"Oh Paton, this is wonderful!" Mr. Bone cried out when he saw the restaurant.
It was around 11:30 and the six (Mr. Bone, Mrs. Bone, Paton, Julia, Mr. Onimous, and Mrs. Onimous) were standing in their formal clothing in front of a five star restaurant. "Are you sure you can go in? Look at all those crystals up there and the room is filled with light!"
"They're just candles," Paton said "and also, it's almost midnight! We all walked in the moonlit park, went to see an opera in the theater, now we need something to eat."
Mrs. Bone laid her head against Mr. Bone's shoulder thoughtfully. "It truly is a magical night…"
"Just because the kids are having a magical night doesn't mean that we shouldn't!" Mrs. Onimous said with a laugh. "I'm pretty sure Una got herself at the food area, she would love to help serve food and make people eat them."
The adults laughed at the thought. "Are you sure we should go eat there? It's very expensive and it's a five star restaurant." Julia whispered to Paton.
"That's the point, don't worry, we have the money, we can afford it anyway, I asked my sisters for money so that shouldn't be a problem."
"Let me guess…" Mrs. Bone said in a matter-of-fact voice. "You asked them and they said no, so you took some money, didn't you?"
"I prefer the term 'borrowing' but yes, pretty much." Paton said furtively.
Julia laughed along with the others. "Oh Paton, when will you ever learn?"
"Perhaps never," Paton replied as they entered the sweet-aroma-smelled eatery and settled down at a round table covered in a whitish pinkish cloth that went down all the way to the ground. In the center was a small clear vase with red, white, pink roses and some lavender.
"I like this place already," Mr. Onimous said, looking around at the impressive chandelier.
They each took a menu and studied it with interest. Paton's face lit up when he found Chocolate éclairs on the menu.
Mrs. Bone murmured to Julia and Mrs. Onimous, "I would like a plate of steamed rice with chopped fish and beef, is that ideal for this occasion or should I order something fancier?"
"I prefer to order a bowl of noodles with chopped fish, beef, steak, a few herbs like basil and a pinch of pepper." Mrs. Onimous whispered.
Mrs. Bone gazed at Miss Ingledew. "How about you?"
"I really don't know…maybe a plate of fried rice, chopped carrots and basil, egg rolls, sweet and spicy dip, and lemon tea." Julia muttered.
Mrs. Bone immediately thought, I need to order something else. She looked back at her menu and saw something really satisfying.
"Steak on a bed of lettuce with fried rice with peas and boiled chopped carrots with soy sauce and green tea." Mrs. Bone ordered.
She could taste the tenderness of the meat and the relaxation of the tea…Life is good.
Mr. Bone was the last to place his order and the waiter bowed his head as he made his way to the kitchen.
Paton rubbed his hands together excitedly. "So…now we have to plan."
"Plan what?" asked Mr. Onimous, fidgeting with his cloth napkin. He had always wondered how the fancy restaurant employees make them by hand so perfectly. Also he wanted to see how they folded it so he could do the same with his own restaurant.
"Our wedding," Julia said, fingering the diamond stone on her engagement ring.
"Oh!" Mrs. Bone and Mrs. Onimous exclaimed. Mr. Bone looked at Paton with a smile.
"Paton, you just cost us a long night. Women kept on talking and talking about plans, especially weddings. That's lesson one about women."
Mrs. Bone gave Mr. Bone a little look that meant 'I don't think so!' and then said, "What I think we should do is to get three balloon colors, white, purple, and pink! We could connect them together and make a rope of balloons to hang over the altar! Then after that, we host a party, but where?"
"How about the woods near Mr. Bloor's house? Bartholomew would have to say yes! It's a party!" said Mr. Onimous.
"But he wants to keep him and his family away from people, he wouldn't be happy." said Paton.
"The woods near the Thunder House? It's on the opposite side of Bartholomew's house." suggested Mrs. Bone.
"It could work…" Paton said slowly, shooting a look of hope at his fiancée.
"Yes, it could…" Julia said, slowly smiling into a wide grin. "The woods are a peaceful place for a wedding party!
So Amy Bone continued on about the wedding plan, and she gotten Mrs. Onimous and Julia to tag along. Soon enough, the men excused themselves to the bathroom.
