Different Magic

Chapter Nine

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Rated M due to future sexual content.

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~~~Chapter Nine~~~

~~~Previous~~~

I pick up the black shovel that Howl had used to move houses. "You're coming with us. Hop on."

"I can't! It's impossible. No one but Howl can take me out of this hearth." He protests.

"There isn't any time, Cal. We have to try." I say, then pick Calcifer up. He yelped, clinging to the sides before realising that he was fine. I place my magic around him to protect him. As we got closer to the door, he started to warn me. "If you take me out that door, the castle could collapse." I waited until Markl returned, telling me they were already outside.

"Alright, stand back." I carefully made my way down the stairs. "Make sure I go out last, Rose. I don't know what will happen, but I'm sure it won't be good." As soon as the shovel had crossed the entrance, the castle door disappeared, and the castle completely collapsed.

"I told you it would collapse!" He yells beforeletting out a gasp. "Rain! Rain!" He tries to cover himself as Sophie asksMarkl to stay with the Witch as the rest of us look for a way back inside thecastle.

~~~Present~~~

We quickly find a way inside, and I place Calcifer where the hearth once was, and we quickly give him bits of wood from the castle. Sophie then tried to convince Calcifer to move the castle. Of course, she convinced him after a few minutes of sweet-talking.

"All right. I need something of yours, either of you; it doesn't matter." Calcifer admits.

"What about this?" Sophie volunteers, holding up her long braid. Calcifer reaches up and forms one hand into scissors, cutting most of Sophie's hair off and gobbling it up.

He glowed a dark purple, then shot up with a loud shriek, picking the ceiling up with his larger form. A section of the floor fell from beside us, almost taking Markl with it before Calcifer started to move the castle down the mountain's rocks.

Sophie and I get onto our knees to look out as Turnip-head hopped under the castle. "Thanks, Calcifer. You're fantastic!". I tell him happily.

"Imagine what I could have done with your eyes. Or your heart." He tells us, his voice echoing.

"That's it! You've got Howl's, heart!" the Witch of the Waste exclaims, sounding happy. Way too happy. "I found it!"

"I can see Howl down there! Looks like he's trapped!" I yell out. We gasped as lightning struck where Howl was.

"Calcifer, hurry!" I yell, turning back to hear him shriek. The Witch grabs Calcifer's shovel, pulling it from under the wood as she reaches toward Howl's heart. "Put that back!" I yell at her, racing to her side to try and get Calcifer out of her hands.

"Howl's heart, it's mine!" She yells. Sophie grasped her around the waist from the back. Calcifer was losing control of the castle. The castle was starting to stumble down the hill. The witch was thrown against the wall, letting Calcifer's flames engulf her.