This isshort, I know -- super short -- but this is quite a VERY busy and (perhaps) gruesome chapter. I need to let you take it all in! :o Chapter 6 will be up sometime later! Also, if you've read my OTHER stories, I'm adding a chapter for Unfair Labor and Election as well! :)


Life in Seabank

Chapter 5

Finally, Isabell was able to recover from the shock of what she was witnessing and start moving. The first thing she felt was sadness, then rage. Was Arstonese the Nasty Bull (her new title for him) so determined to get Seabank that he was resorting to torture and trickery to get it?

Isabell wondered what she could possibly do to save Elmer. She had had magical powers, long ago, but they were rather rusty now. She could turn into a cat and she had poison claws, a mind-reading power, and a force-field.

I have to try it, Isabell thought, determined now. I just have to. Otherwise, Elmer will die! She had really liked the brown horse, and she would hate to see Daisy upset over her lost crush. Daisy would be devastated if he died.

"There is only one thing to do," Isabell whispered to herself. "One, two, three…." She crouched, ready to spring. "CHARGE!!!"

She jumped down out of the tree.

….

Arstonese whipped around and brandished his fiery wand in front of him.

Something was wrong.

He watched and waited breathlessly as a human girl slithered down from a large oak tree. As he watched, she turned into a cat, and growled at him. Luckily, he could speak Cat, and so he knew what she was saying.

"Let go of that horse right now," she growled.

"No!" Arstonese stood his ground, and briefly turned around again to touch his victim's lower underbelly with his fire. Elmer screamed.

"You must!" she hissed. "Or else you'll have to fight me!"

"Fine," Arstonese growled back. "If you can beat me before he burns to ashes, then you can have him! But I still won't stop in my journey to get Seabank!"

He turned towards Elmer and muttered, "Flame burn." To his delight, little points of fire burst into flame all over Elmer's body. The horse screamed in agony and terror, and Arstonese laughed.

He turned back to Isabell, who was crouched on the ground, watching him, eyes staring wide as if in shock.

He laughed. "You won't beat me so easily!" Arstonese giggled, and charged toward her with poison flames alight on his wand.