When the three were in the glamorous silver and gold lavatory with silver faucets and pearly white counters with a smooth platinum floor, they sighed in relief. "Let's hide in here for a while; they won't be able to come in here." Mr. Bone joked.
"What about our fancy dinner?" asked Paton with a tinge of sadness in his voice.
"Fine…" Mr. Bone sighed, giving Paton a smile. "Come on; let's get out of here,"
In Dr. Bloor's Study…
"Now that we have them trapped, we have fulfilled the second part of the Prophecy!" Dr. Bloor said excitedly.
"What about the boy whose powers will get stronger?" asked Ezekiel.
"It will have to be Manfred," Dr. Bloor said. "It has been transformed from hypnotism to fire monger, right?"
"Yes," Manfred muttered.
"Why the long face?" asked Dr. Bloor.
"Nothing," Manfred said, turning away.
"And the time?" asked an ebil headmaster.
"Nearly midnight," Manfred answered.
"No not that!" The man snarled. "In the prophecy! Time's time has a length."
"The world will end soon? I don't know…" Dr. Bloor muttered. "Let's go on and we can worry about the time part later."
"See the girl whose blood will spill. A girl will either die or be injured." said Ezekiel, studying the words.
Manfred secretly hoped that the girl would not be Shayera. No, she's too precious for that.
"Then the irony part, Irony is once our friend, now it is to the end. So it helped us and now it will help us again! We'll win!" Dr. Bloor said presumably.
Every ebil headmaster and headmistress cheered and Ezekiel leaned down to pet Blessed who was whimpering softly.
At Home… (Charlie's House)…
Maisie was sound asleep while Grizelda paced back and forth. She eyed the clock nervously and then back at the floor as she waited.
Three urgent knocks on the door sounded and Grandma Bone rushed to the door and opened it, revealing the faces of her sisters.
"Well, is all good?" asked Grandma Bone.
"All is well," Venetia said with a small smile. She and her sisters walked right in, settling themselves on the couch, looking at each other slyly.
"So…they are all trapped, is that right?" asked Grandma Bone, walking into the kitchen to grab a few biscuits and brew some tea.
"Yes, they're all helplessly trapped." Eustacia said pleased.
Lucretia and Venetia smiled ebilly and leaned forward to grab a biscuit from the tray. Grizelda flattened her dress and sat neatly down on the couch with them. "So why are they keeping them trapped again?"
"To see which one is the most powerful. If one of them gets out, they will use his or her power to rule Europe. That force field is not easy to break." Lucretia sniffed.
"Not even a warlock or a shadow can get past that." Eustacia said, pouring herself some tea.
"Someone with real skill can penetrate it. The only hard thing is that the wall weakens your powers every hour." Venetia said with glee.
Grandma Bone's head jerked up at the words, weakens power.
"Interesting…" she said, thinking hard. "Maybe I can go through his stuff…"
"You're not planning to take this advantage and go look around the boy's room for the wand, are you?" asked Eustacia, biting into her biscuit.
"That's exactly what I'm thinking." Grandma Bone sniffed.
"What If it changes into a moth?" asked Venetia, sipping her tea quietly.
"Well a silly little moth can't beat us, we've been here longer than the wand has been around the house, and I know all the secret passageways and shortcuts." Grandma Bone croaked proudly.
"And the moth has no idea about those passages?" asked Lucretia doubtfully.
"No idea." Grandma Bone whispered dramatically for the effect.
"There are secret passageways here, huh? For how long?" asked Eustacia.
"For as long as I can remember. I discovered some when I was wandering around looking for Paton who had eaten my ice cream!" Grandma Bone hissed.
"For as long as you can remember? That's probably a few decades, am I right?" asked Lucretia.
Before Grandma Bone could say anything, there was three loud knocks at the door. Grandma Bone sprang up from the couch and hurried to the door, wondering who would come at this time of hour.
Lucretia, Venetia, and Eustacia shifted and exchanged nervous looks. "I bet it is no one." Lucretia said, getting up.
"No, no, I want to see what they want," Grandma Bone said grimly.
"But why? It's a waste of time! The visitor will cause much chaos." Eustacia said.
Grizelda stopped. "What do you see into the future, hmm?"
