Monsters and mundanes 5

5.16 Living sister

Nellie is standing in front of Sarah alone in the theatre.
"Elvis is your real brother, not mine. He never was my real brother. But you can't take him. And you have no right to kill me for getting to know your brother. If you wanted to stop me you should have done that before I turned" Nellie says and her eyes start glowing red.
"I know you're not his real sister. The problem is he doesn't seem to realize that" Sarah walks closer to her going around her in a circle.
"I didn't make him call me his sister. That was his choice!" Nellie says getting angry. Sarah stands still and screams at Nellie.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!" She tears with her claws at Nellie's throat making her bleed a little. Nellie puts her hand on her throat and backs up as Sarah picks up her sword. Nellie closes her eyes and thinks as hard as she can and just as Sarah is about to hit Nellie with the sword R catches it with an iron pipe and pushes her sword back. Elvis and Aiden runs in and sees Sarah struggling to try and hit Nellie with the sword. They slowly start to see a silhouette of R. Sarah strength is out of control and a thunder bolt hits the grass at the back of the theatre. Jack, Elliot, Hector and Leo look over at the lightning in fear. Elliot turns to Jack.
"If it was me, you'd know!" Jack defends himself. "I may have shit my pants but I didn't do that!" he points at where the lightning hit where there's now a fire spreading into the theatre. R's iris turns white and both Aiden and Elvis can now see the whole R in color. Aiden runs over and before Sarah has time to reacts he gets down on the floor and cuts Sarah's ankles with his claws making her lose the grip a little bit and step back. R runs out with Nellie to the hallway and when Sarah tries to go after them Elvis grabs her around the waist, putting his claws in her side and throws her back on the floor.

R and Nellie sits down in the little hallway outside.
"Nellie, you have to heal" R says and looks at her throat.
"It hurts too much" Nellie whispers with a raspy voice. R puts his hand on the side of her face and places his forehead against hers and closes his eyes. He whines from the pain and Nellie's throat slowly heals. He opens his eyes and takes his forehead away from hers as he breaths heavily with one hand on his throat. Aiden comes out to them and kneels down in front of Nellie on the floor.
"Are you okay?" he asks worriedly. Nellie tries to say something but not a sound comes out. Aiden turns to R who's still visible with white glowing eyes.
"She's gone silent. She can only talk to me because she can talk to me through her mind. But I can't stay visible for long" R explains and turns to Aiden.
"Will she be silent forever?" he asks.
"No. Only until she's healed properly. A couple days, maybe a month." R says and turns back to Nellie.
"It's nice to finally see you." Aiden says kindly. R looks at him as if he was stupid.
"I've always hated you." he says simply.
"I know."
"And I still do." he riminds him.
"That's fair. I deserve that." Aiden nods.
"Yeah you do."
"You have to get Nellie out of the theatre. I'll call for the rest of both prides. We're gonna have to fight his sister and her pet" Aiden stands up again and Nellie follows R out of the theatre. Aiden takes the stairs up as high as he can. He climbs out through one of the windows and climbs on the outside of the theatre all the way to the top. Jack looks at him from the lawn where he's standing with the others. Aiden stands on the top of the theatre and roars calling the rest of the prides. Sarah lets go of Elvis and smiles to herself when she hears Aiden. She touches the wall setting fire to it and then she walks up the stairs all around the theatre setting fire to everything, closing Aiden in.

Another car arrives to the theatre and Archimedes and Richie gets out of the backseat.
"I saw the smoke and figured this might be bigger than we thought so I brought some friends" Richie says and Sandy and Cate comes out of the front seat.
"Thank you" Elliot says and smiles at Arkie. Jack, Sandy and Leo walks up to Nellie when she comes out of the theatre with R no longer visible.
"Nellie, what is happening?" Jack asks putting his hand on her shoulder. Nellie tries to speak again but can't.
"Don't try it. Send him a text instead" R says and Nellie goes to his car to get her phone and textx him.
"Sarah tried to kill me. Made me silent by cutting my throat. Elvis and Aiden are inside" Jack reads out loud so everyone can hear. Sandy steps up on a big rock.
"Soemeone will have to stay out here to protect Nellie. Arkie and Leo, stay with her. The rest of us separate to two groups and fins Aiden and Elvis. Boys if you see anything, howl" she looks at Archimedes and Leo and they nod.

When they have all split up Sarah finds Hector first in the basement. He turns to a lion and jumps at her. She punches him into the wall and sets fire to his mane that soon spreads to burning his whole body. After a while the rest of the pride comes out to Leo, Arkie and Nellie. Nellie walks up to Elvis and signs at him worriedly. He doesn't understand what she means.
"Where's Aiden?" Leo clarifies. They look around but Aiden is nowhere to be seen. Elvis looks up at the windows and sees Aiden's hand against the windowpane. Nellie tries to run to the theatre but Elvis turns to them.
"HOLD HER!!" he shouts and Elliot wraps his arms around her holding her back. She wants to scream back can't and she tries to get out of Elliot's grip but he holds her tight not letting her go anywhere. Elvis looks up toward the theatre trying to find the fastest and safest way in. When he has figured it out he runs away and climbs up outside the theatre and then he breaks one of the windows to get inside. He waks around looking for Aiden as he tries to avoid the fire and the falling parts of the house. He doesn't want to make a sound, scared that Sarah might find him before he finds Aiden. He gets to the room where Aiden put his hand on the window and sees Aiden laying passed out on the floor because of the fire smoke. Elvis picks him up and takes him out of the thatre as fast as he can before he too passes out because of the smoke.

When he gets out he lays Aiden down on the lawn and the rest of the pride walks up to them. Elvis tries to wake him up but i's useless.
"There's too much smoke in his lungs" Elliot points out.
"Jack, call Nancy and tell her her son is dying" Elvis orders and Jack walks away to call Nancy.

A while later Nellie is sitting in the backseat of Nancy's car with Aiden laying in her lap with a mask on his face. Nellie strokes his hair with tears in her eyes as he slowly opens his eyes. Nancy takes them to the vet clinic where Aiden can lay in peace and quiet and rest.