Chapter 42 the Cold and the Babysitter
Authors note: I think I got a brain twister MAWhahhahahah. This is the first brain twister chapter I've ever created so please review
Kiyo took both of the twins' temperature and both read the same 37.5 degrees Celsius (around 99 degrees Fahrenheit)
"It's ok you two you have a fever, some sleep will take care of it" Kiyo explained to the twins who were lying next to one another.
"Sleeping right" Zatch said in a funny way
"I can't sleep I have to train today" Zeno responded trying to get up but found it difficult
"If you two want to get better you'd better just sleep it off, but mother won't be here for a while and I have to go to school so behave yourselves" Kiyo told the twins
"Where's Dufort?" Zeno asked while giving up his effort to get out of bed
"He's working at his new job in the library" Kiyo responded
"Can we come to school with you" Zatch asked
"No can do" Kiyo responded quickly
"Unuu you responded to fast think it over for a few moments" Zatch requested
"I got someone who's going to be babysitting you two, lunch is in the Kitchen" Kiyo responded
"Babysitter?" Zatch and Zeno repeated
"Rops and Apollo are coming over to visit, I asked them to keep an eye on you" Kiyo explained
"You're letting someone we barely know inside the house while we're in a weaken condition? What's the matter with you" Zeno retorted
"We know them enough to know that they will fight us on equal grounds" Kiyo responded. "Now it's going to be about 20 minutes before they get here so behave" Kiyo ordered
"I don't need a babysitter I'm not a baby" Zeno protested
"Whatever you say" Kiyo said and then walked out the room and out of the house. (Huh so mamodo can get sick as well) Kiyo thought to himself as he walked to school.
20 minutes later Apollo and Rops walks through the door to see Zatch and Zeno eating lunch
"Hey Zatch, Zeno look I'm here to ba" Apollo was interrupted
"Don't say that word" Zeno yelled in a scratchy voice
"Unu Apollo you look different" Zatch said referring to that Apollo was wearing a green outfit with a shining sun with a face in the middle was sewed to his back shirt.
"Well it looks like I ran out of time and had to take over the family business in America" Apollo explained
"pah" Rops said while on Apollo's shoulder
"Then what are you doing watching us?" Zeno asked
"I have a few assets in Japan and the meeting won't happen to later so I got time to kill" Apollo explained while walking into the kitchen to make some soup for the mamodo.
"That isn't poisoned is it?" Zeno responded cautiously
"Zeno, Apollo is here to help us feel better" Zatch said having total faith in Apollo.
Apollo took the soup out of the microwave and handed it to the twins
"You don't know how to cook?" Zeno asked rudely
"I many things but not a cook unfortunately" Apollo responded and shrugged his shoulders. "After this I'm putting you boys back in bed" Apollo told the twins.
"Alright" the twins agreed
After the boys were finished Apollo led the boys upstairs with two glasses of water in hand
"I'll be here in case you two need anything" Apollo offered then looked at Rops. "And Rops as well" Apollo reminded them
"Thanks" Zatch said then laid down and fell asleep instantly so did his brother
[ring ring ring ring] Apollo's cell phone went off, this half way wakened both boys
"Yeah" Apollo answered quietly. "… I see" Apollo said listening to his advisers
"Pah" Rops responded
"Listen you three I got to go to work, I also forgot to give you two your baths, but Rops can handle that" Apollo explained
"So you're leaving too" Zatch asked
"Yep, but Rops can bab" Apollo was cut off
"Don't say that word" Zeno demanded
"Rops can't take care of us, he's too small" Zatch explained
"Rigron" Apollo pulled out a spell book and chanted the spell
Rops sprout forth 8 ropes in midair with hooks at the end of them.
"I knew it, you're turning against us" Zeno yelled in a panic
"No, calm down Zeno or else you're going to faint" Apollo warned
Zeno started to become slightly delirious "don't take me lightly, all I need is my cloak to beat you" Zeno warned while putting his cloak back on
"Rops can use his ropes to get whatever you boys need so Zeno you must calm down or you're going to faint" Apollo warned
"Don't come any closer" Zeno screamed in a panic
"Zeno calm down" Zatch went over to calm his brother with a glass of water in hand.
"Zatch don't you see that they're after us get your cloak on and help me fight them" Zeno ordered his little brother
"Zatch please calm down your brother" Apollo requested now worried that the situation was getting out of control.
