Spells and Louds
Chapter 327: An Ember's witch
(Royal Woods.)
The sun is rising to the small town and everyone seems happy for the new day ahead of them, mostly to the children who are ecstatic for summer vacation and all seems to be peaceful and Boomer's airship is high above and Boomer comes out with a cup of coffee. He's still sleepy he fails to realize he's stepping off the balcony and falls.
Boomer wakes up to see his foot is stuck on a tree branch and he's just dangling there. "Dang it." Then someone approaches him. "Hey Sharp, can you get me down?"
In front of Boomer is Peter Sharp, with a mug of coffee and looking towers Boomer. "Nope." He then walks back into the house, leaving the idiot outside.
Inside the house of the Sharp residence, in an extra bedroom that has yet to be filled with stuff. The little witch girl Agatha Prenderghast McLain awakes and looks around, she sees she was no longer in the room she once lived in long ago and she certainly wasn't in the realm of the afterlife. She recalls what happened to her and all the things that have transpired to this.
'Okay Aggie, this is a new life. I was given another chance to live a life I did not expect to happen, but I'll have to deal with it and see where this leads me too.' Aggie gets out of bed and looks to her sleepwear. A white dress with white pants, this was Sam Sharp's hand me down when she was her age.
Aggie then leaves the bedroom, but the door opens and she sees who it was. "Oh, I didn't know you were already awake Aggie, I was going to get you and tell you that breakfast was ready" replied Ember. She kneels down to Aggie. "Are you feeling okay sweetie?"
Aggie smiles and hugs Ember. "I am now, and I didn't get any nightmares either. Not after that really nice story you told me last night, I liked the ending."
Ember hugs her back. "You're welcome my darling, now before we head down and eat you should get changed. The bathroom is over there, but I know you don't wanna get cleaned alone, this is new to you and I totally understand."
Aggie breaks the hug from Ember and looks to the bathroom door to her room. "I guess I could use some help with my hair. My mommy used to help me."
Ember smiles. "Then I'll help you too sweetie." She holds Aggie's hand and both of them step into the bathroom so Aggie can get ready for the day.
(A few minutes later.)
Ember and Aggie come down the stairs, Aggie is all cleaned up and dressed in her usual clothes like from yesterday. There weren't any other hand me down's that Sam and Peter can find. Aggie and Ember enter the kitchen and they see Adagio and Sonata cooking, Kick, Aria and Sam on their phones and peter on the newspaper, they all stop and see Aggie.
"Good Morning Aggie."
"Good morning everyone" replied Aggie. "The food smells nice, what is it?" She grabs a chair and sits between Aria and Ember. Sonata and Adagio arrive with the pancakes.
"We made pancakes to celebrate for the newest member to the family" said Adagio. She hands Aggie a plate of pancakes in the shape of a heart. "We made them kinda special, with blueberries."
"Well this is nice, I've never had these before" replied Aggie as she slices a piece and eats it. "This is really good."
"It tastes better with some maple syrup on." Sam pours some maple syrup onto Aggie's pancakes, then they all eat breakfast.
Ember looks to Peter. "Any plans for today hotshot?"
Peter drinks his coffee. "Not at the moment or even the day after, so we have all the time we need to go to the mall and get Aggie here the essentials she'll need for her room and probably for the rest of the summer."
Aggie looks to them confused. "What?"
"It means we're going someplace to get you some stuff for your room" replied Sonata. "Isn't this going to be great? You're part of this family with Ember and we're going someplace to get you things! We'll all bond together."
Aggie swallows her food. "Really? All of us? But, don't some of you guys have anything else to do?"
"Not really little sis" replied Kick. "Okay, so you're not my little sis because we're both 11, but we don't have anything else to do. I'm not planning any stunts until the day after the Middle School graduation."
"My babe Luna is going to be spending some bro to sis time today, chances we might run into them when we're going around town" replied Sam as she drinks her coffee.
"We don't have a tour yet until June 13" replied Aria. "Our one week summer start tour across the country, well only 10 states and that's about it."
"We have the gear, the songs and the motivation to do it" said Sonata. "But right now we wanna spend time with you Aggie."
"The tour and our fans can wait" said Adagio. "Right now, it's family that matters the most on the agenda."
Aggie smiled, she seemed very happy that these guys are willing to spend time with her. Then Pikachu lands on her shoulder and nuzzles her cheek. "I still don't know what this little guy is, or the fiery horse outside the house." Rapidash pokes his head through the kitchen window.
"That is Pikachu, that's Sam's Pokemon and the one outside is Rapidash, my Pokemon" replied Peter. "You know, if you're feeling like it. I can ask McKenzie if we can make a trip to the Pokemon world and we can get you one too, well it's your opinion."
