My Life As Stacey Green.

Chapter 12

"Holy crap," Bob announced,"your keys were proper freaking me out, I thought that the crazy bird had found me." He was shivering on my shoulder, the Lazerous was hot on our heels. Terry and Cecil were foolish enough to be waiting outside the tent, probably wanting to get their tarot cards checked or something. Whilst Lizard Lazzelle was trying to murder us. Swiping its malevolent claws here and there and gnashing its menacing teeth. Bob yowled as I shoved him into my jacket. Sam looked petrified. He held onto my hand for dear life and attempted to pull me to safety. People from the crowds screamed and ducked and ran for miles, it wasn't exactly your perfect shopping trip with a giant reptile trying to kill everyone, not perfect at all. I stopped dead in the middle of a deserted road. A young teenage boy stood there in the middle of the road, Sam and the others had left my side. Worry was filling me up like a helium balloon. He was dressed in shabby striped pajamas and had tousled black hair, he held an umbrella, that was made of paper? Words scratched onto there and the heavy rustling of the umbrella was enough to nearly drive me mad. But hey, it wasn't raining. Blood poured down onto the umbrella and the boy beckoned me, no, I would not go. I might die or get hurt, probably the latter. I gulped. Sam pulled me out of the trance. "What were you doing!? Terry has been captured, come on!" He heaved and pulled me along towards Cecil. Cecil looked very distressed in deed. "Terry, he's gone." Cecil stammered. "Can't you get him back! With your dumb magic!?" Sam hissed throwing a stone at him. "Excuse me!" Cecil yelled grabbing Sam by the neck and thrusting him into a wall, just from this we could see Cecil's immense strength. I gulped. "As much as I find your bitch fight funny we must find the ginger ninja and that crazy lady and rescue some people and look bad ass whilst doing though!" Bob exclaimed, shocking everyone. Who the hell taught my cat to be such a bad ass? Sam nodded weakly. "I care about Terry as much as you do, probably more, but don't you ever call my magic dumb or I swear I'll turn you into a flipping pigeon." Cecil exclaimed and pointed his finger menacingly at Sam's throat. "Okay!" Sam pleaded before being dropped onto the floor. "Did the Lazerous disappear after that?" I asked dumbly. "Yes. And she's probably taken him to the orphanage. Or perhaps the deepest depths of hell." Cecil shuddered, he looked at me with a sense of worry I didn't understand. I broke away from his gaze because I felt my cheeks glower. I gave Sam my hand to help him up, but he refused, probably not wanting to be helped by an 'inferior' a sudden wave of anger passed over me but dissolved almost immediately. He pulled me close to him and whispered, "Your not coming with us, it's too..." I cut him off. "Yeah I am," I raised an eyebrow,"I am not being a damsel in distress, I am coming with you." Cecil flounced over. "Yah, she's coming with us. What would we do without Stacey, she is a great fighter and can see the deceased and understand ghosts and demons without any experience. And Lord knows what else she can do. Girl, she's coming with us." Cecil was evidently pushing Sam's buttons. Sam sighed grumpily. "If she gets hurt its your fault arse hole."

I'M A BARBIE GIRL IN A BARBIE WORLD, I'M FANTASTIC AND PLASTIC.
Someone phone yowled. "Oh let me get that." Sam flushed in embarrassment. "It was a dare from Braydon, so don't judge." He looked at caller ID. "Let me take this." He skulked off and began talking to someone. "You want to earwig, don't you?" Cecil asked wickedly. "No!" I replied blushing. "Come on, go do it he's your 'very special friend' go!" I scowled and poked my tongue out and followed Sam sneakily into a random house. I his behind a bookshelf. He was one of those people who annoyingly paces the floor when he's on the phone. So that meant I had to change my hiding place about 5 times. I his behind the oven in the kitchen and this was when I was finally in ear shot. Sam put it on loud speaker.....

"I have a deal for you Samuel." Said a familiar voice.
"What is it master?"
"It comes at a heavy price though,"
"Anything to keep Stacey safe."
"You join me and plot against them and Stacey is left virtually unharmed."
"No! What do you mean by 'virtually'? That can mean anything!"
"You want Stacey to be safe don't you."
"Not if she is virtually unharmed. If you touch her you'll be dead."
"Please Samuel, remember everything I've ever done for you."
"List them then!"
"Faking your 'one and onlys' death,"
*Silence*
"Yeah you do, don't you. She loves you and now you go behind her back with Stacey, poor Jade..."
"She loved me as much as she loved her.... Umm..... Her parents!"
"She had no parents if you remember Samuel."
"She resented the people who looked after her, they abused her and used her as a slave."
"Do you wish to speak to her?"
"Yes."
"I'll leave the room so you can talk."
"SAM!"
"Jade."
"Help me please, she has me here. She won't let me free. She faked my death and tortured information out of me about the chosen one. Is it true you and Stacey?" Hurt was clear in Jade's voice now reduced to a pitiful whisper.
"Umm, I'm sorry but yes."
"How could you, y...."
"I know don't remind me."
*Crying*
"Jade I'm sorry."
"Ellie was right you when she said you only bring me tears."
"Like I said I'm sorry, I thought you were dead."
"Really, you believed Lazzelle?"
"No, but maybe, yes I did."
"Then your more stupid then I thought."
"No Jade please, Cecil Simone the famous sorcerer asked me to keep her safe,"
"So you kiss her to gain her trust?"
"No."
"Yes you did. Don't talk to me again Sam, I thought I could trust you, I told you everything, you were my everything. And all that false hope. Good riddance to Stacey, if she doesn't end up crying in the end."
"No babe please."
"Don't you even dare, we are done, through, over."
BEEEEEP.

Sam was hung up on. Anger and resentment more powerful than anything i have ever experienced washed over me. I stormed in, startling Sam. I was speechless with anger, a tear fell down my cheek. "So I meant nothing to you?" I hissed. "And who's that Ellie girl?" I was glowering and magenta in the face. "Stacey, please." Sam begged, he was crying for the first time in front of me. "I don't know what too say." I whimpered before gloomily walking away.
I walked until I found an abandoned street, empty except from a man with an umbrella... Which was odd because it wasn't raining. Although he was standing under a light, albeit a dim one, shadows seem to cling to his figure. And then I realised. He was made out of shadows. Charcoal black shadows clung to him as if trying to suffocate him with them. Tentacles of pure darkness twisted and swirled around his feet. His umbrella was made out of paper with writing on it, as if they were diary entries, some were rushed, some were in different languages. But his smile unnerved me the most. His smile was of a man who had lost everything and was gripping to the last wisps of his sanity. His smile was one of a murderer.  Suddenly it started raining, hammering down onto the pavement. I refocused on the creature and noticed that crimson red drops of blood splattered onto his umbrella staining the pages and the dripping onto the concrete floor. Quickly, I held my hand out in front of me. No blood, it must just be a trick of the light. I watched as the figure gestured to my hands and I saw, horrified, that they were spattered with the same Crimson red blood that was on the Shadowed Mans umbrella. Whispers chanted, 'murderer', 'killer', 'innocent victims'. They were right. People had died for me. Innocent people. My hands shook and I made up my mind. I would find Terry. I started running to the end of the street, full of determination. I took one last look at the shadowed man who wore a smile, his eyes conveyed a message saying that it would not be the last time that I saw him. I tore my eyes away from his figure and ran into the darkness.
"I'm coming to find you Terry"

Authors Note
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