User blog:FirstDrellSpectre/Fanfiction - Frigid Fever

My eighth fanfiction. Please comment.

Thanks for AnimationFan15 for giving the title "Frigid Fever".

Winter holiday morning. The Loud siblings were having a snowball fight expect for Lori who felt too old for this. She was taking care of Lily instead. The siblings were shared on 2 teams but Lisa belonged to none as she was a judge but her true intention was to study something only she knew. In Luna's team were Lana, Lincoln and Lucy when Luan's team were Lola, Leni and Lynn. Luna had charisma but lacked patience to plan, so Lincoln was responsible for strategy. In Luan's team Lola was for strategy. Lola figured out that Lincoln is the brain of the opponent team, so she told her teammates to attack him. Lincoln was ready for this, Luna was his bodyguard. Lynn was annoyed that her rivals have advantage, so started throwing snowballs like she were mad. Luna was standing to defend Lincoln but she was reaching her limit. Lincoln wanted to her to be well, so throwed snowball but it didn't hit Lynn. She laughed that he missed but that was merely a distraction so Lana could get closer to Luan's team and throw snowballs to tree. It made snow from the tree fall on Luan's team. Lisa declared Luna's team is victorious. Lola protested by saying there were cheating only to hear from Lisa "There is nothing in the rules about such trick and all what's not banned is allowed". Lola was outraged and charged on Lincoln, she slipped and hit Lincoln, making him fall. It happened so fast Luna couldn't stop her. Lola yelled "You ruined my strategy by such simple trick!" and quickly rubbed his face with snow. Lincoln was confused and Lola used it to take his fur hat, filled it with snow and put it back on Lincoln's head. Lola began force feeding Lincoln with snow much to disgust of rest of the sisters. Lucy and Lana took Lola from Lincoln and Luna helped Lincoln to stand up.

- Lola! The fight is over! - Luan yelled - Feeding him with snow?! Are you insane?!

- That was just mean! - Leni commented - You should respect your opponents.

- Listen to your teammates! - Luna commented - Losing fight is one thing but such behaviour makes you lose even more.

- Easy to say because you won! - Lola yelled

- Your ice heart will melt in hell. - Lucy whispered to Lola's ear to scare her and it worked

- Enough! - Lisa shouted - No more struggle, the snow fight is over!

- Lincoln, are you alright? You look pale.- Luna asked   worried

- I feel...Oh, I have a headache. - Lincoln replied

Lincoln felt bad and removed his fur hat but the whole snow fell on his head. Then he sneezed loudly, what caused the nearest icicles fall. Luna removed glove from her right hand and touched Lincoln's forhead.

- Dude, you have a fever! - Luna shouted more worried

- We have snow around, just put it on his forehead. - Leni suggested

-  It won't help, silly! - Luna yelled

- I just sneezed. - Lincoln replied - Oh, I feel really bad. All pains me.

- We can't ignore this. - Luna commented - You can't stay here any longer!

Luna lead Lincoln to their house. Rest of the siblings glared with deep anger and disgust on Lola. Lynn grabbed her and lifted.

-  I knew you hate losing but this?! - Lynn yelled   -  That was so low, even for you!

- And not cool! - Luan said - I'm not even in mood for jokes.

- Aren't you angry that you lost too? - Lola asked angry

- Doesn't matter! - Lynn replied - We don't do such things to family.

- We lost our strategist! - Lana complied

- Our future victories are dead. - Lucy commented

- Build a snowman alone because I won't play with you! - Leni yelled at Lola

- You're not even worth of holding any longer! - Lynn said

Lynn let Lola go and allowed her to fall on her butt. None of the siblings was in mood to play any longer, everyone was angry on Lola and left. Meanwhile Lincoln lied in his bed. Lori checked his temperature and wasn't pleased with the result.

- I don't have good news. - Lori said - With such temperature you can forget about playing outside.

- No! I hate getting sick! - Lincoln complied

- Nobody loves this. - Lori replied

- I wish you get healthy soon, Dude. - Luna said, putting wet rag on his forehead

- That's a fleet wish. - Lori replied - He will stay in bed for at least few days.

