Three Friends
By: Moonlight at Midnight
Chapter Nine
Disclaimer: I do not own the original HMC characters.
Chapter Nine: In which I have no name for this chapter!
The Jenkens Family
"I don't care if the King himself showed up at our door and demanded you to the palace, you are NOT LEAVING UNTIL YOU CLEAN UP YOUR SPELL!"
"Sophie," the royal wizard of Ingary whined, "I really need to get this other spell the king wants me to finish started."
"Well it's your own fault for leaving it untill the last minute! Now clean up your MESS!" Sophie practically yelled.
Howl Jenkens shrunk back from his wife, she was in one of her moods again and he really didn't want to get into another fight. "All right cariad, you win. But let me warn you, I might be impossible to sleep next too tonight!"
Sophie gave him a cheeky smile, "Oh I'm sure I'll manage to tie you down some how."
Howl returned her smile and began to clean up his mess. The kids were out running around Kingsbury at their father's request. "Damnation," Howl swore under his breath, "Sophie, love, I-I mean we, need to go to Kingsbury to pick up…up-"
"Oh no Howl, you're not getting out of this one! We can go as soon as you're done!"
Howl sighed, and then he began to clean up his spell.
Brittany and Mary
"You WENCH!" Mary yelled at the witch of the waste. She gasped in surprise, she called a witch a wench.
Right in the Middle of Kingsbury, was the witch and Daria trapped in a magical bubble. The witch was laughing with cold, cruel, evil menace.
"Oh Mary, so kind of you and Brittany to show up. Daria dear, look it's Brittany and Mary."
Daria did not look up, all she did was sit down and rock back and forth quietly whispering her poem, and even if her friends were there she wouldn't be able to see them.
Brittany looked at Daria and a huge lump came up her throat, she tried to swallow it down but she couldn't so instead she stood there silently crying.
Mary on the other hand was so full of hate and anger towards the witch, she ran straight to Daria's magical bubble and began to reason with her.
Howl and Sophie
"Come on cariad, I'm finished cleaning up my mess can we now go off to Kingsbury!" Howl shouted up the stairs.
"Hold on a minute, I have to fix up my hair. I don't want it to look like Jane Farrier's hair! It looks like she did it with pokers."
Howl shook his head in exasperation; he loved Sophie more than anything in the world, he'd give anything for her, provided it was something he liked himself.
"All right, I'm done." Sophie came down the stairs wearing a blue dress, and her hair all done up nicely.
Howl nodded, and lead her toward the Kingsbury door, (he had to change one of the blobs back to red so he could get to Kingsbury a lot faster.)
As soon as they stepped out the first thing they saw was a huge commotion down the street. Being the busy body and nosy person Sophie is she went over to figure out what was going on.
She stopped in fright when she saw the Witch of the Waste and the three half elves right there with her.
Daria, Brittany, and Mary
"Daria listen to me please, there is no reason for you to be afraid. No reason at all! By showing fear Daria you are only letting the Wench of the Waste over there win! And you can't do that Daria, if she wins…Daria please don't let her win!" Mary begged.
Daria continued to rock bath and forth, oblivious to what Mary had said to her.
By this time Brittany had lost all control of her emotions and collapsed to the floor in a crying heap.
Mary looked at Brittany and screamed at her, "What the HELL are you doing Brit? You can't let your emotions get the best of you, not now! I need your help with Daria she has locked herself in her own little world and I can't reach her! Oh do please stop crying!"
The witch laughed, "Looks like all I have to do now is to get you to give in too! That won't be too hard; I should think seeing how Daria and Brittany already have."
Daria's head snapped right up at what the witch had said. She hadn't given in, not yet at least! She was trying to sum up all her being to provide her self with enough light to find the weakness in the magical bubble spell.
Daria began to feel the magic she had summoned begin to burn within her body ready to be released. She started making gestures with her hands and muttering magical phrases under her breath until…
"SOL!"
Everyone turned immediately towards the blinding light that came out of the bubble, they saw a shadowed figure leap up and look around like a mad man until they heard a laugh and saw the spell shatter into a million pieces.
The witch gasped, "How…and what…and who?"
Daria gave the witch a cold cruel smile, "How did I break the bubble? You ask, well it's simple really I spotted the weakness in the spell and went for it. And what you just saw was a spell my friend Rosewood taught me, you know the tree. And you should know by now who I am! I am Daria.
"Honestly you shouldn't ask questions you already no the answers too! Its annoying!"
