Between Hope and Death
By: ChocolateEclar
Disclaimer: Most characters belong to the magnificent authoress, Diana Wynne Jones. I just borrowed them for a while.
Claimer: I only own Wyn, Aidan, evil Kamania and Chris Aprilian, Lady Kachioin (and her village) and Mr. Calypso. Hey, I actually own quite a lot now. Hehe. ^_^
A/N: Here's the sequel to 'Phases of the Moon . . .'
Chapter 1: In Which Wyn and Morgan Have Another Argument
Bronwyn Jenkins watched her brother make a total fool of himself. Morgan was trying to impress a few young women by flying over the harbor of Porthaven. The ladies were all wearing brood fancy hats and clapping like they'd never seen anything like it before. 'Horribly unlikely when you like in Ingary,' Wyn thought smirking.
She decided to stop this foolishness by flicking her wrist in a deft, natural way and suddenly Morgan was coming tumbling down. The ladies screamed as if Morgan was going to die of exposure to water and Morgan crashed into the sea with a huge splash.
Wyn chuckled. She was hiding behind a barrel filled with fish and watching. Morgan soon came back up in a spray of water and was flying again. He gave a roar of anger and looked around for the culprit.
Wyn ducked back behind the barrel and thought, 'Oh look at the time. I'm supposed to meet Aidan now.' She then proceeded to transport out of there quickly and into the backyard of a small shop in Kingsbury. The shop belonged to her boyfriend, Aidan's, father and they often met there.
She glanced around and like metal to a magnet, her eyes met Aidan's strange midnight blue ones with flecks of gold. She greeted him and went over to sit next to him on a lawn chair. Its white paint was peeling off but she ignored it as she began talking cheerfully with Aidan.
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Meanwhile, Morgan had stomped into the moving castle and shouted, "Where is that mischievous wench of a sister of mine?!!"
Without looking up from the spell he was currently working on for the king, Howl replied simply, "Wyn hasn't been back yet."
Morgan silently fumed and when he finally controlled himself he managed to say dramatically, "She's going to make me a bachelor forever!!!"
"You've been married before so you're not much of a total bachelor," Sophie remarked walking in the backdoor with her arms filled with flowers.
"What would you call me then?! A half bachelor?!!!" Morgan retorted plopping down gloomily on the armchair in front of the currently empty grate.
Sophie placed the flowers in the sink before replying, "Well you didn't exactly divorce (A/N: Can they do that in Ingary? Do they even know what divorcing is? Oh well . . .) Kamania and she did die, so that makes you more of a widower, really. Besides you're used to being single anyway."
"Great, just great," Morgan said dryly as he slumped in his chair.
"So you just came to attack your sister, not visit us?" Howl asked dejectedly.
Morgan had moved into his own small house in Porthaven about a month after the battle against Kamania the year before. He was now twenty-one and as good as single again. Though he wouldn't admit it, Wyn was sure Morgan loved being a bachelor far more than being tied down by marriage anyway. Morgan often visited and just as often, Wyn would say Morgan was courting someone awful again. None were as dreadful as Kamania but they still were either so dense it was hard to have a conversation with them or they had some other horrid fault in them.
Wyn would often ask Morgan why he didn't go out with someone normal like her. Morgan would usually retort she was far from normal and immediately start sulking.
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Wyn sighed as she slowly walked home. She could 'feel' Morgan's magic induced presence in the moving castle and she knew he would be able to detect her soon as well. She cautiously opened the front door and crept inside. Calcifer had returned and was sleeping tiredly in his grate.
Wyn could see Morgan's legs laying over one arm of the chair and she realized he was waiting for her. He pounced off the side of the chair and advanced on his sister.
"What did I do now?" Wyn asked innocently.
Morgan gave her an exasperated grin and said dramatically, "Why can't you leave my love life alone?!"
"I fondly remember YOUR 'love life' trying to kill me last year!" Wyn replied sarcastically.
Morgan looked wounded at that comment and retorted indignantly, "That's not MY fault!"
"Oh really. If you weren't such a blind fool you'd have seen what was wrong with Kama-"
"DON'T SAY THAT NAME!!!" Morgan interrupted covering his ears.
Wyn smirked and went on anyway. "You could have seen the problems with that wench, Kamania, and you know it!!!"
"I was a fool now shut up, I admit it! I've forgiven you for making a fool out of me in front of those fine ladies by the way," Morgan said.
"You were making a fool of yourself grandly without me. I just helped you make an idiot out of yourself," Wyn stated openly.
That blew Morgan over the edge. He roared and went after his sister who laughed and dodged. Before long, Howl, Sophie, and Calcifer were watching as Wyn and Morgan ran around the room like a couple of little kids. It soon turned into just a play fight with them both laughing merrily.
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A/N: And so begins my sequel. I may change the title. I'll just have to see what happens.
By the way the next chapter is about Kamania's recovery.
Oh and don't forget to review!
