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Ch. 2 The Necklace

Double D ran as fast as he could down the empty street. He was too scared to look behind him at those monstrous shadowed figures chasing him so he only looked strait ahead. All he wanted to do was get as far away from those terrors as possible.

It was pointless to look or try to call for help. The lines of stores along the sides of the street had no lights on, their front display windows were shattered, and some ever had the front doors ripped off by the hinges. Double D thought for a moment that he may have been on Main St. but he couldn't be sure. It all seemed so familiar but yet alien.

Along the sidewalks, cars lay abandoned and most had their windows shattered as well. The sidewalks themselves were either covered with small fires from the cars' gasoline leaks or large puddles of fresh rainwater filled with debris.

Double D had kept running until her heard the horrified screams of all too familiar voices. He turned around to see everyone from the cul-de-sac running after him only to be captured be those shadows.

The shadows over took them so quickly that the eight children barely had time to react. Nazz, Kevin, and Ed tried to stand and fight while the others kept running. All these effects proved to be ineffective as the three fighters were out numbered and soon over powered and the others almost instantly had their retreat cut-off. They son disappeared in the otherworldly mist of darkness that made up these monsters.

Double D could only stand helplessly as everyone he knew was engulfed by them.

"Nazz," Double D said in disbelief as he stared at the ground, "Ed, Eddy, everyone...

They were after me…….Why did they need to be harmed?.."

"Noooo…..," Double D screamed as he was being enclosed in a circle of those shadow creatures. His scream was not of fear but of rage. He instantly felt this amazing power filling him and mixing with his sorrow and anger.

He turned his head up away from the ground to see this magnificent glowing light come over him and then…..

"Ahhhhh….," Double D screamed as he sat up in bed drenched in sweat.

He looked around the familiar settings of his bedroom and took a deep sigh of relief.

"A dream," he said in between gasps, "It was only a dream, well, technically, a nightmare. A very bad nightmare."

As he took another sigh his radio-alarm clock changed from 5:59 to 6:00 and began to play. He jumped a little at the sudden blast of Green Day playing American Idiot but he relaxed again after he realized what it was.

"Well," Double D said after a few minutes, "I suppose it's time to start my daily routine."

He got up and started to get dressed. As he pulled his t-shirt over his head he said, "It was only a dream right?...Oh, what am I thinking, of course it was. It was just my imagination over reacting. It was a combined effect of my anticipation for summer vacation and Ed showing off his comic book at lunch yesterday……..Yes…..that's it …...

it must be…."

As he started to tie his shoes, the song ended and the DJ came on, "Gooood morning, Peach Creek. I'm your favorite radio sweetheart, Biiiig Steve and now it's time for today's weather." A sound effect of applause came over the radio and he continued, "Sorry kids, but our first day of summer might be a wet one. Cloudy all day and a 95 chance of rain, but maybe we'll get lucky. Now for our Top 10 List…."

Double D had hit the 'sleep' button and walked out of the room.

He walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. Once there he poured himself a glass of milk and got out the box of Chunky Puffs. After fixing breakfast he sat down at the table and picked up the sticky-note he had left for himself. As he ate, he read "Materials for Scam, 1. Pin-Wheels, 2. Baseballs, and 3. Paint"

He sighed and looked out the window, "I really hope our scam doesn't get washed out today."

He finished his breakfast and went to his basement were Eddy scam supplies were stored. By the washing machine, Double Dee saw a small box of red, white, and blue pin-wheels, a small box of old baseballs, and a large box of assorted paints, some paint- brushes and paper towels.

"Okay," Double D said as he lifted the boxes, "I should have everything I need to complete my part of Eddy's ……..Hello, what's this?"

He noticed that a section of the wall had a large chunk of dry- wall broken off exposing a brick wall. He had seen this before, it had even been there we his family bought the house, but today those bricks seemed…loose.

"I've better inform father of this," Double D put his boxes down to examine to examine the bricks more closely, "He wouldn't be pleased if our home's foundation caved in on itself."

He bent down and pushed lightly on the bricks with his hands. He was right, the bricks were loose.

"Oh my, this could be a big prob….wait a minute….is there something behind these?" he said out loud into the empty basement.

