Chapter 8: The Reunion
The reunion began.
All throughout the living room were people talking amongst themselves. All but one was happy to be here.
"Ugh… here we go." Jack grumbled as they entered the living room.
There were about 10 adults in total, not counting them, Alicia, or the two who live on the farm. And Jack has never had the slightest bit of a good relationship with any of them.
Maddie saw his expression and shot a warning glare.
"Will you give it a rest? Not everyone in my family hates you the same way Alicia does." She insists.
"No… just in their own unique ways." Jack grumbled.
Maddie would have snapped at that, but they were distracted by the sight of one woman.
One who was in her mid 50's, with dark brown hair and dressed in a rather nice purple dress. She also had a glass of an unknown blue drink in her hands.
"Jack… behave." Maddie ordered.
"Oh look, Maddie. It's your aunt who threw a champagne glass at me on our last visit. I know because I recognize her brand of moonshine." Jack said with a tone of sarcasm to fake being happy.
Maddie ribbed him as she walked over and got her aunt's attention with a pat on the shoulder.
"Aunt Virginia. Good to see you…" Maddie said as the two hugged.
Her aunt smiled and took her hand.
"Rumor has it you've divorced Jack. Congratulations…" She said happily.
Maddie adopted a nervous smile.
"Heheh… umm…"
She looked back and in came an unamused Jack, crossing his arms and scowling at her.
"Oh… you're still married." Aunt Virginia said in disappointment before taking a sip.
"Oh… and you're still drinking that stuff…" Jack responded with the same tone before looking away. "Look, Maddie! Other people to talk to!" He says quickly as he pushes her away from her aunt as they leave her.
Aunt Virginia only huffs.
"Just as rude as ever…" She says as she continues with her drink.
Meanwhile, with the kids
Danny and his sisters looked around at the crowd.
"Wow… so few people close to our age." Danny says.
"I don't recognize any of these people." Jazz says.
"Really?" Danielle asks.
"We don't really come along to reunions this much. Why do you think I believed you when you said you were my cousin when we met?" Danny asks.
"Fair enough… but we should at least mingle, right?" Danielle asks.
Both Danny and Jazz looked unsure, even more as someone approached them.
One of them was a fat guy in his early 20's who was wearing dirty overalls and had a scraggly goatee, along with a bald head. Alongside him is a man of skinnier build in a similar outfit, along with a head of messy red hair and no beard.
"Hi there! My name's Jospeh!" The skinny man shouted with a smile.
"My name is Elmer. I'm his brother...We's Virginia's kids." The fat guy said.
"It's...nice to meet you Elmer...and Joseph." Danny said to his cousin, who smiled with a mouth of somewhat dirty teeth. "Uh… you got something in your… teeth." Danny said uncomfortably.
"Sorry, forgot to floss." Elmer said.
"Since birth?" Jazz whispered to Danny, who nodded.
"And who's Virginia?" Danny asks.
"I think she's the one drinking that blue stuff." Jazz said as she looked back to her cousins.
"So… you'se really from the big city?" Joseph asked.
"We're from Amity Park..." Jazz answered, only to be met with laughs, which irritated her. "Something funny?"
"No wonder you three are dressed like that." Elmer said.
Danny and Jazz glared at the two while Danielle watched with one eyebrow raised.
"Is there a problem with us dressing like this?" She asks.
"It tells us you three ain't used to farm work and do any kind of work, which is why you'se are all pasty like that. I bet y'all spend yer time in a shoppin' mall, where they got them food courts, and spas, and food courts, and perfume samples, and food courts." Elmer said.
"You said food court like-" Danielle started but was cut off.
"You can guess where he likes to spend his time on whenever we needs to get something from the city." Joseph added.
"Not my fault they's the closest place that serves tacos." Elmer states with his arms crossed and looking annoyed.
That's when their mother appeared.
"Now now, boys… don't be picking on them. They may be Jack's kids, but they're still Maddie's." Virginia said.
That got Danny and Jazz angered, but Danielle was more perplexed than anything.
