The ghouls and the little hooman

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"I DON'T WANT HIM HERE!! HE STINKS!!" The childish over engergetic Dewdrop yelled. The Emeritus' were going out and hired Copia's ghouls to babysit Leviathan. Dewdrop was angry, like a child with sibling rivalry. The small skinny ghoul stomped his foot and growled at the thought of a small human around him.
"Dewdrop, relax! He won't bite. Hes only a baby. What harm can he do?" The tall female ghoulette cradled Leviathan in her arms and held him up to allow him to play with her horns.
"Oh gee let's see, pull my tail, break a horn, shit or piss on the floor?!"
"Bud, he doesn't have the strength to do any of the first two things you just listed. He's almost 2." The big muscular Aether stated. He cuts some little carrots to put into the blender. He's the type that wants to put a healthy diet into anybodys stomach. "Whatever. I hate human children." Dewdrops tail whips around like a irritated cat. He growls under his breath.
Cirrus roles her eyes and carries Lev to the couch where her wife, Cumulus was at.
"That gremlin needs to chill for at least 5 minutes." The thicker ghoulette mumbled flipping through the channels of the tv. "Don't worry about it. We have the star of the show!" Cirrus holds The small papa iii look-alike in front of her before he giggles. The giggle cracks a smile on cumulus. Cirrus places him on the couch and gives him a basket full of pet toys from when the ghouls were just little kits. "Um... the toys may not be so human like but im sure you dont care, right?" Lev decides to go through the basket. He picks out a worn down teddy bear for dogs. (Keep in mind that ghoul kits play like cats and dogs)
"Awww. That was my favorite teddy as a kit. Lev smiles and looks up at cirrus for aproval. "Yeah, you can play with it." Lev hugs the teddy and flops back onto the backrest of the couch. Cirrus goes to put the basket back to its usual spot. He and Cumulus just chill there for a while until his luch was ready.
"Leviathan! Rain! lunchies!" Aether shouts from the kitchen. Cumulus swoops Lev into the air like he was taking flight. She pressed leviathans cheek against her mouth and gives him little kisses before placing him in his high chair. Aether brings over a small bowl of blended fruits and veggies. Aether sits facing him.
"Ok, buddy. Wanna become big and strong like me? Aether shows off the mustles bulging in the tight sleaves of his button up shirt. Leviathan cracks up. "Or do you wanna be a skinny little meanie like Dewdrop over there?"
"Fuck you." Dewdrop snickered at Leviathan. "LANGUAGE!" Aether snapped at the ignorant pest, startling Leviathan. "Aww it's ok, buddy. That wasn't for you." Aether comforted the boy while dewdrop got up and walked away. Rain walked in the kitchen. He was the youngest one. He was more of a sensitive crybaby so you could imagine what goes on between him and dewdrop. He was in little space at the moment so he can communicate with Leviathan with his younger personality.
"Your nuggets are on the counter. Eat up." Aether announced while preparing the first spoonful of Leviathans lunch.
Rain takes a seat directly across from the baby so he can see as he eats. Rain quietly observed while he ate his chicken nuggets. Lev was taking the food like no problem, until he decided to playfully spit in Aethers face. Leviathan laughs while Aether groaned. "Bro, you got some in my eye, man!" Lev laughs at the comment. "Oh that's real funny huh. Do that to dewdrop next time." Aether went to wash his face. Leviathan takes the bowl and scoops a handful of the blended goop with his hand and smushes it into his mouth. He too was a mess. It was now on his bib, his face, even somehow in his hair. Rain giggles at Leviathans messy eating technique. "Use the spoon, silly. Rain points to the small plastic spoon. Lev takes the spoon with the remains on it and throws it towards dewdrops direction, hitting him on the head. "Nice shot!" Aether was impressed by Leviathans aim.
Dewdrop was definitely ready to kill the child. Thankfully swiss was behind him and grabbed him, holdin him back. "Let me at him! The little demon threw that at me!" "Oh, like YOU'RE any better. Leviathan's an angel compaired to you. And that's coming from a satanic ghoul!" Dewdrops frail flailing limps are getting nothing on swiss's strength.
"Concider it punishment for throwing the F-bomb! Aether stated from the kitching, cleaning Leviathan off. Lev squinted his face when aether almost got  lysol wipe fluid in his eye. "Oops, sorry bud." Aether looker over to the bowl. "Hey at least you ate your food. Good job!" Aether gave Leviathan a thumbs up. Lev, clapped with joy.
After aether was finished cleaning the messes, he placed Leviathan down and let him wander around.
His first place to go was towards the ghoulettes room. He ran down the halls of the cathedral. He suprizingly knew his way around the place, for the small child. But he got distracted. He noticed a room that gave him alot of interest. He simply pushed the giant door open to reveal that he was at Papa Emeritus Nihils office. He is sitting at his desk, doing paperwork. Does he ever retire?
The door creaks which draws his attention.
Grandpa Nihils face lit up with joy when he saw the small figure at the threshold.
"Well, hello there! What are you doing here, Leviathan?"
"G-goolets...goolets.. Goolets!"
"Ooh. You want to see the Ghoulettes?"
