In the middle of the night, I wake up, as I was hearing sounds in the room. I sit up to look around and both Bloom and Flora are still asleep. I see multiple creatures in the room and I was about to get out of bed. But then I saw someone fighting the creatures. He fends off the creatures one by one until all of them are dead. He leans the sword he was using on the cabinet next to the bed. He looks at me and smiles. I quietly say "Thank you Jones."
I lay back down and Jones said "You're welcome." He takes out a gun and hands it to me. He said "Use it for emergencies." I use a spell to put the gun in some kind of storage dimension until I actually need it. Jones starts to fade away. He said "I will be back soon." He pats me on the head before he completely fades away. I close my eyes and think about Jones as I fall asleep.
In the morning, I wake up and see that Flora is still asleep. Bloom is not in the room. I go to the bathroom and do the usual thing. I leave and see Flora waking up. I walk back to the bed, only to have Flora grab my hand and start taking me to the bathroom. I ask "Do we have to do this every day?" Flora answers "Yes we do." I ask "Why?" as we step into the bathroom. Flora answers "To make sure nothing is infected."
I say "Nothing will get infected." while looking around as Flora takes the bandages off my hand. I hear "It's infected." I jerk up a little and look at Flora. I quickly ask "What?! Really?!" Flora giggles and says "No. I was just messing with you." I say "That wasn't funny." Flora said "It was funny to me." as she continues. I say "No it's not. You could've been serious about an infection." I start to leave when Flora is done with everything.
Flora hugs me from behind and asks "Are you mad at me?" I turn around and kiss her. As I pull away, I say "Not anymore." as she blushes and leave the bathroom. We walk into the main area and everyone is sitting down, talking about random things. Bloom sees me and says "Hey Ashley, come sit with us." I walk over to the couch and sit down. Flora does the same thing. Bloom says "We were wondering if you could tell us about Jones."
I froze when I heard his name. I hesitate before asking "Why do you want to know about him?" Bloom answers "We want to know why you care about him so much." I hesitate again before saying "I was on the Grimsborough Police Department the same time Jones was. I was a rookie and Chief King paired Jones with me as my partner. I was a little shy to meet him, but Jones was just as shy as I was. We introduced ourselves and soon we had a crime scene to investigate."
I stopped as I was remembering the rest of the story. I continue "We solved the case and he was proud of me. After that we had many other cases to solve and we did. When we were not working, he would ususally take me somewhere like an amusement park or we would just drive around in his car talking for a long time. Jones was a funny and smart guy. He treated me like a girlfriend. He would get very protective of me at certain times, but I know he is just looking out for me."
I stop again as I remember the memories. I continue "I thought of him as a father. But then there was one day the department received a call from an unknown person. King sent Jones and I to check it out. When we got there, we were ambushed by these creatures. They called themselves the 'Creatures of the darkness'. They beat both of us up and two creatures held me in place while the leader approaches Jones, who was injured and laying on the ground."
I feel a tear as I try to tell the story without crying. I continue "I was shouting at the leader, telling him not to kill Jones. But one of the creatures holding me put a hand on my mouth. The leader points a gun at Jones's head and said "Goodbye." He pulled the trigger and k-killed Jones. The creatures leave as I run to Jones's body. The police came after that and held a funeral in Jones's honor. I attended the funeral and watched his body get buried right in front of me."
I look around and say "That's the day I vowed to get rid of the creatures of the darkness to avenge Jones." I stop talking as I feel multiple tears start to run down my face. Both Flora and Bloom hug me, trying to make me feel better. Everybody else joins in. I look around and see Jones standing about 5 feet away from me, smiling. I see a tear run down his face as he walks over to me and hugs me. Everybody except Jones let go.
Bloom asks "Woah, did it get cold in here or something?" Stella said "I know. The sudden change of temperature. It was weird." Jones let go and walks over to the side of the couch. I get a headache and stand up. I walk to Flora's room, only to be stopped by a creature. It swings at me and I dodge. I held both of the creature's arms to keep him from attacking. I send a mental message to Jones and hope he got it.
I guess he did because he didn't move at all to protect me. More creatures appear and the Winx stand up. They start making weapons with their magic. After talking about Jones and recalling him dying, I feel my anger build up inside. I let go of one arm and punch my arm through the creature's torso. The creature stopped moving but was still alive. I pull my arm back and grab his spine. I start yanking his spine downwards.
The spine disconnects from the skull and I pull it out. I drop the spine and uppercut the head off of the body. The Winx stare in horror and disgust as I kill the other creatures in a similar way. For one creature, I shove my hand into his back and grab the spine. I start jerking upward until the spine comes out with the skull connected. Bloom says "Ashley's definitely being more violent than usual." Flora said "Maybe it has to do with her receiving Jones's locket."
As the Winx continued to stare in horror and disgust, Jones on the other hand, is smiling. I'm still holding the spine while I freeze a few creatures. I smack all of them with the skull and they break into pieces. I drop the spine and walk towards the last creature. He starts to back away from me. I was about to finish him off, but then Bloom put a hand on my shoulder and said "I think you should sit back for this one."
I didn't respond at all and the Winx go and fight the creature. I sit back and watch as they fight it. Aisha sweeps its legs, making it fall to the ground. Bloom finishes it by impaling its head. The bodies start to quickly disintegrate after that. I use a spell to clean up the blood on the floor. I walk into the bathroom and wash my hands. I walk back out and Bloom motions me to follow her. I follow her and we walk into her room.
We sit on her bed. Bloom asks "Why did you become so violent when you were killing the creatures?" I answer "Talking about J-Jones made m-me feel better on t-the i-inside. But talking about him also increased my a-anger towards the c-creatures." Bloom asks "Why are you stuttering?" I answer "I d-don't know. It u-usually happens when I get f-finished k-killing a lot of c-creatures." Bloom looked thoughtful for a moment. Then Flora walks in.
Flora asks "What's wrong Ashley? You look kind of upset." Bloom said "We're trying to figure out why she's stuttering. She said that it usually happens when she finishes killing a lot of creatures." Flora says "Maybe it's because you are not used to killing so many creatures. You usually kill one or two." I say "You could be right. The last t-time I was violent like that was when I was working with...Jones." I finished the last part quietly. Bloom and Flora looked at me with sad expressions.
Flora hugs me and says "Don't bring back any more sad memories." Bloom joined in on the hug. I smile as I return the hug. We let go and Bloom said "Come on. Let's go see what the others are up to." All of us walk out of the room and into the main area.
