Chapter 52: The Chaos of Magic, Part I
Author's note: Man, it's been a long time since I started writring this story three and a half years ago. But like Nelly Furtado's song says, all good things come to and end, and it's about time for this story to end. However, you won't be disappointed with the grand finale (at least I hope so), since there will be lots of epic fights scenes, as well as Family Guy's trademark humor as well. Anyway, here it is the beginning of the end of the Spellbook, just a small sample of what I have in store. Enjoy.
It was a normal day in Quahog, and the Griffin family was in the living room watching TV when...oh, you know what? Screw this. I always open every chapter with the Griffins doing something mundane. So, since this is the beginning of the Grand Finale of this story, let's be more original, so...what if we start with some action? Okay, here we go again...
It was a normal day in Quahog, and Meg, Lois and Jillian were fighting a huge green muck monster that was terrorizing the city. The three witches were using all their power to fight this foe, but it was much stronger than it looked.
"Boy, this guy is tough!" said Meg, panting.
"And it smells really, really bad!" Jillian complained while covering her nose.
"Leave it to me," Lois said, stepping forward. She summoned a large wave of water that crashed against the disgusting monster. "It's about time to clean this city!"
"Oh, talk about cleaning while using a water spell," Meg said, rolling her eyes. "Really witty."
"I know, right?" Jillian said, impressed, while Lois glared at her daughter.
Lois' attack didn't harm the monster too much. The living mass of garbage and sewer water opened its large mouth, exhaling a toxic breath against Lois, that almost suffocated her. The redheaded witch crawled away from the monster, coughing and her eyes watering. To cover her mother, Meg cast some fireballs at the monster, but it didn't harm it either.
"Jillian, I need some help over here!" Meg asked.
"Don't worry! I think that this is the perfect opportunity to try the new spell I created!" Jillian said proudly.
"You created an spell by yourself? Wow Jillian, I'm certainly impressed."
Jillian waved her hands in a circle, and golden sparks started to surround her in spectacular fashion...and nothing happened.
"Your spell didn't work! It didn't harm the monster!"
"Harm the monster? But this spell was to make me look prettier! Those sparkles made me look prettier, didn't they?"
"Jillian, focus!" Meg yelled angrily.
"Okay, okay, don't get angry," Jillian said raising her hands in defense. She prepared another spell, but this time it would be something useful. Golden particles began to gather between her hands forming a glowing sphere of energy, then the blond witch cast the sphere forward, releasing a devastating energy beam that blew up the monster into several pieces of mud. However, all the mud puddles merged into each other, reforming the sludge monster.
"Sorry, I tried my best," Jillian said, mildly crestfallen.
"It's okay Jillian. But we need to think a way to finish this monster off before we run out of energy!"
"I know. It's so yucky and disgusting...just like that filth that accumulates in the corners of the bathroom...too bad that we couldn't simply use some bathroom cleaner with it..."
Both Meg and Lois stared at Jillian in awe.
"What? Did I say something wrong?" the ditzy blonde asked, scratching the back of her head.
"Jillian...you're a a genius!" Lois beamed.
"Really? That's so nice of you to say!"
"Mom, Jillian, hold the monster for a minute, I'll be right back!" said Meg. Lois nodded, since she knew what Meg was going to do. Jillian didn't know what was going on, but kept fighting the monster.
Moments later, Meg returned carrying lots of bottles of bathroom cleaners, opened them and dropped its content on the floor. Upon Meg's command, the three witches used their telekinesis to hurl all the bathroom cleaners at the muck monster, and this time, it worked, since the monster let out yowls of pain.
"Okay, it's time for you to return to the sewer!" said Meg. She motioned her index and middle finger forward, which were crackling with electricity, and cast a powerful lightning that blew the monster up into lots of tiny puddles of mud, but this time, it didn't regenerate.
"And another job well done," said Meg, high fiving Lois and Jillian. "Come on, let's go back home."
"Fighting monsters is hard and dangerous, but I'm starting to like it, it's really fun," said Jillian. "No wonder why Superheroes do it so often!"
Cutaway
We see a bunch of superheroes in what it looks to be Alcoholics Annonymous.
"Hello, my name is Superman...and I'm addict to fighting crime," Superman said.
