Finally new Chapter of Back From Death! I really apologize about the delay, but this chapter was more hard to write them I had foresaw. This also the longest chapter of the fic yet. Well, again, sorry for time, and I hope you enjoy this chapter.Disclaimer: I do not own The Loud House
"And that's all that happened." Spoke Lincoln upon finishing telling the Mysterians his travel to Stockholm. It was Monday afternoon, after school, the kids were at the treehouse, The Mysterians were amazed.
"Seriously Lincoln." Spoke Rusty. "I envy you and your family."
"Why?" Asked the white haired kid.
"Come on Lincoln! You went to Sweden!" Answered Rusty. "Your sister won the nobel!"
Lincoln laughed nervously. "Yeah, speaking like that... But you? What you all did this weekend?"
"Oh, we heard rumors about a ghost in the mall." Spoke Stella.
"A ghost? Repeated Lincoln surprised.
"Yeah!" Clyde confirmed. "From what we heard, he is causing a confusion on there, but we didn't hear anything else."
Lincoln thought for a second. "Okay, tomorrow after school, we'll go there, see of we can figure out this ghost." The Mysterians nodded. Lincoln looked at the Clock on his phone, it was almost dinner time. "Well guys, I'm going now, bye."
Spoke Lincoln, before phasing the sofa and falling through the floor, starting to float and fly and exiting the woods, it was already dark, the blghost boy didn't bother to became invisible to fly to his house.
"I'm home!" Lincoln announced himself phasing through the front door, Lori, Leni, Luan and the twins greeted him from the couch. The boy went to the living room and also sitted on the sofa.
"My friends heard rumors about a ghost in the mall." Spoke Lincoln.
"Seriously?" Asked Lori. "What else they heard?"
"Nothing more, tomorrow we're going to the mall to check for the ghost." Spoke Lincoln.
"Uh! Shopping in a weekday! This is going to be great!" Cheered Leni.
"Leni, just me and my friends will go, and..." Lincoln stopped and thought a second then turned to Lori. "Lori, can you give us a ride tomorrow after school?" He asked, surprising the oldest Loud child.
"Why? Can't you fly?" She questioned.
"Yeah, I can, but not the others can't. Come on Lori, please!" Lincoln pleaded to his sister. Lori shrugged.
"Okay Lincoln, but I literally want to go along with you." Lori made a smirk.
"Fine for me." Spoke Lincoln. "So, what are you watching?" He turned to see the TV.
One hour later, the dad of 11 announced called his children to dinner. He baked a meatloaf for tonight. As the loud children took their seat, Lincoln realized that one of his sisters wasn't present at table.
"Where's Lisa?" He asked. Rita looked down the table, before she spoke.
"She's still on her room dear, probably didn't heard your father." Rita was about to get up to get Lisa, when Lincoln spoke up.
"Let me get her." The boy floated up phasing through the ceiling, and flew across the bedrooms to Lisa's. As he phased through the wall, he saw Lisa occupied with her experiments. "Lis?" He called, but Lisa didn't got frightened as last time, she actually heard Lincoln coming.
"Hello Lincoln." She spoke without taking her attention of her experiment. "How can I help you my dear male sibling?" She still didn't looked at him.
"Dad made meatloaf." He spoke. Lisa finally looked to Lincoln and got up from her chair.
"Oh, I didn't realized that was dinner time. Thanks Lincoln." Lisa walked to the door and went down the corridor. Before Lincoln followed her, he took a look to her desk and saw her research. He recognized a dna string image. He took some seconds, but he made and oh when he realized what it was. He just leave it and went back to the dinner room.
As they eated their dinner, Rita noticed that Lola wasn't eating, she just picked on her meatloaf with a grumpy face. Rita rolled her eyes. As a mother, she knew exactly what was upsetting her daughter.
"Lola, I know that you want that doll, but you have to see that me and your father can't afford it now."
"I know mom..." Spoke Lola. "It's just that... The doll is a limited edition!" Exclamed Lola.
"Whu don't you use the money you won in your pageants?" Asked Luna with the mouth full of meatloaf.
"I already spent the most of my money in the dress I used in Lincoln's fune..." The little girl shut herself and looked to her brother, but Lincoln wasn't paying much attention, he was more intertrained helping feed Lily. "Anyway, the peagents season didn't started yet."
"Well sweety, we'll figure out something." Spoke Rita. "You will have that doll, I promise." Assured. Lola smiled a little and started eating her dinner.
The family became silent again, the only thing breaking that silence was Lily's chuckles and Lincoln trying to feed her. The father, Lynn Sr looked to his son with a suttle smile.
"Hey Lincoln, Lori told me that you are going to investigate another ghost on the mall." He spoke.
"Yep." Spoke Lincoln still trying to feed Lily.
"Heh... Look Lincoln, I am very proud of how maturely you are taking all this..." Lincoln looked to his father. The boy could almost feel the concern in the dad's tone. "But... this isn't dangerous?"
