Ch 14
"Kiddos! DUCK OR DIE!" Fester said and pulled out a grenade launcher and started shooting explosive grenades at the boys, who started dodging them, jumping around like a pair of athletes.
And the entire with coven was stunned into silence at the sight of the two mortals doing a very good Neo Matrix impression as they literally dodged grenade sized bullets.
"HA! HA! You little rascals made me run out of ammunition already. Used to be able to waste only half as much ammo, must be getting rusty. Oh well, at least I got old age aches and pains to look forward too!" Uncle Fester said and stepped forward and hugged the two.
"And you must be Sabrina, sorry that we didn't meet at the reunion. I was in the hospital with a hernia." Uncle Fester said and shook Sabrina's hand.
"You had hernia taken out?" She asked.
"Nah, put in!" Fester said with a smirk.
"Wednesday, Lucas! How are you two kiddoes doing?" Fester said to them and gave them a hug.
"Having a little get together, but what brings you here Uncle Fester?" Wednesday asked.
"Oh, rocket cannon I installed on the moon."
"Not, that I mean why are you here?"
"Oh that, I'm here for some fruit bushes Morticia asked me to get here some new poisonous Canadian plants for her garden, and since I was in the neighborhood, I thought I'd crash bye. Hey Zelda, hey Hilds!" Uncle Fester replied.
"Fester, always a delight!" Hilda said and hugged the man.
"Give me one good reason why I should not turn you into a mouse and feed you too Salem for almost killing our niece with a kamikaze rocked." Zelda said with a friendly, yet also hostile, smile.
"Sorry Zelds, but business before fun. I got to collect the plants right now." Fester said in disappointment as he made his way towards the inner forest.
"Why don't you three go and help him out?" Wednesday asked Lucas and then made a eye gesture towards Sabrina, telling her to look in the direction of the Snake Woman.
Catching on to her hint, Sabrina turned to Lucas and said:
"Yeah, spend some quality man time." Sabrina said and gave him her best smile.
"I'll come along as well, feel the need to stretch my legs and do some proper warm up before tonight's sexual debauchery. I mean you wouldn't want a muscle cramp to appear in the more exotic positions." Ambrose said, also catching on and deciding to accompany the group of men, in order to keep them away, long enough for the ladies to do whatever it was they where hatching.
"C-Can I come along?" Robin Good fellow asked, he was an innocent soul amongst evil, as such he still had that sixth sense of danger and could tell that it was best to be absent from whatever was about to happen.
"Sure, come on! The more we are, the bigger changes we'll attract a pack of wolves!" Fester said with a delighted laugh as the group of 6 men left the gathering.
As soon as that happened, Wednesday snapped her finger, activating a spell of hers, and a collective thud was heard from behind the witch coven.
"You poisoned their tea?" Sabrina asked as she looked at the paralyzed group of pagans.
"Not me, this is your Aunt Hilda's brew." Wednesday said and gestured to said woman as Sabrina looked at her in surprise.
"Had a feeling that we'll need my special brew tonight. It's wicked heart of stone potion. Basically if you have intent to harm another that has never harmed you first, then it paralyzes you. Oh dear, I didn't expect there to be so many of them in this group." Hilda lamented.
"Fortunately I came prepared." Zelda said and pulled out from her magic purse shovels for all the ladies present.
"Do you always carry digging equipment?" Wednesday asked, impressed at Zelda's actions.
"Only when you are here. Whenever you're involved Wednesday , there will always be corpses to deal with." Zelda said and at that Wednesday blushed at the compliment.
At that the four witch women gathered in front of the group of poisoned pagans, shovels held like spears as the coven
"Are they still conscious?" Sabrina asked.
"Does it matter?" Zelda replied.
"Not really." Hilda added.
"It's so wonderful to spend quality time with likeminded friends." Wednesday said and the four women clinked their shovels like the 4 musketeers and they started getting to work digging the graves.
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"Come, sorrow. We welcome thee. Let us join in grief..rejoice in despair..and honor the fortunate dead." Wednesday said as they finished digging the graves and putting the conscious or not pagans into them, with the help of the rest of the coven.
"Dearly beloved." Hilda said as they held a moment of silence.
The Snake lady then started to be able to move again, she tried to push herself up, but a shovel strike from Sabrina made her collapse again.
The young witch then looked to Wednesday and was pleased that the Addams woman smiled in approval at her actions.
"I think that the boy has a bit of a mother complex since I now see that the two are more alike than we thought." Zelda whispered to Hilda, who giggled back.
"Before we send on the great journey those that have passed into the next life." Wednesday said as another pagan started to groan and Wednesday them stomped on his face, silencing her.
"Shh! We must honor them, by making sure that nothing is left to waste." Wednesday said and the witch coven all pulled out knives and meat cleavers.
Whether or not the pagans where conscious or not, was not more relevant than ever before.
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Harvey woke in the middle of the forest, not knowing when he dozed off, but knowing that the group of 6 fell asleep suddenly after leaving the picnic site.
"Sorry about that, I cast a relaxation spell for our newest comrade, but I went a bit overboard with it." Ambrose quickly added the believable lye as to why he used such extreme measures to keep the men of Wednesday's family, who were all more gentle hearted, away from the witch coven.
"No problem, but we better get back soon otherwise my wife will kill me." Lucas said.
"I thought you liked it when she tries to do that?" Tommy said in confusion.
"Son, you're young, you'll learn one day." Lucas replied as the group returned to the camp site, expecting to meet angry glares, but instead Lucas and Harvey received warm embraces and affectionate kisses from Sabrina and Wednesday.
"You're not mad that we're so late?" Harvey asked.
"No! It gave us a chance for some bonding time. Anyway, come on now, it's time to eat!" Sabrina said to Harvey and lead him to the food table.
"Stew boys?" Wednesday asked and handed her husband, while Sabrina handed Harvey, a plate of heart meat stew, made from the heart of the Snake the men in question didn't know this fact.
The two men took them and sat down to eat the food, all under the watchful gaze of the two witches.
"What?" Harvey asked, noticing Sabrina's intense stare at him.
"Have a bite." Sabrina said with a lusty yearning in her voice.
At that Harvey took the first bite out of the stew and immediately Sabrina smiled in triumph at that, so did Wednesday as Lucas did the same.
"Aren't you going two gonna eat?" Lucas asked them.
"In due time, but for now, have another bite." Wednesday said with a flirtatious whisper and took a spoon of stew and fed it to Lucas, grinning and laughing every time he ate what she fed him.
"Yes, eat it all up, every single morsel." Sabrina said and did the same with Harvey, adding a kiss after every time she fed him more of the stew.
The two men were confused by the strange behavior and joyful expressions that the women were doing each time they took a bite of the stew they made.
"What's going on?" Tommy asked Uncle Fester.
"Son, here's a lesson for you. Never, ever question anything that makes the woman in your life happy." Uncle Fester said with a giggle before looking up at the moon, who was still visible during the morning.
"Looks like the torch has been passed from Morticia, to Wednesday and as the student becomes the master, so does the next apprentice." Uncle Fester said as he enjoyed the picnic, sipping wine while gazing at his one true love, the Moon.
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While the macabre, yet heartwarming scene unfolded on Earth, in Hell a new development happened.
Because of his repeated failures, a council of Hell's nobility gathered and passed a vote of no confidence.
Lucifer was no longer the ruler of Hell, and now a new leader would be elected.