This has a bit of an intense sceen in the Barrel POV section. So just be warned. And if it isn't, don't hate on me! It is raining here and making it seem scarier for me. But still, it is kinda freaky.
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Shock's POV-
I flipped through the book, paying little attention to anything else other than what was written in the book. She wanted to help Amethyst. Lock had asked her why she had agreed to her on the way over to here but she had simply slapped him and said none of your beeswax. Which was true. Her reasons were personal and not for anyone else's ears.
"So, how do we catch 'em?" Barrel asked. I looked up, irritated. he had had some stupid look on his face since we left that cave. like he was in his own little world that held something better than this one. Well, what was better than having our old life back? "With a gun." I said scarcasticly. He rolled his eyes, licking his stupid lollipop. "Seriously."
I sighed. "You need to use a spell to summon bugs. Simply think of how many you need and repeat a spell which I will repeat leater and the will come forth." I said. Lock nodded, keeping a lookout of spiers. "Hey, look. It's Sally." he said, nodding in her direction. I looked over to see her skimming over a bunch of books looking for one. I shrugged and returned to my research.
"Okay, hand me a pencil and paper." I said. Barrel picked up both and handed me them. Normally he would have said get them yourself, but he was still out of it. I quickly wrote down the spell, placed the book on a table and we walked out.
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Barrel's POV-
We headed back to the treehouse where we had left Amethyst.
Amethyst... To me her name was the most beautiful word in the entire universe. Walked there, I ignored everything else and returned to my imaginationary world. Where I knew Amethyst better than now. Where I could be in love with her without being quiet about it. Where she loved me back. But I knew she couldn't. I was... me. She was so perfect.....
We made it to the elevator-cage and went up, only to find the window open and Amethyst gone. Lock and Shock exchanged a glance. Lock looked arrogantly knowing. He had said eariler that this ws a bad idea. Shock loked surprised and something else..... too hidden for me to even begin to desifer her expression. I knew I must have looked crushed. I felt that way. Like my heart was smashed into rubble and dust.
Suddenly a dark crow flew in, landing on Shock's shoulder. I noticed, with great surprise it had a strange red and white dash of color on its chest. It jumped to the ground, changing halfway into a human. A girl. I sighed, almost feeling like laughing. Amethyst. She never left! She was still here. I noticed something in her hand. A large bundle of fabric. "I found this." She said, rolling out what looked like a human shaped burlap bag.
I was suddenly submerged in memories of the day Oogie died. It was him. The only diffirience was that the thread was diffirent. Thicker looking and a little deeper into the cloth. Not sewn on the edge. More like a few centemeters in. And his arm, which had been torn open along with his side, was stitched up. Only a cut in the chest remained. She turned to Shock, seeing the paper.
"Found out how to get bugs?" She asked, her grey and golden eyes narrow with inpaience. "Yes." Shock said. "We shall the spell say it together." Amethyst announced, moving gracefully to Shock's side. I saw that Lock did not like this. "Why?" Shock asked. But she remained standing beside her. "It will be more effective if two magical beings say it at the same time." She responded in a voice like warm honey. Shock shrugged, looking down. We moved our little party down to the ground, standing onthe peaty black soil. Shock and Amethyst dug a circle in the earth, sitting in the center.
They sat down, laying the paper infront of them and the sack. They both took a breath and twin voices called out.
Lord of the earth
Hear this veruse (A/N Sorry I can't spell)
Call your bugs
to help rebuild his mug
Oogie Boogie return!
Suddenly the overhanging grey clouds let out a peal of thunder and rain poured down. But not in the circle. Lightning banged and thunder boomed. The clouds turned into thick green plumes of smoke and the rain turned scarlette red. Shock and Amethyst's eyes were no longer black and golden-grey. They glowed red like fire. Light seeped around them, making the circle glow brighter and brighter until it rivaled the lightning still cracking the midnight black air.
The lightning suddenly struck down, hitting the sack and it glowed red. Green light filled the inside and bugs crawled out of their holes, heading for the sack. It grew bigger and more alive until a harsh laugh could be heard. The blood-rain still pelted the ground. The clouds glowed their eerie green and the bag, circle and the two magical beings still glowed with a harsh light.
The wind blew harder and fasted, throwing Lock and I to the ground. "No more!" I screamed. Lock just curled up, as though he could hide from this nightmare. The laughter roared around us, louder than the wind. The rain suddenly stopped, as did the light and wind, just as a loud thunder boom roared through the land and lightning struck, lighing up a new person.
Oogie Boogie was back.
