contents a shrouded corpse also was
sipping a cup of tea. Behind the hearse on a hill a group
of ghosts were enjoying a bicycle ride through the tombstones.
5 marble busts on a raised pedestal are singing "Grim Grinning
Ghosts" in barbershop quartet style. Not far away 2 ghosts
wearing opera theater costumes wail away to the music in
their own voices and a masked executioner was singing a
duet with a medieval decapitated knight who held his singing
head in his extended hand.
JACKIE CHAN
There's that crow again. <He spots the black bird
shadowing them>
RAPHAEL
Why must it always follow us?
JADE
Perhaps it wants to tell us something.
NINJARA
Oh, really? Tell us what? <Curious>
CROW <Warns its visitors>
Caw, caw! Beware my friends, caw, caw! They
may try to follow you home. Caw, caw, caw! <Then
it flies away again>
For a moment the friends stand gawking-gaping after it
disappears wondering what did it mean by that???
NINJARA
Chan? Are you sure we're going the right way.
JACKIE CHAN
Of course, like I said there's only one path.
RAPHAEL
Whoa, check it out. Looks like there's something
up ahead.
The turtle spots a dark ominous shape directly in their
way. They stare at it in confusion and puzzlement
wondering what it could be until Jade recognizes it!
JADE
That's the crypt! That's the one by the fence it's
the way out.
NINJARA
You found the exit! <Excited> We're free at last!
RAPHAEL
Yeeeehaaaaw! <Shouts the Dukes Of Hazzard yell>
JACKIE CHAN
Come on! Stay close and don't stop for nothing,
don't look back!
Together they run towards the crypt whose door is open
to admit them inside its interior. As their footsteps
echo errily on the steps going down underground the Ghost
Host returns to bid them farewell.
GHOST HOST
Did you enjoy your visit?...<Sound of funeral
bell tolling the hours> 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...hmhm...hmhmhmmm...hmhmahahahahaah!!!
Finally the friends emerge through another open door
at the other side of the crypt and pass through the back
gate of the fence.Pausing to stop & catch their breath
they turn to look one last time at the mansion looming before
them. Then without hesitation they turn tail and RUN! They
don't stop running until they've left the haunted house
far behind and return safely home.
