Chapter 14
Green lightning smashed into the ground striking anything and anyone who got to close to the boy hero of Blithe Hallow who had been moved into the black Aston Martin with his living friends. Two ghosts had even taken a protective stance in front of the unconscious boy. The ghosts green complexion matched the green lightning that Norman had unleashed. The supernatural creatures that had come at Julian's howl all stood in front of the boy hero and in front of the two prized cars of both Julian Wolffang and Dean Winchester.
The creatures that had sided with Julian were vast. There was ghosts of all different kinds from the kind friendly memories right up to the angry poltergeists and the cunning Shadow Men that formed Julian's Shadow Network of spies. There was Ghouls and Wraiths who had found a way to fit into the human world and also their supernatural world with wearing tones of makeup or pretending to be Goths just so they could find a way to make it into the world. There was also five tribes of Wendigos. The five tribes were good sized families that had ten to fifteen members in each of them. There was also a few supernatural creatures that all looked strange when they stood together. Julian and Black Horn were the weirdest as both of them stood side by side ready to lead the fight against Seth and his army of supernatural creatures.
There was not just supernatural creatures who were standing together against Seth as they stood between him and Norman Babcock. There was the group of teenagers who had stood with the once outcast hero of Blithe Hallow as he worked hard to stop the witch on getting her revenge and for stopping adults from killing a group of zombies who were only trying to tell the town that they had been wrong and that Aggie should no longer be remembered as a nameless women who had been tried as witch because she had a special ability that had allowed her to see and speak to the dead. These teens had once been bullies of Norman and had seen him as a freak and any easy target. There was only one person that had always been a friend to Norman and that was Neil.
Neil had stood with Norman as the other kids at school bullied him and the adults who had made Norman more of an outsider. Norman and Neil had become the best of friends in a sort time. Norman had not wanted Neil to get involved with him in fear of the other boy getting bullied by his bullies only to find out that Neil was bullied himself due to him be overweight. And now he was still standing before his friend as he was lying on the ground unconscious after unleashing the Inkbolt for the first time. Neil had always found his abilities to see and speak to the dead to be cool, even when Norman only wanted to be a normal teenager rather than the freak of Blithe Hallow.
Norman's life had changed after he had saved the town from the curse that Aggie had placed on those that had killed her out of fear and anger. He was no longer the town freak that everyone stared at wishing that he did not exist. Now he was the town hero. The person that everyone in the town wanted to speak to. Many of them now asked in the open if he had seen their loved ones and friends still around the town even if they had passed on. Some of them he had seen around Blithe Hallow and some he didn't. He had to make it simple to many people in the town that not everyone who had died becomes a ghost. He had to explain more than ten times that ghosts only came about when the person had unfinished business still in the world.
There was not just the role of the towns Medium that he had taken up. He was also the media sensation that he had become. The town had always been popular for many tourists hoping to get scared enough by the ghost stories and the old stories that Blithe Hallow had put together in making the town a tourist trap as they made their way up to Washington DC or to any other bigger cities that were close to the small town. Norman had already been asked to do more for Blithe Hallow since he had become the town hero. He was to be used as a way for more tourists to come to the town. With the Halloween Week in full swing it allowed him more time to be the towns main event. Halloween was a really big thing for Blithe Hallow. Something that was still surprising after the whole zombie and witch thing that had only happened a few months ago.
There was another group of humans who were still in town as the two sides prepared for all out war. Norman this morning as he had walked to the school had hoped that Halloween was uneventful and boring. But it wasn't. Instead this Halloween week was already shaping to be a total nightmare. First he was targeted by what is called an Anubid, a Werejackal who had been gathering supernatural creatures in hopes of raging a war against mankind for an Ancient Egyptian God of Chaos who also happened to be a Werecreature.
Norman had thought that was where the strange would end, but he was wrong. Julian had leapt in to defend him and Neil from Hazel after following the Anubid from the Inn that he was staying at and the Inn that she had always been running for a while. Julian had told him to meet him in his Inn room where he would tell him what was going on. It only got worse when Courtney had seen Julian's human body. She had started to flirt with the solider only to stop dead when he had told her that he was already dead and was in fact a ghost. She had stopped for a while but had started to again when they had gotten in Julian's Aston Martin. Julian's Aston Martin made Norman think more like James Bond rather than a Werewolf ghost.
Julian to Norman seemed more like someone who would keep partying at a party until he was too tired to carry on; or he was removed from the party. That had changed when a black '67 Chevy Impala had pulled in to the car park of the largest Inn in all of Blithe Hallow. Norman had been scared as Julian hid his emotions as two men either in their late twenties to early thirties walked out of the black car. Julian had explained to him that they were the Winchester brothers. The two brothers were well known in the supernatural community. They were feared and they were respected at the same time. Norman didn't know much more about the Winchesters as Julian had stopped speaking about them as they had drove towards the source of the disturbance that was hovering above Blithe Hallow.
