Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 8

Cherry heard a ringing, she put her hand in her pocket and took out the moon crystal ball she was given. Patch took the ball in his mouth and went under the seat, hiding behind Cherry's legs, he then pushed the moon crescent on the ball as an image of Drell came up.

"Ugh..." Drell noticed the dog slobber, but then looked back to Patch. "How's it going so far, Blotch?"

"It's Patch and it's good, we've found Alex and are hopefully going to reunite her with Camyrn while she's looking for a job." Patch whispered.

"Good to know..." Drell nodded.

"By the way, couldn't you have given us costumes?" Patch quickly asked. "Cherry feels really uncomfortable in her regular clothes."

"Costumes?" Drell asked, almost as if he's never heard of such a thing, but then quickly remembered what Skippy once taught him. "Oh, that's right, you mortals dress up on All Hallow's Eve..." he then hit himself on the forehead. "I forgot about that..."

"It's alright, it's just Cherry seems to feel comfortable when she's wearing a costume on Halloween." Patch whispered.

"Very well..." Drell folded his arms. "What does she wanna be?"

"Just something not too pink or dressy." Patch replied, he did not know what Cherry wanted her costume to be, but he knew that she would have a major meltdown if she wore pink or a dress.

"I'll talk with her after you two reunite Apolla and Artemis." Drell gave a firm nod. "Just beware of more dangers that someone released..."

"What?" Patch looked at him.

"Nothing, I need to go!" Drell then raised his hand and signed off from the crystal ball.

"I have a feeling that this might be a little more challenging." Patch whispered. He then grabbed the ball in his mouth and gave it back to Cherry.

Cherry winced at the saliva. "Yuck!" she then put her sleeve over her hand and wiped the ball to get the drool off.

"I can't help it, I'm a dog..." Patch said to her quietly.

"I know..." Cherry said as she put the ball back in her pocket and held it in her hands in her pockets. "It was Drell, wasn't it?"

"Yeah, just checking in, though I have a bad feeling we have to face more than just the Darkness." Patch said to her.

"Oh, what could possibly go wrong?" Cherry shrugged it off.

"Yeah, you're probably right." Patch smiled.

They tried to enjoy the rest of the bus ride with no problems. Cherry didn't mean to complain, but she just felt strange without a costume on. She hoped she would be able to get one soon. Patch looked out the window, hoping to see Camyrn soon. He looked to a car that was driving next to the bus and saw two girls with Atticus and Mo in the backseat. He saw that one of the girls in the front had curly black hair with light brown skin. That must have been Camyrn!

The bus then drove another way different than the car, but hopefully, Alex and Camryn would still reunite, fulfilling their destiny to help destroy the Darkness and find out where they truly came from. As Camryn walked down the street with her friends, the bus was pulling up and the people were filing out, Cherry hiding Patch in her jacket once again.

"Camyrn's out there, we have to make sure Alex sees her." Patch whispered.

Cherry nodded, letting him out as soon as they got off the bus. Alex looked to the paper of the want ad to find the location of her interview. Camyrn was looking at new belts for sale with Atticus and Mo who noticed Alex with Cherry and Patch. This was all going according to plan and luckily, they didn't spill anything out that they didn't need to, at least not yet.