AUTHOR'S NOTE:
*Britt-chann- SO, here's the next chapter! Hope you all enjoy!
*Random person # 1- how mad is Al at the two girls?
*Britt-chann- ohh! He's-
*Dari- You have to read it, no cheats!
*Britt-chann- oh right, that was close. My lips are sealed. XD
*Random person # 2- Dari, what's your relationship with Rayray now?
*Dari- I-!
*Britt-chann- am not gonna tell you! That's what you were gonna say, right Dari? Right?
*Dari- oh! You tricky people you! Who are you anyway?
*Random persons #s 1 and 2- *laughs manically*
*Britt-chann- ….
*Dari- ….
*Al- Are you two ever going to get on with the show? Mustn't keep your readers waiting, come on now; I've taught you better than this.
*Britt-chann and Dari- You've taught us NOTHING!
*Rayray- Just type the story! Me want to know if I stay as little fuzzy creature.
*Britt-chann- …. Rayray? That would be a rabbit, not a 'little fuzzy creature'.
*Dari- OK then… let's get on with the story!
*Britt-chann- Hope you enjoy! And remember: WE OWN NOTHING! EVERYTHING BELONGS TO KIM HARRISON! Except for me, Dari, and Rayray, but you knew what I meant.
Chapter 8: Consequences
Normal POV
The room was eerily silent, not a noise could be heard… except for…
"What do you mean, he disappeared? Runt, you best go into more detail than that. You have no idea of the trouble you're in seeing as how one of my curses went missing. You wouldn't have anything to do with that, would you? Hmmm?" The voice had been speaking in a calm matter, as it always does when the demon Algaliarept was angry. The demon's familiar stood glaring at the demon, never giving an inch. He didn't feel it necessary to tell the demon that he had nothing to do with either of the missing items because in his eyes, the demon would be dead soon enough. Pierce had been trying to find ways to do away with Al, but was tired of waiting because Rachel was pushing further and further away from him. It was making him restless. But in order to kill the demon, he had to be at his full strength so he finally came to the conclusion that he had no choice but to back down and plead his case.
"I had nothing to do with either case. If you put some thought into it, you would realize both things went missing on the same day; seeing as how I wasn't here on that particular day because I was looking after Ms. Rachel. Why not try asking the only other two occupants that had been here, alone, with the missing 'person', if he can be considered that. Now if you'll excuse me, I was supposed to be on the other side of the lines by now." Came the curt and to-the-point reply of Pierce, who took much pleasure in proving the demon wrong for once.
The whole time Pierce had been talking, Algaliarept had been resisting the urge to hit him till he looked like a blueberry. He had listened to what the runt had said because as much as he hates to admit it, the runt did have a point. Only two people had been present when, not only Reagone, but one of Al's curses had went missing. It seems that Al may have to teach the two girls about how bad stealing from a demon is.
Britt's POV
"So, would you rather marry Robert Patterson or kiss a random dude on the street?" I asked with interest. We were bored and neither one of us wanted to brave leaving the room, so we decided to play 'would you rather'.
"Marry Robert Patterson. If I kissed a random person on the street, they could turn into a stalker, and then I'll never be safe. At least with marrying Robert I could get a divorce after a while." Was Claira's reply to my question. She had a good point. I'd choose Robert over a stalker any day. And she don't need another one any way, seeing as she already has Rayray; the perfect stalker!
"Yeah, I'd choose the same. OK, your tur-" I was cut off before I could finish by a very terrifying presence that I sensed was standing behind me… plus, Claira was staring at the space behind me as if she could see the grim reaper himself standing there. I steeled my nerves and glanced over my shoulder, nearly jumping out of my skin when I did. Looks like Al was home… "Oh, hi Al, welcome back! How was your "appointment"?" I asked with false cheeriness; there's no way to be cheerful when I know why Al is in our room…
Al said nothing at first, which made it all the worse. He just stood there, staring at us over the top of his shades with one brow raised as if he was waiting. I scooted forward, towards Claira and further away from Al. I so didn't wanna be within striking distance when that volcano erupted. I knew what he was trying to do, and I had a feeling that Claira knew what he was trying to do too. He was trying to pick thoughts out of our heads to prove us guilty of… you know what. I can't think about it or he'll catch us. It's a good thing I can hide my thoughts. Let's see if I can annoy him while I'm at it since I'm already in trouble. I love chocolate, monkeys are cute, I wonder what Al would look like as a girl? Hey Al, guess what! Mew mew style, mew mew grace, mew mew power in your face! Beat that! As I was thinking of these random things to throw him off, his gaze had swung straight to me and his eyes had narrowed; I just grinned.