He was right again; he pulled the few exposed bricks out to reveal a secret compartment.

"How odd….and unsanitary." He said as he looked at the extreme dust build-up and the old spider webs, "but…is there something in there?"

He gulped, "Curse my curiosity. I hope I don't get bite by anything."

Double D closed his eyes, looked away, and stuck his hand inside the opening. He felt around until he felt what he was looking for.

He pulled out a small metal box covered in dust and proceeded to rub the dust off while muttering, "Messy, messy, messy."

When he was finally done, he opened it and pulled a necklace.

"Oh my….." he muttered as he looked it over.

It was a simple necklace with a thin black string and a small crystal hanging from it. The crystal was green and had a unique purple spiral center. Amazingly the necklace didn't have a spec of dust on it.

Double D simply said the first thing that came to his mind, "Wow…What an excellent crystal. I haven't seen anything like this. I wonder what type of stone this is…Oh wait," he turned and looked at the boxes, "Eddy said not to be late for his scam."

He thought for a moment and then he put the necklace on, being sure to put the crystal safely under his shirt, and placed the metal box back into its original hiding place.

Double D grabbed his boxes and hurried over to Ed's house where Eddy and Ed had set up a wooden stand on the front yard.

"Double D," Eddy yelled as soon as he got there, "where have you been?! I had to make Ed do all of the work all by myself!"

Eddy, please lower your voice," Double D responded, "Heaven forbid you helped Ed and if you must know I was retrieving your scam supplies from my basement and…."

"Sooo….It shouldn't have taken you that long!" Eddy snapped.

"I fond this," Double D pulled his crystal out from under his shirt to show Eddy. "I don't think I have ever seen such an unusual crystal formation. I mean I've seem some..."

"Wait a minute," Eddy interrupted, "do you hear that?"

"What?"

"I think…..Yes, it is……..It's the sound of no one caring! Seriously, am I they only one that works around here? Stop blabbing on about your rock and paint that sign!"

"Very well," Double D said as he pulled out a container of bright red paint from one of the three boxes. He went over to the wooden stand and painted "Eddy's Summer Vacation Needs" and underneath that "Every thing you need for summer fun is right here" on the board on top of the stand.

After he was done, he glanced around and asked, "Eddy, previously speaking of whom, where is Ed?"

Before Eddy could answer, Ed walked through the gate that separated his backyard from his front with a small, plastic pool that had pink and slue fish on it.

He set it down in front of Double D and said, "Don't bother looking for Ed inside, Double D, he is not in there."

"Did ya remember to get out the garden hose like I told you to, Lumpy?" asked Eddy.

"What," said Ed with a dopey but peaceful look on his face.

"Ed!" yelled Eddy, "How are we going to fill up that kiddy pool with water if you……"

Ummmm….Eddy," Double D's voice caught Eddy's attention right when he was about to strike Ed.

"What?!" Eddy yelled back.

Double D didn't say anything but instead just pointed to the green garden hose that was already out on the front yard, all rolled up and ready to use.

When the three were all done filling up the pool, Double D looked around at the rest of the set-up. On the side of the stand he was on, there was his box of old baseballs, one aluminum baseball bat, and assorted boxes of footballs, beach balls, and soccer balls. On the other side, six large plastic water guns were nicely displayed. These were not like the "Canadian" water guns, but they too came from the junkyard.

"Why are you standing around, Sockhead?!" Eddy yelled.

"Huh," was Double D's only replied he was suddenly awaken from his day dreaming.

Eddy grunted a little in annoyance before saying, "Just get out the pin-wheels and help Ed with the fishing display!"

"Okay," Double D plainly answered. He couldn't explain why, but lately he noticed himself spacing out a lot.

He placed the pin-wheels along side of the water guns and then looked at his two friends.

"Did you get that raft like I said, Ed?" asked Eddy.

"Sure did," responded Ed as he pulled out a bright yellow square from his pocket He unfolded it and blew it up until it finally resembled what it really was, an inflatable raft.

Double D came closer to them as Ed placed the raft in the pool.

"I trust you have the fishing….."

"Sure do!" Ed interrupted and, before Double D could finish, he pulled out a box of "Fast-Make Frozen Fish Sticks" from his jacket pocket.

