Page 88 of Did It Have To Be Gnomes?!
Sola squawked in alarm.
“Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”it said even louder.
“What is it?” I whispered to Miles.
“Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
“Ghosts.”
“Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
“Ghosts are coming.”
The chills on my arms grew, and I swallowed hard as my heartbeat picked up. Ghosts? There were ghosts coming down here? What the actual hell?
I mean, better than zombies, right?
But were they?
Ghosts were dangerous. At least the poltergeist kind. And any spirit could be turned into a poltergeist if they were angry enough.
With the way this cursed seal was angering everyone, I could only imagine how bad those poor spirits were. If the curse was sending another being to stop us, to stop Chaos, then they were going to be dangerous as hell.
“Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Fuck me.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Miles
Well, I couldn’t say that the kid hadn’t warned us, now could I?
He’d said that cursed objects tried to stop him from breaking the spell, and well, it was obviously doing that. In spades.
“Winter!” Chaos yelled over theoooooohhhhhh-inghappening all over the place.
“What?”
Instead of answering, Chaos threw one of the big salt canisters he’d had us buy. Winter caught it and looked at the teen like he was crazy. That made Chaos roll his eyes.
“Do you guys know nothing about ghosts? They hate salt. It keeps them away. Put a line of it in front of you all, and you can throw it at them when they get close.”
“Okay, then.”
Winter didn’t have time for more than that. Four ghosts, looking like nothing more than glowing blobs of mist, came barreling toward us. Some ghosts could take their human shape, but these guys seemed way too angry to hold it. Win quickly threw a bunch of the salt at the ghosts. It only hit two of them, making them scream and somersault backward through the air.
The other two came flying, and we all had to duck as they swiped at us. Maybe they were arms, I wasn’t sure, but it looked like the blobs grew limbs and were reaching for us with clawed fingers.
It gave me chills, and I wasn’t sure if they could scratch us or not, but I didn’t want to find out.
I hugged Sola to my chest and bent over her as they passed by, not wanting to risk her.
“Use the salt!” Aeson yelled as he pulled another salt canister out of his pocket—he must’ve been prepared for something like this.
Aeson expertly threw salt at the two ghosts floating over our heads, making them fly a few feet away, screeching as they went. Their screams were like nails on a chalkboard, giving me chills and making me wish I could close my ears.
One of the ghosts regained its senses and came rushing right for Chaos. Clucky let out a roar that was way louder than any being as small as her should be able to make, but even that didn’t deter the ghost.
