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“So… what’s this?”, a confused Enid asked Thing, the limb just pointed at the letter on the werewolf’s hand as it gestured to open it, “Ok yeah, I’ll open it, but you aren’t telling me what it is, you know?”, Thing just tapped furiously Enid’s bed, desperate, “Alright, alright! Let me open it!”, with her claws exposed, Enid opened the lid of the letter, exposing a piece of folded paper. The girl unfolded it, exposing the insides, a message - or perhaps, a riddle - was written with black ink in a peculiar way.
“... and thus, la lune et le soleil did handle the burnished golden cup
with their hands, holding it high as it showed its blooming color. Follow
the path that brought immense glory against the l’eau”
Thing crawled on top of Enid’s shoulder, tapping it excitedly, “I don’t understand, what path? Can you at least explain to me what this is, Thing?”, Thing shook itself, signing a ‘No’ as an answer, “Okay, I’ll take that as a ‘Do it yourself, Enid’, perfect.”, the girl sighed, re-reading the riddle once again. What did moon and sun mean? Which path was it referring to? Many questions flowed in Enid's head as she read the letter once again.
Then everything made sense to her, the dark dried ink on the old looking paper, the writing style, the use of French and most importantly, the path she has to follow. “Oh, god damn it! I’m so dumb! This is a Wednesday thing, completely sure of it!”, Enid said as she stood up from her bed, making Thing fall on her pillow. The girl quickly apologized to Thing and with a chuckle, she showed the paper to the severed limb, “Willa and I have been dating for some months already, how could I be such an idiot?! This is obviously something she’s planning, right? Just- Let me guess! Let me guess, uhm…”, the werewolf girl walked two steps away as she thought about it then quickly came back to Thing, “This is a sort of adventure! She’s guiding me somewhere, right? Am I right?”, Thing only signaled a ‘I don’t know’ as it somewhat shrugged on its own way.
Enid quickly ran to her closet and chose a different set of clothes, as she didn’t know what kind of adventure it was gonna be or what it’s going to be at the end of it, she decided to wear comfortable yet good-looking clothes for it, “I’m ready! I think I know what this means… Kind of… Ugh, I hope what Weds is planning is gonna be worth it- I mean! It’s Wednesday, of course it’s gonna be worth it! Oh! I bet it’s gonna be something cool! Yeah! I wonder what’s at the end of this weird-riddle-adventure-ish thing though”, the werewolf girl put Thing on her shoulder and exited her shared room quickly with a letter and a bag in hand.
Walking through the hallway while re-reading the paper at hand, deep in thought she wonders ‘Follow the path that brought immense glory against the l’eau… l’eau … I remember Weds teaching me a bit of French but what does this mean again..?’ While being immersed in her own mind, she walked along the grassy field of nevermore. Looking around she felt a sense of familiarity. “This reminds me of when I was painting our boat for the Poe Cup!” She claimed looking at the disembodied hand on her shoulder, then realization hit her. “I GET IT! Immense glory- It means when we WON the Poe Cup against Bianca and her team, that’s why!”, Enid said as she gave tiny little jumps, Thing tapped her shoulder happily as she finally got the first clue. “The path that brought immense glory… Follow the path… Follow the path…”
The werewolf started walking and remembering the things she did previously winning the Poe Cup, first she walked around the place where she painted the boat with her team, looking around in case she finds anything that catches her attention. After not finding anything, she recalled going to the river to get Wednesday her costume… Then it clicked once again. “IT’S THE RIVER! IT’S THE RIVER! The path that brought immense glory! Willa put on her costume, then soon after the Poe Cup started! Oh my god- After we went through the river, I waited for her while she got the flag from Crackstone’s Crypt- Then we won! That’s the path if you think about it, don’t you think, Thing?!”, Enid was so excited she deciphered the first riddle, while Thing was too excited it almost fell down from the girl’s shoulder. It didn’t take too long for them to reach the river where Enid and Wednesday had their hands on the Poe Cup trophy.
At the river, the disembodied hand and the werewolf stood looking at the bridge where the trophy stood brightly in the middle of it. Enid chuckled and shook her head as she walked close to it, kneeling down and opening the top of it as if it was her gut telling her another clue or riddle would be inside it. Surprisingly, she was right as there was another letter similar to the first one inside the shiny trophy; without thinking twice, she grabbed it and opened it, revealing its insides.
“Two pictures and folded paper, hmm… I’ll read the letter first!”, Enid put the two pictures aside and unfolded the paper, once again the dark dried ink greeted her with another riddle.