"Yes, it is." Lincoln spoke with simplicity. Lynn swallowed drily a piece of meatloaf. Lincoln noticed that and sighed. "Look, I'm not sugarcoating it. It is dangerous." Lincoln took jis attention away from feeding Lily and looked to the father. "But it is my fault that supernatural beings are in Royal Woods, and... L I feel responsible for it." Jr, with his mouth full of food, spoke confused.
"But, Lincoln why do you think you're responsible for it?" Spoke the sportist, spiling food from her mouth.
"Lynn, don't talk with the mouth full." Scolded Rita. "But she's right."
"Well, when I made that poutergeist in the ritual, I accidentally made, like a beacon, and that Beacon attracted this ghosts." Lincoln explained.
"But, How do You know that?" Questioned Lola, making Lincoln flinch.
"I... Uhm... You see..." Lincoln drummed on the table. He didn't know if he could tell someone about what he knew about the other world and Reaper, but he definitely can't risk having to make the passage to the other side. Not now. Not now that he had a second chance. He had to think something quick but what... What... What...
"Lincoln? Lincoln!" Luna, who was the one sitting next to the boy, shaked him softly, Lincoln shaked his head.
"What? Spoke the ghost boy, confused. He looked around, the whole family was looking at him.
"You spaced out Linkie." Explained Luna. "You're good bro?"
"I... I'm sorry guys... I... Am going to my room..." Lincoln floated up and went back to his room.
After a few silent seconds, Luna spoke up.
"He is hiding something." Her sisters nodded.
As he entered his room, he sighed in releaf. "That... Was close." Lincoln sat on his desk. He sighed again and crossed his arms on the desk. With na thud after bumping his elbow in something, he looked up and saw that a picture had fallen. As he picked the framed picture and saw the picture
It was the picture he took with Ronnie Anne in Dairy Land last Christmas. They looked so happy. She looked so happy. Lincoln wondered how Ronnie Anne was right now. He shifted his gaze of the frame and looked to his laptop.
Earlier that afternoon
Ronnie Anne had agreed with Sid to meet her on the park after school. The little hispanic girl had been much better that last weeks, although she was a little grumpy on Monday after coming back from Royal Woods.
Sid noticed that Ronnie Anne was avoiding talking about her little trip to the last city she called home, but was happy that Ron is Anne was at least closer to her usual behavior.
Ronnie Anne lifted up her head as she someone approaching the bench she was, Sid walked to her with a smile in her lips, and greeted her best friend as she also sat on the bench, next to Ronnie Anne.
"Hi Ronnie! Glad that you came!" Sid spoke with enthusiasm. Ronnie Anne made a little smile and also greeted.
"Hey..." She spoke.
"You've seen that the Nobel prize ceremony was yesterday?" Asked Sid. Ronnie Anne frowned confused at that initiation of conversation.
"Uh... No, why?" Ronnie Anne Asked without understanding.
"Well, look here who won the medicine award!" Sid pulled her phone from her sweatshirt, quickly browsed on her photos and gave to the friend. Ronnie Anne's eyes widened when she saw Lisa Loud holding her nobel medal. "That's one of the Loud sisters, right?" Sid asked.
"Yeah... It's Lisa." Ronnie Anne Spoke with her thoughts in other Loud child.
"For what I read, she won the medicine by her research on the cure of a cerebral tumor!" Sid spoke with enthusiasm, Ronnie Anne felt a chill. Noticing her reaction, Sid questioned it. "What?"
"That was the decease Lincoln had." Sid's smile faded.
"Oh... Well... I... Expected to watch her speech with you, but that's..." Sid was pocketing her phone when Ronnie Anne grabbed her arm gently.
"No, it's ok... Let's watch." Sid nodded and clicked the play bottom, and soon, the video of Lisa's speech started.
"This award..." Lisa started. For the next fifteen minutes, they watched the little genius make her speech, through the words she spoke, the two girls felt the sorrow of Lisa, towards the end, she was even starting to cry, just like Sid, who hasn't holding back the tears. Ronnie Anne looked the friend. The Hispanic girl hasn't been moved by Lisa's words, in fact, she felt slightly sick. She was there in the day Lincoln has shown himself.
He was back. Alive, or something like that. That freaked her. That wasn't right. Unnatural. Differently from her family, she always thought that the paranormal was baloney. But Lincoln disproved this. That, and the fact she felt so bad about Lincoln's death...
Ronnie Anne sighed and stood up to leave, Sid noticed the friend and also stood up to follow her.
"What happened Ronnie Anne?" She asked.
"Nothing." Spoke Ronnie Anne a little grumpy, starting go back to her house, Sid followed her.
"Is something that happened in Royal Woods a week ago?" Sid Asked, making Ronnie Anne grunt.
"It's nothing Sid!" Retorted the tomboy frowning.
"Ok, Ok, chill!" Sid spoke apologizing. "If you do not want to talk about it, I won't insist."
Ronnie Anne nodded, still frowning. "It's just..." Sid paused, try to choose the right words to not make Ronnie Anne even more mad. "You didn't spoke anything about your trip to Royal Woods, and, well, I can clearly see that something happened to you there." Ronnie Anne sighed again.
