Hilda - The Challenge by Paul Kater

Author:Paul Kater [Kater, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Paul Kater
Published: 2011-07-08T00:45:21+00:00

He opened his eyes and saw a small grey object race towards him. It looked like a ladybug, but was taller and fatter. Thin wings carried the five inch long apparition through the air, and did so at an incredible speed. It bumped into him. The impact was silent and massive, but he did not feel it. It was as if the grey elf, as that was what it was, bumped off his shirt without really touching it.

The elf did not give up though. It attacked again and again, hitting William four, five, six times in different places. It did not get to him, as long as he held his screen of massive clothes up. Suddenly the elf disappeared.

With a grin William turned to the two witches and then a solid whack in the back threw him on the floor. A combined attack of four grey elves and him dropping his protection were the reasons for that. He looked up from the floor. "That was not good, was it?"

"I am glad you noticed that." The Russian witch got up again. "Do not drop your protection until you are certain you can. Wear it like a favourite shirt. Now, get up and do it again."

William started to get up but was whacked down again by the witch. "Ouch, damn. That hurt!"

"It should. Did I say you were safe?"

Hilda got up and left the hut. "I'll come back later." She knew that Babs did the right thing, but that did not mean she was happy to see William get the crap kicked out of him.

"No," William admitted. So he reinforced his clothes and then got up. This time Babs whacked him again, with a bolt of energy. It threw him through the hut and landed him against a wall, but it didn't hurt. He got to his feet and stared at the witch, wishing that his feet would hold against another such attack. He was hit from the left by three of the four grey elves. He did not really feel them, but their presence did draw his attention away from Baba Yaga, who banged him with another jolt of power. It made him stagger on his feet, but he remained upright.

"You learn fast, Willy. Just now, understand that you should focus on the place where the most danger comes from." Something that William recognised as a smile formed on Babs' face. The reason for that were the four arms that suddenly materialised from the wall behind him and folded themselves around him, pinning him to the wall in a very professional manner.

"That is not fair," William protested. "Walls don't have arms."

"Are you sure?", the witch asked him. "Sure look like arms to me, Willy. And they will hold you there until you think of something to get away from them." Baba Yaga took a book, sat at the table and seemed to have forgotten about William altogether.

The magic William used was enough to keep the arms from squeezing him, but he had to think of something, and decide on that fast too.

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