Future of Darkness

By: WriterGirl01

Chapter 8: A Traitor to the Rescue

Poil knew that Amy would be able to help her get Casper back to his time. She knew this was going to be hard for Amy to trust her. She did in fact have betrayed them to the lord for a lie he told her. I can bring back Spooky to you Poil. All you have to do is tell me where Kathleen and Peter Asher are hiding. Then you will get the one thing you so long for. All you have to do is join me my dear and your dream will finally come true. Poil wanted to believe him. They were good friends once and she once loved him more than she did with Spooky. But she was more of the bad boy type. The lord before he turned evil was a nice boy to get to know. She missed those days so much. She sometimes wished that she could go back in time and change his faith, but that was not going to work. "I hope she will forgive me of what I did." Poil said to herself. She was the reason that her parents had been killed. She regretted that day more then anything in her afterlife. Amy's mother Kat was always so nice to take her in after what happened to Spooky. She owed the Asher family so much for their kindness that they gave her. And this is how she repays them. Leaving Amy and Malachi with no parents and trying to fight to keep Friendship safe from him.

Poil took in the fresh air that has been denied her for so long. She has not been out of the lord's watchful eyes since the day she betrayed the Asher's. She lost everything that night joining him. Her friends that cared for her and wanted to protect her form him; and her freedom to be able to go anywhere she wanted. Tears started to fall from her blue eyes. She felt alive again if you can believe that. She felt like her afterlife was taking from her. Now she was taking her afterlife back from him. "Oh Spooky I miss you so much, but I know I must move on. He will never bring you back to me. I now know that after the little stunt he pulled with me in the lab. He wants me to be with him, to be his girlfriend. I have a feeling that if I said yes to him then he would have gotten rid of Samantha the same way he did with you. I feel bad for Samantha, Spooky. She really does love him. I want to help her see that he is only using her, but she will never believe me." Poil said looking up into the moonless night. She heard someone from her back and turned to see who it was. It was Amy Asher.

"Well if you did not tell her that she was a loser for loving him, then I think she would listen to you Poil. And also the fact that you told her that he is not what he seems did not help either." Amy said to her. Poil put her head down shamed to even look at her.

"Why is she here Amy? We have no time talking to traitors like her. Lets go get Casper out of that assholes' house before he carries out his plan." Malachi said to his sister. Poil now had tears in her eyes. She needed to hear this from them. She was the one that took their parents lives away. Even if it was not her who physically killed them but the lord; But she was the one that gave him the spot of where they were hiding. Amy felt bad for her so much. She was lost and afraid like she was. Her brother may not be able to forgive her but she knew in her heart is that what her mother would want her to do.

"Poil I know he promise you everything that you wanted. I know that you believed him because he was your good friend in the past. But he tells nothing but lies now. He is not the same ghost he once was. He will only cause you pain and sadness if you allow him to continue to hold you as his slave. Join us once again Pearl. Be our family and help us bring him down once and for all." Amy said going to where Poil was floating putting out her right hand for Poil to take it. Poil never believed that Amy would be so forgiving for what she did to her mother and father. She was so much like her mother. Poil threw into her arms crying.

"I am so sorry Amy. I just wanted to believe that he was still the same ghost that I knew from long ago. I preyed that you would forgive me for what I did. I am so sorry, I am so sorry." Poil said crying into her chest. Amy wanted to cry but they had no time for this. They needed to move as fast as they could to get Casper out.

"I will let you in. He is busy with Samantha in their room so he would not let her leave to check on Casper until he is done with her. The Toupin brother's are in their room too afraid to come out after what Michael did to Casper. I will let you in to get Casper. He may be sleeping from the shot that Samantha gave him. But how are we going to get him back to the trio Amy?" Poil said flying out of her arms to be in front of her. Amy smiled at her and put her lips together and whistled into the air. Poil looked around and almost died again in shocked. She saw the Harvey's and the trio coming up to where they were standing. She could not believe that they had gotten them here. Finally they will be able to stop him with the trios help.

"Can we really trust you Poil? I mean he could have let you out to spy on us. I mean it could be a trap for him to destroy us Amy and take down anyone that is with us." Malachi said to sister. He wanted her to think before jumping into something that could kill them. But he knew that his sister always loved Poil as a sister. He did once too until the day that she betrayed them and had gotten his parents killed. To him she was the enemy and he did not want to go anywhere which her unless he knew that she was telling the truth. But he knew that was foolish, he was never going to believe her unless she did something to stop the lord from his plan.

"I know I have hurt you in the past Mal. And I do not blame you for not forgiving me. But I am telling the truth to you. If you do not come with me then he will win. I know nothing is going to change his mind about devouring Casper's soul. He is already told me that I am to watch him do this terrible thing to Casper. If we do not hurry then everything we loved about Friendship will be lost forever. I want to help to bring peace back to the town." Poil said looking at both of them.

Stretch went up to Poil and smiled at her. "You have not change at all Poil. But you are not as happy like you use to be. I do not like this look on you. I know you are telling the truth so I will follow you get Short Sheet out. Come on boys lets go get the kid." Stretch said looking at his brothers. Fatso and Stinkie smiled at their elder brother and flew to where he was.

