That night when the boys returned they all started their ways towards their rooms. They were sad to the thought of never being able to hear Dr. Harvey's voice again. Not to mention they'd never have therapy again..! Despite that it annoyed them more often than not, it still amused them that the Doc had tried to cure them and they enjoyed that company. It was also nice to know that someone listened to them too. Stinkie with his hands shoved into ecto like they were pockets floated into his and Melle's bedroom as he yawned. "Hey hun, I'm back...! I ... HMN? Melle..?" Curiously he blinked as he then checked the bathroom. When he didn't find her there he raised an eyebrow and moved quickly to the kitchen. When he couldn't find her there either he scratched the top of his head. "Hrmn..." Swiftly he moved to Azriel's room and floated in through the wall. "Hey kiddo...! Where's ya Ma...?" Stopping next to the bed he watched his son as he tossed and turned over.
"H-huh? Oh I uh... I dunno! I took a nap.. Hey Rin... have you...?" Azriel's eyes widened as he noticed she wasn't in the room either. "R-RIN?" Jumping to his feet he grabbed his Dad's arms. "Th-there's gotta be something wrong!! Rin would never leave without telling me or bringing me with her!"
"Jus' like Melle..." Stinkie frowned as he narrowed his eyes as he turned to start out of the room. Though both Fatso and Stretch were already there in which they greeted him with just about the same look. It was then they knew that something had taken place while they were out. "So ... Fiona huh...?" Stinkie's voice trailed off as he glared at the floor. "Alright den, let's get dis plan started..! Someone warn Casper an' Kat t'keep demselves outta harms way..." Cracking his knuckles Stinkie motioned for Fatso to follow after him. Stretch nodded and took off to warn Kat and Casper while Azriel rushed to gather his inventions that he worked so hard on. Once Azriel had gathered his items he noticed that there had been one missing, which worried him the most. He had created 3 swords out of a special formula in which would cross a ghost over if it were jabbed or slashed deep enough with it.There were only 2 he had accounted for.
"Thiiiiiis isn't good...!" Azriel shook his head as he looked up spooked to find out that Fiona floated there not too far away from him.
"You want your PRECIOUS Mother back and all of your stupid loved ones...?? Well... they're here...check the lab..." Her voice hissed as she started sinking through the floor. "If you want them, you'll have to do a favor for ME now! Stinkie was rightfully MINE, and I want him just like I should have had him!! If I get him, then you get your precious family back...!" Fiona sounded crazed as her laughter filled the air. After having heard that Stretch swiftly joined Azriel in the main hall. The two exchanged glances as they waited for Stinkie.
"I figured she'd try an' do dis at some point... So den...How do I look...?" Stinkie grinned as he posed in his new Blayne costume that he made from old clothes stored in the attic as well as some Halloween kits stored from his time as 'Boomer'.
"W-Whoa...! DAD?! Is... Is that...?? HOW did you do it without the Lazarus?!" Quickly Azriel walked around him and just stared in disbelief. There was no way that he returned to being a human other wise was there?! Stinkie just smirked and lifted the wig a little. "Heh... and I'm supposed to be the genius of the family... " Sheepishly Azriel grinned as he handed his father one of the swords he crafted. "Be careful NOT to stab yourself with this, you know what it does and since you're indeed NOT human.. it'll be harmful to you..!" Swiftly the four of them traveled on down to the lab where Fiona awaited them. The first two down were Stretch and Fatso.
"Where da HELL is my Soul Mate you bitch...?" Stretch just flat out confronted her his eyes filled with a blood red hatred for this ghoul at this point.
"Oh she's around..." Fiona cackled and grinned evilly as she looked at container which encased Ghastly and Ebony inside each of their own. "It's a little something that someone made.. They said they discovered the blue prints from someone who'd left them behind."
"Ebony...!" Fatso tried to get over to the container only to be met with the missing Reaper sword that Azriel had constructed. "GAH!!" He paused right in place slowly backing away from it.
"Try anything stupid and they'll be the first to flip to the other side... I prefer these two here to suffer slowly anyways...!" Slowly as she glanced over her shoulder both Melle and Rin stared frightenedly at her. Stretch and Fatso both just growled as they plotted on just what they'd be able to do to help at this point.
