Chapter Eleven
The next morning came and went. Robin woke up, and Sweetums carried him back to the house, making sure he was alright. But...Uncle Deadly wouldn't wake up.
"Sheesh. I should go and see how Robin is doing...he's missed some school because of this...." The frog's feelings were being torn at the seams, he wanted to watch over Robin, be the careful protective Uncle...yet, this Uncle needed to be taken care of.
"Uncle Deadly?" Kermit softly shook the old dragon's shoulder, still a little worried about him. "Why won't you wake up, you old ghost??"
A soft light lit the room up once more. And in a puff of white smoke, Life stepped into the room. She silently walked beside Kermit and Uncle Deadly, then sat, indian-legged on the floor.
"Hello, Kermit. You are wanting to know why he won't wake up?"
He turned his head, towards Life, and he looked down. He didn't feel it right to look right into her face.
"What is the matter, Kermit? I am not like that shadow, you can talk to me. I will listen." She looked like a beautiful frog now, to Kermit. Her white robes where gathered around her body, as she smiled at Kermit. Her long white hair, flowed over her shoulders, and she grasped a slim olive branch in her hand.
"You...you're....I just can't...." He could not bear to look in her face.
She reaches out, and tilts his chin upwards, smiling softly. "It is alright Kermit. What is it you wish to know about your friend?"
"My....friend?"
"Why, yes. He has saved this theatre many times, without you even realizing it. Have you ever thought as to why their are no robberies, or vandalism to this theatre? Although the rest of the area is littered with it?"
"Well...no...I haven't..."
"And then....with your little nephew. He protected him from the Shadow in the little frog's time of need. So...what is it you wish to know, Kermit?"
Kermit took a deep breath, and he sat back, reflecting for a moment on what she told him. It was true. He had noticed it, but he had never made any comment. He looked her straight in the face, determined now.
"When will Uncle Deadly be alright? When will he wake up, Life? I want to know....Robin wants to know."
She stood up, and looked down at him, then over at Uncle Deadly. Her voice becomes deeper, as if echoing across time.
"The phantom of this theatre shall awaken when he meets his true soulmate. Only when those two are reunited, shall he awaken. But, frog. You must act quickly, for his soulmate is nearing the time of passing herself. If you do not find her....he shall be lost to Limbo, for all time."
Life nodded softly, and before Kermit could respond, she popped out in her white smoke and light.
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Kermit lifted Uncle Deadly onto an old mattress they had backstage, and he folded his hands across his chest.
"Yeesh. Looks like he's dead." Kermit stopped for a second. "He is dead already." He just shook his head at that. Then he grabbed his coat, and his keys. He closed the door to Uncle Deadly's room, and left the theatre, thinking about what Life had said.
"....You must act quickly, for his soulmate is nearing
the time of passing
herself. If you do not find her....he shall be
lost to Limbo, for all time...."
He couldn't believe what he had heard. He kept replaying those words over and over in his head. Then he stopped in his tracks.
"Why should I save Deadly? He's been nothing but a thorn in our sides ever since we came into the theatre..."
He kept walking, thinking that. Then he remembered, just how much Robin enjoyed Uncle Deadly's company, how every Halloween Uncle Deadly would help the kids that always came to the theatre to dress up, and he would always say to them.
"I'm too old to go with you children...why don't you go with Fozzie instead? Or Kermit!"
Kermit smiled at those memories, the children would miss Uncle Deadly...if he were gone. By this time, he was at the house's door, and nearly every muppet that lived there was almost squashed against the windows. Kermit frowned for a second, then he laughed.
Then he remembered what he had to do. He's got to find that letter that Deadly had written before!