"But I have your magic staff! How could you break the spell without your magic staff? It's the source of your power!" The witch exclaimed.
"Actually it was a restraint on my magic so I didn't summon so much I destroyed this world."
The witch glared at her. "No matter really, I have it now and its boosting my magic without the use of a fire demon."
"What was it you were afraid of most again? I think it was…oh yes, old age, pain, and…death! Yes death that's it." Daria said with a smile so cold it could of chilled even the hottest of deserts.
"Daria you're not thinking of-"Mary began.
"Of course she is and I couldn't agree more with her decision!" Brittany told Mary.
"If you'd both like to help, I guess it's okay with me," Daria stated.
Mary and Brittany both smiled, and each took one of Daria's hands as they started to chant the spell.
The witch gasped at the irony of taking towards her, then screamed and thrashed about like a fish. Her hands, as she held them up to her face began to wither and grow thin with age, and the pain that went with that age shot through her nerves leaving her doubled over agony. She grew older and with the oldness came the pain until finally she became dust in the wind.
Daria, Mary, and Brittany's eyes were all blood red, while the veins in their skin turned a dark ice cold blue that showed itself to all those around them. They had stopped chanting, and now just stood there humming.
Howl ran right to the three half elves "That has got to be the most incredible display of magic I have ever seen!"
All three of the elves shared a look, "We best not leave the fate of Ingary to an incompetent wizard who couldn't do as simple a thing as what we just did. No, we cannot. We three friends think we should stay and keep an eye oh this land. Don't you agree?" The three of them said.
Howl was silent; he had never been called incompetent by anyone except his wife.
The three friends began to chant, Daria chanted their poem while Brittany and Mary chanted their song. Soon the only thing to be seen of the three was light, all though their voices could be heard over everything. Then suddenly five beams of light shot out of the spot were the three stood and when the light was gone so were the three, the only thing left of them was a statue, Mary in the middle holding her guitar with a smile on her face. To the right of Mary stood Brittany with a look of harmony and peace on her face and her wolf form right by her feet. And on the left of Mary stood Daria her staff in one hand, and a book in the other, with a serious look on her face. And engraved in the pedestal they stood on was:
"Life is but a journey,
Death is but a new beginning
Love is but the way of life
In which we learn to sacrifice
Kindness is but an action
Knowledge is what you gain
Love is but the way of life
In which we are all on the tip of the knife
Life is but a journey
Death is but a new beginning
Love is but the way of life
In which we learn to sacrifice"
Howl stared at the statues in shock, as did everybody else around.
"We don't need a bunch of Half Elves to watch over Ingary lets destroy the statues!"
Howl turned around to see his son, Morgan, was the one who said it, but before he could scold him Sophie cut right in.
"How dare you say such a thing Morgan! That witch could have had all of Ingary at her mercy, not to mention your father! I bet you if they set their minds to it they'd change back to their…regular form and teach you a lesson in respect!"
Morgan kept quiet, he had not a doubt in his mind they could and would if he said the wrong thing.
"Come on Howl, you had better report this incident to the king so he doesn't take these statues down as well," Sophie said with a matter-fact air.
Howl nodded, and after a few moments Kingsbury was alive with gossip, and tales from the people who actually saw or claimed they saw the whole incident, and it was like this for days. Then a new tale arose from the people of Ingary, apparently toward the East of Ingary was a statue of Brittany, with curiosity stamped on her face, and a tiny bush by her feet. Toward the North, stood a statue of Mary with a bright, friendly, warming smile on her face, with a pack full of musical instruments on her back. Toward the south of Kingsbury stood a statue of Daria in all her glory with a smile lit up in her eyes, and a glare on her face.
And toward the west, stood a statue of the famous Rosewood, with three things by her trunk, a replica of Daria's staff, a pair of drums, and a blanket piled high with branches and other sort of odds an ends.
Everyone in Ingary knew these statues were in fact real people, when you looked one straight in the eyes something would either twitch or there was a realistic quality shown in them, that is of course if you're looking into Daria's, Mary's, and Brittany's eyes.
END OF STORY
A/n And thus ends the story of Three Friends, please read and review, I honestly need to know what you think.
A/n Also my beta-reader kind of got herself grounded for drinking and for selling a very bad thing. So she is under super, heavy, ultra duty grounding and wasn't able to help me with my grammar, so if it sucks monkey butt-cheeks I'm really sorry.