Three days went by and both Eda, Luz, King and Maxwell were walking around the town of Bonesborough while Eda had her hood up just in case. Maxwell looked reluctant to even be out there while Luz was also keeping an eye out for anything dangerous like the rest of them.
"Are you guys sure about being out here? My last vision was wrong." said Maxwell worried.
"Trust me when I say this, Maxie. I know enough about mind reading to know what it is but as for psychic powers, I only know enough about it to know what it's suppose to do but even though I don't know how it works, still, sometimes the visions are right or wrong. It happens." Eda reassured him. "If anyone hurts you, King or Luz, they answer to me."
Luz felt good to hear that but Maxwell blushed as if he was still adjusting to trying to feel comfortable around Eda.
"Do you remember where you saw the hooded figure?" asked Luz curiously.
"In some random parts of the town, there was a place known as the Kitty Café, and the rest was random." answered Maxwell.
"Oh no." said Eda disapprovingly.
"Not a good place to be, right?" asked Maxwell.
"Definitely, those two elderly ladies there are tough as nails." Eda informed. "I can't promise they'll be nice."
Maxwell remembered reading their minds but didn't know too much about those two older women except what they look like and that they knew how to defend themselves if they have to. They reluctantly headed towards the Kitty Café, but they kept their guard up as they knew Maxwell hasn't experienced the insanity that went on around there. Eda had Luz hoodie over her head just in case.
"Meow meow." Luz playfully said.
Maxwell saw this and he touched the cat ears of Luz's hoodie as if doing that out of curiosity. Luz giggled and gave him a hug.
"Maxie likes Luz." joked King.
Maxwell blushed and ignored the joke as they found the location of the Kitty Café. Eda, Luz and King went silent as they didn't see the two older women that they told him about.
"I don't see them." said Eda.
It wasn't long till the two older humanoid demon women they spoke of showed up as they headed towards the building and Maxwell was about to walk over to them but Eda, King and Luz stopped him.
"I wouldn't do that." warned Eda.
"Wouldn't it be better to talk to them outside the building?" suggested Maxwell.
"Not unless your in a suit of armor." King argued.
"Well, I'm open to listening to any ideas you got in mind. My idea was talk to them kindly about it." Maxwell suggested.
Eda, Luz and King sadly shook their heads, leaving Maxwell confused.
"Maxie, we know you mean well but those two women are not afraid of hurting people. They're not like old ladies that are too frail to fight back. They're about as feisty as people in their twenties." King explained and warned. "But it's alright, your heart is in the right place."
"I got an idea but it's going to be a bit risky." said Eda.
They wondered what Eda's idea was as she formed a green circle with her fingers and move them towards herself. Her clothing turned into what looked like all black and looked like she was dressed up like a guard and with a metal mask the covered half her face but her nose and mouth were not covered. They were surprised to see this.
"I'll be a guard and you all pretend to be witnesses that are helping me solve a case." explained Eda. "Follow my lead and everything will be alright."
They knew that when Eda's idea is put into work, there's no backing out of it unless she asks them if they want to. She lead them over to the Kitty Café as the two older women who looked like vampires saw them coming over. The two older women were surprised to see who they think is a guard. One of the older women was heavyset and the other was slimmer.
"What seems to be the problem, officer?" asked one of the older women.
"We'll be asking the questions, sisters." Eda said with a firm tone. "State your names."
"Roselle and Dottie, two older women who believe teenagers are monsters. Both have a mean streak towards teens. I see a lot of hatred in you towards them." said Maxwell.
The two older women were stunned to see this coming from Maxwell but they gave him cold looks.
"Has this rotten teen been stalking us? Maybe he's finally getting arrested like all teens should be." said Roselle maliciously.
"One, they're not under arrest, they're witnesses to a crime and they're helping a case I'm on, and two, don't talk like that to these two kids or I'll have this place shut down." threatened Eda. "Also, your minds are not closed books to one of them, so don't get any funny ideas."
Them two older women were surprised. Eda was enjoying a little revenge against them as she was put on the tough warden act.
"These two kids have told me they saw a suspect hanging around here and I know you two saw something suspicious. Have you two ladies seen a tall, dark figure with a hood around here?" Eda asked.
