Pumpkinpuff Ghoul
written by "Lord" Andy
part four of five
The hospital is a place you never want to be at. Especially on a Halloween night when you could have spent getting candy. But instead, the night had been spent looking for a person that was never found, only to find two more gone forever. Besides that, how often would you expect the almighty protectors the Powerpuff Girls in a hospital?
But there they were. All three Powerpuffs and the Professor sitting inside a hospital on this years night of Halloween. The whole place was quite. Nobody was around the whole building. The only people there were inside the building, tending to their business.
Yet if that be true, then it was rather strange that the bushes surrounding the parameter of the building where moving. All though the breezes of the evening where calm at the moment, the bushes slowly crackled until the sound stopped right under an open window.
Meanwhile, inside, Bubbles was lying in a hospital bed. She was feeling much better now. The doctors had bandaged her up and she had changed out of her Harmony bunny costume and into her simple blue dress. Now she was just getting a little rest over her near death experiences, waiting for her sisters and the Professor to come in.
But that would have to wait for the moment. For the Professor was getting checked up on. The doctors were relieved that the Professor did not have a concussion, just a big bump on the head. His knee was another story though. The pumpkin headed killer had busted it up real good, so it would need to go into surgery as soon as possible.
And her sisters? They were to busy arguing between each other. All night they had been arguing over who this killer could be. They couldn't decide if it was a person, a machine, or something else. Although neither of them admitted it, it sounded like they were accusing one of the actual Powerpuff Girls as one of the killers. Both of them had also changed out of their costumes into their regular cloths. But they couldn't help but wonder who was the person who still hadn't revealed himself out of his.
"It could be either of us if you go down that path." Blossom pointed out. "After all, all three of us were not together the whole night!"
"Which is why all three of us are suspects!" Buttercup argued.
"But according to Bubbles and the Professor, I can't be Bubbles." Blossom said. "Plus, the killer obviously doesn't have the same powers we do."
"He could just be faking it!" Buttercup added as she dodged one of the nurses passing by. "Besides, it could be other villains."
Blossom thought about this. Who could possible go to these violent means to destroy them? "It could be HIM. He would certainly have the power to make such an evil being that Bubbles described."
"But then it would have more powers then some evil smile and not use actual weapons." Buttercup said. "HIM likes his creations to be big and bold. What about Mojo-Jojo?"
Blossom shook her head. "Naw, murders of this caliber is not his style. Although he certainly would have the technology and brains to make weapons sharp and strong enough to cut through our Powerpuff strength."
The girls stopped arguing for the first time on the past hour. A few calls went over the PA system, calling for the doctors for the Professor's knee surgery.
Blossom sighed. "I hope the Professor will be okay." She confessed. "That jerk sure damaged his knee really bad."
Buttercup frowned in anger. "When we catch that guy, I'm gonna knock him into the next Halloween!"
Blossom chucked at Buttercup's hostility, even in such a sad situation like this. "Come on, let's go check on Bubbles."
"Yeah. I hope she's doing okay." Buttercup said, calming down.
Bubbles sat on her hospital bed all by herself. A nurse had given her some crayons and paper to draw on until the Professor came out of surgery, but she didn't really feel like doing anything.
Sighing in unhappiness, Bubbles floated over to the window. She looked at the dark sky with clouds rolling in. It was past midnight by now. Most of the normal people who actually had the fun of trick-or-treating had gone to bed. They probably had tons of candy just waiting for their mouths for tomorrow morning ... if there was any left, that is.
As Bubbles sat their in silence, she heard something skitter past the door way. She turned around, expecting to see that nurse again, but there was nobody there. Confused, Bubbles looked out the window again while waiting for someone to come in and see how she was doing.
Then, she heard it again. Someone or something walking up to the door way of her room. Bubbles started to sweat as she turned around, not expecting to see anybody. Peeking over her shoulder, out of the corner of her eye Bubbles saw something shadowed in the door way. She could have sworn it was a large round object, but it darted away before she could turn her head around.
"Buttercup? Is that you?" Bubbles asked in a nervous voice. Silence was the answer, seeing as how no real answer came. "Blossom, are you there?"