"Hello, Superman," the rest of the heroes said.
"So, Superman, why don't you share your experiences with us? How fighting crime changed your life for the worst?" the sponsor of the meeting said.
"Well, I started with little things, such as stopping bank robbers and such, but from that, I started to thwart many supervillains' plans, first once or two times per month, but it became more and more regular. I started to been off work at the Daily Planet, Lois divorced me, and I made a lot of enemies. It wasn't until recently when I realized that I couldn't control it."
"Do you see how being a superhero can ruin your life? Now-"
"Hey guys, Darkseid is invading Earth!" Guy Gardner said while bursting in the room.
"WHAT? I'LL STOP HIM NOW!" Superman said, and flied away from the room.
End Cutaway
Meanwhile, above Quahog in her floating castle, Miriam was sulking for the failure of his latest plan to destroy Meg and her family forever.
"A monster made of garbage and sewer water, now that was a great idea, sis!" Lorraine said sarcastically.
"I know, right?" Jeanne said.
"Oh, shut up! I don't see you doing better! The last time you went on your own, you failed as well!" Miriam countered.
"Ohhhhhh, burn!" Jeanne chimed.
"I failed once. Once. But your plans fail more than Windows Vista!" Lorraine retorted.
"Ohhhhhh, burn!"
"Ugh, what are we doing? If we fight among us, we will never recover what it's us! We need a plan, a good one." Miriam said, rubbing her temples.
"Ohhhhhh, burn!"
"Jeanne, drop it! Why are you saying that all the time?"
"I saw it on TV. It's fun to say that."
"But what are we going to do? Everything we tried failed. I don't know how it's going to be different," Lorraine said, and slumped in a chair.
"No, we didn't try everything. You know, we tried to deceive and manipulate those Griffins, threw monsters and them, all to no avail. It's about time to do something big! Something scary! Something so atrocious that would make Hitler look like Gandhi! " Miriam said. "Girls, this is what we're going to do..."
The very next day Lois woke up early to prepare the breakfast for the family, and when she walked in the kitchen, he was shocked to see so much fog outside that barely nothing could be visible.
"This is weird, yesterday's forecast didn't said that there was going to be such a thick fog," said Lois, who switched on the TV to see if they say something in the news.
Cutaway to TV
"Good morning Quahog, I'm Tom Tucker," said Tom.
"And I'm Dianne Simmons," Diane said as usual.
"On today's news, there's a lot of fog over Quahog that for some unexplained reasons our meteorologists were unable to predict, and right now are unable to explain, " Tom said. "It's more than likely that tomorrow their sorry asses will be outta here, right Diane?"
"That's right, Tom," Diane said cheerfully. "We advise not to take the car, since it would be too dangerous to drive with this fog. Hell, you'll better stay at home."
"However, to see how things are going, Ollie Williams is on Downtown Quahog. How are things going, Ollie?"
"I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!" Ollie yelled.
"Thank you Ollie. And now the sports."
End Cutaway
Shortly after, the rest of the Griffins and Kennedys entered in the kitchen.
"Good morning, mom," said Meg.
"Hey Lois, you look worried, something wrong?" Matt asked, noticing his mother-in-law's worry.
"Maybe she finally realized how old and ugly she became. HA!" Stewie said, and raised his hand to hive five Rosie, but the redhead ignored him.
"When I woke up, I saw these weird fog around the house," Lois explained. "And they said on TV that all Quahog is engulfed by this rare fog."
"I know what you mean," said Meg, looking the fog through the window. "This fog isn't normal. Something's going on."
As if on clue, a terrifying roar came from outside, sending chills down everybody's spines.
"My God, what was that?" asked Rosie, clinging to Meg's leg.
"I don't know, but let's abandon the safety of our home and go outside to check it," Peter suggested.
"Yeah, looks like the more reasonable thing to do," Matt said, rolling his eyes.
"I'm glad that you agree with me for once," Peter said while walking out of the kitchen and into the street. The rest followed him.
"Man, I can't see a thing," said Lois, half-closing her eyes to see better through the fog.
"Maybe I can be of some help," said Matt, casting his hands forward, and creating a tornado that temporarily dispelled the fog away, at least in a radius of fifty meters.
