Hello everyone and welcome to chapter six of Just My Luck, in this chapter I have chosen to write about the sisters again seeing as Lincoln has four chapters dedicated to him and the sisters only have one. Let's continue where we left off shall we?
-Jerry
Chapter 6 – "L is for Loyalty"Luna and Luan ran out of their house to get all the sisters rallied up.
"Are you sure about this Luna? I don't really trust that woman." Luan spoke.
"She saved our lives dude, be thankful for that. Yes I'm sure." Luna replied, approaching the Loud residence.
The two Loud sisters got to their house and smelled smoke.
"Is dad cooking his lasagna again?" Luna asked.
All of a sudden Lori and Lucy came running from Mr. Grouse's house. There were police cars and firetrucks everywhere. Police tape was being put up, fires still burned from within.
"Are you guys okay?" Lori asked.
"I could ask the same thing Lori." Luan said to her older sister.
The door slammed open as Rita and Lynn Loud Sr. ran out of their house to see the burning mess that was Mr. Grouse's.
"Is he okay up there?" Rita asked a nearby firefighter.
"We haven't been able to reach the second-floor ma'am, we are giving the man a seventy-two percent chance of not making it." The firefighter said.
"Mom, Dad, we have something to tell you..." Luna said.
"Well spit it out, I'm sure the Loud family wasn't hurt by that fire." Lynn Sr. responded.
"Well, it wasn't the fire, it was some crazy man, Lana, Lola and Lynn were killed by him. Clyde's parents didn't make them either." Luan said, choking up.
Rita and Lynn Sr. looked speechless. Rita started to cry as she ran back into the house.
"Who was this man." Lynn Sr. asked.
Lynn Sr. went directly to a police officer.
"Why didn't you stop him! My daughters! Killed! Do you know what it feels like to lose someone mister police-man!"
"I'm terribly sorry sir, we just got here five minutes ago."
"I pay my taxes for YOU! You do nothing to save my daughters!"
Lynn Sr. looked at the policeman, fire in his eyes as he rolled back his fist and hit the policeman in the noggin, shattering the glass on his helmet. The other police officers turned around and pointed guns at Lynn Sr.
"Dad! Stop it!" Luna ran to her father "I'm mad too, but I know someone who can help!"
"Yeah, I bet anyone could do more than this police officer right here!" He responded.
"Follow me Dad." Luna said "Lori! Get Lisa and Leni immediately!"
Lynn Sr., reluctant at first, followed Luna and the rest of the sisters walking to the empty shell that is Clyde's house.
Lori ran into the house as fast as possible, up the stairs to see a growing green light coming from Lisa's room. She carefully opens the door.
"Hello, eldest sister. As you can see, I have crafted a new invention; the ratio quaesitor. Or, as you non-Latin readers call, a "dimension seeker". You see, I believe Lincoln has returned to a dimension not our own, as he doesn't show up on my tracking map. I have decided to send my test monkey, Leni to my predicted dimension."
And with one press of a button Leni dissipated into thin air.
Leni fell from the sky onto a giant chessboard, on the other side showed a very old man in a throne. Leni stepped forward to see the old man look up, his face was decomposing, and showed a skull in some parts.
"Lincoln, is that you, you've returned, have you finally accepted my idea of this place?"
Leni looked at the old man, then at her phone.
"Take me back please, I see dead people." Leni said to her communicator.
"I thought you were going to say "Beam me up, Scotty!" but that's another acceptable movie quote, beaming you up." Lisa's voice said through the communicator.
As Leni turned into a teal-colored beam of light as she traveled back to her own dimension.
A gust of wind blew from the beam of light into the old man, whose skull cracked some more, then turned to dust.
"I guess it needs more tests, noted!" Lisa said writing something in her notebook.
Lori grabbed Lisa's and Leni's hands and ran down the stairs, catching up to the rest of the family walking to what used to be Clyde's house. As the family approached the house the front door opened.
"Expecting someone else, sir?" Bernice said.
Lynn Sr. looked at Bernice.
"Normally, I wouldn't allow this, but your mother isn't here…." He said.
"Is this everyone?" Bernice asked Luna.
"Yep, there is me, Luan, Lisa, Lori, Leni and Lucy." Luna responded. "Oh, and my father."
Lynn Sr. snapped out of his trance and put his hand out.
"It's a pleasure ma' am." He said to Bernice.
Bernice grabbed his hand with a grip that would rival everyone Lynn Sr. knew.
"Alright." Bernice said. "Tiny group, but I'll make this work. Kitz has most likely blocked off the main entrance. We'll have to fight to get our way in, the good news is I have some other survivors I've found in the last couple of months waiting for us. Follow my lead."
Everyone followed Bernice as they ran one by one on the grey sidewalk, cracked in some places, almost tripping on indents.
"Well, one thing is for sure, I'm getting a lot of exercise!" Lynn Sr. said.
"Please don't give us any more onion juice like last time, dad." Lori said, running.
"Don't oniondurestimate us dad!" Luan said with a giggle, meanwhile everyone else groaned.
Bernice stopped to see many grey-colored helicopters circling around the forest up ahead. She turned to the group.
"We may be tiny, but we are mighty!" Bernice said "Let's kick their asses!"
"I do not recommend blindly facing the enemy, it hasn't worked out many times in history before!" Lisa said.
"What about that trench scene in Wonder Woman?" Leni asked.
"Yes, that is World War One, but that movie is purely fictitious!" Lisa said.
"Well, it may have been fake, but it was inspirational!" Luna said. "I'm going with Bernice."
Bernice nodded and the two of them ran into battle.
"Wait! Luna don't go! I don't want to lose another daughter today!" Lynn Sr. said, running after the two women.
