Kong Li Christmas : A Sue Story 12
By Crystalquirt
Tobue. Kong Li messes up Christmas by trying to take Sue out of the celebration for good. Scary situations, violence, mild language, action, romance, angst, oh yeah.
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Sid and Sue couldn't see Kong Li when he picked Tobey up by the front of his shirt with one gloved hand. Tobey pulled at his own shirt and kicked trying to get away while Kong Li pulled the glove off his free hand. Kong Li touched Tobey's neck with his invisible, but bare hand. Tobey felt his neck being touched and tried harder to get away, but the instant Kong Li touched him, he became invisible too.
To Sid and Sue it looked like Tobey just vanished! At least Tobey could now see the dim outline of a very scary looking Kong Li holding him.
With Kong Li and Tobey moving invisibly like ghosts, Sid and Sue couldn't see or hear them. Tobey was yelling and struggling wildly, kicking at the intangible Kong Li. Sid and Sue were looking where Tobey vanished, and had no idea which way Kong Li was dragging him away. They were all the way across the garden already, almost to the scholar stone.
Sue looked dizzy for a moment and almost fell. Sid caught her "No Sue! I need you! Don't pass out or flip out on me now! Tobey needs you!" Sid started yelling for Nana again. "Nana!"
"Sue said weakly, if I were Kong Li, and invisible, I would be after the cookbook."
"Right." Sid started to run toward the Scholar stone, but stopped, not wanting to leave Sue standing alone.
"Go Sid, Nana will be right here." Sue leaned forward with her hands on her knees, but keep looking around hoping to see Tobey re-appear. While she looked for him, she yelled as loud as she could for Nana!
Sid ran to the Scholar Stone and tried the combination, "Crap! I cant get it open! What the hell am I doing wrong?" He tried it again. Sue went to him as quickly as she could, swaying a little as she walked. Sue tried the combination herself.
Sid stood ready on the other side of the Scholar Stone like he thought he could stop an invisible Kong Li from getting past him. Sue couldn't get the stone open either.
Unfortunately, Kong Li was already in the stone with Tobey and he was freaking out. Not only was he in a small space, he had literally moved through the rock to get there! Feeling trapped within the thick stone walls scared him so badly he was already shaking.
Kong Li was laughing at him, but paused long enough to warn, "Boy, you better pick up your legs and pull your arms in so you fit when I let go of you. If you don't your molecules and the stone's molecules will be come fused and you will be stuck inside the stone forever!" Then he said thoughtfully, "Of course you won't live forever with rock in your blood and organs anyway." he laughed maniacally.
"No don't leave me in here! No! Please." Tobey kicked wildly and Kong Li let him go. Tobey gasped and screamed hysterically when he saw his legs were in the stone. Kong Li for some reason turned him intangible again. "One more chance then Tobey?"
If Sid and Sue had EMF readers the gauges would have gone crazy with the ghosts arguing right in front of them. Voice recorders would have picked up their voices and Tobey's screams. They only heard Tobey screaming during the instant Kong Li let go of him and he became literally trapped in the stone. But then as far as Sid and Sue knew everything was quiet again. Sue screamed for Tobey pounding weakly on the stone, Sid ran to the back door and yelled for Nana again.
Inside the stone, unheard by Sue or Sid, Kong Li threatened Tobey again. "I told you – Last chance you get you little reject. Now do as I say, pick up your feet. I will kill you . . . if you force me too, but I don't really want to kill you, yet. I might need you someday."
"All you need from me is a good ass-kicking!"
Even though Tobey sounded tough, he lifted his legs and tried to do what Kong Li told him to do. "Why can't you just let me go! You're invisible, we can't stop you - YET!"
"You cant stop me at all, but I want to be sure you will stay where I put you. Then with little Sue Yee so close to death there will only be Mei Hua and Sid. In the little space in the scholar stone it will be unpleasant for you I'm sure, the walls will be closing in getting smaller and smaller and the air won't last. You will get so scared, your heart might stop!"
"Shut up!" Tobey panicked and tried to kick Kong Li. His movement caused his head to go back through, or in the stone behind him and Kong Li held him there for a moment. Being 'in' the stone was worse than any small space Tobey could ever imagine! It scared him half to death to be held inside the stone!