"Wow! Poil you did grow and bit." Fatso said petting her on the head. "And you got rid of that stupid pink bow too."

"Well I got to old for the bow. Now I just leave my hair down." Poil said smiling at Fatso. She had not smiled since the Asher's took her in.

"Come Fatso give her some credit. She turned into a fox. Man no wonder the lord or whatever his name is wants to get with you. Damn Poil you are hot." Stinkie said looking at Poil up and down. Stretch wracked his brother over head about what he said to Poil.

"Hey what was that for?" Stinkie asked getting mad at his brother.

"Come Stink she is Casper's age. That is just so wrong. I mean it is true but it is just not right to say that coming from us." Stretch said shaking his head at him.

"Wait why are you guys calling him Lord? Did Amy tell you who he is?" Poil asked trying not blush at what Stinkie said. The trio looked at her with weird faces.

"No she did not. But why dose it matter all we want is to get Casper out of here. I just want to get home and make sure that ghost tries to shit again on our nephew." Stretch said to her.

"Stop Poil they will find out soon from him. I am afraid that you will not help us if you knew who he was. We need to stop him no matter the cost." Amy said looking at the group.

Kat looked at her for a moment and understood what Amy could not tell the trio. "Are you sure its him Amy? Are you really sure?" Kat asked her.

"Yes Kat. Please do not tell them. Want to stop him to save the town and Casper. If you tell them then they may not want to help us." Amy said with pleading eyes.

"Well all I want is to get the kid back and get home. If I have to I will help you to destroy the guy. I do not care who he is. No one, I mean, no one mess' with my kid." Stretch said not realizing that he just called Casper his kid. Well his father was never around for him. And he was seventeen when Casper was born. So being the second oldest to J.T. he had to take care of his nephew when his brother was to busy not being a dad. But he loved how it made him feel holding Casper when he was a baby. It gave him a new out look on life and how much this kid meant to him. There were many times when he would tell Fatso and Stink that he wished that Casper was his. He did everything for the kid. He even gave up his dream of being a baseball player to take care of him. He never told that to Casper, because he knew that Casper would feel that he held him back from life. All he cared about was that kid. But when Casper died he felt like he lost a part of him. Stretch knew that he never got over his nephew's death and lost all hope of going on with his life. He never told the doc this but that he wanted to die, because he failed as a parent to Casper. He was not there to protect him from his father. But that is another story for another day.

"We should get moving before he realizes that you are not in the manor. Come on lets go." Amy said walking to the manor. The others started to follow her. James and Stretch were at the end of the group and started talking to each other.

"I am very proud of you. I know you do not like to share your feelings with anyone but this is good for you to let people know how you feel about them." James said putting his hand into Stretch's left hand. Stretch looked at him shocked that he was doing this when Kat was right in front of them. He tired to pull his hand away but James would not let his hand go.

"It is ok Stretch. Kat is old enough to deal with whom I want to be with. If she cannot then that is her problem. I do not want to hide this anymore." James said to him. Stretch smiled at him and gave him a quit kiss on the cheek.

They smiled at each other and let go of their hands. "When we get home we are going to have a family meeting and we are going to tell them that we have been dating for so long." James said looking at Stretch with love in his eyes.

As they got to the main doors of the manor Poil went to open them. "Hurry the lord will think something is wrong." Poil said as everyone got into the main hall of the manor. As they began to walk to the lab Poil stopped when she saw that Toupin's door was opened.

"Be careful I think Michael is out of his room. This is the door that we need to get in. Now please do not yell when you see him. He will hear it his room is only down the hall." Poil said as she opened the door to the lab.

As they got into the lab, Stretch looked and saw Casper asleep on the table. He wanted to cry so bad when he saw what they did to his baby. He flew as fast as he could to hold him. But then the door slammed shut on them. "What the. Why would you slam the door Poil?" Stretch said picking up Casper off the table. Casper went limp in his arms. He had marks all over his lower part of his body. "What the hell are these marks on his body?" Stretch asked.

Poil went up to where he was and saw the marks. "I have no idea. When I was here with him he did not have them." Poil said looking over his body. She knew after looking at them that Michael had hurt him. She did not want to say anything to Stretch. She knew that he would totally have freak out when he found out what happen to him. "I do not know what happened." Poil said to him. He knew that she was lying and he took a closer look at them. When he saw them closer he knew that someone raped his little nephew. Stretch could not believe it. His nephew lost his innocence to someone. He put Casper closer to him. Holding him he could hear Casper's whimper from the pain.

"Boys come here for a moment." Stretch said trying so hard not to cry. He wanted to tell them what happened. He would tell the doc and Kat what happened but he needed to tell his brothers first. As they got there he told them what happened to their nephew. The trio held Casper tight as they tried not to cry. Just then someone took a hold of Poil's right shoulder.

"Well Poil I never would have guessed that you would turn on me. And to think that we had something good going." The lord said in her right ear licking it. Poil was so scared of what he was going to do. Then she saw Michael chained up on the floor next to him.

"How did you know that I was gone?" Poil asked him as he was holding her to him. He smiled at her and looked at Michael who was shaking like a leaf.