"What do you have against my dad?" She asks.
"What don't I?" Virginia said dismissively before taking a sip of her drink.
"Huh… is that some kind of soda? Can I have some?" Danielle asks, looking curious.
"Absolutely not!" Jazz went in and pulled her away, much to Danielle's surprise.
"So Jazz, is anyone courtin' you?" Virginia asked.
Jazz frowned.
"No, not at this time..." She said.
"Well, I know someone from my husband's side of the family..." Virginia said. "He's turning 18 and works out, he's a part-time mechanic, but also's gotten an inheritance of $5,000 from his folks..." She said.
Jazz frowned.
"No thanks..." She said, not liking being set up.
"What's the problem? That's good money." Virginia questioned.
"I happen to be studying to be a doctor and have a credible career." Jazz stated.
"Pfft… what could be more credible than marrying into money or a steady job like that?" Virginia asks.
Jazz crossed her arms before turning away.
"Let's go, guys. Go home, Aunt Virginia… you've had enough of that… stuff." She said before walking away, the two following her.
"Hmph… she's Jack Fenton's girl… allllll-right…" Virginia said, slurring at the end.
"She ain't wrong, Ma… you look like you should lay down." Elmer said.
With Sam and Tucker
Both of them were leaning on the wall, watching a reunion where they were the only ones with no blood relation to anyone.
"Suddenly, being dateless at a dance feels less awkward." Tucker admits.
Their stomachs rumbled and the two looked to the table. Sam was dismayed when she saw that there was only meat here.
"Wonderful… as if my time in Kentucky wasn't ruined enough..." Sam said, repulsed.
"Hey, this here's burgoo with squirrel, hamhocks and possum pie! Put meat on yer bones!" Alicia said to them.
Sam gasped in horror.
"You shot an innocent little possum?" She asked.
"I wish… Most of 'em moved up North. I had to go to town and buy 'em. They don't taste as good after being frozen for hours." Alicia said before taking a hamhock.
Sam was less than pleased while Tucker started to look sick now.
"I think I found the kind of meat that even I wouldn't eat..." He whispered to Sam, who shook her head dismissively.
"Don't you have anything for an ultra-recyclo vegetarian?" Sam said, only to be dismissed by mocking laughter. "Uh, what's so funny?"
"Silly city girl, you gots no respect for us country people..." Alicia said before taking a big bite out of the hamhock and walking away.
Sam gagged and turned her head away. Unfortunately, she was hungry and felt even less happy to be here. She then noticed some corn and sighed in relief.
"Finally, something I can eat..." She said as she grabbed and ate some. To her dismay, it was tough and burnt. "Ugh...this seems to be a little overcooked..." She complained after the taste.
"I think Danny said his aunt Alicia made the corn... pretty sure she used something we're too young to taste for flavoring." Tucker said.
Hearing that, Sam threw the corn into the floor.
"That's it! I officially wanna go home!" She said with a furious look in her eye.
"That makes two of us." Tucker said.
"Make it three…" Danny said as he just walked up to them and joined the conversation. "I've talked to pretty much everyone… or at least I'll just say I did. The youngest people here besides us are guys in their 20's, so it's not like we're among our peers or anything."
"Never thought I'd want to leave a party with lots of meat to go looking for aliens in the woods…" Tucker grumbled at the lack of food that looked remotely appetizing to him.
"Let's get out of here...the sooner we find the Goblins, the better..." Danny said.
"Sounds good to me..." Sam said, wanting to get away from the party too.
"Yeah, and maybe go to that pizza place I mentioned..." Tucker said, wanting something that looked more appetizing.
Danny nodded as they went to the door. He was about to lead them out as he opened the door, but gasped in horror and quickly closed the door and ran back. Sam and Tucker were surprised.
"What's wrong?" Sam asked.
"Is it another alien? Or did Skulker follow us all the way out here?" Tucker whispered.
"Neither...Sally May is outside..." He said, grimacing.
Sam frowned at this and looked ready to fight.
"I'll be right back..." She said, only to be stopped by Danny.
