Vol. 10

Chapter 39

Selina Chase-Moon

Birth: June 30th

Age: 18

Colour(s): White

Metal: Silver

God/dess: Diana

Hermione Driscoll-Mercury

Birth: September 10th

Age: 18

Colour(s): Royal Blue/Yellow

Metal: Quicksilver

God/dess: Mercury

Marcella Guerra-Mars

Birth: April 17th

Age: 18

Colour(s): Red

Metal: Iron

God/dess: Mars

The Summer! The Ocean! Our Youth! And the Paranormal!

The national train arrived at Providence, Rhode Island. Luna, Selina Hermione and Marcella got off and took the bus that brought them to Warwick. From there, the girls took a boat to get to Newport on the island of Aquidneck. When they finally arrived at their destination, they all let out a big sigh. "There! We're here! FINALLY!" The ladies turned around and saw the beautiful scenery of the ocean. "Wow! It's the ocean!"

"The smell of the ocean is so good!" Hermione commented.

"It seems like a nice place." Marcella added.

"I wish I could have brought Ellie, too." Selina wished.

"Selina, this trip is not for fun! We came all this way for training camp to become better Guardians!" Luna was having a go and Selina gave her a stop, a smack across the head. Hermione was shock of what Selina just did.

"I know that!" All four went for the trail hat's right by the dock. "This feels good!" Selina commented.

"Is the guest house you reserved close by?" Hermione asked Marcella.

"Yeah, it looks like it's on the headland up ahead." She responded.

"Marcy, this guest house had better be a nice place." Selina butt in.

"Don't worry!" Marcella buzzed her off.

"Really?" Selina has faith in Marcella. Marcella started to read off of the brochure.

"It says here, 'The blue ocean! And yachts sailing with their white sails unfurled. A European-style guest house on the headland with a great view of the sunset. A white private beach is just waiting for you!'" Selina was in heaven when she heard of a private beach.

"Private beach?!" All she can think about is playing beach volleyball and get herself a decent tan. "Oh, that would be wonderful!" Not paying any attention to anything, the other three ladies ignored Selina and took off to find their guest house. Selina continue in her own world. "This is it! Yes! This is youth! Summer vacation!" She than realized nobody was there listening to her. "What? Oh, no, wait for me!" She ran down the trail catching up with the rest of the group.

The sun was setting and the group was still looking for their guest house. "Are we there yet? Are you sure we aren't lost?" Selina complained as she was getting tired of walking.

"You're the one who insisted it was this way!" Marcella said with no patience left in her. Selina can not let her have the last word.

"It's your fault for not properly checking things out! Marcy, you moron!"

"What did you say?!" Marcella stopped walking and turned to Selina. Before anything happen between the two, a blanket of dark clouds rolled in with a rush and started to sound it's thunder.

"Well that's not good." Luna mentioned.

"This is bad. It looks like it's going to rain hard!" Marcella added.

"Let's hurry!" Hermione suggested. Selina hated the rain,especially on her vacation. with the heavy backpack strapped to her back, she sprinted pass the other three and yelling out to them.

"I refuse to be caught in the rain!" As Selina was running as fast as a out of control speeding car, she thought she saw a hooded figure. She screamed in fear and fell on her bottom.

"Selina! What is a matter with you?!" Luna asked.

"Who's there?" Marcella yelled out. Hermione was surprised that Selina was scared of a young woman about their age with her long dark hair in a bun wearing a dark hood and holding a collection of flowers. The woman or more like a girl stepped out of the tree and walked up to them.

"I'm sorry." She apologized. The rain came all at once like a giant bucket pouring down. The ladies were not liking this especially the one in particular.

"Damn it! I'm going to be wetter than the fishes!" Selina complained even more. The girl pointed a direction to her left.

"Please, this way." She said and she ran that way also. All four stared at the girl running for shelter.

"Let's go!" Hermione ran first to catch up with the girl. The other three followed along. They followed the girl as she goes up a cliff, each time a lightning strikes, Selina goes faster each time.

