Before the Storm.
She was running in the rain that hadn't stopped since early this morning.
She knew something was wrong, she just did. Your entire family doesn't just disappeared along with a whole camp, it just doesn't. Running out of the woods she thought she would see an army ready to kill her, boy, was she wrong.
7 hours previous.
Sabrina Grimm was not happy.
First, she was stuck inside all day because of this freak rainstorm that happens in the middle of the scorching summer.
Second, Daphne and Puck were playing one of those batteries operated video game with an annoying tune that was probably going to be stuck in her head for the next 48 hours.
Third, She had an annoying cold
And Fourthly, she was just having one of those bad days.
Sabrina got up from her seat next to the fireplace and started pacing back and forth in front of the lopsided bookcase.
The fireplace was providing the only warmth in the whole house, the power had gone out at 8 and it was currently 10, so basically the flimsy fireplace was just barely keeping the temperature over freezing in the dimly lit house.
"Hey! No fair! Give it back!" a very frustrated Daphne yelled.
Sabrina turned in time to see a set of pink wings disappear into the kitchen, the annoying music fading as Puck left.
" I'm so telling on you when Mom, Dad, Granny, Uncle Jake-, well you get the picture! You're so in trouble when they get back!"
Daphne let out an aggravated huff before saying to Sabrina,
" I'm going up to my room, tell me when the pizza uncle Jake sent for gets here."
Sabrina just nodded at her sister.
As she heard her sister's feet retreat up the staircase, Sabrina turned to the bookcase and selected a random family journal; she was surprised to find it was her grandfathers.
' Basil Grimm' was written across the top of the weathered book in gold stitching.
She opened to the first page and read her Grandfather's neat handwriting.
7/18/87
Congratulations whoever is reading this! This is my 4th journal to date. I am currently 39 and I have two sons named Henry (age 14) and Jacob (11), and I'm married to the most amazing woman in the world: Relda Grimm.
Ok, enough with the personal update and let's get down to business. Today something peculiar happened, I was outside on the porch reading and it was poring down rain. Relda soon joined me.
I could hear Henry's 'Guns & Roses' album playing … what was the songs name again? Oh right! 'Sweet child O' mine'.
At this point Relda turned to be with a smile on her face and said
" Five bucks he's in the living room playing the air guitar"
I shook her outstretched hand… Today I lost five dollars.
But that wasn't what was strange.
Relda and I were talking and all of a sudden this girl, no older than Henry, comes running out of the woods.
Her unusual clothes were ripped and soaked with water. When she finally looked up her expression was one of someone ready for a battle. But when she looked around she became confused, then she spotted Relda and I and froze. She seemed to pinch herself before turning back around and sprinting in the opposite direction.
Strange, even for FerryPort Landing.
In the words of my good friend Alice
" Curiouser and Curiouser"
~Basil Grimm
Sabrina was about to turn the page when the doorbell rang. She put the journal down on a near by table and opened the door to find a tortoise and a hare standing on the porch.
The tortoise had a couple square boxes on its back and the hare was looking down at a clipboard and scribbling something down.
"Uh, hello?"
The hare looked up from his clipboard and said
"You Sabrina Grimm?"
"Yes,"
"Good, I have your large pepperoni pizza and your extra large cheese pizza, nice and hot."
"I thought you only delivered packages."
The hare looked offended before sighing and saying
"Kid, the economy is bad in this place, we take whatever job we can find. Whether it be delivering packages or…pizza."
Sabrina rolled her eyes before giving the hare the money and taking the boxes off the tortoise.
Shutting the door with her foot she yelled
"Daphne! Puck! Pizzas here!"
Even before Sabrina had gotten her plate down, both Daphne and Puck were in their seats drooling over the boxes of pizza.
Sabrina sighed before saying
"I'm gonna take two slices and you two can have the rest deal?"
Both Puck and Daphne shook their heads vigorously. Sabrina grabbed one piece of each pizza and left for the living room. Sitting down she attempted to turn the TV on but she didn't even get a flicker of light across the screen.
A staggering bright light flashed from outside, follower by a horrific thundering.
Sabrina pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her chin on them. She had never liked thunderstorms, she wasn't afraid but they did make her uncomfortable.
"Did you see that?"
Daphne said coming into the room
"That was awesome! I love thunderstorms!"
Sabrina never understood this about her sister. The rain always made her depressed and tired. The fact that the lights were out and the only thing she could smell were old decaying books didn't help.
"Yes Daph, I saw it. Now can you leave me alone for a bit? I have a really bad headache."
The 10 year-old looked at her sister for a moment before saying
"Ok, there's medicine in the cabinet if you need it."
"Thanks."
Nodding her head, Daphne left the room, giving Sabrina her space.
As Daphne left Sabrina grabbed her Grandfather's journal and proceeded to read it
7/20/87
Life just keeps getting more interesting.
