Chapter 10: Amulets
Thanks to Nostalgia's My Best Friend for the idea of a manhunt.
and Oh My Rowling! Emmeline is NOT a Mary-sue! If anyone READ these days you would KNOW she's used to luxury and not to normal life.
So kindly go suck a chipmunk.
Kendra moaned as she saw the neat, orderly rows of amulets in all shapes and sizes.
"Luckily, I brought this." Warren bragged, pulling out a hammer.
"Warren, No!" Kendra screamed, but it was too late.
One by one, Warren smashed all the cases. He picked up one amulet by one, and Seth threw various non-sharp objects at Warren; a football, a baseball. All collided with Warren except when he was holding a large, chunky gold amulet.
When he held that one, the football flew back at Seth.
Kendra cheered, then quickly stopped when she realized that security alarms were blaring. Warren gulped, then bolted for the door.
The others wasted no time in following.
"Fablehaven?" Warren screamed.
"Yes!" Vanessa screamed back, looking angry.
Warren skidded to a halt, made everyone jump into the knapsack, then prayed for his life as he teleported out, just as several armed policemen came storming in.
The next morning, Kendra came downstairs to find Grandpa Sorrenson reading an issue of the New Yorker newspaper. The headline blazed 'THEFT AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY!'
the article explained what had happened the night before.
A small note at the bottom told readers to turn to page 3-4 for more info. Grandpa Sorrenson was reading the article.
"Good morning, dear." He said, briefly looking up.
Kendra made herself a bowl of oatmeal, then sat down across from Grandpa. "Any names mentioned?" She asked, biting her lip.
"Not yet. They're doing fingerprint tests, but luckily Warren brought back the hammer." Grandpa smiled.
"Where is he?" Kendra asked.
"Helping Dale with Viola."
"Speak of the devil." Kendra muttered as the brothers strolled in, joking and carrying bottles of milk.
Seth came downstairs, followed by Ryan.
To accommodate everyone, Grandma had prepared all of the 5 guest bedrooms, and had to add several cots and air mattresses.
"Hey, is anyone up for capture the flag later?" Ryan asked.
"Sure!" Warren exclaimed, then grinned as Vanessa walked down. She moved over and hugged him. "Morning, handsome." She purred.
"You too, Beautiful."
"Ewwww!" Seth cringed.
One by one, everyone came into the kitchen and ate, then Seth announced himself and Kendra captains for Capture the Flag.
"Ryan." Seth picked.
"Emmy." Kendra countered.
"Christine." Seth silently dared her to divide the twins.
"Bracken." Kendra grinned.
"Rhea." Seth chose the other twin.
"Blossom." Kendra pointed to the fairy.
"Brianna." Seth picked, promising to pick Breezlyn next.
"Breezlyn" Kendra looked smug.
"Warren!" Seth called.
"Vanessa!" Kendra retorted.
"Mara!" Seth shouted.
"Elise!" Kendra screamed.
"Ryan." Seth picked.
"Emmy." Kendra countered.
"Christine." Seth silently dared her to divide the twins.
"Bracken." Kendra grinned.
"Rhea." Seth chose the other twin.
"Blossom." Kendra pointed to the fairy.
"Brianna." Seth picked, promising to pick Breezlyn next.
"Breezlyn" Kendra looked smug.
"Warren!" Seth called.
"Vanessa!" Kendra chose.
"Mara."
"Elise"
" Kendra, Vanessa, Elise, Breezlyn, Blossom, Bracken and Emmy versus Seth, Ryan, Christine, Warren, Mara and Brianna!" Grandpa put his hands together.
He gave each team a dish cloth; one red, one blue and tied each one around a short bamboo pole.
Then he gave everyone a kitchen timer set for 5 minutes.
He took a master timer, and told everyone to start running. They only had 5 minutes to hide the flag, then throw the timer.
He pushed the start button, and everyone bolted out into the woods.
Seth, who was carrying the flag, cut through some brambles and threw the flag at random, then tossed the timer.
A few minutes later, everybody's timer turned to dust.
Kendra crept along the trees, having hid their flag in a narrow notch in a tree that was just the right size, then draped a branch over it to cover the blue cloth.
As she crept towards the small creek marking the border line (whoever can correctly guess this reference first will have the chance to be made into a Trainee in the sequel.) and leaped the creek, she landed on something that cracked hollowly. It couldn't be-? Kendra looked down to her feet, and saw the enemy's flag. Seth must have tossed it randomly. She picked it up and hopped back across the stream.
Seth came leaping out of the trees, shouting a battle cry.
Then he noticed Kendra on the other side of the creek.
His face hardened, and he raced after Kendra, but was soon pulled to the ground by a tripwire set up by Blossom.
Kendra used the 30-second advantage to dash back into the yard.
Her team dashed into the yard one by one and cheered.
As everyone filed in for dinner, Seth sent around the message that they were going to play Manhunt after dinner. He was it.