The Voice in the City

Goodbye

We all slept together and woke up in the morning, but this time mom and dad were awake early? "Good morning. You guys are awake early." I said, "Don't enter the kitchen tell your brother that too ok?" Dad said, "Okay." I said and went to the living room and started readying up the Xbox (Minecraft, Brawlhalla, Injustice League, The Escapists) when I finished Willy came just in time, "Sup." He said, "Whassup man." I answered, I told him what dad said and he went to the bathroom and came back after a few minutes, "I am going to ask them if they can make us Corn Flakes because we can't eat nothing!" Willy said, finally Jane woke up, "Whoaaa! I am sooo tired. Hmm why is the kitchen door locked?" she asked trying to open it, "Well mom and dad are not making us enter they are doing something." I answered, "Your mom is awake early?", "Ya. I know, I was as surprised as you were, well now we can all figure out who was that woman alone." Willy said, "Ya, that is a great idea!" Jane said, we all sat and started putting the puzzle together in our heads. "So, she was holding a heart-shaped stone." I said, "And the lady who told us that a woman wants you guys to be uh... heartless" Jane said, "So how are we going to figure out who she is?" Willy said, "Oh no!" I said almost saying it too loud, "What?" Jane asked, "Remember when dad always used to read us bedtime stories?" I asked Willy, "Christal, this is no time for bedtime stories!" he replied, "Well remember the story of the Evil Beauty?" I asked, they started to follow, but then we got interrupted, "Children?" dad asked "Yeah?" we all asked, "I got ALL of you Corn Flakes with a little bit sugar!" he said and winked, we all knew he put more than a LITTLE BIT sugar, we took our bowls full of Corn Flakes with milk and sugar, and said "Thank you" we all started eating our breakfast while putting the puzzles together again, "So are you saying she is the Evil Beauty?" Jane asked, "I am not sure, but you saw her, it is the SAME THING!" I answered. We all ate and sat down, "Let's just play for a while to clear our heads." Willy suggested, "Yeah" Jane agreed, we all played together some Injustice league, and it kinda cleared our minds because we kept killing each other. 

Finally, mom called us, we all came, and they shouted, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" Willy, Jane and I were all confused, "IT IS OUR BIRTHDAY?", "Yup!" dad said eagerly, "So what do you think?" he asked eagerly, "IT'S AMAZING!!" Willy said, Jane was surprised "It's your birthday? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Now how old are you?" she asked, "We are now 11 years old!" I said happily, we all celebrated together, we finished celebrating and saw dad leaving. "Dad? Where are you going?" we asked anxiously, "Umm...... well I have to go visit someone, it's really important." He said, "We will come!" I said, "No you can't.. uh, it is getting late you should sleep it's past your bedtime. Your mother will be pist" He said trying to not show his worried face, "Dad we need to tell you something but not here." Willy said, "Ok, but very quick I have to go afterwards." Dad replied.

We all left to Willy's room so mom could not hear us talking, "You cannot tell mom about this ok?" I said, "What did you do?!" he asked thinking we did something bad, "We didn't do anything just don't tell mom ?", "Ok" he replied, "There is this woman every time at night in the living room holding a stone heart." Jane said, "Wait you know, oh poop..!" Dad said, "What do you mean we know?" I asked, "I know there is this woman but I didn't know you knew that is why I go to Hagatha so she can tell me more about the woman who is chasing you guys, before you came to her I just wanted to know how are my darlings doing, so I went to the lady and asked. She said you guys were being followed by a woman who wants you I can't say, so I was scared and every time I will go to ask her, she keeps saying the same thing and now you guys know!" he said with a very anxious face, "Oh" Jane said, "Who are you? I wasn't able to ask that question before." He asked Jane. "My name is Jane, and I am their friend." She replied while gesturing at us. "You got a new friend wow; we should go to the lady and get some real answers!" he said already walking amazingly fast to the door, we followed him and tried catching up with him in the end we ran --------- we finally arrived to the Hagatha's home to ask her a question that we haven't even cared to ask. "Hello again!" Hagatha said pleased we came to her home again, "We need to talk." Dad said with a serious tone, "Yes?" she asked a little bit confused, I was still thinking of what dad to us, her name Hagatha I heard that name before, "Hagatha from the book Land of Stories, but they said you died!" Willy asked for me, "I enchanted the plants yes, but for fun, you should try it someday, but no I wasn't dead I was transported into this world but in the future, it felt good to be here! Where the girl Alex and boy Conner couldn't ask me to activate the wishing spell, because I am sick of it!" she answered she said looking annoyed when she said Alex and Conner. "And now we need the truth, who is chasing them?" dad asked, gesturing to us, "To tell you the truth the Evil Beauty escaped the magic mirror and regained her strength, she figured out a way to this world, a portal that led her to the future where the land of stories was destroyed, and she was stuck." She answered truthfully, "She found you guys and felt fairy blood....." before she could finish, Willy and I were vomiting, "I don't want to have fairy blood that's disgusting!" Willy said, "Me too, fairies are kinda weird and tooooooo nice!" I added. "Well, it is not your choice! You have fairy blood and that means you have magic, a better chance to defeat Beauty!!" she said, "Nope, No, Nu-uh, I wanted to keep my family safe not let them go running around the city what if they don't succeed huh?!" Dad said with a loud voice, "HUH!!!???" he said even louder, "Dad, please let her talk." Willy said holding Dad's hand, "They will succeed, because I know it!" she replied, "Now why don't you tell them about how she escaped what did he say uh... oh yes huh?" she asked him, "Fine, I will!" he sighed, "I used to live there in the Land of stories until people attack and it got destroyed, it was horrible. I was able to escape with a portal that was still open and was opened recently by the Evil Beauty, I didn't know she used it, so I entered. I found a woman on the floor too weak to get up. I helped her get up and saw her blue and orange eyes. She told me to be careful of what I choose and disappeared." He said. Willy, Jane, and I were all astonished, "You lived in the Land of stories!?" Jane asked trying to not believe it, "But how it is just a book." I asked. Dad looked around and finally accepted, " No, it is not just a book I was there. " he asked, "Oh." I said trying to remember something I wanted to say, "Anyway what am I going to tell your mom when you go?" Dad asked, we haven't thought about that, "Tell her Hagatha is giving us a tour, because she is your friend." Jane answered, "Fine but if you die, your mom and I WILL kill you!" he said, I shivered. We left dad said bye with teary eyes and he hugged us. Then we saw Hagatha running towards us, "WAIT!!" she told us, "Here. This is gonna be useful. DON'T LET IT BE IN THE WRONG HANDS OR ELSE...... and uh don't lose it!" she warned, it was a blue and purple glass key, "Ok" Jane said we left home, while mom was getting distracted we packed the necessary thing and got ready to go when mom wasn't looking we ran outside with our money dad gave us and a bunch of food, so we wouldn't waste the money on the food. And Hagatha gave us a map to retrieve some items to defeat Beauty.