Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 19

They went to the Fielding house, after Alex set her stuff down, she went to get a bowl of water for Patch to lap from. Camryn was talking about her house and how to get into it despite not being a rich girl like herself for her sister and new friends.

"Oh, I'm not going anywhere near that place until we're sure we can defeat the Darkness." Alex said once she found the right sized bowl for a puppy.

"Would you get real?" Camryn deadpanned as Alex was about to go to the sink. "It wouldnt' stand a chance against us. Have you not seen what we can do? I pity the poor ghoulie-ghoulie that tries to take us out."

"Camyrn, take this serious." Atticus said.

"I'm serious, I'm ready for anything, bring it on!" Camryn challenged.

Cherry groaned, nearly falling to her knees, holding her stomach and tears leaked from her eyes from the pain. Suddenly, there was a loud crash noise and the Darkness had come through the window!

"GUYS!" Camryn screamed for help.

"Come on, this way!" Alex led them to a safe part of the house.

Right behind you!" Patch called out, following her.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Camryn shrieked as they tried to avoid The Darkness.

As they began to go up the stairs, the Darkness grabbed Camyrn by her left ankle.

Camryn screamed as the Darkness got her. "ALEX!!!"

Alex sent the others away and held out her hand. "Here, take my hand!"

Their powers combined as they grabbed hands and the Darkness seemed to instantly fade away, but still spread throughout the house and knocked the electricity out.

"Quick, keep running, it's still spreading!" Patch called out.

"In here!" Alex took them all into a room.

Cherry rushed as she made it in with the others and as soon as they were in, Sabrina leaned against the now shut door.

"What was that!?" Camryn gasped.

"What do you think that was!?" Sabrina glared to her. "That's the thing that ate my aunts and cat!"

"Listen, we have to find a way to defeat that thing once and for all." Patch said.

The twins started to argue, blaming each other for this mess.

'Girls!' a voice called.

Karsh and Illeana appeared in front of them as they were in a different civilization now.

"Girls, this is not the time for you to be fighting," Ileana said to them. "You should consider yourselves lucky to be alive. Even money said you wouldn't make it."

Karsh nodded in agreement.

"They're right, girls, we really are lucky to be alive." Cherry said to the twins.

"Wow." Mo was surprised that Cherry was mature about that saying.

Camryn had a rant about being lucky to be alive. "No, this was supposed to be fun!" she argued. "You know, magic and sparkles, castles and unicorns... And now we're lucky to be alive? So not what I signed up for!"

"Yeah, okay..." Karsh ignored that. "We're gonna go."

"We're just heading out..." Ileana added nervously.

The two then disappeared after turning their backs.

"Oh, no, you don't!" Atticus yelled. "Get back here, you two!"