The Hartman Chronicles Season 2 Chapter 14

After seeing two shady figures killed by the demon from last night, I decided that it was time to head back to the café. I ran as fast as I could and got there a few minutes before Nashi and her friend, Harume, walked in.

"So how was the little play date?" I asked.

"It was eventful," Nashi said.

"I can't believe that you're a Mew Mew!" Harume exclaimed.

Nashi chuckled, "Yeah, pretty cool huh?"

"I'll say!" Harume smiled, "I wish that I was one too!"

"You can't have everything you want," Nashi laughed and patted Harume on the back, "Adrian! Make some cheesecake for me and Harume!"

"Can do boss lady!" I saluted before heading off into the kitchen to make some cheesecake.

"So Harume," I heard Nashi say, "You think you could stay here?"

"Do you have a spare room?"

"Yeah, I think so."

"Where is it?"

"It should be downstairs, where a guy named Calvin sleeps. Don't worry though, he's not too bad."

"Oh okay, well I can't wait to meet everyone else!"

I finished the cheesecake and brought it out to the girls.

"Hey Adrian!" Calvin exclaimed, "Why didn't you make any cheesecake for me and Abbie?"

"Because you never asked," I said, "I would have happily made it for you if you did!"

"Actually, I think Abbie likes chocolate truffles." Calvin said, "Let's make her some of those instead."

"Alright, you're going to help me make them," I said and pulled Calvin into the kitchen.

I opened a recipe book and flipped to the pages of the chocolate truffle recipe. Pretty soon, Calvin and I had started on the truffles. After about an hour of cooking we pulled them out of the oven. We heard Abbie walk into the café along with Andrew.

"Oh Calvin!" Abbie called, "Where are you?"

Calvin came out with a plateful of chocolate truffles. "I'm here!"

Abbie looked at the truffles and smiled, "Calvin, they look delicious!"

"You want some?" Calvin asked.

"Oh I'd love some!"

Calvin held out the plate and smiled, "Why don't you take some then?"

Abbie took a truffle and popped it into her mouth before kissing Calvin on the cheek, "I love you!"

"I love you too," Calvin said.

I laughed, "I helped him you know."

"Thanks Adrian," Calvin said and turned to Abbie, "There is going to be a full moon tonight, want to go see it?"

Abbie nodded, "Definitely!"

"Changing topics," Calvin said, "You never told me why your dad made me your bodyguard."

"Do you really want to know?" Abbie sighed.

"Yes, I do."

Abbie nodded, "Well I wasn't always the happy, go-lucky girl you protected. I was once a lonely little pup. When I was in California, I joined a gang hoping that they would take me in as one of their own. They did, but after a month or so I realized what they truly were."

"Go on."

"They were a bunch of cultists, druggies, and people with very few morals. I quickly became sick of their ways. One day at one of their meetings, I heard that they were going to try and kill my father and alerted the authorities."

"So they all got busted?"

"Yeah, except for six, those six have made it their mission to see me dead. When my father learned about what I had done, he made me move to Alaska and hired you to guard me. Thank the spirits you never had to do any killing."

"Spirits? Like the spooky kind?"

"No the shamanistic kind."

"Wait, you're a Shaman?"

"I follow Shamanistic beliefs."

"I never knew that!"

Abbie giggled, "I guess we learn something new every day!" Abbie nuzzled Calvin as she ate another truffle.

"So do you two plan on having kids?" I asked.

Abbie blushed, "Well not right now! We would have to get married first!"

Calvin looked at me oddly, "I think we're a bit too young for that."

"I was meaning later. You know when you two get older and get hitched."

"I don't know if we'll get hitched," Calvin said, "You never know though."

There was a look of disappointment in Abbie's eyes.

I nodded and Momo walked into the café. She sat down next to me.

"Hey Adrian," she smiled, "How have you been?"

"I've been fine, how about you?"

"Been doing well, I was thinking of heading to the Tokyo Bay tonight, want to come along?"