"Look Sid, if I told you what happened, you won't believe it. Even I still had a bed time believing it, please, I don't want to talk about it." Ronnie Anne Spoke calm. Sid nodded.
"Well, so... you heard what the news are telling about Royal Woods?" Sid spoke trying to change the subject.
"Not really, I don't watch much tv aside from movies and some tv shows." Responded Ronnie Anne.
"There is an abnormal number of supernatural activities being reported all around the town!" Sid spoke with enthusiasm. "Some even say about ghost apparitions! Isn't this crazy?"
Ronnie Anne rolled her eyes and went back being grumpy. "Really?" She spoke dryly.
Before Sid could spoke anything more, they arrived at their apartment. As they went up, Ronnie Anne spoke.
"Sid, I'll go home, see you tomorrow." Sid nodded as they parted their ways to their respective apartments.
"I'm back home." Ronnie Anne announced herself as she entered.
"Oh, hi Ronalda!" Greeted Carlos as Ronnie Anne passed him and CJ on the living room.
"Hey." She greeted back walking past them.
"Ronnie Anne! Do you want to play pirates with me?" Asked Cj with a bright smile.
"No, sorry CJ I don't feel like it now." She responded without even looking to him, she walked straight to her room.
After closing the door behind her, she let herself fell face first on her bed. The tomboy was completely drained. She really didn't liked remembering what happened in Royal Woods, she hasn't spoke what happened in there to nobody. Well, she didn't, Bobby and Rosa didn't had problem talking what happened.
As soon they arrived home, Bobby and Abuela told the rest of the family about Lincoln, the ritual and the ghost bull. Ronnie Anne was surprised after seeing that the Casagrandes believed them so easily, well, Abuela wasn't the type of make up things, gossip, yes, but lie never.
And of course, none of them felt the same way she felt. They all were happy that Lincoln was back, in a way or another. She thought that she would felt like them, but for some reason, no.
Slowly, Ronnie Anne's thoughts floated away as she fell asleep.
When she opened her eyes again, she had her head resting on a warm pillow, laying under a tree, in the top of a hill on the city park. Before her, the sun setting made the green grass shine with a warm, golden tint. Ronnie Anne made a peaceful sigh.
Before she noticed in what she was resting her head. She quickly sitted up with her face blushing, she were sleeping on the lap of a also asleep Lincoln. The sudden motion of the girl woke the sleeping boy, who yawned and stretched his arms. He looked around the hill with a subtle smile, he moved his head slowly on the girl, locking his gaze on Ronnie Anne and his smile biggered.
"Hi Ronnie Anne." Spoke Lincoln with a soft, peaceful, almost ethereal voice, that was so good in the ear of who listened. And that sensation, that feeling, even if comforting, made Ronnie Anne feel her chest tighten a little.
"H-hi Lincoln." Spoke the girl. She sighed and looked down. She felt tears forming under her eyes. Lincoln tiltted his head a little when he heard his friend starting to sob.
"Ronnie?" Spoke Lincoln. "What happened?" He asked concerned, placing a hand on Ronnie Anne's shoulder. The girl didn't answered, she just continued to quietly cry.
After some seconds. She felt Lincoln embracing her into a warm hug. She opened her eyes wide, still watery. Lincoln was hugging her. She slowly and reluctantly, hugged him back.
She smiled at the hug anf closed her eyes, they parted the hug after some seconds. "Thank you Linc-"
She stopped speaking as she opened her eyes and looked to Lincoln. He was paper white pale. Contrasting with his hair. How soggy, wet and blood red. His eyes had black scleras and sparkly red pupils. His expression was the same he made to her before, but now, that warm smile was the opposite of warm and comforting.
"What happened Ronnie Anne?" He asked with the same peaceful voice. That sight freaked Ronnie, she fell backwards with her back in the ground. Lincoln motioned to help her, but, in panic, she crawled backwards, and suddenly felt like she wwasreached the edge of a invisible cliff, and instantly felt like she was falling.
With a painfull Bunf, she hit her back on the floor of her bedroom. She had falled from the bed in her sleep. She was breathing heavily, she was glad that she had woke. She stood silent for some moments, in silence, her heavy breaths filling the otherwise silent room.
She jumped in fright when she heard a sudden notification sound coming from her laptop that was in her desk. She got up and sat on the chair before the desk, and opened the laptop. Her eyes widened when she saw that the notification came from a video call from Lincoln.
Lincoln was trying to talk to her. With her hands trembling, she put the cursor on the accepting bottom. But before she clicked, she hesitated. No, she couldn't do it. She couldn't talk to him. She didn't wanted. Now, she understood what he meaned in their last call. Their last call. She closed the laptop.
In Royal Woods, the ghost boy looked to his laptop, surprised that Ronnie Anne rejected his call. He scratched his head confused why'd she would do that, he thought that at this point, Ronnie Anne had already calmed down and wasn't freaked anymore.
He sighed and looked through the tiny window of his bedroom. The night sky was so inviting. Maybe a little trip through the skies of the city might refresh his thoughts.
He went on his closet and wore a black hoodie with orange highlights. This jacket was a present from Leni for his last birthday.