“With golden glow and sweet taste, created by the sacred insect of the
Ancient Greek, the key to your next destination shall be found in its
home while it becomes tastier thanks to the memories.”
“Oh! This is easier! I’m Greek so I would know about the sacred insect… Which it obviously is… Uhm… Well, it is…! … Fuck.”, Enid sighed, defeated. Thing was tapping the pictures that the werewolf left on the floor, catching the blonde’s attention to the disembodied hand, “Oh, right! So, what’s this?”.
The first picture was revealed, it seemed to be a kind of old house made out of wood, the only color the picture had was a bright yellow, almost similar to honey, the picture was blurry. The second picture was one of a fossil, it was from an insect but it was also a bit blurry so she couldn’t recall which one it was.
‘I am allowed to help you with this one, I’m just going to say it as understandable as possible’, Thing signed, getting closer to Enid then continued talking, ‘The first picture is a place you very much know but as well hate since it scared you a while back. The second picture correlates to the other as they are the same pair’, Thing finished signing then crawled on top of Enid’s shoulder, holding itself tight and ready for the next mini-adventure, “Oh! Thanks! I think I have an idea of what you’re talking about!”, Enid left the pictures on the floor, looking at them with enough attention.
Returning to her mini-adventure once more with her trusty hand on her shoulder, she walks through the quad as she goes towards the location that she thinks is where the next place is. On their way there she stumbled upon Yoko, greeting each other, Enid told the vampire that she was busy and that the goth girl has a surprise waiting to happen after finding all the locations she gave out through riddles.
“So that’s why you’re walking around all Nevermore's places? What’s the clue you got for the next riddle?”, the vampire asked, pulling down her sunglasses to read the letter on her friend’s hand. “It says ‘golden glow and sweet taste’, I already got an idea of what it is. The first one signaled the river where we won the Poe Cup, now this one might be… Eugene’s Beehive! Like, the pictures are blurry but I can give it a shape to it, look”, Enid gave the pictures that were on the envelope to Yoko, the girl grabbed them and with a smirk, nodded, “I thought she was gonna give you hard riddles, Addams is softening too much~ This is probably your fault~”, Yoko pushed her jokingly to a side, giving the pictures back to the werewolf, “Hey! That’s not true! She’s just… Ehm, she’s not soft!”, Enid tried to defend her girlfriend but only a furious blush could appear on her cheeks. She shook her head and walked away after waving her goodbye to the vampire who was trying to not laugh at her reaction.
The dynamic duo got to Eugene’s Beehive, Enid let Thing down on the floor as she got closer to the structure that stood on the middle, a soft smile appeared on her lips, her train of thoughts went back when she came to help Wednesday by doing some ‘bee work’ with Eugene, oh.. How scared she was back then of having a bee sting her. “Alright Thing! Help me find the other clue- Wait, now that I think about it…? How many clues do we have left?”, her attention went to the disembodied limb on the floor, Thing signaled a ‘one’ and ran with its fingers towards the beehive.
“So this must be the last one… Owh, I’m so excited, I’m shaking!”, with a little shake on her body, the girl ran towards the structure, going inside it. The first thing that greeted her was a table with a vase with two flowers, one pink and one black, Enid agreed that it was cute, but what called more her attention was a box in the middle, in front of the vase with the flowers. “Thing, Thing! So this is the last clue, right?! Finally, I wonder what she’s planning! Goddamn it, she’s also so cute… Oh my god, look at the flowers! They’re so beautiful!”, Thing tapped the table, making the girl focus on the last piece for her adventure, “Oh right, sorry- You know Wednesday is such a nice person… To me at least- Let’s open this!”, The werewolf opened the lid of the box, in the middle rested the last clue plus a tiny box, on top of it there was a little note in the goth girl’s handwriting that said ‘Do not open it until you find me, I’ll cut Thing’s fingers if you do.’, “... See? Cute!”, Enid smiled at Thing, who just did its own action of a sigh, “I’ll put this in my pocket meanwhile, let’s read the last part of this adventure! I would like to thank you, my amazing friend and adventure-riddleish-game partner, Thing, for the company you gave me and… And all of that!”, Thing gave her a high five which Enid accepted gladly as she put away the little box in her left pocket.
With her hands now free, she grabbed the piece of paper, which was the first time she found one of the clues without an envelope, and for the last time the dried black ink greeted her.
“... The first and the last, it was the way how la lune et le soleil greeted
each other, connecting at first sight. Nevertheless, divided by the
differences, they broke what held them against each other due an
unique occurrence.”
