Chapter 8: A Broken Friendship Chain

In the middle of the fight, Casper had woken up to see Ra about to punch Thatch in the face, only to be stopped by Alder and Dash.

"What is going on here?" Dash asked angrily.

Thatch pointed to Ra angrily.

"This mummy here accused me of playing Casper like a fool!" Thatch explained.

"Now Ra, whyever would you do that?" Alder asked.

"Because it's true!" Ra answered.

"It is not!"

"Yes it is, Casper told me so."

Thatch gasped and stared at his ghost lover as he floated down from his bunk.

"Actually, Thatch." Casper began. "Your gang told ME so."

"What?!" Thatch was shocked.

"They said that you've done this to many others before. And how you were just using me as a sex toy."

Thatch was shaking with anger now. Angry at the lie, angry with his gang, but most of all, angry with himself for believing that his gang actually understood. Thatch made his hands into fists and bit his lip, fighting the urge to scream in rage. Suddenly and unexpactantly, Thatch threw a punch and hit someone square in the face. What a coincedence that the person happened to be Slither.

"Ow!" Slither cried in pain. "Why did you do that, Thatch?"

"Serves you right you fucking idiot asshole!" The vampire snarled.

Not wanting to get in the middle of this, Alder and Dash backed out of the room.

"Well, seems you got this under control." Alder commented.

"We'll just be going." Dash nodded.

As the two-headed monster left, Dummy Girl suddenly ran into the room.

"Slither! Mosshead! What happen?" She asked with concern. "I heard you scream in pain Slither."

"YOU!" Thatch was pissed at all three of his friends.

"What?" Dummy Girl asked, confused.

Thatch stompped over to the puppet, grabbed her by the t-shirt and started shaking her.

"You living dummy BITCH!" He growled. "I'm gonna set you on fire and watch you burn!"

Thatch suddenly threw Dummy Girl at Slither and Mosshead, making them crash into the wall. They got up and stared parilized at the pissed off vampire. They even noticed that Thatch's eyes were completely black with rage.

"How could you?! My own friends." Thatch asked with sadness in his voice. "How could you tell Casper such an awful lie about me."

Slither, Mosshead and Dummy Girl suddenly started laughing.

"Yeah we told the lie." Dummy Girl laughed.

"We weren't going to let you go that easily." Slither added.

"But I thought you guys were ok with it." Thatch's eyes changed back to normal, but now the violet eyes seemed to be a sad color.

"Did you really think that we would accept you dating our enemy?" Mosshead laughed.

Thatch shook his head and stared angrily at his "friends".

"Casper's not OUR enemy, he's yours... And so am I."

"What?!" Slither, Mosshead and Dummy Girl were shocked.

"I'm abandoning the gang, guys." Thatch walked over to Casper.

"You can't abandon your own gang." Dummy Girl argued.

"Yeah, what would we do without you." Mosshead added.

"You'll just have to manage on your own." Thatch told him.

"But, you're our leader." Slither told him.

Thatch was now standing next to Casper. He turned around and stared at his new rivals.

"Well this leader, has just retired." Thatch told them.

"OOOOOH! Somebody get some ice for that burn!" Ra smirked.

Thatch smiled at Ra's comment. He was starting to forgive the mummy for beating him up. After all, it wasn't his fault that he thought Thatch had hurt Casper.

"Good bye Slither, Mosshead and Dummy Girl." Thatch pointed to the door. "We are no longer friends."

With that, Slither, Mosshead and Dummy Girl headed out the door.

"You'll regret this Thatch!" Dummy Girl snarled. "Just you wait."

"Yeah, and when you come crawling back, don't expect us to welcome you back in the gang!" Slither added angrily.

"There is no gang without me." Thatch told them. "And I won't come crawling back!"

Thatch turned to Casper and smiled.

"I got all I need right here." Thatch gave Casper a gentle tight hug. "My Casper."

Casper smiled and hugged back.

"And I got all I need right here as well." He added. "My Thatch."