Chapter Seven: Storms
Edgar sat quietly on the couch, reading a comic book. Star was in the kitchen, making lunch.
"Hey Edgar! Hey Edgar!" Laddie said, running in from the swinging doors.
"What?" He grumbled.
"You know how Max had that dog, you know, Thorn?"
"Yeah. What about it?" Edgar turned the page of his book. Couldn't the kid shut up already? He had been talking to him all day long. Sadly, he had been out of his spell long enough to be spoken to.
"What happened to it? When Max died, did it just disappear or did something actually happen to it?"
"No clue."
Edgar actually hadn't thought about it. What did happen to a hound of Hell once its master was gone? He started thinking about it when Star walked in, carrying two cups filled with water. She put them on the table and returned to the kitchen, coming back shortly with food. She had made them some grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup.
Edgar took one look at everything and decided not to touch it. She might have been human now but he still didn't trust her.
"Are you going to eat that?" Laddie asked. His mouth was stuffed with the sandwich and the odd trail of tomato soup down his chin creeped Edgar out even more than he originally was of the little boy.
"No, you can, uh, have it." He couldn't take his eyes off the soup.
"Thanks!" The boy said happily. He looked at Edgar, puzzled about why he was getting such and odd look from him. Realizing what it was, he quickly wiped his hand over his face, trying his best to get off red liquid. It just smeared everywhere.
"Worst day ever." Edgar said, putting his face in a pillow so he couldn't see Laddie anymore.
"Aren't you going to eat? Hold on." The phone rang, interrupting Star's sentence. She answered it.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Oh, Sam, hi!" She said happily. "What happened?"
She paused, listening to Sam on the other line. "Oh. Okay. I'll be there. Bye."
Star set the phone down and turned to the two boys.
"Get in the car, we have to go pick everyone up." She said. She grabbed the keys to pickup truck and walked out the door. Edgar and Laddie followed.
The space inside the car was small. It had two seats in front and enough seat belts for three in the back. Edgar sat passenger.
"How are they all going to fit in here?" He questioned.
Star started the truck and pulled out of the driveway. "You're going to have to find a way to fit in the back I guess."
They pulled up to the high school. Natalie was rambling about something that Edgar couldn't hear.
Sam opened the back door, getting in the car. Natalie, Sky, and Alan followed. Alan shared an awkward glance at Laddie. The kid still creeped him out after what happened when he vamped out on them.
Once everyone was shoved into the truck, Star pulled out of the school parking lot.
She looked at Sam through her rear view mirror.
"Sam, explain to me what happened again?" She said questionably.
"Well there's this..." Sam thought for a word to say instead of Dalia. Edgar was out of his spell and completely normal now; he didn't want to ruin that. "This...person. And she kind of ticked off Nat and-"
"Ticked off? More like put a spell on Edgar and started terrorizing us all with nightmares!" Natalie complained, looking out of the window.
Edgar fought himself from saying something about Dalia. He wasn't going to give in to the spell. He had to find the witch and kill her. He was Edgar Frog, the badass monster hunter. Not the stupid, gullible person who falls in love with the supernatural.
"What? How do you always end up with some kind of problem?" Star sighed.
"Problem? More than a problem. We don't even know how to kill her and get rid of this! We're going to go crazy, Sam! If we can't destroy all of her spells, the nightmares will take over. Every time I close my eyes it gets harder and harder to tell the difference between reality and the dreams. You saw Alan in gym class today. The nightmares are coming into the real world. What if one of us falls asleep and we get killed in our dreams? Does it happen in real life?" Natalie snapped. She was cranky. It felt like she hadn't slept in years.
Sky was now considering about whether or not to just give Natalie the necklace and forget the whole thing or save it for herself. It was so selfish to keep it to herself. Maybe she could give it to each one of them at a time and let them get a peaceful sleep...
A voice cut into her thoughts. It was Nara, the girl who had given her the necklace.
It won't work... She told Sky. The spell already hit them, you can't reverse it unless you kill Dalia. Stop making yourself feel bad, there's nothing you can do.
Sky sighed. There had to be something she could do...
The truck pulled in to the driveway of the Emerson's. Everyone got out of the car and went into the house. Star left not long after; they could watch Edgar now and Laddie was becoming more bored by the second.
