"I'm sorry Mrs. Fischer but I can't let you out of the room." Nurse Jennings insisted while hovering over Wendy's bed and struggling to keep her from moving.
"I have to go now or I'm going to die!" Wendy protested.
"Wendy watch out!" a voice cried.
Wendy turned her head and saw Nicki's spirit. Wendy gazed at her, still not grasping the fact that she was dead until Nicki ran up to her and gripped her arm tightly.
The nurse gasped when she saw Wendy fall to the floor just seconds before the bar from the monitoring system burst through the wall.
Unfortunately, that gasp was the last sound Nurse Jennings ever uttered.
Wendy felt the recognizable warm splatter on her neck and legs. She rose her body up with her trembling hands and instantly shuddered. The bar had gone right through the nurse's head and was now sticking out of her forehead, sticky blood oozing from it. She eerily resembled Kat Jennings at the time of her death.
Suddenly, Wendy's head began to spin and her vision got blurry. With a final groan she collapsed to the floor, the back of her head bleeding. Nicki swiftly pulled the emergency rope on the wall and the room began flashing with red lights, the sounds of doctors and nurses hurrying down the corridor. She eyed Wendy sadly before departing.
*** "How much time does she have left then?"
"1 day at the most. I'm truly sorry Mr. Fischer."
Wendy heard a muffled sob and she painfully opened her eyes. A warm hand took hers and she felt a cold wet tear splash on her arm. It was Kevin and he was crying. Why was he crying? Her mind couldn't sort out the details because it was still hazy. So hazy…
Footsteps faded away after a door closed. Wendy could only sense one person in the room.
"Kevin?" she called.
His figure came into view and once again a warm hand took hers. "What's happening?" she asked him meekly.
Her vision finally cleared up and now she could see Kevin's tear-stained face.
"Kevin what's happening? What's wrong?" She repeated in a more pronounced voice.
"You uh had an accident after the nurse died. The stress was too much for you and your head kinda of…well it reached its limit and you passed out."
"And that's all?" Wendy prompted.
Kevin hesitated. "Not really. You see they had suspected that you had a blood clot when you first got here. But after what happened today they found that you had an aneurysm in your brain because of the fall you had from the car crash."
Wendy's heart leapt to her throat. An aneurysm was beyond deadly. If it was put under too much pressure it could burst and her head would basically become a blood bath. The nauseating information made her regret studying medicine. "Can't they just operate on me?"
Kevin shook his head. "It's too serious right now. It's inoperable."
Wendy felt drained. Too much information… Without warning Wendy grimaced and hung her head on the opposite side of her bed railing and began coughing up blood.
*** Adie tapped her foot impatiently on the floor of the secluded room she and Freddy had broken into. After hearing about Wendy she had ran out of the room. It was too much for her to bear. She just wanted it all to end for it to just stop. But it wouldn't. Not until they did what Bludworth had asked for. At least that's what she kept telling herself while pacing the room. There was a jingling sound at the door and Adie readied her arm for combat in case it was a nurse or doctor. Instead it was Freddy with a scrap of paper in his hand. It was a summoning spell. He handed it to her and she looked at him, confused. "I thought you were going to read it."
"Bludworth said that only a visionary could do it."
"Great." Adie muttered. She took the paper from his hand and read out blandly,
"Hear these words hear my cry
Spirit from the other side
Come to me I summon thee
Cross now the Great Divide"
Nothing happened. Adie re-read it and once again nothing happened.
"Try it with some emotion." Freddy advised.
Adie tried it but again nothing happened. After three more fruitless tries she was getting angry. This time when she repeated the spell she was basically yelling.
"Hear these words hear my cry
Spirit from the other side
Come to me I summon thee
Cross now the Great Divide!"
Suddenly, there was a glistening cloud of smoke and Adie and Freddy were pushed backwards by the force. When they stood up coughing there were many spirits huddled in the room. Some appeared anxious while others appeared prepared.
Adie didn't know most of them personally but from Wendy and Kevin's descriptions she could recognize Ashley, Ashlyn, Lewis, Ian, Erin, and Julie.
Others she knew from websites online Alex, Clear, Kimberly, Burke, Terry, Carter, Kat, and of course Rory.
And the rest she already knew, Alex Thebes, Eli, Nicki, Cheryl, and Maddie.
"Um aren't there supposed to more of you?" she concluded.