Roselle and Dottie looked at each other with shock and looked back at them.
"We saw someone dressed in black but no hood. He was a theater major." answered Roselle.
"You swear to me? You can get arrested for lying to an officer and lives are at steak. So if your lying, someone getting hurt will be on you." warned Eda.
The two older women knew this was sounding serious as they felt a bit of fear but they didn't show it.
"We swear we're telling the truth." said Roselle and Dottie in unison.
"Alright, so far, this one person isn't who were looking for. You two ladies are cleared." said Eda with a sigh.
The two older women let out a sigh of relief but Eda gave them a serious look.
"But try to be nice to some kids. Teens are not all bad, I know about how you treated this young little girl and her little friend and your lucky I'm not going to arrest you for kidnapping." Eda told them threateningly.
"Yes ma'am. Sorry about that." said the two older women.
"As you were." Eda said.
The two older women nervously saluted Eda and walked inside the building while Eda and the rest of them walked away. Eda snapped her fingers and her outfit or disguise changed back to normal in a white flash of light. Eda grinned and giggled.
"I can't believe that worked." said Luz with a look of surprise.
"I can't believe I got away with doing that to them vampire ladies." giggled Eda.
"They were real vampires?" said Maxwell alarmed.
"Don't worry, you two, they drink something that's a substitute so they don't feed on humans anymore." reassured Eda.
Maxwell felt better knowing this but was surprised he had no idea those two older women were vampires, he was thinking they were demons or witches but vampires was a different story.
"What other places did you see this hooded figure?" asked Eda.
"Human in danger! Human in danger!" came a male's voice.
They stopped and saw the hooded figure they talked about, it was coming over to them by a run. There was a huge shadow that flew towards them and they looked up, seeing it was a huge gryphon the size of a truck.
"Get down!" shouted the hooded male.
The hooded male jumped and attempted to tackle both Luz and Maxwell to the ground but he only got Luz on the ground and the gryphon swooped down, grabbing hold of Maxwell with it's feet, flying off with Maxwell in it's talon like feet. Luz got up as the hooded figure got up to his feet and assisted Luz. Eda was about to question the hooded figure but saw Maxwell being carried off.
"What in the world?" Eda groaned.
"Whoa! Too high, this is very high." called out Maxwell.
They looked up and saw the gryphon carrying off Maxwell. The hooded figure ran towards the direction of that huge bird like creature.
"Hurry! Human in danger! Human in danger!" called the hooded figure.
"Eda, what do we do?" said Luz looking worried.
Eda got her staff to float and she both gotten Luz, King and herself on the staff as she slapped her hand on the staff and they began to fly towards the gryphon that also had Maxwell.
"Hang on tight!" said Eda.
They flew towards Maxwell as the young human male was panicking at being up in the air so high. He struggled to get out of the grip the gryphon had on him.
"Come on, you don't want eat me. Humans taste nasty, all that cholesterol is bad for the heart." said Maxwell in hopes the creature would listen.
It ignored him and Maxwell looked down at the ground, worried that he'll fall to his death from this height, his heart racing at the sight of how high in the air he was in. He was probably over one hundred feet high. He suddenly had an idea pop into his head as he took a deep breath.
"Let me land on something soft." Maxwell said hopefully.
Maxwell suddenly began to let out a scream so loud that it was at sonic levels, causing the gryphon to screech and have difficulty with it's flight pattern. Eda quickly used something to shield both her ears and Luz and King's ears to prevent them from having their flight pattern knocked off course.
"He can scream that loud?" said Luz loudly.
"That's some strong lungs." Eda called out.
Maxwell's loud sonic level screams kept going while the gryphon's grip on him loosened up to the point that it let go. His screams stopped but he was falling from a high height as he saw the ground getting closer. He felt fear flooding his mind. Eda had removed the ear plugs from their ears and saw that Maxwell falling towards a place that Eda was aware was not good and it was the Police Precint that had a been a place Eda avoids.
"Eda!" yelled Maxwell.
"Can't let him fall there. Faster Owlbert!" Eda shouted.
Maxwell was looking as though he was praying not to die this way which Eda flew faster towards him as she quickly drew a white circle with her fingers and blew the circle towards Maxwell with a powerful gust of air from her mouth. Maxwell saw he was not too far away from the ground.
