The Secret Potion by Tony Flood

Author:Tony Flood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Harry Potter, danger, hair-raising, violent, drowned, horrendous, fear, mad dog, frightened, flying horse, spells, funny, goblins, police, ingredients, scorpion, wizards, kidnap, terrifying, hilarious, magical formula, whirlpool, monster, pixies, fairies, evil, beast, adventure, nasty, secret potion, killed, drowning, magic, Ali G, talking parrot, Fantasy, cruel, poisonous spiders, witches, eternal life, wicked, snake
ISBN: 9781908354013
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2011-04-18T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

JODY’S shock at finding herself in a cell in the bleak east tower of Augustine The Awful’s castle was matched by her disgust at sharing such a confined space with several beetles and two rats.

The stone walls and floors of the small room were completely bare, apart from a bed covered by a single sheet on which the Bag Man had placed his carrier bags. He had already inspected the cell door, made of solid oak, which was securely locked, and found that the only ‘window’ was a narrow slit in the stone wall on the right, above the bed. By climbing on to the old fashioned wooden bed frame he could peer through the slit and see a sheer drop to the moat that surrounded the castle four floors below.

“I suppose there’s no chance of escaping,” Jody sighed, flopping dejectedly on to the edge of the bed.

“It would appear not,” the Bag Man agreed.

“When Augustine The Awful comes I’ll tell him James is my brother and demand he sets all three of us free,” she said defiantly.

“I don’t think that would be a good idea,” the Bag Man advised. “If Augustine The Awful has wiped out James’s memory and tricked him into working in the forest then he will hardly want to release him. And should the evil-minded Augustine find out you are James’s sister he’ll never let you go. But I doubt if he would release us anyway, now that you know he has found the formula for everlasting life.”

“What can we do, then?”

The Bag Man shrugged. “We can’t do anything at the moment. We’ll just have to wait.”

The wait proved to be a very long one as several hours passed without a sound, apart from the two large rats scurrying across the stone floor and water dripping from a leak in one corner of the ceiling, which housed a family of cockroaches. Jody, overcome by morbid fascination, watched them moving from one crevice to another.

It was getting dark in the small, smelly cell because even a full moon could not throw much light through the narrow slit of a window.

Finally, they heard a noise of approaching footsteps and the cell door was unlocked by two pixies, dressed in dark blue uniforms and pointed hats. They were the direct opposites of each other. One was large and the other comparatively small.

The large pixie had rugged features, with a scar running down his otherwise unmarked face. The small pixie was spotty, with a bent nose and a squint. He seemed to have something in his mouth that caused him to chew and squint alternatively. In fact, the chewing and squinting were just nervous habits.

“I am a very naughty girl who cannot be trusted,” Jody told them. The pixies looked at each other and then at Jody as if she was deranged. But they quickly pushed the heavy wooden cell door wide open to allow some light to flood into the gap – and Augustine The Awful to enter.

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