Kong Li Christmas : A Sue Story 8
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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Nana looked up when Sid came in with Tobey right behind him. Tobey went by Sid to get to Sue's bedside and dropped to his knees. He rested his forehead on the edge of the bed just for a second and Nana saw his hair in the back was wet with so much blood, it ran down his back between his shoulder's.
"Tobey! Hold still." she gently parted his hair with her fingers and found a long cut. "What happened?
"We ran into Kong Li."
"No, Tobey ran into him because he didn't wait for me to get there."
"He might have gotten away."
"He got away anyway, but stopped long enough to almost kill you too!"
"Stop you two. Tobey, did Kong Li tell you anything?"
"When he tried to kill me he said Sid would be an only child soon. He said what he did to Sue was really awful. Nana?"
"Tell her the rest Tobey,"
"Okay, he said you won't tell us how bad it really is and for some reason he mentioned Barney."
Before Nana could say anything to the boys, Sue moaned and opened her eyes.
"Sue!" Sid sat on the bed next to her. "Sue, you're okay?"
"What happened, ew, my hair's wet?"
"Sue, I'm afraid something really bad has happened, Kong Li . . ."
"He's always doing something, what else has he done to ruin our Christmas?" Sue sounded sleepy.
"Sue, Kong Li broke in here and put a spell on your hairbrush. It affected you when you were brushing your hair. That is why you passed out."
"My hairbrush? If he wanted to get rid of me, there are probably faster ways. It didn't work, I'm feeling fine, except for being really sleepy."
Tobey added, "He's been watching you from the vacant building across the street, he even had a telescope."
"Ewe! That's so gross! Guess I need new blinds!"
"That's not a worry for now Sue, this is serious."
"But Nana, if its magic can't you use the cookbook to come up with an antidote?"
This is not from the cookbook, its not one of our master's recipes. It is a poison, enchanted, but not like a magic recipe, more like 'troll' magic. Evil and dirty. I am sure Kong Li thought he could fool me into going for the cookbook by making Sue the target, but I knew almost right away that it wouldn't help. I am sorry kids. I should have seen this coming."
Sue turned her head to the wall, thinking.
Sid tried to hold Sue's hand again, but she pulled it away. "Sue? . . . Its not your fault Nana. There has to be something we can do?"
"Yes, I or, we just have to figure out how, while I do some research, and we take care of what we need to do, Sue cannot be left alone. She will sleep most of the time and don't be alarmed if she cant be awakened sometimes, other times she will seem like she is someone else, she could hurt one of you or even hurt herself."
Sue rolled back over and looked at Nana. "No way, I would never hurt you guys."
"You wont have a choice Sue, we will have no way to prevent this spell from affecting you."
"Oh man, don't let me hurt one of you! Please. See Tobey! I told you Christmas was going to Suck! I told you Kong Li was going to do something to ruin it!"
Sid raised an eyebrow, "So its not me ruining Christmas anymore?"
"I'm sorry I said that Sid. It isn't you."
"Sue, even Christmas is not important now. Try not to dwell on it and made yourself sadder for no reason. We need you thinking as clearly as possible until we fix this."
Nana asked Sid to follow her out in the hall, "Hang in there Tobey, we will be right here, call if you need anything."
Sue frowned at him, "Now is where Nana tells my brother the horrible things that she doesn't want me to know, and you got stuck with babysitting duty."
"It'll be alright Sue. I'll make sure nothing happens to you if I have to do it alone!" Tobey turned and looked at the door. "Nana! Nana!"
Nana and Sid came running in, ready for anything. "What's wrong Tobey?"
"Could you bring Sue and me some ice cream?"
"Tobey!"
"You said to call if we needed anything!" he cried in a perfect imitation of a whining six year old.
That did it - Sue smiled. Tobey held her hand and slid back a little on the bed to keep from falling off. He was worrying about how he would keep his promise, but he was determined to do it.
Back out in the hall Nana continued, "Other times your sister will sleep and still, at other times she will be like now and she will seem normal. The antidote if there is one, must be given while Sue is being, um 'unreasonable'. That is when the spirit of warlords dead daughter is taking her over. Fortunately this spirit is not strong enough to stay in control very long, but being the daughter of an ancient warlord, she can do a lot of damage in a very short time.
"That is fine, Sue has been very unreasonable for the last few days anyway. It might be hard to tell when the spirit has control." Sid sighed. "What do I have to do?" Sid asked.
"You can't do it Sid, and someone who could save her is just not likely to while she is on a rampage and trying to kill anyone near her."
"But Nana, it sounds like you know what it takes, just tell me – I'll do anything, no matter now nasty or violent she gets. Tobey would too!"
