Evie's Notes: Hey friends! I hope you all enjoy this silly little fic I put together. The second (and final) chapter should be up sometime next week. Enjoy the chaos 😂🌈❤️
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The afternoon began like any other as the Anubis house residents returned to their house after an exhausting day of classes. Nina and Amber were talking excitedly about their movie night plans while Fabian, Alfie and Patricia bemoaned Miss Valentines' latest assignment. Joy and Eddie were sneakily competing to see who could clip the most safety pins onto the back of Patricia's blazer. Jerome and Mara trailed behind, hand in hand, bringing up the rest of the group.
What none of the residents expected upon opening the front door was to be faced by the booming voice of their caretaker, Victor Rodenmarr.
"Nina Martin!"
"Yes?" asked the American girl, confused as to what she could have done to anger the house's ancient caretaker. Since the closing of the exhibit and the banishment of Senkhara (and Rufus), things had been quiet on the Sibuna front. In fact Nina thought her recent behavior was that of the model resident, like Mara! She certainly hadn't gotten herself wrapped up in anything worthy of such an ominous greeting.
"Trudy was unexpectedly called away to deal with urgent personal business this morning. I have not been able to reschedule my own outing for this evening. Therefore I have decided that you are in charge of ensuring each of you heathens eats and gets to bed by 10 o'clock".
"You're putting me in charge?" asked Nina skeptically. The Caretaker's disdain for her was well documented so she was shocked to find that she was his number one choice.
"Don't let it go to your head, you were simply the first I saw" snapped the man before storming off.
"True Power is finally mine" whispered Nina, staring at the pin Victor had given her.
"What was that?" asked Amber
"Hmm, oh nothing Ambs! Let's go, we've got an awesome night to plan!"
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5 o'clock that evening, the Anubis residents gathered in the sitting room at Nina's request.
"What's this all about Martin?" asked Jerome, as he sprawled lazily across the couch.
"Victor and Trudy are both gone this evening and have left me in charge. Apparently Trudy didn't leave anything made for dinner so I've decided the best way to deal with this is by a little competition".
"Competition!?" Patricia and Eddie echoed, their heads shooting up excitedly.
"Yup, Amby and I have taken stock of the kitchen and put together a couple mystery packages. We will split into teams of three to see who can make the best dinner for us all under the time restraints".
"How are the teams decided?" asked Mara with a competitive gleam in her eye.
"I will be pulling names from a hat, generously donated by Alfie," grinned Amber, revealing Alfie's 2nd favorite jester hat, the first having died a horrible death by ritual fire the term before. The pair had spoken to the boy earlier and secured his help in exchange for allowing him to record and judge the results.
"Team one: Fabian, Eddie and Mara. Team Two: Joy, Patricia and Jerome. Amby, Alfie and I will be recording and judging the chaos".
Amber passed out matching aprons to the competitors. Team one was decked out in bright purple aprons, and team two wore garish orange aprons.
"If you follow me into the kitchen" declared Nina with a wide grin as Alfie fired up his video camera.
The girls had taped a line down the center of the kitchen island to divide the workspace for the two teams. They had placed the random ingredients for each team in nondescript brown boxes. The teams would have access to all of the kitchen appliances as long as it did not interfere *too much* with the other competitor's work.
"When I blow this air horn you will have one and a half hours to complete your dish. You must use all items in your box. Any questions?"
Seeing the serious set of her housemate's faces, Nina grinned and counted down "Three, Two, One... Cook!".
The blaring of Alfie's air horn echoed through the kitchen like the gunshot at a horse race.
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Mara grabbed a giant kitchen knife and used it to rip open team one's box. Inside the unlikely trio found raw chicken breasts, eggplant, assorted cheeses, some sort of pasta, basil, balsamic vinegar, mushrooms, tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, and strawberries.
"What if we made some sort of casserole?" suggested Fabian, poking suspiciously at the two large eggplants lying on the counter.
"There is no way I'm eating a strawberry casserole," protested Eddie. The American boy was by no means a food snob, but he had to draw the line somewhere.
"Of course not," Mara confirmed to her ghost hunting partner. "We could make a chicken eggplant parmesan casserole with a homemade marinara sauce".
"If we chop up the peppers and mushrooms we could braise them in the balsamic vinegar"
"That's a great idea Eddie!" praised Fabian. "For the strawberries, we can chop them up, add a cup of sugar and leave them to sit. That way we'll have a sweet fruit and sauce to serve as a side or desert".
"Ok it sounds like we have a plan for all of the items except the pasta. I figure we just boil it till it's al dente and then serve the casserole over it" recapped Mara.
"Perfect!" grinned Eddie. "We are going to destroy the others. Team ghost busters on the count of three, one two three... Ghostbusters!"
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On the other side of the kitchen Team Two was not having remarkably as much success.
"What even is this?" complained Joy as she turned the container of mystery ground meat over in search of a clue to its past life.
"Animal?" suggested Patricia at the same time Jerome offered: "Delicious?"
"Well whatever it is we better come up with a way to cook it fast" sighed the brunette before turning back to mystery box contents.
"Zucchini, eggs, pie crust. Tomato, carrots, shallots, peas, sweet potatoes, baked beans, peanut butter, milk and baker's chocolate" listed Jerome incredulously. "What on earth are we supposed to do with all of these?"
Patricia threw her hands up in defeat, "Don't look at me I'm pescatarian!"
"What if we were to make some sort of pie?"
"Oh because of the pie crust? Real original Joyless" scoffed Jerome.
"Shut up helmet hair! Meat pies are real things, and you two are lucky to have me since I learned A LOT about cooking while I was kidnapped".
"Ugh! Will you ever stop playing that card? We get it, you were kidnapped, but so we're the rest of us" teased Jerome.
"Fuck off and listen up, I've got a brilliant plan!" Smirked Joy with a devious grin!
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Nina and Amber warily eyed the loud clatter and general chaos floating through the kitchen door.
"They do remember that they have to eat this as well?" worried Nina
"Let's hope so, otherwise Daddy's credit card will be getting a work out this evening when I have to order emergency take away".
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Evie's Notes 2: Thank you all so much for reading 💕! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, let me know your favorite part of in the comments! I hope to see you all next week 💗!
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