"Hey Claira?" I whispered to her while still smiling at Al even though I knew he could hear me.
"What?" I heard her throw back at me in a quiet whisper.
"Whatever you do… don't think about a pink polka dotted elephant riding a unicycle!" I chirped at her. Al was so gonna kill me, but for some reason I don't care. I like messing with him, is that bad? As soon as the words had left my mouth Claira had started giggling which meant my plan had worked; she had thought about it. It never fails; tell someone not to think of something and they think of it. It's just natural. Before I realized that I had thought this in my mind, it was too late. Al's voice finally filled the room with that calm that always filled me with dread. Anger- I can deal with. Pain- I can deal with. Sadness- I can deal with. Panic, nervousness, and jealousy- I can deal with! But pure calm, not knowning what they were thinking or how they were feeling, and cold calculations, I can't deal with! I can't fight that, it's impossible.
"So, if that tidbit of information is true then this should be simple. That's all I have to do is tell you: Don't think about everything that happened yesterday. Don't think about what happened to Reagone. Don't think about where my missing curse went. And don't think about what you think I'll do to you." Al had said these demands with a challenge to them. I knew this, yet it made no difference. With each thing he told me not to think about, an image of what happened flashed in my mind. I saw the flashes in slow motion. Claira and I mixing the curse in with Rayray's cup of tea, Claira dressed up for Rayray, Me yelling out the activation word, Rayray transforming into a rabbit, Claira and I putting him into the cage in our closet, and before I could stop the last though, the one that I knew would ruin me; what I thought he'd do to me was what I feared the most, me being locked into a room full of spiders. Dangerous, deadly, disgusting, vile spiders. And as that last thought hit my mind, I saw Al's mouth twist up into a mocking smile. He wouldn't, would he? This can't be happening, it was just a small joke!
Claira's POV
I couldn't believe I had fallen for it. As soon as he had said it, I started thinking about everything that happened yesterday. How we fulfilled each task secretly, how we'd been planning this for weeks, how much I had wanted to get rid of Rayray, how cute I thought he looked as a rabbit, how we were planning to try and sell him, and lastly of what would scare me the most as my punishment. I tried to stop it, really I did, but I couldn't. The thought hit me so hard that I actually gagged. I saw it as clear as day, maybe fear does that to you, but I'll never get that image out of my head. It was as clear as if it'd already happened: a closed off room, no doors, no windows, no way out, nothing to stand on, barren floor of various sickly colors of brown. But as I'm standing in the room the floor starts moving and making sounds. After closer inspection, my skin turns cold. The floor is covered in roaches. Huge, ugly, gross, disgusting flying roaches. I started gagging and noticed Britt doing the same thing next to me. the images kept flashing in my mind over and over. I could feel them crawling on my legs and started beating at them in reality, even though it wasn't really happening. I vaguely noticed Britt yelling "GET THEM OFF! GET THEM OFF!" next to me, but I was too busy screaming at no body to get the roaches off of me too. This must've lasted for two hours or so. Britt and I screaming and beating at the invisible creatures, Al laughing, and the slight voice in the back of my mind trying to calm me and tell me that it was just an illusion. Finally, the spell broke; Britt and I were gasping for air as if we had just finished a track marathon of fifty miles or something. I looked up at Al and gave him the most hate filled glare I could muster in this state. Britt, though, seemed like glaring wasn't enough. Before I could stop her, she shot forward and rammed into Al with both her fists. She started beating on his chest and threatening to get him back for that. I didn't have the energy to stop her yet, I was still shaking, and I could see that she was too. It's the first time in a long time I had seen her that scared. She was screaming, crying, and trying to beat Al all at the same time. Finally, she gave up. Al had just watched her and let her hit him, it looked as if it didn't faze him; he didn't look like he felt anything. Finally, after all this time, he spoke again.