Aggie thinks about it. "No, I don't think that's a good idea. I still have my family, and I probably won't get lonely being around all of you. So, maybe when I feel like it, then I'll say when I would have a Pokemon."
They all smile. "Making choices is a good thing, and voicing out your opinion sweetie." ember strokes her hair, making her chuckle. "Alright guys, let's finish up breakfast and get moving to the mall."
Suddenly they hear someone yelling. "Hello? Anyone?" They all look around to where the voice is coming from.
"Is that Boomer?" asked Sam.
Peter sighs and he grabs a crossbow and he reloads it. Peter then goes over to the window and he fires an arrow that ricochets in the backyard and passes by Rapidash and strikes the tree branch and Boomer falls. They hear Boomer scream and hit the ground. "Thank you."
Peter then looks to the others. "What?"
"Was he out there the whole time?" asked Adagio.
"I guess he was" replied Peter. His crossbow then configures into his sword and he shrinks it to its keychain form. They all proceed to eat breakfast. Aggie didn't know if this was normal to them or not, but she had to try and adapt to this world and its modern day genre.
(Skip, hours later.)
All of the residents of the house come out and get to their rides. Adagio, Aria, Sonata and Kick ride into Sam's truck and Ember and Aggie ride with Peter in his truck, along with Pikachu and Rapidash in the very back side of the truck ready for the ride. "Alright guys, you all ready?" asked Peter.
"Ready!" they all respond. Aggie just nods. Peter then starts the engine and so does Sam. "Let's ride!" then he stops and looks to Aggie who is sitting next to Ember at the back. "This could be the first time you've been in a truck so, I suggest you put on a seat belt and hold on tight. We're gonna get fast."
Ember helps Aggie with her seatbelt and Ember holds her hand. "Hang on tight and calm down." Aggie nods and the trucks drive off. Aggie is a bit shocked by the movement, but she looks out the window and she sees some of the buildings moving, it was like a horse wagon but faster.
(Intersection.)
They all stop at a red light and they see some people and Faunus walk on by and go about their day. "Wow, there are so many people here and other strange people" said Aggie as she watches them all walk by on the street.
"The Faunus here are residents to Royal Woods, and Royal Woods alone" replied Sam over the truck comm link. "Until some of them feel like living in Great Lake City."
"There's so many things in this world I really would like to know and learn about, this is far beyond the timeline I know and I also know a little bit of modern society ever since I was asleep for the past 200 years" replied Aggie.
"Well, there will be school at September" replied Ember. "It's a good start so you can learn some things you'd like to know. I'm planning to enroll you to school, soon."
"That sounds nice" replied Aggie. Then they hear a loud banging sound. Aggie is startled by this. "What was that?"
Peter looks ahead. "Trouble. Hang back, I'll check it out. You too Sam, I got this." Peter Sharps keychain turns large and into his sword blood crucible and it configures into a large hunting rifle. He then makes his approach to the source of the sound.
Peter Sharp then sees three men trying to rob a pharmacy. "This should be good."
The others then hear some gunshots and then they hear a large gunshot and they see a man run out of the store carrying a bag of money, Peter comes out and sees him run. "Hey! Stop in the name of the law you bastard!" He then aims his hunting rifle towards him and readies the net.
Aggie knew this was a bad person, she then opens the window of the truck and she closes her eyes and focuses. She then let's some green electricity spark out and shock the man like a taser.
Aggie stops and looks at what she did. "Whoa. I never knew I could be that strong." Ember, Adagio, Sonata, Aria, Sam and Kick are stunned by what she did.
Peter lowers his rifle and smiles. "Well I'll be damned." He then goes over and he grabs the man and then looks to Aggie. "Nice job sweetie, you're powers are starting to turn to the greater good. I'm proud of ya." He then drags the man off and the cops arrive.
Aggie smiles at what she did and Ember hugs her. "That's my girl." Aggie hugs her back, she did something good with her powers for the first time and it felt kinda good.
'Is this what it's like to be a hero? Like Sam and the others?'
Peter then gets back into the truck and looks to Aggie. "What you did back there was that damn good, you took down your first crook. Sure wish I got a photo of it."
"Got the footage dad" replied Sonata as she has her phone with the recorded video of Aggie using her powers onto the crook.
"Wow, the others are going to wanna see this" replied Sam. Aggie felt happy for them to be proud of her and was having some thoughts about the friends of the Sharps and them being heroes and stuff. They then drive off towards the Royal Woods mall.
(Royal Woods Mall.)
They park the two Sharp trucks in front of the mall and they all come out and look towards it. "Wow, that is big" said Aggie. "I've never seen anything like this before."
"You are going to love the mall!" said Sonata. "There's food, cool things and we might run into some friendly faces there as well!"
