Atticus Meets the Cowboys of Moo Mesa

chapter 3

While everyone in Moo Mesa fell fast asleep, a certain villain was on his way over with a wicked chuckle.

"Free, at last!" A figure laughed, revealing to be a skeleton cowboy. "I told you I'd be back, Marshal Montana, you hadn't seen the last of Skull Duggery!" He soon made his way to Cow Town, but had to think up an evil plan to get rid of three steers that always get in his way.

"Hmm... What can I do with these irritating bovines...?" Skull grumbled to himself. "Let them know I mean business and that this time won't be as easy as the last couple of times." He began to think of a way and where it would take time.

Everyone else was fast asleep, and Cody kept looking at the spell book as it made him more and more curious. Unknown to him, Skull Duggery noticed the spell book through the window.

"I guess that new calf's a witch or somethin'..." Cody said to himself as he looked at the book. "Why else would he have this?"

"Cody Calf, are you awake in there?" Miss Lily's voice called through the door.

"U-Uh, n-n-no, Miss Lily, I'm fast asleep, honest!" Cody lied, nervously.

"Well, you better be asleep because you have school tomorrow!" Miss Lily's voice called through the door.

"Y-Yes, Miss Lily!" Cody smiled nervously, he then put the spell book on his window sill and blew out the candle, getting into bed and soon falling asleep.

Skull Duggery soon came over to the window sill as he found the spell book interesting and he thought that a certain mayor and sheriff would too. He looked through it with a dark laugh as he then went to find the others while Cody fell fast asleep. "This should be a nice help~" He soon went to the mayor's office to inform him about the spell book.

"You better have an important appointment to come by this late..." The Mayor glared before seeing who it was. "Oh..."

"Howdy, Mayor, I think I have somethin' ya might like to see." Skull smirked as he showed the spell book the bull.

"A spell book?" The Mayor asked. "Hmm... This may be interesting, but who does it belong to?"

"I found it one a young calf's window sill, that was quite careless of him, but I did hear him say that this here book belongs to a new calf in town." Skull chuckled.

"A new calf, eh?" The Mayor asked.

"Yes, he seems to be a strange varmint..." Skull shrugged. "Apparently he came from The Big City."

"Hmm..." The Mayor smirked before he opened the spell book.

They both soon saw a page with the animal transformation spell.

"What's this?" Skull asked.

"'Animal Transformation Spell'?" The Mayor observed before smirking. "Now, why would a new calf in town wanna look up somethin' like that?"

This soon gave both the Mayor and Skull Duggery an evil idea why the new calf would look up the spell.

"So, whatya think anyway?" Skull smirked.

"I think this is just perfect..." The Mayor grinned evilly. "No one in Cow Town will even see this one comin'."

"And as for this new calf?" Skull smirked.

"Hmm..." The Mayor hummed in thought.

Suddenly, a certain sheriff came in.

"Ah, Sheriff Terrobull, good timin'." The Mayor smirked to him.

"We have some interesting news." Skull smirked.

"What is it?" The Sheriff asked.

"Do you believe in magic, Sheriff?" The Mayor smirked.