Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 27

Miranda was sitting next to Cherry's corpse, praying the best for her now tortured soul.

'I can't wait for that traitor to get what's coming to him.' Atticus thought to himself.

"Where do we go?" Mo wondered.

"I think I know..." Camryn guessed. "If I'm wrong, I apologize..." she then led a way where she strongly believed where would be the right way for them to go so they could finally stop the Darkness.

"Hopefully this is the right way." Atticus said.

"Come on!" Camryn encouraged.

Thantos found Miranda, Alex, Sabrina, and Patch in relief.

"What happened?" Miranda asked about her other daughter. "Did you find her?"

"Found her," Thantos replied. "And those friends of hers... And was barely able to escape with my life. Our worst fear has been realized, she is being controlled by The Darkness. We must seal the castle against her."

"We can't." Alex told him.

"I'm sorry, but it's our only option." Thantos said to her.

"No, you can't do that," Mo's voice said. "Because she's already here."

Alex and Miranda saw Camryn walk right over, still in her princess costume. Along with Atticus and Mo, still in their costumes as well. Thantos looked nervous for some reason to see them.

"Guys, where's Cherry?" Atticus asked.

Sabrina and Patch gave grave expressions on their faces. How could they tell Atticus that his human best friend was dead?

"Something's wrong." Mo said, having a feeling that something bad happened.

"Atticus... Mo... We're so sorry..." Sabrina walked over to them. "Cherry's dead..."

This shocked them both.

"What? N-No, it can't be true." Atticus said, surprised while sad.

"I'm sorry, Atticus..." Patch said softly. "Someone's killed Maestro Forte too, which killed her..."

This broke Atticus's heart. Cherry was his human best friend was dead. Mo frowned to Atticus and hugged him as tears escaped her eyes as well.

"Oh, guys..." Camryn frowned to them. "I'm so sorry."

Miranda then hugged Camryn, both for this reason and that now she had both her daughters. "Apolla, I'm so relieved."

"Oh, Camryn, quick, show them your drawing." Mo said, now remembering why they were there.

"F-Forgive me," Thantos quickly spoke up. "When I got to your house and was attacked, I just assumed--"

Camryn handed Miranda her picture and stood by Alex's side. Miranda took the crumbled up paper and waved her magic over it to reveal the picture Camryn drew from her childhood night terrors.

"Hey, that looks just..." Patch said before he began to growl at Thantos.

Sabrina looked too with a gasp and then narrowed her eyes to Thantos.

"You haunted her dreams!" Mo folded her arms at the warlock.

Miranda looked to her brother-in-law with a small stern look. "Question, Thantos," she walked over to him slowly. "If you never laid your eyes on the girls before, how did Apolla draw a picture of your face coming out of the Darkness the night Aron died?"

"And not a bad likeness either?" Atticus added firmly.

"Yes, please tell us, we would so love to hear your excuse." Patch growled.