He flew out of his room and felt the cold wind sprinkling on his face. Yes, that felt nice. The sensation of freedom, seeing the world so far up, the streetlights illuminating the dark streets.
He happily flew up and down, made loops in the air, skydived and laughed, he really missed the sensation of flying so high, so fast, without getting invisible, and the quietness of the night was the perfect time to do this.
"AAHH!" Lincoln widened his eyes when he heard a female scream. He looked down trying to locate the source of the scream and saw it. At the entrance to an alley between two buildings in Royal Woods downtown, two hooded persons were cornering a woman.
Lincoln flew down to see closer and landed in the top of one of the buildings. He could hear the two man threatening the woman.
"Pass here your purse!" The first man demanded with a pistol pointed to the woman. Lincoln gasped upon seeing the gun, the woman slowly passed her purse to the second man, who gave a look inside it.
After some seconds, he grunted. "This bitch don't have anything." He spoke. Lincoln gritted his teeth putting the hood on his head.
"Then, maybe we can have something else from her." Spoke the first man, the second laughed. Lincoln couldn't listen anymore.
"HEY!" Lincoln impulsively shouted from up the building. When the two man looked up to see who was there, no one. The three were alone on the alley.
"You heard that?" Asked the first man to the second who nodded. The first man looked back to the woman who was still petrified. But not from the two man, she was looking past them.
"What?" asked the second man, before feeling something grabbing on his ankle. "AHHH" the man screamed as that thing pulled with so incredible force that made the man fall on his face, before being violently dragged to the darkness of the alley frightening the other man ant the woman, who also screamed, as they heard more screams of the man and sturdy sounds that the two recognized as the man was being beaten.
The remaining man, with his hand shaking, raised the gun to the shadows of the alley. Slowly, he heard steps and a sound of something dragging and, from the shadows, being illuminated only by the streetlights, Lincoln stepped out of the shadow, dragging the man, unconscious by the leg. He was badly beaten.
Lincoln raised his eyes to the other man, who started shaking even more when he saw his eyes were glowing, like of he had red LED on the place of his eyes. Without any hesitation, the man fired the gun against Lincoln, making the woman scream.
But Lincoln didn't reacted. He just keep walking towards the man, who also keep firing to him. With every bullet fired, the man expression filled with more and more fear. Until Lincoln was close enough to grab the man's arm.
"Gahh!" The man grunted at how strong was the grip of the kid. So strong in fact, that he not only dropped the gun, but felt like his forearm's bones were being crushed. The pain was so much that he fell on his knees, to the eye level of Lincoln. He looked to Lincoln's eyes, the fear of his sight was unforgeable. The red glowing eyes looked like they were gazing through his soul.
With a powerful swing, Lincoln headbutted the man, knocking him out. Lincoln almost instantly regretted headbutting the man, as he felt so much pain in his forehead.
"Ouch!" Lincoln released the man's forearm and placed his hands on his forehead. "What a dumb idea! I'll never do that again! What was I thinking? I am not a goat to be giving headbutts!" As Lincoln rubbed his forehead, the woman stood paralyzed, with her eyes wide and mouth agape.
After a few seconds of silence, Lincoln stopped rubbing his forehead as he remembered the woman. He looked at her with a gentle smile. His eyes, were back into his usual black. "Are you all right?" he asked, the woman, still shocked, took some seconds to slowly nod her head.
"Good." The boy looked down to he man unconscious before him. "I think it's better if you call the cops before they wake." Lincoln started to fly up to leave, then he stopped and looked back to the woman.
"And I recommend you to avoid go out in the streets this late." With that, Lincoln flew away the alley, disappearing from the woman's sight as he became invisible again
The next morning
Lincoln woke with his alarm signing the begin of another day. He stopped the alarm, but stood in the bed for some minutes. Man, that headbutt still hurted. The third Newton law definitely was proved in Lincoln's perception. But today was a school day, he got up to start the day.
After waiting in the line and showering, he flew down to breakfast.
"Hello sport!" Greeted the father as Lincoln entered the dining room, where the breakfast was already settled.
"Hey dad..." Lincoln greeted back, sitting in a chair and picking a toast.
"You look like you didn't sleep so well this night." The father noted. "And what happened to your forehead?" Lincoln placed a hand in his forehead
"Yeah dude, it's red!" Luna spoke up.
"I... Fell through my bed in my sleep and bunked and hit my head on the kitchen's floor." Lincoln quickly lied. She hoped that excuse was good enough, after seconds, his hopes were accepted as Lynn Sr. And Luna nodded their heads. Lincoln felt releaf that they buied that.
After breakfast, Lincoln was back upstairs on his bedroom, making his backpack, when he heard Lori shouting. "LINCOLN! IF YOU WANT A RIDE TO SCHOOL, WE ARE LEAVING IN ONE MINUTE! IF YOU ARE NOT ON VANZILLA, WE WILL LEAVE YOU BEHIND!".
"I'M GOING!" He shouted back. The boy was about to leave the room when he stopped and looked at the hanger and the hoodie he used last night. He sighed and grabbed the hoodie, place omg him in the backpack as he went downstairs and leaving the house, sitting on the Vanzilla.