"Great idea Matt! Now we can-"
But Meg never finished her sentence, since everybody stared blankly in awe at the creature that lured them out. It was a huge a lion with horns, leather wings sprouting from its back and a snake for a tail. It roared again, spitting a blaze of fire at the same time.
"Oh my! That's a chimera!" Matt said in horror.
"Another monster? This is getting tiresome," Meg said, shaking her head.
"Peter, take the kids inside! Meg, Matt and myself will hold this beast!" Lois quickly said.
"Hey, no woman give me orders!" Peter said in an indignant tone.
"PETER, DO WHAT I TOLD YOU!" Lois yelled at him.
"Okay, okay. Geez, you're touchy today, don't you?" Peter replied before taking Brian, Chris, Stewie and Rosie inside the house.
The chimera tried to incinerate Meg, Lois and Matt with its fire breath, but Lois erected a wall of water that neutralized it. Then it jumped over Matt, but the black haired teen cast a tornado to blow the mythological beast away. Still, this didn't discouraged the winged monster, which elevated a few meters in mid air, and dived at them again. Meg summoned a fireball on each hand, and started to throw many fireballs at the flying beast, which dodged them swiftly. One of the fireballs unfortunately hit Cleveland's house, which broke on the side, revealing that Cleveland was taking a bath.
"Oh damn!" he shouts as his tub begins to slide off, "No no no no no NO NO NO NO NO!" he shouts as the tub then crashes and shatters onto the ground. "Boy, this is getting more ridiculous than all the kryptonite types that appeared in Superman over the years."
Cutaway
We see Lex Luthor inside his secret lair, planning his next evil scheme.
"Okay, I need to destroy Superman, but how?" Lex asked, rubbing his chin. "Oh, I know! I can send some mobsters to rob a bank to lure him out, and then expose him to kryptonite to weaken him! Or even better, red kryptonite, and he'll become crazy! Or golden kryptonite, and he'll lose his powers forever! No, I'll use pink kryptonite and turn him gay!"
End Cutaway
(Author's note: Yes, pink kryptonite does exist, and turns Superman gay. Go and check it for yourselves if you don't believe me)
Meanwhile, inside the Griffin house, everybody is watching Meg, Lois and Matt fighting against the vicious chimera.
"Boy, I feel so useless, I wish I could be of some help," Chris moaned.
"Don't be such a moron! They're risking their lives while we're safe here," Peter reasoned. "It's much better not help if you can get hurt."
"So, you're putting your own safety over the well being of your loved ones?" Chris asked in shock. "That's so intelligent!"
"I'm sure that monster has something to do with the fog that appeared this morning," said Rosie.
"I think that we all reach that conclusion," Stewie said dryly.
"The fog and that monster are related events? I'd never thought of that," said Chris, scratching the back of his head.
"Ditto," Peter said.
"Oh, why I'm not surprised," said Stewie, rolling his eyes.
"Let's see if they say something on TV," said Rosie, switching the TV on.
Cutaway
"Hello, I'm Tom Tucker again in a special news report. After Quahog was surrounded by fog, the police have been receiving many calls claiming that the town was being invaded by monsters," Tom Tucker said. "
"These events, however, have been declared true," Diane continued. "We're hoping for the army to arrive and exterminate these monsters soon."
"Although if the US army is in real life like it's depicted in Hollywood, we're screwed."
End Cutaway
"Monsters across the whole town!" Rosie said in horror, before an even more horrible thought crossed his mind. "Oh my God! What about the others? Brian, Jillian, Sophie, Kyle and Maya! They're in danger!"
Rosie was about to rush upstairs, but she was grabbed by the arm by Stewie.
"Wait a minute, where are you going?" asked Stewie.
"It isn't obvious? I'm going to save Brian and the rest," Rosie said while squirming.
"I'm sorry, but it's too dangerous outside, and I can't allow you to die!"
"Do you care for me? Aw, I knew that deep inside, you did have a heart!" Rosie gushed in joy.
"Because if you're killed, there's no way I will appear on this fic anymore."
"Touching," Rosie said, rolling her eyes. "Anyway, I don't care about your ego, I'm going to save my friends, and that's final!"
Rosie then disappeared in a flash of light, and appeared in her bedroom, where Flare was resting. The phoenix looked at his master, and cawed.