Turning completely around, Bubbles started to float closer to the doorway, afraid at what she might see. At the moment, the see that she saw was nowhere to be seen, as she saw it. The only thing that could be heard was the regular beeping and distance voices of a hospital. But now, as she listened more closely, there was something else.
"H .. hello ...." Bubbles stuttered as she was almost at the doorway. "Who's there ....?"
As soon as she said that, she could head the sound of somebody running down the hallway very quickly. The sound made her jump back in surprise. But when she listened again, she realized that the sound was actually getting quieter, that of which someone made when they are running away.
Realizing that the killer was fleeing from Bubbles instead of running towards her to kill her and do other mean things, she gathered up her courage and flew out of the room. She looked down the hall and saw nothing. The entire stretch of the area was empty. No person could possibly run that fast. Unless, that person was ...
Her eyes wide with fear, Bubbles realized something. Turning around, she looked just in time to see the shadow run around to the other side of the hall. Once again, she forgot to look both ways at a doorway. Bubbles breathed a sigh of relief, but then became tensed again. Somebody was running around free in the hospital, and was avoiding an angry Powerpuff girl.
Before Bubbles could decide if she should follow the stranger of not, a hand grabbed on to her shoulder and spun her around. Surprised at the sudden violent move, Bubbles screamed.
"Sheash Bubbles!" Buttercup hollered, holding her ears. "Do you mind, it's just me!!" Bubbles instantly shut up and covered her mouth in complete embarrassment. Blushing, she asked where Blossom was. Surprised herself, Buttercup looked behind her. "Well, she was behind me only a minute ago?"
Just as she was saying that, Blossom whipped around the corner. "What in the world was that loud scream!?" She asked, annoyed.
Two nurses followed Blossom, wondering what the ruckus was all about. Still embarrassed over what just happened, Bubbles almost forget what she was screaming about.
"What took you so long, Blossom?" Buttercup asked Blossom angrily as Bubbles tried to get a hold of herself.
Blossom crossed her arms. "Well, if you would pay attention, you would know I was taking a different way, as I told you!!"
Buttercup rolled her eyes. One of the nurses went up to Bubbles and asked what happened again.
Finaly calmed over what just happened, Bubbles explained. "I was all alone in my room when I heard something. There was someone ... or something watching me, but when I turned around to see what it was, it ran off. Then Buttercup came up to me and scared me."
Taking a deep breath, Bubbles confessed her fears. "I think the killer's in this hospital."
The nurses gasped, Buttercup raised her eyebrow, and Blossom doubted. "Are you sure Bubbles?" She asked. "We still have yet to have some solid proof of this things existence."
"What!" Bubbles shouted. "Do you still doubt me?"
"Well Bubbles, where is this thing?" Blossom questioned. "You said it was here."
"It ran down that corner!" Bubbles pointed in the direction.
Blossom nodded. "Come on Buttercup, lets go look for this thing Bubbles saw."
Buttercup glared at Blossom. "Let me guess, you want us to split up, don't you?"
Blossom glared back. "It's the best way to find this supposed killer!"
Still frowning, Buttercup agreed, and the two of them flew off in the direction Bubbles had pointed. Each one took a different path, each one wondering what was going to happen now.
Bubbles sat their with the nurses. One of them told her that she should get back to bed and rest until this was all over. After all, she had received a painful injury.
"I'm sorry." Bubbles said. "But I don't want to be alone. Not with a killer on the loose after me."
The second nurse started to talk, but Bubbles interrupted. "And I know I'm a Powerpuff, but I'm also a girl." She said in a timid voice.
Looking at each other, one of the nurses agreed to stay with Bubbles until her sisters came back. The other nurse decided to get back to her work, and come back in a few minutes to change places. As she walked back to her station, she unknowingly passed a dark figure hidden in the shadows. And this figure had a plan that it was not going to fail.
Blossom flew through the whole half of the hospital without finding a thing. There was no shadow, no killer, and no evil pumpkin wearing freak. Fed up, Blossom decided to see how Buttercup was doing.
"That Buttercup." Blossom complained. "She thinks I'm the killer, I just know it. She just doesn't want to admit it."
Meanwhile, Buttercup was thinking the same thing. "I betcha that know it all Blossom thinks I'm that freak. How dare she think that I would hurt the ones I love!"
