Children of the Dead
OK, this is the last in the series. I may make a spin-off for the kids, but I'm not certain yet. Anyway, the rating should really be 11+ and not 9+ (just in case) and Sophie is the other focus character, but she's one of my OC's (that does mean "other character", right?) so, of course, she's not there. This story tells what happened after the group had children. Please read and comment (no bad reviews please)!
Chapter 1: Prologue
2 coyotes were in the room alone while their friends waited outside. The 2 rabbits, Tasmanian devil, roadrunner, 2 humans, and duck all waited patiently for their friends to come out, each girl holding a child (except for the rabbit who had 2 with her husband carrying one as well).
"What do you think is taking them so long?" asked the duck.
"Duck," said one of the humans, grasping one hand in the roadrunner's hand and the other holding her child, "it's a very complicated process you know. This is the fourth time in the past month we've been through it."
"Yeah, but, I haven't heard a scream in the past 2 minutes so they should have already been done and over with, Daniella!" Duck said.
"You weren't this impatient when we were having our kid," said the other human, using both arms to hold her sleeping baby.
"Yeah, but that's completely different, Wendy," said Duck.
"As in the coyotes and rabbits give birth to litters at a time and you and Rev here only got one," said the girl rabbit, gesturing to the roadrunner when she said "Rev".
"You know, Lex," said the other rabbit, a boy, "Isn't it weird how every single week the birth was on a Friday?"
"That is interesting," said Lexi, "Well, since all the birthdays were in the same month and exactly one week apart, imagine what's going to happen when they grow up."
The door opened and a tired male coyote walked out with his ears drooping slightly.
"So, uh, how'd it go, Tech?" asked the male bunny.
"If by that you mean 'how many were there', then about 4," said the coyote named Tech.
"You just happened to outdo us this time," said Lexi. She looked through the door to see a girl coyote lay the last of 4 coyote pups on the bed, all sleeping.
The girl coyote walked out and closed the door gently behind her. "Boy, I'm kind of glad that's over with."
"'Kind of'?" asked Tech, "I'm really glad that's over with!"
His wife gave him a look, but he ignored it. "You know, Tech, sometimes you can be a little…what's the word?"
"How would I know, Sophie?" asked Tech, crossing his arms at her, "I'm the one you're thinking of insulting."
"Thinking about it," said Sophie, "I didn't say I was going to say it." Tech smiled. They had been married for almost a year by then. They had met 2 months before he had proposed and then spent a year planning a quadruple wedding with all the different couples. The Tasmanian devil, sadly, though, had never gotten a girlfriend. Sophie suddenly looked down at her feet and remembered what had happened in the week she had told him that they would be having a kid. "Tech, do you think the kids will be able to do the things we can do?"
Tech's smile disappeared. Everything had gone wrong when he discovered the one power that he and Sophie shared. They could both hear Ghosts, and he could see them, too, but she couldn't. She had been tortured by those powers and Sophie was scared a few months later when she realized that the kids might inherit their powers. "There's no way of knowing that until it's too late," Tech said.
Sophie almost cried at the thought. Tech took her gloved hand in his normal hand and held it tight. She couldn't help but smile when he was around.
"So, if you're done with the sadness, can we go put the kids up and do some scouting?" asked Duck.
"I like that idea," said Sophie, "It could help me get my mind off of seeing dead people."
"I'm the Seer," corrected Tech, "You're just the Listener."
"Whatever," said Sophie, "For all we know, the kids could get both."
"Good point," said Tech.
The rabbits and the humans went to put their kids with Sophie's and then the whole group went off to walk down the streets and make sure everything was OK in town. They stopped down one street when Lexi's ears twitched at a sound which seemed kind of like a mixture of beeping and some strange scraping.
"Do you hear that?" asked Lexi.
"Why do you always ask that?" asked Duck, "You know you're hearing is way better than ours and we can't hear it."
"Chill, Duck, it's just some beeping," said Lexi.
"Beeping?" asked Sophie, "I'll go check it out."