"Sophie, Kyle, Maya, Brian and Jillian are in danger! Come on Flare, we have to save them!" Rosie said as she started to stuff her backpack.
Stewie entered in the room. "Hey, I know that I can't dissuade you from leaving, but at least, let me go with you."
"So you can hog the camera some more?"
"No. And fourth wall breaking jokes aside, I'm...I'm..." Stewie stammered, as if what he was trying to say caused him great pain or shame. "I just happen to be fond of Brian and the others as well, okay?"
"Including Sophie?" Rosie said with a sly smile.
"...yes, Sophie included," Stewie said, rolling his eyes.
"Then, let's go," Rosie said, summoning her broomstick. "Come on, I'll give you a ride."
"No, thanks, this time I will fly by myself," said Stewie, pulling out a jetpack out of nowhere. "I'll bring some weapons too."
"Alright, let's go!"
And thus, without their parents consent, Rosie, Stewie and Flare abandoned their home in hopes of rescuing those who were still in danger.
Meanwhile, back at the Griffin front yard, Meg, Lois and Matt managed to scare the chimera away after a long and tedious fight. They were exhausted and lightly bruised, but no less victorious. They went back inside the house.
"So, how it was?" asked Peter.
"Hard, but nothing I couldn't beat," said Meg proudly.
"Mom, on the news said that there are monsters all over Quahog!" Chris said, worried.
"Oh my God! That's terrible!" Lois replied.
Suddenly, there was a knock in the door. Matt went to open, and saw it was Daphne.
"Thanks God you're all safe and sound," said Daphne, entering in the house. "I was worried about you guys."
"Daphne, do you know what's going on?" Matt asked.
"Yes. During these past months, several dimensional vortexes have appeared around Quahog, allowing monsters to invade our world."
"So, that's it? A dimensional portal?" Meg asked.
"Yes, but this one is different. The other portals were small and disappeared shortly afterward. This one is much bigger, and won't close by its own, or at least, that's what I think, and I'm rarely wrong."
"So what are we going to do?" asked Lois. "Find the portal and close it?"
"Exactly."
"Wait, but what's with Brian, Jillian and the rest of our family? They will be defenseless against those monsters!" Lois cried.
After thinking for some moment, Daphne sighed, and said: "I believe we can do both. We'll split into several groups and find them, then we will look for the dimensional rift and close it."
Suddenly, Lois noticed that somebody was missing.
"Hey, where's Stewie?" asked Lois. "And Rosie?"
"They're right he-" Peter was about to say, but realized that they were nowhere to be seen. "They were right here a second ago, I swear!"
Meg rushed upstairs, only to find that neither toddlers were there. Flare was also gone as well.
"Oh no, they're gone!" Meg cried in horror.
"Where could they be?" asked Lois, horrified as well. "If they're outside, they would be an easy prey for those monsters!"
"They took their backpacks," Matt concluded after a short inspection of both rooms. "My guess is that they had the same idea as us and went to find Brian, Sophie and the others."
"Matt, we have to find our little girl!" meg pleaded.
"Ugh, we already had enough problems before," Daphne groaned, and rubbed her eyes. "Okay, this is what we're going to do: Lois, you'll look for Rosie and Stewie, Matt, you'll find your parents and little sister. Meg, you will go to Brian and Jillian's house. Meanwhile, I will look for the dimensional portal."
"Hey, what about us?" asked Peter, pointing at Chris and himself.
"Sorry dad, but without magic, you can't be of any help out there. You'll be safer here," Meg said.
"Well, then give us magic powers then," said Chris.
"Chris, I don't think that's a good idea, dad. Magic isn't that simple, it takes time to learn and..."
"Meg, I think that we'll need as much help as possible," Lois interjected.
"Hey, what about those ninja headbands? You could give us that!" Chris suggested.
"The last time dad used that headband he went mad with power," Meg said dryly.
"But this time I'll make a responsible use of it! Promise!" Peter said, almost pleading.
"...okay, I'll get them."
"Yay! This will be better than that time I was Batman!"
Flashback
We see Peter, wearing a straightjacket, in a room inside a mental asylum. Two nurses passed by his room.
"Poor guy, he thinks he's Batman..."
