Chapter 1:
Ghaleon sat at his desk in the Mystic Ruins, plotting his dastardly plans.
"Uh, sir?" Hiro asked.
"What is it?!?" Ghaleon answered.
"Uh, sir... I was... wondering, well, since tomorrow's Christmas, I was wondering...if I could have the day off."
"Not at all!"
"But sir! It's Christmas!"
"Christmas! Bah, humbug!"
"Well, it's time for me to leave, so good-bye, sir, and a Merry Christmas to you!"
"Humbug!"
Ghaleon returns to work as Hiro leaves.
"Ghaleon...Ghaleon... ..."
"Who's there?"
"Ghaleon! It's me..."
Ghaleon looks quickly to the side to see a very familiar ghost - Dyne's.
"I came to warn you... that three ghosts will visit you.. .and try to make you repent your ways..."
Suddenly, a small angel that looks like Ghaleon appears over Ghaleon's shoulder.
"Ghaleon! Listen to Dyne! He was your friend! Repent from your evil ways!"
Then, a small devil, resembling Ghaleon appears over his other shoulder.
"Aw, what do you listen to HIM for??"
The devil starts to fight with the angel, and both disappear in a cloud of smoke.
"Dyne!" Ghaleon called, but he was no longer there.
With this unsettling news, Ghaleon went to his bedroom to fall asleep, and dream about his plans. He didn't get very far until he was awakened by a voice:
"Ghaleon! Ghaleon!"
Ghaleon awakes to see Ronfar's spirit. Ronfar holds a small gift in his hands, addressed to him from Hiro. He opens it to find a pair of fuzzy dice.
"Who are you?" Ghaleon asked.
"I'm the Ghost of LUNAR's Present. It's a pun, get it?"
"Wait a minute? Aren't you supposed to be the Ghost of Christmas Past? That's the way it is in the script!"
"No, Ramus VI is the Ghost of Christmas Past. Victor Ireland decided that we should go Present, Past, then Future. The other way messes people up."
Ghaleon looks off the set.
"Sorry, Ghal," Victor Ireland says, "It was a last-minute change. Hope you don't mind."
Ghaleon gives a sardonic smile and laugh, and then returns to Ronfar's ghost.
"Come on, Ghaleon. I'm here to show you your past - no, future, or is it... ...See! Now you got ME all messed up!!!"
"LUNAR's present!!!" Victor Ireland yells from off the set.
"Yeah...LUNAR's Present. Here we go!"
In a flash, they appear at Hiro's house. Ghaleon looks through the window, and sees Hiro and Lucia laying in bed together.
"OOPS!! That's LUNAR's Future! Wrong house!"
Ghaleon goes to the REAL house, with Ronfar's ghost beside him. He sees Hiro and Lucia, holding Ruby in their hands.
"Whoa!" Ghaleon tells the ghost. "Somethin's wrong here! Ruby is supposed to be Hiro's KID, not his PET that's sick! It says that in the script!"
"She's an understudy..." Ronfar's ghost said.
"But still! She's a dragon! Not a human!"
"She was adopted..."
"Oh..." Ghaleon understands, at last!
"Anyways, your mean treatment of Hiro will bring less money into his house, and his family will all die!"
"Good! One less nuisance on my list! Now, Zophar will rule without ANY interrupt..."
"But what about Lucia?" Ronfar interrupted, "You want her to die? I thought your plan would be at its climax when she found 'Althena.' Am I wrong? If she's not there, where's the fun in it?"
Ghaleon looks inside the house to see Hioro splitting a Dover Nut into thirds with a knife, as their meal for supper.
"I can't bear this any longer! Ronfar, take me back!"
Chapter 2:
Ghaleon suddenly awakes in bed - a dream! Only a dream! Suddenly, he hears some obnoxious sounds coming from the lower floor. He teleports down to the ground floor of the Mystic Ruins to see the ghost of Borgan, and all of Ghaleon's faeries "enjoying his presence..."
"What is this?" Ghaleon asks angrily.
Borgan holds out his hand and a large, metal box erupts from the floor. He opens it, and an extremely large turkey dinner floats towards him. "Oh! Look what we have here!"
"HEY! I was saving that for next Thanksgiving! I was going to let it rot, change its appearance so it looks like a fruitcake, and then give it to Hiro next year!"
Borgan greedily stuffs his face, ignoring Ghaleon.
