Spells and Louds
Chapter 319: Albert Willard/Pop-pop.
(May 29. Spellman Estate.)
Neil's car comes back to the house, and with him is none other than the old man who is depicted as still the grandfather to Lincoln, Luna, Leni and Lily. Albert Willard, also known to them as Pop-pop. Neil and Albert get out of the car and they see Lincoln waiting for them by the Great Gate. "Alright Albert, we're here now" said Neil.
"Hey Pop-pop!" He then races towards him and they hug.
"Hey there kiddo" replied Pop-pop. "Nice to see my awesome and better looking look alike still with that snow white cap on the mountain. So what's the big woof around here? Also, where the heck was Myrtle and the other seniors? I didn't see them when I woke up, just saw Neil waiting outside the Retirement home."
Lincoln chuckles. "Well, that's the big surprise Pop-pop." He then hands him a blind fold. "Please put this on Pop-pop. I swear it's gonna be awesome for you."
Pop-pop chuckles. "Well, it is my birthday and I can only assume you got something planned for me, let's do it then!" Pop-pop puts on the blindfold, Lincoln then holds his hand.
"Keep holding onto my hand Pop-pop" said Lincoln, he then steadily and gently leads Pop-pop through the Great Gate and its portal, with Neil following behind.
"This is gonna be awesome!" said Neil as they pass on through.
(Wherever they are.)
They then come out of the portal and Pop-pop can tell he can feel some nice cool breeze in the wind and he can smell. Firepower? "Lincoln, are we on the Royal Fortress? Or are we in that big ship you and Linka command?"
Neil and Lincoln chuckle. "Not even close Pop-pop. Also, you can remove the blindfold now" replied Lincoln, as he back off a bit to give Pop-pop some space to see this.
Pop-pop does so and is shocked at what he sees. "Happy Birthday Pop-pop/Albert!" Pop-pop looks around and he sees all of his friends, family, along with the Rosato's and the Spellman's and of course the staff and residents of Sunset Canyon.
But what shocks the now 86 year old man, is the venue they're in. "What the heck?" It was the old military base he trained in. Fort Michigan-Forte. The place where he trained and became the soldier and then naval officer he was from before.
He looks around and he sees some officers, troops and some old time war friends who salute to him. He recognized each one of his old pals, his old pals from his army and navy days. "Ha! No way! This is my surprise! This is …. This is just, wow!" Pop-pop then looks to Lincoln. "You did all of this?"
Lincoln nods. "I thought it would be nice to celebrate you party here, the place where you became the soldier and shared all of your finest memories." Lincoln then looks around. "I thought it would be a good idea to do it on the ship you served, but I found out it sank last year due to an earthquake which caused one of the cranes to topple over it and resulting in it sinking, so this was the plan B."
Deep down, Albert thought he could've done this on the ship as well. "Lincoln, this is alright. Even though it's not the ship I served on, having it here where I started on who I am, is better than anything I could ask for! Thank you Lincoln."
Lincoln sheds some tears and he hugs Pop-pop. "Happy 86th Birthday Pop-pop!"
"Thanks Lincoln" replied Pop-pop, then the rest of the family joins in. Leni, Luna, Linka and Lily. Myrtle, Lori, Luan, Lynn Jr, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, Lynn Sr and Rita and of course, Pop-pop's sister Ruth also joins in. They were all there to celebrate with him on this day.
They then break the group hug. "No then, let's get this party started!" said Pop-pop. They all cheer and some troops fire in the air with their rifles as the signal that it was party time.
Through the whole thing, Pop-pop has the best time of his life. He does enjoy the food, spicy and full of flavor was what he likes and of course he does fart after eating and his signature words after that. "Who stepped on a frog?" In which they all chuckle, his old army friends find this as funny as old times.
Albert then helps take down the piñata which was in the form of Boomer for some reason, to which a lot of them laugh as it breaks and releases candy. Boomer however is not amused by this. "Really? Really guys?"
Pop-pop has some nice talk with his old navy pals. All seven of them. There is Macho Marcus Mallory, Harpoon Harry Harrison Horner, Deckman Derrick Dillinger Davidson, Sea Shank Shawn Shellby, Mass mate Monte Mollergey, Watcher Walter Willington Jr and Anchor manner Alfred Arlston. And along with Albert Willard, the man with many hardcore names, they are known as the Easy Escalation Eight of the Battleship Eagleheart. It was not easy for them to find these elderly veteran men.
Pop-pop spends some dancing moments with his sweet heart Myrtle and even shows some of his dance moves on the dance floor, takes to the stage and goes saxophone on the place and finally he grabs a skateboard and shows them that he may be 86, but he still can bust a move!
It even turns into a contest to see who can last longer on the mechanical bull ride, Peter Sharp vs Albert Willard. "Let's see who can last the longest. They didn't call me the buffalo battler for nothing back in the Wild West, and I sure as hell did battle buffalos, and bison, and bulls, and El Chupacabra."