"Eda help!" cried Maxwell.
The white circle made it to him and it formed into a long and strong rope that wrapped around his ankle and one end tied itself on the rooftop while Maxwell got close to the ground but the word pulled him up as it looked like he didn't hit the ground which he was hanging from the rope that kept him three feet off the ground. Maxwell felt relieved.
"Phew, that was close." Maxwell sighed in relief.
Eda would've swooped down to get him but he had seen someone walking towards Maxwell from where he hung and it was Lilith.
"Oh no." said Luz.
"Lilith." Eda and King groaned.
Lilith spotted Maxwell as she walked towards him with an evil smile. Lilith was now in front of Maxwell as she looked as though she had a chance to get back at an enemy. Maxwell looked annoyed at the sight of her.
"Hello human." said Lilith sarcastically.
"Old crow." Maxwell spat.
"I see your swinging around like a monkey to a tree." insulted Lilith.
"I see your still princess of the short tempered and fucking getting uglier with age." Maxwell insulted back.
Lilith groaned with disgust as she got a guard's attention. The guard that came over was tall and possibly muscular from the frame and shape of it's body.
"Officer, cut this human down. I'm placing him under arrest." instructed Lilith.
"As you wish." said the guard.
Maxwell's expression changed once he heard those words as the guard pulled out a pair of huge scissors and cut the rope with no problem, causing Maxwell to fall and be caught by Lilith but she tried to carry him yet she dropped him on his feet like she was lifting ten muscular men.
"Human, do you know your too heavy? What have you been eating?" Lilith said rhetorically.
"It's called having muscles and it's heavier than fat. Looks like Eda's stronger than the weak old crow and Eda wins again because she's strong enough to lift me like a bodybuilder in a gym." Maxwell said maliciously.
What he said caused Lilith to slap him across the face, a sting of pain stinging him. He looked towards her with a smug grin.
"Guard, grab him and carry him. Now!" commanded Lilith.
Before Maxwell could run, the guard grabbed him and carried him over his back like a sack of potatoes. Maxwell's heart pounded as he tried not to panic.
"Where are you taking me? I didn't do it." said Maxwell slightly panicking.
"That's what they all say." said the guard sarcastically.
"What are you gonna do to me?" asked Maxwell shaking with fear.
"You'd be lucky if I don't spank you for being stubbornly disobedient. What you did, your in big trouble. No mercy." said Lilith giggling evilly.
This struck fear into Maxwell's heart as a tear shed from his eye, gulping loudly as he had no idea what was coming for him.
"Have mercy." said Maxwell with a whimper.
Somewhere nearby the police station
Somewhere in a hidden location outside the police precint. Eda, Luz and King were thinking of what to do as they worried for Maxwell's safety.
"Eda, this isn't good." said Luz worried.
"No joke. My sister took him in there and if they take in a child, no offense but children are sensitive when in those kinds of situations. They don't go easy on you when your a kid. Who knows what they'll do to him, even if you were in there, no offense but they might actually traumatize you in there just to get information out of you." Eda warned.
"They could be taking him to the Conformatorium. Our buddy is too sensitive for that." King said with a tinge of panic.
Luz was wide eyed about the idea and almost began to panic herself.
"Calm down you two, I got an idea but it's going to be risky." said Eda bringing them in a huddle.
Eda was whispering in their ears what she had in mind and from the sounds of it, a look of shock was on King and Luz's faces.
Inside PoliceStation
Somewhere in the police station. Maxwell was in the interrogation room while a guard was watching him in there, his iron mask covering his face which Maxwell couldn't see his expression. He had cuffs on him.
"Hey guard, any chance I can make a phone call?" said Maxwell shaking.
"Silence! I don't fraternize with suspects." the guard said sharply.
Maxwell was trying to read his mind but the mask or a helmet prevented him from diving into the guard's mind. Lilith walked into the room with what looked like a bag as she placed it near the table and she stood in front of Maxwell. His fear turned to defiance.
"Do you know why your here, human?" said Lilith.
"Because you possibly framed me and took me away against my will? You should be the one in cuffs and a bag over your head. The men must have a hard time not throwing up when they look at you." said Maxwell smugly.