Not only has Jacob managed to get an A in math but I met the girl I saw the other day. She's moving in with us. Jake and Henry have no idea why but we plan to tell them tonight. I can just see the look on their faces. But enough of that, I can't give much information now, but I can assure you, this girl is very important to our family.
That's all I can say.
~Basil Grimm
And that was the last thing Sabrina read before drifting to sleep.
***&***6 hours later
Sabrina was awoken by a particularly loud thunder shaking the house. She heard a quiet scream from upstairs before Daphne came running down the stair and into her older sisters arms saying
"You know how I said I liked thunderstorms? I lied."
Wrapping her sister in a blanket, Sabrina got up and threw in a couple logs into the fireplace along with a couple pieces of crumpled up phonebook pages.
She made sure the fire was burning strongly before going back to Daphne who, despite the blanket, was shivering.
"Daphne, are you ok?"
Sabrina asked
"Yeah, it surprised me more than it scarred me. Just give me a minute. Oh, by the way, you slept like a rock; it's been 6 hours for Pete's sake!"
Blinking Sabrina said
"Really? I didn't feel that tired."
Shrugging, Daphne said
"Beats me, but I'm worried about Granny and everyone. They haven't been home since 7:30 this morning."
"Really? They've been gone that long? Usually they come and check in on us. Or at least they send someone to."
"That's what I was thinking!"
Looking out the window, Sabrina saw that there was still light.
"Do you want me to go to camp and check everything out?"
"Yes, but only if I can come."
Rolling her eyes Sabrina agreed.
The sisters got up and grabbed their coats and shoes, then left to find the magic carpet.
Entering Mirror's room the girls did the unimaginable, step through an apparently solid mirror into the hall of wonders.
No sooner had they stepped through the surface had Mirror arrived, his round face was clammy and his thin hair seemed to be getting thinner with every day.
"Hello girls! What can I get ya?"
"Just the magic carpet today. Thanks Mirror."
"No Problem starfish."
Two minutes later the short man returned and gave Sabrina the carpet.
"I trust you to keep in one piece."
"Will do mirror!"
Daphne said enthusiastically, already placing her palm in her mouth.
"Let's go Daph!"
Sabrina said as she pulled her sister outside the mirror and to the window, but before they could un-roll the carpet, Puck came in saying
"Hey Grimm have you seen-Hey where are you two going?"
Sighing Sabrina said
"I know your coming anyway so might as well tell you. We're going to go check on granny and everyone, they've been gone since 7:30."
Nodding Puck let out his wings and said
"Let's fly."
As soon as they had left the window they were soaked. Not damp. Soaked. Sabrina for the first time in a long time regretted sneaking out.
The cold rain pelted her face and arms as they sped through the late afternoon, and half way there the storm got even worse. The wind howled in Sabrina's ears and the light they thought they had was quickly slipping away. They had to get to camp, and fast.
Puck and the carpet were having a hard time flying threw the wind but they were making progress and soon they saw the light of the camp, but they also saw what made Sabrina's stomach drop. A battle was happening, and it looked like they were losing.
And to make things worse, a sudden strong gust pushed at the carpet, causing it to spin wildly out of control.
It twisted and jerked, and while spinning it flipped, sending the two girls flying off of the carefully woven silk.
Thankfully they weren't too far away from the ground that they would have been seriously injured, but as Sabrina hit the ground, she felt her head explode, sending stars dancing around her line of vision.
Choking on the mud that had made it into her mouth Sabrina yelled for her sister, and when there was no reply she stood up, ignoring the pain in her side.
She ran towards the direction of the camp, shouting for Daphne along the way. She slipped and fell numerous times, but that didn't stop her.
And when she made it to the field that was supposed to hold the camp a sight that she never would have thought possible greeted her.
Nothing.
Nothing but an empty field stood in front of Sabrina
"What the-"
Sabrina said to herself, and before she could even think straight, she turned and started running for home.
She ran, and ran, and ran. Refusing to stop when her side started to burn or her lungs were practically screaming for air. Something was not right, and Sabrina Grimm was going to find out what.
Along the way a few thing registered in her mind them being that she was running in the rain that hadn't stopped since early this morning.
And she knew something was wrong.
She just did. Your entire family doesn't just disappeared along with a whole camp, it just doesn't. As she sprinted out of the last line of trees she thought that it was a trap of some sort and that she would see an army ready to kill her.
Boy, was she wrong.
Instead she saw her home and a couple sitting on a porch bench she had never seen before.
The man had blond hair and was laughing at what the red-headed woman had said, he looked over to see Sabrina, his smile dropping, but before he could get a good look at her Sabrina sprinted back into the trees.
Who were these people?
And why did something tell her she knew them?
So what do you think? Reviews are always welcome. If you're reading my other story 'Town full of Misfits' no need to worry I plan to update sometime this week. I know I took way to long to update that. Sorry! But yeah R&R?
~KENDRA1212