Pop-pop snickers. "Well, if I can recall back in my days. They called me the great white shark of thrashing and bashing, the tank driver of the steel road, the strong man of the ship of ships and the old man with the guts of steel and the energy of a rhino!" Everyone else stays silent hearing Albert just say that.
Peter however is confused. "Okay, so I guess I can respect that, and also a bit confused by that."
They both go one at a time, Peter Sharp lasts for only ten minutes, but Pop-pop rode the mechanical bull like a boss and lasted 5 minutes more longer than him, this makes them all cheer and leaves Peter Sharp at a loss for words.
"God damn Albert, now you just earned all of my respect. Sure wish there was someone like you back in my days, you might last longer on a mad Bison" chuckled Peter.
Pop-pop chuckles as he holds on tight. "I guess riding on an angry great white was worth it!" They all stop cheering and look to him in shock. "Just ask me pals, they saw me do it!" Then Pop-pop is tossed off and he lands on Boomer. "Thanks for the safe."
"No … Problem" said Boomer as he cringes under the weight of the old man.
Then Lincoln then has an idea and whispers to Sergei and Leon, then he calls out to Pop-pop. "Hey Pop-pop, you ready for something fun?"
Pop-pop gets up after the whole, mechanical bull ride. "Whatever it is, I am up for it. So bring it!"
"Okay then!" Lincoln then looks to the garage doors. "Bring it out boys!"
The doors open and coming out, is a World War 2, Sherman Easy Eight Tank. Pop-pop goes jaws dropped and so does Lana.
"Looks like the big surprise is out" chuckled Linka.
Pop-pop goes over to the tank. "Wow, this is … What the heck? What is this for sport?"
Leon comes out of the tank's driver's seat and then tosses him the keys, that's when Pop-pop realizes what this means and he looks to his grandson. "Go ahead Pop-pop, show us that you can still bust it in the tank!"
Pop-pop smiles and grabs a helmet and he hops into the tank. "Time to roll out!" He then starts the engine. "She sounds like she wants to go for an awesome ride!" He then kicks her into high gear and the Sherman Tank goes into full speed and drives along the large pavement testing road and he spins some donuts.
Martin chuckles. "Looks like the old man can bust it even in a tank!" Jack Cyber and Victor also found this impressive.
"How is he doing that?" asked Gyro. They all see Pop-pop, pop a wheelie on the tank. "How?!"
Rita chuckles. "You guys have no idea how skilled Pop-pop can be when it comes to driving, let it be a plane, tank or a car. Heck I can do the same thing as well." This concerns Lynn Sr, he thought he knew Rita and the things she can do. Some part of him felt like he doubts she did any of that.
The tank stops in front of Rita and Pop-pop comes out. "Hey Leon! Is this tank loaded for war?"
Leon chuckles. "That thing is armed with High Explosive rounds and we knew you might wanna try it, there's a targeting zone here where you can go blitz on them! But you're gonna need a loader!"
Pop-pop then look around amongst the crowd who can do it and he sees Linka. "You think you can do it Linka?"
Linka is shocked he would choose her, and she smiles. "Let's do this!" She's then handed a helmet and she puts it on and gets into the tank. "This isn't the first time I got to man the guns of something."
Pop-pop then looks to his daughter. "Rita, I'll be on the gun and we need a driver to do some hit and run!"
Rita is stunned and smiles. She's then handed a helmet. "Oh heck yeah!" Pop-pop helps her get onto the tank and she gets into the driver's seat. "Feels like old times Pop-pop!"
"When I brought you to a base and you would impress everyone with your driving skills! Sure does bring back some old times!" said Pop-pop. "Now, let's punch it!" The Sherman Tank hits full throttle and drives off to the targeting zone which isn't far from the party so everyone can watch.
"Nail it in guys!" said Lana.
"Show those dummies whose boss!" said Lynn Jr.
"You got this Pop-pop!" cheered Leni.
Lynn Sr is speechless and just watches as his wife, Rita is driving a military class weapon and doing it with such ease, he didn't even had the guts to drive vanzilla until he was 17.
Sergei then looks at some old records to the base. "Says here that Rita learned how to drive a tank when she was 14." They all look to him shocked.
Everyone watches as they annihilate the target dummies while driving through, it looked like they were a war matching based team in that thing. Luna did recalls what Pop-pop said earlier when he went into the tank. 'Roll out? I think I got me a song idea!' Everyone cheers them on and so do Albert's old war friends.
Eventually the tank did run out of fuel and they had to bail out. "Well, that was the best dang thing I have ever done and I thought sky diving and taking down marines in paintball war was the best thing, but driving a beast of a tank and firing her gun. Now that beats it all!" Pop-pop climbs out of the Sherman Tank along with Rita and Linka.
"Woo! Now that was exhilarating! Really dos bring back some good old memories!" said Rita as she hands the helmet back to Neil.
Linka also hands her dad the helmet. "Not as sophisticated as an Odin, or a Thor or even a Siege Tank. But it was pretty cool, or better yet awesome!"