- But the holidays just started! - Lincoln complied

- Take a nap to make your organism focus on healing. - Lori said - I'll make you a  chicken soup according to family recepie.

- Sleep well, dude. - Luna said

Luna and Lori left Lincoln's room and closed the door. Lincoln was very angry and had troubles with falling asleep but he eventually did it. He dreamed that he's in sauna with his sisters, all siblings had white towels.

- Are we in sauna? - asked Lincoln embaraced

- Where else could we be, twerp? - Lori asked sarcastically

- How can I be with you here with no complications? - Lincoln asked

- We made a family reservation of this sauna room. - Luna explained - Thanks to this we all can be here no matter the gender.

- Thanks. - Lincoln replied - I rather be with you than with strangers in towels only in a room full of steam.

- Relax and enjoy. - Lynn suggested relaxed - Get rid of your worries along with your sweat.

All siblings enjoyed the sauna steam. However the dream ended when Lincoln heard Lori's screaming.

- Leni! - Lori yelled - What do you think your doing?!

- I'm just trying to help Lincoln get healthy faster.

- What are you talking about? - Lincoln asked confused

Lincoln screamed in shock when he discovered Leni was hugging him and lying in his bed.

- One kid is a problem enough! - Lori made a facepalm - Now I have 2 kids under my care!

- No way it could get worse. - Leni said and then sneezed - Or maybe I'm wrong.

- You'll stay with him! - Lori yelled - Both of you, don't leave the bed!

- Can't she at least go to her bed? - Lincoln asked

- To infect my room?! - Lori asked - No way!

Lori left outraged by Leni's stupidity and loudly closed the door.

- What made you go to my bed? - Lincoln asked angry

- To get rid of the fever you need a lot of warmth. - Leni replied - Family warmth is the best, it's source is love and nobody loves you more than I do. - said Leni smiling with every next word.

- Leni, love is not a cure for everything. - Lincoln explained - Now we're both sick. Did you not think you can get infected?

- All I thought about was you getting better. - Leni replied - Don't you see this?

- I see you listen to your heart and only that. - Lincoln answered

- Lori is right about me, I'm naive like a child believing in fairy tales. - said Leni sadly - No matter how good intentions I have, I always do all wrong!

- Do you want to know if I see anything good in this? - Lincoln asked rethorically - At least now I'm not alone in my pain. - said Lincoln sarcastically

- I knew you appreciate what I do. - Leni said and hugged Lincoln strongly -  You're so sweat.

- Stop hugging me! - Lincoln complied - I can't breath.

Meanwhile Lola was walking towards the living room, where rest of the sisters were sitting.

- Look out! The ice queen is coming! - Lana shouted

- (Laugh) What a suitable name! - Luan commented

- Ice queen? - Lola asked annoyed

- After what you did to Lincoln, that's perfect for you! - Lana answered angry

- Don't talk to her. - Lucy suggested - You'll get infected by her malice.

- Malice? - Lola asked - I was just angry.

- What if Lily makes you angry? Will you also make her sick? - Lisa asked

Luna decided to sing "When you're evil" by Voltaire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxJrjV4PNXA but she changed some words to make it clear for Lola that she thinks she's evil. Luan suggested to  leave Lola with tv as there are only reruns  The sisters came to their rooms but Lola was left to herself. Lori was walking angry and talked to herself "Leni, no brain but heart as big as a moon! She's a year younger than me but her psyche in on level of a small child. Instead of dating Bobby I have 2 small children to heal from fever! I wonder if he has similar problems with his sister."

- Are you talking to yourself? - Luan asked - That's not how people train  Ventriloquism. (Laugh)

- Don't anger me more! - Lori yelled - Now Leni also is ill. Be more mature than her and don't go into Lincoln's room.

- Leni also? - Luan asked

- Listen up! - Lori announced to rest of her sisters - Lincoln's room is under quarantine. It means whoever goes to his room, will be locked there with him.