"Well my dear you see. I heard Casper crying and begging for this piece of shit to stop touching him. And I knew that he was raping him. I flew out of the room and opened your door to get you to help me get the fool off of him and you were not in your room. I must tell you Poil I was very pissed off that you would have turned on me. But I knew that your where going to bring the Asher brats to me so I waited for you to come back. But I had to get Michael off of Casper. The poor baby was crying so much about what happened that I gave him a small shot to help him go back to sleep. I could not have him warn you that I was in the room." The lord said to her pushing her away from him and turned to Michael.

"Now you have pissed me off for the last time Michael Toupin. I think that you will displease me if I keep you alive. Oh but do not worry I will watch over Jacob as he was my own brother. Time for you to be gone from my sight." The lord said taking a hold of him.

"Please my lord. Please do not devour me! Please just let me go away from the manor. Please Jacob needs me to look out for him." Michael said with tears coming down his face. What the lord and Michael did not know is that Jacob floated into the room to find his brother.

"Too late Toupin! I told not to touch the boy when we had our little chat. But know you went against my order. And this time there is no Samantha to protect you." The lord said bring Michael's face up to his. Michael began to shake worst then before, begging and pleading with him to let him go. But his words fell on death's ears. The lord opened his mouth wide and began to devour Michael. Michael's scream was horrible to hear. Poil was shaking from what he was doing. Then she saw that Jacob was watching his brother being devoured by the lord. She ran to him and tried to cover his eyes with her chest. He tried to pull away from her but she was stronger then he was.

"Jacob I am here I will protect you from him. He will not hurt you I promise." Poil said to him. Jacob was crying and shaking so badly that he could not say anything to her. Michael was trying to pull away but he was losing his strength to his lord. He knew there was no way out of this. He was going to be lost forever, because of his foolish heart for the McFadden boy.

This was Michael's last words to his baby brother. "Jacob I want you to move on. I want you to cross over. Tell mother that I am sorry that I played with the stable boy. I Just wanted him like me. Please brother cross over. I love you Jacob. Do not forget that Jacob." Michael said as the lord devoured the rest of his body.

Jacob pulled away from Poil's chest and began screaming for his brother to hear him. "I love you Michael. And I promise to never forget you brother." Jacob said with tears coming down his face. Then the lord devoured what was left of Michael Toupin and looked at Poil and Jacob.

"Now that Michael is out of the way I think it is time I set my plan in motion. As for you Poil I believe I have the prefect punishment for you. GUARDS!" The lord yelled and three guards came to him.

"Yes my lord." They all said at the same time.

"You will bring Samantha too me and tell her that we are going to start my plan. As for Poil you are to bring her to my room and chain her to my bed. Oh and Jacob you are to stay with me." The lord said taking a hold of his right hand and dragging him away from Poil. "Oh yes get the cell ready for the Asher brats, the Harvey's and the Ghostly Trio. I will inform you when I am ready to speak to them." He said. Jacob was shaking from head to tail thinking that he was going to devour him too. He smiled at him and got down to his eye level. "I am not going to devour you Jacob. I have an important task for you to do for me." The lord said to him.

"W-what m-my l-l-lord?" Jacob trying not to be scared. The lord rubbed his head and smiled at him.

"You are to watch Casper McFadden with Samantha. Now come and sit in this chair." The lord pointed to the chair that Poil was sitting in earlier. He let go of Jacob's hand and he went to sit in the chair. He looked at Amy Asher and smiled at her.

"Now Amy could you be a dear and tell David McFadden put his nephew down on the table. If he dose not then someone else would be hurt." The lord smiled at her evilly. She backed away from him and went up to Stretch.

"Put him down Stretch." Amy said.

"Why the hell would I put my nephew down?" Stretch said giving the lord a glare. Amy knew that he was going to kill Kat. She could tell by his eyes and his smile. That way he would kill both her and Mal.

"Because he is going to kill Kat if you do not do what he asked for. Then he can get rid of us too." Amy said to him keeping her eyes on the lord. Stretch that this would kill the doc if he lost Kat. So he did what he did not want to do, he put Casper back down on the table.

"Good now you will all be able to see me get stronger when I finally devour Casper's soul." The lord said as one of the guards took Poil to his room. Then the two guards took the others to the cell. Just then Samantha came into the room looking at her love.

"What has happened my love?" Samantha asked.

The lord smiles at her. "Well Poil has turned on us. The Asher's, the Harvey's and the Ghostly Trio are in the cell. And I had to devour Michael for raping Casper McFadden, and you and Jacob are going to stand guard for Casper. Oh and take it easy on Jacob my love he had just saw me devour his brother. Now I will deal with Poil Anderson. She will learn not to betray me again." The lord said he fly's out of the lab.

Samantha went up to Jacob and put her hand on his left shoulder. He was trying not to cry. Then she looked at Casper McFadden's body seeing all the marks on his body. She wanted to protect Michael from her love, but she knew that he did it to himself. Now she would have to help protect him from her love too. "Come Jacob lets see if McFadden is ready to be devoured." Samantha said to him as she closed the doors to the lab.