"What? How?" The mage asked in shock.
"The moogles were being attacked by poachers, the elder tried to scare off the poachers, he scared them off but was fatally shot."
This was a problem, Fern of course was upset, "We need someone who can age progress him!"
Starla interjected, "Don't you forget, we are mages, we can revive him. I can't I am not experienced enough yet…"
The one mage had healed the injured mage, they had gone to where the elder had died and fully revived him as the moogles were looking at him nervously.
They had made it back to the village, Fern was waiting, "Fern," The elder said as he was very weak, "I am glad you have come back, where is that cat girl you were hanging out with?"
"April?" Fern asked.
April a Yordilian male and female just smiled at Fern.
"No, Sue Ellen..." Fern lowered her head in sadness, "She had gone into shock…"
"What?" April asked, "What happened?"
Fern had shown her baby Max.
April had gushed a huge smile, "What a cutey!"
"This is what had caused her to go into shock…"
"Poor Sue Ellen…"
The Mage started to talk, "That's too bad… we can't even recover her if we tried."
"Are you going to stay with us for the rest of your days?" the Elder asked.
Fern sighed, "I wish, you all understood me, you took me into your home and raised me like a member of your tribe… I wish Sue Ellen could…" Fern sighed again as the Elder had gone to sleep for the night, Mrs. Clarkson and Fern had did the same thing. It was rare that these mages would accept outsiders they were rather cautious of anyone, but Fern had lived with them for almost two weeks, she was harmless.
The next day they had gotten up in the middle of the village the dark mage wearing royal blue and black robe as were all the other dark mages including Starla, he was standing holding a ceremonial wand made of a precious metal and an expensive looking gem, "I will heal him, but please read some spell books if you want to learn more advanced stuff."
Mrs. Clarkson set her son down and she walked away so the mage could get started. He had waived his hand, as the gem had glowed, within moments light had engulfed Max, and soon he was back to his original age.
Fern chuckled at him as he was only wearing a diaper, "Max, you better get some clothes before we go home…"
Max looked down, "Wah! Why am I wearing a diaper?"
"I accidentally age regressed you, I am so sorry for what happened."
Within moments the mage had waived his hand, and Max was wearing his clothes, the diaper disappeared and he was just wearing underwear; under his pants.
April had appeared; she smiled at Max while the tiger boy had a look of love in his eyes, Fern interrupted the moment, "Dream on lover boy! Prunella would kill you and I highly doubt the authors associated would want to have a story made where you and April had a relationship."
Max sighed, he was just a confused boy in love, he really liked Prunella, but after meeting April, to him she seemed really nice.
"I want to go and see Sue Ellen again…" April responded.
Max smiled at her as Mrs. Clarkson hugged him tightly, "I am so happy to have my son back!"
The mage walked towards Fern and her friends, "We have a few more hours of the celebration left; do you want to join us as honorary guests?"
Fern smiled at them, they were good to her, they treated her like one of their own, "I would love to."
After some celebration, and a feast they had to leave, the dark mage handed her a leather-bound spell book, "This book is a gift from us, depending on what wand you have, it varies on how long it will take to learn. We also have much to learn about the outsiders, please when you return tell us more about Sherlock Holmes."
Fern thought.
Prunella should take the wand and book, I don't deserve this.
"Thanks."
Back in the village of the moogles, they seemed to be on edge… Sue Ellen lived with them, they accepted them in their colony, they must have knew that she would be at death's door soon.
Fern, Max, April and Max's mother had went back to Earth, first stop Sue Ellen's
Sue Ellen was lying on the couch, for almost a week, she had closed her eyes… she was almost dead… well more like at deaths door going towards the afterlife as she progressed to the period. Her heart beat was slowing down as every second had passed estimated at about 35 beats a minutes but going lower. The spirit already prepared Sue Ellen's physical and spiritual body for the afterlife. Mrs. Armstrong considered pulling the plug on her daughter, "I am sorry…" and she did.
