Kong Li Christmas : A Sue story 2
By Crystalquirt
Tobue. Kong Li messes up Christmas by trying to take Sue out of the celebration for good. Scary situations, violence, action, romance, angst, oh yeah.
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Sid made the delivery and decided to take the long way home, through the historic district. The buildings here were ancient and all decorated for Christmas this time of year. Even 'Scrooge Sid' had to admit it really looked cool with all the different colored lights. He especially liked the trees and fences wrapped in all blue lights. It was beautiful and a little spooky all at the same time. City workers wrapped the light poles and trees lining the street with lights to match all the homes and businesses here.
Sid remembered Tobey often brought his "real" camera with him when they were coming in this direction to take better pictures of all the old buildings than he could get with his camera phone. He thought he would bring Tobey and Sue back with him tomorrow night so Tobey could take pictures for his web site. One large house on a corner that Tobey liked best had gargoyles lining the roof all the way around and a pair of life-sized lion statues guarding the gate. Tobey took photos of each gargoyle and put them in a binder. He wrote about each type and the history of gargoyles for a school project.
The house Sid liked best looked like it may have been one of the first temples in China and moved here to the United States. The house was very elaborately decorated all year 'round and Sid, Sue and Tobey even got to see inside it once when the owner was there painting and ordered lunch from Wu's Garden. No one lived there, and it was vacant unless someone rented it for a weekend. Sometimes the house was rented out for very expensive weddings once or twice a year and occasionally for a tour if someone wanted to pay a lot to see inside.
Sid went by the front of the building and circled around to go by again. The second time he stopped and stared at the structure for a few moments. Then he went around the block to the alley so he could see the back with its gardens, fountains and statues.
The alley behind the property was a dead end and going back out the way he came in would take longer to get back to Wu's afterward, but it was okay. Part of his plan was to get back to Wu's too late to help decorate. The thought of not having to decorate for Christmas at all made him smile.
A pair of evil pale blue eyes watched Sid. With a swoop of his dark cape, Kong Li went quickly to the alley through the back gates to get there before Sid could.
"This is perfect! I couldn't have planned a better trap – and he's alone!" Knowing that Sid would come around the back of this property from past experience, Kong Li felt giddy with joy! This, the most evil villain on the planet, used this property as a lair when it was empty and had seen Sid and the others stop to admire it several times before, and they always checked out the backyard too.
"Sid, if you had come a little later, you would have caught me before I found the recipe I've been working for months to find, only now I can catch you!"
Kong Li set a pedestal firmly in the middle of the alley, right behind the property's back gate. He used his staff and elaborate movements of his hands around a plain old rock he found and it soon turned into a glowing, metallic-like, soccer ball-sized sphere. Kong Li placed it on the pedestal, stepped to the side and waited in the shadows.
Sid rolled by slowly, looking at the back of the fantastic building. Every inch of the back of the house and yard was decorated too and they used mostly blue lights. Sid was mesmerized and not watching where he was going, he almost ran into Kong Li's sphere. He turned just in time and rolled slowly past the pedestal with the strange, quiet sphere sitting on it. The sphere was dark now, except for the blue Christmas lights reflecting off the surface.
"Wow, this is new. I wonder why it's out here in the alley? Someone could steal it." Sid was talking to himself.
Sid rolled his bike by the fence, staring at sphere the whole time before he stopped and leaned his bike over. He walked back up to it and held out his hand to touch it. Energy suddenly swirled around the surface and it sent out a short bolt of energy that burned his hand.
Sid yelped and fell backwards over his bike. Before he could get up and get away, the sphere shot him again in the shoulder and made a hole in the front of both of his shirts he had on! It continued a strong burning beam of energy until it blistered his skin! He groaned and rolled over to get away from it. Right after he scrambled to his feet, the sphere shot him again in the back of his leg and he fell flat, on his front, screaming in pain.
Kong Li stepped out of the shadows behind him. "My sphere will shoot at you again if you move. So the logical thing would be, not to move, but I don't think you can avoid being shot again with your short attention span." he taunted.
Sid froze, staring at Kong Li and saw his enemy and his 'ball' were between him and the exit from the alley.
There were walls that made up a ten and sixteen story building on one side and the across the back of the alley. The side by the property he had been admiring had a very tall, twelve foot at least chain link fence with razor wire along the top. There was a small locked gate shrouded by vines that Kong Li used to sneak up on him. Any direction he tried to go was likely to hurt him somehow, even if the sphere wasn't there. Even the fire escape going up near where Kong Li was standing had parts that were rusted and broken.
"Now while I finish my work, you can entertain me boy." He laughed out loud and started tapping on the wall with a hammer and chisel. His laughter made Sid angry.
"I won't entertain you, I will stop you from doing whatever you're doing!"
Just the sound of his voice made the sphere start shooting again! Sid rolled and somersaulted trying to avoid it. The first two bolts of energy missed, but the third got him in the soft skin covering his loin area. Sid fell and rolled against the fence holding his side and moaning.
"I forgot to mention, it fires at sound too and I don't know about you refusing to entertain me, I am already finding your predicament very entertaining no matter what you say." Kong Li teased, trying to make him angry enough to move or yell again.
Sid bit his tongue trying not to cry out, but that last shot hurt so badly he still made small sounds of pain without even hearing himself. The sphere shot twice more just at the sound of Sid's whimpering, one hit him low on the side of his hip and burned through the seam of his pants.
The second one missed him and hit the fence right above his head. He could hear Kong Li laughing maniacally while he tried to concentrate on what he was doing instead of watching Sid the whole time. "I only wish, little Sue Yee and Tobey were here to enjoy my present too."
He covered his head with one arm and gritted his teeth trying not to make a sound. The sphere stopped shooting when he stopped moving, but the light energy swirled around the sphere's surface just waiting for an excuse to fire again.
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Tobey continued . . .