"Y'hoit dem an' you won't have me aroun' at all!" Stinkie shouted from the entrance of the Up and Atom machine. Fiona quickly shifted her glance to the entry and gasped as she was met with a surprise. When she saw Blayne standing there her eyes widened as did Melle's and Rin's.
"Y-YOUR...ALIVE! HOW!? I've been down here all of this time..and...!" Fiona pointed to the Lazarus with her eyebrows raised.
"Aloive, Dead, who cares...?? I'm he'e...! You wanted me? Y'got me! Now let my wife an family GO!" He growled as he stepped closer and closer towards her. Azriel followed close behind with his arms folded. Oh how Fiona hated seeing those two side by side like that! When Stinkie looked like Blayne you could really see the family resemblance which made the truth that much harder to swallow.
"So..You'll be mine then...? You'll tell me how much you love me...?? You'll cuddle me and spend time with only me...??" Fiona grinned widely as she floated up a little closer to Stinkie. "You'll love me and only me..??" Desperately she grabbed onto his jacket and stared into his golden eyes.
"Sure, I'll do whatever da hell y'want as long as y'let 'em go! EXCEPT da last one... I love ya as a FRIEND Fio. Rather, LOVED, ya as a friend! Da only one dat I ever TRULY loved ever in my life toime an aftuhlife has been Emma er Melle! She's da only one dat NEVER tried ta change who I was, yea', she still managed t'get me inta baths from toime t'toime... which wasn' normal, but, it wasn' like some kinda BIG change! For example my hair nevuh needed t'be combed, she never cared if I was dirty, she didn't care 'bout my smell, she liked it dat I was rowdy an obnoxious...! I nevuh had t'wear a fancy pants suit.." Stinkie explained as he placed his hands on her shoulders. Fiona's eyes widened as she listened to him say everything. "YOU always tried t'change me an' who I was...! Y'always left 'er out...an' den... Ya moidered her! IT'S YER FAULT she died, Y'even tried it again!! But y'know what?! HAH, It's YER FAULT DAT I DIED AS WELL...!"
"NO!" Fiona cried out as she backed away from him and buried her face into her closed fists. "NO...NO NO!!"
"YES, IT WAS! Yer da one dat hired dat damned guy t'kill Emma, an because of dat he gotta crush on ya! DEN, DEN... Cause you wanted me... and not him... he killed ME...! Hmn, If you'd NEVER killed Emma... I wouldna died dat day...! It's all yer fault... all because 'o what y'did!" Stinkie continued to pressure her with the subject.
"NO, IT ISN'T..! SHUT UP!!" Randomly Fiona reached over and grabbed the knife from the nearby table and threw it at Stinkie. Realizing what she'd done she opened her eyes and gasped. "BLAYNE!" tears raced down her cheeks as she covered her mouth. Her eyes shook as she watched the blood pour from the wound in his body. Slowly Stinkie smirked as he pulled it out and threw it down. Azriel and his Uncles acted if they were shocked or scared of what had happened, though in reality they weren't.
"Well... now are y'happy...? Y'personally killed me now..by yer... own hand..! Tck, can y'really say dat y'loved me...?" His eyes narrowed as he grabbed the wound and dropped to his knees.
Melle watched in udder horror as she had NO CLUE what'd been going on. Those blue eyes of hers were fixated on him as she screamed out. "BLLLAAAYYNE!! BLAYNE!! NO!! NO!! OH PLEASE, PLEASE...!! Someone ... h-help him!!" Squirming around in her restraints Melle tried to get over to him, though was stopped in her tracks by Dash. Tightly he grabbed her hair and grinned evilly as he watched Stinkie look up with frightened eyes. "Blayne!!" Crying Melle reached out for him and shivered at seeing Dash there.
"Ah, ah, ah, Let the boy die in misery...! Knowing that he won't be able to save his wife..! Then I can be resurrected and take my way with her" Slowly Dash looked at Melle and grinned.
"I...it wasn't supposed to be like this..! I... I never meant for it to happen this way...! He promised me that if I separated you and her that I could live my after-life peacefully with you! All he wanted was the girl..and all I've ever wanted was you.. It's not fair... I was with you first! I saw you first..er, you saw me first..! I just wanted that happy life with you, then SHE came along..! I wanted to be yours alone... and could've.. I just.. I ..." Fiona started to cry as she covered her face. "I never wanted to cause you pain! I just wanted to be with you...so badly. I loved you so much.." Gently she touched Stinkie's hand as he stared up at her and shook his head.
