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Megan and May spent most of the summer working on Megan's
grandmother's farm. They had a wonderful time there even though they
worked very hard. (Please read the first book for more information
about this first adventure.) Now they have
returned home just a week before their school season begins and soon
discover that Simon Banister is buying up land in the city just as
he is in the country, and he's out to get that land anyway that he can,
even if it means hiring someone to kill the people who live there.
What's that I hear? Did someone say he even bought the Mall?
How in the world does a single person command such financial power?
What does he want with all this property? He's even put Crazy Bob
who owns the old pawn shop near the airport on his hit list and hired some
very ruthless men to remove Bob from his property!
Megan discovers a mysterious form of energy that flies
around, up and down the streets and through the buildings, even through
people. She sets out to discover what these invisible orbs of light
are. This quest leads them to the most haunted mansion you could
imagine where they discover another mystery that leads them literally into
the underworld.
The Bates Mansion!
Megan, May and Brianna wonder what in the world a family of 5 needed with
a three story mansion with a full basement. They are very curious to
know how this family all died under very mysterious circumstances!
They discover the newspapers did not report the full truth about this
family and what happened to them. What frightened the second family
away from the house in the middle of the night never to return? The
house has been abandoned now since the close of 1947! The answers
can only be found inside the mansion itself, a place where even harden
policemen are afraid to go, especially at night!
Brianna is the annoying neighbor girl. She
lives right next door to Megan. Brianna's parents take her to exotic
places. No mater what someone else has done she has done something better, and she's sure to let them know.
"I went to Hollywood Megan, what did you do over
the summer? You just went to spend the summer on your grandma's
smelly old farm!" Brianna would say.
Brianna has a brand new video camera and keeps it
with her all the time. She sometimes catches people in compromising
positions and shoots video of them. She's always letting herself
into Megan's house without knocking! How will Megan keep her secrets
from this girl? Or will she?
Then there's Megan's brother Gary who beats on
her bedroom door every morning at 6am sharp. "Wake up fish bait! You
are sleeping your life away!" he says as he laughs and strolls off down
the hallway toward the kitchen on his way to work. Every morning
it's the same old thing. Every morning it seems like he calls her
some other degrading name. When ever he gets the chance he grabs her
in a head lock and musses her hair up then he says, "It's cause I love you
sis!" and away he goes. Gary is the reason why Megan doesn't like
sports very much and hates jocks. She considers them all to be
egotistical mental midgets. Then Megan finds out that each year just
as the school year begins the jocks have an initiation process they must
endure. Guess where it takes place at? That's right it takes
place at the stroke of midnight at the very haunted Bates Mansion!
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"What happened?" Brianna asked in a weak voice
as she regained consciousness.
May was standing there beside the bed with the crown device in her hand
and before she could hide it Brianna spotted it. "Ok, you caught us, we
are super heroes involved in a lot of top secret stuff that no one else is
suppose to know about."
"I knew it!" Brianna said remembering all the strange things she had
overheard but had not been able to make any sense out of.
Megan had to cover her mouth to keep from laughing but she had to admit it
was a better answer than what she was about to fabricate.
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"Let's question her and see how much she knows." Megan nodded her head as
she spoke. Brianna was nodding her head in agreement with Megan until she
added, "Then we will erase her memory!"
"I don't know anything I swear I don't." Brianna insisted.
"I don't believe you!" May said as she reached a hand toward Megan, "Give
me the white jewel."
Megan handed the jewel to her friend who promptly exchanged it with the
blue transport jewel.
"Now we will find out what you really know, I'll pump your brain for
information until you scream if you are keeping any secrets from us, I
will find out!"
"Not on my bed you aren't" Megan ordered as May turned to see what she was
talking about. "Last time you did that to someone it made an awful mess,
we never did get the stains out of the bed spread."
Brianna shook her head back and forth in desperation wondering what in the
world May and Megan had in mind for her. Quickly she tried to think of
anything that might spare her the full wrath of the worst thing she might
imagine. "Look I will join you, I can be helpful I can help," Brianna
looked back and forth between the two desperate to find some glimmer of
hope. "Really, I won't tell, I promise, I will even sign a contract in my
own blood if I have to."
Megan bit her lower lip on that one and May turned completely around
trying to prevent Brianna from seeing she was about to burst out laughing.
"May do you have the contracts we use for people to sign in blood?" Megan
asked.
May just shook her head still trying to keep from laughing, "No, but I
will go see if I can find one." May left the room went into the bathroom
and closed the door. She couldn't hold it in any longer and laughed so
hard as quietly as she could that tears were rolling down her cheeks.
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