104R 22: Nightmare On De ViL Street.
That same night, at De ViL Manor, Keegan was at home, alone, with Isabella and Charlie while his Dad, stepmom and stepsisters had gone out to dinner. The Canada-kid had asked his parents if his two friends could come over and play with him while they and the sisters were gone out. Both Jerry and Linda permitted the boy's request, provided that his friends got permission from both their parents, which they did.
Keegan's smartphone then lit up and rang and the 11 year old picked the phone up off the dinner table and answered it. "Hello?"
"Hello." Said a voice.
"Uh, yes?" Said Keegan.
"Who is this?" The voice asked.
"Who are you calling?" Keegan asked.
"Who am i speaking to?" The voice asked.
"Wrong number." Said Keegan before ending the call and placing his phone back in his pocket.
"Who was that?" Isabella asked, sitting at the table with Charlie, each eating a slice of pinapple and ham pizza.
"Nobody." Said Keegan.
"Did you pick a movie?" Charlie asked before taking another bight out of his pizza.
"Yeah. We're gonna go to the dogs with Disney." Keegan reached into his brown backpack and got out three stacks of DVD cases. "101 Dalmatians." He said before placing the three movie cases on the table and getting a slice of pinapple and ham pizza. The Canada-boy took a bight out of his pizza.
"Ugh, i've seen all three of those movies. The first one is good, but the second and third ones are boring." Said Isabella.
"How do you really feel?" Keegan asked.
Isabella shrugged.
"Well, i like the 101 Dalmatians franchise. I think Disney did all three films very creatively." Said Keegan.
"But you don't care about the human characters in the films because there's no character development. There's just Cruella and her plan to steal and kill all of the Dalmatian puppies in London and make them into a fur coat." Said Isabella.
"Isabella has a point. The whole plot starting from 101 Dalmatians to 103 Dalmatians was very enjoyable, but why not make a different plot instead of the same old story, same old song and dance?" Said Charlie.
"Dude, i've got all three of them. From 101 to 102 to 103." Said Keegan.
"Dude, we are not gonna sit here and watch these three Dalmatian movies." Said Charlie.
"These movies are so good." Said Keegan.
"Which one was the Devil's Island one? 102?" Charlie asked.
"No, the Devil's Island one was 103. In 102, Cruella took the puppies over to Paris, France. In the new one that was just released this year, 104 Dalmatians, the story takes place over in the U.S. in the state of Texas." Said Keegan.
"I thought these were London based true stories." Said Charlie.
"No, just the first three are." Said Keegan.
"Wow, Cruella went from UK London, England to the U.S. state of Texas. No suprise there." Said Isabella.
"Actually, the fourth film was very suprising. It was so suspenceful. You really didn't know what was going to happen next." Said Keegan.
"You're kidding. I don't get it." Said Isabella
"Okay. It's like reboot. A sequel to the first and third movie." Said Keegan.
"I get that. But if 101 Dalmatians is the original film, and if 102 Dalmatians is the sequel, and if 103 is a reboot, what is 104 about?" Isabella asked.
"You're over-thinking it, Izzy." Said Charlie.
"Am i or did Disney, when making it, just under-think it? There's a reason i don't watch these true based movies." Said Isabella.
"I can't believe you haven't seen them. We live in London." Said Keegan.
"104 Has nothing to do with London. I thought you said 101 Dalmatians was a London based true story." Said Charlie.
"The first three, 101, 102 and 103 Dalmatians, are based off of the true life crimes of Cruella De ViL from (1996) to (2000) and (2017). The fourth instalment that just came out this year is based off of the U.S. (2020) Texas 104 Dalmatians incident. As well as the true based novel, 104 Dalmatians, written by Gigi Miller." Said Keegan.
"Don't we hear enough about this story every year?" Isabella asked.
"At least London, England's known for something, right?" Said Keegan.
Isabella and Charlie grinned at Keegan.
Keegan looked behind himself. "Did you hear that?"
"No, i didn't hear anything." Said Isabella.
"Neither did i." Charlie added.
"I did." Said Keegan. "Here, pick one of the London one's, i'm gonna go see what made that noise." He said, handing the three DVD's to Charlie and then walking off.
"Keegan," Isabella began. "don't try to scare us." Said the british 10 year old blond as she followed after the Canadian 11 year old.
"I'm not trying to scare you guys." Said Keegan.
"Yes you are, Charlie does it all the time." Said Isabella.
"I do not!" Said Charlie.
"Do so." Said Isabella. "Where are you going?"
"I told you i heard something." Said Keegan as he walked out of the kitchen.
"I know you're trying to scare us." Said Isabella.
"I'm not." Said Keegan as he walked off the investigate the strange noise he had heard.
Meanwhile, Charlie was still sitting at the long dinner table, trying to decide which Dalmatian movie to choose. "Eh, we'll go with the original." Said the british boy, holding the DVD case of 101 Dalmatians. The boy's cellphone then rang and he got it out of his pocket and answered it. "Hello?"
"Hello." Said a female british voice.
"Uh, who is this?" Asked Charlie.
"Tell me your name, i'll tell you mine." Said the female voice.
"Uh, no thanks." Said Charlie before hanging up.
"So, did you pick which movie you wanna watch?" Asked Isabella as she came back into the dinningroom and walked back over to the table where Charlie was sitting.
"Were you just messing with my phone?" Charlie asked.
