It's been a while. Sorry. Please enjoy this chapter. As you can tell, I have nothing to say. Noi
Disclaimer: I own none of the original characters from the series just the ones you've never heard of unless you've read my story.
Chapter 8A Day of Forgiveness (part 1)
It had been days since the birthday party and there had not been any signs of the enemy attacking with their animasters. Serena's grades had slightly went up at the return of Darien and Aaron's three friends had somewhat opened up to Serena and the others.
Scott, on the other hand, still kept his distance and hung out from afar. Terry was the complete opposite and made sure to make everyone laugh even wanting to make a smile appear on Scott's face. Mitch sat in with the group but mostly ignored the conversations and instead read a book.
Queen Raina sat on her thrown and looked to the crystal ball spying on where Crimson had run off to. Her nails scrapped against the crystal ball making the same noise as if it were a chalkboard.
Pumpkin stirred from his restless sleep at the sound of her nails and looked up at her in a daze. Queen Raina ceased what she was doing and looked to Pumpkin with her red eyes.
"It seems that Crimson has chosen to defy me and not take me up on my offer and kill those bothersome fools," she said. "Is this the correct path of what you see or is it different?"
Pumpkin looked away and smirked, "It seems you aren't able to see what I see anymore. These past couple of days I was able to find a way to keep you out of my head."
The queen's eyes widened as she realized that fact. They narrowed as she smiled and snapped her fingers. The chains binding Pumpkin to the wall tightened around his neck. The queen laughed slightly while Pumpkin gasped for the air he wasn't getting. The queen snapped her fingers again causing the chains around Pumpkin's neck to loosen back to their original state.
Pumpkin coughed and took in huge gasps of air. His breathing slowed after five minutes as he looked back up at Queen Raina. "What is your true purpose? Why have you caused us so much suffering? Why did you force us to take orders from you?"
"Only you know, Pumpkin," the queen said as she vanished from her thrown.
A pair of blue eyes glowed through the darkness as they stared straight at Pumpkin. Azure leaned against the queen's thrown and slid to the ground out of his own accord.
"Why? Why? Why?" Azure said as Pumpkin looked in the direction his voice was coming from.
"Azure, what is it?" Pumpkin asked catching sight of Azure's glowing blue eyes.
Azure closed his eyes disappearing from Pumpkin's sight. They opened right beside Pumpkin. His head went side by side as he observed Pumpkin.
"Why is it that the queen knows who you are and not I?" Azure asked as he leaned against the wall Pumpkin was chained to. "Why is it that you know my name though I've never seen you in my life to give it to you?"
Pumpkin closed his eyes to a vision that had Azure by Queen Raina's side as fire surrounded the two. A good look at Azure said that he had been in a fight and was struggling just to stand at Queen Raina's side. Azure's eyes widened as Pumpkin forced his eyes open to cease the vision.
Pumpkin looked to Azure and said, "The reason I know your name is because I heard the queen call you a couple of days ago."
"Really? You know the first and last thing I can even remember is the queen. She's been there for me since the beginning," Azure said. "Why are you chained up anyway?"
"The queen finds it a threat to keep me free for what I might tell the others," Pumpkin said.
Crimson walked through the crowded sidewalk and entered the very pet store where he had met Terry. He walked through the aisles and looked at all the animals inside their cages. He hoped to at least see Terry one more time.
He walked up to the snakes and stared at all of the different kinds there were. He placed his hand on the glass causing one of the snakes to disappear. Crimson looked around and smiled at a little girl that was staring at him with her thumb in her mouth.
He looked away and walked out of the door of the pet store without a word said. He looked to the side of the door and picked up the very snake that he had caused to disappear inside the store. He walked off and disappeared.
Serena ran out of the school with a smile on her face as she saw Darien standing there waiting for her. He gave her a smile as a second figure just let out a sigh. Serena looked to the second figure after she gave Darien a hug and a kiss and let out a frown.
"What are you doing here, Scott?" Serena said as she clung on the Darien's arm.
Scott looked to the side and said, "I can be wherever I want to be, creampuff head."
"You're just stalking me you big pervert!" Serena yelled. "Good thing Darien's here to protect me."
She stuck out her tongue and forced Darien to follow her as she led the way off the school grounds. Scott followed the couple only to get on Serena's nerves even more. She looked back at him and yelled, "Stop following us!"
Scott froze in his tracks and said, "I thought I could hang out with you two considering everyone I know is busy."
Darien looked back and asked, "Where's Terry?"
"He had things he had to deal with. I really don't pry into other people's lives," Scott said in a bored sort of tone. He turned around and began walking a different direction then the couple.
Darien looked to Serena and whispered, "We should let him come with us. It's not like we're doing much today."
