The Life and Times of Louie Duck - Book 1

Chapter 7 - "Let's go save Mom and Dad." - Hope

Stupid.

"Louie!"

That what he was. Stupid.

"Louie!"

Why did he think that just because he did something so stupid it would all turn out okay?

"Louie, you idiot!"

Louie's head snapped up.

"W,Webby?" He asked, he blinked as he stared at the outlined shadow of his wife. "How, what -?" He watched as Webby knelt down in front of him, even as a shadow he could see fire in her eyes. He gulped. He was in trouble, and he knew it.

"Lena and I have sort of been practicing using Shadow Magic." Webby told him sheepishly.

"Now, who's the idiot?" Louie asked. Webby blinked irritably. "Damn it, Webby! You could get lost in there forever!" He shouted at her.

"Sssh." Webby said anxiously. "Soran will hear you!" She watched the blood drain from his face when she said that. "Look, I figured I can get to you the fastest this way, then we can escape through the Shadow Realm together once I find the right way out.."

"That's what I mean, that could take forever! Soran already expects you to come after me and show up in a couple of hours! What about the kids?" He asked angrily.

"I think our family can look after them while we deal with this, don't you think?" Webby asked.

"They don't know about you going AWOL do they?" Louie snarled.

"What's gotten into you, Louie?" Webby asked avoiding the question, and sounding a bit hurt by his attitude. "I'm saving you, and all you can think about is how I'm doing it?"

"I, I just don't want -." He began, then he started hearing footsteps. His eyes widen. Webby looked towards the door in alarm. "Go. Now." Louie told her firmly.

"But -." Webby said, but she didn't get a chance to finish because the door flung open making light pour into the room and Webby disappeared. Louie crawled backed away slowly as Soran strolled in. She squinted his eyes at him and looked around.

"Who were you talking to?" She asked, her eyes darting around the room.

"N, No one." Louie stammered.

"Do not lie to me." She hissed. She lifted her knife she held in her hand and waved it at Louie. Louie looked at it, and swallowed hard. His wounds still stinging against his flesh from the last time she cut him.

"You were talking to someone." She said her eyes gleamed brightly.

Louie looked up at her, his heart racing as he tried comping up with a lie.

"I, I was talking to myself." He lied. Soran arched an eyebrow. "I, It's too quiet in here, I, I can't stand quiet..."

A smile slowly spread across her face.

"Well, darling, we'll fix that problem right now." She said as she loomed over him.

Garret took the stairs two at a time as he followed his uncle. He had no idea what was going on, but it must be big for his usually calm and collective uncle to react the way he did.

Huey made it to the library door and flung it open just in time to see Webby disappear as purple mist surrounded her. Garret stopped a few feet away, and listened in in the doorway as Huey marched in and up to Lena. Garret saw that her eyes were brimming with tears and Violet was trying to sooth her.

"Lena, what did you just do?" Huey shouted at her.

He rushed up to her so quickly that Lena didn't have time to step out of his way and stumbled into a pile of stacked books. They fell to the floor in Violet's dismay and she quickly went to pick them up, she thought it was best not to get invovled with this, not after what happened last time...