The Witch With the Glitch by Adam Maxwell

Author:Adam Maxwell [Maxwell, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Children's Books, Fairy Tales; Folk Tales & Myths, Holidays & Celebrations, Halloween, Children's eBooks
Amazon: B016KSYQSW
Publisher: The Lost Book Emporium
Published: 2015-10-12T05:00:00+00:00

chapter nine - if the wind changes you'll stay like that

Back at the village, Nina and Ivy had been trying their best to pretend they were normal girls instead of a ghost and a vampire. But it wasn’t entirely working. Sheila and a group of other adults who had gathered in front of the bookshop seemed to be quite happy to talk to them but other people kept their distance. Some walked past, muttering under their breath to one another, and a few annoying children kept running up behind Ivy and throwing pebbles through her.

“I think it’s very rude to throw stones through a person,” said Ivy, getting quite snippy.

Nina nodded and tried not to laugh, but was thankfully interrupted by one of the villagers coming over to tell them some news.

“The blacksmith says that Van Helsing was in yesterday after his horse threw a shoe,” said the man. He was talking to Sheila and the others but his eyes kept flashing across to Nina and Ivy in a worried way. “He says that the horse was pulling a cart and the cart had a cover over it.”

“And how does that help us, exactly?” asked Sheila.

“Well,” the man continued. “Van Helsing was talking to someone or some thing under the cover and the blacksmith says that he called whoever it was ‘Izzy’.”

Nina was about to question the man further when one of the crowd gave a shout.

“Look, it’s the wolf! And on his back…”

Nina and Ivy turned to see Oswald the werewolf trotting out of the forest at the exact spot they had arrived in the village, and on his back were two children. A boy and a girl.

“Han,” a man’s voice shouted. “Greta! You found them!”

“Thank goodness for that,” Ivy whispered to Nina. “I was getting a little worried.”

Nina nodded and ran over to greet Oswald and the children.

I won’t spend too long telling you what happened next with Han and Greta. Not that it isn’t an interesting story, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that it’s not our story. Our story is about Nina, Ivy and Oswald and right now the sun is plummeting toward the horizon and the moon is rising in the sky and they don’t have much time before the witch’s spell becomes permanent but…

What’s that?

Oh, very well… Han and Greta… But only for a moment… Because soon you'll want to know about Oswald being stuck in wolf-form too, won’t you?

Once Han and Greta were sure they could trust the wolf (who we know was Oswald) they followed him but, because they had not eaten for so long, they were weak. Of course, as a wolf, Oswald could easily carry the children on his back like a big, shaggy, pony, so they hopped up and he carefully padded his way back along the white stone path to the village.

As they arrived back, Han and Greta’s daddy raced to greet them and swept them up into his arms with kisses and cuddles. Their mother, however, was nowhere to be seen.

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