Author's note: This fic contains foul language and adult themes
"This house has two bedrooms besides the masters! How does that sound! You can use the other bedroom as an art room!" Wendy said cheerfully, biting into her muffin. Judo remained silently, chewing her muffin silently. Wendy glanced at Judo remorsefully, understanding how upset she was.
The car ride was silent and bumpy. The two had to get up early to go enter the new house.
Wendy turned into a long road that lead deep into a forest.
"Mum." Judo asked.
"Yes sweetie?" Wendy immediately chirped up. This had been the first word Judo spoken during this long car trip.
"How come I couldn't stay with dad?"
Wendy flinched a bit before letting out a sigh. "Judo. We've been over this! I have primary custody over you and can still provide for you. The courts won't change that."
Judo grunted. "Why'd we have to leave Australia and go the UK?"
"Judo." Wendy said sternly.
Judo pointed and stared out the window. "Is our flatin the middle of the woods?"
"Sorta."
After about 10 minutes of driving through the forested road, Wendy exclaimed "HERE IT IS!"
Judo looked out of her window and saw a weathered flat. Paint chipped, some windows were cracked, lawn has seen better days. No other house in sight. Just the forest and mountains.
"The flat is shaped like a castle." Judo remarked.
"It lives up to it's name." Wendy chuckled, pointing to a sign right by the driveway. Judo glanced at it as they pased by.
'Pink Palace Apartments'
"It doesn't look that pink to me." Judo remarked. Wendy parked the car in the driveway and went to greet the movers who had already arrived and were currently unloading their furniture. "So sorry I'm late." Wendy began apologizing as she began greeting the crew. Judo exited the car and looked upon the house. A cold chill rushed through her body as she stared into her new home.
"Judo!" Wendy called. Judo jogged to her mother.
"Why don't you go explore the mountains for a bit while we're unpacking. I think there's a trail behind the house that leads to a haunted well or something."
"Do I have too?" Judo groaned.
"No, you don't have to. You can help us begin unpacking."
Judo shocked her head.
"There's sandwiched and water in the cooler in the car. Make sure to bring your raincoat because it looks like it might start raining."
Judo nodded and retrieved her raincoat, messenger bag that was gifted to her by Bluey on her birthday and food and water. She hugged her mum and walked around to the back of the house. There was a garden behind the house, or what was left of a garden. All the plants had died and the soil had long dried up and turned to rock.
"How am I supposed to find a well." Judo began monologing to herself. "I know! I'll use my trusty water dowser!" She reached into a bush and broke off a branch. She pointed it into the sky and chanted "Oh magic dowser! I call upon thee! Lead me to that that flows free!" She spun around and set out through the garden, having the dowser lead the way.
Unbeknownst to her, a mysterious black cat had been watching her and was slowly trotting behind her.
As Judo walked deeper into the woods, the feeling of being watched was becoming overwhelming. She kept turning around, expecting to see someone but was left with nothingness.
The sight of her home had been getting smaller and smaller until it completely has disappeared from view. She pulled out a sandwich and began munching on it was she kept walking.
Suddenly, a twig snapped somewhere to her right. Judo turned expecting to see someone but all there was was the foliage.
"Hello?" Judo asked. "Who's there?" Cold blow of the wind swept through the forest.
She reached down next to her and picked up a rock. She chucked it into the forest.
A blood curdling scowl erupted from the forest, scaring the jesus out of Judo making her sprint deeper into the forest. She could her the sounds of twigs breaking and leaves crunching behind her as whatever it was began chasing her.
When Judo ran out of energy, she leaped over a log and continued backing up backwards, picking up a stick to use as a weapon. She could hear whatever it was run through the bush around her, circling in on her.
"REOWWRR!" Came from behind her, making her scream and spin around ready to attack. She was met with a mangy black cat sitting on a tree stump.
"Fuck you!" Judo cursed at the cat, catching her breath. "You scared the shit out of me!" She finshed her gobbled the rest of her sandwich to help her nerves. "Look feline! I'm just looking for a well. Know it?"
The cat silently stared.
"Not talking? Don't know what I'm talking about, do y-"
A loud honking of a motor vehicle came from behind her, startled her as she spun around.
All she could see before jumping out the way so she didn't get ran over was a motorbike being ridden by a figure with a rams skull coming at her. As she crashed to the ground, she met gazes with the skeletal faced figure as he loomed down at her. She froze in fright, to terrified to run.
The figure took off the rams skull mask and picked up one her sandwiched that spilled out of her bag.
"A roseville tea sandwich? No one around here eats these!" The dog chuckled.
Judo glared at the puppy. An old english sheepdog dressed in a rundown black coat covered in bush and sticks.
"Sorry I scared you! Hard to stop the bike as it's going downhill." The english dog extended his paw to help Judo to her feet, but Judo rejected it, getting up on her own.
"Back where I came from, everyone loved eating these!" Judo remarked sassily, snatching the sandwich out of his hand.