Lilith showed a look of anger and signaled the guard to leave as it left the room. Lilith pulled out a key to take the cuffs off him.
"Human, you remember what happened at the witch's duel?" asked Lilith.
"How can I forget. Me and Eda are still laughing about it. Just like when she told me you pissed yourself a little from excitement when you were chosen to join the emperor's coven. That was funny as hell." taunted Maxwell.
Hearing this left Lilith blushing and letting out a nervous laugh at first but a look of anger shown on her face as she harshly reached out to grab him by the face with a lightly painful grip.
"Listen to me, you little brat! Your sassy, potty mouth is only going to make it worse. You are going to do as I say like a good boy or I'll!" threatened Lilith.
"Your hurting me." groaned Maxwell.
"Give me a reason not to." Lilith spat. "I know you got here somehow so your going to tell me or do I have to rough you up."
Maxwell let out a sigh and an expression of depression on his face appeared.
"Lilith, you...you win." Maxwell sighed.
Lilith let go of him and pinch his cheek as if to tease and taunt him.
"Good little boy. Maybe if your a good boy and you behave yourself and I might show a little mercy." teased Lilith.
"You have to come closer to hear me." advised Maxwell.
Lilith leaned her face closer to him but stopped.
"Closer." instructed Maxwell.
"This must be really shocking to have me do this." Lilith said feeling tempted.
She leaned in closer and her face was close to his face at eye level.
"Go on, now." Lilith said strictly.
Maxwell smiled and let out a loud and huge burp in Lilith's face, it was long, loud and huge. She drew her face away from him and waved her hand in front of her nose as she looked disgusted.
"Your disgusting!" groaned Lilith.
"I never said I would burp in your face, bitch." laughed Maxwell. "I'm not telling you a fucking thing."
A look of rage spread across Lilith's face as she formed a fist and was about to punch him, leaving Maxwell to flinch and close his eyes tight. He waited for the pain of the impact but it didn't come to him. He slowly opened his eyes and as he saw her place the bag on the table.
"Maybe this will loosen your lips." said Lilith reaching inside the bag.
Maxwell was curious to what she was about to pull out but he looked away as if not wanting to bear the horrifying sight of what her method of torture was going to be. A sweet smell hit his nose.
"Maybe you'd like to tell me what I need to know if you had a strawberry pie in your belly?" said Lilith.
He opened his eyes and looked to see that Lilith had a large pie pan that had a fresh strawberry pie with steam forming from it. His stared at it as if tempted to eat.
"They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Maybe you'll talk if you had a sweet, tangy, dribbling piece of strawberry pie in your belly." Lilith said as if trying to trick him.
She tauntingly waved it at his face with a smug expression while Maxwell tried to pull his face away from it but with all his might, he looked away in a huff.
"You think you can tempt me into betraying someone close to me, than that crow's egg in your head is the same as your heart, rotten." said Maxwell sharply. "It's probably poisoned."
Lilith pulled out a knife to cut a piece of the pie and placed it in her mouth to eat it. Chewing it up and swallowing it as if to prove something to Maxwell that it wasn't poisoned.
"You don't trust me, do you?" taunted Lilith.
"Can't trust you as far as I can throw a football on game day." Maxwell replied.
"If the pie was poisoned, I wouldn't be eating a bit of it." said Lilith proving him wrong.
"And if you were a circus clown, you would've seen this coming." said Maxwell giggling.
He grabbed hold of the pie and mashed it against Lilith's face, leaving a mess on her face, and a little bit of the pie crust spilled on the table and floor of the room, leaving him to laugh. Lilith wiped the mess off her face as the pie tray fell to the floor with a clang. She looked irate.
"I'm giving you one last chance to cooperate." growled Lilith.
Lilith was steaming mad but tried to hold back as she went to stand next to Maxwell, she placed her hand on Maxwell's back as if to show a sign of trust.
"Why don't you come with me? Edalyn obviously can't help you control this power you possess, if you come with me, I'll let you live, I won't harm a hair on your head. I can help you control this power better than my sister, I won't let anyone hurt you the whole time. You'd be pampered and spoiled rotten. You can even have any hot girl you desire." said Lilith tried to tempt him.