Minutes passed, and the van was already on the road, with Lincoln sitting beside Lucy. Lincoln was looking through the window, thoughtful. Unaware to the boy, his goth sister looked with her eyes obscured by her bangs to the boy with curiosity.
"Lincoln." She called the boy. Lincoln looked to her.
"What Lucy?" He spoke.
"Why do you are taking the ride to Vanzilla? You can fly." Lucy remembered him.
"I know sis, it's just, I really like riding Vanzilla, with you." Lincoln smiled as he patted Lucy's head, making Lucy smile a little.
When Vanzilla arrived on Lincoln and Lynn's school, both siblings dropped out the car and they walked down the entrance, before parting to their lockers.
As Lincoln walked through the corridor to his locker, he heard other students gossiping. Mostly about the paranormal activities around the town. As he reached the locker, Clyde popped from the crowd of students.
"Hey Lincoln!" He greeted, and also opened his locker.
"Hey Clyde." Lincoln greeted back, picking his books and placing his backpack inside it. Clyde closed his locker and looked at his friend.
"Jeez Lincoln! What happened to your forehead?" Clyde spoke noticing the redness in Lincoln's forehead. Lincoln looked up his shoulder, got closer to Clyde and whispered.
"Last night, I went out of the house to a night trip, and..." Lincoln looked again up his shoulder. "I stopped a robbery!"
"WHA-" Clyde shouted but Lincoln covered his mouth.
"Shh!" spoke Lincoln.
"Sorry. But Lincoln! How?" Whispered Clyde. Before Lincoln could speak, they heard the rest of the Mysterians approaching them.
"Hey Lincoln! Clyde!" Greeted Zack. "What are you two talking about?"
"Lincoln was about to tell me how he stopped a robbery last night." Spoke Clyde without any discretion, making Lincoln facepalm, just to remember his sore forehead and wince at the pain.
"WHAT?" The four kids spoke in unison, surprised and shocked.
"SHHH!" Spoke Lincoln, alerting them to remain silent. "Look, let's go to class, later, in the lunch I explain." Lincoln started walking to his class, being accompanied by the rest of his friends.
From the end of the corridor, Girl Jordan looked to the group, as they crossed her, she disguised, pretending she was searching something on her locker. She was doing this, spying on the six for the past week. But she had caught only some fragments of their conversations, mostly, things about comics and videogames.
It was hard to catch much from them because how low they spoke and Jordan didn't wanted them to know she was spying, or at least trying to spy them.
"Girl Jordan!" The girl looked back, and smiled as she saw the person who called her. Margo approached Girl Jordan with her skin tanned.
"Margo!" Spoke Jordan as she hugged the friend. "How was Hawaii?" She asked.
"Mom didn't even wanted to come back!" Margo and her family passed the past two weeks in hawaii, Margo's mom had won a trip on a contest, because of this, Margo is totally oblivious everything that is happening in the town, the paranormal actvities, ghost sightings, and even Lincoln's weird comeback.
"You won't believe on what you lost these weeks you were out." Spoke Jordan starting to walk to class, the bell was about to ring. As they walked to their first class, Jordan told Margo about the paranormal actvities happening in Royal Woods.
"Oh, come on Girl Jordan" The two entered the class, Margo was so intertrained talking that she didn't noticed Lincoln. "All this probably is just collective hysteria." Margo continued speaking as she sat beside the white haired boy.
"Hey Margo." Lincoln greeted with a friendly smile
"Hey Lincoln. You see Girl Jordan, sometimes -" Margo stopped talking as she realized who greeted her. She slowly turned her head and locked her now wide eyes on Lincoln, who looked back to her with a awkward smile. He forgot that she still didn't knew his return.
"AHHHH!!!" Margo screamed like she saw a ghost.
"Oh boy..." Muttered Lincoln to himself as Margo fell of her chair.
"Wha, Wha, Wha." Margo Stuttered. She was so frightened, shocked and confused.
Lincoln sighed and got up and offered a hand to Margo to help her. The girl raised her hand and hesitantly grabbed his hand, and with his help, got back into his feet, without taking her eyes off him in the process.
They looked to each other in silence for some seconds. Margo's expression of shock and confusion made Lincoln feel uncomfortable.
"Hello Class! Sorry for the delay!" Spoke Mrs. Johnson entering the class, making Lincoln and Margo go back to their seats.
The Mysterians walked down the corridor, flooded with other students, the final bell rang and they were going outside to wait for Lori to take them to the mall. Unawere to them, Girl Jordan and Margo were following them from afar. Margo had agreed to help Jordan in her stalking of the group to figure what was happening.
When the Mysterians stepped outside, they sat on the grass on the front os the school. They knew their ride was going to take a while to show up. From the corner of the entrance, Margo and Jordan spied the group, receiving some weird looks from the students who passed by them.
After some minutes, the school was nearly deserted of students, just the group of Lincoln, chatting in the grass and the two stalkers Jordan and Margo spying on them, still on the corner of the entrance of the school.
"What are they doing?" Whispered Girl Jordan. "They normally take rides with their parents." Added.