Lori went towards kitchen, all sisters went to their rooms. Suddenly Lucy performed a strange dance around Lola and whispered strange uninteligentable words.

- What's that supposed to be? - Lola asked

- I put a curse on you. - Lucy answered - I won't lift it until you atone.

- What curse? - Lola asked frightened - How does it work?

- You'll learn it yourself. - Lucy replied - For now fear of the unknown.

Lucy left Lola alone and she got nervous. Back to Lincoln's room he was still lying in his bed with Leni, they looked on each other and talked as they had nothing better to do.

- I see you still have the plush bunny I gave to you. - Leni detected

- I call him Bun-bun. - Lincoln replied - That's the only plushy I didn't give Lola and Lana.

- You know? I used to make plushies. - Leni said - When I was little, our parents didn't have sufficient salaries to buy toys for us. I had to make them myself from rags I found on street.

- Mom and dad told me this. Then mom was trained as a dentist assistant and dad had the lowest position in his company.

- I also made clothes for the plushies. I based them on clothes in fashion magazines and that's how my fascination with fashion design began.

- You're quite crafty. - Lincoln complimented

- At least you notice this. - Leni replied - Lori constantly criticizes my works.

- If your fashion designs aren't appreciated you can always return to toymaking.

- Do you remember how we as little used to play together with my homemade plushies?

- I do, sweet old times. - Lincoln replied with smile on face - We gave them to my younger siblings.

- Hey, guys. - Lynn openned the door - Lori forbid to come to you but she didn't forbid to give you cacoa drink.

Lynn put a board with cups of cacoa drink on floor.

- That's kind of you. - Leni said and took her cup

- Thanks, Lynn. - Lincoln said and took his cup

- Without you Lincoln, snowball fight isn't so exciting. - Lynn said - I hope you'll get healthy and go back. I'd like to have you in team in next fight. My fighting talent combined with your strategies would make us unstoppable.

Leni and Lincoln drank half of the fluids from their cups without a break. Then suddenly they both got red and sweaty. Inside their mouths they felt burned. They exposed their tongues and waved their hands like fans to cool them.

- Are you Luan in disguise? - Lincoln asked angry - That joke is very unfunny!

- What did you bring us? - Leni asked angry

- Cacoa with kind of wasabi. - Lynn answered - Spicy food kills bacteria. I eat spicy things when I'm sick and it helps.

- But none of us both is you! - Leni said - We react differently.

- I only tried to make your healing faster. Does it matter to you that I  wanted to help ? - Lynn asked making puppy eyes

- You wanna help? Then take it back and drink it yourself! - Lincoln shouted and closed door in the front of Lynn

Lynn was sad after hearing this. She poured Cocoa drink from one cup to another and drank it to drown her sadness. She walked towards her room.

- Maybe I was too hard for her. - Lincoln lamented

- I think you were right to be angry at her. - Leni said

- I will apologise her when I meet her again.

- A chicken soup for my patients. - Lori entered Lincoln's room - I see you really need it, you are red because of the fever.

- The very scent of this makes me breath better. - Said Lincoln smelling his soup - I start eating now!

- I don't feel anything, I have closed nose. - Leni said

- Eat well. - Lori said

Leni and Lincoln ate their plates of chicken soup. Lori took the dirty plates and let them rest. She also rubbed them with aromatheraptic salve so their noses could breath. Meanwhile in Lynn and Lucy's room.

- They are right, I'm not helping them - said Lynn sadly, finishing a cup of cacoa - Did you really put a curse on Lola?

- No, it was a play, I just wanted to make her fear. - Lucy replied - Mom and dad grounded her but that's too light for her.

- Because you lost the strategist? - Lynn asked - Without Lincoln and Leni I have no desire for snowball fight. I can't play in snow, it reminds me of them sick

- Lincoln is my brother first in every situation and I hate when even my siblings hurt my other siblings. - Lucy replied

- What are you doing anyway?- Lynn asked taking closer look to Lucy - Do you still sleep with dolls? I though you've grown up from this.

