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Ivory sighed to herself as she entered the next room of Frank Presents: The Insanely Frightening Haunted House. Once again, the haunted house was leaving a lot to be desired. Obviously fake ghosts hung on strings and one animatronic ghost was malfunctioning, barely rising above the chair it was stationed behind. Ivory thought the only good thing about the haunted house was she hadn't paid to get in, a friend had bought her the ticket.

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Continuing onward, Ivory started wondering what she should tell her friend about the haunted house. Ivory didn't want to seem ungrateful for the gift, but the poorly executed display of "haunted" decorations made her wish her friend hadn't spent the moles at all. Ivory was so distracted by her thoughts, she failed to notice she wasn't the only one currently in the obviously-put-together-as-a-monetary-scam haunted house.

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"Oh how lovely," Ivory muttered sarcastically. "A room of inflatable, oversized mushrooms."

Ivory vowed never to tell anyone about how she became lost in the inflatable forest of mushrooms for several excruciatingly long minutes. she smacked one of the mushrooms, causing it to let out a low hisssss as it began deflating. Ivory started moving faster to avoid getting caught having accidentally broken one of the props, once again failing to notice she wasn't alone in the haunted house.

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"Well this room isn't as bad as the others," Ivory grumbled out loud as she entered a section of the house decorated like a graveyard.

"I'm inclined to agree," said an unknown voice making Ivory jump, "But the walls are just covered in printed plastic sheets."

"And the tombstones are obviously styrofoam," added a second unknown voice. Ivory looked around surprised to find she wasn't alone in the room.

"The glowing crystal isn't a bad touch," the first voice, belonging to a strange owl responded. "Not sure why a crystal would be in a graveyard though..."

"Let's find out!" the owner of the second voice said excitedly, racing towards the strange gem.

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"Don't touch it!" Ivory shouted too late. The peculiar creature barely reached the crystal when the room went black. Ivory lost her baring as there was suddenly no up or down, nothing to be seen, and nothing to be heard. For an undeterminable amount of time, which may have been less than a second or months long, Ivory floated in the vastness (or minuteness?) of nothingness.

With a loud wham!, Ivory thumped onto a cold, gray floor. "Ohhh, my head..." Ivory grumbled as she stood herself up, quickly realizing something was wrong with her body.

"What happened to you?" called the barely familiar sound of the strange owl...only it was coming from a bat?

"Oh no, oh no, oh no," came the voice of the peculiar creature who was now...large and furry instead of small and scaly.

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"What's wrong with me?" shouted Ivory, discovering her limbs were covered in blue scales.

"You? Look at me!" responded the large, furry creature.

"I have to get out of here!" Ivory shouted, running off, the others following behind him.

"Let's calm down, please," said the owl-bat as they reached a large room where it was difficult to tell down from up. "We're all experiencing something strange and getting over-excited will be of no assistance to us."

"Oh! Oh-ho!" came yet another new voice to Ivory. "Seems you three have gotten yourselves into some trouble, haven't ya?" Ivory looked towards the new voice, finding a young Thunder Monster in the room with them. "Oh I've seen this before," the Thunder Monster said as it examined them. "Only way to fix it is to find what caused it."

"And how do we do that?" the furry creature responded with indignity.

"The quest is afoot!" a cried the owl-bat before anyone else could respond.

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Ivory followed the Thunder Monster - whose name Ivory now knew to be "Alder", and that Alder was much older than he looked - out a door and into a foggy wood of bare-branched trees. The owl-bat, Gerald, flew excitedly over the barren trees, seeming to enjoy himself, with the once-not-so-furry creature Eldag following behind them.

"A green crystal you said?" asked Alder the Thunder Monster. "That might be hard to find around these parts."

"Could a different gem help us?" Ivory asked.

"No, other ones will just make things worse for you, we need to find another bright green one. The same exact one if we can."

Ivory huffed, seeing Gerald enjoying himself perhaps a little too much for the current circumstances.

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Gerald's over-excitement led to trouble faster than Ivory could have imagined.

"Oh look! A crystal!" Gerald shouted as he divided towards a bright, glittering crystal underneath the river they were travelling along.