"Wait a minute!" Ghaleon says. "Isn't Ramus VI supposed to be the next ghost? Ronfar said so before!"
"Ronfar can't even tell his front from his rear - or his beer... - or his present from his past! How do you trust him?"
"Well...I... ..."
"Anyways, Ramus isn't here - he died from massive over-eating."
"Why would that matter? He has to be dead anyways, doesn't he? And he had to name his kid Ramus VII, didn't he?"
"Well, yeah, and Victor Ireland thought I'd be a better actor in this, so Ramus wouldn't be here anyways!"
Ghaleon looks off-set to Vic, with the same sardonic smile and laugh as before.
"Another...last minute change?" Ghaleon asks.
"Yup. Sorry, Ghal. I would've told you, but you were too busy flirting with Xenobia...I mean...uh..."
"THAT'S IT!!!"
Ghaleon flies into a rage, killing Vic with a special magic attack. Vic's dead body lies on the floor, bleeding into the rug.
"Anyways," Borgan interrupts, "I am the Ghost of LUNAR's Past. I am here to take you to your past."
In a flash of light, they are gone.
Ghaleon and Borgan appear on a snowy street, looking at an old house. Inside are the Goddess Althena, Quark, and other numerous people dancing around having a party to celebrate Dyne's last victory over the Black Dragon. Sitting in a corner is a short geek, dressed in the robes of a Premier of Vane.
"That's me, huh..." Ghaleon says.
"No, it's me!" Borgan exclaims sarcastically. Then he begins speaking seriously - "You were bummed because Dyne died, and you wanted revenge on everybody!"
Ghaleon is about to burst into tears.
"Spirit, I can't take much more of this! Please take me home!"
Chapter 3:
Again, Ghaleon woke up in bed. It was all a dream! How stange! He dreamed that he dreamt a dream in his dreams! How peculiar!
Suddenly, an extremely short, black robed figure appears before him.
"Oh!" Ghaleon exclaims, "You're probably the Ghost of LUNAR's Future, ready to show me when I die, right?"
"Actually, no," the figure says.
Ghaleon tears the robe off of the figure only to see two white mice, one on the other's shoulders, and the one on the bottom was on stilts.
"Actually, we're two lab mice plotting revenge by taking over the world!" one mouse says.
"NARF!" the other one exclaims.
"Well, well, well... Perhaps you can help me... You see, I need to take revenge on the world too!"
"What's your plan?" the more intelligent mouse asked.
"I was going to build a Neo-Grindery so I could try to run over the world again, while killing Hiro, Ruby, and the rest of their gang in the process!"
"I'll help you build the machine!"
"Sure," Ghaleon said, "Just go to Pentagulia and tell the Fake Althena that Ghaleon sent you."
"NARF!"
As they leave, Ghaleon comments to himself about the strange pair.
Then, another hooded, black-robed figure appears before Ghaleon. This one was as tall as the average human.
"Let me guess," Ghaleon said, "you're two lab albino baboons, trying to take over the world!"
The ghost just stood there, breathing. Then, Ghaleon realizes that he has a mask on. Ghaleon lifts the mask to see Rick Moranis!
"Rick!" exclaimed Ghaleon, "You're not on this set!"
"What? This isn't 'SPACEBALLS?'"
"No," Ghaleon answers, "it's a lame excuse for a LUNAR Christmas Carol! Now, go back to your set!"
Rick puts the mask back on and starts the heavy breathing again.
"WELL," Rick says in his Darth Vader voice, "HAVE YOU SEEN PRINCESS VESPA RUNNING THROUGH HERE?"
"No, but I'll check backstage."
Ghaleon goes backstage and hears someone in the dressing room. He goes in and sees Lucia, half naked, changing into her clothes for the next scene.
"AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!" she screams as she slams the door in Ghaleon's face.
Ghaleon goes back on stage to see Rick Moranis, waiting for him.
"IS SHE THERE?"
"Dressing room - backstage. She's ALL yours!"
Finally, when Rick is gone, Ghaleon returns to his Neo-Grindery plans, and yet another man in black comes to see him.
"Sorry," the man says in an FBI-type voice, "Did you see two white mice come through here followed by Rick Moranis?"
"They went that way..." Ghaleon points towards the backstage area. "Who are you?"
The man takes out a lightbulb and a copper wire while saying, "I am just a figment of your imagination, and this... ...is a standard primitive neuralizer!"