- Those are voodoo dolls of our sick siblings. - Lucy explained showing Lynn the dolls - I'll sleep with the dolls to transfer my body heat through them to Lincoln and Leni.

- Don't you know voodoo is fairy tale? - said Lynn laughing - At least I give them real help, not some mumbo jumbo.

- Your lack of faith won't stop me from trying. - Lucy replied - I also hope Lola will have nightmares tonight.

Lincoln was constantly changing pose as he couldn't sleep, what disturbed Leni in getting sleep.

- Problems with sleeping? - Leni asked

- All my muscles are in pain. - Lincoln complained

- I can barely breath. - Leni said - I hope I won't get suffocated during sleep.

- Put your head vertically on your pillow, that will make you breath better.

- Thanks for advice. - said Leni smiled - If you can't sleep, I can hug you like a plushy. It helped when you were a baby.

- I doubt it will work. - said Lincoln - Wait, I don't remember this.

- You as a baby often refused to sleep. - Leni replied - If Luna didn't sing you a lullaby, I had to sleep with you like with a plushy. You were much better than teddy bear.

- Was I a toy for you? - asked Lincoln confused and scared

- No, uh. - Leni answered embaraced - Sorry, I poorly choosed words. Your presense also helped me in sleeping.

- So much time together and I don't remember this.

- I miss times of our younger years. - said Leni with nostalgia - We had less troubles, we were carefree and we played together.

- Leni, you make feel better with those stories.

- Oh, I'm so glad I'm helping. - said Leni happily - Will you agree to what I said before?

- So be it. - Lincoln said and allowed Leni to hug him like a plushy, then they both sleeped.

In same time Lola was sleeping in her bed alone in her room. Lana went to Lori's room  because she didn't want to share room with Lola. She was moving like a fish catched in net because had a nightmare. She was in her room she detected a pale redish hand in the door. Owner of this hand revelated himself, he looked like pale Lincoln in dark blue coat, he looked like he fell to ice cold water.

- What happened to you? - Lola asked terrified - Why do you look like that, Linc?

- Now do you care? - the visitor said with very deep voice - You brought fever on Lincoln in your reckless indignation, it took him.

- What do you mean "took him"? - Lola asked  terrified

- Exacly what I said. - the visitor replied, approaching Lola

The visitor left steps that caused floor freeze. From pale of his left hand a long ice spike grew, index finger and baby finger of his right hand changed into ice claws.

- Two for eyes blind to wounded and one for the cold heart. - the visitor said calmly

- Nice trick, Linky, but it doesn't scare me. - Lola mocked

- Your sarkasm only makes me stronger. - said the visitor, showing his spike and claws growing.

The visitor charged on Lola but she dodged, hitting wall and causing it freeze. Lola tried to escaoe form her room, but the door and the window were frozen and immovable. When whole her room was covered with ice, the visitor hit the floor, causing its crack. Lola fell through hole on the floor and landed on kitchen floor wounded. The visitor jumped and shattered on pieces of ice. Lola laughed saying "What will you do now? You're just some ice cubes!" Suddenly the ice pieces assembled into a bulky humanoid with several spikes on back. The ice golem said "Revange is best served cold" and the it's head reshaped into Lola's head. Lola screamed, watching the ice golem approaching her. Lola woke up terrified. She started interpretting her dream. The visitor resembling Lincoln was her guilt, when the ice monster was her spite and ego. She realised what she did to Lincoln was malicious and jerkish and how big her ego blinded her. Fact she was alone in the locked room meant everyone abandoned her.

Morning Lincoln woke up in Leni's arms, yawning.

- How did my little prince sleep? - Leni asked smiled

- Very well. - Lincoln replied - How did you call me? - asked Lincoln surprised

- My little prince. - Leni answered enthusiastically - I had a dream or more precisely a memory in which younger you read book "Little Prince" and you showed me a picture of the titular character. You said you wanted a costume like his one for child carnival. I made you such costume and you said "Thank you, Leni, my big sister". I replied "Have nice child carnival, my little prince".

