Kong Li Christmas : A Sue Story 6
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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Christmas was only three days away and the closer the holiday got, the angrier Sue felt. She wasn't sleeping and she was eating even less than she had been. Angry at Kong Li, angry at herself, just angry. And scared too.
Kong Li had found a recipe in the brick wall and Nana's maps and spells had not revealed to her which one he found. Even Nana didn't know what kind of havoc he would release with this recipe. She had hoped to have a nice Christmas with her family and Kong Li was ruining Christmas again!
She and the boys went out watching for an sign of what Kong Li was doing every minute that they could and Sue made them all stay together no matter what. Tobey tried to sneak off to follow the ice cream truck and Sue tackled him.
If Tobey and Sid were nervous about anything they didn't show it, except maybe Sid not tolerating Tobey's jokes as well as usual. But his shorter temper could be because he tired easily and still hurt sometimes. Muscle cramps interrupted his activities and sleep even with Nana's herbal remedies and he refused any other care.
Sid did feel a lot better than he had the first day and now Sue even seemed angry with him. She took every opportunity she could to yell at him, about anything. She was even mad at him for getting hurt – for running into Kong Li alone and proving that he wasn't invincible. She liked to pretend he is her invincible big brother and it scared her every time she was reminded that he wasn't. Tobey just stayed away from her, but Sid was concerned and kept asking her what was wrong. Tobey was pretty sure he knew what was wrong.
When Sid, Sue and Tobey went out for their last delivery of the evening, Kong Li was watching. Sid only got as far as the next businesses front door and had to stop to wait for a cramp to stop. Sue yelled at him! "Didn't you do what Nana told you to?"
"Yeah Sue, I've done everything Nana said to do. She said my muscles just need time to heal from all the damage that Stone Mine did. I'll be okay to bike in a minute!"
"What if Kong Li attacks? You won't have a minute!"
"Well what do you want me to do about it?" Sid lifted his leg and pushed off, coasting away from Sue.
"You are ruining Christmas Sid!"
"How exactly am I ruining Christmas?"
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Kong Li heard her yelling at Sid on the street. "Don't worry little Sue, you will have a Merry Christmas." Kong Li hid in the shadows across the street from Wu's garden. "Or at least a Christmas your family will never forget. Hehehe . . . you won't be around to remember it though." Kong Li's laughter echoed off the side of the buildings.
Sue and Sid were still yelling at each other, but Tobey thought he heard something, and got a chill. He rode back in a circle looking for the source of the sound he thought he heard, but seeing nothing he stood up to pedal fast to catch up to Sue and Sid.
Kong Li had vanished from his hiding place into a swirling phenomena he created over his head. The phenomena reappeared silently in Sue's bedroom and he dropped out of it and landed quietly next to her dresser.
Looking at the photos of Sid, Tobey, Nana and Barney lined up in little frames Kong Li whispered, "Merry Christmas my little enemies. With all of you busy trying to save little Sue Yee, I will be able to finish preparing the recipe to get rid of all of you by the start of the New Year! HoHoHo" He tried not to laugh out loud since he was trying to be very quiet, but it was hard since he was feeling such joy! This was going to be the best Christmas he had ever had!
Kong Li put Sue's hairbrush bristles up on the dresser and sprinkled a light gray powder over it. Then he dripped three drops of a blue liquid and it flashed and glowed an ugly green color for just a second before it turned black to match the bristles.
"Enjoy Sue, I know I will. Even if Nana figures out the antidote, the cure won't exist at all for you! Mwahahaha!"
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The last delivery they had was uneventful, but the evening didn't stay quiet. An innocent neighbor accidentally cooked a recipe that turned all the neighborhood cats into gremlins. By the time Sid, Sue and Tobey got home from finding, curing and returning all the cats, they were all three exhausted.
"Tobey! How could you? That little beast is going to die of rabies now, just because you refused to get your shots!"
"That's not funny Sid! What if it makes me sick? Who knows what gremlin spit could do to me? It chewed on my leg like it was a turkey drumstick!" he sat down on the dining room floor and pulled his torn pants leg up to see.
Fortunately there weren't any customer's trying to eat that late. "Frankly Sid, I didn't see much difference between the cats and the gremlins! It was a cat that tore up my arm, after I cured it!"
Nana came in next and saw him sitting on the floor holding his leg with a badly scratched forearm. Truth was, Tobey did feel a little faint, but would never admit it. "Come on Tobey, let's clean you up so we can treat your wounds."
"See Sid, Nana cares about me."
