100% Hero by Jayne Lyons

Author:Jayne Lyons
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781864715491
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Battle

The next morning, with his eyes red from lack of sleep and his hair pointing in every direction but down, Freddy sat in the dining room waiting for breakfast. He had not eaten since his precious piece of chocolate, for Madam had sent him to bed without any dinner. He was half fainting through hunger and tiredness.

Perfect Priscilla was sitting at the head of one of the long bench tables. A horde of pink ballerinas sat around her. Priscilla said something, and they all looked at Freddy and giggled. Freddy scowled. He hated girls.

Ginger came and sat next to him. 'Here.' She slid him another piece of chocolate.

'Thanks.' His eyes lit up, and he hid it in his pocket before anyone saw – just in time.

'Frederick-smells-of-sick, licks his bum, what a drip!'

Freddy jumped around in outrage to see the piggy pink faces of his cousins.

'Clear off, Werens, this is a wolf's table,' he snarled.

'Oh, we are sooo scared of a poodle and a clumpclopper!' Harriet squealed.

Freddy squished his cheeks forward with his hands, until he looked as chubby as them. 'Sorry, I don't speak piglish,' he mimicked.

'Dunderbrain.' Harriet scowled and the twins ran over to sit with Priscilla.

Priscilla looked over at him and then turned her perfect nose into the air. 'Oh, he is so dumb.'

Freddy blew a raspberry at her. 'With ketchup on,' he called.

'You're funny,' Ginger said, and sneezed.

'Yeah, I know. Great howls, I'm starving,' he groaned, laying his head on the table. 'A wolf cannot survive on spinach.'

'Why do you keep saying wolf?' Ginger frowned.

'Erm . . . it's a nickname. Oh, yes! Food at last!'

He jumped up and did a twitchy dance of anticipation as two ladies brought in the breakfast.

'Yummy!' he cried as his bowl was placed in front of him. Then his face fell in despair.

Ginger looked over. 'Ergh!'

'It's horse poo!' Freddy prodded it with his spoon.

'Why didn't you want cereal?' Ginger asked, pointing to her bowl.

'I didn't ask for this! I'm not a total twerpoid,' he cried.

'Oh, but you did, zir,' Madam said from behind him.

Freddy leapt high. Did she appear from thin air?

'You zaid you would razzer eat ze poo zan danze, zo voila. You cannot win, you know. Zis show in Inverness means everyzink to me, and to win ze prize I need a Prince Charming. You eat ze poo, or danze.'

'No way will this wolf dance,' Freddy declared and picked up a piece of the poo. He held it up for all to see and then, with gasps and screams from the room, he put it in his mouth.

'So-ooo gross!' Priscilla shuddered.

'Yummy-yum.' Freddy gave a brown grin and swallowed.

Ginger erupted into laughter, while the other ballerinas sat down, went green, and fanned each other.

Madam took a step forward and the hairs on her mole shot out towards Freddy like hideous, grasping tentacles. Freddy and Ginger, the only ones to see, leapt back in alarm. The hairs withdrew.

'You vill zubmit to me, zir, and very zoon,' the lady assured him.

'Never,' Freddy croaked as she limped away, but he wasn't so certain.

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