Everybody looked at Benny's grandmother. She was so young almost close to their age. Her body was slim, she has long, brown hair, and she was astonishingly gorgeous.
"Grandma?" shrieked Benny.
"Whoa!" gasped Rory.
"What did y'all do to me?" She demanded. "Well?"
"Uhh…well it started with the Fountain of Youth is what you drank," Erica explained.
"The Fountian of Youth?! Where did you find it?"
"In a retirement home." answered Jason. "Grandma Weir, someone found it and nearly killed us for it."
"First of all, I feel so alive and gorgeous."
"Very gorgeous." Rory gazed at her like if she was the most beautiful creature alive. Erica angrily punched him in the arm. "Ouch! Watch it, Popeye!"
"Who tried to kill you?" asked Grandma.
"We don't know," said Ethan. "Its one of the men in the retirement home."
"One of you do something now!"
The gang headed back to the retirement home. Ethan suggested, "Sarah, Jason, Erica, you guys check the rooms. Benny, Rory, and I will check that room from underground."
Before the boys could go into the plumbing place, an old lady stops them. "Excuse me, dear. How does my dress look?"
"Uhh…Benny?" Rory said.
"You look great, ma'am," answered Benny. "The color is very bright."
"Thank you." Once she walked away, Benny gave them a look.
"What?" asked Ethan. "One of us needs to know how to compliment old women."
"And you're looking at me 'cause I have a boyfriend."
"No…you just have…a great sense of style."
The three of them crawled under the floor. Ethan complained, "How the hell did y'all go in this thing?"
"Like rats in a sewer," said Benny.
"Is this it?"
"Yep, this is it."
"How do we get up there?"
"Don't worry," said Rory. "I got fists for a reason." Rory threw his fist up to the ground and smashed right through it.
The three of them carefully crawled up to the surface. It was somebody's room. Nobody was in there, but they looked around.
"Whose room is this?" asked Rory.
"Who knows." said Benny.
"What are y'all doing?" asked a mysterious voice.
The boys turned around and saw the familiar man: Chris. He stood there looking at the three of them.
"We lost something," said Benny.
"Lost what?"
"My mind." He let out a laugh.
Ethan asked him, "Chris, whose
room does this belong to?"
He raised an eyebrow. "Why do you wanna know?"
"Can we not ask?"
"You shouldn't be in here."
"Can we ask a few more questions?" asked Rory.
"Not in here. Get out."
"What's the big deal?"
"Just get out!"
Ethan thought of it for a moment. He finally came to realize. "Oh, I get it now. You're the one with the water."
Chris gazed at him. "What are you talking about?"
"The Fountain of Youth. You're the one who had it."
"I really wish you didn't say that." He revealed an ancient sword from his back.
Rory and Benny hid behind Ethan. Benny said, "Whoa! Take it easy, man."
"You know about the fountain," he said. "I have spent the past six hundred years! No one is suppose to know about this! I trusted those bastards with my secret and they chose to betray me."
"Wait a minute. You're him. You're Ponce De Leon."
"Took you awhile to notice."
"Six hundred years? Don't you think that's enough?"
"No, I found it. It took me my whole life to find this. It took me years to discover the secret to immortality, I found the key to life itself!"
"Well it looks like you're wrinkling a bit," Rory pointed out.
Chris looked at his arm, which was quickly aging. He looked back at the boys.
Rory was the first one to charge towards him. He swung his arm at him, but missed. Chris knocked Rory across the room.
Benny created two swords in his hands and handed one to Ethan. Ethan swung his sword at Chris, who blocked it with his sword. He pushed it off and kicked Ethan. Benny came to his rescue and tried to stab the him. Chis leaned back as the sword went above him. When he pulled the sword, Chris punched Benny in the face and kicked him against Rory.
Ethan stopped him. "Hey, Chris. Looks like your time is up."
Chris stared at his arm and his entire body as it ages faster. "No! NO!" He drops to his knees in agony. He became so old that his hands were curling up. Suddenly, the old man transformed into ashes leaving only his clothes.
"Ash," said Ethan. "He's just ash."
Sarah, Benny, Ethan, and Jason were in Ethan's car at night driving away from the retirement home.
"Immortality can really make people go insane," said Benny.
"You know what they say," said Sarah. "Life is a gift. Immortality is simply a curse."
"People want to live forever because they're afraid of dying," explained Jason. "No one knows why happens after death."
"Death is only the beginning," added Ethan. "I'm just glad we have forever together."
Ethan then pulled the brakes on his truck. In front of his house was a bunch of ambulances and paramedics. A crowd was being blocked away from the house.
"What the hell?" Ethan quickly yanked off his seatbelt and ran to the front of his house. Jason, Sarah, and Benny followed him.
He pushed everyone out of his way to get to his house. Before he could go further, Ethan was stopped by one of the paramedics.
"Hey, you can't go," the man said.
"This is my house!" Ethan yelled. "What happened? Where's my family? Where are they?!"
"Son, your sister is alright."
"My parents—what about my parents?!"
Behind the man were a pair of paramedics were pulled two stretchers with bodies in the bags. Sarah gasped in horror once she saw the two stretchers.
"Oh, my god," mumbled Jason.
"Ethan?" Benny said.
Ethan didn't answer to any of them. His eyes slowly started to water and his mouth trembled with terror.
"No." His mumbles turn into screamings. "No! NO!"
He wanted to run to his house, but his friends held him back. Sarah was crying as well as she hugged Ethan. Ethan cried out, "Why, God? WHY?!"