Suddenly, something happened. Both of them noticed some thing in the distance. Squinting, Blossom saw someone peeking around the corner.
"Who is that?" Blossom asked herself. "It sure looks like a Powerpuff girl."
Buttercup saw something out of the corner of her eye. "What the .... there's someone who looks like a Powerpuff Girl at the corner ...."
Both of them realized something. They had found their target! Taking a deep breath, both of them charged. They were ready for action, they were ready for pain! And they got it.
"Well, fancy meeting you here Blossom." Buttercup moaned.
"Somehow, I'm not surprised." Blossom said, rubbing her head.
The two Powerpuff Girls had seen each other, and had rushed into each other as well. Now they were sprawled out on the floor with a major headache each.
Eventually, Blossom broke the silence. "Did you find anything?" She asked.
Buttercup scoffed at her. "I didn't find a dang thing! I'm started to wonder if Bubbles even saw anything."
Blossom nodded. "Let's head back. I bet Bubbles is worried."
Just as the two of them where getting, Buttercup suddenly shouted out, "Wait! I just saw someone run past the end of the hall!"
Blossom spun around to see nobody. "Are you sure?"
"Positive!" Buttercup called as she started taking off. "And whatever it was, it had a large head!"
"Wait for me!" Blossom shouted as she took off after her sister.
Both of them flew to the end of the hall and, unlike their sister, looked both ways, (and they weren't even crossing the street!). They saw nothing at all. Maybe Buttercup is seeing things too, Blossom wondered.
"Look! I see it again!" Buttercup whispered. Giving a quick point with her hand in the direction she was looking at.
Blossom squinted in the area Buttercup was pointing at, but still didn't see anything. Nothing but a bunch of dark shadows, with nothing inside of them.
"Buttercup? Where?" Blossom asked again.
Buttercup leaned closer and held her arm out pointing. "Right ...... THERE!!"
Blossom cried in surprise as she was suddenly smacked in her head, hard. All with the intention of causing harm.
"Did you hear that?" Bubbles cried in surprised.
"Did I hear what?" The nurse quietly asked in her sweet voice.
Bubbles cowered a bit as she sat on the top of her hospitable bed. "That sound I just heard."
The nurse shook her head. "No, I didn't hear a single thing that I would worry about!"
Bubbles relaxed a bit. But she looked all around the room, out the window, and especially at the doorway.
"Could I go look out the door, just to be safe?" Bubbles asked.
The nurse smiled. "If it makes you feel any better, then I guess you can go and take a peek."
Floating out of the bed, Bubbles slowly creeped towards the doorway. She was expecting that guy with the orange dress and pumpkin on his head to come screaming at her. That was impossible, of course, seeing as how the killer had never even made a single sound. It was a silent killer, a soundless force that seemed to be stalking her and all around her.
By the time Bubbles reached the door, her pulse was pulsating like mad. The nurse could see beads of sweat dripping off Bubbles's face and down her neck. To make sure she got the full view, Bubbles pushed the wooden door open the entire way. She took a deep breath, and prepared to take a peek.
But she just couldn't bring herself to do it. Sure, she knew that she was a super hero, but there's always that uncertain fear of the unexpected. Realizing that the only way for her to get this over with, is to get it over with and just look!
Bubbles gasped as the killer jumped at her, at least, that's what she expected to happen. In reality, the entire hall was clear. Even both ways. There wasn't a soul or soulless person in the halls. It looked like she was only hearing things again.
Sad that she was only embarrassing herself, Bubbles glided back to the bed, head hung low. "I guess I'm just a scaredy baby!"
The nurse put her arm on Bubbles's shoulder. "Now, don't say things like that. You've been though allot. But you must never forget who you are."
"A Powerpuff girl?" Bubbles asked.
"That ...." the nurse agreed, "and you mustn't forget that you have feelings, just like everyone else. It's normal to be scared of things."
Bubbles sighed a sigh of relief. After a few moments of that silence, Bubbles asked, "Isn't the other nurse supposed to be back to change places with you by now?"
The nurse looked at her watch. "Hmmm .... I guess she is running late." She turned to Bubbles. "Will you be okay if I leave to remind her that she's supposed to be waiting with you? It will only take a minute."