"You...might not've meant to... but y'still did it... You've ruined my life twice.. Congrats!" and with that Stinkie collapsed to the ground. Panicked Fiona tried to get a pulse but when she didn't feel any she freaked out and screamed out in rage and pain.
"Idiot... now let's move on to the Lazarus SHALL we?!" Dash grinned as he pulled Melle close to him. Melle struggled and squirmed as she shook her head and cried.
"YOU'LL HAVE TO GO THROUGH -ME- FIRST!" Azriel called out as he aimed his Reaper sword at Dash. "I'll send you to your grave for good! You'll be expelled to the depths of hell forever more for what you've done! There's no doubt about it in my mind. Now you let go of my MOTHER!" He roared out at the spook as he darted for him. Dash happily obliged him as he tossed Melle aside and grabbed himself a normal sword of which he happily started toe-to-toe with him. Stretch looked at Fiona and narrowed his eyes. As he started towards her to attack, another surprise visitor appeared out of nowhere! It was Chad!
"YOU..!" Stretch growled angrily at the specter as they circled one another. "...What da hell d'you think dat ya doin' here?!" Grabbing up the sword Stinkie had dropped Stretch now toyed with death a second time as he seized after Chad.
"I thought it'd be good to see the looks on your faces when your whole world crashed down on you...!" Taking the sword Fiona had dropped as well Chad charged into battle with Stretch. Their swords all clashed as they swung them around aiming for a vital point on one another. Fatso used this opportunity and released the girls.
"Get Rin an' get outta he'e..! Dis ain' no place for ladies like yerselves..!" Fatso pointed to one of the exits as he rushed over to untie Melle. When she was untied the first thing she did was race over and picked up Stinkie into her arms. Crying she buried her face into his chest deeply as she stroked his pony tail. Fatso just stared on at the two of them and frowned. He wanted badly to tell her te truth so she wouldn't cry anymore, but he looked away as he wasn't supposed to. If she knew then the whole thing might be ruined if push came to shove. "I'm gonna go wit da ghouls an' make sure dey're protected... Okay...? Will you be alright...?" Gently he placed a hand on Melle's shoulder. Quietly she just nodded and waved him off.
Meanwhile Azriel dodged the sword that was being continually jabbed and stabbed at him by Dash. "Hngh! AH!" Tightly he gritted his teeth as he swerved out of the way. Swiftly he slashed his sword at Dash's side. He managed to make a cut, but nothing deep enough that'd send the spook to the other side. Though it caused the guy to cry out in pain as it stung and burned. Twisting and turning Azriel spun around and jumped to the best of his ability as a human. Though Dash remained always on his case and followed whatever move the boy made. Stretch on the other hand easily out-witted Chad in many ways as they clanged their swords together. There were a few things that Stretch had always excelled at and Sword fighting was one of them. Swiftly he blocked an upper thrust, parried and thrust again as he circled his opponent. Using his ghostly ability to stretch he wrapped himself carefully around Chad and attacked that way.
"NICE try but it's not going to work!" Turning he grabbed Stretch by his tail and stretched him as far as he could. Stretch cried out as he flew off through a wall. Chad grinned to himself and looked to Azriel who he aimed to attack and help Dash out with. Putting down the Reaper sword Chad in turn picked up a real one and went for an opening.
"OH SHIT!" Azriel cried out as he now did his best to fight off the two spooks that attacked him. His eyes narrowed as he focused as hard as he could on this. As soon as one attacked he'd block and use one of his legs or other limbs to avoid the other. Sweating he watched closely every move that they two made. Huffing and puffing he winced as one of them nearly clipped the top of his head. He had started getting slower. There just was no way around it either in this form! Though he had to wait, he HAD to...! However this lasted only a few moments longer as Azriel found himself stabbed through the shoulder. The boy screamed out in pain as he allowed it to happen. Dash grinned evilly at the boy as he pinned Azriel to the wall that way.
"Good riddance to bad rubbish...!" Chad chuckled as he lunged his arm back and plowed it forward to stab Azriel through the heart.
"I couldn't agree more!" It was then that Azriel revealed himself to be a ghost and grinned evilly at Chad. Chad who was taken by surprise dropped the sword as Stretch plunged his Reaper sword through him from behind.
