The pupils believed to be safe within the gates of the PCA, but were they?

"Aaaargh!" Zoey screamed piteously.

Chase tried to calm her down, but he couldn't.

"A green monster!" Zoey screamed.

"What?" Chase wondered.

Zoey thought she was going insane. The monster wasn't there anymore. "But I've really seen one ..."

"Zoey is afraid of monsters!" Logan boomed in a taunting manner, making Dana poke his guts.

Stacey bounded in, screaming in agony. "Some icky green thing came in and stole my cotten swabs!" Stacey weeped piteously. "Aw Logan Reese! Would you please retrieve my cotton swabs, you manly man?"

Logan taunted Stacey ... again.

"I don't know what that green stuff is ..." Josh reasoned. "But there has to be a scientific explanation!" He twitched. "Definitely!"

"What if it's a ghost?" Michael wondered. "I mean ... there are no ghosts, but what if?"

"Stop talking such a confuse stuff!" Logan remarked. "Zoey and Stacey are just whiners"

Josh took his cellular phone, pushing the buttons. "Hi Mindy ... this is Josh ... strange things are going on over here, and I need a scientific explanation. The others start believing in ghosts and similar humbug ... yeah, OK, that would be nice! I love you!" He sighed with relief. "OK, Quinn has prepared something that should help us. It's still in 101, with Lisa Zemo and Mary Ferry."

Zoey's face relaxed. "OK, let's pester Lisa and Mary!"

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Evelyn Kwong opened the door for Josh, Zoey, Michael, and Nicole. Since the deaprture of Mindy, Quinn, Craig, and Eric, it was Evelyn who held the pole position on the honours list. Her only serious competitor was Josh Nichols.

"Are Mary and Lisa here?" Josh asked.

Before answereing, Evelyn grabbed Josh, "Kiss me,you dork!"

Josh twitched like an eel.

Mary told Evelyn to loosen her grip on Josh. "OK, what's up?"

Josh sighed. "People believe there's a ghost around. I've asked Mindy, she believes it is astral ectoplasm. ..."

Mary nodded. "There are ghosts in medieval fantasy games, but not at the PCA. And yeah, I remember that Quinn and Lisa ..." She made Lisa Zemo wake up.

"Oh, is it already ..." Lisa wondered.

Mary shook her head. "No, but some ectoplasmatic phenomenon has been sighted. We need that cobaltine jellicose!"

Lisa nodded. "OK, in a few minutes ..."

"Colbaltine jellicose ... aw ... I love cobaltine jellicose. It sounds like cute boys, Don't you love it too?" Nicole beamed brightly. "Er, what is cobaltine jellicose?"

Lisa and Mary prepared two crystal balls filled with that gelatineous substance. "We've only got that much!" Lisa warned Josh. "Get your safest thrower to ..."

Michael nodded. "I'll take care of that. Logan is still a bit ... distracted." He shrugged.

Michael whistled, making Zoey sing along.

If there's something strange in your naighbourhoodWhom will you call? Ghost Busters!An invisible man sleeping in your bed.Whom will you call? Ghsots Busters!I ain't afraid of no ghost[[72]]

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Michae aimed well and fired ... yet the ghost or whatever it was didn't really budge, kjust twitch like Josh.

Logan accused Michael of having squandered their last chance.

Michael denied that it was his fault as he had struck well.

For that reason, Michael and Logan jumped at each other's throat.

Logan, bag dropped to the floor during their combat.

Zoey called Body Slam Bubba in order to divide the combattants.

At the same time, Dustin and Megan entered that loung, trembling like leaves in the gale.

"The ghostriders were already scary," Megan admitted unto Dustin, "but when I woke up, I had to watch the boob with his tongue stuck in Lola's mouth ..."

Dustin nodded. "True. That was so creepy ..."

"If only I caught the sucker who put us on Drake's and Lola's lap, respectively." Megan clenched her trembling fists.

Dustin nodded. Then he saw Logan's bag. "Hey, isn't that Charles alloway's amulet?"

"By Jove it is!" Megan was astonished. "How does it get there? We've agreed on ..."

Zoey and Michael heard it.

"Logan! If the ghost doesn't kill us all off, I will kill you!" Zoey swore.

Logan shrugged. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"I'll help you, Zoey!" Michael offered.

"OK!" Zoey accepted.

Logan ran cowardly away.

"Dustin wrapped his arms tightly around Zoey's waist." I'm scared, sis!

Megan did the same with Josh.

Zoey had finally succumbed to believe in a supernatural connection. "The medallion must be the reason! The ghost is after the medallion!"

"I won't take the medallion back to Redstone Culch!" Michael and Chase squealed unison.

Paige Howard bounded in. "I admit it ... science can't explain everything!"

Zoey agreed with Paige.

"So yeah ... I know only one of person who is not scared by the supernatural!" Paige declared.

Megan looked quizzically at Dustin, and vice versa.

"Nicole's brother ... he isn't afraid of Death and Satan!" Dustin stammered.

"He always claims that and prays a lot ..." Megan explained.

"Nicole!" Zoey yelled at her former room-maid.

Nicole scratched her head. "Any cute boys around?"

Zoey was annoyed. "No, but do you know where Reginald is hanging out now?"

Nicole pondered. "Reginald isn't cute, but I love him anyways. Isn't he downright likable? Tell me how sweet he is!"

"Nicole!" Zoey was upset. "That's absolutely immaterial! Where is he?"

"Oh ..." Nicole pondered. "He's probably in the attic of Dustin's dorm hall and meditating or reading some good book ..."

