In The Garden

Chapter 20

Diana stood in her room naked, absorbing the light of the full moon. She stepped out onto the patio with her arms outstretched.

"It is a glorious night," said Diana.

She walked back into her room and slipped into a thin silk robe. Diana may have been a grandmother but she still very much looked youthful and vibrant. Her breasts were still firm and well placed. She lay herself down on a patio chair and picked up a drink that had been sitting there. She took a sip and leaned back and when she did that's when she saw Georgette standing over her.

"What are you doing here?" snapped Diana.

"You think you can write me out of the will?" asked Georgette.

Suddenly there were three other girls Georgette's age holding Diana down. One sat on top of her, the other two had her arms.

"Careful leave no marks," explained Georgette. "Open your mouth."

"I will not," said Diana.

Georgette grabbed her nose and held it closed so she couldn't breathe. After a minute or so she gasped for air and Georgette tossed a handful of pills into her mouth. Then she put her hand over Diana's mouth Diana was forced to swallow to avoid choking to death. Once the pills were swallowed the girls let her go.

"What is the meaning of this?" asked Diana.

"It's like you said Grandmother! Start your own circle then, but know in doing so you leave mine. Out with the old!" said Georgette as she shoved her grandmother off the patio and into the pool. "In with the new."

"Is she dead?" asked one of the girls.

"Go and make sure," said another.

"No," said Georgette. "I'll go."

Georgette leaped from the patio, landing softly on the ground as if she were as lite as a leaf falling from a tree. The pills were already starting to take effect. Diana was struggling to get out of the pool she slipped clumsily to her face and fell back into the water. Georgette went over to her and held her head down until the splashing stopped.

"Ding dong the witch is dead," said Georgette.

Pandora emerged from the back office.

"Alright," she said. "The spell to end George's immortality should be very easy as it's the natural course of life for mankind to live and then die. I'll just need a few things and then I can do it from here."

As she was talking an axe flew through the air hitting her square in the chest she flew backwards from the force of the blow.

"It's George," said Zelda. "He's here."

"He's corporeal right?" asked Darren.

"Yes," said Zelda.

"Good," said Darren and he whipped out his gun and unloaded it into George's chest.

"That won't work" said Zelda.

"It won't kill him but it may slow him down," said Darren. George didn't even slow in his walking toward them. "Get back." He said to the others as he started to go for George but his hand was grabbed.

"I just got you back," said Anna. "Please don't"

"Ok everybody out the back," Darren said. "Come on follow me."

George went to fetch his axe. He pulled it out of Pandora's chest and started to walk for the group. Pandora sprung up.

"That really hurt," she said and with a flick of her wrist she sent George spiraling through the air and into a row of shelves. "For that I may just kill you myself."

George climbed to his feet and flicked his wrist back at her she was flung backwards into the wall.

"How did you do that?" she asked.

George began to move toward her. She climbed to her feet. So she was eye to eye with George he grabbed her by the throat in an attempt to snap her neck but she countered and pinned him to the ground and then grabbed him by the face.

"Ah, I see! This isn't George. It's that witch bitch wife of his with a glamour on. Very clever," said Pandora. "Reveal."

When she said this the facade of George melted away to reveal Georgette.

"There's the real you," said Pandora. "Try this on for size. Carnal!"

With that Georgette's non-corporeal form became solid and Pandora punched her in the stomach sending her flying back much like she had done with her magic.

"Daddy studied under a necromancer," said Pandora. "You're way out of your league. You may have been the big fish in your pond. But in my world, you're just a puddle."

Georgette got to her feet and turned to face her attacker.

"Oh cute you're going to try and fight me? Oh, sweetie that's adorable," laughed Pandora.

The others had stopped running and were all hunched down in the back office trying to see what was happening.

"I think Georgette just pissed off the wrong witch," said Darren.

"Book," called Georgette.

The Grimoire that Pandora had left on the desk in the back office began to hover. Zelda reached out and grabbed it. It was fighting her to get away.

"She can't get the book back," told Zelda.

"BOOK!" snapped Georgette a little desperately.

The book fought against Zelda grasp more fiercely than before.

"Help me," she said.

Darren grabbed onto the book as well but it was unneeded after what followed.

"Book stay," said Pandora and the book stopped hovering and struggling to get free. "You still have so much to learn. You shouldn't have killed your grandmother. She would have opened the world to you. She's a witch I would love to have matched wits with."

Georgette flipped her off and vanished in a plume of fog.

"Come out, come out, where ever you are," laughed Pandora to the people hidden in the back office. "It's all right she's gone."

The others emerged from the back office.

"That was the coolest thing I've ever seen," said Marcea, "am I the only one geeking out hardcore?"

"Afraid so dear," said Pandora, "will if there are no further interruptions lets break a spell.

Pandora collected the ingredients she needed and as she did she magically repaired the shop to how it had been prior to her fight with Georgette.

"Alright that appears to be everything," said Pandora as she put all the ingredients into a small cauldron that she had pulled out. "Let the spell be undone."

"That's it?" said Darren, "all that and then that's it?"

"Yes dear, I told you it's natural for men to die," said Pandora.

"You wouldn't want to come with us would you?" asked Anna.

"No dear I have a business to run. I can't get caught up in every petty squabble that comes along," laughed Pandora. "Zelda dear they've put their lives on the line shouldn't you tell them everything now."

"Yes," snapped Anna glaring at Zelda. "She should! Especially since you told us you had."

"Oh this is awkward," said Pandora.