Black Catkin Part 33

Part 33

The air was crisp and cool around Moonsands Veterinary Hospital and several lone stars danced small light over its tiny little roof. It wasn't the biggest animal hospital in the world, in fact all it consisted of was a little cabin and an even smaller shed, but what they lacked in size they made up for in the amount of lives they saved each day. Inside the cabin the young voluntary nurse was cleaning up and getting things ready for the night duty volunteer: the sounds of yipping and barking filling the air.

"Alright! Alright ready!" the nurse called out, raising her voice to be heard over the din, "Keep your fur on"

Walking out to the shed the nurse chuckled to herself as the yipping barking noise got louder and louder until she opened the shed door and two little bundles of fur tumbled out and started dancing around her feet. "Olly and Tino, I should've known it was you two" she laughed as she picked up a giddy wriggling licky Jack Russell puppy and stroked the bouncing Husky pup's soft fur, "How did you guys get out of your rooms?"  The husky yipped and seemed to smile cheekily as it wagged its tail "Ah, is that so Tino" the nurse laughed, pulling her ID out of reach of the Jack Russell puppy who had the name badge in its teeth and was tugging at it with tiny determination, "Sorry Olly, you can't be Nurse Eva Perrodeaguas today.  This is the ouchy badge"  Olly barked and gave a laughing Eva a big friendly slobbery lick up the side of her cheek.

Suddenly a loud thundering boom sounded in the sky followed by a small screech and a loud blood freezing roar, making both Olly and Tino both shake with fear and Eva almost jump out of her skin.  Settling the young pups downs and making sure they were safe as she gently put them back in their beds in their dog rooms and locking the animal house behind her the young nurse set out to investigate the cause of the unexpected noise.  For some strange reason she could hear the faint sound of coughing and human voices coming from not too far in between the trees.

"Pandie? Hey Pandie? We got through"

"Oww, my arm hurts"

"Oh my Goddess, are you okay?"

"It's just a bruise"

"If that's a bruise then I'm the President"

"Pandie Katteken??"

Both teenagers turned and stared at her wide-eyed: the boy putting himself in front of the girl as if to protect from some impending danger.  "Hadrian, it's okay" Pandie whispered in the boy's ear, "She's a friend of my family"  The boy nodded and stepped aside as Pandie walked up to Eva: her right arm looking dangerously bent the wrong way.  "I'm so glad you're here Eva" she said, wincing as she held her arm close by her side, "They said we might not be able to get back to the right world or point in time and we just had to or we would be too and she'd die and..."

"Woah! Hey kid, slow down" Eva spoke quickly, stopping Pandie in her tirade, "I may not be old enough to be your mum or barely an adult myself but that doesn't mean I can understand when you talk at ninety miles an hour. Start from the beginning, tell me what is going, and why sister isn't with you." Pandie told her as best she could what happend over the past day or so from meeting the Daybreakers to the prophecies to the dimension time portal to the Six Sisters to arriving back in their own time and world.  By the time she had almost finished telling the story, Pandie had crumpled to the ground: exhausted.

"And if we don't get there soon he's going to kill her and everything will be lost" she was finishing off in an almost faint voice, "As for Casey: she's resting at Cornelia's.  The fight at the graveyard gave her a few bruises needing to be healed."  Eva frowned a little at the thought of her little sister being so irresponsible yet again, but shrugged it off.  This was not the time to be cross with anyone.

"I'll do my best to ease that broken arm for but you'll have to see a proper doctor to get it fully healed" the young volunteer nurse said, helping Hadrian to lift Pandie gently up off the ground, "After that we'll all get in my car and drive back to..."

"Screech!"

Eva turned at the sound of the bird's call expecting to see a grey hawk flying overhead: she knew that call of the bird anywhere.  Instead she found herself staring at a young girl around Pandie and Casey's age with the most unusual hair in three shades of blue and strange rainbow flecked eyes.  Before she could call out to her, the girl's eyes seemed to widen in fear and she disappeared into the trees. What the huh?

"Come on you two" she said quietly, turning back toward the hospital "Let's get you somewhere safe"  As soon as she said this Eva felt a strange chill in the air and looking up saw a tall man with black and white hair and completely black eyes smiling sinisterly at her. For several moments Eva was frozen to the spot and then when she could move again the man did a mock salute and turned into smoke flying up into the air: twisting and growing into the most fearsome beast to ever possibly live.

"Car! Now!"

The two teenagers didn't stop to ask what was going on and nodding quickly in agreement ran with Eva towards her car: Hadrian holding Pandie's hand like someone was going to suddenly take her away from him. As they pulled out of the car park and raced down the driveway, tires spinning up bits of mud from the road, Eva looked briefly in the driver's mirror and said "That was him, wasn't it? The man who's going to bring on the end"  Pandie looked at Hadrian and then looked at Eva and nodded.

"He's the one who's going to destroy the world"