Magic and Other Misdemeanors (The Sisters Grimm, Book 5) by Michael Buckley

Author:Michael Buckley [Buckley, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: YA, Fantasy
Published: 2011-02-10T05:00:00+00:00

"Show us," Sabrina said.

* * *

Sabrina felt the house make another abrupt turn. She glanced out the window and saw abandoned homes and a forest charred with black smoke. Roads were ripped in half and littered with abandoned cars.

After a while, the creepy shack came to a lumbering stop.

"We're here," the future Daphne said as she glanced through the window. "We can't stay long."

"The dragons circle the area in fifteen-minute cycles and we don't know when the last one started," Granny Relda explained.

Sabrina felt the house lower. The older Puck came from the other room with his crossbow and arrows in hand. He kicked open the door, took a peek outside, and then gestured for everyone to follow. Sabrina and Daphne shuffled outside with Charming close behind.

And then they saw it, the plot of land that had been their grandmother's home. Their house and any sign that it had ever existed was gone. Not even the trees had been left behind. Instead, an enormous castle made from black stones sat on the property. It had two high towers and a drawbridge over a moat dug around the perimeter of the building. On top of one of the towers, a black flag with a bloodred handprint in its center fluttered in the wind. The air smelled of sulfur.

Sabrina could feel tears run down her face, and for the first time in her life she didn't try to hide them.

"I haven't been here in fifteen years," the old Sabrina said. "Never thought I'd be strong enough to look out at it--"

"How do we fix this?" Sabrina interrupted.

"Fix it?" her older self said. "I don't know if you can fix it."

"You have to send us back," Daphne said, her own face wet with tears. "Now that we know what is going to happen, we can change it."

Charming nodded. "My plan exactly, and we're working on a way to do just that. The tears in time pop up all over the place, but by the time I get to one, it has already closed."

"Then we're stuck here?" Sabrina exclaimed.

"No," the future Daphne said. "We may have a way to predict when they come."

Sabrina noticed something unspoken pass between Charming and Daphne's future self. Whatever it was, it made the older Daphne tense.

"People, get back into the house! NOW!" Puck shouted as he pointed toward the sky.

Sabrina looked up and gasped. High in the charcoal sky another dragon sailed overhead. It was green, black, and red, and puffs of smoke drifted out of its wide, reptilian snout. Its roar shook the earth with a boom, and from its gruesome jaws came a torrent of liquid flames that turned a nearby stump into black ash.

The older Sabrina helped Granny wheel her chair into Baba Yaga's house. The rest of the group followed and slammed the door behind them.

"House! Let's move it!" the older Sabrina shouted, and the building once again rose to its feet and raced into the woods.

"Can we outrun that?" Sabrina asked as she watched the dragon blast another nearby tree.

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