"She's not wrong" said Sam. She does see some very familiar teenagers there, and they do not belong to this world. They see Frankie Stein, Cleo De Nile, Clawdeen Wolf and Draculaura going into the mall, Morgan and Randy coming out of the mall and Carol with Victor headed to the car and driving off. "Like Sonata said. Let's of friendly faces. Let's head on in guys."
They all head inside and Aggie is amazed at how big it was. "It's bigger on the inside that how it looks on the outside."
"And that's what makes the mall the place to be for things you need and/or want" replied Kick.
"Alrighty then, so what's first on the agenda?" asked Peter. But then he sees the smiles from the girl's faces and he knew what that meant. "Ah, clothes. Right."
Ember then looks to Aggie, but then she sees she's gone. "Aggie? Aggie?! Aggie?!" The others also see she's gone. "Where the heck is Aggie?!"
"There she is!" Sam points and they see her looking at the windows of a store and they all rush towards her.
"Aggie!" the girl turns around. "What the heck? Don't wander off like that sweetie, you got us scared." Ember hugs her and strokes her hair.
"The mall may be fun, but it can also get you lost if you don't know how to go through the whole place" replied Aria with concern.
Aggie could see that they were all worried about her. "Oh, sorry. I just saw something nice, for me to wear." They all look and see the black blouse, grey skirt, skull belt, black and white striped socks and black shoes. Then they see the sign of the store. "Enchanting Gothic Style"
They're all a bit stunned. "Huh, it does make sense why she would pick this place, it's her style. Witchery of cute and great" said Adagio. "Like Lucy Loud."
"Can we go in?" asked Aggie.
They all smile. "Of course sweetie, just try not to wander off." Ember gets up and holds Aggie's hand and they all go inside and help Aggie find some outfits she would like to wear.
They all go through some of the gothic style outfits and are kinda impressed by them, for males and females. Peter Sharp sees some fingerless gloves with bleeding skull patterns on them. "These look nice."
Kick sees a black jacket with an extreme Viking berserker logo on it. "Whoa, I know someone who might like this. I can get this for Gunther's birthday next year."
Ember, Sam, Adagio, Aria and Sonata all have found some clothes that Aggie could wear. Aggie smiled seeing all the clothes and had fun trying them on. Just then she sees someone. "Hello there."
Ember and the others turn around and are startled by Lucy. "Lucy? Oh it's you" replied Sam. Then she realizes. "Wait, Aggie you knew she was there?"
"Of course I did. I saw her come into the mall, and then through some people who were startled by her for some reason and then she came in here before we did" replied Aggie. "She came with one of your friends."
"You mean my sister Lori, who is also Volcana, a member to the Royal defenders" replied Lucy. "It's nice to meet you Agatha Prenderghast McLain, my name is Lucy Loud. Lori told me about you being a witch and I for one like the style and you picked the right place for some good outfits, they suit you well."
"Thank you Lucy, I think your outfit is nice too and I can tell you speak to a ghost as well, is that right?" said Aggie.
"Sigh, Great Grandma Harriet and I are not in good terms still" replied Lucy. "I don't know why she wouldn't speak to me, or even want to be heard by me."
Aggie then has an idea. "Maybe I can help you, I can speak to the dead. Perhaps I can ask what's been bothering your great grandma and we can see solve this issue you have with her."
Lucy smiles hearing that. "How about tomorrow? My place, I don't have any plans and I can ask my roommate Lynn to let us have the time to talk to her. I also have to ask my mom if it's okay to have you over."
Aggie smiles and shakes hands with Lucy. "I guess it's a playdate then." Lucy smiles as well. The others can also see this and smiles. Aggie made a friend, she then looks to Ember. "Mommy, is it okay for me to go over to Lucy's?"
Ember smiles. "I think it's a good idea, I will be there to keep an eye on things since they are a little bit chaotic."
Then Lori shows up. "Okay Luce, we've been here for more than 30 minutes and I was able to find the bracelet and jacket you were looking for, and I paid for them." She then sees the Sharps. "Hi guys, here to shop for things? She then sees Aggie. "Oh, oh. I see, Aggie is kinda like Lucy right?"
Sam nods. "Aggie likes the same things Lucy is interested in and I was just thinking, when school does begin, Aggie could be a member to the young morticians club."
Aggie is confused by this. "Young morticians club? That sounds like something for graveyards."
"The young morticians club is the small group of me and a couple of my Gothic friends" replied Lucy. "We're dark, brooding and do a lot of our meetings at either the school or at the cemetery, my co-president Haiku isn't going to be with us since she will be heading for Middle School, so I will be the one running." Lucy then thinks. "And I think you'd be a great addition to the club, you seem like the grave type, and if you do join I can talk to the others to not bring anything hanging related. I can tell how much you have a slight fear of noses."