Leviathan jumps with joy and runs down the hall. Leaving Papa confused.
"Huh. I guess he knows the way." Papa chuckled to himself and got back to writing his work.
Leviathan, leaving tiny little echos from his running feet. He was about to turn a corner when he fell foward and hit his knee. Leviathan was startled at the fact that he was suddenly on the ground with an aching knee. He began to cry. He was alone in the hallways but his little cries were loud enough to attract someones attention. Suddenly a tall figure in black and green robes was hovering over the small child. He almost looked scary to Leviathan but he knew who it was. It was his uncle, Papa ii.
"Who let you wander around the halls? You could end up in the wrong hands, you know. What happened, by the way?"
"Boo-boo." Leviathan pointed to his left knee. There was a spot of dirt on it.
"Oh I see." The almost always miserable looking Pope nodded. He looked like the type that wouldn't give 2 shits about a small crying child. Ironically, his scary features could protect small children from... the wrong kind of priests.
He lifted the child up and carried him into his own office. Leviathan calmed down now that he knew he wasn't alone.
Jared placed him on his office desk and went to the bottom drawer. He pulled out bandaids, rubbing alcohol, and a cotton ball. Papa placed the items next to leviathan and began to roll up his pant leg sleeve. He knee showed a red spot but no blood.
"Not bleeding. Good. Now for safe precautions, we are going to wash the wound with a cotton ball first." He said as he unscrewed the cap of the bottle of alchohol and placed the cotton ball on the top. He tilted it so the fluid would just touch the cotton. The scary-yet-friendly-to-small-children pope gently dabbed the cotton ball onto his knee. Leviathan felt a tiny sting and whimpered but it faded before he thought he was gonna cry again.
Papa then kissed his knee and placed the band-aid on his knee.
"Better?" Leviathan swung his leg back and forth to test it.
"Bettwer." Leviathan replied.
"Good. Now can you tell me where you came from, little one?"
Leviathan pointed to out the door.
"Goolies." Papa knew what this meant. The ghouls left the new generation of ghost all by himself! Leviathan could've tried climbing a flight of stairs and fall back to his death, or he could've knocked something over and get crushed to death! Even worse, he would've went outside and gotten abducted! Papa became angry but kept his cool around the boy. He didn't want his nephew to fear his own uncle. He lifted up the boy and took a little walk with him back to the ghouls.
"Where were you headed to, my nephew?"
"Gooletes."
"Ah. You wanted to see the ghoulettes?"
"Yesh."
"Ok. I will drop you off at the ghouletes. How's that?" Jared gave him a little boop on the nose with his black gloved hand. Leviathan giggled. Jared shared a slight smile. His nephew reminded him of when he grew up with his younger brother that would bother him to play with him all the time. He remembered his younger brother at around Leviathan's age, even at such an old state.
Once Leviathan made it safely to the ghoulettes place, jared knocked on the door. Cumulus answered.
"O-oh! Papa! What brings you here?"
"Care to explain why our future generation of ghost was all by himself in the halls of the church? He hurt his knee and cried awfully loud."
Cumulus got nervous. Even though he was last with Aether.
"My goodness i'm so sorry I didn't know! He was last with Aether when we left!"
"Ah. Very well then. Thank you for the information. He wanted to see you so I thought I'd be his free Uber at the time being." The visibility but calmly angered pope understood and handed over the boy. "Thank you for finding him papa."
"Hm." Papa said, already marching down the halls. His next stop was the ghouls.
Papa pounded on the door. He was going to punish whoever left his only nephew in a dangerous place, even though he just hurt his knee. It definitely could've been worse.
"Oh H-hello papa. What's up?" The nervous beefed up ghoul gave a nervous laugh. Ghouls apparently feared this man.
"Yes, hello, care to explain why my nephew was all by himself in the corridors unsupervised? He hurt his knee and he was lucky I just happend to be around when I heard his cries.
"We are so sorry, sir, w-we didn't hear him." Aether was now shaking.
"Oh...I thought ghouls had good hearing... YOU FOOLS!!"
Aether fell backwords from his wave of hollars. Jared picked up the muscular ghoul and pinned him to the wall. And to think that aether would be a bit heavy to lift.
"HE COULD'VE DIED FROM AN ACCIDENT, YOU NEGLETIVE EXCUSE FOR THE BABYSITTER!! IF THIS HAPPENS AGAIN, I PERSONALLY WILL SHOVE MY STAFF UP YOUR ASS AND DISPLAY YOUR BODY OUTSIDE THE CHURCH LIKE VLADIMIR TEPES IN ROMANIA!!!
Papa was out of breath.
"Do I make myself... Clear."
"Y-yes sir I'm sorry!! It won't happen again I promise."
"Good. Get out of my sight." He dropped Aether to the ground and marched down the hall.
Aether sure as hell won't forget this.
"Goodjob, dipshit." Dewdrop smirked at Aether.
"Shut up! Just be lucky it wasn't your scrawny ass!"
"Sure thing, aeth."
"Omg he looks so cute!" Cirrus, squealed showing off her cheapy homemade papa costume for Leviathan. He was wearing a paper mitre with the grucifix symbol drawn in crayon.
(To be continued)

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