Bubbles nodded. "I guess so. Maybe there isn't anyone here after all."
The nurse smiled and walked off. As soon as she left, Bubbles went to the doorway and looked both ways, just to make sure there wasn't anybody there. Feeling relieved, she sat down on her bad and started coloring. It was the only thing that she could do to get her mind off of everything that has happened.
"Some Halloween this is!" She complained. "Nothing went right. I just hope Blossom and Buttercup are all right."
Blossom was sprawled out on the ground. Her headache was back, after she just got over crashing into Buttercup. Now she had just been hit brutally and now had a ringing filling her cranium.
Blossom looked up in shock and anger. She couldn't believe what had just happened. She was never expecting that to happen from that person. She turned her view to her sister and glared at her.
"I think someone here needs to learn a lesson or two!" She grumbled out loud.
Buttercup looked at her and chuckled. "Well, when you're right you're right Blossom!" She said. Then she looked over Blossom's shoulder.
Blossom turned around and frowned angrily at the person who hit her on the head. "Before we beat you down, would you like to tell us what the heck you think you're doing here, Mojo!?!"
Sure enough, hiding in the shadows with a great big stick he used to hit Blossom was Mojo-Jojo himself. See that his cover had been blown, the evil monkey (or chimp, as he really is) stepped out of the shadows.
"Yes, yes, it is I, the evil Mojo-Jojo!" He hollered. "And I bet you're wondering why I'm here?"
Blossom and Buttercup groaned in disgust. "I believe we just asked you the same question!"
Mojo thought about this, scratching his enormous brain under his giant dome helmet. "Oh, well, I suppose you did ...."
Suddenly, Mojo was picked up from off the ground forcefully. He dropped his stick as Buttercup threatened to beat him senselessly. "Just what the heck do you think you're doing? Have you been following us this whole night? Are you the one Bubbles saw in the door?" She demanded.
"Yeah, and are you behind this pumpkin headed killer?" Blossom asked. "Why did you kill Mitch, Mary, Susie, and try to kill the Professor and Bubbles?"
"And why are you following us anyway?" Added Buttercup.
Mojo tugged on his collar that Buttercup was yanking on to get a breath to answer the questions. "I've been following you. Yes. Yes. No. I didn't. And I need answers!"
Buttercup's grip loosened as she and Blossom tried to make out what the mad monkey had said. Eventually, Blossom deciphered the answer.
"So, you're not behind these killings and stalking, but still have been following us all night?"
"That is correct." Mojo answered, starting to get tired of being held up in the air.
"All night, well, why? I bet you're the one who's been creeping around in the bushes and shadows all night, haven't you?" Buttercup demanded, trying not to punch Mojo in the face, as of yet.
"Yes, as I have said already!" Mojo hollered, seeing Buttercup wind up her fist. "It is correct to say I have been following you, because I need to watch you. And to watch you to get the answers I need, I must be in the place that you are in. Because you kept moving around, I had to follow you!"
"Oh brother!" Buttercup moaned, placing Mojo back onto the floor.
"But you still haven't told us why you're following us." Blossom said. "What is it you want to know now?"
Mojo crossed his arms angrily. "I want to find out which one of you three took my newest invention!"
"Mojo, I'm sure it wasn't us!" Blossom said. "You probably lost it again, like you've done before."
As Buttercup laughed at this, Mojo became mad. "No no no! This time I know for sure that it was stolen!"
"And why is that?" Buttercup asked.
"Because I saw one of you three girls walk into my laboratory and take them!" He hollered. "But I'm not sure which one of you took it, because you were wearing a big stupid pumpkin on your head!!"
At this comment, both the girls stopped laughing to listen. It couldn't be! "You mean that you saw the real killer that Bubbles and the Professor saw!!" Buttercup gasped.
"You're joking!" Blossom said.
"Oh for the last time no!" Mojo cried, covering his face in disbelief. "One of you three with a pumpkin on your head busted into my house last night, took my newest weapons, and left just as I came out to see one of you take them! Now I have to start all over on my brilliant scheme! I don't know where I'm going to find the rare metal I need to build more -"
"Powerpuff injuring weapons." Blossom finished. "An axe and a knife."