“Thing, you know, I don’t consider myself stupid but right now I feel the stupidest person in the world”, Enid looked at the disembodied hand and sighed, with a troubled face, she re-read the letter and let out a grunt, “You know what annoys me the most? It seems so damn easy! Damn! But I don’t understand! Ugh!”, The hand laughed on its own way, climbing on top of her head and tapping it gently, signaling her to think, “That’s what I’m doing, thank you very much for your advice. Ugh.”, Enid sat down and re-read the letter one last time. Divided by the differences? What held them against each other? Enid felt she knew but it made her confused at the same time. Shaking her head, she stood up once again.
Enid walked out Eugene’s Beehive, still with a troubled-confused face. The riddle filled her thoughts, there’s a lot of places where Wednesday and Enid had some discussions but also got together and fixed their issues so she just couldn’t think of one; there was ‘the first’ and ‘the last’ part that confused her the most, even when she thinks about those places, they didn’t really fit quite well with the start and finish line.
Thing looked at its friend, it wanted to help her and tell her where she had to go but it was scared of Wednesday. If it says something, Wednesday will cut its fingers off… Poor Thing. Staying on Enid’s shoulder, it saw how the werewolf got closer to the bridge that rests on top of the lake. Pugsley and Wednesday were there before, fishing with grenades; Enid sat down at the end of the bridge, sighing and looking at the paper with the dried black ink, she liked that Wednesday was being careful and making her go to an adventure but at the same time she only wanted to enjoy Valentine’s with her already.
“Stupid Willa… We could’ve just gone to a restaurant and that’s it- And that little box- I can’t even open it if I wanted to by curiosity! She added glue to the lid! Well, at least that means she knew I would’ve tried to open it and that means she would need to… cut your limbs… See, Thing? She cares about you a lot!”, the girl said cheerfully at the end, the disembodied hand signaled a strong ‘No. I bet she still wants to cut my fingers’, then laid down on Enid’s thighs.
“The first and the last… I can translate to normal works the other part, it would say ‘The place where you and me greeted each other, connecting at first sight’- I mean~ Our love was at first sight, I may or may not imprinted on her as soon as I saw Willa, like c’mon, look at her! She’s just… Enid, focus! You need to think!”, She slapped gently her cheeks and came back to her original train of thoughts, “We have greeted each other like, in every single place, but a place that can be the start and the end? I don’t know… Why is she so confusing?!”, Enid threw herself back, laying on top of the wood of the bridge and looking at the now red-ish sky, the sun is setting and she’s been doing that adventure the whole day.
An annoyed girl grunted and closed her eyes for a moment, breathing slowly to control herself. After calming down, she felt someone watching her which made her danger-senses to wake up, Enid sat down straight and looked around the area, she couldn’t find where she was being watched but those eyes were almost piercing on her.
“What is a young lady doing outside alone in the forest at this hour and day?”, the voice of a man, quite shrill, sounded behind her. Not losing time, she stood up and met with the eyes of a bald man she can easily recognize, “Oh my god, Mr. Fester! You almost gave me a heart attack! What are you doing here?”, holding her chest and sighing, she greeted Fester Addams, uncle of her girlfriend and a funny person… And criminal, “I was doing a mission, I won’t be getting on details! But maybe I’ll need a place to stay for a few days!”, he nodded, greeting Thing with a fistbump and mouthing a ‘Hello, buddy’, “Oh, you can stay at the Beehive! Eugene is busy with some family issues so he'll probably come back in a week- You know what they say, ‘Mi colmena es su colmena’, am I right?” “You’re a smart lady, aren’t you? Where’s the little viper? I’m surprised she isn’t with you right now!”.
Enid’s smile faded a bit, tilting her head and scratching the back of her neck, “Mr. Fester… I, uhm, broke up with her…” “WHAT?! But you two were so happy together! What happened?!”, a worried Fester grabbed Enid’s shoulder gently and shook her back and forth, “Pfft- HAHAHA- Sr. Fester! It was a joke! You should’ve looked at your face!”, Enid held herself by the stomach and laughed, maybe she’s a bit of a prankster, “Oh you little- You got me!” “But being serious with you, Sr. Fester, I’m having an adventure right now because Willa had the great idea to give me riddles to solve so I could find her… I have the last one but it’s honestly so confusing, I just want to spend Valentine’s with her already…”, She gave the paper to the man, who grabbed it and read it, “Oh, this is so Wednesday! Lemme think… Hmmm~”, the man closed his eyes and frowned as his brain worked. If this was a caricature, you could’ve seen a lightbulb light up on top of his head, “Oh! I get it!” “What- What is it? Please, help meeee!”, Enid begged gently as she put her two hands together in a praying position, “Where was the place you first saw Wednesday?” “Well, our room- Ophelia Hall… But what does that have to do with-” “Then, when was the last time you saw her?” “It’s bad to interrupt other people when they are talking! But answering that, well- Our room, this morning… Willa said she had to do ‘something’ and just left and I said ‘Okay! See you later!’ and I haven’t seen her… the whole… Day… Oh.”, Enid slapped herself mentally and physically as her hand did touch her face, “I get it now, I am actually so stupid.” “I’ll be going now then, Sinclair! I remember where that bee boy’s beehive is, so I’ll just go there! Have fun with my favorite serial killer!”, as Enid blinked, Uncle Fester disappeared from the werewolf’s vision. “Wait, serial killer-”, Thing tapped Enid quickly on the shoulder, telling her to run already, the sky was dark blue and some stars were visible already.