"Maybe they are going to somewhere together, and they are waiting for a ride." Suggested Margo.
"Shhh, I'm trying to hear them." Shushed Jordan. Trying to hear what Lincoln was speaking.
"... Then, when he dropped to his knees, I headbutted him, knocking him out." Finished Lincoln.
"WOW!" Spoke Rusty. "That was awesome!"
"You should have looked so cool." Pointed Zack.
"Maybe, but I instantly regret it! Man, that hurted. I don't understand why headbutt is a thing! What a dumb move!" Spoke Lincoln rubbing his forehead
"Well, what happened them?" Asked Stella.
"Oh, I just Just of she was all right and adviced her to don't walk alone at night and I just went back home." Lincoln Explained.
"Lincoln, did she was able to recognize you?" Asked Clyde.
"Well, I was using the hoodie Leni gave me last birthday, And my hair was hidden, and was dark. And my eyes..." Lincoln muttered the last sentence thoughtful. "But why do you ask?"
"You see, thankfully nothing bad happened to you and the woman, but, what if you blow your cover?" Asked Clyde.
"Clyde, all this thing is not exactly a secret. It's just that explaining everything is a pain in the butt and being the center of attentions is not exactly the best for me." Lincoln Explained. Margo and Girl Jordan looked at each other what was he talking about? Clyde sighed.
"Lincoln, I can't understand you, you want to continue anonymous but you do this!' Spoke Zack.
"What you wanted? Let them do something really bad to a woman?" Lincoln stood up. "It was impulsive? Yes, I admit, but I couldn't let that happen!" Spoke Lincoln, nearly screaming.
"Hey, chili Lincoln." Spoke Liam trying to calm down Lincoln. "We know all had the bast of intentions!"
"We're just hurried for you. As your friends." Spoke Stella.
"As your crew." Spoke Rusty. Lincoln smiled a little.
"You know, being with you, and my family, make it easier to deal... You know... Being a gh-" That last word, for Girl Jordan and Margo's dismay was suppressed by Vanzilla's horn, Lori had arrived.
"Hey!" She called. "Hop on! I already dropped the other home, We'll go straight to the mall!
"He-hello Lori..." Spoke Clyde as the group entered the van, making Lori sigh.
"Don't even start Clyde. Everyone has his belts buckled?" The kids, minus Rusty nodded. The redhead was struggling a little to buckle his belt.
"Just a minute..." He spoke, before finally buckling the belt. "Done! We're ready now!"
"Okay! Let's hunt a ghost!" Lori spoke stepping in the pedal and starting the ride.
The two girls got out of their cover and observed the van driving away the street, before turning left and vanishing of eyesight. It took some minutes before either girl said something.
"So... What happened here?" Spoke Margo shocked. Jordan had her right hand on her chin, thinking about what they heard.
"Something weird is happening with that kid... You heard what he spoke in the end?" Asked Jordan, but Margo shaked his head. "Well... We had bad luck there..." Jordan took a look in her phone, and upon seeing the hour, her eyes widened. "Oh Shoot, look at the time, mom will be very mad with me!"
While driving to the mall, the kids were cheerful, finally they were going to face another ghost! But Lincoln wasn't so happy about it. Deep in his head, he knew that most of the hard work he was going to make, but he was happy nonetheless that his friends and her sister were so optimistic in helping him.
"Okay, someone heard something else about the ghost we are going to face?" Asked Lincoln.
"I heard." Spoke Lori. "That the food court was completely blocked."
"The food court?" Repeated Lincoln, thoughtful.
"Well, it's at least something, we'll be able to find him rather easily." Spoke Zack.
"We hope." Spoke Liam. After some minutes driving, Lori finally turned a corner the van entered the parking lot.
"Guys... It's my impression or the mall... Is closed?" Spoke Rusty.
The other took a deeper look at the parking lot, almost none vehicle was in sight. And the mall had their doors closed and all lights were off.
"Oh, come on!" Spoke Lori. "It should be open until 10 pm!" She grunted, parking on a lot near the entrance.
The group got out of the van and walked into the entrance. The automatic doors were off as expected and the interior was dark, when Stella peeked inside, she wasn't able to see anyone.
"Dang! We tried!" Spoke Rusty starting to walk back to the van, just to Lori grab him by the back of the collar.
"Someone have na Idea?" Asked Lori. "Besides giving up?"
"I can go in and see if I find a way to you to enter." Spoke Lincoln, making the motion of phasing through the door, but Stella caught his wrist.
"Wait, I think this won't be necessary..." She spoke. "Come with me!" She spoke starting to run to the right side of the building. The group followed her. She stopped running under a high balcony.
"The balcony of the food court! Of course! How I forgot!" Spoke Lori.
"Yeah, but how are we going to get up there?" Asked Zack.
"You have me, rememberer?" Lincoln spoke with a smirk, before grabbing Rusty by the waist and floating up to the balcony with the redhead. "Okay, who's next?" After the group were all up in the balcony, they finally went to enter the food court and saw that the glass doors were all shattered.
"Look out were you step." Alerted Lori as they entered the court, stepping on the shards of glass.
