Chapter 9
Rapid showdown
Katrina walks on till she and the five teams reach the river once more
Task 12 deadly rapids
"Welcome girls to you the last task of the day well for some of you. Before you see the river and this is the point where the river gets what you would call rough. For these are the rapids. Is all you have to do is ride them going thigh each gate as you go there are thirty gates in all. Now none of you have to do this task but Pentangles if you are to stay in this tournament you will have to ride them. As you will not get very fare with only 4 team members left. Now each team member that goes down and makes it to the end will win thirty caldrons. But if you miss a gate then you will lose 3 caldrons and if you capsize into the water you will be eliminated from the tournament. So who wants to do this challenge?" says Katrina
"I will," says a girl from Weirdsister
"Well your vary brave. If you win then Pentangles will have to go down twice. Ok in the boat" says Katrina
The girl gets into the boat and starts to row towards the rapids. Pentangles watches as the girl from Weirdsister clears gate after gate. But the course got harder and harder the rapids got bigger and faster. The girl soon misses 5 gates and starts to wobble as she misses two more. But the girl recovers and gets to the finish line to the shock of Pentangles
"Well I told you this was hard but Weirdsister your team member done it and has won you 30 caldrons. However your team member also missed 7 gates lose 21 caldrons so only earn 9 caldrons which means that Pentangles only needs to send one girl down but being 13 caldrons behind you can only afford to miss 4 gates" says Katrina
"Well there is one of my girls that will go down," says miss Pentangle
"No make that five miss" says a girl stepping forward with her three friends
"Good is there anybody else who would like to have a go as well," says Katrina
Two girls from Redwitch put their hands up as dose five from Blackbroom. Katrina smiles happy that these girls are so brave. Everybody then looks at cackles
"Look the girls from Cackles are Chicken," says miss Pentangle
"No where not I'll go down," says Mildred
"Mildred no" says Maud
"Yes think about this Mildred," says Jadu
"I'm going down," says Mildred
"Ok if you are going down thin I am too" says Maud
"And me" says Jadu
"Me two" says ruby
"Look what are you all doing this is stupid" says Ethel
"Yes I agree with Ethel there" says Miss Cackle
"It ok miss we're make it. This task is not that hard," says Mildred
"You better Mildred hobble or I will never forgive you. We are in a strong position hear and if you throw that away you will see my really nasty side," says Ethel
"Oh Ethel don't worry I may not be that good at potions of broomstick flying. But I'm the champion when it comes to river rafting. I was a three year river rafting champ at summer school," says Mildred
"Yes but what about us" says Jadu?
"Just follow my line," says Mildred
"Well it looks like we got a showdown hear. Five girls from each team are going down the deadly rapids you are all vary brave or very stupid. Weirdsister as you went down first you may send your other fore down one at a time" says Katrina
Weirdsister send they're other fore members down and the fact that they only got 9 caldrons on they're first run there were eager to get more. This cost them two team members as the tried to hit every gate. The other two got down but missed 12 gates which only got them 24 more
This did not do anything to the leader board
Cackles academy – 304 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 214 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 125 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 114 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 77 caldrons
This gave Pentangles a grate chance. The first gets down and only misses two gates giving her team 24 caldrons. The next almost capsizes but keeps the boat up right to finish. But she missed 8 gates given her team 6 caldrons. The third girl not only gets down but also gets all thirty gates. The last two only miss 4 gates each giving Pentangles 100 caldrons for the task. Miss Pentangle was so happy with her girls as they had moved off the bottom of the leader board
Cackles academy – 304 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 214 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 177 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 125 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 114 caldrons
Next up was Blackbroom College who could take the lead back from Pentangles. One at a time the five-blackbroom girls go down but two of them full into the water under the pressers and are eliminated from the tournament. Miss Blackbroom is not that unhappy about this as the other three get though and only miss 8 gates between them given blackbroom 66 caldrons taking third spot back
Cackles academy – 304 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 214 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 191 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 177 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 114 caldrons
While the bottom three fought it out Redwitch were showing cackles just how it is done all five girls got down and did not miss a gate giving them the maximum of a 150 caldrons.
Redwitch academy - 364 caldrons
Cackles academy – 304 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 191 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 177 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 114 caldrons
"We lost the lead you better be as good as you say you are Mildred," says Ethel
Mildred smile as she steps into the boat. Mildred flows down the rapids just like a pro getting to end going though all the gates. Maud follows and dose the same as dose Enid but Jadu and Ruby miss 2 gates each. But Cackles got 138 caldrons taking the lead back
Cackles academy – 444 caldrons
Redwitch academy - 364 caldrons
Blackbroom College- 191 caldrons
Pentangles academy – 177 caldrons
Weirdsister College - 114 caldrons
"Well that has changed things a lot some of you gained many caldrons and some of you have lost team members Black broom you lost two and Weirdsister you lost two and because you are bottom you must lose another" says Katrina
So at the end of the day this is how it looked
Cackles academy – 9 members
Redwitch academy – 9 members
Blackbroom College 7 members
Pentangles academy – 5 members
Weirdsister College - 3 members