"What are you doing?" April asked in shock.
Mrs. Armstrong was a bit upset, "It is for the best, she wanted it this way; I want to end her suffering…"
She watched as Sue Ellen's health was slowing degrading, she left the room
Good bye…I am dead now… When I get to the afterlife and live on the planet Subcon, I hopefully won't suffer as much… I can visit those who came through Elwood City and passed on…
Mrs. Armstrong sat at the kitchen table nearly crying, she was writing Sue Ellen's obituary…
It is in great sadness to announce that Sue Ellen has passed away due to complications when she had went into shock, many could say that she had died of a broken heart…
Mrs. Armstrong was still writing when she saw that Max back to normal, she led him to see Sue Ellen, Mrs. Armstrong thought she was dead… her breathing was shallow her heartbeat was around 25 beats a minute now, but her mother didn't pay attention to it, she was too upset as she thought Sue Ellen had died, "You are too late… she passed away."
Max was shocked, "She died?" he looked down, Sue Ellen had looked like an angel, he fell to his knees and was crying, "Cousin…" he rubbed her check; it was warm to the touch.
April had a tear stream down her cheek as she hugged Max who strangely enough was crying more than her.
On the proverbial other side; an aardvark man in white of average height had looked at Sue Ellen, "It isn't your time to cross over yet you have about 80 or 90 more years left don't give up so easily…"
Sue Ellen opened her eyes slowly as she was now breathing normally and her heartbeat picked up; she looked in the Tiger Boy's blue eyes all she said was, "Max…?"
"She must have slipped off to sleep; fooled me pretty good," Mrs. Armstrong replied as she called the doctor and he rushed over to unhook everything.
Max replied, "Yea, it's me…"
She turned to April, "April…"
"I am here; everything is going to be fine…"
Sue Ellen had taken a look at Fern, "I am still upset with you for what happened."
"…I know…"
Fern had left, she accepted that Sue Ellen and her weren't best friends anymore, she was glad Sue Ellen was ok, but they just weren't seeing eye to eye.
Fern looked through the book, it was obvious that there may be some organ damage, she used the wand, the gem glowed a healthy green color and healed Sue Ellen quickly; Fern left.
Sue Ellen and Max were talking.
"I thought you were dead…" Max commented sadly.
"No I was asleep… I think… I fell asleep before you both got here, but I am glad to see you are well, I think I may have experienced some out of body experiences and thought that I died before you came…"
Max looked at her, she was much thinner, "You were probably dreaming…"
Sue Ellen thought.
I could have sworn that I died… My life flashed before my eyes…
All she said was, "Probably…"
He just hugged her tightly…
"I am glad that you have survived, Max is a good kid, a bit quirky but…" April turned to Max, "Be sure she knows that her parents are proud of her."
Sue Ellen sighed.
"I am telling you this because where I am from a certain cat girls parents are arrested by some Thrag, I bet she is going to miss her parents dearly despite what they did, I know I would…" April concluded.
"Wait."
"I can't stay, the Thrag'll search for me remember? They fear the Dark Mages, because they aren't used to forbidden power such as magic, a technologically advanced police force, yet afraid of something very primitive such as magic…" April responded as she left on the ship en route to Terra to the Dark Mage Village never to be seen again.
Mr. Frensky was reading the papers to see of any indication of cruise night, or any car shows, they needed this major break, they wanted to get Francine back as soon as they could, they couldn't find any leads, this was a problem, all just news stories from Mr. Kane.
Mr. Frensky set the paper down; he needed to be sure that if they had to go to Crown City for any reason. That they wouldn't get involved with street gangs, state troopers, highway patrol or the Elwood City police force. If any of those would get involved it would simply translate to being Game Over because if the cars were to get dents or broken windows, then they wouldn't accept them.
Mr. Frensky sighed, he knew cars were left, his neighbors had cars that were on the list, and 19 cars were left
He had decided to get car 42.
To Be Continued.
