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Chapter Seven: Busters & Burgers, Demons & Ducks

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  Chapter Seven: Busters & Burgers, Demons & Ducks             Shadowhunters.             A special kind of demon-hunters, born with angel blood, maintaining their own culture and civilization within human society throughout centuries. Simultaneously, they’ve kept the Shadow World a secret from the world of “mundanes” (their word for humans), protecting both. Their angelic blood gifted them with abilities beyond human capacity through the application of runes.             Not even the Ghostbusters or the M.I.B. knew of their existence (and they preferred to keep it that way).             Three specific Shadowhunters were staking out on the corner of Ocean Avenue in the Brooklyn district – Jace and the Lightwood siblings, Alec and Isabelle (“Izzy” for short). They stood across the street from Bob’s Burgers, a hamburger joint owned and operated by Bob Belcher and his family.             They waited hours for Scrooge McDuck to arrive.             “I can’t believe you h

Chapter Six: Welcome to Amphibia

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  Chapter Six: Welcome to Amphibia             The two-week journey from Wartwood to Newtopia was a long, dull, and sometimes dangerous one for Anne Boonchuy and the Plantars, a family of frogs that she met and started living with since the day she was transported away from her world and into theirs. The whole purpose of the trip was for Anne to finally get the answers she needed in finding a way back to Earth. It was the music box that brought her there, which – for the time being – was kept in safe care with Hop Pop, the elder Plantar and grandfather of Sprig and Polly.             With nothing other than her phone to entertain them in the family wagon (“Fwagon” for short), Anne decided to treat her adopted frog family with a song she came up with, during her time in Amphibia. She got Sprig to play a jovial tune on his fiddle that accompanied her lyrics: Anne: Now I find myself in the wild unknown, with the frogs and toads, and I’m far from home. But there’s so much here