A/N: So, this is the last chapter of this story. I'm sorry.
-HOWEVER-
yorkie999777000 has kindly offered to write a sequel! I'll let you read this chapter first then tell you more about it ^.^
"Hm…" Jake muttered, peering at the document under a magnifying lens. "Most interesting… I've never seen a spell embedded so well onto a piece paper…"
"What is it?" Daphne asked.
"It's a spell of some sort," Jake replied, tossing the magnifying glass over his should. A slight tinkling sort of noise was heard as the glass shattered.
Downstairs, Puck pricked his ears.
"I hear something breaking."
Sabrina raised an eyebrow. That boy was drawn to destruction like moths were drawn to light. She herself didn't hear anything, but then and again Puck's hearing was well beyond the normal human range. So beyond, in fact, that he could hear dog whistles, a fact that Sabrina used to her advantage. In fact, she'd still be blowing that dog whistle at him when he least expected it if it weren't for the fact that Elvis was affected by it as well.
Her happy thoughts were interrupted when Puck suddenly took off running towards the source of the noise, upending the table in the process. "Be right back," he yelled over his shoulder.
"Puck get back here and fix the table!" Sabrina screamed as she ran after him.
"What does it do?" Daphne asked.
"I'm sure I have no idea," Jake said, turning the paper this way and that (because somehow looking at a puzzle upside down seems to help). "The only word I can pick out is 'spell', the rest seems to be Latin… Although, there-"
"AAAAAH!" Puck cried, holding his foot in pain.
"Puck! Are you okay?" Sabrina dashed to his side.
"Yeah, I stepped on some glass," Puck muttered.
"Oh, that's where the magnifying glass went. My bad," Jake semi-apologized. "Anyways, the first three letters-"
"Hey, it's the story thing from the other day," Puck said, reaching for the paper. He was suddenly aware of a hand on his shoulder, and turned to find the hand attached to the arm of one Sabrina Grimm. Sabrina usually had a no-contact policy with him, and as much as he enjoyed it, having her hand on his shoulder was creeping him out.
"Uh…Grimm? Hello?" Puck snapped his fingers in front of her face. "Are you okay?"
"Hmm…? Yeah, I'm fine," Sabrina said faintly.
"Your eyes are kinda glazing over," Daphne said.
"An uh, you're…uh, you're touching me," Puck mumbled. Why can't I go back to the days when I could just shake her hand off and not feel guilty?
"Huh?" Sabrina looked down her arm, and her eyes finally focused on her hand. "Oh, sorry, honey," she said, pulling her hand away.
Puck relaxed, then stiffened. Honey!
He looked wildly around at Jake and Daphne. Jake's mouth was gaping open in a way that was reminiscent of a fish's, and Daphne was staring at Sabrina in shock.
"Did she just-" Puck had trouble finishing his sentence.
Jake pointed a shaky finger at Sabrina. "Wha…? Did you eat too much of mom's cooking again?"
Daphne waved the piece of paper in front of his face. "Uncle Jake! I think it has to do with the spell!"
"Ah, okay, that actually makes sense," Jake paused, thinking. "That… actually makes sense!" he repeated. "But wait, the first three letters here, o-o-c, what does that mean, it must stand for something-"
"Out of character!" Daphne nearly screamed. "It's an out of character spell, and I think Sabrina has been cursed with it!" She turned to Sabrina. "Sabrina! What'd you do, did you read this aloud, or what?"
"Yeah, I did, yesterday when we were reading the story..." Sabrina trailed off.
"Ah I see, a verbal activation spell, activated when read," Jake announced grandly. "Amazing, she didn't even have to read the spell, just the words the spell was embedded in."
Sabrina's eyes suddenly cleared. "Wait a moment…" she turned to Puck. "Did I call you…" she couldn't bring herself to say it again.
"Yes you did Grimm," Puck smirked to hide his relief that she seemed to have snapped out of it. "I always knew you thought I was-"
"Wait a minute," Daphne said. The young girl paused a moment, thinking. "If Sabrina read this yesterday, and this is a verbal spell, and Puck heard her read it, then maybe he might've been cursed with it too!"
"WHAT?" Puck bellowed. "What does that mean?"
Right on cue, his eyes suddenly clouded over. He turned to Sabrina and beamed brightly.
"Wow Sabrina you look amazing tod-!"
"Shut up!" Sabrina silenced him with a right hook. She sat back and rubbed her temples. "We need to find a cure, and soon, or else fairy boy here isn't going to survive much longer."
So yes, this is the last chapter of this story.
BUT WAIT!
I would've left it here with this cliffhanger ending, but yorkie999777000, as I mentioned above, has kindly offered a rope out to those who do not like hanging off the edge of a cliff.
Her story, "The OOC Curse," will continue the OOC problem and how they solve it.
*Cue dramatic music, dun-dun-duuun~*
"Now that the havoc of the world wide web has reached its peak with a curse no less, what will Sabrina and Puck do to find a cure? Have others been infected? Is there any hope? Is there a cure? Is the counselor even a counselor? Is Sabrina even a girl?"
-excerpt from the summary of "The OOC Curse"
Yes indeed, a whole new story that will be kind of like the above, with the discovery of more fanfics for our favorite bantering couple to react to!
Before you go read it, I'd like to thank all of you loyal readers for sticking with me (through a six-month hiatus, no less) all the way to the end, your support is invaluable - reading these reviews literally make my day. As for future stories on Sisters Grimm specifically, well, I have some refreshing to do before I do more stories. (I haven't even read book 9 yet. Crazy, I know.)
Well, that's it, the end of the first story I ever published online. The end of the beginning, hopefully. Now go read The OOC Curse!
~zoocan
