A Watty Award Story: Charity and Lassie

How Could You?:Lassie

Chapter 4 How Could You?: Lassie

I followed slowly as Charity laughed and skipped into the valley carrying her basket of food. I was amazed at her right now. She didn't care that I couldn't talk. She didn't care she might die. Then again, she didn't know that she might die.

The sun was just going down, and to my left there was a huge sunset as soon as we got past the castle shadow. It was pretty but I just trotted behind Charity. She must of stopped to put down the blanket when I ran into her. "Hey." She said. Her legs blocked me from seeing but something didn't smell right.

When Charity sat down, I saw what was wrong. "O excuse me, this is Cherry, Las-" She paused and respoke "Lacy. And Cherry this is Lacy."

Cherry sat down her apple and shook my paw. Her evil look scared me. I turned, and ran.

I ran over the river and through the woods, and past Grandma's house. I felt her running behind me. She was running fast. I breathed and breathed until I nearly gave out. She fell on top of me "LASSIE!" She screamed. I was relieved. It's only Charity. With no 'friends'. "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" she asked.

"That's..." I said only stopping. "I can speak" I said, "I can only speak when I'm more than 10 miles away from her powers."

Charity was off me by then and was more anxious then ever "Who?" she asked fast.

As she asked this I fell in pain. It felt like gravity was pushing me harder to the ground than normal. As I was suffering I felt her get closer with her speed. Every mile she got closer it hurt more ...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2....... I couldn't feel the last one until I saw her.

There stood Cherry and Mark. Hand in hand. There fangs out.

Charity just stood there as blood dripped from Cherry's fangs. She turned and ran.

Cherry just stood there until Charity was down the hill and than used her speed to run and trip her. As she fell flat on her face, Charity's face lit up.

"My wand." She said holding out her hand to Cherry.

Cherry went and tried to bite it when she reached into Cherry's jean pocket and took out her wand.

Charity hadn't held her wand sense a month ago at her birthday. Which was when she gave it to Cherry to try it. Instead she slipped it into her pocket and had it ever sense.

Unsure of what to do Charity just stood there looking at her wand. She bit her lip. Cherry, now angry, opened her mouth and screeched a bat screech. All around her her body turned into fur and I looked at Mark already in bat form. Cherry turned small and went for Charity's neck.

All the sudden, from the bushes jumped out a wolf. It was a young one and it bit and ripped Cherry's small bat form. When I wasn't looking, Charity turned into wolf form and my whole pack (The dogs) tried taking down a group of bats that appeared behind Cherry and Mark.

This was going to be Pig Lump's battle of the Century.