DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the original HMC characters, I only own Mary, Brittany, and Daria.
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 Seven— In Which Morgan gets back from School
Howl and Sophie were in another one of their arguments the latest one was on what to make Morgan for dinner. She wanted to make a feast fit for a god. While Howl said this was their son, their eldest son, and he didn't need to have food crammed down his throat.
During the argument Howl and Sophie's other children were secretly pinning one parent against the other.
"Mom will win this one, I know it!" said the third eldest in the family who had much of his mom in him.
"Don't be stupid Mathew! Dad will win this one, after all he has more magic then mom!" Scarlet told him, who was in fact the second eldest.
While the twins, Carrie and Anita, the recent additions to the family, were arguing just like their older sibling were. Anita who looked more like Howl, but had Sophie's personality, said Sophie would win. While Carrie looking more like Sophie, but acted like Howl, said Howl would win.
Howl ended up talking Sophie into making a feast fit for a king rather then a god. Sophie wasn't exactly in a good mood, after that. Howl could here her mumbling, "Morgan is our first son! Why shouldn't he have a nice hot meal?" He smiled at this.
I think we ought to live happily ever after. I think we have already done it my dear Sophie, Howl thought. Then he remembered his conversation with the king the day before. Apparently he heard about Daria and wanted to know if she could be threat to Ingary. Howl, being Howl, slyly told him he wasn't sure, and that he would try to find out. He remembered when he came home and told Sophie what happened and all she said was "Confound it Howl! Why are you always slithering out of something?"
MARY AND BRITTANY
"Before we go and bother Wizard Howl why don't we at least see if anybody saw her in this inn!" Mary asked.
"Damnation Mary! If it will make you feel better then let's go!" Brittany told her friend exasperatedly.
They went to and inn called Dragon's Fire Inn, from what Brittany and Mary could tell it seemed like a good place to start. They stepped in and looked around and immediately understood why Daria hated Inns. The place was packed with people, and every single one of them were gossiping.
"Did you hear about Abdullah and his wife? They just had another set of twins!" said a person next to them.
"Really? That makes nine children! How does Flower-in-the-Night do it?"
From another person came, "Did you hear about the incident in Market Chipping? Apparently some witch lost her temper and cursed a poor girl in to oblivion."
When this reached Brittany's ears she snorted a Sophie snort, and everybody got quiet.
"Hey you Elves, get out of my inn, can't you see you filthy brutes, your not wanted here!" came a voice far to the back.
"Nothing is keeping us here, we just want to know if you've seen a girl with long brown hair tied up into a braid, always wears green, has green eyes, and has an opinion about everything?" asked Brittany.
"No, now please go you're going to scare off my customers!" the inn keep told them.
They left the inn all too gladly, now they understood why Daria told them: "Inns are full of gossiping people who have enough prejudice to drive even the kindest, and friendliest elf out with an angry mob. They are loud, and lets not for get there are men who would gladly shove themselves upon you if given the chance!"
Mary and Brittany quietly made their way to Wizard Howl's house, not stopped by anyone, only insulted by few.
Howl and Sophie
Sophie was busily cooking Morgan welcome home dinner, trying to keep all four of her children away from the five pies she baked just for the occasion. She knew Howl was back in the living room working on some spell or another and didn't even bother to get the door when she heard someone knock.
Howl answered the door and saw two distressed looking elves and immediately recognized them as Mary and Brittany.
"Well hello, can I help you with anything?"
"Yes, we need a location spell. Our friend, Daria, the girl who took down your wards, has gone missing and we have no clue were to find her," Brittany informed Howl.
"Howl, remember were not doing any spell for anybody till tomorrow," Sophie came out of the kitchen and stood by her husband failing to see the twins walk off with one of her apple pies. She looked the Mary and Brittany and gasped, "Oh you poor dears come on in, you look frantic with worry."
"Thank you for your kind offer, but all we need is a location spell if you would be so gracious as to help us with one," Mary politely declined.
"Oh, I see! Where's your other friend at?" Sophie asked her nosiness getting the best of her.
"She's gone missing and we need to find her as quickly as possible," Brittany told them with a hint of irritation in her voice.
"Well then, make haste and fix them up with a location spell Morgan will be here any minute now!" Sophie told Howl, before noticing that's what he was in fact doing it.
"You know, she could be at an inn," said Scarlet.
"We know Daria better then you do, she wouldn't go to an inn. We won't go to an inn again ourselves." Brittany told her.
Suddenly Morgan came out of the door with the black blob on it. He smiled at everyone of his brothers and sisters and suddenly caught sight of the two elves. He turned stiff and walked up to his parents.
"What's going on here? Why are you helping an elf and a half elf?" He asked.
"Because we asked for help, and if Daria were here she would tell you to-" Brittany was cut off.
"Please Brittany we are only here to get a spell. We are not her to quarrel with...these...people," Mary told her.
"Here is your spell, good luck looking for your friend." Howl told them.
Mary and Brittany left the family, translocated to there camp, and tried out their location spell, to realize it seemed incredibly wrong, it said Daria was in a place called the waste, and it would take days to get there.
Mary and Brittany looked at each other each with an expression of pure shock on their face. Why in the world would Daria do something as stupid as going into the waste? Doesn't she know that is where the witch was? Brittany sighed, "Damnation, what in the world was Daria thinking?" If only both of them knew, what damage was being inflicted onto Daria's mind as they spoke.
END OF CHAPTER SEVEN
A/N Thank you reviewers, Now for I ain't nobody but me:
The difference between and Druid and Magic user is, although a druid does in fact happen to be a magic user, they mainly work with nature. And as for your poem question thingy, I wrote it.
A/N Anyways please Read and Review. And thank ye kindly reviewers.