"Let's avoid a confrontation… and her brother." He insisted.
"Ugh… fine." Sam groaned.
"I can't go outside to morph, she might catch me and I didn't ask people in the North to keep quiet for nothing… I gotta find a place to morph in here..." He said but frowned.
The McKirk house is pretty small and all the relatives are inside, it was going to take a while.
Meanwhile, in the cavern
Pacing back and forth, the creature known to Danny as the Varginha Devil grew increasingly impatient. Stroking what was his chin, he pondered.
"It is taking too long… they should have found something. This creature would not have been so eager to leave, less my information was inaccurate."
That's when a Goblin approached.
"Litalewy Ma-Jinoh! Eku grrrkk grukk! Plok!" It went.
"It is ready? Well… see if it works." He ordered.
"Blk plk!" It went before running on all fours.
The Varginha Devil's eyes squinted again to indicate anger.
"They are getting more degenerate… the sooner we leave this planet of lower lifeforms, the better…" He said to himself as he followed by hovering.
Upon reaching the few remaining Goblins, he saw what they built using objects they've stolen. It resembled a large drill. He stared as they lifted it and aimed it at the out of place boulder.
"Prk!" One went.
"Panunka grukk!" The rest of them screeched as they turned the drill on and rammed it into the boulder.
It then began burrowing through it, causing chunks of it to break away. The aliens made sounds of what seemed to be excitement as this continued. However, the drill blew a fuse, causing it to turn off.
"Preekeekee?" One Goblin went, sounding surprised.
Suddenly, all of those holding the drill, along with the drill itself, were levitated up before being thrown aside.
"Idiots. The opening is not big enough." The Varginha Devil said in anger before screeches on the other side were heard. Looking back, the Varginha Devil's eyes opened up, indicating what he sees lightened his mood. "Hmm… but it might be enough for a little… support."
What he saw were three pairs of yellow eyes akin to those of the other Goblins.
Back at the reunion
"Jack! Maddie!" One man said, with a bald head, white mustache, overalls and a hat.
"Oh for crying out loud…" Jack grumbled bitterly.
"Jack…" Maddie warned before smiling. "Uncle Cletus."
"My darlin' niece." He said as he took her hand. "So… how was the trip here? Did you finally get tired of them penthouses with the fancy cookin' and high elevations?" He asked in a condescending tone.
Maddie's smile grew to a nervous one as Jack's eye twitched.
"We don't live in an actual skycraper." Jack said.
"Of course, silly me to forget the kind of person my niece married..." Uncle Cletus said in a "friendly" way.
Jack frowned hard.
"Well, it was nice talking to you, Uncle Cletus…" Maddie said.
"Agree to disagree..." Jack said, walking away.
"Hmph… a bit testy, isn't he?" Uncle Cletus asks.
"Hey, don't talk about him like that!" A voice below said.
Cletus looked down and saw a small girl in a beanie.
"And who is this?" He asks.
"This is Danielle, my second daughter." Maddie introduced her.
"Aww… how cute. I see she got her looks from her mom... thank goodness." He said.
"Don't disrespect my dad! He's a nice guy!" Danielle went angrily.
"Ho ho ho… so innocent at that age, ain't they?" He said before walking away.
Danielle glared at him as Maddie sighed.
"Mom...why does everyone here seem to hate dad so much? I mean, I know that aunt Alicia is kinda crabby but they act like he kidnapped you or something..." She asked.
Maddie sighed again.
"The truth is...my family has been simple country folk for a long time and they don't really care for city life or science that much. I think they just hate the fact that your father "brought me to the big city", despite the fact that I never cared for country life that much. It was one of the reasons I was eager to move out and go to college to have a life where my closest neighbors weren't scared off by my dad..." Maddie said.
Danielle blinked at that.
"So, why not tell them that?" She asks.
"I doubt they'd believe me. They'd think Jack poisoned my mind or something…"
Danielle pouted upon hearing that, looking around.
Suddenly, I regret being the tie breaker… She thought.
Meanwhile
Danny and the others were still looking for a place for him to morph so they could sneak out.
