Chapter 8
Water Everywhere
After more then 30mins of walking Katrina stops at the river they had see before
Task 9- Lillypad crossing 2
On the row of lily pads stand 4 young girls direst in black
"Now girls as you can see the is a long row of lily pads cross the river and is all you have to do is get to the other side. But you may be thinking we've done this before and indeed you have. However this time it has a twist and they are the servants of Demysandra young witches much like yourself. But sadly are now under her spell. They do what ever she says and will do anything to stop you. In this challenge you will have to get past them to get across. To do this you will have to cast a spell on them that will knock them off into the water. So chose a girl that is good at spells as you will only have 10sec to cast it or they will take you and you will be eliminated from the tournament. If you get across you will get 10 calderas" says Katrina
Fennella is up first for cackles a vary fast spell caster. But unfortunately not fast enough and the third girl takes her. The other girls from cackles gasp as they feel their first loss. Redwitch and
Weirdsister also full as do Blackbroom. Laughter feels the air as Demysandra laughs evilly with each girl that is taken. However when Pentangles get across her Laughter dims a bit
"Well it seams that Pentangles has the faster spell caster and win them self's 10 caldrons," says Katrina
So after 9 task
Cackles academy – 151 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 79 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 49 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 47 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 36 caldrons
Cackles academy – 9 members
Redwitch academy – 9 members
Blackbroom College 9 members
Weirdsister College - 9 members
Pentangles academy – 8 members
"Blackbroom you can you afford to have many of them as Pentangles are now 11 caldrons in front. But Pentangles not get too confident, as you are not out of the woods yet. There are still many caldrons to win today. Now lets us go on to the next challenge," says Katrina
Task 10- boat chase
The next task took place on a lake not fare from the river. The five teams had to pick three girls to row a boat across the lake. The five teams would race while being chased by three of Demysandra servants. The winning team would get 10 caldrons second 8 caldrons, third 6 caldrons, forth 4 and fifth 2 caldrons. But to make things a little harder there are three obstacles to get past. On each of the obstacles are caldrons. The five teams have 5mins before the three boats of Demysandra servants start. If they should catch any of the teams they would be eliminated from the tournament.
Griselda, Drusilla and Maud are picked for Cackles.
The race starts and Redwitch take the lead with Cackles in second and Blackbroom in third. After a long open part of water they come to the first obstacle six poles with caldrons on top. The teams had to weave in and out. Griselda and Maud row while Drusilla grabs the six caldrons and put them in the boat. The other teams do the same with there girls. Its Pentangles that come out first followed by Redwitch then Cackles, Weirdsister and Blackbroom. All five teams row on to the next a tunnel with lots of bends in it. Aging there are a number of caldrons hang from the roof of the tunnel. There are five in all. Though the tunnel all five teams go. As the first team comes out of the tunnel Demysandra's servants start to row. It is Redwitch that come out of the tunnel first followed by Cackles. But it is more the 1min before Blackbroom make it out. Then another 2min before Pentangles and Weirdsister come out. By this time Demysandra's servants were gaining on the last two teams. The last obstacle was three gates. The two-leading teams Redwitch and Cackles get though fine grubbing the six caldrons hanging above. Blackbroom in third also get though fine. But Pentangles and Weirdsister were in trouble as they had slowed down and Demysandra's servants were gaining. Both teams make it to the first gat but are caught losing all three team members. The three ramming teams race for the finish line Cackles and red witch stop to grab the yellow caldron hanging on a pole. But black broom do not and sprint to the end for the win Redwitch get second and Cackles third
So blackbroom got 10 caldrons for the win plus the another 17 they had collected. Redwitch got 8 caldrons for second plus all 20 that could have been collected and Cackles got 6 plus all 20. Pentangles and Weirdsister got nothing Laughter aging feels the air as Demysandra laughs evilly at the two teams
So after 10 tasks
Cackles academy – 177 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 107 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 63 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 49 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 47 caldrons
Cackles academy – 9 members
Redwitch academy – 9 members
Blackbroom College 9 members
Weirdsister College - 6 members
Pentangles academy – 5 members
"Well what a change one task as turned everything against Pentangles once more. But never mind you can always catch up as there are still two challenges left and you will need to get caldrons as you can not afford to lose any more team members girls"
Task 11- water boxes 2
Now girls you have also done this task before as well but this time you will all take part? Now is all two girls from each team has to do is row out and collect as many boxes as they can. This will be a race to get as many boxes as you can. There are 100 boxes in all and all of them have caldrons in. 20 of the boxes have black caldrons in them, 75 of the boxes have ether Brown, Yellow, Green, Blue or Red in them and five have silver caldrons in them. You will all have a 5min to get as many as you can. So pick the two girls you want to do this task the climb into the boats," says Katrina
The five teams pick Mildred and Maud are picked for Cackles. The race starts and all five teams race to grab as many boxes as they can and row back to edge to put them on the bank. At the halfway stage
Cackles academy had 20 boxes,
Redwitch academy had 20 boxes
Blackbroom College had 17 boxes
Weirdsister College had 3 boxes
Pentangles academy had only 2 boxes
The five teams went on Pentangles and Weirdsister were in desperate need of caldrons but they just could not get to the boxes quick enough and at the end of the race
Cackles academy had 30 boxes,
Redwitch academy had 28 boxes
Blackbroom College had 20 boxes
Weirdsister College had 12 boxes
Pentangles academy had 10 boxes
"well done girls all the boxes have been collected. Now some of you have not got as many boxes as you would like. But its not how many boxes you have its whets in them so lets open them in reverse order shell we" says Katrina
Pentangles open theirs first and get 3 black, 3 brown, 1 yellow, 2 green and a silver caldron making a total of 30 caldrons
Weirdsister- they got 3 black, 4 brown, 2 yellow, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 red and also got a total of 32 caldrons
Blackbroom College- they got 3 black 3 brown, 5 yellow, 4 green, 2 blue and 2 red and a silver caldron got a total of 62 caldrons
Redwitch- they got 6 black, 5 brown, 3 yellow, 3 green, 4 blue 5 red and two silver got a total of 107 caldrons
Cackles- they got 4 black, 4 yellow 6 green 8 blue, 7 red and a silver got a total of 127 caldrons
So after 11 tasks
Cackles academy – 304 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 214 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 125 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 81 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 77 caldrons
"well that puts Cackles academy way out in front and it seems that Pentangles fight back was all in vein. But there is one more task to go and it's not for the faint hearted. So let us travel there now" says Katrina