Howl's Moving Castle

{My version with a few changes}

Howl's P.O.V.

Today, there is a huge parade going on in Market Chipping. I headed over there to watch it.

. . . . .

Just as I was air walking above the parade I saw two blue and red solider uniforms and a bluish gray dress with and straw hat. I flew down just a half block away and walked toward them. Soon, I was close enough that I could hear snippets of their conversation.

"Isn't she cute?"

"She like a little mouse."

"Hey, little mousy are you lost."

The two soldiers were talking to the girl. Then I heard,

"I'm not lost now leave me along."

One of the guys said, "Your moustache scares all the girls."

I heard the other reply, "I think she's cuter when she's scared."

Then I heard the girl again, "Leave me alone."

It was a strong voice and yet I knew she was afraid.

I decided to help her out. I came out of the shadows putting my hand on her shoulder and saying, "There you are dear. I was looking for you."

I saw with the moustache say, "Hey, we were busy."

"Really," I said, "It looked to me as if you were leaving." I said with a flick of my finger to make them stand straight and start marching. I flicked my hand to the right to point them in a direction away from us.

I asked the young lady where she was going. She said, "Just to the bakery." I felt a weird tingling when I'm being followed. I told her just in case, "I think I'm being followed. Don't look behind you."

Then of course blob men start to appear behind us. Darn it, everything was going wrong. Then, they start appearing in front of us. I took a sharp right. After a few seconds they start appearing here to. I started picking up speed. As soon as I was going fast enough I took off.

The girl was tightened up in a ball. I told her to straighten out her legs and start walking. She clutched my hands tightly. She looked at me with gray-blue eyes and her beautiful chestnut hair. I told her she was a natural.

I soon arrived at the bakery and set her down saying, "I lead them away from you, but don't go anywhere to soon." I flew straight down into the crowd.

I began to air walk back to my castle. As soon as I got there I saw everyone was quite content. Markl was sitting there practicing the spell I had given him. Calcifer was not in one of his moods. Which normally included some insults a couple of logs and him getting angry at me.

Sadly, I had to go see if something was happening in the war. I turned the dial to black and flew out the door. The village below me had not burned yet. That was a positive. A battleship was a few miles away and loaded with a bunch of bombs. I could not let it go with all those bombs and blow the village to pieces. I said a couple of magic words. Suddenly, the bombs couldn't dislodge themselves.

I was proud of myself. I had not killed anyone, nor was the village in flames. I flew straight back to the castle realizing it was morning. I was in such a good mood that I could turn straight back into a human. Then, I hung my head realizing that birds have more energy then humans. I looked up and saw an old lady cooking on Calcifer.

"Calcifer, you're being so obedient." I told him.

"She bullied me." He told me in a I'm not happy kind of way.

"Not just anyone can do that." I replied in a calm even tone trying not to laugh. "Who might you be?" I asked the lady.

"Y-you can j-just ca-call me Grandma S-sophie. I'm your new cleaning lady." She told me with an uneven, shaky tone. I realized she was frying a single piece of bacon.

"Who hired you to cook here?" I asked.

"Calcifer did he's disgusted by how dirty it is in here." She told me. She was probably lying but did it really matter? I took over cooking and said, "Hand me two more pieces of that bacon and six more eggs."

She quickly handed me two more pieces of bacon. Then she handed to me one egg at a time. I broke them and fed the shell to Calcifer. After a minute or two they were done. "Markl," I called, "Get the plates."

Markl hurried to find three clean plates and cups. I gave everyone two and a piece of bacon. Then, I offered everyone a piece of bread. Markl was literally choking down breakfast as soon as he poured the tea. "Sophie," I said, "what's that in your pocket."

She looked surprised as she reached into her pocket and taking out a red sheet of paper. "Hand that to me." I told her. She gladly handed it over. Before it reached my hand to shock me and flew down to the table and left scorch marks on the table.

"Master Howl," Markl cried, "can you read them."

"You who swallowed a shooting star, O heartless man, your heart shall soon be mine." I read aloud. I showed no signs of alarm but inside I was panicking. How did the witch of the waste know this lady would come here? I got up and fed my bacon and eggs to Calcifer saying "Move the castle 60 miles to the West." I started to walk upstairs. Then, I suddenly remembered. "Oh and make some hot water for my bath." I told him.

I really needed time to think. I turned the water on and got in I dyed my hair blonde again and just stopped and thought how did the witch know, maybe she just assumed. I thought and thought and couldn't think of anything. I fingered my necklace slowly. No, I don't take it off in the bath because then I get terrible head and stomach aches because I've had it on for so long. It basically has a little bit of Calcifer in it. If I take it off I get really cold too. Soon, got out and dried myself off. I got dressed and went back down stairs. That made me not to exhausted.

I went down stairs and went to the door and turned the dial black again. Markl cried, "You're going out again?"

I responded by flying out the door. I morphed into a bird and quickly flew to the borders to see if everything was okay. What I saw did not make me happy. Whole villages/cities were in flames. I practically groaned when mages/wizards and witches who were monster flew up to meet me. After fighting all day I was exhausted. I flew up into the sky and disappeared to my castle. I was way too exhausted.

I flopped into the chair right next to Calcifer. Calcifer told me I looked terrible. That was probably because I was half human and half bird. I sat there for a few minutes. It took me almost all my willpower to turn back into a complete human. Calcifer told me it was very risky to keep going out like that. As if I didn't all ready know.