Loonakids: Coyote Crowning

OK, this one will have plenty references to Twitches and Halloweentown. Keep an eye out!

Chapter 1

Around late-December, a few days after Christmas, Sarah Coyote had gone into a cooking spree again. That afternoon, she decided to take a break and laid her last recipe on the table. "OK, Slam. I got it all ready for you."

Slam Tasmanian said something, excitedly, and ate everything Sarah had baked.

"Well, back to the cutting board," said Sarah, "Somebody wanna clean this up?"

"Oh, I'll do it," Kelly, her older sister, said, coming up and getting out her wand.

"Oh, wait!" Tech, the girls' father, said. He quickly grabbed one of the chairs by the table and hid behind it. "OK, go ahead."

"Hey!" Kelly defended herself, "I'm not that bad!" Everyone looked at her. "OK, I'm that bad. But I've been working on it."

"Oh, boy," said Wendy, Kelly and Sarah's aunt.

Kelly glared at her aunt and waved her wand. Every dirty dish on the table flew over to the sink and washed itself.

"Wow," said Daniella, Wendy's triplet sister, "You really have been working on this."

Tech got up from behind the chair. "I'll say."

Kelly smiled, gratefully. She looked back at the dishes and waved her wand again to put them up…making them fly all over the place. Tech finally ducked a knife and it lodged in the wall. After it was over, Kelly sighed. "Oops." Everyone looked at her again. She forced a nervous smile. "Sorry about that, guys. I don't know why, but that actually happens a lot."

"You don't say," said Ryan, Kelly and Sarah's eldest brother.

"Like it never happens to you," Kelly scoffed.

Sophie, Tech's wife and the coyote kids' mother, sighed. "My kids are not doing well with the magic thing."

"Oh, and ours are going so well," Wendy said, sarcastically.

Daniella then heard a beeping sound coming from the conference room. "Call on the videophone. I'll get it."

"Oh, no," said Sophie, "We're coming with you." Anything could happen to any of them at any time, so they weren't gonna risk it. Everyone followed Daniella into the conference room as she answered the call, but they stayed far enough away for Daniella to have some privacy if the call was especially for her.

Daniella hit a couple buttons and a youngish woman appeared on the monitor. She had red hair and deep light blue eyes. She wore a long silk burgundy gown that reached the grass of the garden she was standing in and a garland in her hair.

Daniella smiled. "Queen Arielle."

"Who?" Duck (Wendy's husband) asked Wendy.

"The queen of Anasala," Wendy explained.

"Anasala's got a queen?" Tech asked.

"Well, the government of our world is a long, complicated system, but yeah."

"It's good to see you again," said Arielle, "It's been a long time since your parents died."

"I know," said Daniella, "Still miss 'em terribly."

"I can understand. But it's about time that I stepped down so we need a new heir to the throne and were wondering if you and your sisters would like to share the title."

Daniella smiled and looked at her sisters. Sophie was smiling and Wendy was nodding frantically. Daniella looked back at Arielle. "OK!"

"Great. So you can catch the next portal and declare your virginity and we'll just call you the queens."

"That's sounds—what?"

"Did she just say 'virginity'?" asked Wendy, "Tell me she didn't say 'virginity'!"

Arielle stopped smiling. "Well, only an untampered Witch can claim the throne. Aren't you 3 still all celibate?" (record needle scratches)

Daniella slowly turned back to the others. "Oh no."

Arielle sighed. "You're married, aren't you?"

Daniella turned back to her. "Well, we left because of true love. We married with the next year and Sophie had 7 kids and Wendy had 2 and I had one and I'm pregnant now. I mean, it's been 170 years. Couldn't you have expected that?"

"170?" Duck asked, "It's only been 17."

"In this world's time, yes," said Wendy, "But in Anasala, it's been 17 decades. A day here is a week there, a week is a month, and so on."

"Wait, so 36 years would be 36 decades," Duck reasoned, "i.e., 360 years?"

"Exactly," Wendy said. She then realized that she'd given off their real ages. "Oops."

"You're 360 years old?" Tech cried.

"A topic for another time," Sophie quickly intercepted, "Right now we've got this Anasalan throne situation to deal with."

