Chapter 19: The time lady

Carly new journey was not as easy as she thought it would be when she got vision of Peter entering the city at the end of the earth, he was not entering alone, he was entering with the people who had kidnapped him, Mary and Kia.

But the other part of her journey was just like she had imagined, her grandma and the rest of her mother friends were so happy to see her,

They all could not stop talking about how well she had changed and how brave she had become. But little did they know that her return was not to stay.

Hey grandma gathered all her friends and the friends of her late mother and all the young and teenagers she could see to the party.

It looked like they all missed her and wanted her to stay but she knew it was a lie, the same people who came to celebrate her return would still be the same people that would gather to kick her out very soon.

Soon the party was over and the house was empty, it was just her and her grandma, there was a lot of things to do now, things that normally led to arguments but this time, she did them even without her grandma tell her.

Things like watching the dishes, sweeping the floor, arranging the house and making the house spotless. When making the house spotless was when she and her grandma do get in a fight, her grandma was one of the creatures that love clean places but she would never pick up the mop or broom to clean it, they would always want another to clean it for them.

When her granny returned from walking her friends back to their respective house, she was shocked to see the house sparkling clean. She was shocked and she could not find the right words to express her self.

That’s time she impressed her granny this way was way back when she was little, when her mother was alive. Her mother was supposed to make the house clean but she was too busy attending to her life that she forgot the number one rule of the house, never let the house be dirty.

Granny returned that day and was yelling at her mother and there was a huge fight and it looked like the house was going to collapse, shocking how the house is still standing tho.

Either granny or her mum was talking to each other, her mum point was granny had all the riches in the world to get a maid but she won’t, she prefer to use her own children as maid than hire one,

And granny point was why would she have grown ass kid living with her and not clean the house

I could relate with both side and I loved both and was not ready to chose one so I picked up my first broom and started the cleaning while both of them locked their self in their rooms.

I worked all day and neither one of them came out of their closet until I was almost done with the cleaning,

I asked myself a lot, was it a plan or did they really have no idea I was doing the clean?

When I was almost done, they both showed up with a shocked face, and I was covered with sweat and was tired as heck.

My mom collected the broom and for the first time I saw granny pick up the duster too, that was the first and last time I ever saw granny do her house chores herself.

“The journey really changed you, you wouldn’t have done it, I got someone for the job already.”

“It’s not big deal Granny, I got this and who is the person you got by the way?” She asked granny as she looked away from what she was doing to look granny in the face.

“Well it does not matter now that you here” granny said as she made her way up the stairs which was sparkling,

“You did a good work on the stairs but you missed a few spots tho” granny said as she pointed to the spot she had missed.

“Did you come back for this?” A voice on Carly head said as she walking up the stairs with soap water in the bucket she was carrying.

“No but I have to do what she wants to get the answers I want” she whispered to her self

“Ok then just don’t forget why you here and you go no time”

“Yeah just this cleaning and I am out to ask her about those type of demons”.

Carly cleaned the stairs the second time, and as she was done, she went straight to her granny reading room,

One of the toughest rules in the house was no talking in the reading room, it was forbidden and anyone who does gets to see the angry granny, the beast side of her.

Carly walked into the reading room and watched granny seated few steps away from her with her whole head buried in a book

“Wow, you chose a fantasy book this time, that’s sweet”

Granny raised one of her eyebrows as a warning to the young girl,

“Would mind telling me about it?”

Granny gave a very scary expression at Carly but Carly knew better than to look at her face;

“Seriously what’s the title granny, talk to m…e”

Then the beast was out, the true face of the granny, the beastly kind

“You do not listen right, you seem you lost your manners on that journey of yours right?” The demon in granny said as it completely transformed

“Well I wanted to have a discussion with you tho”

“What? Me!! Been long I had visitors. Hope you know what happens to all that comes to see me?”

“They don’t return right? If it’s that then I know already”

“Well what can make you wish for death so much?”

“Well it’s simple, I paused time and some set of random demons did not obey the law of nature, they were still moving. Why is that? I need an explanation”

“They did not obey? Hmm that’s out of hand”

“Why?!!”

“Because….”

“What’s going on here, why are you talking to my demon, if you want to see her you ask and do all your work”

“Seriously granny shut it, shut the fuck up granny, get the demon back now!!”

“I knew the journey changed you but was not sure how, but now I see it all”

“I don’t give a fuck what you see granny, I need to speak to your demon now”

“You can’t”

“Then you leave me no choice, €£¥€€£tug”

Granny fell to the ground and this time as good as dead,

“Ohh demon, hear my call and answer” Carly called out to the demon

“You really changed, the Carly I know would have ran to her bed crying”

“Drop that topic, tell me what does demons are now!”

“Well they are the first class level of demons, they are also in control of time but the difference between you and them is that they can’t pause time but you can”

“So how do I defeat them”

“We would have said you can’t but you changed but you still can’t defeat them, you need a team.”

“Who said I don’t have a team, how do I defeat them?”

“Well like every creature, they have a weakness, the ring of death, only that can trap them for life and that’s the only way they can be defeated”

“Only way? “

“Yeah only way, except you have a blue Fox on your team, just his scent would send them running”

“You should have said that earlier, for wasting my time, you going back to hell”

“You can’t do that right? You won’t”

“Off you go” just then a portal appeared and on the other side was hell,

“You can’t disobey, remember I let you out so you obey me for life”