Prometheus

Chapter 25: RATs with Wings

Chapter 25: RATs with Wings

Flint sat in the middle of his room with the remains of Philip's journal in front of him, random portions of the pages restored. His efforts at restoring the journal had been relatively unsuccessful. The restored pages were actually all entries that Disney had already played back. He'd found that knowing the information on them already acted as an anchor for him, allowing him to use his magic to restore the pages. He had yet to figure out how to restore completely new entries, but it was better than nothing at least.

Flint scoffed as he looked at Disney, who had hidden away in his terrarium. "Stupid Disney and making us have to rely on a damn rat," Flint grumbled.

Flint was also, understandably, more than a little pissed at Hooty at the moment. The bird-tube had ended up swallowing Disney at one point and traumatized him. However, Flint's anger at that moment probably hadn't done them any favors either.

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Luz could be seen pulling up the blanket to a bed, looking under it with something held in her other hand.

"Come on, little buddy. You got portal info that we need." Luz said carefully. She pulls out a carrot with an eye on it and held it out. "You want a carrot? Does baby like carrots?"

Disney the Echo Mouse was cowering on the other side, shaking as it let out some scared chattering. After Luz offers the carrot, the mouse hesitantly approaches.

Luz backs up as Disney comes out of hiding, placing the carrot in her lap as the mouse follows. The mouse runs onto her lap to eat the offering.

"Here we go. It's okay. See, you're safe here." Luz said soothingly.

The mouse was safe...for all of three seconds as Hooty swoops in out of nowhere and eats it in one fell gulp, causing Luz to look on in a combination of horror and fury.

"Fear not, maiden! Hooty, the guardian owl of Ga'Hoot, has protected you once more!" Hooty declared. "GA'HOOOOOOOOT!"

Luz stared at Hooty for a moment as her eye twitched. She took a deep breath before exhaling, attempting to temper herself. Luz took a deep breath and yelled.

"FLIIIIIIIIINNNTTT!!!" Luz called.

CRASH

The windowed wall to their room now sported a Flint-shaped hole (including a spot for his tail) as Flint now stood behind Luz.

"What happened?" Flint said, his voice laced with concern.

Luz pointed at Hooty, still holding her rage (barely). "Hooty just swallowed Disney."

As Flint's head turned slowly to face Hooty, his body creaking loudly as if it were a door in a horror movie, his pupils glowing dangerously as he glared at the infernal house demon.

Hooty, for once, actually seemed to look genuinely terrified as the part-human stared him down, feeling the overwhelming feeling of violence that the boy was radiating.

"You shall pay for your insolence," Flint growled out, surging forward and forcing Hooty's mouth open and going inside to retrieve the mouse.

"AGH! HOT! HOOOOOT!" Hooty screeched, as Flint clawed through the house demon's body, his hands lit with flames as he searched for the mouse.

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