Zatch looked back at Rops and due to the fever he thought the Ropes looked like a Naomi Serpent "Ahhhh monster" Zatch screamed
Apollo now knew this went from a funny event of paranoia into a dangerous situation as Zatch rushed to put his cloak on. "Forgive me Zatch, Zeno" Apollo said and used the spell Rigron to hold the boys to the ground on the bed.
"Traitor" Zeno yelled in a panic as he couldn't control his cloak right and couldn't get free
"Kiyooo" Zatch cried trying to get loose.
Both boys tried breaking free until they passed out due to the fever
"Well I'm going to hear an ear full from Kiyo for this or worse his mother" Apollo sighed
"Pah" Rops said still with Rigron active
"I got to go, Rops make their bath, and get whatever they need, I'll keep the spell active until I get back" Apollo explained then walked door leading outside the house. "I'll be back in one hour" Apollo told Rops then he left to do business.
Rops entered the room and instantly an evil grin grew across Rop's face
20 minutes later Zeno woke up and heard noises throughout the house
"Hello? Is anybody here?" Zeno asked
"Pah" Rops answered coming through Kiyo's door with the 8 ropes in hanging in midair
(Oh yeah, I freaked out then passed out) Zeno thought to himself but was in a much calmer mood
"Pah" Rops said holding out two towels
"You want us to take a bath now?" Zeno asked but it didn't really matter to him
Rops shake his head up and down
"Zatch wake up, Zatch" Zeno said quietly, Zatch slowly opened his eyes
"Unu what is it Zeno?" Zatch asked feeling a little better
"Our bath is ready" Zeno responded while getting up, Zatch followed his brother.
The twins met Rops in the steaming bathroom
Both Zatch and Zeno took off their cloak but Zeno noticed that the water was boiling hot
"That is way too hot" Zeno said and dipped his hand into the water then yelped in pain. "That's lava hot" Zeno cried
"Pah" Rops replied by picking Zeno up with the ropes and attempting to put him in the water
"No, what's the matter with you?" Zeno cried as leg and arms stretched to the rims of the tub and his back was a few inches away from the boiling water.
"Rops no the water is to hot" Zatch responded and grabbed hold of the ropes that was trying to force Zeno into the tub.
Zeno took the moment and dashed out of the bathroom "Zatch get out of there" Zeno yelled as he ran out of the bathroom then for some strange reason he uncontrollably skidded across the hallway floor causing Zeno to smack his head against the wall. "What the?" Zeno said feeling his feet and the ground. "The floor has been greased" Zeno yelled in disbelief. "Zatch" Zeno yelled then ropes came out of the bathroom toward Zeno, Zeno managed to dodge them but ended up sliding downstairs which to were greased.
"Zeno" Zatch yelled as he tried to get out of the bathroom
"AH…ah..…ah..ah..damn it" Zeno cried as he fell down the stairs and ended on his back.
"AHHHH" Zatch screamed from within the bathroom
"Zatch" Zeno yelled up the stairs then tried to climb the greased stairs but found it difficult for he would trip and fall every few steps
"Pah" Rops voice could be heard
"Rops I'm going to freaking beat you to a pulp" Zeno screamed as he finally reached the stairs to only meet Zatch crashing into him sending both down the stairs once again
"AH…AH…ow..OW..ow" Zatch and Zeno cried as they tumbled down the stairs
"Zatch you alright" Zeno mumbled
"Rops tried brushing my teeth with his ropes" Zatch explained then sat up and to his brothers horror found a hook in Zatch's mouth
"Zatch this is going to hurt" Zeno warned Zatch then quickly but gently pulled the hook out of Zatch's mouth.
"What's going on here? Why is the floor so slippery?" Zatch asked
"More importantly why the heck is Rops trying to kill us" Zeno asked in an angered tone
"Pah" Rops voice was heard coming out of the bathroom
"Run" Zeno ordered as he tried to run but couldn't get traction on the floor
"Crawl" Zatch recommended as Zatch ran on all four legs into the living room.
To the twins horror everything appeared booby trapped, plastic on the couches wires with bells to be trip alarms and a few buckets of grease and water were hovering in obvious places.
"What the heck?" Zeno and Zatch asked in unison
"We need to get our cloaks" Zeno told Zatch, both of them only had their boxers and t shirts on
"Pah" Rops said as he came down the stairs using his ropes to move around
"Let's get outside" Zeno shouted as he went for the back door in the kitchen. As Zeno went for the handle he got an electrifying shock throughout his body and was sent backward into his brother
"Uhh Zeno you ok" Zatch said now feeling the effects of the fever and fatigue
"That son of… booby trapped the freaking doors, to add salt to injury he made so it would electrocute us" Zeno explained
Zatch posture started to waver and his eyes began to close
"Don't pass out on me now damn it" Zeno told Zatch, and Zeno started shaking Zatch vigorously.