- I remember now. - Lincoln said - You used to call me that for some time because I really enjoyed wearing this costume. Lori and Lynn mocked me and asked sarcastically "where is your kindgom?". It didn't matter to me because you told them "Surely that's not a kingdom of meanies".

- I made them embarassed by this choice of words. - said Leni laughing - At least Luna and Luan liked you in this costume. You wore it until dad introduced you to comics. - Leni made a sad face - We grew up and saw each other less and less often.

- Why are you sad? - asked Lincoln confused - You look better than yesterday.

- I have to tell you the truth. - Leni replied - I intentionally got infected to be with you.

- What? That was dangerous.

- Each year we spend less and less time together. I wanted to be with you and talk with you as we did in old times. In this situation we have only company of each other. We had nothing better to do than talking.

- It was smart and silly at same time. - Lincoln admitted - I tried to spend some time with you but you don't like my new hobbies.

- We walked in separate ways and we couldn't find anything in common. It made me sad that I didn't know how to talk with you anymore.

- So you wanted to remind me old times when we could.

- Exacly. You're so smart.

- You have a big heart, a really big heart but it clouds your judgement.

- What do you mean? - asked Leni confused

- You're very kind but act recklessly.

- I'm a preety and nice girl, that's all I need to love my family.

- True.

While Leni and Lincoln laughed, Lori entered Lincoln's room. She used measured their temperatures. They got better but still Lori forbid them to leave bed. She left them and then someone knocked the door.

- Lincoln, I'm sorry - said Lola.

- You can leave, I have no intention to speak with you. - Lincoln commented

- I'm sorry for what I did yesterday morning.

- You're sorry? - Lincoln asked rethorically - You took me at least 2 days of holidays.

- What I did was terribly wrong. Please, don't be mad at me.

- You don't want my forgiveness, - Lincoln said - You just want to feel better.

- I knew you'd say this, so I brought you something. - Lola said - You wanted to build a snowman today. You can build it from white sand.

- Where did you bring the white sand from if you didn't leave the house? - Leni asked

- When we were on Aloha beach I took a bucket of the local sand as a souvenir. - Lola answered

- I would expect this from Lana, but you? - Lincoln asked surprised - I accept it.

- It's not the same as playing outside but I hope you'll enjoy. - Lola commented

- I'd like to build a with sandman with you. - Leni said

Lola opened the door and left a bucket of white sand in Lincoln's room. Leni and Lincoln played with the sand and pretended it's snow. Lincoln's sand statue reminded Ace Savy, Leni's one reminded Lincoln in costume of the Little Prince. When Lincoln saw this he felt selfish, so he quickly remodeled Ace Savy to Leni. The sister was confused why is her brother ruining his statue but then she smiled when she saw it now resembles her. Lola met Lucy.

- I gave Lincoln something that could remind him playing outside. - Lola said to Lucy - I hope that's enough for my atonement.

- I hear Linc and Leni laughing, so that means they enjoy it. - Lucy commented

- Your curse is really scary. I had a hell of a nightmare. - Lola said thrilled - Will you lift it now? I wanna sleep in peace.

- We all will sleep in peace one day forever. - said Lucy sarcastically

- Spare me your sarcasm. - said Lola annoyed - I wanna to end my atonement.

- There is no curse. - Lucy explained - It was a random improvised dance to make you fear. You deserved this after such nasty act.

- No curse, then what about the nightmare?

- Perhaps it was caused by your guilt. -Lucy explained - I am not sure. I'm no psychologist and I don't have power to influence dreams.

- So that was all an act? You...- Lola yelled but went silent not finishing - Maybe I really deserved this. It seems we have scaring others in common.

- Speak for yourself! - Lucy commented annoyed - I use surprise to scare people instead of hurting them or destroying their favorite toys. And often I don't do this intentionally, surely not for petty vendettas. Your problem is that you can't accept failures, you can't aknowledge you make mistakes and can't take lessons from them. Your philosophy is if you can't be a victor then nobody can.