"What are you talking about?" Isabella asked.
"Someone just called. It was the voice of Cruella." Said Charlie.
"You're crazy." Said Isabella. The british blond's phone began to ring and she looked at Charlie. "Seriously?" She got her phone out of her pocket and answered it, putting the person on speaker. "Hello?"
"Who is this?" Said a distorted voice on the other end.
"Isabella, who's this?"
"This is the last person you're both ever gonna see alive." Said the voice.
Isabella and Charlie's eyes went wide.
"What?" Isabella gasped.
Inside Cruella's bedroom, Keegan was laughing as he held his cellphone to his ear. "(Laughs) I'm sorry, i had to." The boy had called Charlie, pretending to be Cruella and called Isabella, making his voice sound distorted, as a prank.
"(Sighs) You jerk." Said Isabella.
"So not funny." Charlie added.
"Well, at least somebody fell for it. Two somebodys actually." Said Keegan.
"I don't see why you get off on this..." Before isabella could finish her sentence, the call dropped.
"Isabella?" Keegan said on his cell, but there was no answer. "Isabella?" The 11 year old boy ended the call and exited Cruella's bedroom and walked down the creepy, quiet hallway.
"Isabella, Charlie?" The Canada-kid soon made his way back into the dinningroom, only to find it now empty, with Isabella and Charlie missing. The only things that were left behind were the girl's cellphone, the opened box of pinapple and ham pizza and the three DVD cases of 101, 102 and 103 Dalmatians.
"Isabella? Charlie? Where are you?" He asked with concern in his voice. Where were his two dear friends? All concern for them soon ceased when realization hit him. What if this was just a prank they were pulling to get back at him for scaring them like he did. "Good one, you guys. You're both gone, phone on the floor?"
"You know," Keegan picked up Isabella's phone. "You guys really should direct horror films...wherever you are." He said as he looked around for any trace of his friends...only to find that they were nowhere to be seen. "Let me guess: You want me to walk by an open door so you can pop out, huh?"
Isabella's cellphone then rang.
"Okay. Timming. Timming is perfect...but Charlie doesn't have a voice changer on his phone, so you can't make your voice sound like Cruella or distorted...can you?" Said Keegan as he answered Isabella's cellphone.
"Yes i can." Said a distorted voice.
"Who is this?" Keegan asked.
"Not Isabella." Said the voice.
"Is this Charlie?" Keegan asked.
"Do i sound like a Charlie to you?" The voice asked. "Think of me as your director. You're part of our plan, you got a fun part, so don't blow it."
"What are you talking about? What plan?" Keegan asked.
"Same one Isabella and Charlie are in. Only their parts got cut way bad. But you...you're the boy who's at home alone. I think we'll have some fun with you before you die." Said the voice.
"What did you do with Izzy and Charlie?" Keegan asked.
"They're on the cuttingroom floor." Said the voice.
"That's not funny!" Said Keegan.
"This isn't a comody, it's real life. People live, people die. And i suggest you start running." Said the voice.
A figure then appeared right in front of Keegan, wearing a black hooded coat, with the symbol D13 written on it, causing the boy to scream and drop Isabella's cellphone. The boy then took off running out of the dinningroom, with the hooded figure following after him.
A screaming Keegan rushed down the stairs and ran through the house and headed towards the front double doors to exit the house, only for another black coat hooded figure to appear, blocking the doors. Keegan stopped in his tracks and ran back the way he came, with the hooded figure following after him. He rushed back up the stairs and ran to the left.
The figure soon made it to the top of the stairs, only to see that the boy was nowhere in sight.
Inside a room, Keegan stood by the door, being as quiet as a mouse so the intruders wouldn't hear him. The door then opened and another hooded figure appeared on the other side. Keegan took off through the room.
As the figure watched Keegan head for another open door, a dark energy ball appeared in the figure's hand and he threw it at the Canada boy and it hit it's target, causing an explosion, sending the kid falling down a stairway.
At the bottom of the first flight of stairs, an injured Keegan looked up and saw the figure slowly walked down the stairs towards him. The 11 year old then started crawling down the rest of the stairs, with the figure following after him. The scratched up child soon made it to the bottom of the stairs and pulled a wooden lever that opened a dungion gate halfway. The kid then started crawling towards the open gate. As he did, the figure made it to the bottom of the stairs and watched as the injured boy crawled on his hands to the opening of the gate.
Keegan managed to make it halfway out of the dungion, but didn't get any further because the figure pulled up the switch and the gate came down on the boy's waistline, trapping him.
The gate then slid back up, revealing another hooded figure standing right behind Keegan. The figure grabbed the screaming boy by the ankles and pulled him back inside the creppy dungion. He then flipped the kid over on his back and showed him a dark energy ball in his hand. The figure then raised his hand high above his head, holding the energy ball.
Keegan: "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The figure then brought the enegry ball down and hit a screaming Keegan, killing his target.
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"KEEGAN!" Copper screamed as his eyes shot open and he stood up, breathing heavily. The liver-spotted pup looked around at his surroundings and saw that he was inside the Second Chance Dog Shelter. He also saw that the Miller pups and the other dogs, and Waddlesworth, were all still asleep, apparently having not been disterbed by his outburst. "(Sighs)." The Dalmatian sighed and laid back down, closed his eyes, and went back to sleep. It was just a dream...or a nightmare.
A nightmare that was a preview of the coming events.
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