"God damn it! I hate this!" As they get closer to their destination, Selina stopped when she saw a huge silhouette of something at the top of the cliff. When another lightning flashed, the silhouette was revealed as a Victorian mansion. Selina shrunk an inch or two. "That looks creepy." She said to herself. When the group made to the door, Marcella read the sign of the house.

"This is it! This is the guest house that I've booked! The House of Hecate!" When Marcella finished pointing out the sign, Luna was at the end of her nerves.

"WHAT?! You're kidding me!" Luna was being ridiculous.

"What's the matter with you, LUNA?" Selina never saw her react like this.

"Hecate is the Greek Goddess of the undead or ghosts. It's spooky." Luna explained. Hermione turned to the girl who helped them find their way.

"Thank you, you were a great help." The girl looked at Hermione smiling. "We're soaking wet. Are the flowers alright?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, yes." The girl replied holding tight to her flowers.

"I'm glad." Marcella used the monstrous looking door knocker, hitting the door twice. The sound echo through out the whole property. Luna got nervous. The big old door opened. They couldn't see anything inside but pitch black. A woman of dark long hair with fangs sticking out of her mouth popped her head at the door with a candlestick holder. Another woman's head popped out behind the first on with the same features only her hair is wavy. And another head popped out behind that one, with the same features but with short hair and yellow eyes. All three women greeted the guests.

"Welcome. Welcome! Welcome!" As soon as they greeted, Luna jumped like a cat losing it. She grabbed onto Selina's arm real tight not know her strength as a werewolf. Selina yelped in pain.

"I'm home." Said the girl to the three woman as she walked in the house.

"Welcome back." The three said to the girl simultaneously. They then turned right back to their guests. "Are you the guests with reservations?" Asked the woman holding the candlestick holder.

"Yes! We're from New York City and my name is Marcella Guerra." Marcella smiled on. Luna was squeezing the blood out of Selina's arm. You can imagine how much pain she's in.

"We have been waiting for you." The woman replied. Luna was about to faint, if not Selina would faint first. The three women step to the side of the door. "Please, come in."

"Thank you!" Marcella walked in first.

"It's nice to meet you. Oh?" Hermione saw Selina dragging Luna in.

"Very nice to meet you!" Selina greeted with such effort while forcing Lune to get inside. Once inside Luna saw the woman with the candlestick holder had hoofs for her feet, her heart started pumping. She then saw the one with the wavy hair with only her lower half of the body as a snake, Luna started to sweat. And the last woman with yellow eyes had very long claws. Luna panicked.

"How long are you going to make a fuss about this? It's embarrassing!" Marcella asked not looking too happy.

"But..." Before Luna could explain anything of what she knows, a powerful woman's voice was heard.

"Psyche!" That made Luna jumped into Marcella's arms. The lightning struck revealing the face of the woman who just spoke. She looked matured and wise, she wore a long purple cloak like dress with her long dark hair flowing behind her and a circuit on her head. Luna was screaming in fear.

"You're so loud!" Marcella complained. The lights went bright on as if the house was having electrical issues like a blackout. The mature woman was standing tall looking at the girl, Psyche.

"Where were you?! Come here right this minute!" She ordered. Psyche bowed her head to the woman.

"Yes, Miss Trivia." Psyche walked slowly to Trivia. Hermione felt bad for the girl. But Luna was as white as a sheet of printing paper. Later on the rain continue to pour, Luna was drying herself off from the rain and sat in bed.

"I'm so tired and hungry!" Said Luna. Selina was unpacking her bag.

"I bet you would be, after making such a commotion." Selina mentioned.

"Speak or yourself, Selina!"

"I was screaming in pain after you tried to amputate my arm!" Selina defended herself.

"But don't you think the people here are a little weird? What if this place turns out to be a house of larvae?" Selina looked at Luna with a puzzle face.

"A house of worms?" Selina wasn't sure what she was talking about.

"No you idiot! Larvae means Skeletons! Don't you read your history books at all?!" Luna blasted. There was a knock on the door, Luna jumped up on the bed. Selina sat there in shame.

