Chapter 5
"Damiana!" Sean yelled as he came into the burned-down old, abandoned factory, "I'm home!" He looked around the place. He came over to the old bedroom that had been his girlfriend's and saw some old [slightly singed] dolls lying on the bed (previously Damiana's torture victims). "Why'd you do it? Why'd you leave me? We were happy here." He grabbed an iron candlestick. "YOU…" He swung it at the doll. "STUPID…" Swing. "WORTHLESS…" Another swing. "BRAT!" He pierced the doll, breaking it into bits. "Look what you've done to me." He walked off.
Meanwhile…
Robert was walking down a street.
"Hey."
Robert whirled around. It was Nadine. "You scared me! What do you want?"
"Well, I was kind of scared for you to be out here all alone considering there's something out here. My sister would kill me if I let her husband die." Yeah, Lucy and Robert had married. And if you're wondering about Michael and Madelyn or Kelly and Austin, no, they hadn't yet. And Jack hadn't even gotten up the courage to propose to Brenda yet.
"Nadine, I'm a Warlock and you're not a Witch. I can control all four elements, you can merely summon one. I can protect myself better than you can. Now get out before my cousin kills me for letting his wife die."
"No, I'm not leaving."
"Alright then." Sean came up behind her and knocked her down.
"Nadine!" Robert cried. He started to race to help his cousin's wife, but Sean knocked him back into a tree. Nadine tried to get up, but Sean backhanded her, knocking her out cold.
Sean looked at Robert. "I need to borrow you for a second."
At the warehouse…
A few minutes later…
Nadine was laid out on what was left of Damiana's old bed. Robert was sitting on the edge of it, fidgeting nervously. He had dropped his stake and wand in the street when Sean had knocked him over.
Sean was pacing in front of him. "Now here's the thing. You're going to do a spell for me."
"Uh…what? What kind of spell?"
"A love spell! I'm gonna get what's mine. Teach her to walk out on me." He looked at Robert. "You can do it, right?"
"Well, uh…I'll try—"
Sean grabbed him by the neck, choking him. "What do you mean 'try'? You'll do it!"
"OK! OK! I'll do it!"
Sean let go and leaned against the bedpost. "She wouldn't even kill me." He sat down next to Robert. "She just left. She didn't even care enough to cut off my head or set me on fire. It was the truce with your buddies that did it. She said I'd gone soft. Wasn't demon enough for the likes of her. We got to Acme Brazil and she was just…different. I gave her everything: beautiful jewels, beautiful dresses with beautiful girls in them, but nothing made her happy. And she would…flirt! I caught her on a park bench making out with some chaos demon. Have you ever seen a chaos demon? All slimy with antlers, they're disgusting! She only did it to hurt me. So I said 'Fine, I'm not putting up with this anymore. I've got an un-life, too, you know!' And then she said…she said we could still be friends!" He leaned over and started crying. "Man, I'm so unhappy!"
Robert patted his back. "There, there."
"I mean, friends! How could she be so cruel?!" He stopped and looked at Nadine. "That smell…"
Robert pulled him away. "Oh, no, you don't!"
Sean was in his game face, making Robert jump back when he looked at him. "Back off! I haven't had a woman in weeks!"
"Whoa! Hold on! I'll do your spell for you, but there will be no 'having' of any kind with her!" He thought about that. "Or me!"
Sean reverted back to his human guise. "Alright, let's get started."
"Whoa, wait. I'm premature. I don't know if this is gonna work."
"Well, if at first you don't succeed, I'll kill her, you try again."
"OK, fine!" Robert backed away. "But…I need my wand. And some ingredients to make a potion. And a spell book!"
Sean crossed his arms. "Alright."
At the tower…
Daniella approached Madelyn with a book. "Is this the thing you've been sensing?"
Madelyn looked at it. "No, but…" She shuddered.
Ryan and Lucy ran in.
"Something's wrong," Lucy said.
"What is it?" asked Sophie.
"Come on!" Ryan led them to the street where Nadine and Robert had been. The tree was knocked over [slightly] and Robert's stake was lying on the ground next to it.
Kelly Vamped and sniffed and then turned back to normal. "I don't smell any blood. Wait…maybe a little."
"Well, there was obviously a fracas," Ryan said.
Brenda looked around. "I see a stake but no ashes."
"Well, maybe they were taken," Kelly suggested, "or they ran and dropped it, or—"
"You're having too many ors!" Jack cried, "Pick one!"
"That's it, I'm going back." Daniella ran back to HQ to check on the kids. But on her way in…
"Hello, Danni."
Daniella whirled around and saw Sean standing there.