2-How Do We Get Out?
"Arianna!" Duncan sounded desperate. "What's wrong with her?" The blonde was already kneeling over her cousin, hands moving at such a fast pace no one was sure she would have been able to pick anything up from Courtney's body.
"Nothing." Arianna replied, hands slamming down on her knees over her dress. There was nothing that Arianna could do because there was nothing wrong with Courtney for Arianna to do something about.
"Nothing?" Duncan repeated. "PEOPLE DON'T JUST FAINT FOR NTOHING!" His words rattled through the basement, bounding off the walls as they echoed into everyone's ears.
"She's fine, just drained." Arianna assured Duncan. He was worrying. Courtney had been doing too many draining spells recently.
Everyone was silent. No one knew what to say. There was nothing to say, only trying to sit and think about what to do to get out of the basement unharmed and safely.
"I have an idea!" Courtney instantly sat up, removing her head from Duncan's lap. Said boy, Arianna and Alan, who had been sitting by her, all jumped. She had been unconscious once minute and now she was bouncing around.
"Court..." The brunette smiled, turning to face her cousin. "What are you planning on doing?"
"Well...You all know how I was dead for, like, a month?" She turned in a circle, making sure everyone knew what had happened. They all knew. "Well, I now have connections."
"You're gonna talk to the dead?" Alan asked. He was new to the whole thing, not quite sure what the limits on Courtney's powers were. But, he just had to go and ask the stupidest question ever.
"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!" Taylor yelled, jumping to her feet. She had been sat on the bottom step of the staircase, but now she was right up to Courtney. "Talking to the dead is the most absurd thing anyone could do!"
"And?" Courtney was not sacred of Taylor anymore.
Taylor didn't reply. The two stared into each other's eyes for a moment; before Taylor threw her hands into the air and dragged her feet back over to the staircase. She did not look like a happy vampire.
"Now, if there are no more interruptions." Courtney collected her book from where Alan had dropped it on the floor. Whatever she had dreamt about in her sleep, it seemed to have given her a new burst of energy. She was almost psychotic, mad scientist like.
"Courtney...Princess...This is a bad idea." Duncan warned her. Usually Geoff was the one to issue warnings, but he was in too much of a bad state. Courtney shrugged, turning the pages in her book, trying to find the right spell. "Who were you planning on contacting anyway?"
A smile lit up Courtney's face through the grimy basement. She knew exactly who she wanted to contact. No one was going to approve it, but she had to do it.
"The most looney physic I know." Courtney replied. "She is completely off her head insane, but she will know how we escape from here."
"Looney physic who is completely off her head insane?" Gwen repeated, making sure she knew what Courtney was talking about. "I guess that's the new thing to call your aunt's these days."
Courtney rolled her eyes. Gwen was right though, Courtney was going to try and contact her aunt, Maria Reed. She was the only person Courtney knew who was usually quite good at predicting the future, if her head didn't explode first.
When the two had met during Courtney's short period of time, she had predicted that Courtney was not going to be staying in Heaven long, that she would have somewhere else to go. No one believed her. The only place to go from Heaven is Hell, and everyone knew that was not where Courtney was going to go. But then she got called back to Earth...
"Courtney...I'm warning you..." But Duncan's voice was more pleading than threatening. He was never scared of anything. Duncan never showed fear. He was fearless. But this time he sounded quite scared.
"Okay...What is everyone's deal? We want to get out of here, right?" No one could deny that one. Everyone wanted to go home. "Right...Now let me get to wo-FOUND IT!" Courtney pointed her finger down onto the page. The let go of underneath it and it floated in mid-air as Courtney prepared herself for a spell.
"If it floats, why was I holding it?" Alan asked. He was slumped up against the wall, Arianna beside him. Duncan was standing by his fiancée now.
"Inmenta di carda, red allion." Courtney read form the book. Her palms were facing up at the wall, glowing green. The more words she read, the bright the glow got. "Se mina, se mona, se mina, se mirashtan." The green glow flew from her hands like lazerbeams, shooting straight at the wall.
A fuzzy image appeared. It was a bedroom, bright pink and fluffy. It was hard to make out individual items.
"Can you see it now?" A voice called out. No one could be seen.
"No." Courtney called back. Something clicked into place from the screen and everything was now a lot clearer. It was a fluffy pink bedroom, a double bed right in front of the screen with a desk chair right in front; pink, of course.
"How about now?" The voice asked again.
"Perfect." Courtney called back.
