Hello I'm back with another Ghostbusters fiction. Remember like I said in the first Ghostbusters fiction this is a story not real life. So don't take it too seriously. Wicca is real but it's not evil. The black widow bride idea and Ghostbusters is not mine and never will be. Hope you all enjoy it.
Chapter #1 The Flashback and The Reunion
October 31 2005
"Oh it's perfect!" I thought with excitement as I looked in the mirror.
It was Samhaine (Halloween) and I was looking forward to my first Samhaine ritual at the Community Centre. But first my classmate Lucy invited me to a Halloween Party at her house. So I said yes. I wasn't sure why I said yes in the first. I was in the bathroom making sure anything is perfect. I was dressed in a black leotard with long sleeves that have a gold sun on the right and a silver moon on the left with a blue skirt attached around the waist. On the helm of the skirt was a yellow ribbon with a small yin yang symbol on the front. I also wore black fishnet tights and black knee high heel boots. My hair had washable blue, black and white highlights and two locks were tied up in high ponytails on the sides of the head. My glasses were replaced with blue cat-eye contacts, a black and white mask and I wore fake vampire fangs and a black choker with a silver pentacle with a blue gem in the middle.
I've worked on this costume for a month and I was proud of my work. After making sure anything is perfect, I went into my room and grabbed my fanny pack, my magical tote bag and my keys and went out locking the door behind me. My name is Sally Preciosa. I'm an 18 year old student at Toronto College and I'm a Wiccan. A good Witch who uses the power of nature to heal and help people. Not that stupid turn people into toads and put curses on people thing. That's just stories. Stupid stories at that. Anyway I went to my car which was parked in the parking lot beside my dorm and drove off. Not knowing my life will change forever.
Around 10:30pm, I left Lucy's house and drove to the Community Centre. It was fun party. I won second place for best costume and a bag of candy and had a lot of fun. Now it's time for me to get ready for my first Samhaine ritual. My parked the car in the Community Centre's parking lot, grabbed my magical tote bag and my black Samhaine dress and went into the Community Centre. As I was about to open the door, some water from a gutter above me fell and landed on my choker. I reached up and whipped the water off my pentacle not knowing that would be a mistake. As my finger rubbed against the gem. I felt a surge of energy flow through my body and felt light-headed and lighter then usual. Then the feeling was gone and I started to feel normal again. I breathed in huge gusts of air and shook my head lightly. Trying to shake this odd feeling. "Whoa, what was that about?" I thought as I reached for the door knob. "Worry about it later." Oh how foolish I was then.
I went into the restroom to get ready. As I was about to take my cat eye contacts off and put in clear ones. My eye suddenly felt itchy so I rubbed it. As I rubbed it, I noticed that there was no plastic rubbing against my eye. I groaned in frustration.
"Drat! I lost a contact!"
Then my neck felt a little stiff so I rubbed it a bit and straighten out my choker. As my fingers rubbed against the gem. I felt the same energy surge flow through me again like it did a few minutes ago outside the Community Centre. It didn't hurt or anything. It felt like a static shock from when someone rubs their feet on a carpet and touches someone else or something.
When it was over I shook my head again and sneezed. As I regain my composure, I noticed something on the skirt of my costume. I picked it up and held it up so I can get a better look at it. It was one of my cat eye contacts. I sighed with relief. It wasn't easy getting contacts like this. Even in my prescription. I stared at it for a few minutes. Then shook my head.
"Must've been the excitement." I thought.
I changed into my Samhaine outfit, grabbed my things and left the restroom, unaware of how wrong I was about what happened being caused by excitement.
After I returned to my dorm after the Samhaine ritual. I dropped my stuff on the floor in the closet, pulled the hair bands out of my hair and shook my head, letting my hair fall into my face, and then I collapsed onto the bed. Completely exhausted. I didn't bother to change out of my Samhaine dress because I was so tired. Then the area on my neck, under my choker felt itchy, so I scratched it, not knowing it would be a mistake. As my fingers rubbed against the gem on the pentacle. I felt the same energy surge flow throughout my body. Only this time, it was powerful then before. Like an electric shock. I couldn't move, I couldn't say a word, I couldn't do anything. Then it stopped.
I groaned. I lay on the bed, feeling light-headed and more worn out then before.
"Oh...my head." I moaned as I tried to sit up but I couldn't do it.
I felt like I was made of lead. I tried again, slowly pushing myself off the bed. Then I lost my balance and fell backwards. I threw my hands out and broke my fall by grabbing onto the desk next to my bed. I panted as I leaned against the desk for support. Then I felt nauseous. I carefully walked towards the door to the bathroom. Leaning against the wall for support.