"Be careful!" Tech called after her. He knew she could protect herself. She could sense Ghost presence almost as well as he could and the reason she wore gloves was because of a power she didn't want to use on her allies. But, he still didn't want her getting hurt. If he had known what was going to happen that day, he would have gone in with her so that she could use his power if she needed it (that's why she wore gloves).
Sophie kept climbing up stairs until she heard the beeping herself. She stopped when the noise was clear. She went into a room which seemed to be where the beeping was coming from. She got closer and closer to the source until she felt something jolt into her stomach. She smacked into the wall and heard an evil laugh as the blood started to draw.
"So how does the daughter of the Light Guardians like it when she dies?"
She didn't recognize the voice, but it sounded female. She got up. Before she could turn around, a dagger sliced through her tail, pinning her to the wall. She howled. Her howl could be heard from outside without the use of Lexi's super ears.
"Sophie!" Tech cried when he heard the howl, running into the building after his wife.
Sophie tried to pull herself free, tugging on her tail as best she could, only making it a worse injury as more blood fell from her fur.
The voice continued to laugh at her evilly. "I killed you once, but you didn't die, you only gained a power. Now that power will be mine." The voice faded as whoever was speaking disappeared, leaving the injured coyote to await for her husband to save her.
"TECH!" Sophie yelled.
"Sophie!" Tech shouted in return up the stairs. She couldn't hear him, but he could hear her cries. "Lexi, what's going on?"
"I don't know," said Lexi, "But the beeping is getting more rapid." She then realized what was going on. "Tech, there's a bomb on her floor. The place is set to blow!" Tech didn't need to hear anything else before running up to save his wife. "Wait, Tech! I don't know how much time she has left!"
"Exactly, Lexi!" called Tech back, "I'm immortal, she's not!"
The others began to run after him.
Sophie continued to cry out in pain. She didn't know if the person would come back for her or if she would bleed to death. She was unaware that a bomb was what was emitting the beeping and was going to blow up the whole room in 10 seconds. "TECH!"
Tech finally reached the floor the beeping was coming from. He looked around for her but didn't see her. She was in the darkness. Only her voice could tell him where she was.
3…2…1…
The bomb went off and Sophie was gone. Tech was bounced back by the force of the blow and ran into the wall behind him.
When the other Loonatics finally got there, all they could see was a charred room and Tech regenerating himself. They didn't know that the girl who had killed Sophie was in the room behind them.
She laughed evilly. "Finally!" she said, "I have the Witch's power." She turned to look around the corner and saw Tech come into the room. "The Seer! He'll stop me for sure if she warns him when her Ghost shows up. Why don't I use my newfound powers to fix that?"
Tech looked around but couldn't see anything to give him a hint of whether or not his wife was still alive.
"Tech," said Lexi, putting her hand on his shoulder to comfort him, "I think she's gone."
Tech began to cry. The girl in the shadows seized her opportunity. "As he speaks through true love's tears, deafen him of her for a whole 10 years." She zapped the coyote and Sophie's Ghost appeared.
Sophie looked around. "What happened?" She saw Tech crying. She then remembered the last moments she had experienced before…dying. "I'm dead?" She ran to Tech's side.
"Come on, Tech," said Ace (the male bunny, in case you didn't know, which you probably did), " it's not your fault. There was nothing you could have done."
"Yes, I could have, I just wasn't fast enough," said Tech, opening his eyes and letting the tears keep flowing down, "I just wish I could see her one last time."
Sophie smiled. "You can see me, Tech." The coyote made no response. Sophie's smile faded. "Can't you?"
"Come on, Tech," said Daniella, "Maybe if we go home and check on the kids instead that'll make you feel better."
Sophie ran in front of the coyote before he could leave. "Tech, it's me, Sophie." He walked right through her and made no notice of it. Sophie turned to look at the shadows in the place where she had died and saw a glint of light and an evil pair of gleaming eyes that disappeared from sight. Sophie gasped. That glint of light was her magic!
Hope you liked it! Please continue reading the story and review it. The next chapter will introduce the kids and the one after that will show what's going on. Keep on reading!
