That night, Mel and Leo, who had wasted no time in moving in together after Michael's untimely death, were lying in bed when they heard the sounds of strong winds building up, signalling the return of Hurriane Jessica.
"There she goes again," thought Leo.
"At least everone's safe in bed," thought Mel.
As it was, she was wrong about this, however. Chrabs had decided for some odd reason to go swimming in the well that night - apparently the fact that the dead bodies of half his family were bobbing around down there didn't bother him. Alternatively, he may just have wanted to spend some quality time inside the well, whose name was Coral, incidentally.
Hurricane Jessica, meanwhile, was extremely annoyed that there were no humans wandering around for her to massacre, and decided instead to take her rage out on Jade, a tree standing near to the well. She wrenched Jade out of the ground by the roots, and whipped her up into the air, finally depositing her, by an incredible stroke of coincidence (or fate, or possibly just because I say so, damn it!), into the well.
Chrabs was just watching a severed arm floating past (probably that of Jethro, or possibly Molly) when Jade fell down out of the sky, hitting him on the head and rendering him immedietly dead.
Vicky came out of the house next morning to find Jade's trunk sticking out of Coral's hole. It took a while, due to the number of things now clogging up the well, for her to make out her brother's corpse. When she did, she realised that she had no hope of pulling out past the tree with her trusty fishing rod, so intstead she asked Leo to climb down the tree and pull Chrabs out.
Mel, at first protesting a bit at the thought of eating another family member - all that human meat couldn't be good for them - soon shut up when Leo ripped his shirt off before making his way heroically down the tree. So the family ate well again that day.
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