I'm backkkk! Oh i feel so bad for being away for so long :( So sorry guys.
Blossom's POV
"Hurry up slowpoke!" Brick urges me as he basically runs to the cafeteria. I sigh and purposefully slow my walking, causing him to turn around. "Blossom, you're making me do this." he says before he starts running at me.
"Brick!? Wha-" a part of me starts panicking as I close my eyes, bracing for the hit, but I only feel myself being lifted off the ground. I open my eyes and find myself over Brick's shoulder. "Brick!" I yell, hitting his back with my hand, "Lemme go!"
"No way you were moving wayyyyy to slow for me. We have last lunch and I'm hungry as hell! And besides.." he says, moving his hand to my skirt,
"Don't you dare Brick!" I say, twisting around. He starts cracking up,
"Relaxxx Blossom. If I wanted to look, I would've already." he says, pinching my thigh. I feel my face turn red and I hit him again, about to tell him how annoying he is, but a voice rings through the air before I can open my mouth.
"You two! Stop the horse playing and stop in your tracks right now!"
Bricks stops moving and carefully puts me down. I dust myself off before looking around him to see who was giving us orders. A woman I've never seen before came walking towards us, her heels clicking loudly against the floor. She was pale, with freckles and blush on her cheeks. Her black hair was in a sleek bob, a pink clip keeping her side bang out of her face. She had on a pink blazer(extremely low cut might I add)a lighter pink skirt, and white heels. She was holding a clipboard in her left hand, tapping a pen against it with her left. I narrow my eyes as she approaches, something about her was off...yet familiar.
"Afternoon Ms. Utonium and...friend" she says, her bright red lips stretching to form a smile. She holds out her hand and I shake,
"Good afternoon." I say, and a flash of something catches my eye, "That's a lovely ring Mrs...?" I question as I eye the big, red ruby on her pinky finger. and she points to the gold name tag on her chest,
"Why thank you, I do love my jewelry. And I'm Eva. Eva Lovina." she says, "You probably don't know me, I just got hired before the start of the school year. But of course I knew you." she says, giving me a wink, "You are after all a Powerpuff Girl, always stopping villains and whatnot."
I detect a bit of sarcasm in her tone when she says that last sentence, and for some reason it really annoys me.
"Well Mrs. Lovina," I say, returning her subtle sarcasm, "It was nice meeting you, but we'd like to get to lunch." I turn around and am about to walk away when she grabs my arm. I whip back around, glaring at her hand and she jumps back.
"Ah!" She hisses, shaking her hand yet still smiling, "I should've known better than to catch a superhero off guard. Ha, you and your powers and everything" she says through gritted teeth. She pats her hair down and flips her clipboard around, showing a list of names. Mine was circled in pink marker.
"Why is my name on that?" I ask and she seems to smile even wider
"This is my reason for stopping you two." as she says this she eyes Brick, "Well actually this conversation is only meant for Ms. Utonium so if you could..." she waves her hand dismissively, and Brick raises his eyebrows.
"Uh, ok then. See you later Blossom." He says, disappearing around the corner. I turn back to Mrs. Lovina to see she too was walking away.
"Follow me Ms. Utonium." she says and I jog to catch up. For a woman wearing heels she moved awfully fast. We end up in the back hallway where almost no classes were, the hallway where I know Buttercup goes to skip sometimes. We approached a door that I don't ever remember seeing before, it was steel with black designs and a black doorknob.
"Uhmmm?" I question, as I slow down, "I've never, ever seen this door before. And I practically know the whole school." Eva turns around,
"Look, Mrs. Kine said-" she starts, but I cut her off,
"Mrs. who?"
"Mrs. KINE. Your principal." she says, rolling her bright green eyes. I smile, now that she's confirmed my suspicions.
"Our principal's name is Mrs. Keane." I say as I begin walking closer to her, "If you were hired before the school year started, that would've given you plenty of time to learn how to correctly say her name."
Eva backs away from me but I zoom around her in a flash, gripping her shoulder with my hand. "And that oh so lovely ring I noticed on your finger earlier, was stolen from the mayor's collection a few years back. I remember how upset he was because it was his mom's." So.." I say, running my hand through her hair, "Why don't you tell me why you're really here..." I yank her wig off and she pushes away from me, "Sedusa." I finish, dropping her wig to the ground. Her hair writhes about agitatedly , freed from their confines. Her eyes return to the cold state I was used to seeing as a child, as she steps out her heels and kicks them to the side.
"You couldn't just come along easy could you? I should've gotten the stupid blue one, but noooo he insisted I get your smartass first." she groans as she unbuttons her tight blazer and throws it to the floor.
Wait, who's "he"?
I blow my ice breath at her feet, freezing her from moving any further.
"What the?! When did you get..?!" she stops talking and grunts in frustration, "TYPICAL!"
"Who is this "he" you mentioned?" I question, and she smirks, her hair bouncing about as if laughing at me. She lifts up her skirt, revealing a walkie talkie taped to her thigh, and removes it. "What are you doing?" I ask, bracing myself in case she's about to do something, "Drop that right now!" I command, feeling my throat get hot. "Drop it or I'll disintegrate you right here."
She looks at me out the corner of her eye, "I'm answering your question silly girl." she says as she turns a knob on the walkie talkie. Static crackles and pops, then there's nothing but silence. "Boss you heard her? She wants to know who you are." Sedusa says, grinning wickedly. A deep laugh starts on the other end, softly at first, but it quickly gets louder and more maniacal. The laugh booms and echoes throughout the empty hall, Sedusa joining in as a dark mist starts forming around her feet.
"Whoa!" I say, flying up off the ground. The dark mist wraps around her body, engulfing her, but stops just short of her face. I was so surprised by this dark aura, I didn't notice the laughing had stopped. I feel my heart pounding as the unnerving silence fills the air between us. Sedusa whips her head up and looks me dead in my eyes,
"He knows your deepest fears." she whispers, and with that the mist fully cocoons her, quickly melting back into the ground and disappearing. The only thing left behind were the ice blocks that I used to imprison her. I gently float back down to the ground, my heartbeat loud in my ears. I wrap my arms around myself as I turn around, focusing on the cause of all this in the first place. I approach the door and shakily turn the knob, the door opening with a loud creak. The room was dark, so I felt on the wall for a light switch, cautiously stepping into the room. Finally I found it and flicked it on, the room illuminating with only one dim bulb, a below was a black pool. I didn't even have to inspect it, I already knew what it was. What Sedusa was told to do with me. I scramble out the room and slam the door shut behind me, using my laser vision to melt the doorknob. I ice around the door frame too, just to be careful. Whoever sent Sedusa could send someone else and lure one of my sisters here, and they'd know immediately by the ice that what's in the room is dangerous.
How they got so much in the first place was beyond me. My head started spinning as I thought about what could've happened if I rushed headfirst into the room. I would've fell into a pool.
A whole pool full
of Antidote X.
