Kong Li Christmas : A Sue Story 7
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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Now Kong Li only had to wait for Nana or one of the brats to find Sue unconscious in her room and then he could move freely about town, gather all the ingredients he would need and prepare the recipe he found that would bring him everything he wanted.
"After I consume the Spectral Chowder recipe I can go anywhere I want with no questions, I can just stroll through and get the cookbook as soon as I see where she keeps it. I won't even have to beat Mei Hua and her other two rejects first or even do it myself! I can just let my army that I will raise take care of them for me! Oh, I think I've said it before, but where's the fun in that?"
Kong Li readjusted the telescope to make sure he could see all of the beautiful drama that would soon unfold and he continued talking to himself. "After all this time, all the trouble they caused me, to give the pleasure of seeing them suffer to someone else, why, I don't think I could do it! Mwahahaha! Very soon Nana's force-field will come down, and I will be ruling the world by the first of the new year!"
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Tobey changed position restlessly during meditation and kept looking for Sue. Finally he couldn't stand it anymore and whined. "How come Sue doesn't have to do this?"
"She will have to do it just as long as you do Tobey, she will remain in meditation after you are finished. You better get to it, or you will have to stay with her too. Sid tried not to, but he smiled at Tobey's discomfort. His best friend just couldn't sit still for more than a minute. Especially if he was 'trying' to.
Tobey tried, he really did. He even followed Nana's beginning meditation instructions for several minutes. But soon he was back to scratching his nose or butt or what ever else itched - shifting, uncrossing his legs, rocking.
Finally, after several more minutes it did seem like he had settled down. On the outside he was sitting very still, but in his mind he was playing Dragon Robot 7. Nana new he was faking it, but ignored him.
Sid and Nana, at the same time startled and looked up at each other, Nana instructed, "Tobey get up!" Nana and Sid were already up.
"Awe, but Nana I was just getting into the 'zone'!"
Sid lifted Tobey to his feet and pushed. "Somethings wrong, we have to go check on Sue."
"Finally! I've been saying it's taking her way too long to brush her hair." Tobey followed them upstairs almost running Sid and Nana were walking so fast.
Sid knocked first and yelled through the door, "Sue? Are you alright?" he looked very worried when Sue didn't answer. Nana motioned for him to open the door. He tried, but it wouldn't open.
"Nana! She locked her door! She never locks her door."
Tobey got closer, "Step aside, let an expert of the dark arts take care of this."
Sid moved over so Tobey could kneel in front of the door. Nana handed him a little metal hairpin. The old lock on the door was almost too easy for Tobey to pick and with two clicks the door was open. Sid jumped over Tobey and ran in first, "Sue! Sue!" he cried as he got down on the floor next to his sister.
"Nana! What's wrong with her?" Tobey asked. His voice squeaked and he already sounded like he might cry.
"I don't know yet boys, carefully – gently, put her up on her bed."
Sid had her under her arms and Tobey got her legs and they lifted together. Nana and Sid sat on either side of the bed with Sue, Tobey picked up her brush and hair clip. He noticed she hadn't finished her hair and the brush was lying on the light-colored dresser with a fine powder surrounding it. When Sue dropped the brush little flicks of the spell that poisoned her were knocked out of it.
Curious, Tobey pressed his finger over them and they stuck to his skin, he gave them a smell and couldn't smell anything. "Nana, how would Sue get black dandruff?"
"My sister doesn't have dandruff, stop messing around Tobey! This is serious, my sister could be seriously hurt or sick!" Sid held Sue's hand while Nana was checking her over.
Tobey mumbled something about no one ever listening to him and suddenly squealed, "Ow! - or rather not - ow – I mean the opposite of ow! That feels weird!"
"Tobey I said stop fooling around! Nana's trying to concentrate."
". . . but my finger tingled and went numb!" he held his finger out to Nana so she could see the black powder.
"We don't care about your finger right now Tobey!"
"But it might have something to do with what happened to Sue!"
"What are you talking about Tobey?" Nana got up and went around the bed to see Tobey's finger. There were black specks still visible on his skin.
"This powder came out of Sue's hairbrush, watch." He tapped it quickly three times on the dresser and made more fall out of the brush. "It made my finger numb - what is that?"
Nana recognized it right away. "Oh no, its worse than I could have ever thought! This is dark magic. You two, check the house - the garden - check everywhere. I suspect Kong Li is nearby, still watching."