A squeal of excitement rang through the basement and a young girl jumped onto the desk chair, making it turn slightly before she repositioned it.
Her blonde hair shook and her bright blue eyes shone as brightly as the midday sky. Her smile was wide, all her pearly whites glowing. She had perfectly tanned skin like most of the females in her family, almost like a running trait. Her clothes consisted of a pink t-shirt and white pajama bottoms. She pretty much looked like an average eighteen-year-old girl.
"COURTNEY!" She yelled into the camera, sounding as excited as a child seeking out and ice-cream van.
"WHAT?" Another voice called off screen.
"NOT YOU!" The blonde yelled, rolling her eyes at her older sister who was off screen. "So...Courtney, Courtney, Courtney...Ms. Black...Long time no speaking to me!"
"Sorry, got bigger things on my mind at the moment." Courtney replied.
"S'alright." The blonde smiled. Her eyes fluttered as she smiled, turning from blue to black for a moment. The smile and wide, black eyes made her look like a china doll. It was a scary look on her face. Everyone who was watching, which was everyone, was scared.
"WOAH!" Maria screamed, her eyes blinking and turning back to blue. "Not more death, Court?" She asked her niece, peering at her with hopeful eyes. "I mean, this place is getting a bit crowded as it is. Auntie Dianna died last week and now she hogs the bathroom ALL MORNING!" Courtney raised an eyebrow at her aunt. "I mean, seriously, I know she has to adjust her wig and put in her teeth, but it does not take three hours to do so. You should have seen CC losing it because she was cutting into her 'beauty' time, as she calls it." Maria rolled her eyes again, but the smile never left her lips. It never did. Not ever when she spoke, or even when she was silent. A constant mad looking smile.
"Aunt Maria, we need your help." Courtney told her, trying to keep Maria's mind focused on thing and one thing only. Too many distractions and things could get complicated for her.
"You..." Maria raised her finger, pointing straight past Courtney and Duncan, right to where Arianna and Alan were sitting. Arianna didn't stir; she kept her eyes shut and her head on Alan's lap. "He, my sweet dear niece, is the answer to all of your problems...I think he is at least...WAIT!" Maria held both her hands up. "You're Naomi Thorn's son..."
"Y-you know my mom?" Alan asked.
"YEAH!" Maria yelled. "She's choosey and doesn't care what anyone thinks of her." Alan smiled, and so did Maria. "I love her to piece and she lives down the road from me!" Maria was sounding a lot more excited and happy now. "Wow...Heaven's a small place...OKAY! Like I was saying, answer to problems when out to the right questions...You, soon to be Mrs. H., are the other half of the problem...You also know the key answer." That confused Courtney completely. "The door...Think about the door..."
The door? Maria Reed had surely lost the lot this time. They had tried the door, it was locked. Courtney's powers weren't going to open it, nothing but the key was.
"Isabella Alexis Hudson..." Maria's tone was deadly straight now. No laughing matter.
"Maria..." Duncan whispered. He had heard that tone once too many times in his life time, it never ended well.
"I thought that would help you catch your voice, Duncy." Maria smiled, moving forward to sit so she could see Duncan better. "I thought you were never gonna speak up."
"I wasn't planning on speaking up." Duncan admitted openly.
"Aww...Do you miss me, Duncan?" Maria asked. Her bog blue eyes widened to their fullest, her bottom lip sticking out as she swayed gently from side-to-side on her chair.
Duncan tried to resist caving into her, it was hard. But he did it eventually. He closed his eyes and tried to think of anything but Maria and Courtney...They always knew his weaknesses, one being the cute look they both had when they pouted.
"Stop talking to yourself, Maria." A voice called off camera. Maria turned to face the source of the voice, but she could still not be seen.
"I am not talking to myself...I HAVE FRIENDS!" Mara protested. "What are you doing in my bedroom anyway?"
"I'm looking for black nail polish."
"DO I LOOK THE PERSON WHO OWN BLA-MARBLES!" Maria dived from her desk chair onto the floor with a loud thud. It must have hurt. She quickly got back up though, this time with a small, clear bag. Inside were about twenty multi-colored balls. "And you all said I'd lost my marbles..."
"That's not what they meant..." The voice muttered, but Maria didn't seem to hear. She was far too preoccupied by her marbles in their little bag.
"I have eighteen, one for every year of life..." She sounded quite upset about that. "I wish I had more...BUT, OH WELL!" She let go of the bag of marbles, letting them fall to the floor with a crash and a cat screech. "Sorry, Cuddles!" Maria called after the cat as it ran from her bedroom.
