Chapter 7: SPIDERS!
"I'll be back." Radagast said running out the house. Luna crawled out after him. He scurried through the forest like a frantic mouse, Luna sped walk right behind him. A strange mold was growing on the trees; he picked a dead leaf and examined it. "Not good. Not good at all!" he handed the leaf to Luna.
"It smells so foul." She said grabbing her nose. "What could be killing your trees?"
Radagast began to panic running through the forest with. For an old man he was very fast she kept up. He ran passing dead animals and picked some molding mushrooms. Birds frantically flew around. Radagast whistled lifting his hat and the birds land in the make shift hair nest on his head.
"Radagast!" Luna called.
He turned to see an ailing hedgehog. "Oh. Oh, no! Oh, Sebastian! Good gracious." he took the hedgehog. He quickly ran back to the home giving the hedgehog something to cure him. The girls crammed in, they bent down as low as possible. They watched as a bunch of hedgehogs surround the ill one. "Move back! Give him some air, for goodness sake!" Radagast told them. He continues to use his home made medians to cure the sick hedgehog, but nothing was working. The girls watched in concern. "I don't understand why it's not working; it's not as if it's witchcraft!" Radagast said aloud suddenly realizing something. "Witchcraft. Oh, but it is! A dark and powerful magic."
"Witchcraft?" Crescent whispered.
"In other words very dark and evil magic." Nova whispered.
Luna then let out a scream of horror. They turned to see a large spiders crawling onto his house. Radagast barricaded the door with a chair, turning back he seen that Sebastian had died. He then figured out what would cure the hedgehog, he took the hedgehog from the table and sat down on the floor. The spiders were crawling on the house try to find a way in. Nov pressed her body against the small door stopping a spider from entering. Crescent and Luna handled the spiders breaking in from the roof. Radagast took the small glass from a top of his staff, placing it in Sebastian's mouth he chanted a spell. The girls listened as Radagast began speaking in strange language. Field mice gathered around him crawling all over his legs and arms. Just them the spider I was holding at the door pushed even harder, the disgusting thing wanted to get in bad. It crawled to the roof instead, they looked up to see them ripping through hay. Leaping on a branch the two fought them off. Nova witnessed Radagast suck the dark magic from the hedgehog and revive it. A spider to kicked Crescent in the face causing her to fall of the branch. She fell down landing onto Radagast's table, crushing it into pieces. The hedgehog was cured the giant spiders crawled away. Luna leap down from the ceiling as Crescent lay in pain. Luna took Sebastian from Radagast petting the poor animal. Nova stepped aside for Radagast, he watched as the spiders retreated into the forest. "Where on this good earth do those foul creatures come from?" He asked.
"Mirkwood. My father told me of them, but they'd never travel this far." Luna said.
"I want to know about the black stuff you got out of this little guy." Crescent demanded Radagast to tell.
"I need to find out more about it first." Radagast answered. A small bird starts tweeting something to Radagast. "The old fortress? Show me." He said banging his staff on the ground. A sled of the large rabbit road up. "I need your help."
"No. Not until you tell us more." Crescent said.
"No time. I need your skills of tracking to find Gandalf the Grey." He said. "He will know more then me."
"Very well." She said.
"Good." He said. The girls watched as Radagast followed the bird on his sled.
"Tie the food high in the trees." Crescent ordered. After they secured it they set off to find this Gandalf.