The Legend of Silver and Gold Book Two The Old Ones

Norwalk, Connecticut

“We should be safe here for the night.” Carver said as he led Elizabeth, Tora and Molly into a hotel room. “Or at least a few hours so we can explain everything that is happening to Molly.” He locked the door behind Elizabeth before he turned to the three. “Hopefully the Old Ones don’t look in a small town like Norwalk.”

Elizabeth went over to the window and made sure that the curtains were covering every inch of the window. “We shouldn’t stay here too long.” She told the others. “You can bet that Nyarlathotep will start looking for us soon if he hasn’t started already.” Given that there were a few locations in New York City that would have to be searched before the Old One would start looking at towns near the great city, Elizabeth was counting on at least a couple of hours.

“Why do you keep saying ‘Old One’?” Molly demanded as she went over to one of the beds. She sat down and glared at the three. “Why did you take me out of the city and all the way over to Connecticut? Are you crazy kidnappers or something?” She had several questions and she wanted answers.

Carver and Elizabeth looked at each other. They both knew that they owed Molly answers.

“You can explain things to the girl.” Elizabeth told Carver. “I’ll stand guard by the door.” With that, Elizabeth walked over to the entrance to their hotel room.

Carver sighed. He had hoped that Elizabeth would explain everything to Molly. He looked at Tora. The young girl was already lying on a bed. No doubt she was trying to get some rest. Carver wanted to get some rest too before possibly staying awake all night. He went over to the bed that Molly was on and sat down next to her. “I know this is going to sound crazy but please listen.” He told her.

“Elizabeth and I are friends of Tora’s mom, Cassidy Rose. You might have heard of her. She’s a big author celebrity.” Carver started. “Yesterday, she went missing. A few days before, another friend of ours, a man named Nichallo went missing. The way his shop looks has the cops convinced it was just a break-in and that Nichallo is just missing. The police though don’t have an investigation into Cassidy’s disappearance.”

“Cassidy Rose, the writer of Silver and Gold?” Molly asked. “I’ve heard of her. It’s a pretty good…” She stopped speaking as she looked at Elizabeth. “Elizabeth was a warrior who acted like a bodyguard.” She said before she looked at Carver. “Carver was the boy who Skye ended up with. Cassidy, Cassidy Rose’s fictional version of herself, was the golden child.”

Molly groaned. “Please don’t tell me that you two are delusional people who believe that they’re characters from a book.” She said. That was the last thing she needed. She stood up and went over to the phone. “Give me one good reason I shouldn’t call the police right now and report you two for kidnapping Tora and me.” She knew that there wasn’t a Tora in the book and that the two could be making up the story about Tora being Cassidy’s daughter.

To Molly’s surprise, Carver’s eyes began to glow sea blue. She watched him raise his hand towards the sink. “What are you doing?” Molly asked, getting a little freaked out by what she was seeing.

Molly saw water come out of the faucet and float in the air over to Carver. The water formed a small trident over Carver’s hand. She backed away a little from Carver. “This can’t be real.” She said, shaking her head. “Magic isn’t real.”

The water floated back over to the sink. “Magic is quite real as are the characters from Cassidy’s book.” Carver said, his eyes returning to normal. The water fell into the sink. “I am Carver, son of Poseidon, one of the sorcerers who served the first Guardian.”

Molly took another step back. “It was just a book.” She said. “I read it a couple of times at the library. None of it could be real.” She turned to the door. As much as she wanted to leave, she knew that Elizabeth would stop her.

“Molly.” Carver said as he slowly stood up. “I know it’s a lot to take in but you are the new silver child.”

“What happened to Skye?” Molly asked. She didn’t want to believe that all of this was real but she was curious about Skye who had been the silver child in the book. “Let me guess, you couldn’t find her so you’re trying to find someone to take her place.”

Carver winced a little. “Skye was real.” He told Molly. “She and I got married years ago. We were happy together but she was taken from me a couple of years ago. We believe that the people who want to capture you were the same ones who had killed her in an attempt to make sure that there was one less threat for them to deal with.”

Molly felt a chill. “When exactly did she die?” She asked.

Carver thought back to the day it had happened. “It happened July Fourteenth, Two Thousand and Twenty Eight.” He replied. He would never be able to forget the date that he had lost the one he truly loved.

Molly felt her heart beat quicken and she sat down on the floor where she was. She looked down as she felt herself starting to shake. “I know that date.” She said in a soft voice. She would never forget what she had gone through that date.

Carver and Elizabeth looked at each other. Neither of them expected that date to mean something to Molly. They both looked at her. “What does that date mean to you?” Carver asked.

“It was the day I nearly died.” Molly replied before she looked at the two. She could tell that they wanted to hear more. “I remember waking up that day feeling normal. I did the same things I usually did in the morning but when I was on the bus going to school, that was when it happened. I felt my heart beating quickly, stabbing pains everywhere. I screamed and begged the pain to stop. I remember passing out and then waking up days later in the hospital. My mother, being the religious fanatic that she is, believed that I had allowed the devil to possess me and had several priests try to force the devil out of me.”

Molly thought about the number of priests that had visited her against her wishes and the wishes of her doctors. She had begged her mother to stop having priests come in since she knew that she wasn’t possessed but her mother had insisted that it was for her own good. That was the day she had turned against her mother’s religious fanatics and had started getting into supernatural books.

Carver felt his heart skip a beat as he thought back to what he had heard from the coroner when he had gone to pick up Skye’s body but he decided to keep Skye’s cause of death to himself.

Elizabeth joined the two. “I know it’s hard to believe or even accept but you are the silver child.” She told Molly in a gentle voice. “The day that Skye died, her silver aura chose you to be the new silver child.”

“But why me?” Molly asked. “Ever since that day, my life has been turned upside down and that was before I was being hunted by a bunch of strange men at my favorite library.” She wanted to scream and rant about what all her mother had done to her since that fateful day but she didn’t want to risk drawing unwanted attention to them. “Why would Skye’s aura choose a stranger to be the next silver child?”

“I can’t claim to know that answer.” Elizabeth admitted. “It’s something that not even Nichallo can explain properly. He just knew that there was only ever one silver child at a time and that the next one was picked once the current one died. There was no way to predict who the next silver child was, just that they were present for an important event.”

“Nichallo once told me that the silver child was the equal to the golden child and that the Dark Ones were obsessed with getting to them first.” Carver told Molly. “I’m guessing the Old Ones didn’t want a silver child to try to defeat them but didn’t realize that the silver aura would choose someone else to be the new silver child.”

Molly shivered. “So the Old Ones are the reason my life was flipped upside down.” She said. “I’m stuck with having to face two different evils. A bunch of ancient monsters and my religious fanatic mother.” She stood up and paced the room. She needed to move around or she would go crazy. “Was Skye’s life this messed up when you found her?” She asked. She had read the book but she couldn’t remember.

“Skye had been kicked out of her home by her mother.” Carver said as he remembered his visions. “She had been homeless and only had the clothes she was wearing. Titus had gotten her to join him in a last attempt to gain favor with the Dark Ones. It took me saving her during a fight to convince her to join Cassidy, Nichallo, Elizabeth and me.”

“Sounds like you two had a strange relationship.” Molly said.

“It’s part of why I loved Skye.” Carver told Molly. “She and I weren’t normal so we were perfect for each other.”

Molly thought about what Carver had told her. She didn’t want to be the silver child but she figured that she would never have a normal life until the Old Ones were defeated. “What do we need to do first?” She asked.