Chapter 16: The Rat

Elise looks around the bedroom she expects belongs to Methis'. It was small but and had a comfortable feeling to it, but she set the feeling aside as she leaves the room. She twitches her ear to listen if Methis or Herve was coming her way. When she didn't hear anything she walks around to find a flight of stairs. When she found one leading down stairs, her ears started to twitch. They started to fill with voices that belong to the Sorcerer and his stooge.

"Did you get what you were looking for, master?"

"Of course I did. I'll start tonight. Creating a flower should be simple."

Elise tilts her head when she heard the word "flower".

"I don't think it'll work, If you asked me."

"I don't need you option!"

She then takes a few steps back. "I don't know what he's going to do with some flowers, but I'm sure I don't want to know." She sighs and sits down. "I think I should have thought this through."

"I'd say"

Elise stands on all four paws. "Who said that?!"

"Behind you, bushy tail!"

She looks behind her and saw a grey rat. "Ah a rat!"

The rat raises its paws and mocks her. "Ah a fox! Don't eat me, please."

Elise grimace of the thought. "Ugh Gross! I would never eat a rat!"

The rat folds his arms. "Well guess what, you're a Fox and foxes eats rats."

She growls at him. "I'm not here to eat anyone!"

The rat looks up at her. "Unless you want to be caught, I'd keep that muzzle shut."

She sits down and looks at him. "What do you want?"

It runs up to her. "Finding out why you're inside the mansion."

She sighs. "If you must know I'm trying to find out how to break this spell." The rat takes a minute then starts to laugh at her. She stands up and starts to growl at it again. "What's so funny!?"

It takes another minute before it looks back up to her. "You're one of Methis' kidnappies, eh? And you can't find the way to break the spell. At least not in one day." It then climbs up her arm and sits on her head. It then kneals over to look into her eyes. "With so many books he has you wont be able to find the spell he casted on you. By the time you do, you'll be caught."

She shakes her head to get him off of her head. When it fell off of her head she looks down to it. "Then what should I do?"

The rat gets up and looks at her. "Give up! There's no way you're going to do it."

Elise's ears fell when she heard it. She then shakes her head in disagreement. "I can't! I can't just give up, not when I've gotten this far!"

The rat rolls its eyes. "Give up!" It starts to walk away from her. Elise felt her eyes start to water. She tries her best to hold back a sob but some how it choked out. The rat stopped at looks back at the fox only to see tears fall from her emerald eyes. It then turns back to her. "Hey, don't do that."

Elise looks at it. "Why? Everyone has told me that'll I couldn't do it, now you tell me that I should give up?! Where's the motivation in this place!?"

The rat looks confused. "Moto what?"

She looks at him sadly then looks away. "Nothing." She continues to silently cry.

The rat sighs the looks back up to her. "Alright how about this." The tat waits to continue so Elise can look at it. "How about I help you out by looking through the books for you. I know when both Methis and his stooge goes to sleep at night and that'll give a perfect chance to to check the books."

She dries her tears. "You would do that for me?"

The rat shrugs. "I hate to see a pretty vixen cry."

Elise smiles. "OH, Thank you! Thank you so much!"

The rat folds his arms. "But you must do something for me in return?"

The fox's ears drops. "Um, okay. What do you want?"

The rat climbs up to her head. "You must sing me a song. And it has to be one that I never heard before after I find how to break the spell."

Elise's ears raises in surprise. "...Alright."

The rat's eyes widen at the reply. "Alright? But you don't know what I have heard. How would you know what to sing."

Elise gives a sly smile. "Oh I think I can manage to whip something up that you haven't heard before." She kneels down so the rat can climb off hour muzzle. "So we have a deal. The way to break the spell in exchange for one song."

The rat gives a nod. "Right! Now you must go before the bald sorcerer comes up here and find you."

The fox nods. "Again, thank you!" She then heads to Methis' room and jumps out the window on the tree. She then uses her back paw to close the window and she climbs out of the tree.

This one was a little weird for me. And sorry it took this long to update.

Anyways please review.