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A Chinese Ghost Story
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    Red Beard shoots out some magic papers to form a trail and tells Ling to escape on them.  Ling agrees and runs on top of the magic paper wherever it leads him.  Red Beard tells White Cloud that they are fellow Ghostbusters, and that they shouldn't be fighting.
     White Cloud answers him by saying that he is a better Ghostbuster since he destroys all ghosts, unlike Red Beard, who lets them go.  He then throws cloud bombs at Red Beard, so Red Beard's barrel falls apart along with the paper trails that Ling is running on.  Luckily, a bush breaks Ling's fall and he lands on the ground.  Red Beard disappears with the broken barrel in the ocean.
     Ling and Shiu Sin reach LAN Temple.  Ling opens his umbrella and Shiu Sin appears.  Today is the Halloween party and Shiu Sin invites Ling to join the celebration.  She hears music and quickly flies towards it saying that it is Casper. 
     Casper (a giant-size black figure with red eyes and long gray hair) starts singing and the girl ghosts faints at the admiration of his voice.  Shiu Sin flies to him and dances around him.  Butterfly can't stand Shiu Sin showing off in front of everyone, so she throws a bunch of butterflies at Shiu Sin.  Shiu Sin sees the butterflies coming at her and turns them all to flowers.  Butterfly shoots her with another butterfly.  Shiu Sin loses her balance and falls.  She grabs hold of Casper's hair and accidentally breaks off two of them.  Casper yells out in anger, and his fire breath vaporizes a whole lot of ghosts. 
     Shiu Sin lands on the ground.  Casper wants to destroy her, saying he will never forgive her for pulling off his hair.  Ling stands in front of Shiu Sin to protect her.  He yells at Casper, complaining that a big guy like him shouldn't be picking on a tiny female like Shiu Sin.  He tells Casper that all Casper cares about is himself.
     Casper denies being selfish.  He just says that he loves himself too much, and he doesn't wish for much except everyone worshipping him.  (Swallow's note: Very silly, huh?)  Casper then notices that Ling is human and becomes very angry at him for being brave enough to tell him off.  He tries to attack them.
     Suddenly, the ground cracks and White Cloud and Ten Miles appear.  Once again, they introduce themselves by saying their names out loud.  They start fighting with Casper.  White Cloud is irritated with Casper's hair and uses his "Ninth Sky Total Wrap" to burn off all of Casper's hair.  Casper quickly escapes in to the underground saying that he will revenge on behalf of his hair lost.  White Cloud and Ten Miles chase after him in to the underground.
     Ling and Shiu Sin sit inside a cave.  He tells Shiu Sin to forget about Casper, and happily reminds her about their (Ling and Shiu Sin) wonderful friendship.  He tells her that he will even risk his life for her.  Shiu Sin makes herself look very ugly, but Ling is not afraid.  Solid Gold sees her and gets really scared. 
     Shiu Sin turns herself back to normal and then slowly sucks the life out of Ling through his mouth.  She gets closer and closer to Ling and eventually, they kiss.  Ling's body collapses on to the ground.  Seeing this, Solid Gold quickly pretends to be dead.  Shiu Sin releases Ling's spirit and he sees his body lying on the ground.  Shiu Sin leads him to Ghost Mom, who is currently soaking herself in a pool of water which is inside a giant shell.  Her skin suddenly starts cracking and she panics. She needs to inhale human spirits in order to stay young. She promptly tells all her servants to help her cover up her cracks with makeup. 
     Butterfly lies on the side mumbling to herself that this wouldn't be happening if Shiu Sin had brought back Ling's spirit in the first place. 
     At this moment, Shiu Sin flies in with Ling's spirit.  Ghost Mom is so happy to see them.  She immediately starts sucking on Ling's spirit in through her nose. 
     Ling notices how upset Shiu Sin is even though she doesn't admit it.  He whispers to her one last time that he is very happy to see that someone actually misses him.  Hearing this, Shiu Sin grabs hold of Ling's spirit and pulls him away from Ghost Mom's nose.  Ghost Mom immediately tries to suck him back into her nose, but Shiu continues to pull him back.  Ling's spirit becomes very long as a result of all the stretching.
