Hello, there! Welcome to chapter two! If you're on chapter two, then I'm assuming you think this good. And the more viewers I have, then I have motivation for continuing. *claps* And thank you for the reviews.
About the story… Before I wrote this, I had all these great ideas for this and I was thinking it was going to be funny, but then the words seemed to write themselves, and I kind of liked where it was headed so I decided I'd try to write a more "serious" story but with a lot of funny stuff. But last chapter, I said that this story was going to be random, but I realized that the ideas I had for this story were not exactly random. So try and notice the actions of the characters later on in the story. I'll be trying to throw some randomness into them.
And I hope what I just said made enough sense.
Everyone, including Bill-E, was gathered around the dinner table enjoying their food and talking about how their day went. To any random person watching this scene, it would look like they were all one big, happy family. Well, technically they were all family but Latisha and Ladonna didn't know Bill-E was part of the family too. And they all seemed pretty happy, except Grubbs.
"So Grubbs, Billy, what were you both up to while dinner was cooking?" Dervish asked, trying to get Grubbs to be less tense and silent. But he knew that that probably wouldn't happen.
Bill-E swallowed his food. "We were just hanging out by the woods. I was talking about how this girl at school, Holly. She's super cool and fun, and have a lot in common. We both think Loch is a jerk, we both like Geography and History, and we like shooting spitballs at Mrs. Penfold."
Dervish chuckled at his young nephew. "She sounds nice. Maybe she'll become your girlfriend, eh?"
Bill-E's face turned red and he went to picking his food. "Yeah…maybe…"
Grubbs smiled a bit. It was nice seeing Bill-E interested in this girl. He was always pretty shy when it came to be social with the kids at school, especially girls, so it listening to Bill-E talk about this girl so fondly was a nice change.
"Can we meet her? We can braid her hair. Oh! And we can give each other makeovers!" said Latisha.
"And paint our nails!" Ladonna followed.
"No."
Everyone turned to look at Grubbs with confusion written all over their faces.
"But why not, Grubbs? It would be like having a sister!" Ladonna said. The two girls stared at him with their sad, doe-looking eyes.
"Because you're going to do something horrible."
"Grubbs! They were just asking if they could meet her and if they could hang out together. There's no reason to not let them and be mean to them," Dervish scolded him. He didn't know what came over his nephew.
"Grubbs, why are you always so mean to us. We didn't do anything. You always hate us but why can't you give us a real reason why?" Latisha asked, wearing a look of hurt that matched her sister's.
"You want a real reason? You shaved my legs! You always get me into trouble, like that time you painted Grandma Crystal's bedroom with ketchup and barbecue sauce and I got blamed for it! I got twenty spanks with her cane! And you killed my pet rabbit! And then my mom yelled at me for taking care of a "wild animal"! And every time I'm around you I get this weird feeling that you two are up to something. And I mean something evil," yelled Grubbs, now standing, glowering at the girls.
"Grubbs!" yelled Dervish, appalled that Grubbs would say those things to two little eleven-year-old's. Dervish knew he knew better than to act this way. Bill-E shrunk down in his seat, hoping his brother wouldn't lose his temper and flip the table over.
Grubbs didn't hear his uncle yelling at him. He was too engrossed in staring into Latisha's left eye and Ladonna's right eye, which were side by side. He felt like his soul was being pulled into a lake of terror and pain and…just pure evil. All of his surrounding's were turning fuzzy unclear. The thing that stayed clear was the girls eyes, but there was something way off about them, and amazingly Grubbs almost didn't notice.
Latisha's eye was black and Ladonna's eyes was red. And he was no longer staring at the twins.
He was staring at a monster. A demon.
And everything went black.
"Grubbs? Hey, man, wake up. Grubbs…"
Grubbs opened his eyes to see Bill-E standing over him with a glass of water. Grubbs slowly took in his surroundings and realized he wasn't at the dinner table anymore, but in his bedroom, sprawled on his bed. His head hurt really bad. He wondered if he hit his head or something.
"What…happened," Grubbs groaned, reaching for the glass of water.
"Well...to be honest, I'm not too sure. One minute, you were yelling at Latisha and Ladonna and Dervish told you to stop, then you spaced out on us. Then you just…passed out," Bill-E informed him.
Then Grubbs remembered.
Latisha and Ladonna.
The demon.
What the hell?
"Er…Bill-E…did you see anything? Like, notice anything majorly off about Latisha and Ladonna? Did you get a seriously evil vibe off them?"
"No. To tell you the truth, they both looked pretty frightened. I mean, one minute, you were looking at them like you wanted to rip their heads off, then you were like…I don't know, but it looked like you staring into their souls," Bill-E said seriously confused. Something was way off about Grubbs. He looked just as confused as he was, but also almost terrified.
Grubbs stared at his blanket as his thoughts raced. What had he seen? Had he seen anything at all? Bill-E said they looked normal (and normal as in human-looking). The food was probably bad or something, or maybe he was lacking sleep.
"Dervish said to come to his study when you woke up. He's not happy."
Of course he's not happy. I just screamed my head off at two little girls and scared them, thought Grubbs. He was now starting to feel bad about the whole situation. For all he knew he could've imagined it.
