Ghost-Peacock

With the rise of one hand, Chaney managed to raise the manor out of the rubble. Wood draped over wood. Nails drilled back into place. The windows shattered in reverse and back into one piece. The front door got off the porch and snapped back on its hinges. As the construction was finishing Iris suddenly became very excited. “Squig!” she cried, seeing her giant worm descending from the clouds. Squig landed and lowered his head for his cyclops owner to smother him with kisses. “I missed you too, you big love bug!” Dolce rode on Squig’s back and sighed with relief when she saw the group was back together again. &

“You have some real nerve coming showing your face around here, Penny,” Chaney hissed. Penny brushed the specks of fire out of her face as it were nothing. She then grabbed Chaney by beard and pulled him close, the onlookers gasping in fear. Skull Boy put a hand on Ruby’s shoulder so she wouldn’t hurt herself “I think you’re the one who’s got nerve Chaney,” Penny said. “A lot of nerve to kidnap your own daughter. How could you possibly think she’d like it here?” Once Chaney freed his beard from Penny’s grip he let out a fierce roar and the rest of him lit up with fire.

“Doom?” Ruby called as she stepped through the last of the holes in the wall. “Doom, are you okay?” The darkest room had nothing but a tall, eerie grandfather clock ticking with the rhythm of a heartbeat. An impression in the wall next to it showed something had ruptured the black wallpaper. Below it Doom was lying motionless on her face, surrounded by bits of gravel. “Doom?” Ruby asked as she leaned over her cat. She put a hand on Doom’s chest. It felt limp like it had collapsed in on itself. “Doom? Can you hear me? Are you okay?” Doom’s eyes were wide open, yet they stared at no

For a while it seemed as though Penny was just driving the group through a bottomless pit of fire. It was boiling hot all around the coach. Clive and Barker’s reigns caught ablaze and started burning all the way up to Penny’s hands. “Can one of you kids toss me a pair of oven mitts back there?” she asked to the passengers inside. Everyone inside the coach took off layers and turned up the air conditioning to the max. Misery and Poe were in absolute agony, being dressed in elegant clothes and black feathers. Skull Boy popped off his hands for his friends to use as fans. The only one to be having any real fun was Iris

“Presenting,” Misto began, “Arthritis, the duke of pain and passion. With him is his son, Artie, prince of pain and passion.” Ruby sat in a thrown beside Chaney. She was dressed in a black gown with white lace. A diamond tiara was placed on her head by Greed before the ceremony started. Greed said that the tiara made her look more like a queen than a princess, as if she knew that would make Ruby a little bit happier. Doom hid behind her and Chaney’s throne and peeked her head out to take a look at Ruby’s suitors. Arthritis was a terribly crooked and old looking spook. He had a hooked nose and a back that

The talk with the sins was the best thing to happen to Ruby since she was taken to the Domain of Darkness. She actually had something to do in her imprisonment and the people she spoke to listened to her every word. In Gloomsville the advice she gave sometimes fell on death ears. Not here. Nothing was ever denied her under the will of her subjects and not just her father’s orders. Even the most humble person is going to like feeling pampered once in awhile. Chaney hardly spoke to Ruby since the incident. He even refused to go on his daily Domain of Darkness routine with her, so Ruby did it alone. The worst part about all this is that w