Mojo's jaw dropped in utter amazement. Someone knew his scheme? Now THIS was something that certainly couldn't be!! "How in the world did you know that!?!" He cried in anger.
"That's what the killer is using against us." Buttercup said. "He used the axe to cut Bubbles real bad."
Mojo thought about this. "Hot dog!" He said, suddenly perking up. "My Powerpuff tuff weapons actually work!"
"You're stupid weapons are what a killer is trying to use to knock us off!!" Buttercup screamed at Mojo who backed up at the sudden loud noise.
"Luckily, we have the knife he left behind. So that axe is the only weapon he has left." Blossom said.
"Actually, there are three weapons." Mojo confessed as business like. "There's the axe, the knife, and a -"
Before Mojo could finish as to what his new weapons were, a scream came out from the other end of the hospital. Its high pitchedness echoed through the whole building. Some of the people working looked up from their work and wondered what was going on. But a few people knew what it was.
"Bubbles!!" Blossom and Buttercup shouted at the sound of their sister in peril.
"What is you sister crying about so loudly?" Mojo complained, holding his ears.
Before anyone could thing about deciding what to do, Bubbles flew past the three in a flash. The breeze knocked them over as a terrified Powerpuff zipped past.
"Bubbles wait!" Buttercup called in vain.
"Buttercup, see what Bubbles is running from." Blossom ordered. "I'll hold on to Mojo and try to catch Bubbles herself before she gets too far."
"Oh no!" Buttercup said, picking Mojo up by his cape. "I'm not letting this monkey out of my sight!!"
Blossom thought of arguing, but realized it didn't matter anyway. "Agreed. Just make sure nothing bad happens!"
Buttercup chuckled. "Don't worry, I'll try not to look for some!" And then off they all went on their missions, not knowing what to expect.
"Not so fast Powerpuff!" Mojo cried as Buttercup zipped through the hospital.
"What's the matter Mr. Mojo?" Buttercup laughed. "Are you afraid?"
Mojo turned himself to dodge a hospital cart. "Only when being carried by someone who's not looking where they are going!!"
Buttercup looked up just in time to stop in front of Bubbles's room. She dropped Mojo who crashed into the wall. Laughing over that, Buttercup looked up to see the second nurse standing in the door way. She had just come in to replace the first nurse who was watching Bubbles.
"Sorry I took so long." Buttercup said. "I kinda got lost and was carrying this harry ape."
The nurse didn't say anything, just fell over dead.
On seeing that, Buttercup gasped in shock to see the pumpkin killer inside Bubbles's room. It was standing behind the nurse. Its axe was buried into the nurses back with blood quickly pouring out of the wound. It was now apparent what had scarred Bubbles away.
Buttercup was shocked upon seeing the killer with the pumpkin on its head. It looked just as nasty as Bubbles described it. It had on an orange dress that fit the occasion, although the season was officially over. But the pumpkin had the evil jagged cuttings of the Powerpuff face that was described. As strange as it might sound, Buttercup looked a bit scarred.
Mojo, on the other hand, was upset.
"Hey, that's my axe!" He gruffed. "I hope you're taking good care of it!"
The villain pumpkin Powerpuff looked at Mojo with its evil stare. It tilted its head like a curious little puppy would at the silly monkey.
But this was no puppy.
In one swift move, the killer pulled out the axe and swung it at Mojo. The blood of the nurse was streaming off the blade as the axe hit dead on Mojo's helmet. Luckily for him, the killer hit him with the large, flat area of the axe, and not the blade. Never-the-less, it still hit Mojo with such a force that it echoed throughout his turban.
"Ohhh ....!" Mojo said, holding his vibrating head. "That's going to smart in the morning! I'm just going to lye down now."
As Mojo collapsed to take a little nap, the killer turned its gaze to Buttercup.
Buttercup snickered. "Let me guess, you think you're gonna kill me with that axe, huh?"
The killer nodded, holding the axe in its rounded hand.
"And how are you going to kill a Powerpuff Girl?" Buttercup asked.
The killer scratched its head, then shrugged. Buttercup grabbed her arm instinctively.
