"Blimey, Fizzy! What the heck's gotten into you!" North Star asked in shock, not believing what was coming out of her friend's mouth. "You're talkin' like a bloomin' air-headed bimbo!"
"Oh, North Star! There you go, being silly again!" The unicorn giggled, having suddenly had her IQ drop by fifty points. "I so totally sound like I always have, silly!"
All around the two fillies, misty clouds began to swirl, and the shadowy forms of several cats began to appear all over the chamber.
"Holy smokes... all these ghosts, they must be the spirits of the miners who died in accidents here." The Pegasus realized, as she and Fizzy took a step back from the eerie spirits. "I wonder if they have anything to do with what's come over you?"
"Indeed it does, my good little filly. Though we didn't do this to her ourselves." One of the cat spirits, a Siamese tomcat in a long coat, addressed them. "It the curse, placed on this cavern by the storm king. It holds our spirits here, and affects the gems here in the mine."
"Holey Moley, a ghostly kitty cat in a pirate coat!" Fizzy exclaimed. "But... how did a pirate cat die down in this mine?"
"Well, little filly, I'm not exactly a pirate, though I may have have the same morals as one." The spectral feline laughed. "But this is very strange; why don't you not flee in terror from me and the other ghosts? Do you not fear the dead, little one?"
"Golly, when you live in Dream Valley, you see far scarier things than ghosts." North Star replied, staring at the ghost curiously. "But who are you spirit? What's your name, and how did you end up haunting this mine?"
"Ah, that is indeed a sad tale, my little filly. My name is Capper, and I come from the time of the harmony bearers of Equestria, ponies I knew all too well, in life." The ghostly tomcat sighed. "I perished as an elderly feline in this mine, when I came down here to purchase a fine gemstone for a lady fair." The ghost remembered a white unicorn with a diamond cuite mark from long ago. "A poison wind from deep within the earth filled the mine, and killed all of the miners, and yours truly. But we are all trapped here, due to a terrible curse. A feline witch on the island has used her terrible magic to trap our spirits in this place, so that our presence will scare away any workers who would come to the mine."
"Really? But that's just awful!" Fizzy exclaimed. "But why would a mean ol' Abyssinian witch wanna scare everybody away? Does she want all of the diamonds for herself?"
"Hah! I wish!" Capper rolled his incorporeal eyes. "She is trying to keep everybody away from the mines, so that Abyssinia's economy will suffer without the diamonds. That old witch wants to make the kingdom's economy to collapse, so that the cats will overthrow the royal family, and then the Storm King will help her attain the throne, and make the cat witch queen."
"Blimey, she's working with the Storm King!?" North Star asked in shock. "Then... that storm system out there around the island, that's all part of the witch's evil plan?"
"We gotta stop that mean old witch and the Storm King from carrying out their evil plan!" Fizzy added, trotting back towards the entrance. "Come on, North Star! We gotta get back, and warn Catrina about this nasty villian's scheme!"
"Warn.... Katrina?" Capper stared at them for a moment, then he slowly began to chuckle. "Heh, heh heh hee hee hee..." Capper's chuckle turned into a loud, almost insane laugh. "Ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAA!"
"Wait, why are you laughing?!" The bewildered North Star asked, not believing what she was hearing. "Whaty's so funny about what Fizzy said?"
"Oh, you silly little fillies... don't you get it!?" Capper asked, shaking his spectral head. "Katrina is the witch that trapped us down here! She commanded us to scare you two senseless when you both came down here, or she would never let us have our eternal rest!"
"Katrina's a traitor!? Oh, bloody hell!" The Pegasus cried out in shock, realization dawning on her. "No wonder she's being so hostile to Barnacle, and didn't want us on the island!"
"That meanie mean pants must've sent us down here, so the ghosts would scare us to death, or at least scare us away from the island!" Fizzy looked back at Capper suspiciously. "But why are you warning us about this?! Wouldn't it be better for you to scare us, so you guys can be set free?"
"Because I'm not going to see my homeland betrayed to that monster, especially after the original Storm King invaded and devastated Abyssinia in my time." Capper sighed. "Besides, you and your Pegasus friend, remind me of some ponies who taught me a lesson about friendship and trust a long, long time ago."
"Wait a minute, Capper. Before we go..." North Star looked over at her now-ditzy friend. "Is there noting you or the other spirits can do for my friend here? what exactly happened to her, anyway?"
"Alas, the gemstones she used as twinkle eyes were cursed as well, to keep the Abyssinian cats from trying to take them, even if they got past us ghosts. I'm afraid your little friend there is stuck with her decreased intelligence, and I'm truly sorry about that."
"Awww, don't be sorry, mister ghost! I'm so happy to not be an' old grumpy-pants any more!" Fizzy giggled, hopping her way towards the mine's exit. "C'mon, NorthStar! Let's get outta here, and stop the bad guys!"
As Fizzy hopped away, her Pegasus friend looked back towards the ghostly cats.
"Goodbye Capper, and thank you for all your help." North Star told him, as she flapped her way out of the cave. "And I hope you and the other ghosts find peace."
"Goodbye, little fillies..." Capper replied, as he and the other ghosts faded away. "...and good luck to the both of you."