the girl ran from the forest, inside her she was kinda wishing she could wolf out on command so she could be faster but oh well, it is what it is. As fast as she could, she passed by Eugene’s beehive, her breathing became faster as her body felt hot from the effort she’s doing. A droplet of sweat came down her forehead to her cheek then to her neck, she threw her sight to the other side and passed by the river, she realized the Poe Cup wasn't there, shaking her head, she is optimistic enough to think it’s in their room already.
For last, she was at the entrance of Nevermore, school where she met Wednesday, the love of her life and also almost died. Breathing heavily as she went inside the big structure, she stopped running and took a deep breath, “Thing, do I look good?”, the disembodied hand signed a ‘Yes, now go get your girl!’, which made Enid laugh and ran to Ophelia Hall.
The werewolf ran upstairs as fast as she could and with a big stomp, she stopped in front of the door and opened it fastly, there she was once again, back at their room. It was a bit colder than usual, as she went inside she realized her things were organized, her Poe Cup was on its shelf, her nail polish organized by colors on her desk but the most special part was that red rose in front of the circular window. Enid crouched in front of it and grabbed it, a smile appeared on her face, she could see a silhouette outside, a silhouette she could recognize even from afar.
“Willa…”, Enid mouthed as she went outside to the balcony. She was speechless after realizing the set-up the gothic girl probably prepared herself. In the middle of the balcony, there was a square blanket, it had a black side and a pink side, the middle of the blanket had a picnic basket and at the sides two plates, some red drink and beautiful candles that gave off a wonderful smell, like roses. With some tears in her eyes, she met with the gaze of the girl that makes her heart go crazy.
“Mon amour…”, Wednesday mouthed as she saw the werewolf, “You made it. Miserable Valentine’s Day, Enid.”, she walked closer to the taller girl, cleaning the little tears that fell down of her blue eyes, “You make my black heart beat in a grotesque way that makes me want to rip it off and give it to you, to show you my deepest appreciation towards you.” “Weds… You did all of this for me?” “Surely, Cara mia. You deserve nothing but the best, Mon amour…”. Wednesday thumb caressed Enid’s face scars, she always admired them.
“I didn’t open the little box, Willa. What is this for?”, Enid gave the tiny box to the goth girl, who carefully held it in her hands, “This is my gift for you, Enid. You may have realized it’s glued. The only way to open it is with this”, Wednesday carefully grabbed the flower that Enid had on her hands, the bottom of it was pointy enough to cut the glue on the sides, “Oh my god, Wednesday! Is that…?!”.
Two rings, one black and one white, rested in a pillow inside the box. The gothic girl grabbed the white one and gently held Enid’s right hand in her hands, “I want to be with you. Even death cannot separate us. This is my way to show how important our relationship is for me, I believe it is the same for you.”, as she talked, the goth girl slid the ring on Enid’s ring finger. Wednesday grabbed the black ring and gave it to Enid, “Enid, I love you. I would kill everyone that harms you, that includes myself. I promised that I will never bring you pain and that promise will stand forever even after death.” “Wednesday, stop, I can’t stop crying! Shut up!”, the werewolf hugged Wednesday and the goth girl accepted the hug with a relieved sigh and a tiny smile. “I will love you forever and ever, Willa! Thank you… I love you so much.”, Enid broke the hug and quickly grabbed Wednesday's right hand, sliding the ring on her ring finger.
Their faces were close to each other, Enid with a cute giggle, kissed Wednesday, her tears stopped falling down and a blush filled her cheeks. She was waiting for that the whole day… It wasn’t a long kiss but it was enough, Enid was the one that broke the kiss, “I love you so much, Willa…” “I love you too, Cara mia.”
“Happy Valentine’s Day.”