"He was askin' for the fishing poles, Lumpy, not fish sticks!" Eddy yelled.

"He asked for food, Eddy. Do you have creamed corn in your ears, mister?" Ed asked as he leaned in closer to Eddy as if to inspect his ears.

"What's that supposed to mean!?" Eddy replied, annoyed.

"You didn't hear Double D say he wanted frozen food."

"He didn't!"

As Eddy and Ed argued, Double D spotted the bow of fishing poles that they had recovered from Eddy's attic.

He set them up in the raft and announced, "Umm…Fellows, I think we're ready to begin."

"Really?" Eddy asked as he turned around.

Before Double D could reply Ed did.

"Chicken!" he shouted.

"What on Earth are you talking about now, you pathetic excuses foe a lump?!" asked Eddy, obviously annoyed again.

"I believe he is right, Eddy," Double D said as he pointed toward Rolf walking toward them with a chicken in hand.

"What flimflammerey are no good Ed boys up to now." Rolf asked as he put his chicken on the ground to explore for itself.

"Just the answer to all your summer time problems," Eddy answered coolly.

As Eddy was speaking, all the other cul-de-sac kids gathered to see the latest way Eddy planned to rip them off. But, despite their knowledge of his intentions, they all ended up looking at the set-up anyway.

It had almost been ten minutes when an inhuman scream was heard. This shriek was so terrifying that upon hearing it one may have sworn that they had been pierced in the heart by a dagger of ice. That was, at least, the first sensation for everyone there as they felt the scream enter them like a blade and their blood suddenly run cold.

As soon as the scream ended the kids looked toward the end of the road that was the only way in or out of the cul-de-sac. There, no more than a few feet away, stood a tall dark figure whose first appearance may make a person believe it was a real man, however a deep sinking feeling in the pit of their stomachs would make them feel otherwise.

It let out another inhuman scream and with it two bat wings sprouted from its back and it took off in to the cloudy sky, leaving our three heroes and the rest of the kids out on Ed's lawn in complete shock. They could only watch as it flew up higher and higher into the sky, only to stop in mid-air and turn its sight downwards. It proceed to make a noise dive directly towards them.

Now, as Double D saw it approaching he could feel life returning to his body.

This is what gave him the power to yell, "Duck!"

Everyone dropped to the ground just in time to feel the wind made from the creature's wings as it swooped over head, nearly missing them.

Double D turned over so he was now on his back. He saw the creature fly overhead again in preparation for another attempt.

"No," Double D muttered, he felt his right hand rise and grab onto the crystal on the necklace, and with that contact, he felt a strange powerful sensation flow through him.

"No, keep away from them!" he screamed as a beam of light shot from the crystal and hit the creature dead on. It almost seemed to disintegrate on impacted.

Double D rose to his feet with his head still turned towards the sky and his hand on the necklace.

The others rose too and stared at Double D with a complete lose of words over what just happened.

Ed was the first to speak, "Wow…," and that seemed to match what everyone was thinking perfectly.

With that single word, the crowd erupted with sayings like, "That was so cool!" or, "What the heck was that thing," and others that described their joy from being unharmed or their remaining terror.

Double D, however, just continued to look upwards towards the sky. The clouds were now so large and dark that they almost had an enraged look to them, but it wasn't the clouds that kept Double D's mind occupied. It was a feeling he had. A felling that someone…no… multiple people needed help. They needed THEIR help to defeat these same monsters and they needed it NOW.

He jumped a little as he felt a warm hand touch his shoulder. He finally turned his head to come face to face with Nazz.

She gave him a worried look and asked, "Are you okay, dude?"

Before he could came up with an answer, she continued, "Double D, its done now. We're all okay and it's because of you."

"It's not over yet," he said almost in a whisper.

"What's going on now?!" Eddy yelled.

Double D gasped as he realized what Eddy was talking about. A sparkling green and white mist was coming from the crystal in his hands. It seemed to mix with the sky overhead until it formed a perfect circle over them.

"What's going on?!" Eddy asks for a second time. "Wait, where am I going?" he asks as he realizes that he is starting to float into the circle.

The others kids screamed as they realize that they too were drawn into the portal. Slowly they all entered it and then darkness…