Ah'll be right back. You best stay up here Felicity. If anything happens ya should run and get the Constable." Gus slipped down the rope into the cellar.

"...how come all the vampires we read about drink blood? ...Someone should've told that to the Dracla guy." ~Izzy Pettibone

"Andrew? Morgan? Are you alright?" Lily asked stepping closer to the hole hearing the noise. The floor suddenly gave out on the edge and broke, Lily tumbling down and crashing to the bottom.

"Lily?" Juliet called looking at her Nan with worry.

Lily held her leg. "Ouch." She muttered.

"Don't move Lily," Andrew said, "I'll have to find something to make a splint for you."

Peter looked down. "I am coming down." He said and with that he went down the rope quickly and rushed to Lily's side only to see an old woman stepping towards Andrew and Morgan.

Felicity turned around and nudged Gus. "Gus," she whispered, "Could it be true?"

Juliet heard Felicity's comments to Gus. "I think it is some old woman trying to scare us." Juliet said.

"We know that there's a woman callin' herself Lisilee. Ah better go make sure everyone's okay. Ah'll be right back. You best stay up here Felicity. If anything happens ya should run and get the Constable." Gus slipped down the rope into the cellar.

"Please don't suck our blood Lisilee!" Morgan pleaded. "My blood isn't even sweet. It's sour and yucky."

The old woman scoffed. "How did you children find out about our hideout? I suppose ya heard about the train robbery. I'll do worse than suck yer blood if you inform anyone!"

"Hide out?" Gus said, "wait ah minute. Ah know who ya are. Yer the woman who robbed the train in Halifax with her two sons. Yer the most horrible woman in the entire Province!"

Lisilee's two sons ran out of the dark. They were burly men with handlebar mustaches who loathed baths.

"You children are not going to run and tattle or be witnesses. Now Shove it!"

Lislee looked at her two sons impatiently. "I said shove these milk crates out of the way so we can tie all these children up!"

"Ohhhhh," Lily whined. "I don't want to be tied up," Lily said looking at Andrew, Peter, Gus and Morgan forcing a smile.

"Who doesn't want to be tied up?" Morgan replied.

"Your right..." Lily said trailing off.

"I am sure everything will be fine," Peter told Lily.

Kyle held his breath. 'Great,' he thought, 'some train robber and thugs of sons are hiding out here and now my friends are in trouble, thanks to Morgan's stupid prank! They need help!' So, Kyle stayed where he was, figuring it was their best bet. He squatted down behind some crates and watched and waited for what would happen next.

Juliet heard what the voice had said. "Um excuse me.. But this is my house." Juliet commented.

"Eat my corset you old bag!" Lisilee scoffed and then took another puff from her cigarette.

Juliet gasped at Lisilee's words. "Well... I never.."

"We've got to get out of here!" Felicity whispered to everyone above. She ran outside and began to run for the Constable. She noticed Felix and Izzy looking inside. "Come on, you two!" She grabbed both their arms. "We've got to find Constable Jeffries!" The three headed for town.

Morgan looked up and shrugged. "It figures my sister would run away in a time of trouble. I'm holding her personally responsible for this."

"You children are in for it! You know what happened to the last children who came here? Well let me tell you a story..."

***story/flash back***

"Sabrina, I'm hungry"
"Oh shutup, you can wait until Richie shows up."
"Whens the Constable get here?" Dickon said.
"How would I know."
"Boy, we sure destroyed that dumb dance of theirs. Let's go in this mansion and destroy all their pies and punch too."
"Good idea, be quiet Lizzy. Don't growl. Food will come later."
"After this lets go beat up our teacher Miss King."
"I'm bored."
"Okay, were inside, now what?" "Hey who are you?"
Lisilee turned around, clenching her candelabra, which illuminated the room. "What are you children doing here?"

"Were here because we want to be here."
"Yeah who's going to stop us."
"Richie tried that once," Mary said.
"Yeah, but we know Richie could never take Sabrina in a fight."
"Hey, look, there's Richie now!"

Richie ran out of a parlor with a mountie and three masked wrestlers from the recent carnival.

Suddenly, Lisilee's sons ran from behind a curtain and held their guns at the kids. "Now who is laughing now, Hahahaha." Lisilee smirked as they took the kids, tied them up and brought them deeper into the cellar.

***end of flashback/story***

"And those children, all twenty four of them, were never heard of again." Lislee's laugh was only interupted by coughing, followed by another puff of her cigarette. "Now tie these children up! And take them to the depths of this cellar with the others!"

Lisilee's men, carrying guns, began to tie up Gus and Andrew. Morgan gulped. Meanwhile, Lily also sat and waited to be tied up, shuddering.

* * * * *

"Constable!" Felicity called out as she entered the office. "There's trouble at the old house by the creek." She told him all about the ordeal with Lisilee.

"Strange goin'-ons, I must say!" he replied. "Well, let's go check it out. Show me where the house is."