"We all know Dad's not after Luna." Lucy said, probably winking under her bangs.
Lisa went up to Leni, who was on here phone, and grabbed it out of her hands.
"Trust me, I'm doing what is right." Lisa said as she dialed the police.
"911, what is your emergency?" The person on the other line said.
-Bernice, Luna and Lynn Sr.—Helicopters circled overhead, snipers at the window, ready to fire. Some helicopters landed outside the forest, spewing soldiers in grey.
"Who are they?" Luna asked Bernice.
"They call themselves the Nox Lacrima, I've heard them by many other names as well, such as "The Dragon Who Slays in Darkness" and "The Silver Lynels". To name a few." Bernice said.
Bernice heard loud footsteps as she raised her gun behind her and turned her head around, ready to fire. However, it was just Lynn Sr.
"Luna, this is a bad idea, we gotta turn back! I don't want you killed like some of your other sisters."
"If saving all that you love is a bad idea, I don't want to know what your good ideas are." Bernice said to him.
Lynn Sr stared at Bernice and nodded.
"I know why you must fight it, I don't want you to end up biting it."
"I won't Dad, I don't know why you are implying I'm going away, we are all a family, we are all fighting this mess." Luna said to her father.
Lynn Sr. was about to speak again, but was interrupted by the sound of a siren. The Police had come.
The rest of the Loud family ran up to Luna's position on the battleground, which happened to be a parking lot, more or less empty.
Police cars approached the forest, only to be blown up by a few explosions tossed out of helicopters. A few firetrucks and ambulances also pulled up to the scene.
What looked to be a police chief got out of his car all the way in the back of the parking lot and pulled out a megaphone.
"Whoever you are! Please land your helicopters and step out with your hands in the air. We don't want this place to get too messy."
Another voice came from an unknown location, but the Loud kids could tell it was Kitz.
"You are under the wrong impression, mister. I don't like creating a mess or wars."
"I like creating drama."
As if it were a queue, metal balls were tossed out of the helicopters, and exploded into a ball of dark red gas. Some helicopters landed, releasing several grey soldiers out of each. The policeman got out of their cars and lifted their pistols at the enemy, as if their bullets could pierce the armor the soldiers wore. The same voice of Kitz was heard around the parking lot, unknown where it was coming from.
"Listen, all we want is no-one going into this forest. Simple, right? So far, no-one has done that, you may be thinking why are we attacking then? Easy, to prevent it."
The Loud kids and Bernice peeked from behind an upturned car, many policemen dropped to the ground, while bullets bounced off the soldier's armor, barely leaving a scratch.
"We can't take them on, too many risks." Lisa said "We need to find an opening."
The gang went from upturned car to upturned car, moving foot by foot to get to the forest. They were right there when Kitz came up from behind, stabbing Luan in the back with a swiss army knife. Lan fell to the floor.
"LUAN!" Lynn Sr. yelled, running to her side.
"I'm okay dad, I'll be fine." Luan said to her father, knowing this wasn't the time for puns.
Lynn Sr. got back to his feet looking straight at Kitz.
"I've got more important stuff to do than battle a middle-aged-man. I've got a fresh body right here for the taking." Kitz scoffed.
Bernice picked up Luan's body as she handed it to the rest of the Loud girls.
"I'll be right there, go!" Bernice told the girls as they ran into the forest.
-The Loud Girls—The girls kept on running, Lori barely keeping up as she was the one tasked with carrying Luan.
The girls saw a burning hut in the distance.
"Cool." Lucy said.
Lisa pulled out her Loud sibling tracking system.
"Damn, the system is jammed." Lisa said, annoyed.
"What's jammed dude?" Luna asked.
"Oh, nothing, just my toe." Lisa said trying to find an excuse.
The Loud sisters traveled for about five minutes when they saw a group of three people, waving at them.
-Bernice, Lynn Sr. and Kitz-"Sorry to interrupt this special moment, if you are taking that body, I'll just grab another then." Kitz said as he put on a highly technical glove on his other hand. A gun in his other.
Kitz waved his hand to the side. Lynn Sr. fell to the floor and was dragged by what appeared to be nothing, a bloody trail left behind.
Bernice pulled out a gun from her pouch as she aimed it at the bald man.
"Remember our last encounter a few hours ago, Bernice?" Kitz asked. "I'm a man of variety, I'm winning this fight instead."
Kitz clenched his fist and Lynn Sr. reached for his throat, like he was being choked.
"Who's it going to be Bernice, yours, or his?" Kitz asked. "Both scenarios I would enjoy, your pick as to which."
Bernice looked at the man on the ground. Then back at the forest behind her.
"Fire at me when you're ready, Kitz."
"I'm always ready, you should know that." Kitz said, pulling the trigger.
As soon as Kitz pulled that trigger a purple mist surrounded Bernice. Everything slowed down, she stepped one step to the left and walked forward to approach Kitz from the side she whispered into his ear.
"You naïve person you, you should know better. Don't mess with a witch."
When she concluded her sentence, she then proceeded to kick Kitz right in the gut. He slowly fell to his knees. She kicked him again across the head. Bernice then turned around seeing Lynn Sr. on the ground. She picked up the father of the Loud sisters as she started to carry him into the woods,
leaving Kitz on the ground behind her.
That's it for this chapter. Sorry, it's on the shorter side of the spectrum. I wanted the next part of the story to be in a different chapter. Let me know if I should combine the two point-of-views in the next couple of chapters, like the first 2000 or so words would be Lincoln, Wyeth, Jeremiah, Melinda and Joe. Then the next 2000 words would be the Loud Sisters, Bernice, Lynn Sr and those three-new-people. That's it for now.
-Jerry