Chapter 9: Cabinet Man

753 20 2
                                    

Parker was woken up to someone poking his face, gently at least...

"Huh...? What?" Parker yawns, opening his eyes.

"Hellloooo!" Narc smiles, poking him on the nose before backing away.

"Oh...it's you." Parker mumbles, rolling over to his side.

"Huh...nOt talking to me...TOnight ehhhh?" Narc frowns, sitting down on the ground.

"I just don't want to talk right now...I'm tired, as you can clearly see." Parker sneers, closing his eyes.

"But...BUT...I neeeeddd you to takeee me somewhereeee...." Narc whines, kicking their feet in the air.

Parker reopens one eye, glancing over at Narc's sad face.

"You actually need to GO somewhere? Where?" Parker asks.

"Ummm...I cAN'T tell YOUU...but...I DO need Youuu to takeee me there...."

Parker sits up, glaring at Narc with a tired expression.

"How do you expect me to take you anywhere if you don't tell me anything?" He mumbles.

"Ughhh...I'll just walkkkk there then..." Narc groans, hopping up from the ground to head for the front door.

Parker jolts up from the couch, hissing from some familiar pain in his rear end.

"Wait, wait! I'm not gonna just...let you go outside alone at night!" Parker snarls.

"WELL, youuu don'T seem TO beee IN THE SHAPE TO fOLLOW!" Narc frowns, observing his hunched over body.

"I'M FINE! I'll...drive you there or something...just point to where you need to go or something." Parker mumbles, using the end of the couch as a crutch.

"AlRIGHTY! If you aRe up to ittt....then leTs get this SHOW ON THE ROAD!" Narc laughs, heading out the door.

"Jesus Christ....what the hell is even happening anymore?" Parker sighs under his breath.

.
.
.
.
.
.
They both got into the car, Parker took a while to actually get out of the house though.

"Alright....but how exactly do you know where to go if you've never been outside before?" Parker asks, starting up the car.

"THEREEE is a SCENT IN THE AIR! HOLD ON-" Narc smiles, rolling down the window.

Parker watches as they breathe in heavily, then exhaling.

"YES! OKAY! GOOO LEFT FIRST!!!" Narc exclaims, pointing to the right.

"Narc, that's the right..."

"SHUT UP! I KNOW MY LEFTS AND RIGHTS!"

.
.
.
.
.
They drove for about 15 minutes, sometimes having to backtrack due to the wind messing up the "scent."

But soon they arrived to their destination...
A graveyard.

"Uhhh...Narc? Are you sure this is the right place?" Parker asks nervously.

"Yes! YeS! Narc nods frantically, unbuckling their seatbelt quickly.

Parker just sighs in agony, unbuckling his own seatbelt and opening the car door.

He watches as Narc practically dashes on all fours towards a grave, sitting down right next to it.

"Dude...what are you doing? Who's grave is that?" Parker groans, limping over to them.

"THISSS! THIS RIGHT HEREEE! is my ancestors GRAVEE!" Narc smiles, dusting off the stone.

Parker gets a closer look at it, reading the grave:

Rachel Chimes
2011-2021

"An...ancestor? Narc, this is a CHILDS gravestone..." Parker frowns.

"I GET THAT! MY ancestOR died In tHis body, thoughh!"

Parker's eyes widen in shock. He had no idea these...monsters would just take children's lives like that....

"What the hell...?" Parker whispers.

"I knOw! It's iNTERESTING! NOW THENN! OnTO THE NEXT PART!" Narc laughs, beginning to dig in the dirt.

"WHOA, WHOA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Parker yells, grabbing ahold of Narc's arm.

"DIGGING! I muST retrieve BONES FOR REINCARNATION!" Narc smiles.

"R-Reincarnation??! What the hell do you mean by that?!" Parker gasps.

"UM! US...GOOP MONSTERS...MUST REVIVE EACH OTHER IN ORDERRR TO not GO EXTINCT!" Narc explains, going back to digging.

"W-What?!" Parker yells.

"YOu will Beeee FINE! GOOP MONSTER WILL LIVEEE INNN GROUND UNTIL FURTHER NOTICEEE!" Narc laughs.

"S-So...they just...REGROW?! LIKE FROM THE GROUND?!" Parker asks, fear drowning out his normal tone.

Narc nods, digging further into the ground.
"DO YOUUU HAVE A SHOVEL??" They ask, looking back up at Parker, who is horrified by whats happening.

"NO, I DON'T! OF COURSE I DON'T!"

"That IS FINE!" Narc smiles, leaping up, "I SHALL GO FINDDD ONE!"

Before Parker could say anything else, they were off....

(Oh my god...what the hell am I gonna tell Chester??)

The Mind Electric (A Chester X Parker fic)Where stories live. Discover now