Mourning the Loss of Brooke and Zady (Three Deaths In One Story...WOW!)
Brooke's scream echoes to Nathan and Gabriel, who rush over and find her dead body on the ground. Panic-stricken and shocked, Gabriel bellows out, "PORTAL!" Thankfully Portal appears, hearing Gabriel's call and they return to inform Evelyn O'Reilly of the most recent death now.
They reappear in the lobby, finding everyone still standing around as they had been before. Drouin and Vladdy are sitting on the couch and Vladdy is braiding his friend's blue and white tail while humming along to 'When Will My Life Begin' from the Disney movie Tangled. Drouin's hair is already decked with blue bows.
Gabriel raises an eyebrow and then shakes his head, thinking he is seeing things.
"There you go Jo!" Vladdy rings out. "All done!" The braids all fall out into curly loops.
"Thanks, uh," Drouin says before he mutters to Stralman, "Can someone kill me now?"
"Okay, he's also turning into a little girl," Ondrej hisses at TJ. "That's not normal...or right. Do something."
TJ smacks his palm to his forehead. "Vladdy, stop braiding Drouin's tail! And please get those bows out of his hair! What are you doing, have you lost your mind?"
Vladdy shakes his head, smiling largely. "Just...picking on Jo. Don't worry Pally and TJ I'm not a little girl, I'm just learning how to be a good dad, using Jo the unicorn to practice on! If I have a daughter some day, I gotta learn how to braid her hair!"
Drouin frowns. "Gay."
"Says the unicorn with sparkly bows in his hair." Vladdy gives him an awkward smile.
"Oh, look Gabriel's back," Drouin exclaims, causing them all to turn and look at the two stunned Avalanche players.
Nathan and Gabriel walk up to where Evelyn is with Val, Ulianna, Ovechkin and Evgeny. The captain of the Avalanche lowers his head, while he taps on Evelyn's shoulder. She spins to him in shock.
"Gabriel? What's wrong? Did you tell Brooke what happened?" Evelyn questions.
Gabriel bites his lip and sighs, "Can we talk, Evelyn?"
"What happened?" Evelyn says, turning to him fully.
"Brooke, we told her and she got all emotional and ran off and...well..." Gabriel trails off and looks at his friend.
"She committed suicide, Evelyn. She's dead." Nathan unleashes a sorrowful mooing noise.
"I see..." Evelyn remarks, looking down at her feet. "Three deaths. Wow."
Val puts a hand on her shoulder, looking at the Avalanche players with tear-filled eyes. "Brooke is dead? Glad got learn English...still need help, but miss her."
"Val, are you okay?" Nathan asks.
"No!" Val sobs. "Lost two friends!" He drops into a chair, covering his face. "Zady and Brooke! I no think Brooke commit suicide either!"
Evelyn hugs him, trying to comfort Val as he cries harder. "Well I guess we should have the funeral for them both and then figure out what to do..." She sighs again. "First Sid, now Zady and Brooke...who else will we lose?"
"Hopefully no one else," Val murmurs. "Hopefully no one else."
A few hours later, they conduct the funeral for Nikita Zadorov and Brooke Johnson, utilizing the teleportation from Portal and Zvezda and magic powers from Psychica to get both bodies ready. They are being put next to Sidney Crosby's grave.
The ceremony is long and sorrowful knowing that the couple were close to everyone there, especially Kelly MacKinnon, Evelyn O'Reilly and Valeri Nichushkin. It strikes these three the most.
At the end, Evelyn remains behind with Kelly and Val at her side. They had been the three bestest of friends. They are soon joined by Captain Blackhawk, who drops his head in sympathy.
"I'm sorry, Evelyn," the captain of the Blackhawks says. "Brooke will be missed, but I hate to bring this up now, but I'm going to help Artemi Panarin cope with his new form and powers. Turns out, I found out how to get him to transform. The good news is he can turn into a human and isn't stuck as a bread baking werewolf anymore. The bad news is, he can't speak at all, still howls and produces bread. But it's a step in the right direction I guess."
Evelyn nods and finally turns from the graves of her two friends. "That's okay CB. I understand. Go, be with your rookie. I need to gather the others and we need to get back to the headquarters."
Captain Blackhawk nods and lifts up into the air once more, zooming off and vanishing from sight.
Evelyn turns to the still crying Kelly and Val, who are hugging and holding onto one another. "Come on guys, let's go. There's no sense in staying and drowning in the sorrows. They'll be missed, but never forgotten."
They turn and follow Evelyn to where the others are and they gather and Portal teleports them back to the lobby.
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