Dedicated to Winona Laura Horowitz
Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz
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LYDIA DEETZ AND THE HAWAIIAN GHOST
Chapter 2: Juicifer
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The fact that Beetlejuice emerged from his partially digested eye implied a number of problems:
First, he no longer had the great powers he once possessed; Second, regenerate from a small piece as his eye implied that his magic was unstable, if he dared to use his magic to its full capacity it might be frightening but the effect would only last a moment.
He would have to plan his revenge well but he didn't have enough time because he could be found by that charred ghost, and she had power over him because she had saved him, but of course, he still had some dirty tricks left in the bag.
Kimo and his ruffians were released and when he was on his way home, Beetlejuice appeared before him and entered his mouth and took possession of his body. Beetlejuice's initial plan was to seduce Lydia, but he took this for useless because Lydia could discover him when she saw his aura, and her cat could also do something similar, he didn't have time, so he chose the easy way, he would give Lydia a potion that would make her fall in love with him and at the same time hate her damn cat. Once married to Lydia, the barriers of the world and no world would not be an obstacle to him.
“Excuse me, I can talk to you for a moment," a possessed Kimo said to Lydia.
"I have nothing to say to you," Lydia replied, and then she got up from the seat and headed for the tourist resort, which was almost finished because of his parents' mania to always rush things.
“I know I don't deserve you to even speak to me, but I came to tell you that when I was arrested I saw the evil of my actions and I came to apologize, even if you didn't listen I had to say it, please forgive me, it is horrible to go against everything I believed before, my friends now hate me and I am a pariah in the whole island...”
Lydia turned and looked seriously at Kimo and accepted his apologies, but stressed that even if he apologized, he did not expect a different treatment from Lydia than the current one and went with determined step to the hotel.
“Fucking little girl, she was more complicated than I assumed. What's wrong with today's girls? Where is the simplicity of life and superficiality? Plan "B" time.”
The ghost infiltrated the hotel and placed the potion in Lydia's jug, now everything would be waiting a little bit.
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With the new day just beginning and already awake, Lydia took a shower and after changing a new set of Gothic clothes she took some juice, everything seemed fine but then she noticed that Percy behavior towards her was a little cold. In fact, Percy was as kind to Lydia as always, but the potion distorted the reality that Lydia experienced.
By attending Maui's training, things got worse because Lydia felt that Percy didn't appreciate her efforts to try to master the magical tsunami that the shaman was trying to teach her, so she told Percy that she would go to the hotel alone and that she didn't need him to accompany her.
Percy, as he walked sadly and confusedly to the hotel, saw how Lydia was talking to Kimo in a very lively way.
“Lydia, what are you doing with this guy.”
“Percy, I told you to leave me alone, plus I can talk to whoever I want so leave.”
“How do you want me to go? I can't leave you with this guy. Don't you remember what he did?”
“I won't tell you again Percy, go away, you're just a nosy cat, or did you expect something else to happen between us?”
Lydia's words struck Percy hard, who felt an unpleasant current touching his face and chest at the same time, and without being able to control his actions, he turned and rushed toward the thick of the island.
Lydia composed a sad face that made Beetlejuice worry.
"Damn, the girl is very strong; she still has feelings for the cat. If I don't hurry, my whole plan will go to waste," Beetlejuice thought, and then he said to Lydia:
“Darling, how about introducing me to your parents?”
Beetlejuice gave another potion to Lydia and now with the girl's low defenses, Beetlejuice got rid of Kimo's body and disguised himself as a wealthy young oil man, and with Lydia headed inside the hotel.
Beetlejuice was surprised to see how easy everything was going, he did not expect the Deetz to be so miserable when they immediately accepted that their daughter would marry this handsome young man and also oil billionaire, and the wedding was arranged for the following night!
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“Lydia, Lydia...” Percy sobbed without consolation, cared nothing and did not hide his ears and tail. Each sob was cut short by the crying that wanted to get out of his chest as he tried with one hand to hold the other tightly as if it were Lydia and he was unwilling to let her go.
“Percy, what happened to you?” Maui asked who happened to pass by the place.
“It's Lydia," Percy said to him, and he explained the situation to Maui and Maui was thoughtful.
“I don't think the Lydia I know could say that, you don't think something strange is happening. It's best if you talk to her and try to make things clear.”
Percy listened attentively to the old man's words and decided that he was right, went to the hotel and heard firecrackers detonating in the distance.
"The inauguration of the hotel! It's this evening, how could I forgot that," Percy thought, rushing to the place.
When he arrived, the chaos was unleashing itself. Beetlejuice had lost control of his power and a horde of ghostly monsters accompanied him: Hypnoids, who were headless ghosts swallowing spaghetti from their necks; resuscitated skeletons of dinosaurs brought by Delia; cactus women; various sculptures of Delia; and most impressive of all... the island's stony heads were actually entire buried giants.
“Percy!” Lydia shouted. “Good thing you're here.”
“What happened, Lydia? That's Beetlejuice, I thought he was dead.”
“I also thought that he was dead, but it seems that he is not only alive but also more powerful. Oh Percy! I'm so sorry, I didn't want to tell you those things but I didn't have control of myself.”
A heavy blow from one of the giants rumbled into place and the two kids took refuge in a safer place.
“Beetlejuice possessed Kimo's body and made me ingest a potion to hate you and to fall in love with him.”
“If there is someone who should apologize, that would be me," said Percy, "with "Perceiving Evilness" I should have discovered that there was something strange in Kimo, but I was a fool and fled the place.”
“Forgive me, Percy," said Lydia.
