Disclaimer: I don't own Howls moving castle.
"Calcifer I think its time you showed yourself to our quest."
"If your sure master Howl."
"Who's Calcif…..eerr errrr? What the heck Is that?"
"Miss Sophie, I am a fire demon at your service."
"I…I….ehhhh." Sophie slumped down in the chair, everything that had happened finally sinking in. She definitely wasn't in Inverness anymore.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
"Well Howl you don't seem to be having the same affect on this one as you do on the others. She hasn't thrown herself at you, how are your unmentionables by the way? I bet that's an eye opener for you, a female who can resist you This is priceless, Heee heeee heeee heeee" Calcifer was enjoying himself immensely usually Howl could pick up any girl he wanted and then drop her when he got bored.
"What makes you think I'm even interested in this girl?"
"Come on Howl, you've been staring for the last few minutes, I know that look. You're intrigued aren't you?"
"Of course I'm intrigued she's not of this world, she knows nothing of magic. Her world must be sooooo dull but she knows how to fight, very unusual for a girl."
"Whatever you say Howl."
Markl came flying down the stairs at this moment.
"Master Howl is she here? Did the magic work?"
"Yes Markl she's here, are you questioning my magical ability?" said Howl with a glare on his face.
"N…No Master Howl, I was just curious."
"Well you should know better. She is here and is presently sitting in the chair behind you."
"She's still asleep? At this hour?"
"She was awake, but I think I may have shocked her a bit more than she could handle for one day. She is not from our world, as I suspected she is from another dimension where there is no such thing as wizards, hence her current state in the chair.
"NO WIZARDS, WOW."
"Yes Markl, now stop standing about and got get the things for breakfast. Although we have a guest we still have much work to do today."
"Yes Master Howl."
Markl managed to find some plates that looked fairly clean and some cutlery. He then took a basket full of ingredients over to Howl at the fire place as he was placing a frying pan over Calcifer. Bacon and eggs were placed into the pan and the egg shells were feed to Calcifer who greedily ate the remains. The small of cooking was bringing Sophie around and small sighs could be heard coming from her.
"Markl I think you should set another place at the table. It looks like Miss Sophie might be coming round."
"Wh….where am I? Hush there little one, your safe here remember?" Howl smirked as he spoke.
Sophie came around with a start she remembered that voice.
"Oh ST, I thought that was just a dream. I'm really here?"
"Such language should not be coming out of a ladies mouth, there are children present also, you should be ashamed of yourself Sophie" Said Howl with a smirk "Yes you are really here; I am real not just a dream. Its nice to know you were having pleasant dreams though. They must have been pleasant if you were dreaming of me."
Sophie snorted. "You have a rather full opinion of yourself mister, you're not all that speci…al."
Sophie didn't have time to finish her statement as Howl was in her face and had initiated a kiss trying to prove that she would not be able to resist his charms. It lasted all of 5 seconds as Sophie came to her senses and shoved him away from her, and slapped him hard across the face.
"WHAT do you think you are doing?"
Calcifer and Markl at this time were creased with laughter; they had never seen any women react to Howl this way before. Howl on the other hand was stunned and didn't know where to turn. He no longer knew what to do the normally cool and collected wizard was all flustered. A whole new sensation for him. With half the room laughing at him and the other half glaring at him, he fled upstairs to avoid the embarrassment.
"He's soo full of himself."
"Congratulations Miss Sophie you have just done something I thought no woman would be able to do." Said Calcifer from his home in the fireplace."
"I…I'm sorry is I seem a little jumpy, but erm you ar…re a talking fire, a fire demon?"
"That's correct Miss Sophie, I know you are from a non magical dimension and I would like to make your stay as comfortable as possible. Please feel free to eat some of the bacon and eggs; I'm sure you're hungry. Markl move over and give Miss Sophie some space."
Markl moved further round the table to give Sophie more room.
"Are you really from a place with no magic Miss Sophie?" Markl asked with his mouth full of egg.
"Please stop calling me miss and yes Markl, well at least that's what your master wants me to think and there are a lot of things that you seem to have that I have never ever seen before let alone though could exist. Like Calcifer for one, he's soo cool but i've never seen or heard of a fire demon before."
"That must be really dull."
"I suppose it is compared to your life."
"Markl if you're quite finished we have work to do." Howl shouted from upstairs.
"Yes Master Howl."
"Sorry Sophie I have to go, see ya later."
Howl came down the stairs full clothed in his most expensive clothing, looking a little disgruntled but feeling better for the fact that at least he looked immaculate. He didn't even look at Sophie.
"Calcifer you know what to do. Oh and Calcifer, I expect our guest to be here when I get back. It's not safe for her to be wandering around on her own out there."
Howl now finally turned to Sophie.
"If you know what's good for you my dear you will stay put for the moment, the world out there is not for someone who has had no idea that magic existed."
"You can't tell me what to do."
"Oh I think I can my dear." Howl smirked. "You will stay in the castle until I deem it safe for you to be moving around. That's final."
Howl then glided out the door without another word giving Sophie no time to talk back.
"Who does he think he is? I'm not going to stay here just because he said so."
Sophie proceeded towards the door but found that when she got near enough to turn the door knob she got an electric shock.
"What the..?"
"I'm sorry Sophie but Master Howl has put a spell on you. You cannot leave until he lifts it." Calcifer said.
"WHAT?"
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