"Well," Arielle said, "you're the only ones qualified and you can't claim the throne now that you're married and raising children."

"Wait, what about the children?" Kelly suggested, "Would they technically be qualified?"

"If they're unmarried virgins, then yes," Arielle explained.

Kelly stepped forward. "Then allow me to introduce myself: Kelly Coyote, newly full-powered Witch who's been single her whole life."

"And Ryan Coyote," Ryan said, stepping up, "her single brother."

Kelly looked at him. "What?"

"Hey, I'm not leaving you alone in an unfamiliar dimension."

Arielle smiled. "Well, you fit the qualifications, you've come of age…if you're willing to leave for an Anasalan week for the coronation then we're set."

"So we've got it worked out," said Kelly, "We can pack our bags and zap over there by sundown. Uh…sundown here, which will probably be a day or 2 over there…"

Arielle smiled again. "No problem. See you then." She left.

"You're leaving?" Sarah asked, hurriedly rushing to her brother and sister's sides.

"Relax, Sare," said Kelly, "You can handle yourself. Ryan and I can really learn how to use our magic—and do it without hurting anybody—and you guys can keep watch while we're gone. It'll just be a day here. It's not like anything's gonna happen. Oh, I hope I didn't just jinx it."

Sarah smiled. "Don't worry. I guess we can take care of it."

"Knew I could count on you," said Kelly, "Better go pack. Oh, wait! I can zap it!"

"NO!" everyone else shouted.

"Save the magic for the trip," said Ryan.

Within the hour, the 2 coyote kids were set to leave. Kelly and Ryan walked down the stairs to the lobby of the tower. Kelly, wearing some sunglasses (since Daniella had informed her that it was deep in the summer there, another reason to get away from the gloomy Acmetropolis winter), was holding her wand and her main suitcase…and Ryan was carrying everything else.

"OK, forget what I said about saving your magic," said Ryan, "Can't you make these bags glow legs or something?"

"OK." Kelly pushed her last bag into his gut.

"Not what I meant."

Rev Runner, Daniella's husband, zoomed down the stairs and to the 2 coyotes. "Wow-I-can't-believe-you're-actually-leaving-and-back-to-your-mom's-old-home-dimension-I-mean-it-seems-like-yesterday-we-were-changing-your-diapers-of-course-it-couldn't-have-been-yesterday-because-yesterday-was-a-month-after-you-turned-15-and—"

Kelly took back her bag and shoved it into Rev's gut. "Uncle Rev, I've wanted to this for 10 years: shut up!"

"OK."

Daniella ran up to Kelly and Ryan as the rest of the group ran down the stairs. She handed Kelly a book, seeing that Ryan couldn't hold anymore weight. "OK, this is a manual of everything you need to know to survive in Anasala. It doesn't have any of the fundamentals of magic, of course, but it does have all the laws, histories, celebration instructions, traditions-"

"Aunt Danni?" Kelly stopped her.

"Huh?"

"You have spending too much time with your husband."

Sophie came up and hugged her kids, hugging Ryan so hard that he dropped all the bags. "Good luck out there, you 2. And tell Arielle I want my bracelet back."

Kelly nodded. "Will do." She looked at Wendy.

"It's a long story, don't ask," Wendy said. She hugged the kids.

"We'll only be gone for a day in our time," Kelly said.

"I don't care, we'll miss you."

"Oh!" Daniella realized, "And if you need us and haven't learned any communication spells, be sure to call us on our headphones."

"You mean cell phones," Ryan corrected.

Daniella pulled out 2 shrunken head dolls. "Headphones." She giggled as Duck and Jack (Wendy and Duck's son) jumped back at the sight of them. "They're like cell phones for Witches." She handed one to Ryan. She turned away and whispered into her head phone: "They work just like magic."

The headphone echoed this. Ryan would've jumped, but he was a little upset about everyone having him carry everything.

"OK, I think that's everything," said Daniella as Tech said goodbye to his 2 eldest, "I better open the portal-"

"Oh, can I do it?" Kelly asked.

Daniella looked at her. "No." Kelly threw her hands up. Daniella did a quick spell and opened the portal. Kelly and Ryan said their final goodbyes and left.