Ch. 5: Even More Hereditary

Blythe's body parts appeared one by one in the hypnosis void and ricocheted across the swirl's parts like a pinball. Blythe repetitively groans in anguish as she sees Penny Ling's head in an automatic pinball machine as the ball.

Eventually, the parts landed in another place where they fall into the correct order. Once that is established, Blythe gives a dizzy look before coming back to her senses.

"My golly," said Blythe, rubbing her head, "who knew being hypnotized had is ups and downs?"

"Well, at least in the real world, the entranced one is harmless," said Clark as he appeared next to her.

Blythe looked and saw that she and Clark were back in her mother's bedroom.

"Why are we back here?" asked Blythe.

"Maybe there's something you'd like to know that happened here, not counting the journal." said Clark.

Intrigued, Blythe walked through the door and saw a 25 year old Betty and a man talking in the kitchen

"I'm telling you dad," said Betty, "that old monkey from down the pet store is quite eccentric."

"Really," said her father, "what's his name?"

"Champ Chimp."

Her dad suddenly got a look of realization.

"Champ-Chimp?" he asked.

"Yeah," Betty said, "kind of a weird name."

"Well, have I got something to tell you," said her dad, "that name is the name your mother gave her pet monkey."

Betty gave a shocked look.

"Wait," Betty said to her father, "my mother?"

"That's what I said," said her father, "Oh man, you should've seen her. She always talked to him in a way like she could actually understand what he's saying."

This made Betty even more shocked and Blythe also gave a shocked look as she said, "This reminds me when I found out that Speedy was my mom's pet."

"Did she say what her monkey looked like?"

Indeed. It was a red with orange eyes, had this habit of hacking..."

"...and likes to pick his nose with his feet?" Betty interrupted.

When she said that, her dad gave a surprised look and said, "How did you know that?"

"'Cause, that's all the qualities this Chimp Champ has!" Betty exclaimed.

Her dad gave a sudden smile, "Oh my gosh, Betty! You found your mother's pet!"

"Yeah," Betty smiled, "I guess I did."

"Oh," said her dad as he ran off, "I gotta tell my brother."

After he was gone, Betty turned to the window and said, "'As if she could understand him.' Looks like I got this ability from my mother. I wonder what that's like?"

"Mom," said Blythe as she came up to her with a smile, "you have no idea."

Clark came to her and said. "You're not taking this 'they can't see or hear you' thing seriously, are you?"

"Sorry Clark," Blythe said, "but I can't believe that my grandmother could also speak to pets."

"Yeah, I wonder if anymore of your ancestors had the same gift."

"Hopefully they did," said Blythe.

Blythe looked over her soldier and saw that Clark was gone once again.

"Oh great," said an exasperated Blythe, "What's gonna happen to me now?! Am I gonna shrink?! am I gonna melt like the Wicked Witch of the West?! Am I gonna even gonna be shot at by some sort of spirit gun?!" She then got down on her knees and cried up to the heavens, "JUST TELL ME WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN?!"

Suddenly, there was a thud behind her and Blythe looked and saw that a brown door with a silver knob and lock mechanism was standing there. She got up from her knees and went to the door.

"Finally," said Blythe calmly, "a non-painful or humiliating way for me to travel."

She went through the door and found herself back in the void, but unlike the last times, there was a small stairway followed by a short pathway that led to a doorless room.

"Not this is more my style." said Blythe as she went down the stairs and walked the path to the room, but stopped to ponder for a second.

"I wonder what's beyond here?"

She shrugged and went into the room.

Little did Blythe know that in this room was something that she'd prefer not to see.

TO BE CONTINUED...