Chapter IV

"The Good Times"

Some miles away from where Beelzebub had been standing, in the most loved part of Tadfield, in Lower Tadfield the 'Them' and Dog where laying with their backs on the grass, finding shapes in the clouds, if you think it's weird for the Them to do something so relaxing as finding shapes in the clouds, let me tell you how they got there.

Finally Adam's punishment was over, and to celebrate the Them went to the lake, Pepper's sister had given Pepper a cake wich she baked herself, so Pepper took the cake to the lake.

Against Wensley's warning, everyone, including him and Dog, ate the cake before diving.

But probably, what none of them realized was that Pepper's little sister doesn't even have 10 years old, it's not likely for a girl so young to bake a cake by herself, so as you must have guessed, the cake had, some mud to make the dough thicker, some mustard to make paler the brown of the mud, some ketchup and mayo, because mustard, ketchup and mayo always go together, besides the bizarre ingredients, she didn't even get near the oven, she just scuplted the shape of a cake with the raw dough and covered it with ready-to-go chocolate icing.

The stomach-ache was so strong, even for Dog's hellish stomach that none of them fell capable of doing anything but laying on the grass and find shapes in the clouds, standing up every now and then to throw up and wash their mouths in the lake.

"Look, that one lookes like a heart!" Everyone turned around and eyed Pepper with their most quizzed looks. It's not common of her to say something so girlish.

"What? It does!" She said, blushing slightly. "Anyway, over there, to the left... that one looks like a sword."

"Yeah, and look! To the right... that one looks like a pair of scales." Said Brian.

"Scales? How could a cloud be scale-shaped? Now you will probably say there's one that looks like a crown." Said Wensley.

"Em.. Wensley?... Look over there, where my finger is pointing... What do you see?"

"I eat my words... that cloud looks like a crown."

The Them started laughing so much that the stomach-ache wasn't for the cake anymore, it was of laughter.

Suddenly they all fell silent until Adam broke the silence.

"Do you think we will see any of those nice people again?"

"I hope so, the Angel.. whatwashisname? Oh yeah, something like Zira or Azi hmmm, maybe Azira? I think it was Azira." Said Brian,

"Brian.." Said Wensley.

"Yeah?"

"You didn't finish your thought."

"Oh, right... Where was I? Oh yeah... Azira, well, he looks like a kind person."

"That was all? You kept us waiting for that?" Pepper had turned, for the first time since they had their backs against the grass, to face Brian.

"Well, he seems to know about books, I wish I could talk to him" This was Wensley speaking.

"And that one with the black wings, he is good looking." Said Pepper.

"Pepper, he had black wings, he is a demon." Said Brian

"So? He didn't look evil, besides he didn't want for the world to end either."

"Pepper loves a demon!" Said Adam, standing up with a bolt.

While Brian, Wensleydale and Dog followed his example and started teasing Pepper, Dog was barking at the rythm of the teasing song.

Oh yes, the good times were back, for how long, I am afraid that if they knew what was going on their direction at that same moment, they would have behaved another way, because none of them knew what Beelzebub was capable of.