"Wow." Muttered Clyde as they looked inside the food court. It was totally destructed, overturned tables, fallen chairs, pieces of glass, plates, utensils thrown all over the floor. And stuck almost everywhere, leftover food that was probably there for at least two to three days.
"This place is a mess!" Spoke Rusty.
"It sure is." Agreed Liam.
"What happened here?" Muttered Clyde as the group approached one of the stalls. As Stella noticed something.
"Hey, look this!" She pointed at the buffet. All the trays and dishes were completely empty. Rusty jumped jumped the counter of the adjacent stall and went directly to the kitchen pantry and looked inside.
"HEY! THIS PANTRY IS ALSO EMPTY!" He shouted to the others.
"This is weird..." Spoke Lincoln searching another pantry in a third stall, the group searched a few other stalls, but all they could find was empty pantris, even the old, barely eatable frozen burgers of McKing's Burgers were missing.
"So, this is why the food court was closed." Pointed Lori as the group reunited after their search. "And we found nothing!"
"Yeah... Wait!" Spoke Liam. "I've heard something!" The group stood quiet. They could hear, a very low munching sound. Lincoln turned his head around trying to identify were the sound was coming from. After a few silent seconds, Lincoln finally locked his gaze at one of the stalls that they haven't checked. He was pretty sure that the sound was coming from there. He looked to the rest of the group and motioned with his hand to keep quiet and follow him.
As the kids slowly approached the stall, trying to don't make much noise from stepping in the broken glasses and forks, the noise became higher and higher. When they arrived at the counter, they couldn't see what was the source of the munches. But Zack spotted something moving behind the half opened kitchen door. Zack poked Lincoln's shoulder and pointed at the door, the ghost boy nodded and phased through the counter, the rest of the group slowly got around the counter.
Lincoln Spied the thing from the crack the door made, but the white haired kid couldn't see much from the thing beyond the door. But he could assure that the munches were being made by that thing.
Feeling that just staring there wasn't going to help anything, so, he put his hand on the door and swung open. Using more force that Lincoln intended, the door made a loud bang when it colide with the wall, and the thing became totally visible.
At first glance, it looked like a deformed, meaty blob with arms and legs, but if you took a deeper look, if you wanted to do that, you could recognize the thing as a morbidly obese man, with a skin so glossy and greasy that it looked like it had been bathed in lard, it looked like it was naked, and it haven't any hair in the entire body.
It was on all fours, eating pieces of frozen food like a hungry beast, They couldn't ser his face, as It was with his back to the group. He was completely devoted into devour that gross, almost rotten chunks of meat it ripped of the freezer, even the loud sound the door produced didn't distracted it of his feast.
That mere sight of that thing could make someone vomit, and Rusty felt his lunch coming back into his mouth. But he swallowed back scared as he saw that the thing was slowly turning his head to them.
It had a bald head with tiny eyes and a extremely large mouth that was full of that meat. It looked at them with curiosity for some seconds, before sticking other chunk of meat in his already full mouth, but the mouth just embiggered. And it just turned his head back to his gross meal.
It took some seconds before the group could react to what they were seeing. That thing was repulsive, although, it didn't looked very dangerous. Lincoln thought for a second. Maybe they could convince him to go to the other side without fight.
Creating a bit of courage, Lincoln took a step forward and cleared his throat, trying to catch the attention of the thing.
"What are you doing?" Whispered Lori to her brother. Lincoln ignored her, just cleared his throat again.
This time, the thing looked back again, Lincoln could see a fragment of annoyance in it's eyes as the thing looked at him, munching the rests of meat that still was in the mouth.
"Uhm... Hello sir..." Lincoln started speaking to the thing, making the group look at each other. "I see that you're uhm... Ocupied... Eating... And I... We, though that if you could..."
Before Lincoln could end his sentence, the thing started producing a sound that almost sounded like a growl it started turning around his imence body to the group. Then opened his mouth, chunks of half eaten meat falled as he produced a wobbly sound that barely could be called a voice.
"No... You want my food... No... This food... Is mine... Mine to eat, mine!" With that, the thing pounced forward surprisingly fast, making the group scream and run.
The group runned past the door and the stall, the group runned through food court. As they approached the same balcony they entered, a loud bang could be heard. When the group looked back, the stall that the thing was was completely destroyed and the creature flew in their direction.
"Go ahead to Vanzilla!" Ordered Lincoln
"How? The balcony!" Spoke Lori."
"The fire exit!" Lincoln shouted before he charged against the thing to make time to them. Lincoln punched the thing. But when his fist contacted the skin of that thing, Lincoln felt a sticky sensation. "What?" He spoke as he felt his hand sinking, like if that thing was made of raw dough. The boy pulled his hand, but wasn't able to free himself, his hand just started to sunk in the dough.
"You won't have my food!" Bragged the thing as he raised one of his chubby hands, and the glass shards scattered started glowing with a gostly purple aura. Lincoln's eyes widened as the shards also started floating. And flying in his direction.
