Chapter 8: Never Ending Thoughts

"Rose, how did you know that 88 and 89 didn't kill that unicorn?" Jake asked Rose, as the entered back into the backroom of Lao Shi's shop.

"Well for one thing, no Huntsclan member would kill a magical creature, and just leave it there. Plus, they could never take on a unicorn by themselves." Rose joked a bit. But her giggling smile soon faded.

Jake joined into the laughter a bit, but then walked forward into the front of the shop. "Should of thought of that." He remarked. But his head turned around; he noticed that Rose was not following him.

Slowly walking to the opposite direction, he could sense fear, worry in Rose's face. Facing downward, Rose looked up as soon as she noticed Jake was turning back. But she turned her head to the side, grabbing Jake's hands. "What if the Huntsman is back!?" She repeated.

Okay, even Jake couldn't believe that. It was impossible; they killed him in the last story!! We all saw it!! "Rose, come on, can you really believe that!?" Jake said, trying to make her feel better.

Sensing that Jake was not going to believe her hypothesis, she didn't want to press on with the thought any longer. She was right there when the Huntsman took his last breathe. "Yeah…right…?" She tried to agree. But if the Huntsman is dead, who could have done the mysterious killing? Another Huntsclan member?

Rose and Jake went forward into the front room. There, Trixie, Spud, and Roxanne just finished their game of Zombie Slayers III.

"Yes! We are the champions of a make believe world!!" Spud cheered. Jumping up, he kind of bumped into Roxanne. Her cheeks soon turned rosy red.

Trixie excited by the game, didn't even notice Rose and Jake entered into the room. But once Jake set his arms on the couch, she realized it. "Hey guys, where have you been?"

Spud sat his butt back down on the couch, and looked over at Roxanne. "Roxanne honey, would you like to join me to get some pizza at Familio Festevedro's!" Spud was referring to the pizzeria his mom owned. Roxanne had been there, maybe once or twice.

"Spud, for the last time, we aren't together!" Roxanne yelled. "But…okay!" Her anger smiled to turn into a smile rather quickly.

Trixie's attention turned from Jake's, back over to Spuds. "Oh not uh, you guys are not ditching me this time. How about we all go get some pizza, I sure could use a slice." She looked back over and Jake and Rose. Both nodded their heads, so they exited the shop and walked over to the restaurant.

The five of them sat down onto a table. A woman with black hair set down a large pizza onto their table. "Thanks ma." Spud greeted his mother. Ms. Spudinski smiled over to her son, the slowly walked back into the kitchen.

On the way, and the wait for the pizza, Rose and Jake explained their little visit to the Huntsclan. "So, if 88 and 89 didn't kill that unicorn, who did!?" Trixie said, just as she was grabbing the first piece of pizza and holding it up to her mouth.

"That's what we have to figure out." Jake spoke with his mouth open, chewing on some pepperoni pizza.

"Hmm…" Roxanne switched her focus. "Maybe it wasn't a Huntsclan member. Maybe it was just someone trying to frame a huntsman, just so he won't get caught." She did have a point. But even so, who would kill a unicorn, and just leave it there for evidence!?

The rest of the time, the teens were mostly quiet. With the occasional a laugh or small conversation, they all stayed put at the table finishing up the last of their pizza. Jake, of course, took the last piece.

Roxanne looked over at Spud, who was sitting right next to her. "Thank you Spud for inviting me…!" She smiled. Jake, Rose, and Trixie all gave a strange look at her. "I mean…thank you all..." She abruptly said after. Everyone ignored her.

Of course being the gentleman, Jake paid for the pizza (even though they did get a discount from Spud's mom), and they all got up from their seats and headed for the exit.

It was useless to even go back to the shop, because they all knew they would just sit there, bored once again. So they all decided to call it a day, already. "See you guys tomorrow okay?" Jake waved to the two ladies as they headed the opposite direction.

"Bye!" Roxanne waved, and then caught up to Rose who was a few feet ahead of her. She looked over to her sister, who still had the glum face she had all day. "Come Rose, cheer up. Today's a beautiful day!!" She joked, as she always.

But no matter how much Rose could try, she couldn't get those thoughts out of her head. It was like a never ending dream that haunted in her mind.

I AM SO SORRY I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS IN FOREVER!! This chapter had given me some disease called 'writers block.' But finally, I agreed on what I wanted in this chapter. Now that my writers block is gone (for now), I should be updating this story more often that what I did before. So expect a new chapter soon :)