"Eh those other wusses were too scared to even show up. But not us, right bro?" Lewis said touching knuckles with Eli.
"You got that right." Eli answered.
Nearby Clear scoffed. "They couldn't come. Death managed to hold them back but we were able to get away. But that doesn't mean that were all going to help you." She said pointedly, flashing Ashley, Ashlyn, Maddie, and Terry dirty looks.
Ashley crossed her arms along with Ashlyn. "Well excuse us for being afraid of spending all of eternity with Death." Ashlyn said dramatically.
"Yeah we just don't want to mess with that guy." Ashley agreed.
Maddie nodded. "It's not just that, the thing is if we fail then we're screwed. We lose our freedom we lose everything."
"We'd rather be free than be stuck in Death's little hell hole of a Domain." Terry said.
She seemed to be the most logical of the group. Go figure.
"So I'm guessing you guys won't be joining us." Freddy murmured.
The group of girls shook their heads.
Ian and Erin sniggered.
"Figures that the princesses would back out." Erin mocked.
"At least we're not pasty-faced Goths." Ashley said superiorly.
"Oh and as if being a blonde air-head bitch is any better." Erin shot back.
"Enough guys!" Burke commanded.
They all fell silent. Even Adie who wasn't even talking felt the urge to not open her mouth. Burke's authorative presence was strong.
"Can I just say something?" Rory questioned.
"NO!" everyone shouted in usion.
Rory glared at them. "Sheesh give a guy a break will ya?"
Adie sighed. "What is it Rory?"
"I was going to suggest that instead of arguing here like a bunch of bitches we could just have the people who don't want to go on the quest back out of the circle." He said reasonably.
Everyone looked a bit ashamed at the fact that a former coke-head had an actual idea and they didn't.
Maddie, Ashley, Ashlyn, and Terry backed away first.
Then Carter did and he took Terry's arm. "I'm staying with you babe."
Terry giggled and Adie and Freddy rolled their eyes.
"Anyone else?" Freddy prompted.
Sheepishly, Julie backed away.
Adie was stunned. "Julie? Don't you want to save your own sister?"
Before she could talk Ian did, "Wait we're doing this to help Wendy? Screw it then I'm out."
Erin seized his arm. "Ian get over it already what's done is done. You can't blame Wendy forever. We're dead. The least we can do is help the people who freed us and Wendy is one of those people." Erin snapped.
Ian's eyes flashed angrily but he grudgingly stepped back into the circle.
"You were saying?" Adie motioned at Julie. "
I do want to help Wendy, she's my sister. But I just…What if you guys can't do it? There are only three of you not counting Wendy who's on her deathbed right now."
"There are not only three of us. Wendy is in this she might not die if we can do this. Bludworth is helping too and you guys aren't exactly standing by the sidelines either." Adie rationalized.
Julie gazed at her sadly. "Defeating Death isn't going to help Wendy. You're too late to help her. I'm sorry but I just won't." She backed away without another word.
"That's it then?" Freddy made sure.
No one else backed away.
In the end the spirits that had agreed to help were Rory Peters, Eli Cades, Lewis Romero, Kat Jennings, Alex Thebes, Nicki Burman, Clear Rivers, Ian McKinley, Erin Ulmer, Thomas Burke and the three other visionaries; Alex Browning, Kimberly Corman, and Cheryl McKenna.
13 people.
Adie randomly remembered the fact that 13 was considered an unlucky number but she dismissed the fact and smiled at the ones who had agreed to go on the quest.
"It looks like a good group. We might just win this thing." Freddy said.
"Oh you bet we're going to kick that bastard's ass!" Eli cheered.
Everyone else agreed.
All of a sudden, Adie, Alex, Kimberly, and Cheryl felt a dark feeling creep up on them. A malevolent spirit a vicious one. Adie knew that this was what Bludworth had been talking about. It was Death's angry presence. He was pissed off now and nothing was going to get in his way.
Author's Note: Well there you go those are the spirits who are in. Hmm…poor Wendy. She's dying on a hospital bed and no one can help. Will she survive? You'll just have to read to find out! The summoning spell is entirely from the show 'Charmed' so I take no credit for it. The aneurysm idea came from watching way too much Greys Anatomy. Oh and in case you're wondering Freddy was able to see the spirits because they were summoned. Thanks for reading and please review!