For the rest of the party, Albert spends it with the rest of his friend's but mostly his family. The Louds, and Lincoln, Leni and Luna and of course Lily decided to let share the old things they once did with him.
Pop-pop did enjoy driving in a tank with Rita. So that was a good start.
Added some spice into the food with Lynn Sr.
Shared some chatter and gossip with Lori.
Talked about fashion advice with Leni.
Rocked out to some awesome music with Luna.
Laughed at some jokes with Luan.
Played some sports with Lynn Junior.
Played some dancing games with Lincoln and Linka.
Listened to some poems from Lucy.
Fixed the Mark V tank with Lana.
Pretended with some playtime with Lola.
Discussed some real talk with Lisa.
And finally Pop-pop enjoyed making Lily laugh, he was glad he could do this with all of them on his 86th Birthday.
Then Lincoln and Jordan came up to Pop-pop and presented him an invitation. "What's this?"
"Pop-pop, we would like to invite you to come and see the first ever Regal Academy vs Ever After High Dragon Games at the World of Ever After, which starts tomorrow and continues on Sunday" replied Lincoln.
"We even handed some invites to the rest of the louds and of course to Myrtle, they deserved to come and see it as well" replied Jordan.
Pop-pop looks to the invite and he sees the rest of the family also have the same thing. Pop-pop then looks to his grandson and his girlfriend. "Thanks you two, my first time to go to another world and it's going to be a sport, and it's about dragons too! Heck yeah I'm going." He then hugs them both and they hug him back.
Lincoln was glad Pop-pop was going to attend and watch him and Linka do the first performance. Neil and Gyro smile seeing this. "You made the right call to invite the old man into the dragon games, Lincoln and Linka need all the support they can get to do this performance in front of everyone, but we all know they've got this" said Gyro.
"Of course it's the right choice" replied Neil. "Heck I even gave one to Loni so he can be there to cheer Linka on."
"Okay everyone!" yelled Gwen. "Time for the cake!" They all head back to the table of food and they all notice the food got many.
They all see spaghetti and meatballs, shrimp cocktails, cocktail weenies, burgers, fried, hotdogs, lobster claws, crab legs, friend oysters, fried chicken, spicy chicken necks and wings, potato salad, bacon and egg sandwiches, meatball subs, pizza, steaks, ribs, lamb chops, pork chops, ten different kinds of dipping sauce, a cheese and chocolate fountain, lots of drinks and of course the one thing that would make this Birthday party the best, the four layered chocolate, vanilla and fudge cake.
They all look in awe at the food, well mostly the cake and the louds as well as Luna, Leni and Lily had to control their love for chocolate.
Neil looks to Sergei and Victor who were wearing chef hats and aprons. "You sneaky, cooking, Russian bastards!" chuckled Neil. Even Leon snickers at this.
"What can we say man, we have the same Real time Russian Cooking minds within us" said Sergei.
"And when we come together in the kitchen, then the fire ignites and we make the party look like a freaking buffet!" said Victor.
"Sure wish I was there to help out" said Lynn Sr.
"Sorry dude, but when Sergei and I work in the kitchen together, we take things seriously and focus on the task at hand and at full throttle and with good tastes!" said Victor.
"Like cooking in the middle of a free for all tank war within the landscapes of a wrecked Stalingrad" replied Sergei as he looks to the distance and recalls his old days.
Victor has no clue how to even respond to what he just said. "Umm, yeah. Let's go with that."
Lynn Sr wanted to say something, but he knows that these two guys seem to be more pro than him. Rita then calms her husband and they go over to Pop-pop and the others.
Pop-pop then goes over to the cake and he looks at the candles all lit up for him. They all start singing "Happy Birthday to him." As if in slow motion, Albert looks around and sees everyone was there, all of them. His friends, his family and his loved ones, he even sees Lucy holding the picture of Albert's mom, Harriet Willard.
Albert was happy, happy for all of this. He then smiles as he sees his grandkids all singing the song for him, and of course Luna is on guitar leading the song.
Pop-pop has never felt happier and proud at what things have happened. Sure the loud family might not be as big as it used to be like before, but even though three of his grandkids were no longer amongst the house of noise and chaos, they were still family and so were the people who were part of all this. There was no other moment in his life, than the one he's in right now.
Pop-pop then blows out the candles and they all cheer for him. Pop-pop was happy that they were all here, all of them for this. There was nothing in this world that can beat what his extended family can do, and he was looking forward to doing this again next year, and spending time with all of them. For as long as he lived.
"Happy Birthday Pop-pop, Happy Birthday Albert Willard."
A/N: And truly a happy birthday to Pop-pop. There is also a Pop-pop/albert birthday in A Sparking Relationship as well. I thought this was a good idea, since I got the news about a tragic incident. It was also a bit tough for me to come up with some cool and awesome names for Albert's old war navy friends, kinda like Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob, anyone here remember that episode? Leave a Review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 5/17/20.
R.I.P – Frederick Charles Willard (Voice of Albert/Pop-pop) – September 18, 1933 – May 15, 2020. "Blast some paintballs onto those marines up there, so long you old coot."