To Catch A Cardinal

Chapter 20

(I accidentally skiped a chapter/put chapter 17 twice so this should be 20... yeah sorry.... also I want to know if I should make a new book or continue this one! Leave a comment! Thanks!)

*Ghost's Pov*

The air was cool and the concrete was hard, it always was, and everybody seemed to love pushing me to the ground and making me faceplant and get a nose bleed. Typical life for me.

Toast, Kat, Elza and Danica had all woken up. Toast was just getting up but Kat had her daggers out and had Elza and Danica in a deathly head lock.

"So, what do we do with them?" She asked.

"The basement they go." I said. We had landed on the road to our house, and after walking the mile to get there we locked them up as soon as we got there. We left them and all ploped on the couch, something I had never thought I would see again. My stomach growled. "Hey toast can you whip us up some food? I'm starving!"

"Me too." Said Kat. I stood up and had just remembered something really important, Nycole hadn't come back with us. I raced up to my room put on some new clothes and was about to dash down stairs when a hand grabbed my shoulder.

"Johnny!" Screamed Crystal. "Your back! I missed you all! What took you so long! I had given up on you! I thoguht you where all dead!" She screamed. I took a look at her again. Her tail had vanished but her ears where still there. She bear hugged me but stepped back and took a look at my face. "Whats wrong?"

"Nycole didn't come back with us, I'm going back to find her."

"Oh well I'm coming with you!" She said as we walked down stairs to the others. I grabbed a flashlight off of the counter and turned to hrab the door handle but Toast caught me in my tracks.

"Sir? Where are you going?"

"To find Nycole, she didn't come back with us."

"And I'm going with!" Piped up Crystal.

"No, no your not, I'm going alone and for other reasons as well."

"Oh... are you sure I can't come with? I want to go with, you haven't been around for 7 years!" I nodded sadly teling her she couldn't come with. "Oh okay then but take a bit of food."

She walked over and handed me the croissant Toast had just made. I held it in my hand, it was warm like her hands. I turned once again and opened the door and went outside to go back and look for her, the girl I think I liked.

The night sky held thousands of stars, and the moon was full. I was thinking about what Crystal had said, we had been gone for 7 years, I didn't feel older at all, still 21. Maybe time passed differently in hell.

I cast my gaze down, I had felt it slowly nawing at me and trying to take over, insanity. I suddenly felt sick, like I was going to throw up. My body suddenly gave off convulsions, I bent down with my hand on my head and on my knees facing the ground. My eyes started to shake, I stood up shakly and crawled/ walked over to the side of the road.

An immense pain spread over my body in shock waves. I felt awful. A look of terror spread across my face, a piercing pain spread throughout me and I collasped to the cold wet ground.

A figure ripped the back of my sink off, or thats what it felt like. Dark clouds emerged from me, three of them, they hovered over me. They all murged into one person and took a human form. It looked alot like Jimmy and me.

The guy stood up shakly and took a look at me. "Hey, are...are you okay?" He asked quietly. I groaned back. He fumbled a bit but tried to help me stand. I let all of my body weight rest on him, even though he had just come out of me and was most likly a demon I needed his help. My flashlight hung loosely in my hand but strength started to return to me. I gripped it better.

I stood up using the kid and a nearby tree for support. "Ar-are you okay?" He asked again.

"Yes, I'm fine." I slured my words abit but he didn't notice. I stumbled foward and waved goodbye to him, I needed to get away from him and find Nycole.

"Uhh can... can I know your name?" He called after me.

I turned around. "It's Johnny Ghost..."

"Oh my names Sea. Glad I could help." He said as he stood there akwardly watching me walk skidishly away.

"I feel like I should know him..." I mumbled but I kept going. Up ahead was where we had landed. I was feeling better now and walked around the area for a long time. I finally found something. A huge sword with broken branches laying around it. Nycole was around. I looked up and there she hanged, across two thick branches. Her mouth was bleeding and a small pool of it had gathered on the ground. I tried to pick up the sword but it was no use, it was too heavy for me, but she made it look so easy!

I picked up a branch and tossed it up at her, it smacked her in the face and she woke up with a start, and fell though the tree.

I ran over and caught her in my arms and put her on the ground. "Hey are you okay?" I asked.

"I'm fi...." but she lost consciousness. I picked her up and we made our way back to the house, I was so tried but yet relief washes over me as we made our way home for the first time in 7 years...