     Butterfly decides to help them escape.  She throws out a bunch of butterflies at Ghost Mom to distract her, while Shiu Sin and Ling get away.  Ghost Mom falls back in to her giant shell and all of her makeup begins to crack off her skin.  She becomes very angry and turns back in to tree trunks.
     Solid Gold sees Ling's lifeless body lying on the ground and starts howling.  Suiddenly, Solid Gold notices Shiu Sin throwing Ling's spirit back in to his body and is very happy.
     Ling wakes up and finds out that Shiu Sin just saved him from Ghost Mom.  Shiu Sin tells him not to believe her and that ghosts like to lie.  Ling replies by telling her that all he cares about is that she trusts him.  Shiu Sin tells Ling that she has no friends.  Ling answers her by saying it's not difficult to make a friend. 
     At this moment, Solid Gold swims to another stone in the water. 
     Shiu Sin asks Ling if she could follow him from now on and kisses him.  Seeing this, Solid Gold makes a funny face.
     Ling suggests that he takes her to the train so that she could reincarnate.  Shiu Sin wants Ling to reincarnate with her.  He tells her that if he goes in with her...they will become different people and not remember one another.  Shiu Sin then explains that they might still be able to remember each other as long as they don't get hit by the "Void Hammer" (Lose memory if gets hit by it).  Ling tells her that even if they don't forget one another, they might not reincarnate near each other.  Shiu Sin tells him that she will find out where she'll be going once she gets inside the reincarnation place.  Then she'll tell him before she gets reincarnated.  This way, he could find her.
     Suddenly, a familiar voice interrupted them and a hand reaches out at them.  It is Casper; he wants Shiu Sin to idolize him once again.  Shiu Sin grabs hold of Ling, while he holds on to Solid Gold.  They fly toward the train and manage to get on.  Casper chases after them and sits on top of the train.
     Red Beard sees what is going on (Swallow's note: Amazingly...he's still alive!).  He attacks Casper for interfering with the reincarnation train (life's natural tole).  Red Beard goes inside Casper and breaks him apart.  He then jumps in to the train with them.
     Ling tells Red Beard that he is glad to see him alive. 
     Suddenly, White Cloud and Ten Miles appear and try to stop the train with "Many Hand."  Red Beard fights with White Cloud by multiplying himself in to many Red Beards holding swords.  The many swords cut off the "Many Hands."  The wheel of life in the train goes crazy and starts turning.  Red Beard manages to cut off all the hands to release the train. Ten Miles throws out his tornado to surround the train in order to pull it back.  A sudden shockwave hits Ten Miles, and he falls off.  It is Butterfly.  She says out loud that she has hit a handsome guy (in her opinion).
    The talking Flame comes along with her just to kiss and accidentally burn Solid Gold's nose by doing so.  Butterfly comes to say goodbye to them. 
     Suddenly, a bunch of hands grab hold of Butterfly, and she screams for help.  Red Beard teases White Cloud for bullying a little girl like Butterfly.  Shiu Sin flies off the train to save Butterfly but gets captured by White Cloud.  Red Beard uses up all of his powers to throw out "Thousand Radiance Magic Ball" to save her.  He loses all of his powers/energy doing this.  White is too close to escape, so he gets hit.
     Ling wonders where Shiu Sin is, so he looks out from the train calling for her.  He and Solid Gold fall out of the train. 
     Shiu Sin catches hold of falling Butterfly and takes her to the train. 
     Ling wakes up feeling something poking him and discovers that he is lying on top of Solid Gold. (Swallow's note: Poor Solid Gold...is all smashed.)  Ling notices that they are in a place with a bunch of wheels and a gate right in the middle.  The gate starts closing, and Ling recalls what is happening.  He immediately tries to keep the gate open so that the train could go through; and it does (running right through Ling).  Shiu Sin tells Ling that she is going to reincarnate to a place in Bei Village with a peach blossom tree outside the house.  She gets inside the gate after she finishes talking.
     White Cloud drops to his knees saying he has used up all of his energy, too, as a result of trying to close the gate.  He sees the train still able to move through the gate, which he thinks is closed.  Once again, he tries to stop the train.  Red Beard tries to stop him by fist fighting him, since he no longer has any special powers. 
