AN: One of the shortest chapters of a story I ever wrote, this chapter is more to see if anyone wants to see a Loud House/Beetlejuice crossover. If so, I will be more than happy to continue the story for as long as I have ideas for the characters (and they will all be longer than this chapter if I can help it). Here's hoping you enjoy the story.

Chapter One

It was early in the evening at the Loud's residence in Royal Woods, Michigan, and Lucy Loud was sitting in her older brother, Lincoln's, room. Why? She needed to borrow his laptop. She had recently joined Headspace with the rest of her siblings and had started chatting with a new friend she had met there; LyDe Darkness. Being the somewhat over-protective parents they were, Rita and Lynn Sr insisted that the young goth have one of her older siblings with her when she talks to this stranger online. Her choice was an easy one; Lincoln. He was a little more relaxed than most of the older sisters, especially after he saw that they mostly chatted about ghosts and the paranormal. After a few chats which seemed pretty harmless and convinced Lucy wouldn't go giving away personal information, the white haired loud backed off a little, watching her from his bed while he played video games or read comics. This evening, he was doing his homework while Lucy (as GriseldaFan666) was chatting away with LyDe Darkness in the HeadSpace chat window.

GriseldaFan666: So, LyDe, you say you've really befriended a ghost?

LyDe Darkness: Sure have. We've been friends for a few years now.

GriseldaFan666: What are they like?

LyDe Darkness: Well, he's a real handful, let me tell you. You got to keep an eye on him at all times, or he'll pull a fast one. But by the same token, he's really funny too, and he has a caring side to...hidden really, really well. Lol

GrisedlaFan666: Heh. Sounds interesting. How do you call upon him? A seance? An ouija board?

LyDe Darkness: Oh, nothing like that. I have a special incantation that can bring him to our world.

GriseldaFan666: Can you teach this incantation to me? Please?

LyDe Darkness: Sorry, Gris. It would be far too risky.

"Sigh…" Lucy groaned in a disappointed manner as she typed in a pleading please into the chat window. When her friend didn't respond, she became quite disheartened. "And here I thought she was one I wouldn't scare away…."

"Something the matter, Lucy?" Lincoln asked, a sympathetic look on his face.

"Nothing you need to worry about, big brother…" She replied in her usual monotone. "I'll be alright." Lincoln looked at her with a raised eyebrow, uncertain if he should take that at face value. However, he gave her the benefit of the doubt and returned to his homework. Lucy was about the close the program when she sudden received a new message from LyDe Darkness. And another. And another. Each one seemed to be the line of a special chant. Lucy grinned widely as she quickly wrote down the four stanzas of the spell and typed in a hasty thanks before she ran off to her room.

"Huh? Lucy, you forgot to..." He tried to say, but she was already gone. Wondering what got her so excited, he goes after her. Meanwhile, a few new messages appear on the chat.

LyDe Darkness: What the…?
LyDe Darkness: Gris! Don't do it!
LyDe Darkness: Don't summon him!

LyDe Darkness: Gris?

LyDe Darkness: Oh no….

"Lucy, what was that all about?" Lincoln asked as he looked into the room Lucy and Lynn shared, frowning a little. Lynn wasn't there, since she was sleeping over with some of her teammates. Lucy, however, was wearing her fortune telling hat and sitting within a circle of candles.

"I am about to summon a long dead spirit with this chant I just learned." Lucy explained as she read over the words carefully.

"...Lucy, are you sure that's a good idea?" Lincoln asked, pretty worried, but at the same time skeptical. "I mean, if you got that from your HeadSpace friend, how well do you even know them?"

"Her name is Lydia, she is interested in the paranormal and photography, she has a step mother and a father, and she attends an all girls school a few states down." Lucy counted off, getting a surprised look from Lincoln. "It's all on her page."

"Well, you don't know if any of that is true...and the same goes with this chant you say you got from her." He said, trying to dissaude her.

"Then why don't you help me, Lincoln?" She asked. "If it doesn't work, then you were right. If it does, then you can keep me safe, and meet a real ghost at the same time." She grinned a bit at him as he thought this over. True, as an ARGGH! fan, it was a dream of Lincoln's to find a real ghost. And it was his duty as an older brother to protect his little sister. Still, something about this didn't feel right to him. Why would a random girl on the internet (if she even was who she said she was) give another random girl on the interest a spell to summon a ghost? It made no sense. However, he kept coming back to the meet a real ghost issue, and Lucy's excited look, and he decided maybe he could humor Lucy this time. If it didn't work, he would at least be in a position to say 'told you so' (which didn't happen often with him).

"Alright, Lucy. You twisted my arm…" He said, trying to hide his own excitement as he sat down within the circle.

"Excellent. Now let's see….." She looks over the words one last time before she set the paper down and took a deep breath:

"Though I know I should be wary

Now I venture to someplace scary

Ghostly hauntings I turn loose

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!"

The moment Lucy finished the incantation, the window in her room opened suddenly and a burst of wind blew through the room, putting out all the candles.

"Gah!" Lincoln cried out as the room got a little darker than usual. Lucy, on the other hand, was glancing all around like a little child looking for Santa on Christmas morning. However, there appeared to be no one else in the room, living or dead. Her smile started to fade. She couldn't feel the chill of a spirit in the room, nor even feel their presence. She slowly lowers her head to the floor, looking positively crushed.

"You were right, Lincoln…." She said, fighting back tears, though it was impossible to see behind her bangs. Her older brother felt a pang of guilt and sadness as he heard the bleakness in her voice, which made him reach out to touch her shoulder.

"I'm sorry it didn't work, Lucy...it's just you can't always trust what people say onliiiiiiii….." He started to say, but his sentence froze in his throat as he looked behind her. He had a look of abject terror on his face.

"Very funny, Lincoln…." she growled, feeling a bit offended now.

"Lu...lu….lu…." He stammered, his face going pale as he pointed behind her. Lucy's frown slightly faded. Lincoln wasn't this good an actor. Something was really scaring him, but what? She turned around just in time to see a tall, pale man rising through the floor. He had messy yellowish green hair, dark patches around his sunken eyes, red finger tips, and disgusting green teeth. He was wearing a two piece, black and white striped suit, black boots and a black tie. In a few seconds, he had full risen into the room, grinning down at them in a manner that reminded Lincoln a lot of Luan on April Fools Day.

"Iiiit's showtime!"