Sue and Sid circled the stone, watching for any sign of what was going on. While Tobey was invisible they couldn't hear him. Sue still called his name over and over, sure something very bad was happening to him. Sid tried the combination again.
Inside the stone, Tobey stopped fighting so Kong Li pulled him forward. Now scared out of his wits, Tobey felt faint and nauseous and cooperated with Kong Li not wanting to be pushed into the stone again. Kong Li's invisible, intangible body stayed mostly in the stone with only his head, torso and arms in the small space with Tobey. His bare hand around Tobey's neck keeping him invisible and intangible, Kong Li took the cookbook out from under Tobey's butt.
"Okay, arms and legs in? Goodbye for now, if you survive the night I will see you again soon." Not really giving a Tobey a chance to make sure he was completely free of the wall Kong Li let go. Tobey appeared, sitting in place of the cookbook in the little space. He had his knees up to his chest and one arm hugging them trying to make himself as small as possible.
In the dim magical light glowing inside the stone, Tobey frantically looked around and realized he was not only trapped in the small cubical in the scholar stone, but found his hand was stuck too. His hand was stuck in the stone, right next to where he sat! He screamed hysterically, and begged Kong Li to come back and let him out, but didn't really expect such a favor from the evil man. It hurt a little, but he hardly noticed he was so scared. Besides being stuck in a tiny dark space, he couldn't turn around or move his hand!
"Sid! Sue! Help me!"
Now that Kong Li had let him go Sue and Sid could hear him inside the stone screaming. It didn't seem like he heard them yelling back trying to comfort him. "Tobey! Hang on! - close your eyes and take deep breaths."
Nana got there with her herb bag over her shoulder. "What's going on?"
"We thought Tobey was kidding, but he disappeared right before our eyes and now he's in the stone! It had to be Kong Li!"
"We think Kong Li is here – invisible and Tobey vanished – but now we heard him inside the scholar stone!"
Nana put her bag down, "Sorry kids, I heard you – but so did Calvin and he was coming out to yell at you for yelling. It took me a minute to distract him and get him to go back to bed."
"We tried the combination - why can't we get in?"
"I changed the combination, I'm sorry I didn't think to give you the new one right away, but I didn't think you would need it!" Nana was using the new combination. When the dial went in and the little doors opened Tobey leaned toward the exit, but couldn't even reach to get his head out.
Sue saw Tobey looking so upset and she felt so weak and sleepy she sank down to the ground and leaned against the stone.
"Sue?" Sid bent down next to her.
"I'm okay, just get Tobey out."
"Nana's got him." Sid assured her. But Tobey was still carrying on in a panic.
"Ahhhhgg! Its getting smaller in here! There's no air! Nana! I can't breathe!" Tobey's chest heaved, but little air was moving, his eyes darted back and fourth looking for escape. He was hyperventilating. "Ow! My chest hurts!" he pressed on his chest with his one free arm.
Nana tried to calm him down, "Tobey, try to relax, there is air – if you couldn't breathe, you couldn't be screaming!" The sound of Nana's voice and her touch on his arm helped a little and Tobey stopped screaming. "Scoot towards me Tobey, I will help you out."
"I can't - I can't – My hand is stuck! I'm trapped in here – Kong Li said forever!" he cried. Nana leaned into the small space with him and saw where his hand and wrist were stuck in the stone floor behind him. He was panting and making involuntary little sounds like whining he was so scared. He crossed his free arm over his chest trying to focus on breathing. "Nana help!"
"You will be okay Tobey. Hang on."
Nana backed out and whispered to Sid and Sue, "Oh no! Kids, Kong Li left him with his hand stuck in the stone."
"Can't we just chisel his hand out?"
"No Sid, his hand, his flesh is mixed with the material from the rock. We have to phase him out just like he got in there and the cookbook is gone! We also have to find Kong Li before he can use it or all of Chinatown will be lost! She spoke softly, but held onto Tobey's hand when he reached for her.
Sue volunteered, "Sid you and Nana go. I am too weak to fight anyway. I will stay with Tobey and try to keep him calm until you get back."
"But Sue, sorry – but what if you go nuts again! There's no way to even know what you will do – what if you leave? Or you might even hurt Tobey, or you might even . . ."
"Don't say it Sid. I promise I will be fine until you get back."
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Tobey continued . . .