"Where are you from? London?" The dog asked.
"Australia!" Judo said back sharply.
"Australia? HEY! YOU'RE THAT GIRL WHO JUST MOVED IN! YOU AND YOU'RE MUM!" THe old english sheepdog exclaimed.
"Oh great. You also live in the flat." Judo grumbled.
"No, my grandmother owns the Pink Palace. I live somewhere over there." The dog said, pointing off into the distance. Judo looked into the distance and could see smoke from a chimney in the far distance.
"I'm Wybie by the way!" Wybie said, extending his arm.
"Why Bee?" Judo asked.
"It's short for Wybourne."
"Gee. I never would've gotten that on my own." Judo remarked sarcastically.
"What's your name?" Wybie asked, slightly annoyed.
"Judo." Judo said.
"Like the martial art?" Wybie said,mockingly.
"yeah! " Judo remarked, delivering a punch to his arm for mocking his name.
"I'm sorry! I'm Sorry!" Wybie said, backing away cautiously.
The black cat from earlier that took cover from Wybie emerged from the bushes.
"OH HELLO!" Wybie exclaimed. The two rushed towards each other and began embracing each other.
"That your cat?" Judo asked.
"No, he's kinda feral. Y'know, WILD! But of course I do feed him everynight and he'll sometimes bring me little dead things!"
"EW!" Judo said disgustedly.
"I'm kind of surprised you moved in. My grandma never rents it to people with kids."
Judo got a little surprised.
"What do you mean?"
"Well…" Wybie began. "Kids… actually I'm not supposed to talk about it."
Judo rolled her eyes. "Well ANYWAY I was looking for a well before your murder attempt. Do you know where it is?" Judo sarcastically asked him.
Wybie looked at Judo for a few seconds before remarking "Take a nice hard step and you'll figure out EXACTLY where it is."
Judo glared at him and lifted her foot to stomp down, before realizing what he meant and leaping off where she was standing. She hadn't realized it before, but she was standing in a circle of mushrooms.
Wybie dug into the circle, through a layer of mud, and revealed the door of the well. He picked up Judo's dowsing rod and crowbarred open the well door.
"Whoa!" Judo remarked as the two between caressing the well.
"It's supposed to be so deep, if you feel to the bottom and looked up, you'd see a sky full of stars in the middle of the day!"
"Wow!" Judo said amazed.
In the distance, an elderly voice yelled "WYBOURNE!"
"I think i heard someone calling you, Wybourne!" Judo said coldly.
Wybie froze. "I didn't!"
Judo's face lit up mischeviously as a clever insult came to her mind. "No! I DEFINITELY heard someone, WHY WERE YOU BORN!" Judo laughed chuckling rudely.
Wybie turned to her angrily ready to insult her back when he heard his grandmother call for him again. "Crap! Grandma!"
Wybie turned to Judo to bid her farewell which was met with her sticking out her tongue.
"Well, great to meet an Aussie!" Wybie said, putting on his rams skull and mounting his back. "But I'd be careful if I were you! You're little dowsing rod, it actually poison oak!" Judo eyes shot open and looked down at her bare hands which we already beginning to feel itchy.
Wybie road off and his cat wandering off, not before giving Judo a disapproving look.
Judo flipped off Wybie and turned back to the well. She picked up a pebble and dropped it into it. She counted up to 20 seconds before hearing a splash. Immediately afterward, drop of rainwater hit her head, followed by a sea of rainwater falling from the sky.
"Terrific." Judo grumbled as her little trek was cut short. She gathered her things and started back home, already becoming cold.
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"Where'd you go Wybourne?" Wybie grandmother asked as she began boiling potatoes.
"Just around the woods. I met the Australian girl!"
"WYBOURNE! I TOLD YOU NOT TO GO ANYWHERE NEAR THAT HOUSE!" His grandma yelled.
"I-I didn't! She was walking on the trail by the house and I ran into her! You can ask her!"
His grandma growled and went back to boiling potatoes. "Go wash up, lunch will be ready soon!"
Wybie went to take a bath but realized he had ran out of soap.
"Grandma, can I borrow some of your soap please!"
"Sure!"
Wybie entered his grandma's room and retrieved soap from her bathroom. As he was about to leave the room, something caught his eye. From the closet, Wybie could see a doll. He opened the closet door and saw through the slightly opened trunk, a doll that looked strangely like Judo. He picked it up and studied it. A button eyed doll of Judo in her raincoat alright.
"What's this?" Wybie wondered. He walked back into the kitchen.
"Grandma. Did you make this for Judo?"
His grandmother turned to look at him and saw the doll he had in his hands.
"No. Is that a gift for Judo?"
"No! I found this in your closet!"
"Wybourne! Don't lie! If you made that for your girlfriend, why don't you go and give it to her?" SHe turned back to her potatoes, ending th conversation.
Wybie sighed and tossed the doll in his room.
He'd give it to her tomorrow.
As he left his room, the doll watched him leave, with it's cold black button eyes.
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