By: ChocolateEclar
Disclaimer: Most characters belong to the magnificent authoress, Diana Wynne Jones. I just borrowed them for a while.
Claimer: I only own Wyn, Aidan, evil Kamania and Chris Aprilian, Lady Kachioin (and her village) and Mr. Calypso. Hey, I actually own quite a lot now. Hehe. ^_^
A/N: Here's the sequel to 'Phases of the Moon . . .'
Chapter 1: In Which Wyn and Morgan Have Another Argument
Bronwyn Jenkins watched her brother make a total fool of himself. Morgan was trying to impress a few young women by flying over the harbor of Porthaven. The ladies were all wearing brood fancy hats and clapping like they'd never seen anything like it before. 'Horribly unlikely when you like in Ingary,' Wyn thought smirking.
She decided to stop this foolishness by flicking her wrist in a deft, natural way and suddenly Morgan was coming tumbling down. The ladies screamed as if Morgan was going to die of exposure to water and Morgan crashed into the sea with a huge splash.
Wyn chuckled. She was hiding behind a barrel filled with fish and watching. Morgan soon came back up in a spray of water and was flying again. He gave a roar of anger and looked around for the culprit.
Wyn ducked back behind the barrel and thought, 'Oh look at the time. I'm supposed to meet Aidan now.' She then proceeded to transport out of there quickly and into the backyard of a small shop in Kingsbury. The shop belonged to her boyfriend, Aidan's, father and they often met there.
She glanced around and like metal to a magnet, her eyes met Aidan's strange midnight blue ones with flecks of gold. She greeted him and went over to sit next to him on a lawn chair. Its white paint was peeling off but she ignored it as she began talking cheerfully with Aidan.
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Meanwhile, Morgan had stomped into the moving castle and shouted, "Where is that mischievous wench of a sister of mine?!!"
Without looking up from the spell he was currently working on for the king, Howl replied simply, "Wyn hasn't been back yet."
Morgan silently fumed and when he finally controlled himself he managed to say dramatically, "She's going to make me a bachelor forever!!!"
"You've been married before so you're not much of a total bachelor," Sophie remarked walking in the backdoor with her arms filled with flowers.
"What would you call me then?! A half bachelor?!!!" Morgan retorted plopping down gloomily on the armchair in front of the currently empty grate.
Sophie placed the flowers in the sink before replying, "Well you didn't exactly divorce (A/N: Can they do that in Ingary? Do they even know what divorcing is? Oh well . . .) Kamania and she did die, so that makes you more of a widower, really. Besides you're used to being single anyway."
"Great, just great," Morgan said dryly as he slumped in his chair.
"So you just came to attack your sister, not visit us?" Howl asked dejectedly.
Morgan had moved into his own small house in Porthaven about a month after the battle against Kamania the year before. He was now twenty-one and as good as single again. Though he wouldn't admit it, Wyn was sure Morgan loved being a bachelor far more than being tied down by marriage anyway. Morgan often visited and just as often, Wyn would say Morgan was courting someone awful again. None were as dreadful as Kamania but they still were either so dense it was hard to have a conversation with them or they had some other horrid fault in them.
Wyn would often ask Morgan why he didn't go out with someone normal like her. Morgan would usually retort she was far from normal and immediately start sulking.
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Wyn sighed as she slowly walked home. She could 'feel' Morgan's magic induced presence in the moving castle and she knew he would be able to detect her soon as well. She cautiously opened the front door and crept inside. Calcifer had returned and was sleeping tiredly in his grate.
Wyn could see Morgan's legs laying over one arm of the chair and she realized he was waiting for her. He pounced off the side of the chair and advanced on his sister.
"What did I do now?" Wyn asked innocently.
Morgan gave her an exasperated grin and said dramatically, "Why can't you leave my love life alone?!"
"I fondly remember YOUR 'love life' trying to kill me last year!" Wyn replied sarcastically.
Morgan looked wounded at that comment and retorted indignantly, "That's not MY fault!"
"Oh really. If you weren't such a blind fool you'd have seen what was wrong with Kama-"
"DON'T SAY THAT NAME!!!" Morgan interrupted covering his ears.
Wyn smirked and went on anyway. "You could have seen the problems with that wench, Kamania, and you know it!!!"
"I was a fool now shut up, I admit it! I've forgiven you for making a fool out of me in front of those fine ladies by the way," Morgan said.
"You were making a fool of yourself grandly without me. I just helped you make an idiot out of yourself," Wyn stated openly.
That blew Morgan over the edge. He roared and went after his sister who laughed and dodged. Before long, Howl, Sophie, and Calcifer were watching as Wyn and Morgan ran around the room like a couple of little kids. It soon turned into just a play fight with them both laughing merrily.
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A/N: And so begins my sequel. I may change the title. I'll just have to see what happens.
By the way the next chapter is about Kamania's recovery.
Oh and don't forget to review!