“I told you that there is nothing to forgive Lydia, now we have to stop Beetlejuice," Percy said, looking at the girl directly in her eyes, there was no trace of rancor in Percy’s eyes.
“Thank you... but now to say Beetlejuice's name three times doesn't work anymore, Kimo once he came to his senses was about to shout his "new name" but Beetlejuice, incinerated him in the act.”
“Do you have any idea what he might have said?”
“No idea, he just said: "shallow", and then he died in a horrible way, he couldn't finish saying the name.”
“How did you get rid of Beetlejuice's spell?”
“It was difficult, but just before I accepted to be his wife, I regained my senses. I started screaming Beetlejuice's name several times but nothing happened. Then the ghost was furious and screaming, he took off his tuxedo while shouting that he had already digested the ghosts of the island and transformed himself into "Juicifer", then summoned his horde of monsters.”
A roar approached them and they decided to move and seek refuge elsewhere. The chaos was total, both tourists and locals fleeing from the monsters Beetlejuice summoned. The beatnicks tried to flee in a group but Beetlejuice, transformed into a giant aberration, opened his jaws with long, sharp teeth and swallowed the group of surfers with a single bite.
“We're in danger," Lydia said.
“Calm down, Lydia, I assure you that no matter what, I will protect you, I will protect your life with mine if necessary," Percy grabbed her by the arms and stared into her eyes.
"Besides, I still can't get you to eat that shark soup," he said with a smile.
Lydia calmed down and after lowering her eyes for a few seconds, she looked back at Percy with resolve, and straight to his eyes.
“Percy I'm going to call "Magic Tsunami", I'm sure, this time I can do it.”
“I'll give you some time.”
“Don't you dare, don't you dare to die Percy, please don't you dare....”
“None will die, I swear to you...” He promised, and Percy went to the front of the hotel, while Lydia was on her way to the beach.
A hypnoid was running towards Percy and the cat boy shouted: BALON, and immediately the boy rolled up and as if it were a ball he went against the ghost. The hypnoid upon being reached was sent directly to No World.
Lydia arrived at the beach and prepared to summon the magic Maui taught her. She spread her legs apart and straightened her spine in a pose equal to that of a karate man. She had to connect with the forces of Mother Earth to achieve it, and nothing happened...
A scream came out of Percy's throat: COLA EXTENSIBLE, and Percy's tail stretched and held the hair of one of the cactus women. Not being able to hit with BALON against a ghost covered with spikes, he decided to hold her with his tail through her hair and threw her away from the place.
“Concentrate Lydia," she said to herself, "you have to feel the strength of Mother Earth.”
Then in her mind appeared the figure of a gigantic feline and then the figure of the deceased mother of Lydia....
The enormous skeleton of a dinosaur was about to crush Percy when he shouted: GRAVEDAD and the mass of bones collapsed to the ground.
Streams of magical energy enveloped Lydia as if it were a miniature tornado; Lydia's hair raised defying gravity and with a powerful voice conjured the spell.
Three giants surrounded Percy and in a whisper he said to himself: INVISIBILIDAD and the giants lost sight of him.
Percy was tired of using so much magic, but his love for Lydia drove him on, but at the time one of Delia's sculptures jumped into the void trying to crush a fleeing tourist and he was almost free, but he caught Percy and flew him five yards from the place.
"Lydia... I don't think I can enjoy that wonderful soup with you."
The lights of dawn peeked out over the horizon and showed how it was mysteriously rising and, besides, approaching!
The horizon was approaching at a brutal speed as a noise as if coming from an airplane engine rumbled through the place. The gigantic wave struck the monsters of Beetlejuice with all its fury and made them disappear; the same Beetlejuice disappeared without even giving him the opportunity to give a single scream.
After the hustle and bustle everything remained peaceful, both Beetlejuice and his monsters were exterminated, "Paradise Deetz" was in ruins. The giant wave had wiped out everything, both the islanders and tourists who had survived the wave's pre-arrival attack were undamaged, but there were still several bodies scattered around the site, the unfortunate ones who perished before Lydia's power intervention, as well as the islanders' houses and folkloric structures of the place were standing and undamaged, it seemed the islanders' houses and folkloric structures were still standing. Apparently the wave only damaged what the summoner considered his enemy, be it ghosts, monsters or in the case of the hotel, unwanted structures.
In the midst of the ruins a tiny, white-winged head with wings at the sides was trying to mumble something, but he couldn't make it, so black burned arms held the tiny, strange head.
“You will not escape again, you are mine, you are only mine, my love, my "Shallowtail".” And the figure of a charred woman disappeared with the head.
Lydia stumbled through the place screaming her friends name without getting an answer, and then one of her feet hit the body of a black cat lying inertly on the ground.
“Percy, Percy.” Lydia started crying as she held her friend's corpse tightly against her chest and covered him with kisses and tears.
“Lydia?” A voice was heard and the girl looked aside and saw the Deetzes looking at her attentively.
“Lydia?” The voice was heard again and then the young woman looked the other way and saw Percy looking at her in a worried way and then he said with a nervous smile: “you know: “multiple souls”, I still have eight lives left.”
“Percy!” Lydia shouted and rushed to Percy, and as he was within reach she embraced him tightly. The inert body of Percy the cat had disappeared.
“Percy, I thought, I thought...” was trying to say Lydia, but Percy wouldn't let her continue because he kissed her on the lips.
Lydia's eyes widened, but then she narrowed them and kissed her friend back. In the face of all the desolation in the place, the bodies of Lydia and Percy stood like tall steel towers and unscathed. As if the Eiffel Tower and the Tokyo Tower were standing next to each other.
Both friends separated for a brief moment and kissed again.
THE END
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