"Maria, can we please focus here!" Duncan snapped. Maria turned back to face the front, her face dead serious.
"Right...Focus...Life or death...Life or death...Life or death..." Maria smiled down at Courtney and Duncan, as if she knew something they didn't. "You two already have the answer...You hold the key...But you do not know it yet..."
More key talk? They did not have a key. They did not have a way to open the door.
"Elements..." Came a mutter from behind Courtney and Duncan.
"BINGO WINGS!" Maria yelled.
"I told you she'sm off her rocker..." Gwen mumbled.
"I may be off my rocker, but I am on a swivel chair!" Maria protested. Just to prove a point she started spinning around in circles.
"WAIT!" Courtney yelled. "Elements...What about Elements?" Alan's lips curled into a smile, and it wasn't just because Arianna was asleep with her head on his lap.
"Elements...Courtney, name me one thing that can break down any enchantments..." Courteny's eyes widened. "Why?"
"Because Elements are natural...The Gods saw them as non-magical nature. Nature helped create every Element known to human-kind...They are not restricted..." Courtney's smiled wider than ever before. "ALAN, YOU FUCKING GENIUS, YOU!"
There was a loud squeak, as if springs were being pushed down. Everyone turned to face the wall again to see that another girl had joined Maria, presumably the one who had been off screen just minutes before.
She had tanned skin, just like Maria. Her eyes were a deep black and her hair was brunette, looking just like Courtney, only her hair was much longer and pulled back into a bun. She wore a simple red night-dress which did look a little too short for the occasion, but she was lying stomach down on the bed, facing the camera so no one could see up it. She was dabbing at her half-black lips with a filthy white cloth.
"Okay...So now you all know that you know the answer, can you, like, leave?" The new girl asked.
"Ignore Courtney." Maria told them all. "She's grumpy because she can't sleep in her own bed." The white cloth landed on Maria's face and she screamed.
The older Courtney smiled at her sister, watching her swat the tissue away from her.
"KEEP YOUR GOTHICNESS AWAY FROM ME!" She cried. Courtney rolled her eyes, turning back to the group.
"Okay...So now you need to find the key...But not the key you're thinking off...But a key ELEMENT, emphasis on element." Courtney told them in case they didn't already catch the emphasis on element.
"Belle!" Young Courtney yelled.
"BINGO WINGS!" Maria shouted again. "You need Belle to burn through the lock and save you all before the Trackers wake up."
"Perfect...But how do we get a hold of her?"
A/N: It is nearly 11 PM and I am SHATTERED! I am stopping there because I have more than likely already run into the next chappie...But we'll next time ;) LOL!
I think this was a good chapter...I personally loved writing for Maria there...I know it's not perfect comedy, but I'm not good at comedy in case you have no noticed ;) LOL! I tried though...LOL!
Okay...I failed today at my second English paper...So I wrote this to cheer me up :) I have been writing it since around six PM...Working not-so-hard on it...But I have been trying :) LOL!
So...Someone asked me why I updated so quickly all the time...I mean, most authors, if you haven't noticed, will barely update once a week...Unfortunately, those are the authors I intend to like the style of...I know how bad and anticipating it feels to have to wait for a new story chapter to come out...Especially when the last was left one a cliffy...Like the one I desperately want to be updated! No names are gonna be mentioned! LOL! But, seriously...I know how bad it is to have to wait for your favorite author to update monthly...Yearly sometimes...I didn't want to be that type of author...Many authors lose out on readers and reviewers that way...I don't want to lose ANY of you guys :) I love you all too much to lose :) So...Yeah...That is pretty much the main reason I update so quickly...Other reasons vary from boredom to lack of energy to do anything other than sit in bed all day to I ain't got anything better to do...;) LOL!
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OMG! OMG! OMG! I watched the new Glee episode Funeral earlier...I was almost in tears...Sue really does have a heart! OMG! WHO KNEW? I felt soo bad for her, though...It is always hard losing a loved one...And the Funeral is always the hardest part...Poor, poor Sue...=/
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It is now 11:02 and I must go spell check this before I upload...=/
I think this is the longest chapter of any The Going's On that I have ever written...SERIOUSLY! OMG! LOL! Epicness...ahaha! LOL! But, seriously...It is the longest one, I think...LOL! Yep...Over 3000 words...OMFG! OVER 3000 WORDS! =O!
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