"But it's Friday and we were going to the carnival," Serena whined not wanting Scott anywhere near her day with Darien. She looked to the side and gave out a sigh of defeat. "Scott, you can come with us!"
Scott looked back at them and walked over to them following them to the carnival they were headed to.
The carnival was filling up with people of all ages. Serena, Darien, and Scott made it to the entrance. Darien pulled out his wallet and was about to pay for the three of them when Scott stepped forward and gave the person at the entrance the money.
"Uh, thanks," Darien said as he put his money away.
"Sure, it's the least I could do," Scott said as he walked over to the game booths.
Darien and Serena followed him and watched as he played a darts game. Scott made each dart destroy the balloons and was told to pick a prize. He looked to Serena and said, "Well, pick the prize, creampuff head."
Serena narrowed her eyes at him and picked a prize. She took the prize into her arms and then handed it to Scott to carry what he bothered to win. Scott looked to the side and followed Serena who led the two boys to the train ride.
Scott and Darien got on the ride looking at each other and hoping that no one they knew would see them on such a kiddy ride. The ride seemed to last an hour as the two boys watched as parents waved at their own children.
"How embarrassing," Scott said as Darien replied, "I know."
The ride soon ended and Scott jumped off of the train as soon as possible already being embarrassed enough. Darien got off the ride and waited for Serena to get off before he left the area. Serena led the two boys over to a roller costar and was about to get in line when Scott hesitated to get in the line.
"What are you doing? Get in line or else you'll miss the ride," Serena ordered.
"No, I'll just wait over here, creampuff head," Scott replied. As Darien and Serena both took a seat on the ride side by side, Scott sat on a bench and watched as the ride sped off. His whole body shook at the sound of the screaming and the screeching the roller costar made.
Mitch entered the Eishindo Books store and walked over to the science section of books freezing at the sight of Amy. After a minute he ignored the fact that he even knew her and took a book from the shelf right next to her.
Amy looked to the side and asked, "Mitch?"
Mitch stopped reading for a split second and then continued ignoring Amy. Amy gave him a poke on the shoulder causing him to withdraw from his reading and ask, "What do you want?"
"I was just wondering if it was you. You didn't have to ignore me you know," Amy argued. "What are you doing here anyway?"
"I'm looking for a book. What else is there I can do in a bookstore?" Mitch said with such a serious tone.
"I just thought you would be with your friends," Amy said. "I'm sorry to have bothered your reading."
Amy looked at the book she had in her hand and began reading where she left off. Mitch looked to Amy and replied, "I'm sorry. It takes me a while to trust people enough to strike up a conversation. To make up for my rudeness, I'll buy any book you would want out of this store."
Amy looked at him and asked, "Are you serious?"
Mitch nodded his head and watched as she led him over to a different genre of books. Instead of the science books, they were in the romance novels. Mitch looked to the side embarrassed at where he was out of all the different genres there were.
"Oh, look at this. This seems like it would be an interesting book to read," Amy said as she read what it said on the back.
Mitch blushed at the sight of the book and turned his back to her. She looked up at him and asked, "What is it?"
He turned back around and whispered, "Look at the name of the author of that book."
Amy looked at the name and then looked back at Mitch asking, "Did you really write this?"
"Yes, but that would have to be the only book that Scott disapproves of," Mitch sighed. "Though, I did get great reviews over it being my first book to get published."
"Why does Scott disapprove?" Amy asked.
"Scott hates anything that has to do with speed though he does get high scores on that racing game at the arcade. Have you noticed that he doesn't drive? He just walks from place to place," Mitch said.
Amy put her hand to her chin in thought as she asked, "Why does he hate speed?"
"I asked him that once," Mitch replied. "He said that every bad thing that had ever happened in his life, happened so fast he wasn't able to prevent it."
Scott still sat patiently on the bench as both Serena and Darien got on the roller costar for the third time. "Great, spending my time waiting for a lovey-dovey couple to get off of a stupid ride." He stood to his feet and walked over to the game booths.
He played the games winning prizes for each one of them. People who watched him play thought that it was rigged that he could win and not them. Scott asked one of the owners of the booths if he could by any chance get a bag for his prizes and luckily they gave him one.
He walked back over to where he had left Darien and Serena to find that they had indeed left and went to a different part of the carnival. He was about to pout until he heard a scream from the direction behind him. When he looked back, all he could see was some sort of a snake figure somewhat resembling a human staring straight into his eyes.
The snake figure wrapped her hand around the collar of his shirt and lifted him slowly into the air. The people around ran and screamed not wanting to see someone get harmed before their very eyes. Scott stayed as calm as he could not wanting to prove himself a weakling. He narrowed his eyes and…
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The end of another chapter and if this is considered a cliffhanger then I apologize that I may not get the next chapter out till a little while. I don't have the Internet! Then how did I get this online! Review!
Noi