"It's amazing how easy that was. That's all I had to do was keep feeding you the images over and over and it pretty much drove you both insane. Now, doves, next time you decide to touch my curses again; don't. You now know what will happen, and next time it won't be an illusion. Understand?" came his smug voice. I wanted to slap that smile off his face. He must've caught that thought because I heard him chuckle. "For the time being, you two can keep the 'Prince'. It'll serve him right to learn that I'm in charge around here. No selling him though, doves, he's a rarity. Get cleaned up, dinner is in a while. Ta ta." And with that he disappeared with a pop of displaced air.
Normal POV
The two girls sat calming themselves down so they could get cleaned up. Britt worked up enough nerve to talk again. "What was your about?" came her quiet voice.
"Roaches." Was Claira's reply which was accompanied by a shiver.
"Should've guessed. Mine was spiders." Britt replied back in a small voice, which was unusual for the usually chirpy girl, and also shivered after saying it.
After an hour of cleaning up the two girls joined Al at the dinner table. Neither one touched their food, neither one looked at the demon, and both sat as far away from said demon as possible. After Al was finished his dinner, since neither girl had an appetite, the two girls excused themselves to their room to get some rest. When they got to their room both girls sat in silence for a while before Britt decided she had had enough.
"Forget this; I refuse to let Al scare us like that. I have an idea, let's play with Rayray!" came her false cheery voice.
"Ok you get the bunny" came Claira's also false cheery voice.
"Heck no, I got the twerp last time, your turn. He bites me." was Britt's defiant reply that was sounding more and more like the Britt that Claira had come to love like a sister.
"Fine. If he bites me, I'm biting you!" Claira replied in a huff, also sounding more like herself, while walking to the closet. She opened the closet door and walked to the back to the cage. As she was preparing for a fight while opening the cage door she was startled. As soon as she had undone the latch on the cage door, Rayray had sprung out and had landed right in her arms. She sat still for a while till she noticed that the bunny was snuggling her where she was holding him. All of a sudden Britt heard Claira scream "YOU PERVE!" right before a bunny was shot through the air and landed at Britt's feet.
When Claira came out she saw Britt holding onto a mini dress in one hand and that she had a rabbit dangling off of the sleeve of her long sleeved shirt ,by the teeth, of the other arm. The two girls laughed and had fun dressing the dark prince bunny up in the dress, some doll shoes, two bows on his ears, and pink blush.
"Hey Claira?" Britt asked her, back to her old self.
"Yeah?" Claira said while coming out of the closet from putting Rayray up; dress and all. She had carried him by the skin on the back of his neck, an arm's length away, like rabbits do to their young.
"He is soooo gonna kill us!" Britt yelled out while laughing.
"Well, he is gonna try to kill YOU. He still loves me, I'm safe." Claira replied laughing at the look that had crossed Britt's face.
"Your mean!" Britt said, sticking her tongue out at Claira, while she laid down for bed.
"Yup. But ya love me anyway!" Claira exclaimed chirpily while copying what Britt had done.
The two girls lay in silence until both drifted off to sleep. Neither girl had a good night, for both had suffered from nightmares.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
*Britt-chann- wow, that was hard. And now I'm gonna have nightmares about spiders for days.
*Dari- think of how I feel.
*Britt-chann and Dari- AL, YOUR SO EVIL!
*Al- *pops in* you called? Oh, Britt, is that a spider on your shoulder there?
*Britt-chann- WHERE! ….AL ,DAMN YOU! Watch it, we're the author's so we can do what we want with you!
*Al- oh? Can you now? *Narrows eyes at Britt and Dari and takes a step closer*
*Dari- … leave me out of this, this is all her. *Walks away with Rayray trailing behind*
*Al- *turns attention on Britt* you were saying?
*Britt-chann- EEP! Never mind! Heh heh, I was just joking. You are so the boss. *says all this while holding up a sign to the audience that says 'help me! evil demon trying to take over our story. Boo hoo!*
*Al- what is that, brat? *Looks pointedly at sign*
*Britt-chann- what this? Nothing; see. Just a message to our audience. See? *shows Al the other side of the sign that reads: WELL STAY TUNED FOR NEXT CHAPTER!*
*Al- flip it over…
*Britt-chann- uhhm.. yea… o- *takes off running in the direction that Claira had gone*
*Al- review this chapter or Britt's special spiders will come after you tonight. Now if you'll excuse me, I have things to do. *pops away and in the distance you can hear a faint scream that sounds vaguely familiar*
*Britt-chann- OH NO! NOT THE SPIDERS! GET THEM OFF! AL!