"What the ...?" She said, looking at her left. On the side was now a gash which was bleeding. She cringed at the sight, but mostly the stinging pain shooting through her arm. Then she looked at the killer who had just finished swinging the axe at her.
"But ... how ..... you, huh?" Buttercup wondered. How in the world was someone that fast?
Before she could ask, the killer swung at her again. Buttercup easily dodged it, although she wondered where the killer had gotten the speed so fast and so suddenly. Figuring that she had just let her guard down, Buttercup flew off to warn her sisters. Or maybe, it was because she was afraid perhaps?
Buttercup flew through the Hospital until she crashed into a group of doctors coming out of a room. Buried under a bunch of confused doctors, Buttercup struggled to get up before the killer could return.
"Buttercup!" A voice called out. Surprised, Buttercup looked up to see a Powerpuff hand helping her up.
"What's going on here?" One of the four doctors demanded.
"Bubbles!" Buttercup cried when she saw who it was. "It's the killer! He's here and he's killed a nurse and now he's after me!"
"I know." Bubbles said almost in tears. Then she noticed Buttercup's arm and gasped. "What happened to your arm?"
Buttercup looked at her arm which was still bleeding, making stains wherever she hovered. "The killer slashed me with his axe. I can't believe how fast he is! It's almost inhuman!"
Bubbles nodded. One of the doctors started to look at Buttercup's arm as two of the others went to check out if what Buttercup said was to be true. Then Buttercup noticed something.
"Bubbles, where's Blossom?" She asked.
Bubbles looked surprised. "I thought she was with you!"
"No, she went off looking for you!"
Silence fell over the two until Bubbles cried a warning to the doctor helping Buttercup, as the killer swung the axe at him.
By now, the police had arrived at the scene. They would have been here sooner, but they had to answer a few calls about some missing children. They had been trying to call the Utonium residence for hours, but the line was said to no longer be in service. But what they saw when they came inside horrified them.
The doctor that was helping Buttercup was dead. His arm and head had been sliced clean off, although I don't see how such a horrific mess could be called "clean". The head was off the other doctor who stayed behind as well. Buttercup was nowhere to be seen. Bubbles on the other hand was lying on the ground in the huge pool of blood. "Bubbles!" The police chief cried. "Are you hurt?"
Bubbles shook her head. "I'm alive, although the killer doesn't think so. He tried to hit me with his axe, but missed. And when I fell into this .... this blood on the floor, he thought I was dead."
She started crying as the police and workers at the hospital gathered around, but continued telling what happened between sobs. "Then he jumped into the ventilation shaft when Buttercup tried to hit him. Buttercup followed after him."
One of the doctors tried to make sure Bubbles was all right, but she refused. "No!" She cried as she flew downstairs. "I have to find my sisters!"
Meanwhile, Buttercup was crashing down the ventilation shaft. When she finally landed at a turn off, she looked for the pumpkin headed killer. She looked down the rest of the metallic gray shaft as far as she could see, but saw nobody.
Eventually, she made it out through a hole in the ventilation shaft that was cut with an extremely sharp object. When she jumped out of the hole, she noticed she was in the furnace room. She could hear someone running around. She got ready to fight, but noticed it was just the janitor wondering what all the noise was.
Then Buttercup saw something interesting- the killer's axe. "Ha ha!" She laughed. "Looks like somebody forgot their weapon!"
She dropped the axe behind her. The janitor approached her, but she flew past, searching.
"Come out come out where every you are ..." Buttercup called in a mocking way. "Alle alle ox are free!"
"That's not how it goes!" A voice said.
Buttercup jumped at the sound of a voice. She looked around to see where it was coming from.
"Looking for me?" The figure said, coming from the shadows.
"Blossom!" Buttercup gasped. "What are you doing down here?"
Blossom looked at Buttercup emotionlessly. "I followed Bubbles down here, but lost her. Where were you?"
"You darn know well where I was!" Buttercup shouted, the janitor peaking from behind a large metal pipe. "Admit it! You're the killer!!"
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Blossom said coldly.
"Fine, then I'll SHOW you what I'm talking about!" Buttercup shouted, then tackled Blossom.
The two of them rolled several hundred feet before stopping after going through a few walls. By now they were on the opposite side of the hospital building, yet still in the basement. Blossom kicked Buttercup off of her. By now, they were the only ones around. In other words, no witnesses.