     Shiu Sin continues to remind Ling where she is going to be in her next life.  Both of them begin to turn younger and younger (back in to a child form), and they kiss. 
     Suddenly, a bunch of Void Hammers comes flying at them, so they try to avoid them. 
     Butterfly hangs at the gate bitting farewell. 
     Red Beard and White Cloud continue to fight, while Ten Miles follows to watch.  They all float in through the gate and begin turning young. 
     Butterfly goes back outside of the gate.  Solid Gold is also inside the gate along with Flame trying to avoid the Void Hammers themselves.
     A Void Hammer comes right at Ling and Shiu Sin, so they separate from each other in order to avoid it.  Ling somehow is blown out of the gate and he immediately grows back in to his original self (age).
     Lying on the ground, Ling wakes up trying to look for Shiu Sin.  He realizes that he is in Bei Village and recalls that Shiu Sin will be reincarnating to this place.  He then goes in search of a peach tree and hears sounds of babies crying.  He goes towards that direction and sees three very familiar looking babies.  They look just like Red Beard, White Cloud, and Ten Miles.  Ling starts laughing seeing that the three could no longer be enemies, but instead they have now reincarnated in to brothers. 
     At another corner is a barking baby kitten drinking milk from its mother, along with two other sibling kittens.  Father cat attacks the mother cat after seeing how strangely different their barking cat looks (thinking that the kitten is probably not his own flesh and blood but a product of...maybe an affair).  Ling continues to look for the peach tree and finds it.  He runs towards it and sees Lan, his ex-girlfriend, sitting under the peach tree with a baby in her arms.  It is her baby.  Her husband, Fu, walks out from their house wondering who Lan is talking to.  Lan tells him that it's only her ex-boyfriend.  Fu is shocked to hear that it is Lan's ex, but Ling just reinsures him that it is ony their past and to forget about it.  He then runs over to see the baby and grabs hold of it even when Fu doesn't allow it.  He quickly runs off with their infant.
     The two immediately chase after him. 
     Ling talks to the infant as if it is Shiu Sin.  Fu and Lan catch up with him, and Fu beat Ling up thinking that Ling is trying to break up his family.  Lan accuses Ling of coming back to revenge for her dumping him in the past in order to marry Fu.  Lan notices that the baby needs to pee so she takes off his pants.  Ling is shocked to see that the infant is a boy.  Fu and Lan take their baby and leave, while Ling panics about Shiu Sin's whereabouts. 
     Solid Gold, now a barking cat, finds an umbrella and pushes it to Ling.  Ling is surprised to see that his dog has reincarnated in to a cat.  Solid Gold tries to tell Ling that Shiu Sin is inside the umbrella by once again immitating her looks.  (Swallow's note: Very funny!)  Ling immediately wants to open the umbrella, but Solid Gold reminds him not to open it under the sun or else Shiu Sin will vaporize under the sunlight.  Ling looks up and sees that the sun is still up.
     Holding their baby, Fu and Lan see Ling jumping in to the lake with an umbrella and thought that Ling is trying to commit suicide because Lan doesn't want him.  Fu quickly hands the baby to Lan and runs towards the lake to see if Ling is okay. 
     Ling sees fishes in the lake and swims deeper under.  Shiu Sin appears and Ling wonders why she is not reincarnated.  She explains to him that she chased after him when she saw him being blown out of the gate.  The sun is still up when she got here, so she has to hide in his umbrella.  The two swim back up a little.  Ling asks if they are going back to the reincarnation place, and Shiu Sin refuses by saying that they might get hit by the Void Hammers and forget every thing.  She also tells him that ghost shouldn't be trusted, sinch she told him earlier that she was going to reincarnate and ended up not to.  She tells him that she'll follow him from now on whether he likes it or not.  Ling gets to the top of the lake screaming and yelling that he is very happy. 
     Not knowing what's going on, Fu and Lan think that Ling has gone crazy, broken hearted from being dumped by Lan. 
     Ling swims in and out of the water happily, while Solid Gold watches from a cliff, smiling with a fish in his mouth.

Synopsis by: Swallow  (11-15-00)
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