"N-NO!! NOOOOOOOOO!! I'LL... ... I'LL...! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH AAAAAAAAHHH!! IT BURNS!!" Chad screamed out in full fledged pain as he erupted into a burst of flames and slowly disappeared from sight. Dash stared in awe at this and now became panicked more and dropped the normal sword, grabbing up the reaper sword.
"I'LL SHOW YOU!!" Swiftly he attacked Stretch as he growled loudly. "DIE!!" Once again the two engaged in battle and aimed to stab one another with it. Stretch dodged the sword rather easily as he eyed down the frightened ghost he opposed. A grin formed on Stretch's face as he noticed how off the boy had become from what had just happened. Azriel just inhaled deeply as he collapsed himself down to the ground and grabbed his shoulder wound. Slowly he looked towards his mother who stared at him worriedly. Though he was tired the boy managed a smile to her. Slowly Fiona raised up and grabbed the sword that layed nearest to her. Those once green eyes had shrunken to a fierce reddened tone. Closer and closer she stalked towards Melle with the sword raised high.
"M-MOM!" Azriel's eyes widened as he jumped to his feet and started after Fiona. "GET AWAY FROM... ... H-her.!" His eyes widened as he felt the knife that had stabbed his father start to enter his leg. Almost upon direct impact Azriel turned himself ghost so that it wouldn't get him too badly though it was too late...! The damage had been done as he collapsed to the ground. Stretch continued his fight with Dash and could only but glance at what happened with Fiona, Melle and Azriel.
"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR INTERFERING! IT'S HER FAULT ALL THIS HAPPENED! ALL HERS!! IT'S NOT MINE!! ... I'LL KILL YOU... DIE YOU STUPID GIRL...! DIE!!" Fiona dashed at Melle with the sword aimed for her heart. Panicking Azriel kicked the reaper sword over to his father that he'd used.
"DAD!!" The boy cried out in desperation for his father to attack. Almost instantly Stinkie grabbed up the sword as he shoved Melle gently aside, then he plunged the reaper sword straight through Fiona. Fiona's eyes widened surprised to see that all this time he'd still been alive. The sword she had held went right through Stinkie again and she stared as she felt herself starting to be crossed over.
"You foist." Stinkie hissed through his bucked teeth with his eyes narrowed.
"B-but... how...? I thought you...?" Fiona trembled as she dropped her weapon and clenched the spot where she had been stabbed now. Stinkie quietly removed the wig and stared coldly at her and looked away. "Oh.I... see.. Hn, Y-You always were...so smart...my Blayne... I ... I'm sorry... For all the trouble that I... ..I caused you... I was so... jealous... I'm sorry.."
"I know... I forgive you... now rest in peace." Closing his eyes Stinkie sighed as she was soon after consumed in a burst of white light. It was a hard thing to do, forgive her for everything that she'd done. Though he figured it was the only way she'd truly be able to rest in peace without returning again. At least she'd gone with a smile this time. Melle just stared up at him in awe as her eyes teared over again. Her hands shivered as she passed out from all of the excitement. Meanwhile Stretch continued his fight with Dash in which he'd started winning.
"Time for you t'join dem!!" Stretch grunted and flipped around behind the boy as he shoved the sword through the ghosts back. Dash much like Chad screamed out in pain as he was engulfed in flames. When everything had died back down the three boys gathered together and sighed with relief. Though Azriel was in pain and shuddered from his wounds. "Heh, Y'know kid... I'm proud of ya's! You's handled yaself great Ozzie.."
"Yeah, I've nevuh been so proud t'call myself ya father. You, you're great kiddo..." Stinkie hugged his son tightly. "Now we'll all have more den enough time t'get our lives straightened back to da way dey used ta be! Fun an' fancy free!" Chuckling Stinkie picked up Melle and stroked her hair. "Still...Hmn...So much stress caused on 'er...an' Kat.." Closing his eyes tightly he sighed and looked at Azriel. "Could you get him to da hospital...? Those're gonna need some stitches.. I've gotta take Melle on upstairs and get changed.."
"I think dat I could do dat for ya's...! Isn' dat right??" Stretch grinned widely at Azriel as he carried the kid upstairs to meet up with Ebony, Who'd be about the only one that'd be able to get Azriel into that hospital.