All four sat on chairs near a table to discuss the wicked witch who kidnaps children "I discovered this witch, Ester Finch, is deeply obsessed with youth. She kidnaps local girls every few years, locks them in her cupboard and steals their vitality." Edwin explained who the white haired witch was and all the information about her that they needed "Wait, you got this all from a cat?" Crystal asked the boy. Edwin somehow met the cat who swore at him and did something with him that caused him to spill the tea about the witch, pretty clever.

"Little bastards are pretty clever and their scratches sting like fire" Charles answered Crystals question about the furry creatures "So, is this witch like a pedophile or..." Frances trailed off when they gave her certain looks "I mean she kidnaps little girls and shes an old adult..." Frances glanced at Charles "am I not wrong?" Edwin cleared his throat "anyways, the plan is to slip in, find the girl and spirit her out." He said, as if it was the easiest thing in the world "Will it actually be that easy?" Frances asked in a sarcastic way, there was no way defeating a witch would be that easy. "well, of course there will be some trouble but you'll be guarding us." Frances squinted her eyes "what do you mean 'guarding us'?" "You'll be in the house with us, if the witch does something you will inform us" Frances hummed, sound easy enough. "She won't let us die, right Frans?" Frances turned her head at the curly boy "Frans?" She raised her eyebrow "It's your new nickname"

After Edwin explained the plan, they all went to sleep and waited for the morning to get Becky from Ester's house.

They all four stood outside of Ester's house, Charles looked at her with his golden telescope spyglass "Wow" Ester walked down the small house steps with a pipe in her mouth, each time she pulled it out, a light gray smoke came out "She really does look like a witch. Like, kind of a sexy witch who smokes a lot" Frances gave him a weird look, making him look at her "what?" "You think a witch who kidnaps girls is sexy?" Charles looked up before answering "She is sexy... if you ignore the whole kidnapping part" Frances sighed, not believing what he just said.

"Where is she going, Crystal?" Edwin asked the girl who stood in front of him "She needs to go to the post office to clear up some trouble over an unclaimed package." The witch got into a green car, she slammed the door shut with a piece of her light brown coat coming out from the driver side door, she soon sped off while driving horrible "she needs to redue the drivers test" Frances said when she saw the bad driving, it made Charles laugh at her joke.

"Alright Charles, Frances. Let's go" Frances and Charles both walked closing behind Edwin, leaving a confused Crystal standing near the stop sign "Uh, I know we're cool now but feels like you not letting me come is punishment for the secret demon thing?" Both of the dead ghost boys turned around at the same time "which was totally my bad, very screwed up. I should've told you everything." "yes, this is your punishment." Edwin spoke before he continued to walk to the house "well,I think crystal should come, shes very talented." Frances commented on the situation "shes a big girl, she can handle herself."

Frances waited outside of the front door with her foot impatiently tapping on the white floor, the doors were unlocked by Charles "Come on in" He said with his arms out, welcoming in the human "wow, such a gentleman" She rolled her eyes at the playful boy "I know right"

The house was quite a mess, jars all over the counter with weird things inside such as eyeballs and bones, there was a black crow in a cage that kept making noises "okay this crow is making me go insane" Frances walked up to the black bird, the crow finally stopped being noisy "hello bird. Please, kindly shut the fuck up." Frances flicked one of the bars on the cage before walking to Charles and Edwin "thanks for shutting it up" Charles thanked her, he also hated the bird cries "No problem"

In Edwin's hands were a giant lock with a keyhole, it kept the small cabinets locked so no one could see what was in side "I don't think a creepy witch would leave a key inside" Frances bent down on her knees to get a closer look, the key that it needed looks long "I can open it" Charles had a brown leather thing that had all sorts of tools that helped people lock pick. In a matter of seconds, the lock fell from the cabinet "that was quick" Frances grabbed the black lock and moved it away.

Inside the cabinet was nothing, just empty with a few teacups on the side "its empty" Frances touched one of the glass teacups that hung on the side, the glass slipped from her hands, it revealed a black string "guys?" She called both of the boys to show them what she discovered "pull it" Frances did what Edwin told her to, she tugged it down and the bottom of the cabinet flew downwards "woah" 

