Chapter 9

The next morning I woke up at around nine. Mrs. Turner was up making sausages. Before anyone else noticed, I put on the necklace and rings that I had found yesterday. I hid the necklace and hid the rings under my gloves that had made it into my backpack. Liz and Betania woke up a few minutes later. We put away our bedding and grabbing a few sausages, rushed out. We were gonna try to finish what we started the day before. Betania turned into my watch. We got to the mall. It wasn't as crowded as the day before, so we were able to get around a lot easier. We looked in a couple of places that looked interesting, but none of those places were hiring. Finally we came to Comix and Video Games. A Help Wanted sign was posted on the door. We walked in. We walked up to the register where a teen of about our age was working and asked who to see for a job.

"Uh, sure dude. Lemme call the manager."

He walked towards the back of the store. He soon came back with an guy who looked like he was around twenty. We guessed that he was the manager of the store.

"So, you two wanna work here, huh?"

We nodded. He stroked his beard. After a couple of seconds, he invited us to his office. He invited us to sit down in the chairs. He then began to ask us a series of questions, such as who we were, where we were from, where we lived at the moment, what previous experience we might have had and so on. We answered as truthfully as we could.

"Well, you two seem like nice folks. Why don't you go look around the store for awhile while I think over hiring you."

We thanked him and walked out into the store. There were a couple of other people there, looking at either comics or video games. As we were waiting, we decided to see if there were any video games here that were the equivalents of others in our universe. We found the equivalents for Halo I through III, Starcraft, Star Wars Battlefront I and II, Gears of War, Call of Duty I through IV, Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter I and II, Rainbow Six Vegas I and II and a multitude of others. Also, while we were waiting, Trixie came in again wearing her boy disguise. We watched as she bought this universes version of Rainbow Six Vegas II.

As we were watching, the manager called us back to his office. After we sat back down, he said, "I've thought a lot about this, and after careful consideration I have decided to hire you. I need you to read this little pamphlet about our store. The uniform is not all that complicated, red T-Shirt with the logo on it and a name tag and khaki pants. There are some spares in the back which I think will fit you two. You should stay here after were done here and familiarize yourself with the layout of the store. Miss, would you be okay with doing register duty?"

"Sure, I don't care."

"Cool. And you, dude, would you be okay with working in the back and do heavy lifting with the other two back there?"

I replied, "That's a-okay with me. Good exercise for me."

"That's the spirit! Now, your work hours would be nine in the morning to two in the afternoon at eleven bucks an hour. Your lunch break would be noon till twenty five after. Does all that sound reasonable?"

Liz and I looked at each other. We had known each other for so long that we had developed our own system of communication. The expression on Liz's face said, "Yes, let's go for it. What have we got to lose?"

We turned back to the manager with smiles on our faces.

"We accept. You just hired yourself two new recruits, Mr..."

"Oh, you can just call me Greg."

"Ok Greg. When should we start?"

"Does tomorrow work for you guys?"

"Sure, that'll work."

"Sweet! Se you bright and early tomorrow, them. Oh, and have Jeff give you two a uniform and name tag."

"Sure thing, boss," I said, beaming. We walked out, got our uniforms and left. We wished that our uniforms were at the Turner's house but invisible and hidden under the couch. We walked around the mall, getting used to where everything was. After about a couple of hours, we got hungry so we got a couple of meals from a Chinese restaurant, their equivalent of Panda Express. When we were finished, it was only one. We had no idea what to do. We left the mall and wandered around the town, visiting. We let Betania poof into a teen form and join us. Once again, Liz and Betania started talking about girl things. Needless to say, I was annoyed, but said nothing. We visited places that we hadn't visited before and some other places that we had seen, but that Betania hadn't. At about two-thirty, we decided that now was the time to go back to our temporary house. We started to walk, but Betania spoke up.

"Hey, we don't need to walk. I am a fairy after all. Why don't you wish yourselves home?"

"Oh! Yea, well I'm still not used to having a fairy around. Sure. I wish that we, and by we I mean me, Liz and Betania were within twenty feet of the Turner's house."

She raised her wand and Poof, we were within twenty feet of the Turner's house.

As we were walking, we saw Danny, Sam and Tucker coming up. Quickly Betania turned into Liz's watch this time.

"Hey there!"

Oh, hello Morbius. I never introduced myself, did I? I'm Danny. This is Sam, and this is Tucker. Sam, Tucker, this is Morbius and Elizabeth, the two who saved my sister from those four guys."

"Hi."

"A pleasure."

Liz and I shook hands with both of them.

"So, how's your sister doing?"

Danny smiled. "She's doing great. The doctor says that she'll be out in about a week or so."

"Wow, that great! Next time you see her, tell her I said hi."

"Sure thing, dude."

I suddenly saw a wisp of air come out of his mouth. Not wanting to keep him from his ghostly duties, I patted him on the back and said, "Well, I got to go. Have a good one, you three!"

"You too Morbius and Elizabeth!"

They walked off as fast as wasn't suspicious.

As we got up to the house, Betania changed into her cat disguise. I suddenly began to have a small headache. I rubbed my temples. Liz asked what was the matter.

"Oh, just a little headache. It should go away after a while."

After I said this, however, my head began to feel as if it was being torn apart and hit multiple times with a sledgehammer at the same time. I screamed. I was vaguely aware of both my nose and ears bleeding. I fell to my knees, my head still feeling like it was bursting open. I heard Liz screaming for help. By this time I was rolling on the sidewalk. Eventually the pain was too unbearable.

I lost consciousness.


Oooo!!! What happens next, you might ask? continue to read and it shall be revealed in time. Oh, and I never had the ghosts have a similar prophecy, sorry. This is more FOP that DP.

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