Unfortunately, there were too many people here and not many spots where he could "go ghost" in private.
"This is what I get for saying yes to a reunion." He said.
"In retrospect, you probably should have come here with the Infi-Map or something." Sam said.
Tucker, meanwhile, took a step closer.
"I couldn't see Danielle or Jazz, but I think I saw a way out of this." He whispers.
"Really, where?" Danny asks urgently.
"There's a closet..." Tucker pointed ahead to the end of the hall.
Danny smiled.
"Finally..." He said.
As he left, Sam took notice of something Tucker was eating, something that made her want to gag.
"Uh… Tucker, what is that?" She asks.
The tech geek shrugged as he eyed his food.
"I think they're called Lamb Fries. I got too hungry to care and they looked kinda neat." He said as he chewed. "Weird… they don't look like fries though."
Knowing that they actually are, Sam wanted to throw up but fought it off, deciding not to bother as she just wanted to leave.
"Let's just give Danny cover." She said as they followed Danny.
He quickly ran inside and closed the door.
Unknown to him, the closet was not empty as someone had snuck in moments before.
"Finally… some alone time." He said as someone's green eyes appeared behind him. "Okay… I'm goin'-"
That's when a pair of arms hugged him hard from behind.
"Goin' to be all mine!" A familiar voice said before smothering his cheek with kisses.
He realized who this was. It was Sally May, who had him in her clutches.
"W-What?!" He asked.
"I saw you and just had to sneak in… I meant to wait in here till the party was over… but now you and I can have our own little party in here, with just you and me!" She said before turning him around and lifting him up.
"What?! No! Wait, you don't under-"
"So, this that game called Seven Minutes in Heaven? Well, let's extend to at least half an hour!" She said before puckering her lips.
"Oh no…" He muttered as her face closed the gap between his.
Meanwhile
Danielle leaned on the wall, chewing food as Jazz came in and leaned face first onto said wall, looking exhausted.
"Wow… I haven't seen you this worn out since you found out you have a sister and got all excited and ran around the house." Danielle said.
"So many people are either trying to set me up or asking how closely related we are so they could hit on me." Jazz responds before noticing the plate Danielle had in her hand, along with what was on it. "Uh… what's that?"
"Hushpuppies. Aunt Betty-Jo made some for me in case she thought Aunt Alicia's cooking was too tough." She said.
"Well, at least one aunt's not insane…" Jazz muttered
"Yeah…" Danielle said while thinking. "Jazz? How does it feel when they badmouth Dad to you?"
Jazz went from tired to alert after hearing that, standing up straight.
"To be honest, there was a time when Mom and Dad were so embarrassing that I'd just try to hide when people made fun of them. Since I found out Danny's secret, things started to change. Nowadays, I get why people make fun of them… but it starts to tick me off when they think of them as freaks. Are they obsessive? Yeah. Did they almost burn our house down once? Sure. Did they almost get us killed, eaten or taken by a ghost numerous times before the Disasteroid? Also yes. Did they… uh…" Jazz then had a less than happy look on her face upon realizing she's gone off topic. "What was I saying?"
"Point taken… but still. Doesn't it bug you that Dad loves Mom so much and yet everyone here treats him like scum? Even Amity Park isn't this rude to him, only Vlad ever was…" Danielle said, grimacing at saying that name.
"I know what you mean. But these were issues before I was even born. I'm afraid even having superpowers, whether through a lab accident or birth, wouldn't be enough to help with that." Jazz says to her while patting her on the head.
Danielle gave a small smile before one person's groan got their attention.
"I still don't get why you chose him of all people, Maddie." Alicia said as the two sisters were talking.
"Alicia… I understand things between you and… that guy… didn't work well, but Jack and I are happy together." Maddie said.
"Chasin' around ghosts that don't exist?" Alicia asks condescendingly.
Jazz, hearing that, raised her eyebrow suspiciously.
