I looked at my friend, Patricky annoyingly when he told me for the hundredth time that the library keeper, Mrs. Maddonny was a phantom.

"Really! She's a phantom! Johny Bot saw her turn into a phantom during the night of the full moon!" Patricky said.

"Yeah! That's right and she has the strength of a zillion elephants," I replied sarcastically.

Patricky shut up and we walked home quietly after that. I was from a tiny town called Arcadia. I stayed at Barbara Street and it was right next to Horror Street where there was always a rumor that a dozen ghosts haunted the place. But I have been to Horror Street many times already because Patricky stayed there. I always went to his house when we have projects to do. Both of us went to Clinton Secondary Schools and we were in form 4. We were also librarians in the school.

Recently, many strange things have happened in the school. Most important of all, in the library! Books were scattered all over the floor, tables and chairs broken and even the discipline file was burnt to ashes and only a sheet of paper in it was left. It had Patricky's name on it and it was stated that Patricky was too noisy in the library. Patricky is definitely not happy with it because he would like that sheet of paper burnt as well.

Rumor had been heard that the library was haunted by a phantom that had returned and wanted to take revenge on the senior librarians because they have failed to find his book, 'The Art of Toilet' and they even destroyed him. Of course I did not believed in the rumor because I have never seen any spooky things before. Now, Patricky was bothering me around and kept on reminding me that Mrs. Maddonny the library keeper was the phantom in disguised.

The school board stated that there were no phantoms in the library and asked all the students to stop the rumor. Even then, they have not yet come up with any logical answer. Not even our physic teacher, Mr. Jotter, who used to say that "Physic is logic and logic is physic". It was a mess now because the library has to be closed down because the library was in a total mess. The Senior Profession Multi-tech examination, SPM for short is coming. Form 5 students need to study but they can't use the library.

And speaking of form 5 students reminded me of the girl that I admired so much and the girl is my best friend, on the Internet. Her name was Alboily. And I felt really bad for her because she can't be in the library to do her revision for SPM. It's hard to say but our perfect friendship made the ever so suspicious Patricky suspected that I have a crushed on her. Furthermore, he told my class and Alboily's class about that without even checking it out. I felt totally embarrassed about that and Patricky got a good beating from me.

One day, the entire librarians that were supposed to stay back on Thursday were asked to clean up the library. This meant that I have to work extra hard that day because there were only a few librarians staying back on Thursday. Patricky, Johny Bot, Alboily and myself were the only four librarians staying back on Thursday.

After school on Thursday, Patricky, Johny Bot, Alboily and me went to Al-Mamak food stall to have lunch before we start our torturing chores. We ate as much as we could so that we have enough energy to clean up the library. We went back to the school library after having lunch. We settle down and start our plan. We were divided into two groups. Patricky and Johny Bot were to sweep the floor, arrange the books, tables and chairs while Alboily and I were to arrange the files and folders in the office. Although it sounded that the job was very easy, it would take more than just an hour to finish it.

My prediction was right. It really took us more than an hour to finish it. Suddenly, Mrs. Maddonny walked into the library! She looked very mean and dangerous. The door slammed behind her and the lights flick off. All of us scream our heads off except Mrs. Maddonny. She started to tremble and bloods started to flow out of every part of her body where crook spines sprouted out from her body. We watched in horror when she finished her transformation. Johny Bot fainted on the spot while Patricky wet his pants instantly. Alboily and I were too shocked to even breath.

Suddenly, the phantom swung around and grabbed Alboily. She screamed helplessly.

"What a wimp! You was even worst than those nasty librarians that destroyed me," the phantom said.

"What do you want? Leave her alone!" I asked bravely.

The phantom told me that he was still searching for the book 'The Art of Toilet'. He also wanted to take revenge on those librarians that killed him. He added that he wanted us to find the book for him. Johny Bot wake up after a while and was forced to search for the book. We searched for more than an hour but the book was nowhere in sight.

"I am sorry but I can't find your book, maybe you should go to the national library," I told the phantom bravely.

"Not again! If you can't find the book, you will all have to die!" the phantom screamed.

The phantom grabbed me and was about to slap my head off when the door swung opened. Help at last! There stood Kathy in her Taekwando shirt and her black belt. Beside her stood Sante, her faithful assistant that looked like an overstuffed dumpling. The phantom scoffed and drew out his light saber and prepared for a fight.

The fight took placed and they fought fiercely and no side gained the upper hand for long. At last, Kathy did a chopping kick and kicked the light saber out of the phantom's hand. Later, I found out that she had steel sheets on her leg, that's why she did not get hurt from the blazing light saber. I immediately picked up the light saber and stabbed the phantom with it. The phantom howled painfully and vanished into thin air.

The phantom was gone and all was once well again. We got everything settle and the library was opened in only a week. The library has a new keeper and his name was Mr. Hun de Toyol. That's the story and thanks very much for reading it. Thank Q!