Claxton 2: The Curse of Poseidon

Chapter Thirty-Four: Trapped Between Life and Death

Song: "Scottish Fen" - The Fiechters

        All the way back on Seabrook Island, Makenna Delling agreed to give Ash Crusader back, but that was after they sought out Caleb at the crab dock. She led him, Evelyn, and Silvey down Seabrook Island Rd. and increasingly became even more annoyed when Ash constantly pointed out things and asked her what they were.

Every time Makenna answered, "It's a house! It's a tree! It's a mailbox!" another layer of anger threw itself on top of her voice. The last thing Ash noticed before they turned onto the road that took them to Creek Watch Villas and the crab dock, was a car.

A streak of silver steadily made its way down the road, and the Wizard Fairy pointed at it. "What's that?!" he yelled. Immediately, he leaped onto the road and sprinted towards the car. Makenna yelped when she saw this and quickly hid behind her hands. She couldn't watch this. When the car's driver noticed the boy running towards him, he screeched to a stop, so he wouldn't hit him, and skid marks bled onto the road. He stopped a little too late though. Ash was too close to him, but he was lucky. He didn't get hit because Silvey managed to save him. She couldn't save him from the Devil's Heir, but she could save him from a car. Her ribbon-like feelers stretched fifteen feet in front of her and wrapped around the teen. Silvey dragged him back over to Makenna and Evelyn just in time. She tossed him into Makenna's arms, but because Ash was a teeny bit bigger than her, she fell back when she caught him. The two of them landed on the grass behind them, which sat just in front of the woods.

As they rested on the ground, the driver of the car rolled down his window and yelled at Ash, "Watch where you're going, son! You could have been squashed into a pancake!"

"Wha-What's a pa-pancake?" Ash asked him, but the driver didn't answer him. Instead, he pressed down on the gas pedal and took off again.

        Makenna and Ash waited until the car vanished before they stood up. Evelyn floated next to Makenna's head as she stood first.

Once up, she grabbed hold of Ash's arm and dragged him to his own feet. "Just what do you think you were doing?" she yelled at him, "You could've been road kill! You're almost as bad as Tracey!"

"Tra-Tracey?" questionably asked the Wizard Fairy, "Who-Who's Tracey?"

Makenna opened her mouth to speak – to ask a question, but a blast of cold wind, like the one she felt on Coutarine Island, rushed through her hair and caused goosebumps to stick up on her arms. "What's that?" questioned the Metamorphic Fairy as she turned to the woods. Silvey joined her while on the other hand, Evelyn landed on Ash's shoulder.

        There was a moment of silence, and then Makenna heard it.

A crack in the woods, and a second blast of cold wind blew by her. "Is somebody in there?" she asked the woods, "Show yourself!" Nothing did. Makenna must have been hearing things. She was just getting ready to join Ash and continue on to the crab dock when heard something even more mysterious. Singing. It was coming from the intersection in front of her, Silvey, Ash, and Evelyn. Only one thought came to mind when Makenna heard the singing. "Tracey!" she yelled, but it wasn't Tracey at all. It was another voice.

The owner of the beautiful voice was... Makenna saw him. It was a teenage boy, about Ash and Tracey's ages, who stood in the intersection of the road. He had black hair and brown eyes. Hair covered the mysterious boy's right eye. He was dressed in a yellow and blue hoodie, which was over a long-sleeved, blue shirt, jeans, and dark blue high tops. He looked strangely familiar.

        Every single hormone in Makenna Delling's body exploded to life. She felt that she herself had just turned eighteen.

Hearts appeared on her eyes, and she yelled, "Whoa! Who's that?" at the sight of the boy. Her entire face turned red. Silvey confusingly peered up to the Metamorphic Fairy and bumped her. What on earth was going on with her? "Cupid has struck a bullseye!" Makenna continued.