"Oh, um…I see…yes…I see that there are three boys outside, planning to ding-dong ditch!" Eustacia said rather quickly.
Grandma Bone stared at her sister suspiciously. "Who are they?" she asked.
"They are kids I have never known before but um…their names are…Roger…Judy…Tim, and…Claire!"
Grandma Bone's head shot to the door as another three knocks sounded. "How can they 'ding-dong ditch' if they are knocking?"
"They do that so it won't be so suspicious." said Venetia, giving Eustacia a strange look.
"How do you know that?" asked Grandma Bone.
"They do that to me many times." Venetia said. "Then sweet Eric decided to scare them by having a sign saying 'We're watching' and 'We have a security camera ready'."
"Well, did you?" asked Grizelda, ignoring the impatient knocks.
"Of course not, that's just to scare them."
"Well I want to meet them face to face," Grandma Bone huffed.
"NO!" The three sisters cried.
Grandma Bone opened the door and three stern faces looked at her. Grizelda, looking confused and stunned, looked at the visitors and then back at her sisters. Venetia, Eustacia, and Lucretia stood at the door, looking furious. "About time you opened the door!" Lucretia sniffed. She stopped when she saw herself looking at her.
"Grizelda…who are they?" asked Venetia in a soft but dangerous voice.
Venetia (the other one) said, "That's not the real Venetia, I am!"
Venetia (the one that just came in) said angrily, "No, you are the imposter!"
Lucretia looked at Lucretia and Eustacia looked at Eustacia, looking quite shocked.
"Grizelda, don't listen to them!" Lucretia (the one who came before the other Lucretia came) said in a solemn voice. "They are the imposters! They are frauds!"
"What ever is going on down here?" asked Maisie's voice.
Everyone looked up as footsteps were audible. They were getting louder and louder until Maisie (dressed in her pink bathrobe) peeked down in the living room. What she saw gave her nearly a heart attack. "Not double of them!" Maisie cried in horror as she fled from the staircase and back to her room, locking it along with baracading it as well.
"IMPOSTERS!" Venetia (the one who just came) in yelled, pointing at the three worry looking faces of the three sisters that came in earlier than the other three.
"I have a feeling I know who are the imposters." Grandma Bone said curtly, looking over at the three sisters who came in early.
The three who Grandma Bone was accusing stepped back, knowing that they were defeated.
They ran to the kitchen to change to their normal selves. "Hurry!" warned 'Lucretia' as she dissolved into another figure.
"I'm trying, don't rush me!" snapped 'Eustacia' as she fumbled with her tail that grown out into a cat-like tail.
"STOP!" The real Venetia yelled. "STOP this INSTANT!"
"Let's go!" The fake Venetia cried, fleeing from the kitchen. She looked weird indeed. A few feathers stuck out in odd angles and her mouth was a beak. She developed a feathery tail but other than that, the rest of her is human.
'Eustacia' grew a tail and her ears were at the top of her head, pointy and furry. Her eyes are green and her nails were claws. Nothing else feline about her.
'Lucretia' was long and twisted. She fumbled many times as she ran out of the house. Her neck was extremely long, her eyes are slits of yellow and she grew a tail with a rattle at the end. She has one leg and has both arms…no wonder she had trouble escaping…she's missing a leg!
The real ones stood there, shaking their fists and yelling at the top of their scratchy voices. "YOU IMPOSTERS! YOU FIENDS! YOU HORRIBLE CRUEL…" And so on…
Imposter Venetia, Lucretia, and Eustasia laughed as they ran/slither/crawled out onto the streets, now completely transformed into full animals and not half, that will look creepy. They kept going until they reached the Pet's Café.
The fake Eustasia changed to another woman, a younger blonde headed woman. "Come on, Onoria won't be back 'til later." Onnia said.
The other two animals shift shaped into their original forms, Onnastia and Onnora nodded.
"We know that Mrs. Bone senior is looking for the wand now…she'll have nearly full power! We have to warn the kids!" Onnoria said anxiously.
"What can we do? We can't get past the force field; there will be guards around there! But we can get past them as ants but in the force field is IMPOSSIBLE!" Onnastia said sadly.
"I have a plan…" Onnia said, grinning mysteriously.