"We have to find some way to stay awake." Sam said, rapidly searching through his cupboards and fridge.
"There's always the Pepsi downstairs. It has caffeine." Edgar told Sam his best guess at how to stay up all night.
"Great idea." Sam sighed. He walked down the cellar stairs.
Edgar went into the living room. Natalie and Alan were both asleep, snuggled up next to each other on the couch. Sky was still awake and sitting on a chair, looking at something she was wearing around her neck. Edgar tried to see what it was from where he was standing but it was too small. She noticed him then, hoping he didn't know what she had just been doing.
"Oh. Edgar. Hey." She said quickly, looking away from whatever it was.
"Hey," He replied. He sat down on the last chair in the room. It was across from Sky.
"Um...you know...I was thinking... If you aren't under Dalia's spell right now and you can actually understand me, I was wondering if maybe you wanted to go to that dance with-" Sky was interrupted by a loud noise coming from the stairway.
Sam had tripped when he started running up the stairs, sending the cans of soda scattering across the floor. The noise woke Alan but barely fazed Natalie.
"Sam! You ok?" Sky said, hopping off the chair and going over to the boy.
"I'm fine." He sighed. At least he had stopped her from asking out Edgar.
Sky picked up some of the cans from the floor. She and Sam put them on the kitchen counter. Sky grabbed two extra cans for Alan and Nat and walked back out into the living room. She woke them up -Alan had fallen back asleep- and handed it to them. The caffeine didn't have an immediate effect on the tired people but it eventually picked up the pace and woke them up.
They drank can after can and eventually became a little hyper from all the caffeine.
"You know what we should do? We should go out right now and find the witch and kill her. I mean, I feel so awake now. I could probably do anything I wanted to." Natalie said. The words came fast, slurred with caffeine.
Unable to defend against the spell any longer, Edgar spoke. "You can do anything but kill her."
Natalie ignored it. It wasn't his fault and that was the first time she had seen him speak about Dalia all day.
A storm was now raging outside. It came suddenly, hitting the sides of the house with pouring rain.
Back at Max's store, where she was now the manager, Lucy tried calling home. The phone line responded with a dead tone. The phone lines were out and there was no way she would drive in this weather. The driveway was probably all mud and she had taken her father's prized car so Star could have the truck.
Sam looked out the window. Rain hit it heavily, sending loud patters through the house. He closed the curtain and returned to the floor. Everyone was sitting there, playing Monopoly to pass the time.
Sky moved her piece and landed on one of the first spaces on the board.
"And you owe me four dollars." Edgar told her. It seemed a little easier now to fight against the spell. It always was when he was around Sky.
"What a loss." She laughed sarcastically, handing over some of the one dollar bills to him.
Thunder boomed outside and a bolt of lightning lit up the room when the lights turned off.
"Every time the Frog brothers do something a normal person would do, this happens!" Sam sighed.
"Maybe it's just you," Alan shrugged.
"Maybe it's Edgar's girlfriend." Sam mumbled, going into the kitchen for some candles. He pulled out a pack of matches, lit three candles, and walked back to the living room. He put the candles in holders and put them around the floor so everyone could see.
"Is it just me or is anyone else bored of Monopoly?" Sky asked.
"It's not just you." Natalie replied.
"Aw! Come on! I own like half the board!" Edgar said.
"That's why it's boring." Sky told him.
She put the game over to the side and thought of other things to do.
"Have either of you two ever played Truth or Dare?" She asked the Frogs.
The brothers glanced at each other and shook their heads at the same time.
"You haven't? Is your whole life revolved around killing vampires?"
"Well..." Edgar started.
"Don't answer that." Sky stopped him. "You guys are going to play Truth or Dare whether you like it or not." She laughed.
"I take it Sam hasn't ever played either?" Natalie asked.
"If I say I have, do I still have to play?" Sam questioned.
"Yes. And it's not that bad, it's actually kind of fun. So, let's start."
MERRY CHRISTMAS! And if you don't celebrate Christmas, Happy Hanukkah! And if you celebrate something else, Happy Holidays!
This is my Xmas gift to you guys.
Well, this morning I was going through all of my gifts and I got a pack of Gummy Vampires... I don't want to eat them because I don't think they would put 'Vampire Blood' as an ingredient on the back of the package. What do you guys think? Review and tell me!