When I reached the bathroom. I started to feel a little better. I reached for the light switch and turned on the lights. I blinked a few times as the light turned on. When my eyes adjusted to the light. I caught my reflection in the mirror over the sink and jumped back in shock. I wasn't in my Samhaine ritual dress and my hair wasn't a mess. Instead I was in the costume I wore at the Halloween party, leotard, boots, fangs, cat eyes, and all. My hair was done in the same hairstyle as I wore at the party and the ritual with the same highlights.
I clutched the sides of the door behind me. My heart beating fast. I lowered myself down and sat on the floor. As I wrapped my arms around legs, I tried to calm down long enough to figure out what happened.
"It must've been the jewel on my choker." I thought. "What if I touch it again?"
I slowly reached for the choker and rubbed the gem. I felt the energy surge again. I felt light-headed and weightless. Then it was over. I felt weak and more light-headed before. I looked up at the sink. I wanted to see if it worked. But it felt like it was a few miles from where I was sitting. Like a mountain. I clutched my fists and slowly crawled towards the sink, reached up and pulled myself off the floor. As I pulled myself out the floor, I caught my reflection in the mirror and saw I was wearing my Samhaine dress and my hair was messy again. I stared at the reflection for a few minutes.
"Whoa." I thought as I slowly straightened up, using the counter of the sink as support. "What was that?"
June 5 2006
"Sally? Sally, wake up!"
"Huh? What?"
My eyes shot open as I heard someone calling my name. I groaned when I felt pain in my back, my neck and my head. I was lying on a bed in a room with white walls. I slowly turned to see a monitor beside my bed and found tubes attached to my right arm. This looks familiar I thought as I tried to remember. Then it hit me. I was back in the hospital where I did tests for the mole my mom found on my neck. But why am I back here? I did the tests.
"Nice nap?"
"What?"
I turned wincing as I did. To see a man in his late 20s with red hair, blue eyes, dress in a grey shirt and blue jeans, sitting in a wheelchair which was parked beside my bed. I looked at him. He looked familiar for some reason. Then I remembered who he was.
"Garrett?" He looked at me confused.
"Sally?"
I nodded.
"Yes."
"Whoa, long time no see."
"It's been 6 or 7 months, Garrett." I laughed. "How are things?"
Garrett shrugged. "Can't complain. What are you doing in Toronto?"
I moisten my lips before explaining why I was here before whatever happened.
"A few days ago, I was doing my hair when my mom noticed I had a mole on the back of my neck. She was worried it was cancer so she made an appointment with a doctor here. I didn't want her to do that, but she wants to be certain it wasn't something serious. So I agreed to see the doctor."
"So you and your parents saw the doctor already?" Garrett asked.
I nodded.
"Yes, a few hours ago. After that my parents and I were heading for the car when this creature attacked us. It knocked me out and I don't remember what happened next."
"You were out cold for a few hours." Garrett explained.
"While you were out, the ghost almost made your parents into punching bags when we arrived and trapped it."
"Where are my parents?"
"They're in the hall, talking to the others."
Then there were footsteps in the hall. Garrett and I turned to see my parents and a group of people that looked familiar and a man I never seen before. One was a man in his late 20s with dark skin dressed in a light tan jumpsuit, with red gloves and boots. The other man was about 28 or something with brown hair, dressed in dark brown pants and green shirt with a brown vest. The next was a woman about the same age as Garrett and the other two men with black hair, dress in a black skin tight outfit with an orange shoulder pad like vest that football players wear. The man was in his late 30s with blonde hair tied back in a ponytail dressed in a blue jumpsuit with red gloves and boots. All standing in the doorway. I looked at them.
"Are they the rest of your team?" I asked Garrett.
Garrett nodded.
"Sally Gem, I'm glad you're ok!" My mom exclaimed as she ran to my bed and wrapped in a tight embrace.
"Mom." I gasped as she tightened her grip. "Not...in...front of...everyone."
"Now Deanna." My dad said sternly as he walked towards my bed and stood besides my mom. "Sally's been through enough. She doesn't need any more injuries." he added as he gently pulled my mom away from me.
I sighed with relief as I rubbed my ribcage.
"Thanks dad." I breathed.
"Are you alright?" The dark man asked.
"I'm fine, thanks." I answered. Then something hit me.
"You're Roland right?"
Roland blinked in confusion.
"Uhh. Yeah." He replied. "Have we met?"