End Flashback
After that, the group left the Griffin house, and split in several directions. Matt was alone on his motorbike, and headed towards the apartment where his dad, Lana and Sophie lived. Lois and Peter where on Lois' magic broomstick, and headed to downtown Quahog, hoping they would find the missing babies. Meg and Chris were on Meg's flying broomstick, and headed towards Jillian apartment. And lastly, Daphne began the search of the dimensional rift by herself.
…
Matt's motorbike sped through the deserted and foggy streets of Quahog as fast as it could, while the black haired teen hoped for his family to be alright. The fog wasn't a problem, since he was using his wind powers to dispel the fog ahead of him, allowing him to clearly see the path. After several minutes, he arrived at the apartment block where his dad, sister and future stepmother lived. He left his motorbike on the road and rushed in.
However, when Matt rang the door bell, nobody came to open. He then shouted if somebody was there, but nobody answered. Finally, he broke the door down. And, as he feared, the place was completely empty. Matt cursed loudly, and kicked a chair in rage. He has been late to safe his family.
Then, he heard something. It was a scream. A female scream, to be precise. He opened the window, and this time he not only heard it better, but he also knew where it came from. Matt walked out of the apartment block, and turned around the corner. He finally saw his dad's car being attacked by what it looked a giant insect with huge jaws. He could see his dad, Sophie and Lana inside the car.
"Hey you monster, leave them alone!" Matt yelled, and prepared to fight the oversized insect.
…
Far from there, over the city of Quahog, Meg and Chris were heading towards Jillian's apartment. From below, they could see almost nothing since the entire city was drowned in mist.
"You know, this is like that movie," said Chris. "In which a town is surrounded by fog all of sudden, and monsters start to appear out of nowhere."
"The Mist?" Meg replied.
"Yes, that's it! Well, except that there isn't any fundamentalist nut."
"Maybe people have done that, and they're sheltering on supermarkets and such," Meg mused. "I hope nobody is hurt, since we can't protect everybody."
"Even if you can't see them, there are lots of monsters down there," said Chris. "You can hear them roar and growl. Boy, why all the magic creatures have to be big, scary and full of teeth? Why they can't be cute?"
"Flare is cute," Meg said.
"Guess you're right."
Suddenly, they heard something that didn't come from any living creature. It was an explosion.
"Did you hear that?" Meg asked his brother.
"Yes. Maybe it's the army, fighting the monsters," Chris pondered.
"Oh, don't be so naive, we all know that the army is only going to come when all the trouble is over. Besides, there was also some beams of golden light just like- hey, there it is again!"
"And it came from Jillian's neighborhood!" Chris said.
"Jillian must be fighting against God who knows what. We better hurry and help her."
…
Meanwhile, in another side of Quahog, Stewie, Rosie and Flare are wandering through the deserted streets of Quahog, in a vain attempt to find Brian and the others.
"Will you admit," Rosie said, rubbing her eyes. "That we're lost?"
"We're not lost!" Stewie shouted, and checked the GPS on his PDA. "I know exactly where Brian lives. Is just this fog that disoriented me a bit."
"You said that twenty minutes ago."
"Stop complaining and be of some help!"
"Don't shout, you may attract some weird creatures," Rosie said, making a shushing motion.
"Oh, come on, which are the chances of-"
But Stewie didn't say anything more. He, as well as Rosie, were paralyzed by horror upon seeing a flock of flying monsters that dived at them.
"RUN!"
…
Meanwhile, inside the Griffin house, three figures were inside, inspecting the whole place, until they found what they were looking for.
"Boy, I can't believe that they fell for it!" Lorraine gushed.
"They fell from where?" Jeanne asked stupidly.
"Finally," said Miriam, looking at the spellbook she was holding between her hands. "Finally this book is on our hands again!"
"I wouldn't think that they'll leave the spellbook here, alone and unguarded," Lorraine commented.
"Because they probably don't think that we're behind the fog and the mosnters' attacks," Miriam said with a wicked grin. "Ladies, time for the second phase of the plan."
So, which is Miriam's plan? Will be Matt able to save his family? And will Meg and Chris save Brian and Jillian in time? What about Stewie and Rosie? Will they survive until Peter and Lois find them? And will Peter stick to his word or will end up doing something stupid as usual? Find answer to thses questions in the next part!