Lincoln pulled his arm, who was sunk to it's elbow but again wasn't able. Lincoln closed his eyes as he felt the shards craving into his flesh. His eyes started to tear as he felt his hand phasing through the body and finally was able to free himself. In the moment, Lincoln forgot that he could became intangible.
As Lincoln breathed with relief, the thing flung his arm into Lincoln, hitting him on the stomach, making him fly backwards through the balcony. And fall on his back on the concrete floor below it.
Lincoln grunted with the pain and tried to get up, but he couldn't. His stomach was so sore that he couldn't even move, the glass shards craved in his back, sunked even further because of the fall. He was about to pass out when he heard some pairs os steps running to him. When they got closer, it was Zack, Rusty and Clyde, who picked Lincoln up and runned back to Vanzilla.
"We got him!" Spoke Rusty as the three boys put Lincoln laying on the back seat of the van. And also entering it. After that, Lori started driving the van.
"Lincoln, you're good?" Asked Stella concerned at Lincoln's state. It was a redundant question but still.
"That thing hits like a truck." Spoke Lincoln. He felt the van bumping, as Lori was driving faster than she was used to it. "Lori, slow down a little." He asked.
"Sorry Lincoln." Lori slowed the van for the rest of the voyage.
The oldest Loud parked the van in the driveway as the Mysterians picked Lincoln and helped him go back inside.
"OPEN ROOM FOR LINCOLN!" Shouted Clyde, making Luan, Luna and Lana who were in the couch, to get out of it to make room for Lincoln. Rusty and Liam placed Lincoln on the couch.
The sisters who were in the second floor went down to the living room. Leni fainted as she saw Lincoln.
"Where's Lisa? We need her to remove the shards from him!" Ordered Lori.
"Coming!" Lisa was already getting down the stairs with her first aid kit in one hand and a surgical forceps in the other.
One hour later, Lisa was finishing removing the last shards out of Lincoln's back.
"Then, that thing started making the glass float! That's how I got these." Spoke Lincoln. "And just one movement, he made me fly of the balcony."
"That thing was literally the most disgusting thing I've ever seen." Spoke Lori.
"A glutton ghost..." Spoke Luna. "It sounds like a song name."
"Glutton Ghost? What a weird name-Gah!" Grunted Lincoln as Lisa pulled another shard from his arm.
"Sorry." Apologized Lisa putting the shard in a tray full of the shards she already removed from her brother.
"Weird was you Lincoln, trying to talk to that thing!" Spoke Rusty, who was sitting on the floor besides Liam and Zack.
"I though that I could talk with it without a fight!" Lincoln Explained himself.
"Well, that ghost isn't interested in talking."
"Yeah, everything the may have in the head is dough." Luan spoke before letting out a laugh.
"We'll need to fight it. Somehow." Spoke Clyde.
"But... Like I said, when I punched him, I got stuck. How to fight something without touching it?" Spoke Lincoln.
"We will need to think something." Spoke Clyde. The other Mysterians nodded in agreement.
As The Mysterians pondered a way to defeat the Glutton Ghost, Lisa listened carefully as she finally removed the last shards.
"Maybe we can attract him. with food." Spoke Zack.
"Excuse me..." Asked Lisa, however she was ignored.
"Yes, A bait it'll be necessary..." Spoke Clyde.
"And if he can make things float, you have to be careful with the broken glass in the court." Pointed Luna.
"Yeah, we don't want to end like Lincoln here." Lyon spoke punching Lincoln's shoulder, making the white haired kid flinch due the pain. "By the way, only now I realized that you have regeneration powers."
"Excuse me..." Again Lisa asked attention.
"Well, if you will need food to bait the ghost, I can help you kids!" Spoke Lynn Sr. With a generous smile.
"Thanks dad." Spoke Lincoln. "It will be help-GAH!" Lincoln moaned as Lisa removed a shard with a little more force.
"Excuse me, can I talk, Please?" Asked Lisa again, putting the shard she removed in the tray.
"Ok Lisa! What is it?" Spoke Lincoln annoyed.
"I want to seize the opportunity that is everyone here, including you Mysterians, to announce that I finally concluded my research involving the biology of undead organisms, with, obviously is important to everyone in this room to know, since one of us is a undead." Everyone looked at Lisa as she finished speaking. Seeing that again, they were confused of what she spoke, Lisa sighed and explained. "I finally discovered how ghosts work.
"OH!" Spoke every single person on the room.
A.N: This chapter was tricky to write, and we saw a lot of things happening, Ronnie Anne's side of the story is also very hard to me to write, by the fact that I didn't watched much of The Casagrandes cartoon, and I do not know very much about the chapters and places.
A new character enter the fic with Margo, she entered the fic because I honestly forgot about her in the chapter I introduced Girl Jordan. but because of this, my plans with the chapter changed a little, becoming allied of Girl Jordan in spying The Mysterians.
The part where Lincoln saved that woman will be more important in the next chapters.
And also there's the new ghost, the "Glutton Ghost". He was very different from what I envisioned before writing, but I really liked the result, being very gross. I was inspired by the Coraline book, when the other father became a amorphous blob.
And next chapter, we'll know everything that Lisa discovered about Lincoln's anatomy, And I swear that it won't take so long again.