Kong Li Christmas : A Sue Story 16
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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Tobey shrieked in terror when he saw Sue disappear! "No Sue! Bring her back!" With big tears running down his face he weakly got up leaning on a tree to stay up. He looked to Sid and he was still down and then when he looked around for Nana, she had disappeared too! "Nana! help Sue . . . please!"
The tree had to hold Tobey up for a few more seconds while he cradled his injured hand against his stomach. He gritted his teeth and staggered over to Sid.
"Sid? Please wake up." he shook him gently first, then carefully rolled him over onto his back. Tobey startled like he had been shot when he heard the screen door slam.
Barney came out in the garden to dump a pot of ruined broth around the flowers. When he was measuring salt, his dad slapped his back before yelling at him and he dumped the whole jar of salt in. I thought it could at least keep the slugs away from the flowers.
When Barney saw Sid on the ground with Tobey over him, head down, he asked, "Having a rough training session? Hey dude, aren't you freezing? Since when do you train shirtless this early?"
"I'm fine Barney. Rough training." Tobey said softly.
"Hey Sid, I hope you get him back for knocking you down." Barney chuckled and went back in.
Tobey never looked away from Sid. "Please wake up buddy! We have to figure out how to help Nana and Sue!"
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When Nana saw Kong Li take Sue, still able to access the skills possessed by most ghosts, she went invisible. She was very happy to find that once she turned invisible, she could see Kong Li holding Sue! He had her in a choke hold, his other hand gripping her arm tightly. With a pained look on her face, she struggled when she saw Nana appear. Kong Li kneed her in the back of her burned leg and she groaned and stopped moving.
"Kong Li! You let her go! Let this fight be between us!"
"I think not Mei Hua – your three rejects have caused me enough trouble for three lifetimes! They will pay too." Kong Li looked back at Tobey, still trying to wake Sid up.
"Sid!" Sue cried and Kong Li squeezed tighter.
"Now Mei Hua – decide which of your rejects you will save!"
"Kong Li! NO!"
Kong Li held onto Sue's throat tightly with one arm and held his hand out toward the boys. Sue squirmed and got kneed again. The agony was so intense from her leg that her vision blurred for a moment. Her wound still glowed around the edges from the magical flame like it was still causing damage to her tissue.
With a wave of his hand, Kong Li commanded all the Christmas lights and lanterns in the garden to come down or unwrap from what they were decorating. Moving quickly like snakes, the lanterns, wires and lights circled around Tobey and Sid in a circle on the ground around them.
Tobey's eyes were shut at first trying to wish away the pain his hand was causing him. He was still patting and gently shaking Sid, trying to get him to respond when he heard something and opened his eyes. He gasped audibly when he saw what was happening around them! "Shit! What is this?"
Tobey decided whatever it was, he nor Sid should be in the middle of it - so he grabbed Sid's shirt at the shoulder and started trying to pull him out of the circle with one hand. The heavy outdoor Christmas lights that came off the building wrapped around Tobey's legs and made him fall before dragging him back into the center of the circle.
Weakly and with only one hand, Tobey reached the cord and tried to pull it off his legs, but couldn't do it.
Intense blue flame ignited in Kong Li's hand and he shot it at Sid and Tobey.
"NO! TOBEY! SID! RUN!" Sue screamed with all her might before Kong Li tightened his grip and stopped her screaming.
Tobey thought for sure he heard Sue's voice and looked around in time to see a blue fireball, hissing like it was fueled by rocket fuel rushing right at them! Tobey yelled and tried hard to kick his legs free. That not working he rolled over and covered Sid with his own body.
The fire didn't hit him; fortunately the fireball hit and ignited the Christmas decorations around them! Working with only one hand, Tobey quickly pulled Sid's knees up to get his feet farther from the fire on one side, and then sat him up. Tobey stayed on his knees and kept Sid as close in the middle as he could. He could already feel the bottoms of his own shoes getting hot and he started coughing from the strange chemical smell of the smoke.
Sue pushed out words so soft Nana almost couldn't hear here, "Nana go! Save them - Please!"
"You monster Kong Li!" she screamed after him as he floated over the garden wall still holding onto Sue.
She could hear Tobey coughing hard, but she couldn't see them through the flames. She dropped to the ground and became visible as she ran to blue bonfire.
"Kai Shrey La!" Nana said loud and strong enough to have powerful streams of water shoot from both of her palms. Tobey felt water hit and sooth his very hot back and knew it was Nana.
He held onto Sid tighter and leaned into the powerful stream when it hit them. Nana expertly controlled the water and put the fire out all the way around them. There was nothing left of the decorations and a large ring was burned in the grass and part of the stone walkway. The fire was so hot it melted the stone into a shiny glass-like surface.
Tobey laid Sid back down. Sid started coughing too and rolled himself onto his side to cough harder. Tobey turned away from him and coughed harder. Nana yelled on her way by, "Hang on boys."
Nana ran inside and came right back out with a bottle of clear liquid. "Take a sip and inhale the smell Tobey, it will sooth your inflamed throat and lungs, then help Sid sit up and help him if he needs it to to the same thing. Nana stared into the sky in the direction where she last saw Kong Li and Sue as he took her away.
Sid was inhaling the vapor from the bottle. As soon as Tobey could speak again, "Nana! What happened to Sue? Please tell me she's okay! You got her back right - is she still invisible?"