"Don't exist? I know she didn't see the Box Ghost last time we saw her, but she had to know about the Disasteroid, or Danny Phantom…"
"She says something about drinking her favorite soda on her birthday that day. Not sure how much soda you'd have to drink to get that unconscious though…" Danielle says, wondering that very thing.
Jazz, however, knew what she was talking about.
"Oh…" She said, looking disapprovingly.
Her bitter aunt just kept talking.
"Honestly, Maddie… why didn't you marry that other friend in college? Y'know, the handsome rich guy?" Alicia asks.
Hearing that, all three Fenton women felt a line was crossed.
"Maybe because he was an unpleasant sociopath who saw me less as a person and more as a prize… did that cross your mind?" Maddie questioned.
"But he ran a place out in the country, surrounded by cows since he was running the Dairy King's old place. At least a farming spot would have been preferable." Alicia said.
"Are you serious?!" Danielle shouted at her, getting her attention. "Were you not remotely aware he became mayor of Amity Park just to keep close to the Fentons? Or how he kept pestering my mom? Or that he was willing to waste something that could have saved the whole world to humiliate one man?!" She asks, growing increasingly angry.
Alicia, however, was unmoved. To her, her sister was being unwise while Danielle was simply having a temper tantrum.
"You should learn to keep your kids in line. Must be Fenton DNA…" She said dismissively before walking away.
Turning red with rage, Danielle took a hushpuppy and was about to throw it before Jazz caught her wrist.
"Don't…" She warned.
"She… she was talking nice things about… Vlad." Danielle said, looking upset and her eyes watering.
Sighing deeply, Maddie shook her head and took her youngest daughter by the hand.
"Come on… I think I saw the cookies your father thinks he's hiding from me under his seat. Want some?" She asks.
Danielle gives a small smile.
"Sure Mom…"
With that, the mother and daughter left together as Jazz watched with a fond smile.
It's moments like these that remind me why I love them… She thought.
At the same time
Sam and Tucker were waiting outside the closet, the former growing impatient at Danny's disappearance.
"What's taking so long? Did he trip and hit his head or something?" She questioned.
That's when a loud knock from the other side of the closet caught their attention.
"What the heck?" Tucker asks.
The two opened the closet door and, to their shock, they saw Sally May kissing Danny deeply as he waved his arms out in a vain attempt to break free. Once she's aware of the two, she stops kissing and sends a glare at them.
"Y'all mind? We's havin' a party of our own." She states.
Sam snarled at her.
"Step away from him, heartless hillbilly!" Sam said as she marched to the country girl.
Sally May sent her a frown and let Danny go.
"I'd like to see you do somethin', little miss depressin'..." The country girl said with her arms crossed.
"You keep hitting or kissing my boyfriend, we're gonna have ourselves a problem!" Sam snapped with her fists clenched.
"Pfft… you think you can handle me? I can lift an engine over my head like a stack of pancakes." Sally May said dismissively.
"You think I'm some pushover? I am not like other girls at school." Sam said with a warning glare.
"Neithuh am I." Sally May said, unafraid.
That was the last straw for Sam.
"Then you will die!" She shouted before lashing out at Sally May, who responds by pushing her back by pressing on her forehead. "Hey!" Sam started swinging her arms wildly. "Get over here!"
"Pfft… this girl's nothing but skin and bones. Y'all don't eat meat? Or any form a protein? We's all needs that." Sally May says with a mocking smile.
"We don't need meat! And we don't have to waste time cooking our food if we went ultra-recyclo vegetarian! That's fact!" Sam insists.
"No it ain't. Meat has proteins necessary for providin' them essential amino acids, which the human body ain't able to produce. While vegetable proteins can be sufficient, meat carries a lot more. Now, I ain't sayin' only eat meat, just that it does indeed have nutritional benefits. And to say no need for cookin' greens is, in the words of you city folk, really dumb, seeing as how carrot soup and grilled corn is definitely a thing." Sally May said, noticing how all three had their eyes on her. "Farmin' family's gotta know stuff like this." She says.
Hating to be proven wrong, Sam pulled away.
"Do farmin' fami- I mean, farming families know stuff like this?!"