Not wasting time with questions the boys ran out and split up to search faster. Nana carried Sue into the bathroom and rinsed out her hair in the tub. Sue's shirt got a little wet but that was the least of her trouble.
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"Yes! Mei Hua I knew you would figure it out! Send out the alarm! Make your troops secure that stupid restaurant, but it's too late! My plan is in motion!" Kong Li was still in the window across the street watching Wu's and really enjoying the chaos and suffering he was causing.
Sid took the ground and Tobey went high. Sid was searching the alley and the garden. Tobey got on the roof and looked off all sides and in all directions. He gasped and called for Sid when he saw Kong Li's shadowy frame in a dark window right across the street. The darkness coming from that room stood out, even in daylight! Kong Li was looking right at him and didn't seem to care at all that he had been spotted.
Tobey 'investigated' the empty apartment building across the street many times and knew the window Kong Li was in was in apartment 310! Without waiting for Sid, he quickly slid down the roof and down the drain pipe to the sidewalk. Without missing a beat he ran across the street and up to the third floor.
Tobey kicked the door in and Kong Li was standing there, already laughing at him. "What's wrong little Tobey? Is there an illness in your weird little family?"
"What did you do to her?" Tobey screamed, he was in his defensive snake stance, but his hands were visibly shaking, his stance unsteady.
"Your Nana will figure it out soon enough. She probably already knows, but won't tell you and Sid. It will make you both too sad to fight me while you worry about the ugly, painful way you are about to lose little Sue Yee."
"No! No! No!" blinded by tears Tobey charged his enemy. As emotional as he was, he was no threat and Kong Li new it. Tobey clumsily grabbed his clothing and tried to pull him off his feet. Kong Li grabbed him by his arms and looked into his eyes with his face way too close to Tobey's.
"– tell me Tobey, what is that other boy's name? Barney I think, ultimately it will be his fault, he never noticed Sue, if he had and if he really loved her, he might have been able to save her. But now there is no hope!"
"Why Barney? Aaah!"
Kong Li easily picked Tobey up and threw him at the window. Tobey put his arms up, but he turned in mid air and the back of his head broke the window, his lower back and butt hit the window frame. Spinning as he fell, he landed the broken glass, his chest across the low windowsill, his head and arms hanging out. He groaned and tried to lift himself off the glass that was cutting his chest and arms, and only cut his hands for his trouble.
"Soon Sid will be an only child!" Kong Li grabbed his legs and pushed him out!
Sid heard Tobey screaming as he ran down the third floor hall, following the light from Kong Li's magic portal spell and the sound of Tobey's screams. As he ran in Kong Li jumped up into the portal and vanished from the apartment.
"Tobey! Where are you?" Sid looked around and saw the broken window. He knew that's where Tobey had to have gone! He ran over and looked down.
"NO!" he saw him barely hanging on with bloody fingertips to an edge below. Sid leaned out and grabbed his wrists. When he tried to pull him up, one of Tobey's hands slipped out of his and they both yelled!
"Tobey! I have you – don't kick! Dammit! It's hard to hold on!" Sid wished Tobey had sleeves on, but all he wore was his white tank top so Sid couldn't get a hold on anything but his blood-slick skin.
"Don't drop me Sid! Please!" Sid gritted his teeth and pulled with one foot braced against the windowsill. Tobey's arms came back in the window, and with another pull, his torso came in, Sid repositioned, picked Tobey up to get him out of the glass and pulled him the rest of the way in. Sid fell back and Tobey landed on top of him. Both were stressed and shaking and neither of them moved right away.
In just seconds, Tobey's phone rang. Sid pushed him off, but Tobey was shaking and panting too hard to answer, so Sid answered. "Nana."
"Sid! Where are you two? If you haven't found Kong Li by now, you won't. I need you to come back so I can do some research. Sue should not be left alone."
"Right Nana."
Sid helped Tobey up. "Sid, why didn't you tell her?"
"We can tell her when we get back over there. Did Kong Li say anything when you ran into him?"
"He would only say he did something terrible to Sue and Nana would be afraid to tell us the truth! What are we going to do?"
"Were gonna save Sue, right?"
"I hope so, but what would Barney have to do with any of this? Kong Li mentioned him too and said if Barney had noticed her and had feelings for her, he could have saved her – but now it's too late? What did he mean?"
"I don't know, but Nana will."
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Tobey continued . . .