FairyWood

Chapter 2 The Black Coven

I picked up Lumina as he couldn't fly all the way to Lacey's cottage. He groaned at me as Lacey signaled to me that I should hurry up. Lumina still slightly scowling was clearly not happy to be held.

"Suit yourself but DON'T fall out the sky!" I nervously unclipped him from his lead and he did a little loop the loop in the air as the three of us very quickly shot out from above the trees. This year autumn was early and some of the trees were already turning orange and some were even leaf less. It was concerningly quiet. 

"What the hell?" Lacey looked down to the entrance to Tree Trunk Trove there was a flash of green. 

"That can't be good?" I questioned as Lacey stopped midflight. Lumina was in his own world and hadn't noticed Lacey stopping in her tracks. Lumina was fluttering along without  a care in the world, tail wagging away, side to side. 

Thud! Whimper! Bark!

Lumina had smashed into Lacey's back and fell out of the sky!

"LUMINA!" Lacey and I shouted. We both quickly flew down chasing after him. Lumina was falling out of the sky like a shot down spitfire. He was struggling to get himself back up. The force of the wind was to strong for Lumina to get his wings back out. 

Lacey put her hands out in front of her and a school skirt grey shimmer swirled around her arms onto the palm of her hands, a small beam quickly spiralled down and hit Lumina. The magic surrounded his body and made a small sphere around him. The poor dog was so startled he started using his wings for once and fluttered the magic away. 

"Crap I wasn't expecting him to do that otherwise I would've used a stronger spell to hold him!" Lacey shouted. There was a loud thud and Lumina had fallen into the nearby bush close by to the weird green pulse. Me and Lacey gracefully landed next to the bush and saw a purple skinned woman with a huge bird beak looking nose. I quickly cloaked us with a invisibility spell including Lumina even though he was still lying inside the bush.

The lady turned around, her eyes shot onto the bush where we were hiding. The woman was draped in charcoal black cloaks and had a tall towering hat with a saggy top and odd patches misplaced around the rim of the hat. She had very bushy tree trunk like eyebrows and had long mustard chipped fingernails that looked like decaying teeth that had come straight from a dead body. She stopped looking and picked up a fallen tree trunk.

Lacey whispered in my ear,

"Is that a-"

"Witch yes!" I replied staying quiet.

I couldn't see Lacey but I guessed she had quite a shocked look on her face. She never really believed my parents stories but always stuck by me and made sure nobody would ever criticize me about my opinions.

The witch pulled a red silk pouch and poured black dust over the branch. Then her hands glowed green and she stroked the branch humming in Latin.

"Mitte mihi sorores staff ut nos coniungam!"

Huge jagged green spikes left a trail behind the witches hands. The staff was black with crystal green spikes and had an eerie red glow to it. The staff lifted of the grown by itself as the witch hummed a song. She waved her hands in an odd manner as the top of the staff shot out a strong laser engraving a witches symbol.

"That's pure evil!" Lacey shuddered as she fell back onto the floor. The staff fell on the floor and the spell stopped. The witch had heard Lacey's fall. We were screwed.

The witch turned and sprinted towards the bush. I clapped my hands in the air and in one burst of pink fire we had disappeared leaving the surrounded bushes in a burned, dead condition. She stomped in the centre of where we had sat as we teleported away back to Lacey's house.