"It's just the door!"

"I know that!" Luna got off the bed and walked to the door and opened it. "Yes?" A woman's head popped out of the door from above.

"Excuse me." She said, Luna from the top of her lungs making the mansion shake. The other two girls ran to see what happened.

"What's going on?" Marcella asked. Luna pointed up on the top of the door.

"Over there..." The two turned and saw the woman feet or more like hoofs on the ladder putting on a new light bulb in the lamp on the ceiling of the hallway.

"Oh, it came on. Sorry for disturbing you. Dinner is ready." She said with a smile. The other two girls looked back at Luna with angry faces.

"Honestly!" Hermione commented.

"Luna! It's just the hostess!" Marcella had enough.

"But her neck snacked out and..." Before Luna could finish her sentence. Marcella chased her around the room.

"That's enough!"

"I'm sorry! Selina, help me!" Luna begged.

"No. Luna, I'm not helping you out anymore!" Selina responded.

"Why not?!" From the end of the mansion, Psyche was looking through her window watching the chaos between the four ladies. Trivia walked up beside her and look what Psyche was watching.

"They are such noisy girls." She commented.

"But they seem like nice people." Psyche added.

"Psyche, stay away from those carefree girls! Understood?!"

"Yes, mam." Psyche felt miserable. At the dining hall, the four ladies were enjoying their meals. Luna heard a squeak and turned to see what it was. She saw the woman with the claws and yellow eyes pushing a cart of food.

"How about a second helping?" She asked. Luna almost leaped out of her skin.

"No, thank you. I'm already full." Said Luna trying to smile calmly to the cook. The waitress slithered behind Luna's seat and popped her head right beside her face. Luna was petrified by looking the half snake body being close to her.

"How about some dessert?" She hissed.

"I don't want any!" Luna responded quickly. She moved closer to Marcella and whispered to her. "Marcella, you hot head! Why did you book a guest house like this?!"

"Because this place is incredibly cheap!" Marcella answered back with a mouthful of food. Luna felt stupid to ask.

"But the cooking is good and the costumes of the employees here are fun." Said Hermione. The waitress and cook went up to her with smiles.

"Thank you." said the cook.

"Those two are our selling points." The waitress hissed out. Luna couldn't believe her ears. All of a sudden their were voices being heard in the air.

"What was that?!" Luna was getting way too paranoid.

"Not again!" Said the two employees. Luna found it very unusual to see demons being afraid of something. Luna got up from her chair.

"I don't like this! It's beyond creepy!" She said.

"Is the hostess crying?" Marcella asked. The hostess popped her head between Marcella and Luna. "Oh, speaking of the devil."

"It isn't me." She said. Luna fell to the ground by the fright of the hostess' appearance.

"Can you please stop popping up like that!" Luna yelled out. Marcella got up and open the door to the next room.

"Who's there?" Everyone went to the room to see what's going on. A ghostly figure floated around the room. Marcella, Hermione and Selina were looking at it in awe, everyone else were screaming their lungs out. A lighting flash through the window, the figure disappeared.

"What was that?" Selina asked.

"We didn't see anything!" The hostess and the employees had their backs turned.

"Of course, not. It's just our eyes playing tricks on us." Luna reasoned out trying to think positive even though she's practically shaking her whole body.

"Could it be a monster?" Hermione asked.

"Something tells me that's not a monster. But I did feel some kind of chill when we entered the room." Marcella said. The three employees were scared of what just happened. In another room, Trivia was hypnotizing Psyche to sleep.

"Good girl. You're a good girl. You're a very good girl." Trivia swung a pendent in front of Psyche's face left to right. "Sleep. Go to sleep. Good. Good girl. Go to sleep." Psyche was beginning to close her eyes slowly. "Sleep, sleep." Psyche finally closed her eyes. "Good. And now, you'll slowly, very slowly wake up. Slowly, very slowly." A tear went down on Psyche's face as she sleeps.