To Catch A Cardinal

Chapter 21

*Toast's Pov*

There was a banging at the door. When I opened it Ghost was there, carrying Nycole. "Sir!" I exclaimed and helped him inside. He seemed off again but he might have been just tired.

We helped him onto the couch and Crystal helped a barly consious Nycole upstairs. He crashed on the couch and slept. Every so often he was shudder or start twitching violently but it would receed quickly. I sighed and sipped my tea. Once that was gone I made my way to my room and crashed. Sleep was just to much and it took over.

The next day my bones and body ached all over. That had felt like a proper sleep, and we never really did rest in the underworld. I made my way down stairs, it was 9:38 am. I sat down next to Crystal and Sir who had just woken up. "Hello Sir, hello Crystal." I said still kind of sleeply. They nodded, Kat had fixed breakfast of hashbrowns, eggs and bacon. We all ate jn silence untill Kat spoke up.

"So where's Nycole? She up yet?"

"No I don't think so, after this I'll go up and check" Said Ghost. We all continued to eat and once we finshed I helped Kat clean up and Ghost went upstairs to go check on Nycole.

Crystal sat on the couch upaide down on the back looking at us. "So...how do you guy's feel?" She said. We took our seats at the island we had in the kitchen that was like a bar.

"Still tired. It might take forever to get back on a normal schedule." I replied.

"I feel fine." Said Kat. "Even after being dead for...uhh a long time. I feel fine." She replied happily-ish.

Ghoast was coming down the stairs. "Hey guys...what did I miss?"

"Nothin' really. Hows Nycole?"

"Still sleeping, didn't wanna bother her. But I did find something interesting. She fell asleep with this book open." He said to us and held up what looked like to be another spell book. The cover was dark blue and had a weird symbol on it. It was 3 circles linked together so they couldn't come apart, like they where made that way. In the center there was a chain wrapping around them. The cover was peeled away some and was dusty. The pages where worn and inside the book had names written in it. Our names. All the other pages where blank. Next to each name was a date, time and action but they where smeared together making it unreadable.

"Sir what is this?" I asked slowly.

"No idea Johnny... but I'm going to go put it back..." he dashed upstairs and came back with in 3 minutes. "Did it." He said and ploped on the couch. "So now what?"

"Don't look at me." Said Crystal and she raised her hands.

We all just hung around for the rest of the day, Nycole never woke up so we let her sleep, and Crystal turned into a wolf/fox and ran away. I made my way up to my room but Ghost started twitching again. "You okay sir?" I asked.

"I'm fine Johnny, goodnight." He said and just slept on the couch, again.

"Goodnight sir." I said as I retreated to my room and sleep well once again. But during my sleep I kept waking up in the middle of the night. Something was comming or going to happen, I just knew it.