Giant Trouble by Laurel Decher

Author:Laurel Decher [Decher, Laurel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile fiction / Fantasy & Magic, School & Education, Dragons, Humorous Stories, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Fairies, Twins, Royalty
Publisher: Bumpity Boulevard Press
Published: 2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Giant Misunderstanding

*William*

The rosy light of early morning hugged William as he climbed down the beanstalk. Reggie was going to wake up, and William was going to make up for everything. It was going to be a beautiful day. Then the giants came around the castle.

“What!?” roared Moth. “You are Jack the Giant Killer?”

Caught red-handed on a magic beanstalk. Faster! William jumped from tendril to leaf to tendril to leaf.

“You lied to us?” yelled Rocks, right behind Moth.

The morning took a sharp turn towards ugly.

“What are you doing with that?” Tom grabbed for the harp.

“No! Just a minute—” William stuffed the harp into his jacket. The giants were out of control. They wouldn’t hear a word he was saying.

Buzzzz! “Better make a run for it,” a shrill voice said in his ear. Psyche attacked the giants like a marauding mosquito, poking them with her tiny wand, and shouting, “Get back, you big bullies!”

“Watch it with the wand,” William shouted, but he climbed down the beanstalk at top speed, sprinted for the small door in the wall, dashed through it and across the paving stones, and into the main castle. He slammed the door behind him and ran up the castle stairs to his room, where he could talk to the angry giants at eye-level. Hopefully, Psyche hadn’t used her wand for anything but a prod. William really didn’t want to have a mountain of sleeping giants outside the castle.

But when he got to his window, the giants were nowhere to be seen. It was eerily silent. No boots crunched on the gravel around the castle. William went back down the stairs and out the main castle door, shutting it silently behind him. Still quiet. He sprinted to the patio, ripped open the restaurant door, and looked through all the windows in the dining room and in the kitchen.

The picketing signs were piled up off to the side, looking like a demolished log cabin. Had Psyche chased them off? They were a thousand times her size!

An hour later, a squadron of Royal Aeronautical Academy students burst into the restaurant kitchen. “We’re here to arrest Prince William,” their leader said.

“That can’t be right,” Queen Studentenblume looked up from her crossword puzzle. With no customers to cook for, the queen and king had taken up crossword puzzles.

“Whatever for?” demanded King Monsoon. He put down the eraser he’d been playing with.

“For pre-meditated giant killing and invading the Seven Kingdoms with giant forces,” the leader snapped, pointing at William. “Arrest him!”

Two students rushed over and grabbed William’s arms.

“Nonsense,” Cordelia said. “The giants left this morning. Nobody killed anybody.”

“We’re not here to discuss the case,” the leader said. “You’ll have your chance in the High Court, if you have something to say.”

The stone floor wobbled under William’s feet. He couldn’t have heard right.

The High Court. No M.E.R.C.Y.?

The High Court was for adults or those who had committed serious crimes. The judge was King Pink of the Magenta Kingdom, not his friend, Vlad. And the Seven Kingdoms thought William had attacked them with the giants’ help.

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