She then tackled into Sally May.
The country girl recovered and began fighting back.
The fighting then rolled into the living room, where the reunion was interrupted as everyone watched the fight going on.
''WHAT IN THE WORLD?!" Zeke went as he watched the two fighting.
"Ain't that the Hackford girl?" One uncle said.
"The other is one of Maddie's boy's guests." An aunt went.
"PUT ME DOWN!" Sam demanded.
"Not until you take back the heartless hillbilly comment!" Sally May retorted.
"NEVER!" Sam snarled.
"On second thought." Sally May snarled before pushing Sam into the floor.
Danny watched the two girls fight and started blankly. Tucker tapped him on the shoulder.
"Aren't you gonna… y'know, stop them?" He asks.
"I know I should probably stop them...but I gotta admit, it is kinda neat having two pretty girls fighting over me..." He admits, unable to deny that a small part of him kinda enjoyed this.
"Yeah… I can see that." Tucker admits.
"I mean, I know Sam's my girlfriend and Sally May makes me… kinda uncomfortable, but I'm less uncomfortable watching the two show how tough they are." Danny adds.
"I guess being a superhero means you're required to find women who fight more attractive than those who don't." Tucker suggests.
It ended when the door burst open and Zeb Jr. was there.
"Sally May! Enough of this!" He then walked over as the two girls stopped fighting, both looking a bit disheveled. "What in the world are you doin'?! And who's this?!"
"I'M Danny's actual girlfriend! Your sister's been harassing him nonstop without a hint of tact!" Sam snapped.
Instead of actually hearing her words, Zeb Jr. looked to Danny and glared at him.
"You seducin' my sister while already with some scrawny girl? Not only do you gots poor taste in women, yer a dang cheater too!" He said before gritting his teeth.
"Uh… did you not hear a word she said, Dude?" Danny asks.
"Don't call me Dude, McKirk kin!" Zeb Jr shouts.
"What was that?!" One uncle spoke up, walking towards Zeb Jr. "Say that again, little man!"
Before he could do anything, someone stepped in.
"That's enough!" A deeper Southern accent went.
At the door was a man who looked like an older version of Zeb Jr, the only difference is that he had a goatee, thinning hair and he was dressed in a brown coat with a wide brimmed hat.
There was as silence as the entire house watched. Danny slowly looked to his mother.
"Who is that?" He asked in a whisper.
"The one man your uncle doesn't want in his house." Maddie responds.
Zeke McKirk walked forward, reaching not far from the man who entered.
The two shared a silent look, both equally unhappy to see the other.
"Ezekial…" The man said.
"Zebediah…" Zeke responded.
Zebediah Hackford Sr. looked at his two children in an authoritative way.
"You two, let's go. Your cousin Billy Bob and his soon to be wife Amber are about to get discharged from the hospital." He ordered.
"But Pa! It's that cityfolk kin's fault for seducin' Sally May!" Zeb Jr. said, pointing at Danny.
"You really have super selective hearing, don't you?" Danny asks with an unamused look on his face.
He would have assaulted Danny, but his father grabbed his fist.
"But Pa!" He cried.
"Junior! Let's go, now…" He said, growling at him as he pointed out the door.
Unwilling to disobey his father, Zeb sighed. For once, he dropped his hostile look and became more afraid to react in anger.
"Yes, Pa…" He said before turning and walking out the door.
WIth that, Zebediah Sr. looked to his daughter.
"I don't have issue with you for wishin' we had peace, or trying to be friendly-like with the McKirks, but don't come if you don't need somethin'... got it?" He questioned harshly.
"Yes Pa…" Sally May responded, unwilling to argue.
"Now… iffin yer done pesterin' a boy with a lady friend, I expect you to keep yer hormones in check and stop flirtin' with city peoples. Time to go." He ordered.
"Understood…" She said in a defeated tone as she walked to the door.
As she turned her head, she saw Sam smirking victoriously, but also a look on Danny's face that showed he was more sympathetic to her than he reasonably should.
Sam saw this and looked less than pleased.
