Horrors of Horrors
Delano: "Me Delano. Me make fire. Now we equipped to roast marshmallows. Rawrrr."
Emrick: Wow Del, That was so sad and pathetic, it almost made me wanna hand you the safety matches
Delano: We had matches? Why didn't you tell me? I spent half an hour to start this.
Emrick: Hey, it was your idea to "Harden Up" our soft families, remember? Besides I got most of your stupid ass trying to start a fire on camera. This is priceless."
Lucine: Stop picking on Del. We're not in college anymore. Besides, as a wife, it's my job to annoy and bicker him to death."
Delano: Oh the plight of a husband is never ending. But seriously, I'm just saying, we need to do this more often. Release the animal that we have suppressed so long. My kids don't even wanna leave the house without their cellphones.
Adreana: Uncle Del, we don't see the point of this entire exercise. This isn't exactly what we had in mind when dad said we were headed out for a picnic. Knowing him, we expected a trip to the zoo at best.
Delano: Speaking of the zoo, did you hear they are getting new animals?
Athanasia: I read that in the papers. They are getting four Chimeras. Though the chances of endangered species surviving in captivity is very low.
Adreana: Chances of us making it through the night here is also pretty low. Have you seen the sizes of these mosquitoes? They could possibly suck us dry.
Delano: Righhhtttt. Because vampires don't do that at all.
Emrick: That's just racist! We vampires haven't sunk out fangs into any person; living, dead or un-dead in centuries. That would be as racist as telling werewolves howl at the full moon and hunt wild animals for survival.
Delano: Sorry Emrick. I know we are a civilised bunch of monsters who get their meats, organs and blood from the supermarket, but I still like this. Makes me feel alive.
Kern: Is the fire up? Where are the marshmallows? Did you guys start the spooky stories without me?
Delano: There's my boy. Cozy up son. Its time we honoured the age old tradition of scary stories. Bwahahaaahaaaa....
Lucine: Oh, I've got a good one. And I know it sounds cliche, but this is a true story. You remember my friend Eva? Well this happened to her then boyfriend. They were travelling to Salem to meet up with Eva's college buddies. Frank being the Genius that he was, claimed he knew a shorter route. As expected they got lost and ended up in what looked like a normal town. Hoping to get help, Frank got down and approached a house. No body answered. He tried a couple of houses and all of them were empty. Suddenly he heard his car horn. He thought Eva was signalling him to come back to the car. He turned and began walking towards the car, but Eva was honking the horn pretty wildly. He ran towards the car. When he reached there he saw people. He panicked. They had surrounded the car with Eva in it and . They were carrying pitchforks and flaming torches. He started yelling to get the attention of the people away from Eva. It worked, they saw him and turned towards him. They started pelting him with stones. He ran as fast as his leg could carry him, thinking he could outrun them. The distraction gave Eva a chance to escape from the people. Unluckily, Frank didn't survive. Eva is still traumatized by the sight of open flames. Which is why I did not invite her tonight.
Kern: Poor thing. That would traumatize anyone.
Adreana: Did that really happen? I mean I have heard of people in and around that place who burn witches and wizards. But I thought that is just an old wife's tale.
Delano: Unfortunately, it's not. Most speculated, that it was just monsters who did it. But no monster can be that cruel.
Emrick: Kern, did I ever tell you about the time Athanasia and I ran into people right in our town?
Kern: Are you serious? There are people in our city?
Emrick: Yep. I swear, if we wouldn't have transformed into bats and flown away, who knows what would have happened?
Adreana: I've heard this one a million times, and it still freaks me out.
Kern: What happened?
Emrick: The two of us were returning after watching a horror movie. Usually I don't get scared easy, but "Blade - Trinity" was probably the scariest movie I've seen to date. As were approaching the driveway, Athanasia felt a little sick. She found it a bit difficult to breathe. I realized what was going on. There was garlic in the vicinity. I thought it was just the new wizards making some new potion, and continued walking away from the place. That's when they came out of the shadow. There were three people carrying their bibles and wooden stakes. We froze in horror. We had never expected people to come so close to our homes. They started chanting something and sprayed something on us. The liquid started eating into our clothes. We turned around, transformed and flew as fast as we could away from them. One of them even threw a stake in our direction, which just narrowly missed Athanasia. We have been a bit more vigilant after that.
Adreana: Mom still keeps the jacket with the holes as a reminder.