Maxwell knew the offer was tempting but the only thing that came to mind when he heard the offer being given. Eda's face came to mind, so did King and Luz. He felt that this offer wouldn't make him happy at all.
"It's all yours, you just have to come with me." said Lilith calmly.
Lilith reached her other hand to place on Maxwell's crotch, making a pass at him. Maxwell shook and grabbed hold of Lilith's hand and with an impressive amount of strength, he mashed her hand to the point she was groaning in pain. Lilith couldn't even pull her hand out of his powerful grip.
"My heart belongs to someone else." said Maxwell finally. "And your not that someone, Limby."
Maxwell pushed her away and let go of her hand, she was pushed three feet away from him in the room. Lilith suddenly lost her temper and walked towards him, she grabbed Maxwell by the front of his shirt and pulled him up.
"You stubborn little monkey! What is it with you? What does my sister have that I don't that makes you wish you stay with her?" Lilith growled.
"A heart and soul, something you don't have." answered Maxwell.
In defiance, Maxwell sucked up a large amount of saliva and hocked up a mouthful of spit across Lilith's face which was on her left cheek. In a fit of rage, Lilith wiped her cheek clean with the back of her hand.
"Sorry, had something stuck in my throat." joked Maxwell.
"That's it! I tried to be nice but now I'm going to give you something to cry about! Guards!" shouted Lilith.
Four guards walked in and they responded to Lilith's call. Maxwell was curious to what was next.
"Guards, hold him down! Apparently, brutal methods are going to be needed." Lilith commanded.
The guards ran towards him and Maxwell's expression and feeling of defiance had changed to alarm as he was going to run or try to use a bit of magic to defend himself but was grabbed by one of the guards before he could do anything.
"Let go of me!" cried Maxwell.
"Hold him down!" instructed Lilith.
Maxwell squirmed but the four guards held him down by pinning him to the wall on his back while each one of them held onto his limbs. One of them holding onto his right leg, left leg, right arm and left arm. He couldn't move as he struggled.
"Let me go, now!" shouted Maxwell.
Lilith reached in the bag and pulled out a dagger as she walked over to him with it. Maxwell was overcome with fear.
"Wait! Don't do it. I didn't do nothing." panicked Maxwell.
"Said every criminal who walked in here." spat Lilith.
She walked over towards Maxwell, raising the dagger as Maxwell's mind went blank and nothing but fear and panic flooded his mind.
"Lilith, please don't do it! I'm too young! I'll do anything!" pleaded Maxwell.
"You had your chance." said Lilith sharply.
She raised the dagger and Maxwell began to watch her take action as she attempted to slash him but he closed his eyes out of fear while Lilith smiled evilly.
"Does the little human baby have any last words before he receives his punishment." said Lilith eagerly.
"Why do this to a child? I'm just a child! I'm just a child!" said Maxwell his voice getting shaky.
"Say good bye." said Lilith maliciously.
She raised the dagger and Maxwell screamed as a tear leaked out of his eyes. Lilith was about to stab him till there was a loud knock at the door of the room. She stopped as the blade of the dagger was an inch away from Maxwell's stomach.
"What now!" said Lilith sharply.
The door opened and a large male guard that was larger than any of the guards in the room and he fell to the floor. They saw what looked like blue smoke filling the room and the guards started to lose their grip on Maxwell as they were being knocked out by the smoke.
"Sleepers smoke mist potion brew!" said Lilith alarmed.
Lilith went towards the bag and frantically looked in there for a mask but to her bad luck, there wasn't one. She turned to Maxwell who was now standing on his own feet and was free from the guard's grip. She walked towards him.
"My sister can't...protect you...forever. You're power...will be..." Lilith was cut off.
Lilith succumb to the affects of the smoke that knocked her out and had her asleep. Maxwell was seeing where the exit was as he made his way there but the mist filled the room and he was starting to feel the affects of it making him sleepy.
"Eda, Luz, King! I'm in here!" called Maxwell.
He barely made it out the door of the interrogation room as he fell to the floor, starting to fall asleep when he saw three masked figures coming for him which his vision was so blurry that they looked like shadows with gas masks.
"Eda...help...me." Maxwell said slowly loosing consciousness.
The last thing he saw was the three masked figures taking him with them and all who were at the police station were knocked out and he fell asleep.