"Seriously?" She asks.
"She's being humiliated by her dad in front of people, you of all people should know how upsetting that is." He points out.
Sam crossed her arms and looked away, displeased.
"I can't believe you… she kissed you after you made it clear you're in a relationship and-"
"I'm not saying that was okay… just that this isn't okay either..." He responds.
Meanwhile, with all McKirk eyes on him, glaring the whole time, Zebediah Sr. looked around.
"Done some redecoratin' I see…" He said.
"Sure did… care for a grand tour?" Ezekiel asks sarcastically.
"Maybe in… a thousand years." Zebediah responds.
"That's too soon for us…" Ezekiel retorts.
With that, the two former friends huffed at each other before Zebediah left, slamming the door shut.
With that, it was quiet.
"Dang Hackford trash!" Alicia shouts as most of the adults cheered for them leaving.
Jack shook his head disapprovingly at this as Maddie sighed in embarrassment. Betty-Jo, meanwhile, placed a hand on her husband's shoulder as both were more quiet than happy.
"I really wish you two could put what happened behind you both." She said.
"It ain't that I don't wanna… it's just we're both too prideful to compromise how we've been for so long." Zeke responded.
Betty-Jo sighed bitterly as she decided to speak up.
"Now… I gots news!" The room started to grow quiet. "So… I was hopin' to save this for later tonight, but Zeke and I got something to say!"
"Now?" Zeke asks.
"Well… I'd rather get the bad taste of what happened out…" She responds. Zeke sighed and gave the nod. "Now then, we're-"
There was a sharp, almost girlish scream from outside.
Everyone's attention was to the door as the Hackford family came back in and shut the door behind them.
Both Zebediahs leaned into the door to keep it from opening as Sally May buckled her knees and gasped for air.
"MONSTERS!" She cried out.
"What?" Alicia questioned in a dismissive tone.
"There was monsters! Them little Goblin things! I was distracted by the sound of my brother screamin'-" Her brother's eyes widened in shock. "... when we saw them grabbin' stuff from the trucks outside!"
"SALLY MAY!" Zeb shouted in embarrassed anger.
Hearing the world Goblin, Danny's eyes widened as he shared looks with his friends, sisters and parents.
They're here? He thought.
"Pfft… yeah right. Who's dumb enough to believe in that?" Alicia questions.
"Goblins? Them little silver critters?! Everyone! Grab something to use for a weapon!" Zeke called out.
Alicia frowned as all of the McKirk clan grabbed the nearest blunt object they could find.
"Seriously?! Ain't no such thing as a-" She turned her head and saw something peeking in from the window. "Gob-AAAAAHHHHHHHH!" She went at a higher pitch than normal.
Everyone's attention went to the window as something peeking in crawled up the window and stood on the sill, looking into the room.
It was a Goblin.
"GRKUKURUK!" It went as more Goblins started appearing, surrounding the house from the front.
Danny frowned as he no longer had as much chance to get away to morph.
"This is gonna be harder than I thought…" He said under his breath.
Special thanks to Flower princess11 for the assist.
If you have any scene suggestions, let me know. Next chapter is the Goblins attacking the house.
RonaldM40196867: I guess RVs can be cool. Maybe, but it would help to know some news. Nature's not soft, she's gotta be. Some First Graders have pierced ears, so hair dye doesn't seem that odd. Most likely he's scared them off. Probably needs therapy, and he's probably scared them off. Impossible Meat is a real thing, basically plant based meat substitute that mimics the taste. He might get that strong, if not stronger.
Invader Johnny: I got worse. Not just for Sam and Sally May, but the Goblins are here.
LockAndKey989: Good chance she's into him for the wrong reasons too.
Tiamat Dragoness: Maybe? She might have blonde hair. We'll see what he wants. Thank you for reading.
Luiz4200: Good chance she was just recovering from all that... soda.
cg037: We'll find out.
Leonardo: She's at best neutral to them. We might? Not entirely sure yet.
SuperiorBatman1: I guess both sides have their pros and cons.