Grubbs sighed. "Alright. Might as well get this over with."
In the study, Dervish was working on something on his computer looking deep in thought. Grubbs took a deep breath and knocked on the wall in the entrance.
"You can come in," Dervish said, not taking his eyes off his computer.
"Hey, uh, Dervish. I, um…I'm sorry about what happened at dinner," Grubbs apologized.
Dervish looked up, giving Grubbs a hard stare that made Grubbs shuffle his feet. Dervish was never mad at Grubbs but now he was pretty disappointed in his nephew.
"Don't say sorry to me. Apologize to those girls. After you yelled at them and passed out, it took me about twenty minutes to calm those girls down. You really scared them, Grubbs. You don't go losing your temper at two girls who have only been here no longer than three hours. They just asked Bill-E a question, then you freak out. And it's not your place to say they can't meet your brother's girlfriend, that's Bill-E's decision. I don't know what's gotten into you but you need to straighten up your attitude," Dervish said firmly but still calm.
Grubbs thought his uncle would yell at him and be more mad than this. He took back what he said earlier. Dervish did know how to punish kids. Getting this talk from him was much worse than the groundings and shouting his father gave him when he was still alive.
Grubbs looked up and nodded.
"Hey, Dervish? I have a question…er…is it possible to see something and then ask someone else if they saw it too but they say no? I mean, I know that's possible but it also possible without being…you know, crazy?" Wow, I sound like an idiot, he thought.
Dervish gave him a confused look. "Does this have something to do with you passing out?"
"Well, yeah."
"What was it you saw?"
"Well, I'm pretty sure it was demon. I'm not saying it was Latisha and Ladonna that was the demon, but it was where they were standing. So, I'm not sure if I made it up or not…"
Dervish ran a hand through his hair and was silent for a minute.
"Depending on how strong they are, people with magical abilities like the disciples, can see right into the Demonata universe without creating a window. Only some people can do this but it's mainly just magicians like yourself. So if you're saying is true, you probably just saw right into the Demonata universe," said Dervish thoughtfully.
Grubbs nodded, not fully choosing to agree with it for some reason, but it was a better explanation than he thought of.
"I'm going to apologize to Latisha and Ladonna."
"Yeah, you better do that. Oh, and try to keep better control of your temper."
"Okay."
Grubbs roamed around the halls looking for the twins' room. He should've asked Dervish which room it was because Grubbs couldn't find it. He turned a corner and saw a sign that said "Latisha and Ladonna Land". The sign was colored with glittery crayons of rainbows and a fat pony eating cake.
Grubbs knocked on the door. He heard feet shuffling around and papers flying. The door opened slowly and two faces peered out.
"What do you want, you butthead," they both said in unison, which was kind of creepy to Grubbs.
"Er…," Grubbs muttered, eyes still on the drawing of the cake-eating pony. It was so…glittery and it looked so happy. Almost too happy eating that delicious looking cake, topped with many layers of sugary goodness. The pony seemed to be hypnotizing him somewhat. He just couldn't stop staring at it.
"Hey, moron, you done drooling over our artwork? What do you want?" said Latisha sounding bored.
Grubbs opened his mouth but no sound coming out. He looked like he was imitating a fish. He didn't look away from the pony picture.
"Uh…I'm sor—okay, what the hell is it? It looks like a fat horse eating cake under a rainbow. But I have to admit, that's some pretty cool artwork, and the glittery crayons makes it cool looking," Grubbs said. It was…so…sparkly…
"It's Mr. Fat Pony eating cake. But he wishes he was eating you," Ladonna said.
"Wha—?" Grubbs snapped his head towards the girls, who wore identical innocent smiles.
"I said he wishes he was eating chocolate cake instead of strawberry."
"Oh…"
Latisha cleared her throat. "You come here for something?"
Grubbs blinked. "Oh, yeah. About what happened at dinner, I'm sorry. I think I was just holding a grudge against you two for the past things you've done. Like the rabbit-thing. But yeah, I'm…sorry," Grubbs said sincerely, even though he didn't necessarily like it.
"It's okay, we forgive you."
"Yeah, we forgive you."
Grubbs smiled at them but his smile didn't last for long. He was looking into Latisha and Ladonna's eyes again without realizing it, and he heard crackling. Like wood in a fire. He smelled smoke. Grubbs coughed and took his eyes away from the girls to look around the hall, but there was nothing there.
"Do you smell smoke?" he asked them.
They shook their heads, looking confused. "No…are you okay?"
"Er…yeah…see you…"
Grubbs turned the other direction heading for the stairs. He could feel their eyes staring at his retreating form. It felt like they were burning holes into his back. He was halfway down the stairs when he heard the girls door shut, thanks to his werewolf ears.
He was definitely going to keep an eye on those girls.
A/N: What did you think of that chapter? Is there something going on with the twins? Is Grubbs just hallucinating? And what's up with the sparkly Mr. Fat Pony?
Once again, suggestions are welcome. No flames. Tell me what you think of this. Should I quit this story?
Reviews = No demons coming to eat you anytime soon.