Felicity and Izzy led him to the scene of the incident. When they got there, Felicity looked in the window, and saw Lisilee's men proceed to tie everyone up. "I know where I've seen them before!" the Constable exclaimed. "There's a wanted poster with their pictures on it back in my office. The lot of them are wanted for train robbery. Felicity, you best stay out here with Izzy and your brother. I'm going in."

Izzy snuck toward the cellar and looked inside. "The Constable's down there now; he's arresting them!" she said.

"Do you see anything else?" Felicity asked.

"Just a minute...."

"No one can ever say Avonlea isn't interesting." Felix muttered. "I wonder what that lunatic will do next."

"She's no vampire, I can tell you that." Peg Bowen answered, coming out in that strange way of hers.

Izzy turned around. "Miss Bowen!" she exclaimed.

"I told you she wasn't a vampire, Felix King," Felicity retorted matter-of-factly.

Felix glared at Felicty. "I NEVER said she was. In fact, I barely said anything at all. That Vampire thing was Morgan's stupid idea!"

"Vampire's aren't all that bad," Peg said matter of factly. "In fact, most don't actually drink blood."

"Then how come all the vampires we read about drink blood?" Izzy mused. 'Someone should've told that to the Dracla guy,' she thought.

Peg shook her head. "Dracula was a Prince in Transylvannia who was a sadist. He loved to kill people for simple mistakes. They said he'd impal his soldiers and then his wine was always so red...naturally people decided it was *blood* red wine...with a rather odd taste..." Peg looked around grimly. "Vampires have a disease that makes them almost alergic to sun light and they crave strange things."

Felix couldn't tell if Peg was pulling his leg or not, but he shuddered anyway. "I think she's worse then anything." He admitted. "Even worse then my sister." He whispered to Izzy.

"Almost all evil people are worse than Felicity sometimes," Izzy whispered back.

"What are you two children talking about?" Felicity wondered.

"Nothing!" Izzy replied quickly. She elbowed Felix lightly to give him the hint.

"Yes, that's right, nothing." Felix added. "We were just commenting."

Peg sighed, "well, I guess I'll be on my way."

"How does she do that?" Felix wondered.

* * * * *

The Constable made his way into the house, and went down into the cellar. "Stop in the name of the law!" he exclaimed, drawing a pistol and pointing it at Lisilee and her men.

"Bah! The jig is up!" Lisilee scoffed as the Constable confronted them. Lisilee and her sons put their hands in the air and walked out of the old estate followed by the Constable. Lisilee turned and looked at the old home and a tear welled up in her eye. "Bye bye Avonlea," she said.

"Good ol' Avonlea," one of Lisilee's son's exclaimed, "the greatest place on God's green earth!"

"Oh shove it!" Lisilee spewed.

"The Constable' ought ta lock ya up fer good," Gus told Lisilee as she passed by and was taken to prison.

Morgan let out a sigh of relief and then followed Gus and Andrew back to where Felicity, Izzy, Felix and the others were.

"I told you there weren't any such thing as vampires," Andrew told Morgan.

Morgan shook his head. "I just can't believe I let you all talk me into this."

"Oh, get over it, Morgan," Felicity replied. "We're all safe and sound and that's the important thing. Come on, Felix and Andrew; let's go home. Mother and Father are probably worried."

"Wait up Felicity," Andrew said, "Lily has hurt herself. Are you okay to walk Lily?" He asked.

Lily stepped on her ankle and winced in pain. "It hurts quite a bit Andrew." Lily said.

"Oh, Lily you poor dear." Juliet said.

"I will help you to the carriage Lily." Peter said.

"Thank you for the offer," Lily said smiling gratefully.

Lily, Juliet, Peter and Nan all went to the carriage. "Thank you for showing me around Andrew and Felicity." Lily said gratefully.

"It was no trouble," replied Felicity. "I'm just sorry that it turned out like this!"

"It was nice to meet you." Felix added, "Believe me, Avonlea isn't always like this!"

"Yeah," Andrew added, "except for the time those carnival people kidnapped Sara, or the time Mr. Beedy ran off with the school library funds, or the time Abe Pike tried to kidnap Gus, or the time Amanda Stone tried to... Oh, you get the picture."

Felix started to mentally do spelling words, remembering that he had to find Sara and study with her.

"Andrew King, if you mention that tramp's name again, I'll have your hide." Felicity still wasn't *quite* over Gus's former infatuation with the beautiful jewel thief. Just the mention of Amanda's name would send Felicity reeling.

"Okay okay," Andrew said defensively, "I'll never mention Amanda Stone's name again. I just heard about it anyway. I heard that Gus liked to call her Mandy from time to time," Andrew teased.

"We should go home, too, Morgan," added Izzy. "Come on. Last one there is a rotten egg!" She dashed through the woods and, eventually, into her house.

Felix gave in. He was getting hungry anyways. "See ya tommorow Iz!" He called out, "See if you can convince the Morgan we know to come back!" He quickened his step, thinking of the appetizing dinner his mother was preparing.