Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Trick Or Treat ❯ Bitter Sweet ( Chapter 3 )

Author's note: HA! I bet you never saw that coming! Honestly I didn't either... This chapter is going to be even more fun^^ Since we're back in the house you'll get to find another object so be on the look out!

Disclaimer: I don't own Sapph, Ami, or the Hansel and Gretel Story, actually I think Grim owns that story, at least, Grim wrote a version of it... Hehe... Anywho... this is still my own story idea... yay^^

Trick or Treat
A Halloween Story

Chapter Three
Bitter Sweet

Ami was unable to move, unable to tear her eyes from where the fridge had once been. After falling through the light, she and Sapph were left on the kitchen floor staring at an empty space where the appliance had once stood. Now it was gone, there was no way back to grandma's house and no way back to save her friend.

Her chest tightened as she thought that must already be dead. She blinked back tears thinking that maybe if she hadn't decided to leave her alone everything would be alright. After all, she could tell that hadn't wanted to be left alone in the kitchen...

Ami drew in an unsteady breath as warm tears hit her face, and she heard Sapph start to cry beside her. She turned to look and saw Sapph holding her head in her hands mumbling into them the same thing she was thinking to herself.

"If only... I... I... had held on tighter," she said between sobs. Ami swallowed hard and wiped the tears from her face. Sitting there and crying wasn't going to help... they had to act.

"Sapph, come on," she said. Ami pushed herself to her feet and took hold of Sapph by an arm. Sapph's hands fell from her face as she let Ami help her up and she tried to choke back her sorrows.

"What do we do?" Sapph asked, tears still rolling down her face.

"We find that key, and we get Katy out of her room." Ami looked around at the mess around her in the kitchen, her eyes lingered on a barefoot print in the cookie dough and her heart ached. "Maybe we can find our way back to too."

"Yeah," Sapph said, her voice stronger this time. "There wasn't a key in here, I was allover the kitchen looking for ingredients for the cookies. Why don't we try the living room?"

Ami nodded and followed behind Sapph as they went through a dark hall into a large open room. Inside was a leather couch, a large, round stone tablet that was levitating off of the mist covered floor to serve as a table, some smaller tablets with glass vases containing large plants that stretched out on their black, thorny stems and groped towards them with their red and orange petals.

"I don't see a key," Sapph murmured walking around the room. Ami stood in the middle of the room, between the large stone tablet and the TV and looked down at a remote control. It was the only object on the table and was glowing with a strange blue/violet light.

"I wonder..." Ami picked up the remote and turned towards the television, frowning deeply as she pondered whether or not to try. Sapph came over to stand next to her and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"We might as well try, if the fridge was a portal... than there's no telling what the television might be..." Sapph squeezed Ami's shoulder and Ami took a deep breath before hitting the power button.

Everything went dark, so dark that Ami was unable to see even Sapph standing next to her with her hand on her shoulder. She waited, expecting it to get light again and then remembered her fairy light.

At the thought she began to glow and illuminated the area around her. Shockingly she found herself standing not in the living room but a dark forest.

"We're in the forest again," she said, turning to look at Sapph.

But it wasn't Sapph holding her shoulder. Ami screamed and threw a hand up, knocking away the skeleton's that had been gripping her shoulder. Her fairy light grew brighter and she fought the urge to scream again as she saw a collection of hanging cages hanging around her from trees. All of which enclosed a human skeleton, crouched down due to the small size of the cage and open mouthed as though screaming even in their deaths.

"Sapph..." Ami turned, looking for any sign of her friend, she refused to believe that Sapph could be the skeleton that had been holding her shoulder, the thing looked as though it had been dead for ages.

She looked around, trying not to look at anymore skeletons and noticed something glinting against her fairy light. She cautiously moved towards it and knelt down to see what it was.

"stones?" she questioned aloud. She looked up from the stone and noticed another, further from that was another and she realized that it was a small trail.

She followed it, nearly sprinting through the forest as she tried to remember why a trail of flint stones was so familiar to her. Then, as she came upon a small clearing, she remembered.

The gingerbread house. If that's really what it should be called. Much of it was covered in a green yellow mold, and some of the roof was dried up and missing in patches, the windows had all but broken away and there was a terrible stench that made Ami's stomach turn.

But this time she was prepared, she wasn't going to loose another friend to a fairytale. The story was simple, two frightened children, lost in the woods, find their way to the witches house. The witch captures them, tries to eat them, but the children manage to get away.

She and Sapph had to be the two children lost in the woods, perhaps Sapph was already inside, along with the terrible witch. Ami's eyes narrowed, she held her breath and started forwards, hoping that the oven was on.

Without a second thought she shoved forwards the rotting candy door and stepped into the small house, her fairy light glowing brightly.

"Ami!" Sapph called to her, gripping the bars of the small iron cage she was trapped inside. Below her, building a fire was a plump little girl who turned around to see Ami.

Ami immediately went white as a sheet; she literally felt the blood drain from her face as she saw the little girl. Her face was cubby but her eyes were sunken in and she had no lips to speak of, now, this in no way meant that she was thin lipped. The girl looked as though she had taken a knife, and cut away her lips.

And filed her little teeth into points.

Ami gulped, so Gretel was an evil little thing, but what about Hansel?

The answer came from the corner of her eye.

A plump child, identical to his sister save for the obvious fact that this was Hansel, came flying at her wielding a very sharp, very bloody looking butcher knife.

Ami flung out a hand, intending to ward off a blow, and watched in surprise as the light around her hand became concentrated and then, when Hansel was directly before her hand, exploded right in his face.

Gretel and Sapph watched as the steaming pile of half melted flesh and bones came to a rest a little further from where Hansel had been a second before. Sapph blinked and Gretel growled, gnashing her teeth at Ami.

Ami turned a glare upon the girl and watched as Gretel slunk into a shadowy portion of the house. Sapph rattled the bars of her cage and Ami rushed over to her.

"What was that?" Sapph asked.

"I don't know. Fairy Burst?" Ami guessed as she fumbled with the latch on the cage. "I wish I knew about that earlier," she breathed, opening the cage and helping Sapph out.

Sapph however seemed to have taken notice to something near Hansel's dead body.

"Ami.. is that?" She climbed down from the cage and walked timidly towards the corpse. "It's a Key!" she lent down and picked up a small key laying next to the corpse and turned to Ami while holding it up.

"Let’s go back then, and find out if it works..." Ami spotted a small television in the corner of the room and the remote laying next to it. She picked up the remote and held her hand out for Sapph to take.

"I hope so." Sapph said as she took Ami's hand. Ami smiled, praying that they could at least save Katy, and hit the power button.