"Are you crazy!!" Blossom shouted. "You actually think that I am the killer!!"
Buttercup looked around, scratching her chin and feeling embarrassed about her quick accusation. "Well ...."
"If anyone should be the killer, it should be you!" Blossom surprisingly shouted.
Buttercup blinked in surprise. "What?"
"Don't play with me!" Blossom shouted. "You've been a pain in the butt this whole night! I don't see any reason why to make you a suspect as much as me, maybe even more!"
Buttercup opened her mouth to argue, but she couldn't. She had an axe lodged in her back. As Blossom watched in horror, Buttercup fell over, blood dripping from her mouth. And there, standing behind her with an axe, was none other then the killer!
Blossom gagged at the sight of her bloodshead sister and a deadly weapon occupying the same space. The killer looked at Blossom with its evil grin and pushed the lifeless Buttercup away.
Gathering up all her strength, Blossom confronted the killer. "So, you're the killer pumpkin headed maniac that's been killing my friends and family off!"
The killer raised its arms in joyful proclamation, nodding yes.
Blossom got into her battle position. "Well, I'm not going down without a fight!!"
The killer rubbed its hands together with glee and pulled out its axe. Just as Blossom and the killer were about to do battle, a voice was heard in the background.
"Blossom!" The voice cried. "Blossom, are you down here? Buttercup?"
"Bubbles!?!" Blossom gasped. She looked at the killer, she looked at Buttercup, then she looked at Bubbles's voice coming from the holes in the walls.
This sure has been a typical Halloween night!
The killer turned its head in the same position of the sound. This gave Blossom the opportunity to kick the killer's axe away.
Looking at its hand, the killer realized it no longer had a weapon. After looking at Blossom, the killer ran around the corner after Bubbles instead. After all, she wasn't in a battle mood. Or maybe it was just running away from someone who was.
"Oh no you don't!!" Blossom shouted, and ran around the corner. But the killer wasn't there.
"Blossom? Buttercup?" Bubbles said again.
"Bubbles! I'm coming!" Blossom called as she flew through the wreaked rooms. "Look out, the killer is down here!"
"Blossom? Blossom I'm over here!"
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her blue sister running around the furnace room franticly. She landed next to her.
"Bubbles, thank goodness you're all right!" She said.
"Where's Buttercup?" Bubbles cried. "Where is she?"
Blossom hung her head. "I'm afraid she didn't make it Bubbles."
Bubbles gasped in shock. Then she started to cry. "Noooo! What did we do to deserve this?"
Bubbles buried her head in Blossom's shoulder and cried away. Blossom patted her sister's shoulder.
"Don't worry, I got rid of the killer's weapon." Blossom said. "So that will give us some time."
Suddenly, she saw something in the corner of her eye. It was moving fast, so Blossom moved faster. Being the loving and protective sister she was, Blossom immediately pushed Bubbles out of harms way. So Bubbles was safe, but Blossom wasn't.
Blossom gasped, but it was quickly turned into a loud scream of pain. Her stomach lurched in pain as it was torn apart. Her back screamed with agony as it became penetrated. A long, metal, javelin type pole had been forcefully shoved straight through her midsection, violently tearing through flesh and muscle. It was the third weapon Mojo had made.
Bubbles looked in horror to see Blossom with a metalic object going in and out of her, blood smeared on the end that had gone through. More blood was slowly coming from both sides of the wound as Blossom sat their gasping at the pain.
The killer looked at Blossom with satisfaction when Bubbles ran up to her sister.
"Noooooo!" She cried.
Bubbles placed her hands on Blossom who cringed in pain as she fell to her knees. Furious, Bubbles turned to the killer that had been chasing her all night long. "You idiot!!" She screamed. "I've had it with your killing!!!"
"B ... Bu ... Bubbles-" Blossom moaned. "Get out while you ... you still can!"
But Bubbles ignored her, and continued her screaming. "Why did you do this? Why? I was supposed to talk to her first!"
Blossom gasped as Bubbles pointed to her. Her broken heart now hurt more then her shishkabobed body.
The killer shock her head, and pulled off the pumpkin head, revealing Buttercup.
End of Part Four