Chapter 7
Targets and towers
The next morning the girls got up had breakfast of egg and bacon. They then packed the tents away
"Good morning girls I hope you slept well. First let me remind you all of the leader board
Cackles academy – 91 caldrons and 10 members
Redwitch academy - 46 caldrons and 10 members
Weirdsister College - 45 caldrons and 10 members
Blackbroom College 30 caldrons and 10 members
Pentangles academy – 2 caldrons and 8 members
Look at this board and it will tell you what you need to do today
Cackles academy with 91 caldrons and 10 members is all you need to do is carry on what your doing
Redwitch academy with 46 caldrons and 10 members you need to get some more caldrons, as you are 45 caldrons behind at this time
Weirdsister College with 45 caldrons and 10 members you also need to get some more caldrons as you are only one behind but 46 behind cackles
Blackbroom College with 30 caldrons and 10 members you are 15 behind Weirdsister College, 16 behind redwitch but 61 behind Cackles
And Pentangles academy with 2 caldrons and 8 members you have it all to do. You are 28 behind Blackbroom College. 44 behind Weirdsister College, 45 behind Redwitch academy and a vary big 89 behind Cackles
Now today the tasks will get a little harder so you may lose many team members today. However you may also gain many caldrons, as there are now a number of caldrons you can get. First you have the black ones they are still worth one. But now there five other colored caldrons you can get. These caldrons are Brown worth 2, Yellow worth 3, Green worth 4, Blue worth 5 and Red worth 6
Now the higher the color the harder they will be to get. But if some of you are going to get back in the hunt of catch cackles then you will need to grab some of these and of course look out of the silver caldron now worth 10 and the golden caldron now worth 15.
If that is all clear let us go to the first task of the day," says Katrina
Task 7- witches eye
The girls follow Katrina till the come to an open area
"Task 7 and your first task today is the witches eye. Before you, you will see five targets with six arrows in front of each. In the center is what is called the witches eye. One member of each team will use the bow and will fire at the target till all six arrows are used up. If you hit the target you will get one caldron. But if you hit witches eye in the center you will get ten caldrons. Now there is one thing you must do ant that is get three caldrons if you do not then you will be eliminated from the tournament" says Katrina
The five teams choose their team member and the task begins. Pentangles are up first with only two caldrons their girl had to do well. The girls first, second and third all hit the target. In fact Pentangles get all six arrows to hit the target and even hit the witches eye Pentangles now needed blackbroom not to hit the witches eye. And they got their wish as blackbroom only got six caldrons. Weirdsister did not do well ether all as they only got 4 caldrons to the delight of Blackbroom and Redwitch as they had the chance to extend there lead. The girl from redwitch got off to the best possible start when she hit the witches' eye with her first arrow and aging with the second and the third. The last three she hot the target with getting red witch a massive 33 caldrons. This put a lot of pressure on Sybil. But Sybil to the shock of all the others was calm as she hit the witches' eye with not one, not two but all six arrows
"Hay Sybil that was amazing" says Jadu
"Yes well she has been doing that since she was ten," says Ethel
"Well, well it seems that this task was a bit two easy for Redwitch and Cackles. But you have all done well and got you teams some caldrons" says Katrina
So after seven tasks this is how the leader board looked
Cackles academy – 151 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 79 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 49 caldrons
Blackbroom College 36 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 17 caldrons
"Now let us go on to the next task of the day," says Katrina
Task 8 – the torture tower
Katrina leads the girls on till they come to a large tower
"Now girls this old tower use to be a place of torture where those that had done wrong had come to be tortured. But it was shutdown many years ago when torture was abolished. However Demysandra now want to tempt one of you to enter this dark nasty place with caldrons. The fate will full to you Pentangles as you are in last. So two of you well enter the torture tower inside you will find many room in each room you will fide a task to get caldrons. You will have 3 minutes to get out or you will be locked in. so if you are reedy then in you go" says Katrina
The two girls from Pentangles enter the tower and the clock starts. They first come to a room with a number of skeletons in it around there necks are a number of back caldrons and a yellow caldron around the one that is hanging from the ceiling. The girls have to get a rod to get the caldrons. Both girls take the rod and start to get the caldrons. The first three they get easily but the forth they have trouble getting. But they keep at it and win out.
With 2min 15sec left the go in to the next room. This has a skeleton sitting in a char on the char there are five black caldrons. The floor is wet and the chare has wires going into it from an electricity box that is still on. The girls have to use another rod to get the five calderas with out touching the char. A sixth red caldron hangs around the skeletons neck. The girls had to get it without moving the man. The girls do this and win another yellow caldron as well as five black ones.
The girls now had 1min 25sec left as they make there way to the next room. This is not a room but a pit with five men hanging above it in a row. Each has a caldron around their neck. In front of the men is a rope that one of the girls must get across. One of the girls gets up on the rope and goes across by her hands. She gets the black caldron then goes on to the next, which is brown, and the next witch is yellow. But now they only had 40sec left so the girl did not go after the green and blue caldrons. The girl gets down and both Pentangles run back to the entreats and out with 10sec to go
"Well done girls how many caldrons did you get?" says Katrina
"9 back, 1 brown and 3 yellow" says one of the girls out of breath from running back
"Well done that gives you 20 caldrons and moves you up above Blackbroom," says Katrina
Cackles academy – 151 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 79 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 49 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 37 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 36 caldrons
"Now girls let us move on from this dark place and on to the next task where you will meet Demysandra servants" says Katrina.