Who Are You?

10: Pinball Wizard

A/N: Happy Birthday to our witch ;)

The witch went back to chanting, no longer paying attention to the surroundings.

Moon's mouth dropped, staring at the body hanging upside down getting slowly lowered into the flames.  John even briefly took off his sunglasses to view the sight.''Keith Richards... why are you here?"

Keith's eyes fluttered open, he struggled arms flailing all around but the octopus didn't loosen its grip. ''Yeah,''  he gasped. ''About that I dunno... I kinda have bad luck.''

Roger gasped. ''No kidding, you do... You are about about to get sacrified to Satan by an evil witch and her apprentice!"

Pete nodded.''You are also hanging upside down in the clutches of an evil giant octopus pet.''

Keith shrugged. ''Yeah but they are doing a joint one which means I have to spend eternity in hell with-''

Another tentacle dropped from the ceiling, clutching another body. ''Helloooooo,'' beamed Mick who wasn't unconscious and he somewhat seemed to be enjoying himself.

A weak disgruntled yeah was all that Keith could manage. Moon winced. ''I see your predicament, but luckily we are here to save you.''

Keith turned his head to look at the flames and gulped. ''Haha, yeah that's nice and all but you better hurry up.''  The flames were drawing nearer, Keith's face was beaded with sweat. There was still about a bodies distance between him and the fiery circle of death, but if they didn't do anything he was in trouble for sure.

Pete in an unexpected act of bravery leapt out of his seat and ran to the Witch's apprentice and slammed into him. ''LET THEM GO,'' he screamed at the small man. In the struggle, the apprentice's hood was pulled off. Everyone was shocked both at Pete's reaction and the facial reveal.

''Eric Burdon,'' proclaimed Moon. ''Why?"

Eric smiled and shrugged.  ''What can I say... I have a thing for people especially women who will probably burn houses down.''

John face palmed and and growled in annoyance. ''What next... will Mick confirm to be a drag queen???"

Mick adjusted the abnormally large bow on his head. ''About that...''

''SHUT UP MICK,'' yelled Keith. ''I'M ABOUT TO DIE AND IF YOU HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN YOUR NEXT. ERIC GET ME OUT OF HERE."

''No can do my man,'' shrugged Eric. ''I'm sorry but my girlfriend is determined to finish this curse. You are going to need to find some more help. Don't let me be misunderstood... I just really want her to be happy and I fully support her.''

''NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU AND YOUR EGGS,'' begged Keith. ''JUST GET ME OUT OF HERE SOMEBODY... ANYBODY!''

Everyone gasped as the octopus threw Keith into the fire. He was burnt to a crisp.

''Well shit,'' remarked Mick staring at the ashes. ''Looks like I'll need a new guitarist and flirting partner.''

Pete coughed. ''We could always find a Keith lookalike and replace him in the band then hide clues all over the next albums and no one will notice apart from the fact that he gets really hot strangely in the span of the next few years.''

Everyone including Mick looked at Pete and shook their heads. But there wasn't time to mourn Keith's death for long as down from the sky fell a beautiful bright star, and on top of the star stood a beautiful purple ombre haired woman. Her hair was dark as night but only the tips were a shade of mysterious purple. Her head hang low when she saw what was left of her friend. ''I'm too late,'' she managed to say, not completely believing her eyes.

''Hey, what about me,'' giggled Mick still hanging upside. Everyone ignored him naturally.

Moon sighed. ''It's okay, I'll just have to use the ring , but we can't fail this time. It's one wish remember. We all need to work together.'' He twisted his ring, clearing his mind and closing his eyes. His thoughts came through crystal clear and he commanded the ring to obey him. ''Make the clock reverse, bring back this idiot,'' he thought. Moon opened his eyes to see Keith Richards turn from dust to himself (there is a difference), being reborn like a phoenix. He was falling backward, up and up. Everyone else was there, determined this time. Eric stood aside. The witch didn't seem to notice time reversing. She must of just been outside of the zone. Time stopped rewinding and Keith was once again getting slowly lowered into the flames.

The woman with the purple hair pulled out a dildo from her handbag and threw it at the witch. It hurtled towards the Witch but missed by the smallest amount (like Paul McCartney's dick size.)

''Holly,'' she called. ''You are running late!" The others ran to the hallway, and grabbed weapons, voodoo dolls just anything they could find to defend themselves.

  A lady riding a flying Pegasus came in, apologising. ''I'm so sorry I was with the lizard king, it was raining and they got very excited.'' Holly guided her horse and swooped grabbing Mick and slamming him to the back of the horse. ''Random Fan #1 at your service.''

''Run,''  yelled Elisa the purple haired lady. ''It's a bomb. The place is gonna blow, I'll grab Keith.''

Holly cut Keith's bonds and Elisa managed to cushion his land with her handbag.   Everyone ran through the hallway back to the van but Moon.

''YOU FOOLS,''  yelled the witch breaking the incarnation. ''A BOMB WON'T END THIS.''

''This isn't no ordinary bomb,'' smiled Moon recognising the label. ''It's a cherry pie bomb.''

They all made it to the bus in time to see the house go up in an puff of smoke.

''That was insane,'' sighed Moon looking around at everyone together in the bus.

Keith smiled and shook his hand. ''Thank you for saving my life Moon. I really didn't want to spend eternity with him.'' He said nodding over to where Mick sat talking about himself to Holly and Pete. Keith thanked him once more and walked off with Elisa to the ping pong tables.

Moon looked down at his ring. '' Well, this was a failure.''

''I wouldn't say so,'' smiled Roger. ''You saved Keith's life, and found out more about the ring.''

Moon smiled weakly back. ''I did save Keith although I think I may have granted him immortality or something here.''

Roger laughed. ''That will be interesting. Just come on try and relax, we can worry about the ring later.''

Moon tried to relax but there was this continuous uneasy feeling that seemed to be eating him away. ''Sure Roger,'' he nodded, but truthfully... he was so confused and worried.