"What were you thinking?" I asked Discord once we had gotten home.
"Uh, pretty sure I was helping you." He said in a snarky tone, stretching out on the couch.
"You could have gotten caught if Patrick was able to connect the dots! What did you do to Josh anyway?"
"Oh, just threatened to haunt him with his deepest, darkest fear if he didn't leave you and the nerd alone." Discord then dropped his voice down to a deep and guttural growl that shook the house, "And I threatened him in this voice." His voice returned to normal as he smiled innocently, "Aren't I just so good to you?"
"Just... Don't do that again." I told him, "I can't risk anyone, not even Patrick, finding out about you. He'll freak out and probably call government officials on us."
Discord rolls his eyes, "Meh."
I jumped, suddenly hearing the chirp of Mom's car being locked, "Quick! Get into my room! Mom and Caroline are home!"
Discord luckily obeyed, teleporting away, hopefully into my room. I jumped on the couch and turned on the TV just as Mom and Caroline walked in.
"Hello, Cece." Mom greeted, "Did you enjoy your morning alone?"
"Yeah, it was good," I lied, "Watching TV by myself, that's great."
Caroline gave me a strange look. Unlike most other kids, Caroline could sense a lie. She didn't believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny like the rest of the kids her age did. She would often always apply logic to everything, saying Santa Claus would only have half a second at each house before he moved on to the next one in order to make it to every house in one night.
But I knew she wouldn't be able to apply any logic to my situation. Hopefully, she wouldn't know I was harboring the spirit of chaos himself.
The black van sat at the edge of the small town. The engine was turned off, and the black color blended in with the shadows of the woods.
"Are we gonna call the boss?" Larry asked the lanky man standing beside him.
Roger rolled his eyes as he pushed a button on the console. He said sarcastically, "No Larry, I'm calling Eddy Van Halen."
"Really?! Can you ask him if he'll teach me how to play the guitar?!"
The chubby man was gifted with a sharp smack across his face.
"You moron! Of course I'm calling the boss!" Roger hissed. He entered a code into the console before the screen mounted to the wall fizzed to life. For a moment, the screen only glitched in and out, before it finally displayed a bad quality video feed that switched from colorless to vibrant color every so once and a while. Though the video feed was very dark and filled with glitches, there was a clear image of a strongly-built man standing before the camera. It was almost impossible to make out his features though.
"What do you morons want?" The man said in a voice with a heavy foreign accent, "You better have gotten me some animals."
Cocky Roger suddenly looked very afraid, "General Zephyr... We unfortunately did not pick up any animals. But... You did say this area was the area that the super-radar picked up a suddenly surge of power, right?"
Zephyr growled, "And...?"
"Well... We also did not find anything for that. We've got some video feed of the town in case anything catches your interest. I'll send it to you now."
Roger clicked a few buttons before he sat back. General Zephyr was silent as he watched the videos. Suddenly, he gasped as he pulled up a video on Roger and Larry's screen. It was a video of the two teens and their brown dog at Nolani's Pizza.
"When was this taken?" Zephyr asked, his voice suddenly sounding panicky.
"About eleven this morning," Roger explained, "Why? It's just two teenagers and their dog."
"Because..." Zephyr made the image zoom in on the dog, "That dog is the source of the power."
"The heck is wrong with that dog's eyes?" Larry asked, "They're all freaky and... Red! It's a demon dog!"
Zephyr closed the video feed, "Mr. Long and Mr. Cole, I want you to get me that dog. That's all. Do you think you can handle it?"
They both saluted at the same time, causing Larry to accidentally jab his elbow in Rogers's ribcage, "Yessir!"
Zephyr was nodding, "Don't fail me. You fail in getting me that dog, I'll put a bullet through your skull."
Roger and Larry gulped, "Yessir..."
With that, the image of General Zephyr flickered out and was gone.
Larry looked to Roger, "So uh... Why is General Z so obsessed with getting a specific dog?
Roger shrugged, "I don't know. But looks like we're gonna find out."
It was almost ten o' clock at night. I was sitting on the floor reading a book with Zoe laying on my lap, since Discord kicked me out of my own bed. He was currently snoring very loudly while curling up and stretching out at random times.
It was about eleven when I finished the book and got up, since drinking a lot of soda during the day had affected my bladder greatly. I went down the stairs and headed towards bathroom. However, I was stopped when I heard a noise from my kitchen that made me jump. I was unsure if it was a person or a raccoon, since we had gotten quite a few raccoons in our house before; more than the average human being. I slowly went to the kitchen door, very very cautious. As I cracked the door open, I saw a chubby man accidentally drop a pack of Skittles on the floor.
"My Skittles!" He cried.
"You moron, be quiet!" Another man's voice hissed.
I knew immediately that they were robbers. However, as I tried to run from the kitchen, the door was thrown wide open, showing me the man who had told the chubby man to be quiet. He was very tall and skinny, taller than my dad even. Before I could run, he drew a gun on me.
"Hold it!" He hissed, "Get in here and keep quiet!"
The tall man forced me into the kitchen while the chubby man pointed a banana at me while trying to appear threatening.
"Now stay there!" The tall man commanded, forcing me into a corner. I was pretty scared, and I wasn't sure how I was going to alert Mom to get down here and bring a shotgun with her when the man had a gun pointed to my back and was ready to fire.
But I had to do something. They would hurt Mom, Caroline, and Zoe if I didn't do something.
As loud as I possibly could, I screamed for help. I heard the tall man cock his weapon and pull back on the trigger. I expected to feel the lead bullet in my back any second. However, it never came. I heard a small pop and looked back at the tall man. Out of the barrel of his gun was a small wooden rod that unfurled into a small white flag. On that flag, written in big black letters was the word "BANG!"
"What the he..." Roger started. He turned to the chubby man now peeling the banana, "Larry!"
Larry shrugged, "Wasn't me, Roge!"
"Roge" started examining his gun, trying to see what had gone wrong. However, before he could hope to load his gun with another bullet, Larry suddenly interrupted him.
"Uh, Roger...?" He whimpered.
"What, you clumsy oaf?" Roger shot back.
"My banana has a face..."
"Yeah yeah. Whatever."
"Roger, I'm not joking this time..."
Larry held up his banana as Roger turned around. I saw the face in the banana and immediately smiled.
"Gentlemen." The banana said, before it morphed into the creature I knew so well. Larry and Roger backed away, their eyes wide with pure fear at the mismatched, chaotic deity that stood before them.
"God save us..." Roger whimpered.
"Are we having a nightmare...?" Larry asked.
Discord slowly leaned in closer, smiling evilly and showing all of his sharp, meat-eating teeth. Larry and Roger backed up further, holding on to each other for protection.
"Boo." Discord said calmly.
Roger and Larry screamed like first-grade girls and crashed through the kitchen window. I could hear them screaming as they ran down to the end of of the street.
I slowly stood up, staring at him, "Th... Thank you."
He saluted vigorously, "No trouble. Do you really think I'd let a couple of thugs hurt yo-?"
I didn't give him time to finish. I figured this was an appropriate gift, plus, I FINALLY got to hug him. He didn't say anything, but he did wrap his arms around me, which was amazing. He was nice and warm, making me feel safe and protected.
"Cece!" I heard Mom's voice call. Discord was forced to disappear, saddening me greatly. Mom burst through the kitchen door and gasped at the destruction of the kitchen.
"Robbers broke in." I told her.
"Oh Cece! Are you okay?" Mom panicked and started examine every part of my body that wasn't clothed.
"Mom, I'm fine! I chased them off and-"
Mom cut me off, "You can tell the police what happened. I just called them."
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