Paige, Megan, and Dustin went looking for him.

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"As a girl of science, don't you have to claim that there are no ghosts?" Dustin asked Paige.

"There is no proof that they exist!" Paige remarked. "On the other hand, there isn't any proof that they don't exist, either ..."

Megan scratched her chin. "Cool!" She thought about tormenting Drake and Josh with spooky illusions. But first she had to survive tha creepy hell.

"Physics may just prove that there is no physical existence at the bottom of ghost penomena, but why should there be? Ghosts are by definition not physical!" Paige remarked.

Dustin and Megan nodded.

They found Reginald reading a strange book and praying something.

Paige blushed. She didn't want to be the first to talk to Reginald. "I don't dare to break his concentration ... he might be in some ritualprayer."

Megan shrugged. Alas, the life of the PCA was at stake. "Reggie, listen, we don't want to disturb you, but ..."

"Oh, Megs, Dustin, Paige ... I was just learning some ancient formula" Reginald stammered. He wasn't very talkative, anyways.

Paige sighed with relief. "OK. You know about phantasms and the undead ..." She was still a science girl, but she accepted Reginald's view. Maybe it was just a different way of expressing the same things? According to Einstein[[73]] science needs religion, and vice versa. Paige deprecated boldly the arrogant reductionism of Steven Weinberg , Richard Dawkins, and similar chief scientists.

Reginald nodded timidly.

Dustin dared to continue. "OK, Reggie, we think that there's something going on outside that might be a ghost or a wraith or something like that."

Megan told the story about their excursion to Redstone Culch, and why they thought that the medallion that Logan stole from the tomb had been at the centre of the inflict.

Reginald nodded. He concentrated briefly, whereupon he walked out on the campus.

Megan, Paige, and Dustin didn't follow him past a certain point. Could a few prayers really bring about the bannishment of the green ethereal being?

Reginald kneeled down before the centre of the green tornado. He was sucked away.

Nicole screamed in agony when she saw what was about happening to her brother.

Reginald, in the eye of the undefinable phenomenon, started chanting.

There's a watcher waiting at the edge of the worldWith his thoughts that never darken when the lights go downIn the rhythm of the living and the shifting tribesThrough the cities of destruction in our graceless times.For the universe and the stars are around you nowBut the healer in your heart is only breath away.There is silence and there's blindness in a raging worldBut the healer in your heart is only a moment away![[74]]

When Reginald was done chanting those lines, the undefinable green stuff had dissipated.

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Zoey sighed with relief."So we don't have to return the medallion to Redstobe Culch? Is Galloway buried in the past forever?"

Dustin shrugged."According to Reggie,the curse will be upon the PCA as long as zeal and greed rule over it. And it will be on mankind as long as it hosts greed and zeal, the columns of capitalist economy."

"There's nothing wrong with capitalism!" Logan complained.

"Logan!" Zoey glared at him. "You're still not safe from our wrath! So better keep quiet!"

"Economy ... that reminds me of ..." Chase stammered.

Zoey nodded. "Our test! And we hadn't taken the time to prepare for it! Hodgens will have to give us a bad mark!"

Michael sighed. "Correct! I still haven't understood how our economy works ..."

"The ghost of Charles Galloway has devastated block 5" Chase remarked. "So there's some hope left that we can't get to our classes and the test will be postponed."

"Forget it!" Zoey replied. "Hodgens will never postpone anything. Not even Vietnam had made him budge!"

Michael nodded. "It's hopeless ..."

"And if I fail this class, I won't make it to Harvard!" Zoey weeped piteously. And my grandparents will be disappointed!

Megan and Dustin smirked. Their hope wasn't yet dead. But they refused to tell anything to the older pupils.

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Stacey was the first in the horribly devastated classroom. "I hate green tornadoes! All my swabs are scattered across the campus! And I've broken several libs!"

Chase, Logan, Michael, Nicole, Nicholas, Dana, Addie, and Olivary believed to be late for the test. Alas, Mr. Hodgens wasn't there.

"Mr. Hodgens has never been late!" Chase remarked. "Not once in over 50 years!"

Zoey shrugged.

Michael agreed with Chase.

Beverly, the secretary of Dean Carl Rivers, bounded in. "OK, kids, it seems that the economy classes are to be canceled for quite some time!"

"Quite some time?" Zoey was astonished.

Beverly nodded. "Well, yeah ... we don't know how to explain it, but Mr. Hodgens is now in rehab. He pretends that he has seen ghosts and other stuff that doesn't exist! And he had never ever believed in the supernatural!"

Michael agreed. Why Mr. Hodgens? We, he was now going to enjoy a few hours of cancelled classes.

Zoey sighed with utter relief.

Dustin and Megan bounded in.

Dustin huggled Zoey. "Hi sis! I hope you enjoy Mr. Hodgens's absense."

Zoey scratched her chin. "How do you know ..."

Dustin and Megan whistled innocently.

" Aw, you brother of a bitch!" She smiled at Dustin.

Megan grabbed Dustin. "We still have to figure who is responsible for placing us onto Drake's and Lola's lap, respectively."

Dustin nodded. He saw Zoey going pale. "Zoey, you ... "

As fast as a flash of lightning, Zoey paced out onto the campus, as she feared Megan's revenge more than 1000 ghostriders, and so did Josh.

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[[72] ]Ghost Busters by The Rasmus - which I don't own either

[[73] ]the usual quote is doubtful and often abused, though

[[74] ]Healer in your Heart by Runrig