Beastfire: Well, here's chapter 7…enjoy!

Back with Ivy and Frus in the library, Frus was looking over Ivy's shoulder at what was on the page.

"What do you mean 'you got something'? I still can't read that!" he said.

"Well," Ivy replied, "the reason could be that it's in Italian. I can read it because it was my first language. Translated, this says…if you've been sucked into the ghost realm by a portal, you're as good as stuck there."

"WHAT?" yelled Frus in disbelief.

"I'm just messin' with ya. There's actually nothin' in here about portals, but there IS a lot about vanquishing demons."

She looked at the book in further detail and nearly dropped the book in shock.

"What's wrong?" asked Frus, putting an arm around her.

"All of the info in this book came from the mind of my great great grandma Maria Sangretti!"

"But I thought you hated that family."

"She was a mutant, like me, and also went against the ways of the mafia. But she was also a demon hunter, and the last demon she killed, killed her at the same time…113 years ago."

"Whoa. That's pretty cool, though. How was she at hunting demons?"

"She was the best one in all of Italy."

"Cool!"

"Maybe I should keep this one…"

"Go right ahead," said a voice behind them.

Both turned around to see a young woman, likely in her twenties, that stood at about 5 foot 2. She had black and brown streaked hair pulled back into some sort of up-do, bangs covering her left eye, and big blue eyes. She wore a dress typical of the late 19th century and, quite frankly, looked almost exactly like Ivy did when she was human.

"Are you my great great grandma?" Ivy asked.

"Well, yes, I am," Maria replied. "You're still alive, aren't you?"

"Yeah."

"How does she know?" asked Frus.

"She's a telepath."

"Oh."

"Here," said Maria, giving them another book. "Take this book, as well. It contains everything one would wish to know concerning magic and ghosts. It was created by Bon Stoppable. She was a mutant as well and studied this sort of thing."

"You sure?" asked Frus.

"Of course," came another voice.

This new voice came from another young woman, but with blonde hair pulled back into a bun, brown eyes, freckles, and had a mid 19th century dress on. Her name was Bon Stoppable and she was Ivy's great great great grandmother.

"I can tell you need it," said Bon.

"Can you read minds too?" asked Frus.

"No. I can just hear extremely well. In fact, super hearing is my mutant power."

"Well, thank you," said Frus.

"Yeah," Ivy added. "I think it'll really help a lot."

With that, Maria and Bon both left the room and went their separate ways. Just as Ivy and Frus were about to look through the second book, a loud rattling sound was heard. Ivy cringed as she thought of what it could be, and Frus knew exactly what it was. He grabbed onto Ivy and tried to hide her behind a bookcase.

"Dude, what are ya doin'?" she asked.

"Trust me, Ivy, this is for your own safety!"

After much pushing, prodding, and pleading, the mongoose succeeded. As soon as he hid her, three really large rattlesnakes slithered their way in. One of them noticed Frus and glared at him.

"I remember you," he growled.

"Likewise," Frus returned suspiciously.

"Yeah, you're Vrust's brat! So you've finally been killed, huh? GOOD! It's the perfect payback for what your father did to me!"

"For your information, I'm not dead!"

"That makes this even better."

"Oh, really? And how's that?"

"You can't harm me, since I'm already dead…and if I kill you, I'll get my revenge!"

The snake in charge paused, getting a scent of something.

"What is it?" asked one of his inferiors.

"I smell…fear."

Frus knew exactly who this snake could smell. 'Wait,' Frus told himself. 'Ivy's well protected. They can't harm her.' Of course, this turned out to be very true, as the snake lost the scent. As it turns out, when Ivy found the snakes coming toward her, she fainted. This wasn't, though, before she sent a message explaining the problem to Vrust telepathically.

Meanwhile, Sprx was still running from Otto, so there's not much to tell about there, so let's move on.

In Shuggazoom, Saga caught up with Nova. When she saw him coming after her, she activated her fists.

"Wait, Nova!" said Saga. "I'm not here to hurt you!"

"Well, whaddya want?" asked the yellow monkey.

"I sensed a disturbance and-"

"That's more Antauri's kinda thing."

"Well, where IS Antauri?"

"Probably meditating as usual."

"But would you help with this problem?"

"I-I don't really know if I can."

Saga sighed in annoyance.

Vrust, back in the ghost realm, was looking for someone to explain what they found to him, his son, and his son's girlfriend…provided she was conscious. He suddenly received the message in his head, saying that his son needed some help. The Ethyal ran back to the library to provide some backup.

Ygrene, in the meantime, had found an area populated by hippies and decided to take a break there…well, at least SOMEONE'S enjoying themselves!

Beastfire: That's all I can think of! Please review and, Emec, write your next chapter soon!