Chapter two
DING DONG! The doorbell rang.
"That must be Absol." Mom said as she was walking to the door. Absol and Tragedy were standing in front of the door.
"All right, Tragedy, you know the drill." Absol said in his usual tone.
"We pull the innocent act until Calvin opens our big trunk?" Tragedy asked.
"Yes. Now shut up, and keep a straight face." Mom opened the door and saw Absol, smiling at her.
"Are you my aunt?" Absol asked innocently.
Now, his voice is not lifeless, it's happy.
"Aren't you cute?" Mom said, pinching Absol's cheeks. Absol was still smiling as Mom pinched Absol's cheeks.
"Wow, doesn't that hurt?' Tragedy whispered to Absol.
"Well, what do you think monkey brain?" Absol said, gritting his teeth.
"What was that, Absol?" Mom asked.
Absol quickly turned to Mom.
"Well, it's just that I was on the train for a long, long time, and I was wondering if there's anything to eat in your lovely house." Absol asked sweetly.
"Well, of course. We were about to eat dinner. Come on in, you must be cold." Mom let Absol and Tragedy in.
"Calvin, come down here, and meet your cousin!" Calvin came down stairs carrying Hobbes.
"Ok, Hobbes, you know the drill." Calvin said.
"Pull the innocent act on Absol until he leaves?"
"Right. Follow my lead." Calvin took one look at Absol, and his mouth dropped to the floor.
"Man, he does look like me, but he's 10!" Calvin thought.
"Calvin, this is Absol. Absol, this is my son, Calvin."
"Hi, Calvin." Absol said sweetly.
"You're so lucky to have a Mom that's pretty. Now I know where she gets her looks from."
"Oh, you're too kind." Calvin said as sweetly as possible.
They both shook hands.
"Come on, kids. Dinner's ready."
Absol followed Calvin and Mom into the dining room. Absol and Calvin sat next to each other at the table, looking at each other suspiciously.
"Look at Absol smiling at me. Man, doesn't that hurt his teeth?" Calvin thought.
While Calvin was picking at his meatloaf, Absol also looked at Calvin suspiciously.
"OUCH! This smiling thing is really hurting my teeth. Clueless little Calvin. Little does he know that once he opens my trunk, my power will be released, and then I will take over the world!" Absol said in his head.
"I can read your mind, too, you know." Tragedy said to Absol in his mind.
"Shut up, Tragedy!"
"Who wants dessert?" Mom asked.
"I DO!" Calvin and Absol said at once. Oddly, they sounded alike when they said those words. Mom walked into the kitchen, and came out with a bowl of chocolate pudding. She put it in the middle of the table.
"To be honest, Aunt…"
Look out the window, and you'll see a big truck driving by Calvin's house. Someone in the truck will honk the truck's horn, droning out Absol's voice, thus, we will never know Mom's first name.
"…I haven't finished my peas, and I don't like peas…"
"No problem. You can still have dessert anyways." Mom said, scooping a bowl of pudding for Absol and Dad.
"Hey, I don't like peas either, and they're still on my plate!" Calvin said.
"Eat your peas, Calvin, and you can have dessert." Mom said, scooping a bowl of pudding for herself.
"Listen to your mother, Calvin." Dad said, eating his bowl of pudding.
"Eating healthy foods build character." Calvin was steaming mad.
Not because that he had another "It will build character" lecture from Dad, but even Hobbes had pudding! He's not even going to share it with Calvin.
Hobbes was deliberately smacking as he ate the chocolate pudding. Calvin glared at Hobbes.
"What? I love pudding." Hobbes said.
After dinner, Calvin and Hobbes were in the living room, watching cartoons. Absol jumped in front of the TV.
"Hey, Athens, can you move, we can't see the TV!" Calvin said.
"It's Absol." Absol said sweetly.
"Whatever! Don't you have anything else to do?" Calvin asked impatiently.
Absol laughed nervously. Then, he picked up Tragedy who was right next to him.
"Who's the teddy bear?" Calvin asked.
"He's not a bear, he's a lion, and his name is Tragedy!" Absol said.
With that, Absol left the living room, so he can talk with Tragedy.
"Man, this kid is meaner than I thought…how are we going to get him to open your trunk?" Tragedy asked.
"What am I? The brains?" Absol asked harshly.
"Yes."
"Shut up."
Absol was thinking long and hard, until he finally came up with an idea!
"I got it. All kids love candy, right? So if we tell Calvin that there's candy in my trunk, he'll open it, and the world will be mine! ALL FREAKIN' MINE!"
"Be quiet, Absol! TV over here!" Calvin yelled to Absol in the living room.
