Author's note:
Okay! I know that i promised that I would, you know, put up Castle in the Air from Howl's point of view in, like, October. But, unfortunately, I was not able to stick to that promise.
So, I was just sitting at my computer, when my fingers started to type by themselves.
This chapter is crappy, so sorry about that. I promise that the next chapters shalt be a whole lot better.
LOVE,
ME!
Howl clattered downstairs with a clash. "Is breakfast ready?" he asked.
Sophie nodded. She was looking weird.
Howl looked at her with concern. "Are you okay?"
Michael shrugged. "She's been like this all morning." Calcifer nodded in agreement.
Sophie looked down at her stomach, and then up at Howl tearfully. "I'm pregnant."
EIGHT AND THREE-QUARTERS OF A MONTH LATER...
Howl rubbed his head. "How's Morgan?" he asked.
Sophie laughed. "He's alright. Stop asking." She brushed a curl out of her hair. "Anyway, we still set up that spell so that when I think that he might be coming, I can just think about it and you'll know."
Michael and Robbie, the new apprentice, looked up. "The king's worried."
"Why?" Howl asked airily.
"Because a whole lotta princesses have been stolen," Robbie said. He was a tall, light-haired boy with wide gray eyes that Sophie and Michael claimed looked like Martha's. "And apparently, there's a djinn that's looking for a castle to put them in. Something that can go up into the sky."
Howl exchanged glances with Sophie. Calcifer crackled uneasily. "This is not good," he said.
"Is the djinn coming?" Howl asked Calcifer.
Calcifer shifted uneasily as he looked around. His orange eyes flickered. "Yes."
"Curses!" Howl said. "The blasted things are fast!"
"You think?" Sophie spat. She touched all of the walls. "Walls, do NOT let in a djinn. Do NOT." She repeated the same sentence over and over, while Howl felt her spells go up and encase the walls.
Howl rushed to the bench and started to slap spells together hastily. As he did each one, they built up around the castle. Robbie and Michael started to help as well, and Sophie sat down, tired. She was still spry, although she was as full as the moon, but her face was still lovely and youthful, though tired.
Calcifer groaned with the effort of making the castle speed up. "It's coming!"
Howl slapped some more spells together. "Speed up!"
"I can't!" Calcifer yelled. "It's too hard! The djinn's pulling it back."
"I know it is!" Howl said angrily. "But you can't die. You have a thousand more years."
"I wouldn't be certain of that!" Sophie said warily.
Howl turned on her. "Michael-go out to Market Chipping. Stay with Martha. Robbie, go with Michael-but don't get in his way." Despite the emergency, he half-smiled. "Sophie-" he said and turned to her.
Sophie angrily stood up. "No! I am not going away! I'll be more help here than anywhere else!"
"It's getting closer!" Calcifer warned.
"No! You have to go with Megan!" Howl said. Couldn't Sophie understand? He couldn't bear to lose her.
"You know that I don't get along with Megan!" said Sophie. Michael and Robbie tiptoed out of the door.
"I know you don't, but this is important."
Howl could clearly see that Sophie was slowly becoming more stubborn. He groaned. Usually, he would agree when she started to become her stubbornest, but right now, he didn't want to deal with her. "Sophie Hatter Pendragon, you have to!"
"Ugh! When did you start to pull the 'name' thing?" Sophie yelled.
Calcifer gave a hoarse whisper. "It's here."
Sophie and Howl started.
Howl gave a groan as he felt all of the spells shatter as the djinn broke them. He gave another groan as he felt the djinn start to pound on the walls magically, but Sophie's spells were holding for a second. "Calcifer, leave!" he yelled. "Take Sophie with you!"
"No! I won't leave you here!" Sophie yelled at him.
The spells on the walls broke. Howl shouted a cat spell for Sophie and Calcifer sent the small black cat away to somewhere else where she might be safe. Maybe someday, Sophie would forgive him, Howl thought.
The Djinn appeared.
Yeah, I decided to cut this chapter in two. Deal with it. :D