Chapter 7: The Chupacabra
"Hey!" David yelled from upstairs in his room. He was looking out his window, from which he could see the sheep pen perfectly. He could see a creature in the pen, sucking on a lamb. It was smaller than the lamb and had a grayish color to it.
"What?" Jordan yelled from her room. Everyone had pretty much stuck to their own room once they had gotten back. Millie had gotten home, but she had shut herself in the Altar Room.
"There it is!" He ran out in the hallway. "Sabrina!" She opened her door and walked out.
"What?" she asked.
"The sheep-sucking-thing is outside," he said excitedly. Sabrina smiled, but quickly put it away.
"Oh, really?" she asked, trying to cover up her enthusiasm. She followed David down the stairs and out the front door.
"Hit it!" he yelled to her.
"You want to kill it?" she asked.
"Do something, it's running away!" She took aim. They were still a little ways away from the pen. She took a shot, but missed.
"Come on," she said, grabbing David and orbing. They orbed to the other side of the pen. They saw the thing bolt past them. It was a grayish color and looked like a mix between a toad and a dog. It was about knee-high and had fangs. Sabrina took another shot with her power, but missed again. "He's too fast!" Before they knew it, the thing had bolted out of sight.
"Well, we know what it looks like now. I'm gonna go look in the Book of Shadows." Sabrina followed him into the house and to the Altar Room. Millie was inside, mixing a potion. She always did that when she was upset. Instead of crying or yelling, she'd work and keep herself busy.
"Mom?" David asked, walking over to her. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," she said, putting everything away. "What brings you two in here?"
"There's something outside that we saw," David said. He explained what had happened to the two sheep they had found, and he described the creature.
"You're not going to find that in the Book of Shadows," Millie said. She walked over to a bookcase and searched for a book. "Ah, here it is." She picked up a paperback book and handed it to David. "I think you'll be more successful with this."
"Urban Legends," he read. "How does this help us?"
"Just look through it," Millie said. "The creature you seek is in there." She then left her room to find a more private place to lament.
"Why didn't she just tell us?" Sabrina asked.
"That's not her style," David said, looking through the book. "Hey, I think I found it."
"What?" Sabrina asked, leaning in closer to look at it.
"Chupacabra," David read aloud. "A.K.A. goatsucker." It showed a picture of a drawing that looked somewhat like what they saw outside.
"Says that they've been spotted near Mexico and father south, never up in New York."
"Well, looks like one wandered up here," David said. "It's a wonder how no one saw it."
"What do we do about it?" Sabrina asked.
"Catch it," David said. "We can sell it to museums or something."
"No," Sabrina firmly stated. "People don't need to know anything more about the paranormal than they already do. We can catch it, and I'll orb it to Mexico."
"Alright," David said. "How do we catch it?"
"Freezing spell," Sabrina said, standing up and walking to the Book of Shadows.
"What's that?" David asked.
"A spell to freeze someone or something," Sabrina said. "Here it is." She quickly jotted it down, and they both went back to the pen. "After we freeze it, I'll orb it to Mexico, pick up a chimichanga, and meet you back here."
"How do we find it?" David asked.
"Hold the map," she said, handing him a map. She took out a crystal and dunked it into the blood of the lamb. "His saliva's in there. We'll be able to find him with it." She took the crystal and started to circle the map. It landed in the forest outside the farm. She took David's hand and orbed him there. They looked around the trees, trying to find the animal.
"Do you see it?" David asked.
"Shh, David," Sabrina whispered. "You'll scare it away."
"There it goes!" David yelled. He saw a black blur run by, and he started to chase it.
"David, wait!" Sabrina yelled, running after him.
"I see it!" he said.
"We need to be closer to say the spell."
"Orb up there," David said. She orbed a few yards ahead of the chupacabra and read the spell.
To stop this force with my rhyme,
Freeze this foe in the rifts of time
Nothing happened to the chupacabra. It did, however, stop running and sat and stared at Sabrina. "Why didn't that work? That should've worked. Why?"
"Don't ask me," David said.
"It should have," Sabrina said. David cautiously walked around the chupacabra and over to Sabrina. It didn't move at all; just stared at them.
"Um…Sabrina," David said, slightly scared. She looked to where he was pointing and saw a chupacabra lying on the ground. Blood stained the ground next to it. The one sitting in front of them slowly started to change into the form of a human.
"Annie!" Sabrina yelled.
"What, weren't you expecting me?" She held an athame in her hand, which was what she used to kill the defenseless animal. She licked the blood off of it.
"Ew," David said. "What's wrong with you?"
"I've been waiting for you two."
"Why did you kill it?" Sabrina asked. "It didn't need to die."
"Because I wanted to lure you two out here," Annie said.
"Orb us out of here," David whispered quietly, but just so loud so that Annie could hear.
"No, wait," Annie said. "I want to talk."
"You had your chance for talking," Sabrina said, orbing David out. "Goodbye."