My Friends Are Dead People by Tony Ortiz

Author:Tony Ortiz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: funny, death, magic, werewolf, horror, halloween, vampire, free, paranormal, romance, fantasy, adventure, witches
Publisher: Tony Ortiz

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The BELLNICSI

Jacoby and Dorian pushed their way through the antsy crowd. As the samhains noticed Dorian’s orange skin, which was the brightest color in the group, they moved aside, their heads down, giving Jacoby and Dorian a clear path to a contorted body sprawled on a pile of twigs and leaves. I craned my neck behind Jacoby to see who it was. Soundrec was completely motionless, except for his heaving chest. His skin was charred, with shards of glass embedded in it.

Jacoby crouched down next to Soundrec. “In two days, you’ll be fully recovered.”

Soundrec didn’t react, looking as though he could die at any moment.

“He protected thousands,” informed Scaley, crouching next to Jacoby.

“Do we know anything else?”

Scaley shook his head. Jacoby stood up and looked around at the crowd, all waiting anxiously for him to speak.

“Who did this?” called out a skeleton from the back.

“I don’t know,” said Jacoby, taking off his Kala wristband.

“You do know. You just don’t want to tell us,” said someone next to the skeleton, “afraid we’d panic.”

“Do-Do-Dorian,” mumbled another, “you-you must know.”

Dorian was standing near Soundrec in his bowed-head stance, definitely not going to reply.

“I’m sorry,” Jacoby said, “but neither of us knows what happened at the games.”

“Soundrec, you wake up, you hear,” said Murlie the witch, standing at the front of the crowd. She wore a three-layer brown robe and no shoes. Her small feet were so cruddy they blended in with the street. “Tell us who done it. We will erase the wrongdoer from the face of Halloween. You answer me, Soundrec! I’ve been in the condition you’re in. I know you can speak.”

“Murlie, he can’t,” said Jacoby. “You know it’s different with him.”

More halloweens began calling out.

“Why did you come here, Jacoby? Whenever you and Dorian come out, something bad happens.”

“What’re we going to do now?”

“You all need to go back to your shops and stay put,” commanded Jacoby. “It would be best if you stayed in groups or go to Lurching Hotel or a Dark Hour group for the Dark Hours.”

“Can I come with you guys?” asked a teenage witch. “I don’t want to be killed.”

The crowd clamored. Jacoby turned back to Murlie and asked, “Can Soundrec stay with you for the night? It would help us immensely.”

Murlie grumbled, but nodded in agreement.

“Alright, get moving,” Jacoby said to the samhains. “We’ll know more tomorrow. Four hours is not a long wait.”

The crowd knew it was over and slowly began to disperse.

“We all know it was Jack,” said Murlie. “We just wanted to hear it from you and Dorian–”

“We don’t know for sure that it was him.”

“Who else? No halloween can cast a Bellnicsi, other than Jack and–”

“How do you know it was the Bellnicsi?” said Dorian, coming up to Jacoby’s side.

Murlie must have known he wouldn’t bring up his head because she was looking straight at him.

“The seismic waves were 18.2. There is no other spell that can create such a force. You heard it–”

“Murlie,” Jacoby interrupted, “would you be kind enough to also shelter Kala? He’ll need to be healed, too.

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