The Hunt of the Grimalkin (Erresuma Book 1) Dani Swanson (reading women .txt) 📖

handed Thea a small dagger. Thea nodded again, as she dipped the dagger into the small bottle that she had gotten from the elves and stabbed it first into her arm, then into the arms of each of the twins in turn.

“I hope Agatha’s enchantment works. I don’t want to have to run around naked.” Thea said as they started to shrink.

“It will work!” Agatha hissed back.

As they started to shrink, they each poured more of the potion into their wounds. They shrank down to the size of ants. Riley, the shape-shifter, stood in the doorway looking just like Thea. She opened the door and walked out onto the porch.

“Thalia, this has gone on long enough! You need to leave the property!” the fake Thea shouted out to the camp. In response each hand in the coven slowly started to glow in the darkness with their thunderbolts ready to strike.

Meanwhile, Thea and the twins rode on the back of Fig, who ran through the grass, and came up behind the witches. Mud trolls were sent covertly from the tiny girls to form a wall between the lake and the coven. Robin sent a wave neatly over the wall from the lake that extinguished the row of thunderbolts. Just then there was a mighty roar from the sitting room of the chateau as Sorgin charged out of the house in all of her dragon glory. This took many of the creatures by surprise, fled to the woods when they saw that Sorgin was back. The two humans who had been locked up with Dean, made it to the edge of the trees before being buried alive by two mud trolls, that was conjured by a purple haired witch from the coven. The brownies and nymphs were nowhere to be seen.

The elves began to shoot their arrows from the windows, while the fairies were shooting beams of light across the yard. Devin had called upon the animals from the forest to join their battle. Boog had brought the phoenix and the griffin through the house, they too joined in the attack.

Thea and the twins started to grow large again, as the spell wore off. The coven was unaware that they were now the ones who were surrounded. The three witches spread out behind the crescent shape stance of the coven. Agatha brought forth an army of mud trolls that lined up behind each witch, while Thea and Robin had fireballs in each hand. They all released their conjuring at the same time. Sorgin swooped down in front of the group and sprayed a stream of fire in front of the witches. Charles and Dean were on either side of the massive dragon, swords drawn and waiting to move through the wall of fire. The fifteen fairies that were left were dive bombing the witches, along with the ravens; their fairy dust bombs were hitting the witches on the heads and disorientating them.

The pale witch who had joined Thalia during their first battle had turned around and was in a physical battle with Agatha. The witch had her hand around Agatha’s neck and was lifting her off the ground. Agatha was barely touching the ground with her tiptoes and was gasping for air. She dropped her hand to her waist band and removed a potion bottle that she had tied to her belt. The bottle hit the ground and shattered, emitting a yellow gas into the air that created enough of a diversion that Agatha was able to knee the witch in her throat, and escaped her grasp.

Sorgin was taking the majority of the hits from the coven, but was now receiving back up from Rose, Riley and Dean as they too were throwing homemade bombs of potions and gravel into the coven. Charles and Dean had broken through the wall of fire and one of them managed to decapitate a witch. Her head rolled across the grass and landed at Thea’s feet. Thea awkwardly punted the head away from her as it landed in front of Thalia. She became enraged of the sight of the head staring up at her, and started to scream her high pitched screech, which caused many of the creatures to fall over and clench their ears.

“I’M GOING TO KILL YOU!” she screamed, as she came towards Thea. The entire coven began to ignore the group coming from the chateau, as one witch was creating a force field between Sorgin and them. Her hands were raised high above her head and she was straining to push the bubble of energy back towards the house. She was forcefully moving the creatures back towards the chateau.

"Do it now!” Thea yelled as Robin threw the water from the lake onto the nine witches.

Thea ripped off her necklace, stabbing her dagger into the red jewel. It gave off an icy wind, that froze everything that was wet into a crystal of ice.

“NOOOOOO!” Thalia screamed. She was able to throw one more thunderbolt before freezing solid into a statue fit for the Ice King. Electricity soared through Thea, as the thunderbolt hit her, and Thea fell to the ground. Screams that could curdle blood escaped her throat as she shook uncontrollably on the wet grass.

The witch who was pushing the group back with her force field was distracted by a noise behind her. She turned to see her frozen sisters. In that moment her bubble weakened and Charles and Dean were able to push through. Dean swung his sword and cut off the burned witches hands and flung them up into the air where Sorgin ate them in a mighty gulp.

Robin and Agatha were hovering over Thea; she was no longer moving on her own.

“Wake up, Thea, wake up!” Agatha said running a bottle of a potion under Thea’s nose. Dean came running over to her and knelt down at her side. He lifted her off the