The Adventures of Monday Addams and Wednesday Addams

Chapter 65-Uncle Festers Arrival

I enjoy funerals. I've been crashing them since I was old enough to read the obituary section. "God is our refuge and strength..." Mayor Walker was murdered, and I know the killer is here, standing innocently among us, plotting their next move. And watching everything I do. I know I'm close to the truth. I have all the pieces of the jigsaw. I just need to slot them into place. I must look past the tears and masks of grief. Until now, I may have been outmatched and outmaneuvered, but the final gambit has yet to be played. The killer will make a mistake, and I'll be ready.

Monday and Wednesday stood side by side as they lowered Mayor Walkers body into the ground.

People began to part so they may mourn in peace. That's when the Addams twins noticed a dark figure by a tree.

They walked over and the figure ran to the woods. The girls ran after him.

They lost site of the figure in the woods. When they heard a crack behind them and pulled the concealed swords out of their umbrellas. The man grabbed them and sent a quick burst of electricity through them, making the girls drop them.

"Still as sharp as ever, my pig-tailed protégés." The man said in a proud voice. A voice that Monday and Wednesday would know if they were blind.

"Uncle Fester." They said with a smile.

Wednesday was confused "How long have you been stalking us?"

Fester sighed "Just blew into town this morning and was hit by a wave of nostalgia."

"I thought you didn't go to Nevermore." Monday stated.

"I didn't. Your dad got all the brains. But I used to drop in on him. Usually from the ceiling with a dagger clutched between my teeth. Just to keep him on his toes." Fester said smiling.

"Of course." Wednesday said. "He filled me in on what's been going on. Monsters, murder, mayhem. What fun! I told him I had a job in Boston, but I'd be checking up on you two."

"What kind of job?" Monday asked probably already knowing the answer.

"The kind that means I need somewhere to lay low for a couple days."

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"This place belongs to a friend." Wednesday said leading him into the hive shack.

"You've actually made a friend." Uncle Fester asked. "That poor kid will be going home in a body bag."

Monday gestured at him to be quiet. Fester eventually understood "Oh."

He walked over to the bee hive and chuckled "I like a hideout that comes with snacks."

"Those bees are hibernating." Wednesday said. "They're practically Eugene's children."

"Ooh. He chuckled grabbing a sleeping bee out and was about to eat it when Wednesday clarified "That means do not eat them!"

Fester laughed "You know, when you give me those death stares of disapproval, you both remind me of your mother." Fester got back on topic "Speaking of scary things, you know what kind of monster you're dealing with?"

"We haven't been able to identify it." Wednesday pulled out one of Xaviers drawings and handed it to him.

"Ooh. It's called a Hyde." Fester concluded.

"As in Jekyll and Hyde?" Monday asked.

"Mm-hmm."

"You've seen one before?" Wednesday asked impressed.

"Oh yeah. In '83, during my vacay at the Zurich Institute for the Criminally Insane. Where I got my first lobotomy. But you know lobotomies. They're like tattoos. Can't just get one."

Monday sighed "Tell us about the Hyde."

"Ah. Olga Malacova. Jeez. She had it all. Beauty, brains, and a penchant for necrophilia. Olga was a concert pianist, until one night she transformed in the middle of a Chopin sonata. Massacred a dozen audience members. And three music critics." Fester smiled at the memory.

"What triggered her?" Wednesday asked.

"Or did she just change on her own?" Monday added.

"No idea. I only saw her in group electroshock therapy." Fester told them.

"There's never been any mention of Hydes in any outcast book. And Nevermore is reputed for having the best collection." Wednesday explained disappointed.

"You try Nathaniel Faulkner's diary?" The girls looked at him strangely "Mmm! Before he founded Nevermore, Faulkner traveled the world, cataloging every outcast community."

"How do you know this?" Monday asked.

"You think your parents can't keep their hands off each other now, oy vey. I showed up unannounced one night in Gomez's dorm room. Let's just say I wasn't interrupting a pillow fight." Fester joked.

"Uncle Fester." Monday said with a restrained laugh.

"Yeah." He replied.

"The diary, where is it?"

"Nightshades Library. Your dad parked me there and said I should settle in for a long stretch. And that's when I found this nifty little safe. I was hoping for a stash of cash or jewels but instead I found a diary."

"We'll sneak into the Nightshades Library tonight. In the meantime, lay low." Monday told Fester.

"If you are discovered, we will disown you and collect the reward tied to your capture." Wednesday assured Uncle Fester.

"I'd expect nothing less." The girls left the shack and Fester went back to trying to eat the bees.

"Leave the bees alone." They yelled.