"Sure," I said.

"We should go to the bay and catch the moon." Calvin said.

Abbie nodded and looked outside, "The sun is beginning to set!" she grabbed Calvin's arm and pulled him out of the café.

"Well I guess we better go after them!" I laughed and motioned for Momo to follow. We caught up to Abbie and Calvin just as the sun was setting.

Calvin sat down and looked at the sun. Abbie followed his lead. Momo and I stood behind them. We all let out a sigh of content.

"Touching!" We heard a familiar voice say; we turned around and saw Grant.

"How the heck did you know we were here?"

"A brown haired kid told me," Grant said.

Again with that brown haired kid! I thought, Man if I ever get my hands on that kid I'm going to kick his butt!

Grant laughed, "Anyways I hate to break up this romantic moment, but I still need your blood. Don't worry, I'll spare you the breath and go straight onto the killing!" Grant snapped his fingers: three rat-men and three rat-women appeared behind him. Each of them was holding an iron bat with a strange symbol on it. Abbie froze in fear.

"What is it?" Calvin asked.

"That symbol…those bats…the gang…those rat people belong to the gang!" Abbie explained fright.

"Well not exactly," Grant smiled, "You see…these nobodies were easily persuaded into subjecting themselves to my experiments. In return, I said that I would let them kill you! I am here today to uphold my end of the bargain." Grant paused and pointed at us. "Show no quarter."

The rat people ran at us and an earthen wall shot up in front of us.

"Use this time to transform!" a demonic voice exclaimed.

All of us shrugged and transformed. The earthen wall fell down and the demon from last night was now in front of us. Two rat people jumped on the demon and pinned him to the ground. The four other rat people pinned us to the ground.

"This is too easy!" the rat man on top of Calvin laughed before hitting Calvin a couple times with his bat. Abbie looked at Calvin and cringed. "What you don't like that?" The rat man laughed, "Then allow me to do it some more!" The rat man hit Calvin several more times. Abbie's eyes became a shining silver void.

"You get off him of now!" Abbie growled.

"You can't do anything!" The rat man laughed and hit Calvin with the bat again, "Boy you're a tough one aren't you!"

Abbie head butted the rat person that was on top of her. The rat fell to the ground, clenching its head. Abbie leapt to her feet and lunge at the other rat to pull it off of Calvin; she raised her hands into the air and yelled.

"Ribbon Truffle Impalement!" A giant wolf tooth shot out of the ground and impaled the rat man through his stomach. Abbie took the wolf tooth off her necklace. This wolf tooth turned into a spear, "Ribbon Truffle Strike!" she exclaimed and threw her spear, skewering the rat people on top of me and Momo. After the spear hit the ground, it dislodged itself from the ground and flew back into Abbie's hand. The rat person Abbie had knocked to the ground got up and was about to choke Abbie. Calvin sprang into action, took out his shotgun, and used his Nightwolf Barrage. The attack hit the rat creature and sent it flying into a sign post. The demon teleported behind the two rat people, who had been pinning him down, and stuck his green blades into their backs.

"And now Grant, it is time for things to go the way I planned!" the demon roared and charged at Grant. Grant disappeared in a puff of black smoke. "Damn it…" the demon muttered and turned around to look at us.

"Who are you?" Abbie asked.

"That will be revealed at a later date!" the demon spat, "For now, I must be off!"

The demon took to the air. Abbie sighed and turned around to see that a full moon was in the sky. Calvin looked at Abbie.

"You're feeling that urge too, huh?" He asked.

Abbie nodded.

"Let's give into it on the count of three," Calvin smiled, "One, two, three!" Calvin and Abbie howled at the moon. When they stopped they looked at each other and chuckled. "You know," Calvin said as he leaned his head against hers, "Moonlight has some strange, romantic quality to me," he smiled before kissing Abbie on the lips. Abbie smiled and kissed him back. I looked at Momo and kissed her on the lips. In that moment, I had the feeling that Calvin and I were going places with our girlfriends.