Aggie felt nervous about hearing that. It's how she died, okay that's how all people who have been accused of witchcraft have died. "Well, I guess it sounds nice. But I'm gonna need some time to think about it."
"Very well then, it's been nice to see you Agatha and I can't wait to meet you at my house tomorrow." Lucy then walks out of the store with Lori.
"See you guys later" replied Lori as she walks out with her little Goth sister.
The Sharp's wave goodbye to them. "They seem nice" replied Aggie. Peter and Ember then realize that Aggie may have made a friend within Lucy, but Goth is not truly within her. She might just want to make friends, even if those friends are dark, brooding and as creepy as Lucy.
They then make their way to pay with what they got and yes Sam, Adagio, Aria and Sonata also got some clothes that seem cool. Sam bought some dark outfits for some Halloween style attire at school and the Dazzles could use the clothes for their tour.
They then leave the Gothic style store and make their way to the other places around the mall and some of them are Aggie's first times to do this. They head to watch a movie "The Blair Witch Project" It didn't seem scary to Peter and Ember, Sam and Kick are a little bit startled, the Dazzles are kinda freaked out same goes with Pikachu and Rapidash and Aggie just watches and wonders if she can do that. Oh boy.
They head on to the food court and enjoy some of the food served there and Aggie enjoyed eating the Caesars chicken salad, curly fries and ice cream. They do spot Sergei, Loona and their pups eating as well.
They make their way to a book store where Aggie was fascinated by some witch based novels and history books, even though it may seem dark to read she wanted to know about what happened to the people who were accused of witchcraft in this earth. They run into Dana, Becky and Teri who were there to look for something good to read.
Then Aggie sees something, through the windows of the pawnshop. Ember notices this and sees the stuffed white teddy bear with a black bow. "You wanna go and check it out?" Aggie looks to Ember and nods. Ember then looks to the others. "Guys, one more stop. Let's go."
The others see the pawnshop and follow Ember. "Well, let's see what we can find" said Peter.
And they did find something. Peter became mesmerized by a statue of Satan impaling an angel, Kick looks to some vintage skateboards and some of them have been signed, the Dazzles look through some guitar straps belonging to rock n' roll legends and Sam buys a bracelet with a snowflake locket on it.
"Luna is so going to love this when it's her birthday." Sam then sees the price and smiles.
The store owner then hands Ember the bear and she hands it over to Aggie. "This bear has one heck of a history in this pawn shop from my dad's. He's been on the store shelf for more than 35 years. I was able to look through the history and this bear belonged to the daughter of the first banker of Royal Woods, back during the times when witches were feared and hated."
"The banker and his family were burned in their own home by the people, after one of his enemies accused him of witchcraft. But that was a total lie and the man was exiled out of town for having trick the people into killing an innocent family, I believe the family's last name was McCann."
They are all stunned hearing this, including the last name of Chandler which made Peter and Sam angry. Aggie looks to the owner. "Did the bear have a name?"
"Annabelle" replied the man.
The very name of the bear made the Sharp's realize. "I'm sorry, did you say the name of the bear is Annabelle?" Sounds like the movie doesn't it?
Aggie looks to the bear and hugs it, she feels as if she made another new friend and would keep the friend safe and loved for as long as she lives.
(Hours later, Ketcham Park.)
The Sharp's all decide to take a small break from the mall and head to the park to find some peace and relax.
Kick rides around on his bike and meets up with Gunther, Polly and Rusty.
The Dazzles are enjoying tossing a Frisbee around with Sam. Sam does notices two very familiar figures underneath a tree.
Near the pond underneath the tree is Lincoln and Luna. Lincoln leans onto Luna and listens to his big sister strumming on her guitar, looks like their bonding. Like bid sis and little bro.
On a hill not too far, Aggie is sitting underneath a tree and Ember next to her. "This, this seems familiar mommy."
"Like when you had your old mother with you, I understand" replied Ember. "This new life is a total shocker to get by. I had the same thing when I came into this world, though I did do some bad things when I came here. Until I learned how to make friends and a family."
"Just like me, but I found peace and happiness" replied Aggie. "Have you found peace yet?"
Ember smiles and pulls Aggie closer. "I have, with this family alongside Peter, Sam, and the others." She then looks down to the little girl. "And now, with you."
Aggie smiles and she leans her head onto Ember's shoulder while hugging her teddy bear. "Mommy, can you tell me a story?"
Ember looks down to Aggie and kisses her forehead. "Sure thing Aggie." Ember then tells her daughter a story, a story with a happy ending and it was all about a ghost who found a new life and a second chance to family and love.
To be continued …..
A/N: And this concludes Agatha's day with the Sharps and she might be a hero one day, she's still nervous and kinda shy but she will push on and live this new life alongside Ember and the Sharps. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 5/27/20.