He remembered Julian slamming on the break as a whole group of supernatural creatures along with Seth. He had to be glad for Julian's driving skills that they had stopped in time. Then there was the howling that brought about more supernatural creatures followed by the Inkbolt.
The Inkbolt, he had no idea where it had come from. There had been no warnings. No dreams. Nothing that would tell him that it was coming. It had only been when he had faced all the creatures that wanted to kill him that he started to feel the lightning begin to bite under his skin and being to get more series until Aggie's ghost had appeared. She knew what she was looking for, but the warnings had come too late.
The Inkbolt had been unleashed without warning and now he found himself in Julian's car. The doors were locked and the glass in the car had been dimmed so much that he couldn't see what was happening outside but he could hear what was happening. He was glad that he couldn't see outside as the noises outside caused his skin to crawl. He just wished he didn't need to hear the sounds of the fight that was happening outside of the car.
Norman tried to move from where he was lying but found he couldn't. He opened his eyes to see that he was held in his sisters arms. She was rocking backwards and forwards as she hummed a song their grandma used to sing to them when they had been staying at their house and they had been scared about something when they had been staying over at her house. He still heard her humming the song at night when he was drifting to sleep. Her ghost had stayed behind to look after him.
He could hear Alvin somewhere else in the car shouting that he didn't want to die. Neil was sitting on the drivers seat and was looking at all the buttons on the cars dashboard.
"I wonder whose on Julian's contact list?" Neil asked as he saw that there was a built in phone in the car. "I wonder if he knows the English Queen?" he asked as he pressed the green phone button on the dashboard.
"What makes you think he knows the Queen of England?" Alvin asked from where he was sitting at the back of the car. The former bully had a terrified face as it came into view from the back seat of the Aston Martin.
Neil looked back at Alvin as the screen where the radio should have been that had a list of names. "Well he's English and his car is like 007s car!" Neil responded turning back to the screen. There was only a few contacts that showed not many contacts that Neil had thought that a super spy would poses. Clicking on call logs he found an even sorter list than before on the contact list. There was only three names. Neil studied the names. They knew Black Horn and Edward looked to be another spy but the one name that he was drawn to.
"Hey guys look at this name!" he shouted over the loud bangs and shouts that were coming from outside.
Everyone in the car looked over at the screen to see the three names. Julian had ready explained to them that Edward was a team mate of his but he was on the other side of the earth in Japan. He was doing a mission that should have been covered years ago but had been neglected to being completed all those years ago as other missions had popped up that needed to be done. Julian had even wished that Edward was aiding him with his mission but Edward was away in Japan with his own mission. A mission that was needing his full attention. Something that was difficult for the alien Ghoul.
Black Horn was the next name in the call log that they were looking over. He had been called just before Julian had driven away from the Inn that he had been staying at the night before with the Impala following behind them closely. Black Horn must have been close by if he had arrived just in time for Julian howling for back up just like how Norman had thought Werewolves and wolfs called for their pack.
The final name was a name that Norman thought was a codename for another spy or agent with UNIT that Julian worked closely with.
"What sort of name is Nightshade?" Courtney asked voicing what he was thinking. He looked up at his older sister who was holding him close to her. She was his older sibling and it was the older siblings to look after their younger siblings. It didn't matter if they were a freak or not. Courtney before the whole witches curse had made it seem to everyone in town and even their own parents that she didn't care about her little brother at all. But that changed when there was no one around that could put a bad mark beside her to make her social life hell. After the curse had been stopped that changed and Courtney had been more protective of her little brother. No wonder she hadn't been his sister for years that she needed to catch up on being a big sister.
Neil looked back at the screen and without thinking he clicked on Nightshade's name. The sound of the cars internal phone ringing out to Nightshade's phone. Everyone in the car froze as they knew that any second the person called Nightshade would be picking up her phone wherever it was that she was.
"We are in so much trouble!" Alvin moaned just before Nightshade picked up the phone on the other side.
"Julian this better be good!" came a ladies voice that was thick with a Scottish accent that rivalled Julian's English accent. "Julian if you can not keep an eye on a Sparkling I swear to Primus I will lock you in a library away from your Xbox and make you do all the paperwork for a month!" Nightshade spoke on the other line.
A second later an explosion was heard from Nightshade's side that resulted in her shouting in another language. "Come on Julian what's so important that you need to call me when right now I am in a fight against the bloody Daleks?" Nightshade roared from her side of the phone. More explosions was heard and then another Scottish voice came through on Nightshade's line, but what was being said was hard to tell with all the explosions and shouting coming from Nightshade's line.