"No boys I am so sorry. When Kong Li endangered you two, he made me choose. You two were in immediate danger from fire! Sue cried for me to save you first."
"Nana NO! Why? Now we don't know where she is!"
"We will find her. Lets get your injuries taken care of."
"NO! We have to find her first! My injuries don't matter! I, um and Sid – we cant loose Sue!"
Sid looked up, his eyes looking very wet. Tobey got up and headed for the back gate.
"Tobey stop! Are you going after her on foot? Please you are not thinking clearly, you're hurt!"
Tobey still didn't stop so Nana ran to him, he fought her weakly, but hurt his wrist in doing so. He cried out and fell to his knees holding his wrist; sobbing for Sue. "Why did you let him take her? It's not fair-It's not fair-It's not fair!"
Sid could hardly keep from crying just because Tobey was and he was very worried about Sue too! What would Kong Li do to her – why did he take her from them? He saw where Nana put the cookbook, why didn't he just go after it again?"
After that thought, he went over to the scholar stone and entered the new combination. Afraid of what he might find, he hesitated, but when he looked the cookbook was still there. Nana supported Tobey as they walked over to join Sid.
"Nana, Kong Li saw where you put it! Maybe you should hide it somewhere else. Why didn't Kong Li go after it again instead of taking Sue?"
I'm not sure boys, but I would guess it was because we took the rest of the Specter Stew he was using – he hadn't had any during the fight and would not have wanted to become tangible after he went into the stone."
Nana called a cab to take them both to the urgent care clinic. She had them sit on a bench and had instructed the cab to pick them up at the garden gate so they wouldn't have to parade through the dining room or see Calvin and Barney looking like they were.
Sid would never admit he had a headache while Sue was in danger, but the back of his head was soaked with blood from the cut he received when he landed against the Scholar Stone and Nana was worried about him. Sid still moved like his back hurt. Nana was no less worried about Tobey, just because he was up and around now.
While they waited for the cab, Nana went someplace with the cookbook and came back quickly. Sid was worried that she wasn't gone long enough to have hidden it well, but didn't say anything.
Nana sat next to Tobey on the bench. "Let me see your wrist." Tobey winced when he gingerly moved his hand away from his stomach and held it out for her to see. His belly and chest were black and blue in large areas and smeared with blood from his wrist. He looked like he had been to war. Nana very gently touched his hand, but he still whimpered.
"OwOwOw!"
"Sorry."
Sid looked too and after seeing his wrist and hand, Sid had no intention of teasing Tobey about being a wimp ever again.
"Tobey, your hand isn't as purple as it was. It looks to me like the circulation is returning." She thought this was the first time that Tobey couldn't seem smile since she had know him.
"Oh Tobey." Nana hugged him and he leaned on her. Nana patted Sid's back and he smiled weakly at her. The cab pulled into the alley and stopped by the gate and they all got in the back seat.
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At urgent care, the admittance interview went smoothly. With the other injuries and the strange happenings at Chung Lee park that day, they asked very few other questions after Nana told the medical staff that Sid and Tobey had been involved in the strange disturbance too.
They saw Sid first, since he had a head injury, but Tobey wasn't far behind him. The nurse brought Tobey back from radiology with a temporary splint and in only a few more minutes, a different nurse came with his diagnosis. It seemed to Tobey especially that they had been at urgent care forever, and now he was really squirming with the news the nurse was giving Nana.
"Your son's wrist is broken, a main blood vessel, tendons and nerves were all severed on one side. Circulation to the tissue has been compromised. The doctor will do surgery right now to try to save his hand."
Sid and Tobey both heard what the nurse said to Nana and yet another nurse was guiding Tobey up onto a gurney planning to get him ready for surgery. Tobey was on the gurney before he realized what was happening and started to get off again. The nurse held him back and he desperately whined, "Nana!"
"Tobey, they don't expect the surgery to take long to repair your hand and they won't keep you unless something else comes up."
"NO! I don't want to do it at all – Sue!"
Sid interrupted. "Don't worry Tobey, while you are in there I will go looking for Sue."
"No you won't either Sid, you have a concussion and a strained back. If you will promise to stay here with Tobey and be here when he wakes up, I will go find Sue."
"But Nana," Sid argued and Tobey whined, "I don't want them to put me under anesthesia!"
"No time to argue, I will call you, Sid, when I find Sue and if you two are through here, we will rescue her together alright?"
"But"
"Do as I say, show me I can trust you two." Nana nodded at the nurse and she took Tobey away. Before she left she spoke with the other nurse and made sure they had her mobile number too. She explained that she would be back, but trusted them to take care of her boys while she went to help her daughter who was also in a bit of a jam.
Tobey disappeared down one hall, Nana disappeared down another and Sid was left standing alone in the empty hallway.
"Ai-ya," he muttered. An elderly, blue haired woman, one of the volunteers saw him, "Hey Kiddo, are you lost?"
"No, my sister is – and they just took my best, um, my brother to surgery."
"Come on with me, the waiting room right down here has a couch you can lie on. I will tell them at the nurse's station where they can find you. What is your name?"
"Sid Yee."
"Nice to meet you Sid, try not to worry – things will work out."
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Tobey continued . . .