"Of course we've met." Garrett said. "This is Sally Preciosa and her parents. We met down in Florida."
"Oh right."
"It's great to see you again, Sally." The woman said as she, Roland and the other men entered the room.
"Same here..." I stopped as I tried to remember her name. "Kylie?"
She nodded.
I turned to the brown haired man.
"And Eduardo?"
He grinned. "How are you feeling?"
I groaned as I shifted my weight. "I'll live."
"That's good to know." The blonde man said.
"Who's he?" I asked.
"This Dr. Egon Spengler." Kylie said. "He used to be a ghost buster like us."
My eyes widen. I've heard about the Ghostbusters. Four men fighting evil back in the eighties. They disbanded in the early 90s and I didn't expect to meet a former ghost buster in person.
"Pleasure to meet you." I said.
"Thank you." Egon said.
He turned to my parents.
"Mr. and Mrs. Preciosa. Have you noticed anything odd about Sally lately?"
My parents and I froze in horror. He knows something. I turned to my parents. Mom mouthed, 'We wouldn't tell anyone.' I relaxed a little. Only my parents know I'm a Wiccan and I don't want anyone else knowing about that unless I want them to.
"We know she has a mole on the back of her neck." My dad answered. "But nothing else."
"Then you don't mind if I scan her with this." he said as he pulled a device off his belt. My parents stared at it.
"What is that?" My mom asked.
"It's a PKE meter." Roland explained. "It detects ghosts."
My dad looked at Egon insulted.
"You saying my daughter is a ghost?!" He demanded.
"Robert." My mom said. "He didn't say anything about her being a ghost." she looked at me worried.
"I'm alive, mom." I winced as I felt a sharp pain in my back. "I feel alive."
"That's good." Egon said, as he turned on the PKE meter. "But when I scanned the parking area. I picked strange readings from where Sally was found."
"Define 'strange' Egon." Eduardo said.
"I picked up human biorhythms on the meter. But they weren't normal."
"What do you mean by that?" I asked.
"It means you're not telling us something." Garrett said, looking at me suspiciously.
"Garrett." The Ghostbusters said annoyed.
Egon held up the meter and scanned me. It made a faint beeping noise. Egon studied the meter.
"Mmm." He scanned me again. Making sure he didn't make any mistakes.
"What is it, Egon?" Kylie asked.
"Sally's readings matched the readings I found near the lamp post in the parking lot."
He shut off the meter and turned to my parents.
"If you don't mind. I would like to take Sally to New York for some tests to see if she's ok."
"What do you mean?" my mom asked. "She's fine."
"Physically she's fine." Egon said. "But these readings worry me."
As I listened carefully. I felt insulted by Egon's words.
"Well that's out of the question." I said, as I carefully sat up. "I have to get ready for the Spirit Celebration."
"That's two months from now, Sally." My dad reminded me. He turned to Egon.
"How long will this testing take?"
"About a week or two." Egon answered. "If that's ok."
My dad thought for a minute.
"We'll have to talk it over." he said.
My jaw dropped in disbelief. "Dad."
"That's enough, Sally." my dad snapped. "This isn't up to you. You need rest and I need to talk to your mother." With that my parents left the room.
The Ghostbusters and I watched them leave.
"Is your dad always like that?" Eduardo asked.
"If you mean a pain in the neck sometimes, then yes." I answered, still annoyed with what I heard.
Testing in New York? I'm singing at the Spirit Celebration. I need time to practice.
"Yeah, he's accent is horrible when he's mad." Eduardo said as he stuck a finger into his ear.
"Yeah, it's like that." I said.
"What's the Spirit Celebration?" Garrett asked.
"It's a party we Islanders threw every year and this year I'm singing at the Celebration."
"That sounds like fun." Roland said.
"It is." I said. "I've waited a long time to sing at the Celebration. I can't miss it."
"And you wouldn't miss it, Sally Gem."
We all turned to see my parents standing in the doorway.
"It's in August." My dad turned to Egon.
"We'll let Sally go with you to New York. Only if you don't let her go off on her own. I know New York is a dangerous place."
I stared at my parents in disbelief. First they dragged me to Toronto because of a stupid mole, we almost got flattened by a ghost and now they're letting the Ghostbusters take me to New York for tests? Why are they doing this to me?
"When will Sally be discharged?" Garrett asked.
"The doctor said she can leave this evening." My mom answered.
I looked up at the clock above the door. Which reads 5:36pm.
"Oh great." I thought. "A few more hours and I'll be in New York. Oh why me?"