- Are you going to lecture me? - asked Lola sarcastically

- Someone has to. - Lucy replied - You think you can destroy what you dislike and scare and hurt people when they don't act as you like. You know what? Such fear is temporary for everyone because it eventually turns into simple disrespect for you and when you're in really deep trouble you'll be all alone with it. We all learned this lesson and now it is your turn.

- Is this a threat? - asked Lola annoyed

- A harsh lesson you would eventually get anyway. - Lucy answered

- So be it. - Lola said with a defeated face expression - I am just a child who can't control own anger. I need to mature.

Suddenly Lola heard an echo of her recently said words. Lana revealed herself and showed Lola an audio recorder.

- All recorded. Whole conversation - Lana commented with a smile - I needed to record this moment of your sincere admitting.

- One sister tricked me and other sister recorded it. May it end already. - Lola said with exhausted tone

Luna brought Lincoln and Leni breakfast on board. She opened the door, put the board on floor behind the door.

- Hey, dudes, here's breakfast. - Luna said - What's this snow doing here?

- That's a white sand. - Lincoln replied - Lola brought it.

- I didn't expect it from her. - Leni commented, smiling - We could build sandmen.

- Thanks for the breakfast. - Lincoln said and took the board - So many vegetables in sandwiches just to make us healthier.

- I'm gonna wait till you end eating. - Luna said, putting hand on door and one leg on another- How do you feel?

- Better than yesterday. - Leni and Lincoln said simultanously

- You look so sweat together. - Luna commented - Like in old good times. All what remains is me singing old songs.

- I talked about this with Lincoln. - said Leni eating - We had nothing better to do stucked in one room.

- I envy you can freely go outside and build snowmen. - Lincoln said eating

- Meh, you envy us nothing, with too siblings sick we are in no mood to play outside. - Luna replied waving her hand

- I hope we'll get healthy today. - Lincoln said after eating his sandwich- With all those vitamines in those vegetables we should.

- Lori won't let you go outside even if you get healthy again today. - Luna said - But you know, in the house we can play together too.

- I've finished. - Leni said

- I should take the board but I rather stay here.

- Well, well, you ignore my commands. - Lori suddenly appeared

- I just wanted to speak with them. - Luna explained nervously

- You spoke enough. - Lori replied - I need to check them.

Lori measured temperature of both her siblings and said "Good news, you look good and your bodyheats are stabile." Lincoln and Leni hugged each other out of their joy. Luna smiled after hearing this. Lincoln took clothes from his wardrobe and asked for some privacy. His sisters left his room and closed the door. Lincoln got dressed and left his room, meeting rest of the sisters happy that all are healthy.

- I'm sorry, Lincoln. - said Lola with sad face - Will you forgive me?

-  Family forgives eventually. - answered Lincoln with angry glare - However I'll remember this.

- I can live with that. - Lola replied

- Lynn, I'm sorry for not appreciating your good intentions. - said Lincoln approaching Lynn - I don't want you to fill bad because of me.

- Bro, don't feel sorry, I helped you unwisely. - said Lynn and began sweating

- You look pale. - Lincoln commented - What did you do with the cocoa?

- I drank it. - Lynn replied - W hy would I waste it?

- Oh, man! - Lincoln made a facepalm - You drank a cocoa with fever virus  and got infected.

- Oh, no! I hate getting sick! - Lynn complained

- Nobody likes it - Lori asked - Lynn, you're sick, go to Lincoln's bed.

- What? Why not to her bed? - asked Lincoln confused

- In order to not infect Lucy in her room. - Lori answered - She needs to be isolated.

- It won't be so bad, Lynn. - said Lincoln - There is a white sand to play.

- W-White sand? - asked Lynn surprised - It will remind me of beach and make me feel warm. - Lynn commented enthusiastically

- So Lincoln will share a room with me. - Lucy commented - I'm excited to play with you, brother. - Lucy smiled

- After 30 hours in bed I have a lot of energy for playing with all sisters. - Lincoln replied

- One problem solved and another one appears. - Leni commented - Why can't we have a happy ending?

- Life is brutal. - Lori answered

THE END