Ghost Girl Book 1

Chapter 28

Bubbie floated over Lindsay and made sure she was sound asleep, he felt peace when he watched her sleep, even as a baby when he would float over her crib he would feel a sense of calm. He shimmered over Lindsay "I love you kiddo" he whispered and floated out the door.

Bubbie reached the woods in minutes, he always thought that was the best thing about being a spirit, the speed at which he could float, he always enjoyed the feel of the air as he passed through it, he slowed his pace when he saw a small red shimmer, it was barely noticeable on the ground beside a fallen log, he floated over to it and recognized the shimmer at once he felt a sadness come over him as it tried to speak "if it isn't the traitor" the angry shimmer said in his slowed and slurred speech "come back to laugh at me". 

 Bubbie couldn't believe it, he had heard of other spirits being able to feed off other spirits but he had never seen it, he noticed that the angry shimmer wasn't even there anymore, all that was left was a small red whisp of red lingering mist, he was disappearing before Bubbies eyes, the shimmer tried to say one last thing "evil cunt" and winked out of existence.

Bubbie floated in one spot for a moment unsure of how to process this, is this what Madeline was trying to do to him the other day, the thought of that made Bubbie feel sick to his stomach, he looked back to where the shimmer disappeared and said out loud, oh fuck no, that's not happening to me and he hurried away from that spot.

Bubbie floated up to the well and called down  in a high pitched cheery voice, "ding dong Avon lady, is anyone home", he chuckled to himself as he floated down the well, he stopped abruptly when he noticed the black shimmer was gone, this is not good he said aloud. The last time he saw Madeline she wasn't strong enough, was she? Bubbie thought about the angry shimmer fading away and realized how she got the strength to escape the well, this added a whole new level of danger thought Bubbie.

He floated out of the well and headed in the direction of the farmhouse, he floated in through a window and looked at the mess he created last week, I did alright he said out loud to himself and chuckled, he floated all over the main floor and saw no sign of Madeline, he was looking for any hint of her essence or the oily residue left behind by her human host, he was disappointed when he didn't find any sign of her. He headed back into the wood to see if he could talk with any of the other spirits.

Bubbie floated to the clearing where the sad shimmer sat, crying about missing his parents and wanting to go home, he floated up to the sad shimmer and said "quite crying you little psycho, that shit may have fooled my human but I know what you did, setting your house on fire with your family inside, how fucked up are you man". He saw a brief flicker of red come from the sad shimmer and laughed out loud, "give it up psycho, your not strong enough to take me on", he saw the sad shimmer go back to his normal grey colour. He asked the sad shimmer if he had seen a dark black shimmer floating around the woods, when the sad shimmered indicated the direction of the town Bubbie felt nervous. Bubbie looked at the sad shimmer again and said "thanks for the help psycho, say hi to your family for me" and he floated off laughing.

As he floated back to town he passed the half built house and heard a whimpering sound coming for inside, he floated into the house and said "fuck me". He saw bits of shimmer all over the house, the oily residue that comes from a shimmer who had been torn apart was all over the walls and wooden beams that held the place up, Bubbie floated over the where he saw a small shimmer about the size of a ping pong ball floating in a corner he recognized the shimmer immediately.

"You here to save me sugar" said the once playful spirit who now sounded sad and dejected, "I don't want to stay here any more, she hurt me, she took parts of me and now this is all that's left". Bubbie looked at her small  shimmer and noticed it was fading even more, he moved closer and shimmered over top of her he could hear her echoing ghost cry and it made him sad. "I don't want to disappear", the shimmer said as she kept growing smaller and smaller. Bubbie shimmered over her and whispered to her that she will be ok, this just a new chance for fun and adventure, he shimmered over her as brightly as he could until he saw the small shimmer vanish out of existence.

Bubbie let out a bellow of rage and started back towards town, that fucking cunt he thought to himself, tearing up ghosts, feeding off their energy, this was a new level of evil that Bubbie had never encountered, he would have to be smart and careful, she was more powerful now and he had no doubt that when they met again she would try the same with him. He got back to town and could only think of one place to go, one place where she might be.

He floated past the new gravestones, nodding to the new spirits who were appearing all around him floating in confusion, he kept going till he reached the old part of the cemetery he slowed down and looked around, he could feel her here she wasn't as strong as before but a lot stronger than she was at the well, he floated closer to her grave and saw her there, floating lovingly all around her headstone like she was feeling it with her shimmer it reminded him of a cat rubbing against its owners legs purring, he felt a wave of nausea as he watched this.

Madeline was excited to be back at her resting place, she loved her old part of the cemetery and missed it, it had been more than 10 years since she had seen it but it still looked old and moldy and beautiful. She was lost in this feeling of happiness when she felt it, she turned to face the shimmer staring at her from the end of the row "if it isn't the protector, are you here to give me your shimmer?" she teased in her gravelly voice.

Bubbie wasn't about to float any closer despite his urge to rage into her with all his might, which is what she wanted he was sure of it. "what's your endgame Madeline?" Bubbie asked her, he was pretty sure he knew what it was but after seeing the damage she had done to the other shimmers he wanted to hear it from her.

Madeline's grating laugh made Bubbie uneasy "I want what's mine protector, she summoned me to take her over all those years ago, then you stopped it and I want her back, I have plans for my beloved Brewsters Bay and for all the cunts and dicks that did this to me and I need her body to do it, we shimmers are powerful but were still missing hands, and there is so many people I want to touch" as she said this last part he watched her shimmer glow a light purple, she was getting excited at this thought, which made Bubbie feel scared.

Bubbie dare to move a little closer and said "Madeline you've been dead for hundreds of years, and you think that the ones who burned you alive are still living, give your head a shake". He watched as Madeline's shimmer started to pulse red and he floated back a little as she moved slowly closer.

"The town is still very much alive, and it will pay, I will destroy this this shithole and everyone living in it, I will make it my own personal hell and my darling girl Lindsay will be the creator of this chaos" she said in her gravelly echoing voice. Madeline floated back over to her grave and floated around it lovingly then smashed through it shattering it to pieces.

Bubbie felt fear as he watched Madeline destroy her gravestone, without her headstone there was no connection to her grave, and the attempt to send her back would be almost impossible. He had never heard of a spirit severing their ties to their resting place, these things just didn't happen,  Bubbie realized that she was changing the rules and this had serious repercussions. "You'll never get to Lindsay, you know that right, you don't want to fuck with me Madeline, you have no idea what I'm capable of" Bubbie said in menacing tone.

Madeline's gravelly laugh sounded like thunder in the silent graveyard then she went quiet "We'll see protector, we'll see, I am everywhere and you will never see me coming, one way or another I will have what I want, consider yourself warned" she said in a deadly serious tone.