( 6 Months and 2 Weeks past )

It was around the deadline for Alex to be finished with the book, luckily Sophie hadn't given birth yet because there was no body on his door step, Markl and the witch were starting to get impatient, "god, where is a damn bird with a letter going to come, I bet Sophie is close now" said Markl, everyone noticed that Howl hadn't been showing himself lately, but they couldn't blame him,

"I'm sure it is on its way" said the witch while she was sitting by Calcifer stroking Anya, they realised that Anya got far to much love.

"You said that yesterday, and the day before, when will it actually come, Sophie might be on our doorstep tomorrow, or even tonight" he whined, at that moment, by pure coincidence of the topic an owl flew in and sat next to Anya, Howl somehow heard the owl and sprinted down stairs, the owl was holding a note and Howl snatches it off the bird.

Howl

Alex is finally finished the book and yes it has something to do with ancient shields, come quick so you can get Sophie out now.

Ariana

Howl nodded at the letter, "Calcifer, I want you to move the castle, somewhere where Madame Suliman won't find us, I have a plan but it includes disappearing, I'm going to get the book and the next time you see me I hopefully will be with Sophie" he said, Calcifer nodded and Markl ran to Howl,

"bring her home safe Howl" he said, Howl nodded and sprinted out the door. It took his about 2 minutes to get to their house and he banged on the door, it was immediately opened by Ariana, she nodded and Howl followed her inside. They went to the living room and Howl found a very sleepy Alex holding the book,

"he hasn't had much sleep but he has done it" said Ariana,

"thank you Alex, you are a good friend to Sophie" Howl said, Alex smiled and picked up a heap of papers beside him,

"these are the translations to the book, I know where the shield section is so I'll read it out" Alex said, he flicked through the pages and suddenly stopped, "this is it, ok, let's see. 'There are many different shields in existence, but non of them are more powerful than the ancients shield, a shield that feels like pure invisible titanium that can never be broken, however there is one way that it can. The ancients were very keen on spells so they created a spell that was the only way to break this amazing shield...' I can't read the spell Howl, maybe you can" said Alex, he passed the papers to Howl and Howl read it.

"This is indeed a powerful spell, I can't believe it, Madame Suliman taught me this spell when I was her student but she never told me the purpose of it, oh god Alex, thank you, you are a miracle worker" Howl said, putting down the papers but then clearing his throat, "I have one more thing to ask of you"

"what is it?" said Ariana, Howl took in a deep breath.

"I believe that Sophie will give birth while I am there, if she does the child will never be safe with us, so I am asking you if you could take care of our child" Ariana gasped, "I know I have asked to much of you, but this child is something special and Madame Suliman wants to kill it, please, you can give it an extremely rare name and called her your own daughter, just make sure she never finds out what she really is. However, it is told that when it is in its teens, it will be needed in a great war and we will have to take it back, please!" Howl begged. Ariana and Alex looked at each other and nodded,

"Howl, we understand and we will take in your child, but is it wise, the child will be effected when it finds out it has been lied to, I wonder how it will feel" Ariana said, Howl nodded

"thank you, and I know but it is the only way that my child will be safe, no one came find the child no matter what" they both nodded, "well, I'm off to get my wife back, I'll be back soon if she gives birth, but I will be back anyway even if she doesn't because I think you would want to see her" they nodded again. Howl transformed into his bird form and took off as fast as lightning, Ariana and Alex both watched as her disappeared into the clouds,

"bring her back safe" whispered Ariana before hugging Alex, he held her tight and yawned.

Sophie was now getting sick of this room, she hasn't left it in 6 months and Sen told her that she was due, Sophie became scared and didn't want to face this without Howl, but what could she do, if she tries anything the child will die. Sen walked into the room and stood in front of Sophie, "you ok? Has anything happened yet" he asked, Sophie shook her head, she didn't make eye contact and he sat next to her,

"is Howl even going to come?" she cried,

"yes...yes of course he is, I promise you" he said, Sophie sniffed and put her head on his shoulder, everything was quiet until they felt the room shake, then a siren went off.

"Howl" Sophie said to herself.

(Outside)

Howl had just broken down the shield and was now going for the ship, birds started to attack him and Howl quickly got rid of them by making them crash into the ship. He saw a way in and quickly flew down, everything was silent apart from the siren, Howl landed in the ship and changed back into human, soldiers began to come but Howl used magic and blew them away.

(Sophie)

Sophie was beginning to get excited, "Howl has come for me" she screamed, Sen smiled

"I told you he would"

"go, make sure he finds his way here" she ordered,

"but what if...?" he couldn't finish his sentence,

"please just go" she cried. Sen nodded and ran out of the room, the siren was still going off and he could see in the distance that men were on the move, Sen followed them but soon lost them all.

(Howl)

More and more men were coming, but Howl didn't care, he needed to get to Sophie, "SOPHIE, WHERE ARE YOU?" he cried, there was silence until he could heard a very faint voice,

"I'm over here" it called, Howl followed the sound until he got to a locked door.

Inside was Sophie who was now holding her bump in pain, the bad news was about all this was that her water broke. "Sophie are you in there?" Howl called, Sophie began to cry,

"Howl, you came for me" Howl laughed,

"what kind of husband would I be if I didn't come, now stand back", Sophie did as she was told and moved to the other side of the room, a huge explosion came from the door to reveal Howl standing in the door way. The door way was filled with dust from the explosion, he cleared it away and looked around his room, he gasped when he was his wife at the other side of the room heavily pregnant, he noticed she was holding her bump. He ran to he and kissed her full on the lips, "Sophie" he whispered, she nodded and looked down at the bump, Howl smiled at it and moved down to kiss it,

"I've missed you so much, god don't ever leave me again" she cried, Howl moved up,

"I'm not going anywhere again without you" he said before kissing her lips again. He grabbed her hand, "come on, let's get out of here" he said, but it wasn't too long after that when Sophie knelt down in pain and started screaming, Howl's eyes widened and he knelt down with her.

"Howl, the baby's coming" she said and Howl gasped.

The thing is, you know that they won't leave easily with Madame Suliman around, find out what happens next time,

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