"Gerald - don't!" Ivory once again shouted too late.

Gerald barely reached the surface of the river when a bright flash overtook Ivory's body, her limbs aching, stretching, contorting to unnatural shapes and angles. A quick glance revealed the bodies of Gerald and Eldag doing the same.

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"Now you've done it," Alder the Thunder Monster said as Ivory felt her limbs finally begin to settle.

"Eeep!" came Gerald's voice followed quickly by a soft splash!

"I've got 'im," Alder said as he waded into the river, pulling a not-quite-small-but-not-quite-large mouse to the bank.

"I'm still furry!" wailed Eldag. "I miss my beautiful green scales!"

"I did warn yeh," Alder scolded.

Ivory looked at her reflection in the water, sighing as he saw a face which wasn't her own looking back at her.

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"Arrrgh!" Ivory shouted as she found herself being entangled in some very unruly and unkind vines.

"It's a trap!" screamed Eldag.

"We're going to die!" yelped Gerlad.

"Don't be so dramatic," Alder replied calmly as a set of vines twirled themselves around him. "They're just having a bit of fun."

"This is fun?" Ivory cried as vines hoisted her into the air.

"Not fun at all!" Eldag shrieked in alarm as vines turned her upside-down.

"Actually, I think it's quite relaxing now that I'm used to it," Gerald replied serenely as vines swung him side to side.

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"See? They're helpful little things once you stop frightening them," Alder the Thunder Monster said as the somehow conscious vines carried him through the dense trees.

"It is nice not having to walk," Gerald responded, glancing at the bog below them.

Ivory grumbled as she was passed vine to vine, noticing Eldag didn't seem too pleased either.

"Ah, here we go," Alder said as vines set him down on a clearing in the bog. "This seems like a good spot to continue on foot... claw... paw?"

Ivory sighed in relief to feel ground below herself again, even if it wasn't firm ground.

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"Which way should we go?" Ivory asked Alder.

"Let's try this way," Eldag said, leading the way.

Ivory glanced at Alder who merely shrugged. "Any way is a good way." Ivory sighed, following behind the others.

"Oh no.. Oh no oh no..." Ivory looked around the others hearing Eldag's worried voice. Eldag started to back up quickly, ramming into Gerald then Alder.

"What is it?" Ivory asked anxiously as Alder was rammed into her. Yet no one was able to answer, for as one they fell into the swampy water beside them.

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Ivory gargled wordlessly as she is pulled down into the depths of the marshy water, dragged along by the torrent of a strong whirlpool. Through brief glances from spinning, she sees the rest of her group being dragged down along with her. Slowly the little light available from the world above disappears, leaving Ivory to twirl along the whirlpool in darkness.

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A loud shuck! and a soft thump leaves Ivory laying on the muddy floor of a dark and expansive cavern. Ivory watches as one by one the whirlpool drops his comrades onto the ground around her. Holding her head, Ivory squints looking around the dark, damp cavern.

"I think I see some light down this way," Gerald says as he starts down a vague path.

Ivory glances in concern at Eldag and Alder before following after Gerald.

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"It's getting rather hot," Gerald pants as the cavern begins to fill with steam.

"Where is it coming from?" Eldag asks, getting her answer much sooner than she expected as a small flame shoots up from the ground beside her.

"Careful, dearies," Alder softly calls. "Lots of dangerous places down here."

"You're telling me," Ivory says sarcastically, not noticing the shining red gem hidden behind the flames before her.

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A mighty fwoosh! sends Ivory and her comrades flying up into the cavern. How was Ivory to know there was a dangerous crystal beside her? Ivory screamed in fear between the quickly approaching cavern roof and the feeling of her limbs once again stretching and contorting. Yet Ivory's cries fell on deaf ears, as no one could hear her over their own shrill screams and rushing steam carrying them all upwards through a narrow cavern shaft.

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Caught in the rising steam fueled by the roaring inferno below, Ivory, Alder, Eldag, and Gerald emerge from a fissure, spit high into the night sky above.

Alder seemed to be enjoying himself as he clasped his hands behind his head, freefalling through the sky. Ivory reached for Alder, fearing for all of their safety, when a breeze caught her wings pulling them open, causing her to glide right past Alder.

