Okay. Time to update. Out of school sick, so I wrote this for my readers and reviewers. Enjoy! (Warning: Some of the content in this chapter may be disturbing to my younger readers.)
Chapter 3. Trouble on Mata
"Empress! Empress!" called a stoat called Ottone.
"What does thee want, Ottone?" the feline empress replied.
"Somebeast has set fire to a shed on Mata! The village will burn down soon!" Ottone cried.
"Get water! Get sand! Get the slaves to work! Make doubly sure that the blaze is put out!" Wuhyah shouted, "NOW!"
As soon as the stoat left she called, "Mim, come out here now!"
"What does Empress Wuhyah wish for Madam Mim to show her?" the young vixen-seer asked, coming into the light.
Madam Mim was a vixen. Her legs, stomach, tail, and face were fiery-red. While her back, neck, ears, shoulders, and hips were gray. A long black stripe ran from the crown of her head to the tip of her white-tipped tail. Her paws were black, and her eyes shown like emeralds. She wore a knee-length green dress with a belt made from a dead snake. Her cloak was made of black velvet, and hoked with a wolf's bone. On her head she wore the cloak's hood. The cloak was lined with her enemy's fur.
"I want to know who started the fires on Mata." Wuhyah comanded.
"What Empress Wuhyah asks, Madam Mim will answer the truth." the fox-witch replied.
From a large pouch worn on her belt, Mim pulled a bowl and some flasks of various potions. She set the bowl on a small table and into it, she poured some of the potions. A thick smoke billowed out. She then pulled out a rattle made from two bones and filled with smaller bones and pebbles.
The witch shook it and chanted, "Spirits of the Dead!
Tell Madam Mim what She desire!
Spirits of the Dead!
Share thy knowledge with Madam Mim!
Who began the flames that
Race throughout the
Island of Mata! Who?"
There came a flash of lightning. A crash of thunder. A billow of thick, black smoke. Wuhyah thought she could make out the shapes of the Spirits of the Dead. A fox with a torn ear and a yellow cape; a raven with an iron beak, an old rat draped in finery with patches of fur missing, a stoat with a mouse's sword, a stoat with six claws, and another fox with a mask covering his face. They swirled around Mim, whispering their knowledge to her. Finally, the spirits fled into the smoke as it cleared.
Madam Mim looked at Wuhyah, drew out an orb of pure, seamless qwartz saying, "Look, Empress Wuhyah. And behold the vile scum that set fire to Mata."
The feline empress looked deep into the seamless qwartz orb and saw a young squirrel, along side an otter and a mousemaid. All working to put the blaze out.
"Guards! Once the fire is out bring me the squirrel with fur like dust, and the mousemaid with yellow hair, and the otter with fur like mud!" Wuhyah screamed, her scarlet fur rising in furry as she stared at Gaudior, Palnim, and Kelpie.
A/N: So? How was this one? Tell me! Review ppl! And incase you couldn't figure out who's spirits talked to Mim, they were(in order), Skalrag, General Ironbeak, Malkaris, Badrang the Tyrant, Swartt Sixclaw, and Slagar the Cruel. cul8r!