"Julian I am given you a second to respond before I hang up this line and focus on my mission like you should be doing!" Nightshade shouted before she shouted in that strange language as before.
Norman took this chance to speak up. They needed help. He could hear the fight outside and wondered how Nightshade was not hearing the sound of the fight outside. The bangs of the guns and the snarling and hisses of the monsters. They were not easy to miss. Not unless the cars windows prevented sounds from the outside coming into the inside of the car during important phone calls. "Julian is not here!" Norman said. His voice had taken the calming tone that he used when he was speaking to a ghost. He found it helped sooth them and it also helped him to keep calm.
"Where is Julian and who are you?" Nightshade replied back. She had lost much of the Scottish accent that she had when she was shouting and roaring.
Norman took a deep breathe in and moved himself closer to the speaker of the cars internal phone. "He's outside fighting an army of supernatural creatures that wont to kill me and they are being lead by someone called Seth!" Norman explained in as few words as possible as he explained to Nightshade what was happening.
Nightshade was silent for a moment. The silence that was between seemed to last more than one minute. "Get out of there! Get away from the battle and get inside where you can lock the doors! Once you get inside put salt at the doors and windows! Don't let anyone in until Julian comes for you!" Nightshade ordered from the other line. Her Scottish accent had returned in tenfold followed by more explosions.
The teenagers screamed in fear as the car trembled as something landed on top of it. "Find a way out of there! Do not look back as you find safety! You might need to seek refuge in a mine or a cave! If it is occupied by a Wendigo tell them that you know me! They will allow you to seek refuge there and ask them to take you back to Julian whenever it is safe to do so!" Nightshade roared back to Norman. "Bloody Dalek stay down!" Nightshade shouted at whatever it was that she was fighting wherever she was.
"Wait can't you come and help us or have Edward come?" Alvin screamed into the phone. His voice was becoming more squeaky as he began to fear for his life.
Nightshade was silent for a moment but they could still hear the sounds of the battle she was in over the phone. "I can not come to help Julian I am on the other side of the universe and it would take me a few hours to get from here back to earth! Edward is also in the middle of his mission and I can not allow him to leave his post until he is sure that it is over!" came her reply. "Now get to safety! I will call back to see what has happened but I am sure to receive Julian's report once he has completed it!" she spoke up again.
Norman looked back at his friends and then the screen where Nightshade's name was still on display. "Wait what if we get captured? Seth wants to kill us!" he shouted at Nightshade. He could hear a rattle coming from outside the car and the next thing he knew something skinny and bony had ran right past Julian's Aston Martin and joined the fight. It was getting harder and harder to see what was happening outside as the sky got even more darker with each passing second.
"Why does Seth want to kill a group of children?" Nightshade asked as a shotgun went off to close to the car that caused Alvin to shriek and cover his ears as he tried to make himself as small as possible. "Never mind I will learn about it in Julian's report! Now quite talking to me and get the hell out of there!" Nightshade roared before something on her side of the phone call shouted "EXTERIMINATE NIGHTSHADE!" with that the line went dead.
Norman looked at Neil. "Wasn't that Julian's boss?" Neil asked as he looked at the screen that had returned to the call log screen. It showed that Black Horn's name had been replaced by Nightshade's name as the last call that had been done with the cars internal phone.
"I think it was! But you heard her! We need to get out of this car and find somewhere we wont get in the way of this fight!" Norman said taking the lead like he had done during the Witch Event that had happened a couple of months ago. He looked back out of the window. He could just see a blob of white and knew that it was Julian.
Mitch took this chance to speak up, "But where do we go?"
Norman looked back at his best friends brother as he thought over what he had just asked. Nightshade had told them to get inside somewhere and put salt at all the doors and windows. She also said to get away from the fight any other way to take shelter somewhere. Then he thought of somewhere that he thought of safety. He looked back at the others in the car. "We head to the old cemetery! It is well away from here and no one expect for people who stay in Blithe Hallow know where it is!" Norman replied.
"The old cemetery?" Alvin screamed, "Where the zombies came from! No way man!"
Norman looked back at Alvin like a parent looked at a bad behaving child. "We go there or we wait until something that wants to kill us gets into the car!" he said to Alvin. With that he looked over to Neil who nodded his head.
At the same time they all opened all the four doors of the Aston Martin and without thinking of where they were going they ran as fast as possible. Norman leading the way as they ran into the forest. They avoided claws and magic spells as they ran as fast as possible. As they ran for their lives they didn't notice two creatures watching them. One of them wanted to use them as a way to deal to get Halloween Town for themselves. The other who only wanted to prevent the Night Wars from happening again.