Edwin put his legs in the dark space, while he did something grabbed him and pulled him in "Edwin!" Charles yelled loudly "Shit!" Frances started to freak out, she didn't know what to do or how to get him out since it looked like a deep hole "do you have a rope or something?" Frances asked Charles, he grabbed a hold of his small backpack that could carry anything and got out a light brown rope "throw it in" Charles threw some of the long rope in the void so Edwin could come back up in one piece "I found Becky!" Edwin shouted from down the cabinet  "We need a way to carry her up!" Edwin yelled once again, Frances looked around the room to see if there was anything to help Becky, then she remembered "you said this backpack can carry anything, yeah?" Charles nod his head, his earring shaking along "Here!" Frances threw the backpack in the void "why'd you do that?" Charles asked her, he didn't know her plan. "Becky can fit in there while Edwin carries it" Charles nod his head with a smirk "smart lad" 

"let's pull him up" Frances put both of her hands around the ropes "nah uh, I can do it" Frances raised her brow, she didn't know why he didn't want her to help "I can help, Edwin is heavy" She spoke, her hands still around the rope "I wouldn't be a gentleman if I let you pull him up, would I?" Frances rolled her brown eyes playfully "fine, you can do it while I sit and watch" Frances got up from the floor and stood closely behind Charles, watching him struggle with pulling the rope, his teeth gritted as he grunted "He is..heavy!" He stopped pulling the rope so he could breath "you sure you don't want my help?" Charles shook his head in a no "of course not. I can do it." 

"Well while your doing this I'm going to check up on Crystal" Frances informed the ghost before walking out of Ester's house, only to see the old witch blowing smoke directly in Crystal's face, making her struggle to breath "What are you doing?" Frances asked the wicked witch, her eyes glanced at Ester then back at Crystal, unsure of what was happening. "oh, this? She's paralyzed for now thanks to this" Ester took her pipe out from her mouth "let her go" Frances walked off the small steps that was close to the front door, inches closer to the witch "I wouldn't get close to me, you don't want to end up like her" Ester's eyes trailed down Crystals frozen body with a smile, Frances balled her fist up before she ran to Ester and knocked the black pipe down on the grass.

"OO shes feisty, I like you already" Ester laughed, Frances bent down and got the pipe that the witch had, she put both of her pale hands around the pipe before breaking it in half, making it useless. The witch had anger in her eyes, she was mad at Frances, very mad. Ester took a hold of Frances neck by wrapping her hands around it, Frances struggled to breath as Ester's tight gripped harshly "You really thought you could defeat me?" Ester asked, her face getting closer to Frances "You know what? I might kidnap you, you're so young and pretty" Ester's finger trailed down Frances cheek "Maybe that's why Charles is so fond of you" 

"Get away from her!" Charles and Edwin stood on the small steps "Speaking of Charles." Ester mumbled, her grip softened a little bit not that much because Frances still couldn't breath, and her face was turning a shade of blue due to the lack of oxygen. Charles pulled out a wooden paddle from his coat, ready for combat. Ester and Charles ran towards each other at the same time, he held his wooden paddle high in the air, he swung it towards Ester but she hit him with her iron cane that threw him across the yard. 

Frances fell to the ground with her hand on top of her neck, a red line formed across from Ester's tight grip. Once Frances caught her breath, she stood back up and shook Crystal, trying to undue her being paralyzed, nothing worked. Frances looked In front of her where Edwin ran with his fist out, but of course the witch hit him with her cane, throwing him to a small greenhouse. 

Ester walked in front of Frances "Iron crane. It's good for the back" Crystal slowly moved her arm from behind Frances, she touched Ester which made her head shoot up with her eyes turning white "I-need you to m-move!" Frances ran from Crystal when she warned her. Crystal took her hand off from Ester, she tried to crawl away but Frances stopped her by stepping on her hand "You little bitch!" Ester's other hand grabbed Frances ankle, she dug her large nails into her skin, it made her bleed. Frances took her foot off of Ester's hand once she felt the stingy pain and liquid falling to her socks.

Charles didn't like seeing Ester hurt his friend, so he decided the only way to stop it is if he possessed her. He ran into her body, he now could move Ester away from his friends.  "Have you completely lost your mind? We never possess people, it has all sorts of bad consequences!"Edwin yelled at Charles as he held Crystals arm "I know that mate. Kind of extenuating circumstance, you know?  Look I'll take her back inside, you get Becky and get out" Charles moved Ester's body to the front door, it was until Ester started to repeatedly hit her head against the pillar.

Charles quickly got out from Ester's body, making him fall down on the steps "Come on you twat" Frances grabbed Charles hand to help him up, they then ran to Edwin and Crystal "you dig around in my memories, huh?" Ester laughed with blood poring down her forehead "You four have opened a real bag of worms" She threaded, then the big crow in the cage started to be annoying "Monty! Jesus! I'm trying to threaten some kids.." With that, Ester went back inside her house.

A/n

okay this chapter is super long