Of Monsters And Magic

-3 0.2 Imposters!

Anna figured she was just daydreaming... She got herself together and jumped off the wall into the forest, preparing to sneak into Steve's room.

Meanwhile, the morphed Steve and Paul arrived at the gate. The janitor looked up and saw the brothers once more. At first he was baffled, but he quickly recovered.

"Wait, how did you two rascals get out again?! Quickly get in or I'm going to lose my job!" said the janitor as he actually feared losing his job.

These boys had caused him a lot of trouble before. They climbed over the wall last month, while he wasn't paying enough attention because he was playing games on his mobile phone. When their mother noticed, she was furious and scolded the poor janitor hard... He had always thought his wife was the only one that could make him feel scared...

"We'll quickly go in," said morph-Steve with an exaggerated big smile.

'What are these rascals up to this time, Steve has never been this friendly to me before.. I swear I don't get paid enough for this ungrateful job..' the janitor thought as he remembered his pitifully low salary, which enticed him to play some more mobile games after the brothers left.

The morphed brothers slowly went towards the castle, as they weren't sure if there were other people inside the castle aside from both brothers. They didn't want to get caught as that was unnecessary trouble.

"I can sense some powerful ones," said morph-Steve.

"Mhmm, we're going to receive a promotion if we catch them huehuehue" giggled morph-Paul.

Morph-Steve really hated going on missions with his partner. The only capabilities his partner had was to slack off, giggling like an idiot and having a negative IQ.

"Just be careful not to make too much noise", morph-Steve said.

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While Paul was dreaming about his amazing day, Steve and Anna sneaked into the attic. No-one ever came there, so they wouldn't get found nor would they get disturbed. They were probably just going to play some video-games together.

His parents were watching some TV downstairs. They were watching a documentary about penguins, their favorite animal. They even planned a trip to Antarctica to watch some penguins in the wild.

The morph-brothers arrived at the front door and saw them watching television through the window.

"Humans are weird creatures," morph-Steve said, "How can they just sit and watch a screen for so many hours?"

"Hehe, we're human now too aren't we, big bro! Let's watch some TV too huehuehue!" answered morph-Paul, as he snickered softly.

"Stop joking, we're on a serious mission here. Go look for the big one, I'll look for the small one."

"Fine, fine.. You're always such a buzzkill.."

With a flick of his finger, morph-Steve opened the front door silently, and they went looking for the boys.

Morph-Steve had an easy time finding Paul, as he could sense a strong power coming from the room Paul was sleeping in.

As he was standing next to Paul's bed, Morph-Steve flicked his finger once more. Magic happened and a small purple vortex appeared above Paul.

"Good luck little fellow, you'll need it.. hehehehe" he frantically laughed.

After that, Paul got sucked into the vortex. His bed was now empty. The vortex was gone, and so was Paul.

Meanwhile, morph-Paul had a hard time finding Steve.

'Where is that guy hiding? Boss is going to scold me again..' he started shivering at the thought of his boss punishing him. Luckily, he heard some noise above him and decided to investigate.

However, just as he just found the stairs leading towards the attic, Anna came down.

"Paul? What are you doing up again? Get back to bed.. Let me tuck you in," she said.

'F***! I got caught! Who is that girl? Is she his mother? But then who is that downstairs? Is it his sister? Is it his nanny?' he quickly thought before saying anything..

"Hi sister, sorry.. I couldn't sleep.." he said while trying to sound tired.. "Can you lead me back to my bedroom and give me a night kiss?"

"You finally started calling me sister? Fine then, I'll give you a night kiss little bro!"

'Phew, I guessed correctly hehe, this beautiful sister can give me a kiss now hehehe' the perverted morph-Paul thought.

As they both approached Paul's bedroom, morph-Steve quickly had to hide in the closet as he heard people coming. As they entered Paul's room, he quickly realized it was his partner getting caught.

'Don't act before problems arise, just let it play out... don't be my usual partner right now...' he couldn't help but thinking.

When he saw morph-Paul get tucked in and receiving a kiss from that beautiful girl, he couldn't help but feel relieved, but also a tad bit jealous..

After giving Paul his night's kiss, she thought, 'Weird how Paul is so cold on his cheeks, but it'll just be his exhaustion... It'll be better after a night's rest.'

She then left the room quickly, back to Steve before she'd get caught by his parents.

When Anna left, morph-Steve quickly got out of the closet.

"You pervert!" he whispered, "And you got almost got us caught too! Thank god we adjusted our looks!"

"Haha, jealous? And how should I have known there was another person there! This wasn't in the script!"

"Whatever, let's quickly get out of here before they get suspicious! I've delivered the most powerful boy already anyways. You were lucky I had finished my task, or she would've seen the vortex, you dimwit!"

"Then we could've just killed her, no big deal huehue," morph-Paul started snickering again..

"Shut up, you've never even killed a person in your life before! Now let's quickly get out of here!"

As they left, morph-Steve glanced at morph-Paul while muttering to himself, "God, I hate this idiot.. Why did boss give me this imbecile to work with.."

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The next morning, the castle awakened and breakfast was being served. Steve and his parents were waiting for Paul to arrive. They would always eat at 9 a.m. sharp, no exceptions. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

As 9:15 p.m. was approaching, his mother said, "Steve, go get your brother, he must've slept through his alarm clock. It's not like the usual him..."

Two minutes later Steve got back at the dining table, "Mom, dad.. I can't find him! He's gone!"