"Kong Li found this terrible recipe while we were still in school and he told me about it. He said he used it on a classmate, and she soon vanished. No one ever knew what happened to her. I hoped he had forgotten about how to do it by now."
"No Nana! What is it then?"
Nana continued, "A warlord wanted to make sure the man who was to marry his beautiful daughter loved her truly. Rather than live with a man who only married for money and power he wished his daughter dead. Only a man who would love her no matter how nasty or lazy she got would do. So he had his witches create this spell. The suitor's had to work fast or they would loose her. She would die if they could not prove themselves."
"But Nana, then what is the antidote? What did the men have to do to save her and win her hand in marriage?"
"The man who truly loves her and wants nothing from her or her family, must kiss her. The warlords daughter was never kissed by a warrior or any other man who had only her best interest at heart. She died and now she has haunted the victims of this spell herself for centuries."
"A kiss? So then, we just need Barney to kiss her, right?"
"No, Sue loves, or thinks she loves Barney. He has never shown any affection toward her so a kiss from him will not work."
Sid's mind was frantically looking for a way to fix this. "But, I love her Nana! I can kiss her and I wouldn't marry Sue for money or power– I would never even want to!"
"No Sid, brotherly, family love, a kiss on the cheek, will not cure this no matter how strongly you love your sister. It must be true romantic, everlasting love and passion."
Tobey was listening through the door, very quietly. Sue tried to get up, "What are they saying?" she whispered.
Dismayed and scared by what he heard he shortened Nana's speech. "They've been saying a kiss is the antidote!" Tobey went back over and sat down beside Sue. She was sitting up in her bed now and seemed wide awake.
"A kiss? From who, Barney?"
Tobey nodded, he hated it, but he nodded. Sue had mixed feelings about Barney kissing her. She always thought that was what she wanted, "But he has never even noticed me? Why him?"
"I don't know. I don't believe it. A kiss? There is no way it can be that simple." Tobey tried very hard to believe it had to be something else. Sue grabbed him and hugged him, speaking softly in his ear.
"Tobey, what if Barney won't kiss me? I mean especially if we tell him I'm sick he's not gonna want to and he would never believe some sort of Cinderella tale."
Tobey whispered back, "You mean Sleeping Beauty." holding her shoulders he leaned back just enough to see her face.
"and the four elves, what ever!" her voice cracked like she was exhausted, or maybe about to cry. He looked into her teary eyes and she got embarrassed when he gently wiped a tear away with his thumb.
"I'm not crying."
"It's okay Sue, I might." Tobey had tears in his eyes too. She leaned toward him, she noticed he smelled really good. Like chocolate and antiseptic. "You had a shower."
"Yeah just a few hours ago, and then I had to clean all the cuts I got."
"How did you get cut?"
"Oh, when I ran into Kong Li across the street."
"I'm so sorry you got hurt Tobey." Sue held him closer around his waist and leaned in. She closed her eyes and their noses touched. Tobey's eyes got huge, right before he closed them and relaxed into the idea she seemed to be having. He never found her lips for all the screaming that followed.
Sue screamed right in his face and bit his cheek. The pain brought more tears to Tobey's eyes than anything ever had as he pulled back and his skin came out her teeth with a snapping sound. She followed through with a palm to his chest and knocked him off the bed backwards.
Nana and Sid came crashing in, Tobey already on the floor holding his cheek, Sue standing on the bed. She saw them coming at her and screamed like a banshie, her black hair blowing around her face in like there was a strong wind in her room. She kicked Nana and knocked her down before she turned and jumped for the window.
Sid tackled her and they landed on Tobey who screamed and covered his head. When he realized Sid was having trouble holding onto her, Tobey joined in and between them got her pinned down on the floor.
The boys looked at each other in shock. "Nana!" What now?"
"Just hold her this shouldn't last long."
Sue screamed louder and spit at Sid. He wiped his face on his sleeve without letting go of her. He couldn't stand it not to try – Nana said it was the only way – and as far as he knew, brotherly love like he and Tobey had for her would have to do it!
Sid put his knee across her legs to help hold her down. He pinched off her nose and gave her a very loving, but brotherly kiss on her cheek with her screaming the whole time.
Nothing happened except she screamed louder and tried to bite his hand.
"I'm sorry Sid, but I knew that wouldn't work. It has to be a romantic kiss from a true love."
"But Nana! She's too young to have one of those yet! Me and Tobey don't have anyone like that either!"
"I'm sure that is why Kong Li chose this spell. It was never intended to be used on one so young. He is not above doing anything to get his way!"
"So our only hope is to get Barney to kiss her?" Tobey asked. Nana shook her head no.
Sue interrupted, "All this talk about someone kissing me is going to make me gag. This is just silly. There has to be another way . . . Why are we all on the floor?"
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Tobey continued . . .