The Sarsaparillian Halloween

Triplets Treat

We heard a sound of someone falling. We rushed out to see Rishter standing there.

"Mr. Rishter, what are you doing here?" I asked. "and at midnight?"

"I came to see Athea. She told me to go find you. Tell me what you know about the disease" he said.

"Why can't you ask us in the morning?"

"It's because, we don't want the spy girl knowing and no one knows I am at Gagenoble."

"That's all we know" Eric said.

"I suspected Natalie Puller but she's not" I said.

"Natalie Puller, I will remember that name". He said and he began in a raspy voice, "The girl with a secret, she won't tell it to anyone"

"Sir?" Eric called.

"I can predict future with hearing names or touching them"

"We know"

"Natalie has a secret?" Eric asked.

"We have to find it out" I said "Can you predict for Croci Anacon?"

"Why?" Eric asked.

"I have my suspicions around her"

He became still and spoke, "The girl with ambitions, she is a very private person"

"I think you don't speak in riddles from hearing names" Eric said.

Mr. Rister became red.

"She told me she wants to concentrate on her studies. Maybe he meant that" I said. He nodded.

"Kristiana, you got to hear this!" I said, filling in the details. She looked shocked. Then a voice of Mr.Herbertor boomed out of the speaker, "I want all of the students, except the non-well students to come to the ice room now".

I waved a goodbye and left. I ran into Croci on the way.

She smiled and left. I sat with my friends.

"We have an emergency" Mr. Herbertor was saying, "All the clubs, sport are cancelled for now. Classes will be held in your dorm from now. You are restricted to sneak out. We have news that another twenty students were affected. We are trying to find the antibiotic. The empires president is seeing this problem himself."

"I have a quibble (a slight objection) with this quip (remark)" one of the Stuart triplets said standing up. Kristoff face palmed.

"We have qualm (uneasiness of the situation) as it is a quirk (a sudden happening)" the second triplet said.

"You can't quash (use force) us to quarantine (isolate)" the third one said.

I laughed while some students were looking confused.

"Do they love alliteration?" I asked to Kristoff.

"No, they love all the gives tension" Kristoff said looking at the twins as if they were lizards.

Mr. Herbertor smiled, "Your practical jokes will help you get through it, you don't have to worry. I am sure you will not be always in your dorm because you need to go to the detention room daily. Does that suit you?"

They took their bow and sat.

I realized at that instant, how much fun we were missing. We had practically worried about the disease, that we didn't notice we were missing fun.

We returned to our dorm. Helery, our classmate came and sat near me.

"Where is Matt?" I asked. He was our other classmate.

"He's diseased"

Eric and Kristoff were in deep conversation.

I bent down to hear them.

"Cedric told to meet us at the lobby at midnight. I think it's going to be hard as the teachers are adding more protection" Kristoff was saying.

Eric nodded his head and said, "Will they at least let us visit Kristiana?"

"I am not sure" I said.

"Hey" Helery said to me.

"Helery" Eric asked, "When was Matt diseased?"

"I think it was in the morning" she said and tossed back her brown hair. That's the time, I noticed her brown hair.

"Hey" She called me again.

I turned towards her.

"I am feeling a lit bit lonely. Can I stick with you?" she asked.

"Sure, Helery" I said.

Helery couldn't be the brown haired girl, right?

Ms. Ariel came to the class overjoyed.

She did a snoopy little dance. We looked at her shocked.

"They have found the antibiotic cure for the disease" she said.

"You are kidding" Helery said.

She made a crazy face and selected a music playlist to play in our e-screen. The music burst opened our eardrums.

She started dancing and one by one, we all started moving to the rhythm.

"How did this happen?" I asked to Ms. Ariel yelling over the music.

"I am surprised too. The empire scientists found it out this morning. We found it after you left the meeting. Kristiana found that the common thing between the diseased people is they all ate Noodles on the first day of school. The sauce mixed in noodles was made from Sarsaparilla's leaves. The scientists found it a huge help and found the antibiotic. Thanks to Croci too. She had an antiseptic that is magically enhanced. The empire scientists developed the particles more virus-resistant, and it cured two students till now. Your friends will be coming any minute"

I, Kristoff and Eric high fived.

We spent the afternoon making 'Welcome to dorm, Kristiana and Matt'.

Eric, who used to be down, became happy and started annoying Kristoff. Cedric went to second year dorm to see his sister. Matt had arrived and Helery was overjoyed. Then came Kristiana.

Kristiana ran and hugged the three of us in unison. We pulled her to her feet and turned her around.

"Look at me" she said and danced.

"We heard that you found out the means by which the disease spread" I said.

"I didn't just found out one thing. I told you that day Ellie, I figured out many things. One of them is Rishter's riddle"

"A truffle has a cure: an anti truffle has the solution. Croci, the truffle has the cure." Kristoff said and I continued, "Anti-truffle means opposite of truffles, the fire house, that's the water house, Startrekkers, Kristiana found out the means of spreading."

"Oh...you were talking about it... I am talking about Eric. Rishter bumped into him. Remember?"

"No" Eric shouted, "Kristiana, if you tell this, you know, how many people will get affected?"

"What's going on?" I asked and Kristoff tried to remember what Rishter said about Eric. I tried to remember it. "You are the member of the three, inside you have hidden thee." Rishter had said.

I gasped.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: So, have you guessed the secret Eric's hiding?