Ok next chapter coming up! Just to avoid confusion, Amber is Howls' little sister who is seven in the last chapter and this one; I made her up quite a while ago now. This is set about a two or three years after house of many ways, but Howl is in fact recalling memories of him and certain members of his family; he is doing this a lot later though (In the future).You'll find out why! My friend India and I actually made up a lot of characters, so I'm going to include a few later on in the story!

Oooh and I know it might not sound like very many out of the millions of people that come on this site, but I'm really pleased with the 122 views that I got and I'm really happy!

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"AMBER!" roared Howl, banging the door and storming downstairs. His eyes were met with the sight of Amber demurely playing with her toys, and then sweetly looking up with her big, innocent eyes. Her eyes were rather hypnotizing, having the unusual colour of deep brown with a dash of bright green across the middle, and were certainly a magical asset of the young sorceress.

But Howl was too angry to notice such small things.

"Amber". He paused dangerously.

"What. Have you done. To my SKIN" he whispered through gritted teeth, trying to control his fury directed towards the young girl in front of him.

Never a good idea to make a strong wizard angry.

"Oh dear Howl what's happened?" Amber asked, a perfect picture of an innocent child. He glared daggers into his sister, before throwing his arms out dramatically.

"What's happened?" he mimicked. "Is it not OBVIOUS? Look what you've done to me!" He added mournfully, flinging his sleeves and looking at his hands in utter despair.

Those hands were a rather unfortunate colour of bright green. So were his arms…and his legs… and his face…..Howl Jenkins was covered in GREEN.

"I look like a piece of celery! Out of all the colours, why bright green?" he cried, prancing around in such a fashion that he resembled a rather tall leprechaun. "Oh woe me, poor green Howl, I'll never be able to step out into nature again!" He flung a hand to his face, being the melodramatic actor he always was.

"Heavens brother, you do look rather green today!" said Amber, a smile twitching on her lips. "Green with envy are we? Because we ALL know how Sophie got her revenge when you embarrassed her by climbing on a pub roof while drunk…she did rather like your Valentine friend, found him rather dashing apparently" the young girl lisped, a devious expression forming as she looked at her brother, who was turning a bright, glowing red. Unfortunately for him, it clashed against the green, making him looked like a large tomato at the top of a stalk. Howl stormed off into the bathroom, leaving Amber rolling around with laughter.

About ten minutes later, he re appeared with his usual pale skin and improbable flaxen hair, smelling slightly of spring flowers. Howl stepped across Amber, smirking at her crestfallen face.

"But…..how did you…..what…" she stuttered, spreading the smug look across Howls' features.

"You shouldn't underestimate me dear sister, I AM the strongest wizard in Ingary" he boasted, not noticing the slight green tinge that was reforming up his arm. "I can do any magic, so don't try any tricks or I'll…" Howl stopped, puzzled at the gleeful smile on Ambers' face. Horrified, he looked down to his green arms and glared at Amber.

"Not so great now are we?" she gloated. "Didn't consider PERMANENT DYE!" laughed the young girl, watching her brother storm out of the room.

"I'll get you for this one Amber!" he shouted, slamming the door and running to the bathroom.

"No you won't!" she yelled back.

Howl stormed out and walked up the stairs, mumbling quietly under his breath. He was going to get his revenge. A very, very big revenge. As Howl arrived at the top of the stairs, he shot a glance at Amber and whispered.

"Stupid sister".

Silence.

"STUPID BROTHER!"

Howl touched the cold metal of his chain, leaning against his hard cell wall. If only I could go back he thought, play with his sister again. Then Howl's thoughts drifted off to the good memories with Sophie, the times when they weren't arguing; the times when he was happiest. He remembered the first time they worked together, trying to hide the secret of him being the great wizard Jenkins from 300 gossipy school kids…