To Catch A Cardinal

Chapter 12

(!!Warning!! If you don't like lots of blood and stuff like that.. well its here, so yeah...be careful. Enjoy!?)

*Toast's Pov*

The long walk down the never ending castle was killing me. We had found 7 more crystals and had wound up battling it out with a couple of ghosts for them. They didnxt die they just gave up.

Nycole had a look of pure determination on her face. She couted up the crystals. "I think we need one more guy's and then we will be done." She said. She never had told us what they where for, but, we just went with it. A life time ago I would have never thought this would have happened, but over the years I had just accepted this kind of crazy.

Suddenly a crystal was floating infront of my face. I stopped and just watched it being waved in my face. I grabbed it but it was tugged out of my hand. "Uhhhh Nycole?" I asked she shook her head.

"You think I know the answer to that witchcraft?" She said. The crystal floated and began to scratch words into the red brick wall. I slowly read it out loud.

"Hey....Johnny.....Here is.....the last....crystal...." I said out loud. Nycole scrambled from her still stone position and dug all the crystals out of her pocket. She began to crawl around on the floor tapping it and placing crystal it some spots. The floating crystal dropped from mid air but Nycole was suddenly there to catch it. She carefully placed the last crystal on the floor creating a perfect circle.

"Sit." She said and pointed at the air. Nothing happened untill she was happy with something then moved. "Toast sit in the circle. And wait till you feel a presence on your back. And sit up right too." I stepped inside the ring of carefully placed crystals and did as I was told.

"Nycole, what is the meaning of this?" I asked. But she looked dangerously close to very focused and mad. She took a deep breath.

"You want Johnny back or not?" She said stright foward to me. I shut my mouth and thought to myself. Is this how we can get Johnny back? I felt something or someone lean on my back but stayed the way I was. Jimmy stayed back and watched. Nycole waved her hand and the crystals glowed purple. I felt myself beginning to grow sleepy but forced myself to stay awake. Then Nycole shouted something but a buzzing had filled my head. I had blacked out.

*In A Dream-like State*

The black air filled the nothing as far as I could see. There, off to my left was a lifeless looking Johnny. I shouted to him but no sounds could be heard. I swam over to where he was throughout the inky blackness. I grabbed his wrist and pulled him up with me through the black inky goo that was clear. (I know weird wording but just try to imagine that.) I bumped into a barrier of some kind. I punched it and it broke like glass. I heaved Johnny out first and then myself. We where ontop of the ink goo thing, I could see through it but it was black.

Johnny lay motion less but I just knew he wasn't dead. His skin had black markings all over him. Starting from his hands and feet to his arms and legs. Even his face had the black twisted markings. I sat down next to him and waited. For some reason I thought he would just wake up, and he did, eventually.

He sat up and rubbed his eye's. "Hey. Who are you? Where am I?"
"I don't know Johnny."

"Is that my name?"

"Yes."

"Can I trust you?"

"Yes."

"Who are you?"

"Your partner. But we can worry about that later." His face lit up, and he smiled.

"Oh hi Johnny!" He said.