DISCLAIMER: Okay lets see, If I owned the original Howls Moving Castle characters I would make Howl bald, and have him have PIMPLES! And I'd give Sophie a longer nose with a wart on it! MWAHAHAHHAHAHA. Okay back to reality, the only things I own are Brittany, Mary, and Daria. Everything else belongs to DWJ.
SUMMARY: A Druid, a bard, and a Magic user are heading to Kingsbury to make their living. On their way they encounter the witch of the waste, and help her to get pass the wards that were cast around Kingsbury. Can they undo the mess they made, or will they end up trapped in their deepest fears?
Chapter Four—In which Daria gets into Trouble
"Daria, don't you realize what you just done?" Mary asked.
Daria glared at Mary.
"I take it you're still mad at her for what she said aren't you?" Brittany asked.
"Mad? MAD? MAD DOESN'T EVEN COVER IT BRIT, I'M THOROUGHLY PISSED OFF!"
Brittany shrank, she knew when Daria was mad, the best thing you could do was leave her alone, or don't say or do anything that will make her a lot more mad.
"Okay, Dar, just because she said something that made you mad, doesn't necessarily give you the right to yell at us!" Mary told her.
Daria took a deep breath; she knew she didn't have the right to yell at them. She tried to gather her emotions up and calm down. When she did actually calm down, she realized she left her staff back at the camp, and the witch had probably taken it by now.
"Hello? Daria? Anybody in there?" Mary asked.
Daria glared at Mary. "I see she is thinking, to bad she wasn't thinking when she came here!" Brittany said.
Daria turned her glare on Brittany, if looks could kill, this one would of killed Brittany several times over! Gee golly gosh, the glare she gave Brittany was worse then a Howl glare, and a Sophie glare put together. "I admit I did let my temper get the best of me, but if you were there Brit, it would have gotten the best of you too!"
"Uh huh, you were ready to jump down her throat the minute she got there!" Brittany told her.
"Good thing I was, I knew we couldn't trust her!" Daria said, slowly, but dangerously.
"Pardon me, but you three know who that girl was?" The flower shop guy asked.
"What's it to you?" Daria asked hostility once again in her voice.
"I'm just curious if I should alert the king, that's all," The man replied.
"Well then if that's the case," Daria said with fake enthusiasm, that anybody, with half a brain, could see through, "That was The Witch of the Waste, you see she came striding into our camp, requiring some help. Apparently Wizard Howl, who ever the hell he is, put wards up to keep her from getting into Ingary and causing a lot of trouble. Yeah, so in my fit of righteous, here that Brit RIGHTEOUS anger, I brought his wards down, and now she is loose in Ingary, probably with my very magical staff, having what one would call "long over due fun!" Isn't that just grand?"
The man gulped, "Is that so? Would you three fine young ladies mind steeping into my shop for a few minutes?"
"What for?" Daria asked.
"So we can talk in private," He said.
All three of them, Daria, Mary, and Brittany looked around and found all of Market Chipping looking at them. Brittany sighed, A few minutes into town, and all hell breaks loose already! They followed the man inside his shop, he closed the blinds, and swore in a language the none of them have ever heard.
"Sophie, we've got some trouble, please bring Calcifer if he's there!" He shouted.
All three of the girls gave each other confusing looks. Then walked in who they believed was Sophie. She had ginger hair, and blue eyes, (a/n did they ever tell what color Sophie's eyes are?) then came in a fire demon, which Daria assumed was Calcifer. Mary and Brittany gasped; Daria just gave an unimpressed look.
"What is it Howl?" Sophie asked.
"These three fine girls...er...just made trouble for Ingary," Mary and Brittany gave a surprised look; Daria showed know emotion.
"What kind of trouble?" Calcifer asked.
Howl didn't say anything.
"What kind of trouble?" Sophie asked Mary.
"Ask Daria, she was the one who caused it!" Brittany told her.
"Hey, I didn't want her in the camp remember!" Daria said in her defense.
"You don't want anybody you don't know, let alone like, in the camp!" Brittany retorted.
"Just because I have a common sense-"Daria started.
"And suspicion," muttered Brittany to Sophie.
Daria rolled her eyes, "and suspicion, doesn't necessarily mean I'm not always right! If I recall you were the one who welcomed her with welcome open arms!"
"I didn't welcome her with open arms!" Brittany said.
"Oh but you did Brit, you did!" Daria said.
"Damn it you two! This is no time to be playing the blame game! Daria, keep your emotions under control; we don't want a repeat of what happened before. Brit, if you keep trying to piss Daria off I wont stop her from scarring you for life!" Mary told them.
They both looked at her Daria took control of her emotions, Brittany just decided to ignore her. Howl, Sophie, and Calcifer looked at each other then turned their attention on to the three.
"Excuse me...Daria is it?" He asked Daria.
"What's it to you?" Daria sneered.
"Yes Daria's her name," Mary told him
"Daria, would you mine telling my wife, and I what just happened out there,"
"Yes in fact I would mine," Daria snapped.
"Well would it change your mind if I were to tell I'm Wizard Howl?" he asked.
Mary and Brittany gasped, "Dar, if he's Wizard Howl he has a right to know!" Brittany told her.
Daria glared at her, she really didn't want to talk about it with him, she just wanted to clear her head, and figure out how she was going to get back at the witch for making fun of Rosewood.
"Dar," Mary said.
"Fine," Daria muttered.
"Were do you want me to start?" She asked Howl.
"From the beginning if you don't mine," Howl replied.
Therefore, Daria told him what happened from the time the witch strode into camp, until the time she was in Market Chipping. Careful to leave out the part in which she told the witch who taught her, her magic.
"Okay, let me ask you a question, what did she say that really made you mad?" asked Howl.
"I really don't want to mention that to you," She told him.
"Dar, you usually don't lose your temper unless someone says something that is really offending," Brittany said to her.
"She said trees don't know shit about magic," Daria told Brittany in tree-tongue.
"She said what?" Mary and Brittany exclaimed in english.
"She said trees don't know shit about magic," Daria repeated in tree-tongue.
"No wonder you got mad! I'd like to kick her ass myself!" Brittany said hotly.
"Me too!" Mary exclaimed.
"Excuse me?" Sophie asked.
Daria turned and glared at her, "As I told him, I really don't want to talk to you about that!"
"Well then, I guess you could tell me how you took down the wards?" Howl asked, you could tell he was getting irritated.
"I used magic," Daria told him with a smart ass tone.
"I'm aware of that," Howl told her.
Daria gave him a fake smile. "I used strong magic?"
Howl glared at her, "And I thought Sophie was annoying!" he muttered.
"Howl!" Sophie exclaimed.
"Can we go now?" Mary asked.
"Do you mind waiting a minute?" Sophie asked.
"Yes we do mind," Daria told her icily.
"Then go," Calcifer said.
"Great idea!" Daria told him.
She turned and left the flower shop, while Brittany and Mary exchanged looks and stayed to answer the rest of their questions. Daria looked around the translocated back to the camp, she didn't want to talk to an idiot wizard, she didn't want to talk to anybody in general. She just sat there, thinking of the ultimate revenge on the witch for making fun of her teacher. When somebody snuck up behind her, and hit her on the head with her own staff. Daria was out cold, while the attacker dragged her across the camp to it's destination.
END OF CHAPTER FOUR
(A/n Thanks to all my reviewers, I'd name you all but I'm tired. So I'll just say, I did my best to keep Howl in character. I would of done better if I had my copy of Howls Moving Castle with me, but I lent it out to a friend :( So if I didn't keep the characters for Howls Moving Castle in character I'm sorry, it's kind of hard without the book!)