Complications
"YOU LOST YOUR CHARM?!" Raven shouted in disbelief.
"I didn't lose it, it's GONE!" Rotbart yelled back.
"Same thing!" Raven retorted.
"No it's not! You know I can't lose that thing, I never take it off!"
"Then why don't you have it?!"
"I DON'T KNOW!"
"Uh...exactly what swan charm are we referring to here and why is it important?" Sparrow asked nervously. The siblings stopped arguing to stare at him and the same realization struck both of them.
"How do YOU know it's shaped like a swan?" Raven asked accusingly.
"I certainly never showed it to you." Rotbart added dangerously.
Sparrow gulped. The two sorcerers looked mad as hell. And Sparrow knew all too well that pissing either of them off was never a good idea. He figured that he might as well come clean.
"Imayormaynothavenickeditwhileyouweresleeping." Sparrow admitted to Rotbart in one big rush.
"WHAT?!" Rotbart roared. Dark blue energy started materializing around his clenched fists.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" Sparrow screamed as he practically leaped away from the angry sorcerers. He did NOT want to wind up like Apple.
"Sparrow, what made you do that?!" Raven shouted. "It wasn't yours!"
"I'm a Hood. I take stuff. In my blood. Can't help it. It's a disease. DON'T HURT ME!"
"Гондон!" Rotbart cursed. "That charm contains the potion to reverse the swan curse! Where is it?!"
Sparrow mumbled something. "Speak up." Rotbart ordered.
Sparrow mumbled slightly louder. "Still can't hear you..." the young dark sorcerer said threateningly.
"I GAVE IT AWAY, ALRIGHT?!" Sparrow yelled.
"WHY WOULD YOU..."Raven started.
"Another Hood thing. Rob the rich. Give stuff away. Sucks big time. Sorry 'bout that. PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!"
"AAARRRRRG!" Rotbart roared as he hurled a flaming blue fire ball slightly above Sparrow's head. The future hero of Sherwood Forest struggled not to wet himself.
"Not helping, Rotty." Raven told her brother. "We've got to figure this out calmly. Killing Sparrow isn't going to get us anywhere. Or Apple back to normal."
"But it will make me feel so much better!" Rotbart growled.
"Rotty." Raven said firmly. Rotbart sighed and the magic around his hands died out.
"Fine." He huffed. "We need this asshole alive to tell us who he gave the charm to, anyway."
"Oh yeah-totally!" Sparrow said quickly. "But erm...do we really need this charm? I mean, can't you just zap her back?"
"I can't." Rotbart said shortly.
"Not without seriously messing her up." Raven added. She nervously glanced behind her to see how Apple was handling all this information.
Only Apple wasn't there. At all.