"Come on, Tragedy. Time for the plan to come out of its closet." Absol said.
He carried Tragedy, and they both went into the living room again.
"Hey, Calvin, do you like candy?" Absol asked the couch potato Calvin.
"Yeah…what's your point?" Calvin asked, his eyes glued to the TV.
"Well, I got a lot of candy in my blue trunk." Absol said.
Calvin got out the remote out of the couch, and turned off the TV.
"I'm listening." He said.
"I have tons of candy in my trunk! CRUNCH bars, Reese's, Mr. Good Bars, Skittles, M&M's, sugar daddies, and sugar babies…"
"Where are the goods?" Calvin asked in a slow, scary voice.
"Upstairs in your room." Absol replied quickly.
"Come on, Hobbes! We're gonna be in candy wonderland!" Calvin grabbed Hobbes, and both of them bolted out of the living room, and went upstairs.
"Should I say that your plan worked like a charm?" Tragedy asked.
Absol ignored him.
"This is like taking candy from a baby." Absol said.
Absol and Tragedy, too, bolted out of the living room, and went upstairs.
Absol ran in Calvin's room, where Calvin and Hobbes was. Calvin was rubbing his two hands together. Calvin and Hobbes were standing in front of the trunk. The trunk was only three feet high, it's blue, and there are carvings on the bottom of the trunk.
"Go ahead and open it." Absol said. He had an evil grin on his face.
"It's not locked."
"I don't think this is a good idea, Calvin." Hobbes said.
"What if there's no candy in Absol's trunk?"
"There is candy in there, booger brain!" Calvin said harshly.
"He said so himself. Man, what's in your empty skull, a bag of peanuts?"
Hobbes crossed his arms, and gave Calvin an evil look.
Calvin slowly opened the trunk, eagerly waiting for sweets in the interior of the trunk, except…
There's no candy!
"Hey! There's no candy in this trunk! You lied!" Calvin said, pointing a finger at Absol.
"See that glowing green ball inside my trunk?" Absol asked.
Calvin jumped inside a trunk. He looked around, until finally, he saw a green light on the right corner of the empty trunk. He found the glowing, green ball.
"I found it! I found the candy!" Calvin said, jumping out of the trunk.
There was a top on the glowing green ball. The top was like a top on a beer bottle, except a little bigger. Calvin tried to twist the top of the ball, but no avail.
"Hey, the candy ball won't open!" Calvin complained.
"Maybe I can help." Absol said.
Calvin handed the glowing ball to Absol. Absol turned his back away from Calvin. He did something that will help Calvin open the top of the glowing ball.
After a minute or so, Absol handed the glowing ball to Calvin, and said, "Here. Try it now."
Calvin twisted the cap, and surprisingly, the cap came off.
The ground started to shake, and tiny glowing green balls flew out of the glass ball, thus, the inside of the green ball lost its glowing green color.
The little green balls flew inside Absol. Absol was laughing hysterically as the outlines of his body turned green. Then, he floated off the green, and started shaking like lightning had strike him. Then, Absol slowly landed on the ground.
Now, Absol's power is released. Remember earlier in the story when I said that Absol and Tragedy can make people unlucky? Well, thanks to Calvin, their power is now released.
Calvin better not say anything, or else an anvil is going to land on him. And that's what Absol is thinking right now!
"So…um…Kelvin…"
"It's…Calvin." Calvin said, angry.
"Whatever. Any last words, before I destroy your little town, and take over the world?"
"Yes…kiss my…"
Calvin was interrupted by big anvil appearing over him.
Calvin got out a sign that said "MOMMY!"
Then, the anvil landed on Calvin so hard, that the anvil pressing on Calvin's body sounded like an egg cracking.
"Calvin!" Hobbes said. Hobbes ran over to Calvin, and pulled Calvin out from under the anvil.
"Hey, watch it! You could've really hurt him! This is real life, not a cartoon!" Hobbes said.
Calvin slowly woke up.
"Where am I?" Calvin said slowly.
"Your stupid cousin dropped an anvil on you." Hobbes said.
"He did? But I didn't see him drop it. It was floating above me. How did he do that?"
Calvin and Hobbes turned around and Absol and Tragedy are gone.
"Yikes! They're gone! Hobbes, let's go! We have no time to lose!" Calvin ran out of the room.
Hobbes was about to leave the room, when he took one shocking look at the anvil that landed on Calvin. the anvil looked like it was about to go through the ceiling, but ti didn't even move a bit!
"Forget about the anvil and come on!" Calvin ran back into the room, grabbed Hobbes, and they bother ran out of the house.
Please R&R! If you want to read what's going to happen next!