Sue had enough and ignored both of them. She hadn't been sleeping well anyway, and felt like she might just fall down. She forced herself to stay standing long enough to take a shower and fell into bed with her hair still loose and wet. Gremlins for Christmas. Why couldn't they have turned into elves or candy canes? Stupid recipes, too bad that wasn't the one Kong Li found.
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Sid and Tobey didn't even take showers and just went to bed stinky and full of gremlin spit and other nasty cat and gremlin fluids. The next morning, Sid and Tobey jumped out of bed and took turns taking quick showers before they went to the kitchen.
In an empty apartment across the street from Wu's Garden, Kong Li was back watching Sue's room with a telescope from a window. As creepy as that was, he had been watching for hours, hoping only to see the chaos he expected to cause. He did see something that scared him. Sue's hair had dried in a terrifying array of matted hair sticking out all over her head since she went to bed with it wet.
"Well, doesn't that girl brush her hair at night? Well, she will have to do it now. Little Sue Yi won't want anyone to see her hair like that!"
Sue scared herself a little too when she looked in the mirror. "Oh yuck. It'll take an hour to brush this out." She got dressed and wrapped a towel around her head like she had just got out of the shower. Taking three steps at a time, she ran downstairs to eat breakfast with Sid and Tobey. They were getting used to being off school for Christmas break and Barney was very happy that he would have more help. He was so happy he could be heard in the kitchen whistling.
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"Good morning children."
"Hi Nana." they said together like they had rehearsed it.
"When you are all finished eating, come and sit with me in the garden."
"Okay Nana." Tobey answered first. Even he knew right away Nana didn't mean just 'sit'. They were going to have an extra-long guided meditation. They had to meet much earlier when school was in session.
"Nana, can I fix my hair first?"
"Sure Sue, join us as soon as you can." Nana turned and went to the garden.
"Yeah Sue, you don't want Barney to see your hair like - this!" Tobey reached across the table and pulled the towel off of her head! Sue took a swing at him and missed. He acted like he was terrified and ran away screaming "MEDUSA!"
"You little . . !" It took her an extra second to climb out of the booth over Sid, but she still tacked him when he got to a grassy patch in the garden.
Sitting in her usual place for meditation, Nana raised her eyebrow at them. "Meditation!"
"Sorry Nana." Sue took an extra second getting off of Tobey to let him up and she pinched his butt before she got all the way off of him. She went back inside to work on her hair. Tobey stood stunned for a second before he realized she was flirting with him! "Woohoo!" he shouted without warning.
"TOBEY! MEDITATION!"
"Sorry Nana." he grinned at her mischievously and joined Nana right them. He knew he wouldn't be able to settle down for mediation today! Sue was flirting with me! She must like me, well like me differently than she used to! He was screaming with joy on the inside.
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Sue grabbed her towel out of the booth where Tobey threw it and ran upstairs. She could hear her brother was still laughing until she slammed her door shut and locked it! Her fun with Tobey made her forget for a moment how angry she was inside. She kicked the door and flopped back down on her bed.
I will get Sid back for laughing at me! She exhaled loudly, "Aaahg!" and sat up on the edge of the bed to reach for her brush.
Kong Li was still watching and saw that now he would get his Christmas present. The long, sad end of one of Nana's brats was like the perfect stocking stuffer and with any luck at all he would have his master's cookbook very soon.
As Sue separated her hair and brushed the knots out of each section she noticed she was feeling very relaxed considering how angry she felt just minutes before. She even kind of liked it when Tobey was messing with her and didn't want to dye the white patch in his hair green anymore. Why do I let Sid anger me so much more than Tobey?
She flattened one more section of her hair and started on the next section on the other side. Most of the matted mess was actually looking like her own hair now. When she finished with each section she brushed to smooth them all together and stood up. She needed to look in the mirror to put the clip in to hold it up in the back.
The room spun when she got up to go to the mirror and she held onto the corner of her dresser, "Whoa. That was weird. Tobey's right, I haven't been eating right, but I had a good breakfast with them this morning." She blinked when her clip looked blurry to her after she picked it up.
"What's going on?" she mumbled and dropped her brush and the clip back on the dresser.
"Ow!" She cried out. A sharp pain went from the front over her eyes to the back of her head. The pain knocked her to his knees. Was she imagining that her hair hurt or did it really? She felt very dizzy and tried to get up just to sit back on the bed, but slid off onto the floor and rolled onto her back. Her last though was for her phone to call for help, but it was up on the dresser and she couldn't get up to get it.
Yelling for help sounded more like a whisper and she thought for a very brief, frightening moment that she heard Kong Li laughing before she fainted.
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Tobey continued . . .