Ivory cried out in confusion and alarm as the breeze began to carry her away from the others.

"We're coming, Ivory!" she vaguely heard someone shout behind him.

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Ivory sighed in relief as he splashed into a lake high in the nearby mountains. Soft calls from above the water let her know the others had successfully followed her and landed safely. Ivory emerged from the water pulling herself onto the rocky ground, staring wide-eyed at Eldag and Gerald.

"Shut it, Alder!" Eldag said angrily, her transparent body hovering ominously.

Yet this anger didn't phase Alder, who cackled in glee. "Look at yourselves! Such chaos you three create!"

Gerlad perched, preening his long feathers. "At least this is closer to normal for me. Being stuck as a wingless-mouse was terrible."

"Are there winged mice where you're from?" Ivory asked curiously.

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"What is that?" Eldag asks, looking around with alarm.

"What's what?" Ivory asked suspiciously. Yet she didn't wait long for an answer, as the water from the lake began to climb up her legs. Ivory quickly flexed her wings, taking to the air.

Eldag floated grumpily after him, with Gerald taking a moment to grab Alder from the quickly rising water. Alder complained loudly as they flew away from the flooding lake. Ivory spotted a brightly shining crystal beside the lake, causing her to flap her wings faster.

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"You lot are no fun," Alder continued to complain as they rose higher and higher among the mountainside.

"We're not here for fun," Ivory hissed.

"Aren't you?" Alder countered, causing Ivory to pause.

"Do you see that?" Eldag questioned, pointing towards a shining object on the mountainside. Ivory's eyes widened spotting a bright green gem nestled on a rocky ledge. "This is it!" Eldag shouted in excitement, doing her best to hover towards the crystal. Gerald sympathetically flew behind Eldag, flapping his wings to push her along faster.

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Ivory reached the rocky ledge first, landing beside the glowing crystal. It did appear the same as the type they had encountered in the haunted house. Approaching carefully, Ivory squawked in alarm as her limbs began to stretch and contort once again.

"It worked!" she heard Gerald call landing beside her. Ivory watched as the bodies of Gerald and Eldag both began to change, noticing Alder smiling mischievously behind them.

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"Okay, we're back to normal," Ivory said in relief. "But how do we get back home?"

"The crystal brought us here, could it take us back?" Eldag asked, now happily back in her scaly form.

"The crystal only transports one way," Alder cackles.

Ivory narrowed her eyes at Alder, "So how do we get home?"

Alder smiled wide, "It's no fun if I tell you."

Ivory sighed in frustration, she looked around them, trying to find something, anything. "What about...that?" she asked, signaling towards a set of branches creating an archway.

"Let's find out," Gerald said taking the lead.

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"Oh very good eyes you have there, Ivory!" Alder called as he climbed the twisting branches of the archway, perching himself at the top.

"How does this work?" Gerald asked, landing on a branch.

Ivory approached the archway cautiously, "Will this really get us home?"

"Or at least back to the haunted house?" Eldag asked.

"Only one way to find out," Alder smiled. Ivory took a deep breath, closing her eyes, quickly entering the archway, Gerald and Eldag following. Ivory heard Alder's voice calling after them, "Thanks for visiting Frank's Insanely Frightening Haunted House!"

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Ivory blinked in surprise, finding himself suddenly back inside the obviously-fake graveyard filled with styrofoam tombstones. Eldag quickly raced to the only door on the far side of the room, wailing in surprise as a giant inflatable vampire swung down in front of her. Even Gerald let out a hoot! of surprise.

Ivory took one last look around the room, spotting the troublesome gem near the entrance, and shot out the door after Gerald and Eldag.

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Ivory paused outside the haunted house with Gerald and Eldag, looking back at the half-hearted decorations marking the building. Eldag and Gerald shared their relief of finally being back home, and were talking of telling their friends of the crazy adventure they went on.

Turns out Frank's Insanely Frightening Haunted House had a lot more to offer than first appearances revealed. Ivory wasn't so certain anypet would believe her though unless they witnessed it themselves... Was that why Ivory's friend bought her the ticket and sent her alone?
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