The light bulb turns on and Ghaleon is blinded for a second until he opens his eyes, sees nothing, and holds his hand up to his forehead. Unknowingly, he forgets the "man in black." He shakes his head, and everything is back to normal.
"Now, back to my work..."
It isn't much longer until Ghaleon gets another visitor, dressed in black. Unluckily, it's the one who TALKS LIKE THIS!
"GHALEON!!"
"Who are you?"
"WHAT? YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM? PERHAPS A LITTLE JIG WILL JOG YOUR MEMORY!"
He looks at a skeleton in the background, wearing a top hat. The skeleton bursts into song.
"There's a place you're always welcome... ...It's as nice as it could be! Anyone can get in... ...'cause it's absolutely free! That's DEATH! No need to take a breath! Just lie around all day... ...without a single bill to pay - HOORAY! That's DEATH!"
"No! NO, STOP IT SPIRIT!!! I can't take any more of this! Bring me home!!"
"UH, GHALEON! YOU ARE ALREADY HOME! AND I'M NOT A SPIRIT, I'M DEATH!"
"You're not the Ghost of LUNAR's Future?"
"NOPE, BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THERE'S A SIGN ON THE FRONT DOOR TO THE MYSTIC RUINS SAYING: BLACK-CLOTHED PEOPLE WELCOME!"
Death disappears and Ghaleon appears in the graveyard, in front of Ruby's grave.
Chapter 4:
Ghaleon is brought towards Ruby's grave, by the REAL Ghost of LUNAR's Past.
"Are you the real ghost this time?" Ghaleon asked.
"YES," bellowed the ghost. "I am the Ghost of LUNAR's Future. I have come to show you Ruby's grave!"
"Aw, the poor thing! She dies? I was going to wait for a chicken in my fridge to mold, and then, I'd change it into a bag of cat food to give to her next Christmas!"
"Would you rather see your own grave?"
"No need," Ghaleon says. "You forget, I'm dead already!"
"Oh, yeah - oops... ...Oh well - THIS grave has your name on it!!"
"It probably only says: Here lies Ghaleon - the Magic Emperor, blah, blah, blah..."
Ghaleon reads the grave: "Here lies Ghaleon - the DEAD Magic Emperor, blah, blah, blah..."
"Oops!!! I was wrong! Who are you, spirit?"
"I am the one who controls your future! You would have NO future without me!"
"Ha! There is NO ONE I need to survive!"
He lifts the hood to see the Ghost of Victor Ireland before him.
"Oh...uh...Hi, Vic! Um...Sorry for killing you and all that..."
"You forget, Ghaleon, I DO control your future! From now on, you are to READ THE SCRIPT! YOU ARE TO GO TO HIRO'S HOUSE AND READ WHAT'S IN THE SCRIPT!!!"
His voice fades, as Ghaleon wakes up in bed. Quickly, he dashes off to Hiro's house.
<KNOCK!> <KNOCK!> <KNOCK!>
"Hiro! Can you get that?" Lucia called from Ruby's room.
"Sure, Lucia." He opens the door to see Ghaleon reading from a large book.
"LUCIA- PLEASE- ACCEPT- THESE- AS- A- GIFT- FOR- YOUR- HUSBAND'S- GOOD-WORKING-SKILLS!"
He holds out a sack of stuff.
"Ghaleon? I'm Hiro, not Lucia!"
"Oops!" He continues on, "I- HOPE- THAT- RUBY'S- ILLNESS- WILL- BE- CURED- SOON-... ...What is this ^%R#*@%@*_^ that I'm reading?!?!"
Victor Ireland's ghost appears behind Hiro.
"THE SCRIPT... ... ...STICK TO THE SCRIPT... ..."
Hiro opens the sack to see a giant fruitcake. He laughs, and Ghaleon drops the script. He picks it up, but can't find the page, so he starts reading from the page he opened to.
"AND- I- WOULD- HAVE- GOTTEN- AWAY- WITH- IT- HAD- IT- NOT- BEEN- FOR- YOU- MEDDLING- KIDS- AND- THAT- PUPPY!"
Ruby calls out to Ghaleon from her room. "HEY! Time for an eye exam! I AM NOT A PUPPY!"
Ghaleon continues, "... ...AND- THAT-... ...DRAGON!"
Lucia looks at Ruby. "A dragon named..."
"RUBY-RUBY-ROOOO!!!!" Ruby finishes.
*****MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!*****