Zatch threw up a little on the floor which stopped Zeno from shaking him "I don't feel so good" Zatch said and held his stomach
"Pah" Rops came rushing through the kitchen but didn't see the twins anywhere
Zatch and Zeno were hiding under the sink cabinet
"Shh" Zeno whispered to his brother
Rops looked around a little then decided to look in the living room
"This is our chance" Zeno said
"Unu" Zatch agreed
"Go" Zeno whispered and used the walls to push him across the slippery ground, Zatch did the same
"Pah?" Rops said spotting Zatch and Zeno trying to climb the stairs
"Run damn it run" Zeno shouted as he tried pushing Zatch up the stairs, Rops was catching up with a hot bowl of soup
Zatch and Zeno managed to get inside the bathroom to only find out that their cloths weren't there
"He hid them on us" Zatch said in a panicked way
"Run to Kiyo's room" Zeno yelled as he grabbed a towel
The twins ran of the bathroom to see Rops sending his ropes at them
"Take this" Zeno shouted throwing a towel at Rops to blind him shortly, Zeno took advantage and kicked Rops back down stairs
"How's it feel?" the twins taunted at the same time then made a mad dash toward Kiyo's room which hadn't been greased
"Lock the door" Zeno commanded, Zatch did as he was told
"What we going to do?" Zatch asked now worried
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking" Zeno responded then tried to open Kiyo's window to get the same results as last time, Zeno was met with an electric current coursing through his veins and he was thrown backwards into Kiyo's bed. "DAMN IT" Zeno screamed in anger and looked at his burned hands that weren't healing quickly because of the fever
"I'll find something nonconductive" Zatch responded, then started looking around the room to open the window
"He could've not had enough time to booby trap the entire house" Zeno said to himself in disbelief then looked at the clock. "He only had about 20 minutes, there's no way, not even Dufort could do such a thing" Zeno said and put his hands up to his burning forehead
"Don't give up yet" Zatch said as he found rubber gloves underneath Kiyo's bed
"PAH" Rops shouted as he broke through the door with two hot steaming bowls of soup.
"Noooo" Both Zatch and Zeno scream
Rops threw both bowls of soup at the boys
"AHHHHH" Zatch and Zeno screamed in pain as their skin burned red hot from the searing hot soup
Both then passed out from fatigue and the conditions of the fever.
"PAh?" Rops responded
50 minutes later
"AHHH" Zatch and Zeno woke up screaming
"What's the matter" Apollo asked as he was keeping an eye on them
"ROPS" the twins yelled
"He's right here" Apollo pointed to Rops who was on his shoulder
"Keep that freak away from me" Zeno yelled then ran out of Kiyo room. "Where the heck is it?" Zeno yelled downstairs then rushed back up the stairs.
"Where's what?" Apollo asked
"The traps that Rops made where are they?" Zeno asked confused
"Traps?" Apollo repeated
"Zeno our cloaks" Zatch said getting up to find that both him and Zeno were fully clothed
"What the…?" Zeno looked down and noticed the same thing
"I'm going to get you two more water" Apollo said walking downstairs
"Zatch let me see your mouth" Zeno requested, Zatch let him. "It's gone… the hole the hook made is GONE" Zeno said in absolute confusion and disbelief
Zatch grabbed Zeno's hands "so are your burns" Zatch replied
Zeno took off his cloak to look at his body "my bruises are gone from falling down the stairs" Zeno responded
"Zeno did we have the same dream?" Zatch asked
"It didn't feel like a dream" Zeno responded then took off Zatch's cloak to find that there were no burn marks or bruises from the soup or the fall down the stairs.
"I feeling a little better now" Zatch said in a calm manner
Zeno put his white cloak back on "could we have healed from those injuries?" Zeno wondered
"Here you two go" Apollo said as he came back in the room and hand the twins a glass of water
"Pah" Rops said waving to them
"Gulp" Both of the twins were now frightened by that noise
"Now you two should get some sleep" Apollo suggested
"We're fine" Zatch and Zeno retorted not wanting to fall asleep again.
Zatch all of a sudden started to crawl under Kiyo's bed.
"What you doing Zatch" Apollo asked
Zatch came out with rubber gloves "rubber gloves" Zatch mumbled
Authors Note: I think I did pretty good what do you think is the truth? was it just a nightmare or did Rops really attack Zatch and Zeno in a well thoughtout way?