Kern: Do people really exist?
Everybody (in unison): Yes...!!
Emrick: Wow Del, That was so sad and pathetic, it almost made me wanna hand you the safety matches
Delano: We had matches? Why didn't you tell me? I spent half an hour to start this.
Emrick: Hey, it was your idea to "Harden Up" our soft families, remember? Besides I got most of your stupid ass trying to start a fire on camera. This is priceless."
Lucine: Stop picking on Del. We're not in college anymore. Besides, as a wife, it's my job to annoy and bicker him to death."
Delano: Oh the plight of a husband is never ending. But seriously, I'm just saying, we need to do this more often. Release the animal that we have suppressed so long. My kids don't even wanna leave the house without their cellphones.
Adreana: Uncle Del, we don't see the point of this entire exercise. This isn't exactly what we had in mind when dad said we were headed out for a picnic. Knowing him, we expected a trip to the zoo at best.
Delano: Speaking of the zoo, did you hear they are getting new animals?
Athanasia: I read that in the papers. They are getting four Chimeras. Though the chances of endangered species surviving in captivity is very low.
Adreana: Chances of us making it through the night here is also pretty low. Have you seen the sizes of these mosquitoes? They could possibly suck us dry.
Delano: Righhhtttt. Because vampires don't do that at all.
Emrick: That's just racist! We vampires haven't sunk out fangs into any person; living, dead or un-dead in centuries. That would be as racist as telling werewolves howl at the full moon and hunt wild animals for survival.
Delano: Sorry Emrick. I know we are a civilised bunch of monsters who get their meats, organs and blood from the supermarket, but I still like this. Makes me feel alive.
Kern: Is the fire up? Where are the marshmallows? Did you guys start the spooky stories without me?
Delano: There's my boy. Cozy up son. Its time we honoured the age old tradition of scary stories. Bwahahaaahaaaa....
Lucine: Oh, I've got a good one. And I know it sounds cliche, but this is a true story. You remember my friend Eva? Well this happened to her then boyfriend. They were travelling to Salem to meet up with Eva's college buddies. Frank being the Genius that he was, claimed he knew a shorter route. As expected they got lost and ended up in what looked like a normal town. Hoping to get help, Frank got down and approached a house. No body answered. He tried a couple of houses and all of them were empty. Suddenly he heard his car horn. He thought Eva was signalling him to come back to the car. He turned and began walking towards the car, but Eva was honking the horn pretty wildly. He ran towards the car. When he reached there he saw people. He panicked. They had surrounded the car with Eva in it and . They were carrying pitchforks and flaming torches. He started yelling to get the attention of the people away from Eva. It worked, they saw him and turned towards him. They started pelting him with stones. He ran as fast as his leg could carry him, thinking he could outrun them. The distraction gave Eva a chance to escape from the people. Unluckily, Frank didn't survive. Eva is still traumatized by the sight of open flames. Which is why I did not invite her tonight.
Kern: Poor thing. That would traumatize anyone.
Adreana: Did that really happen? I mean I have heard of people in and around that place who burn witches and wizards. But I thought that is just an old wife's tale.
Delano: Unfortunately, it's not. Most speculated, that it was just monsters who did it. But no monster can be that cruel.
Emrick: Kern, did I ever tell you about the time Athanasia and I ran into people right in our town?
Kern: Are you serious? There are people in our city?
Emrick: Yep. I swear, if we wouldn't have transformed into bats and flown away, who knows what would have happened?
Adreana: I've heard this one a million times, and it still freaks me out.
Kern: What happened?
Emrick: The two of us were returning after watching a horror movie. Usually I don't get scared easy, but "Blade - Trinity" was probably the scariest movie I've seen to date. As were approaching the driveway, Athanasia felt a little sick. She found it a bit difficult to breathe. I realized what was going on. There was garlic in the vicinity. I thought it was just the new wizards making some new potion, and continued walking away from the place. That's when they came out of the shadow. There were three people carrying their bibles and wooden stakes. We froze in horror. We had never expected people to come so close to our homes. They started chanting something and sprayed something on us. The liquid started eating into our clothes. We turned around, transformed and flew as fast as we could away from them. One of them even threw a stake in our direction, which just narrowly missed Athanasia. We have been a bit more vigilant after that.
Adreana: Mom still keeps the jacket with the holes as a reminder.
Kern: Do people really exist?
Everybody (in unison): Yes...!!