Cadenbury Town Does Halloween (Cadenbury Town #7)

Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5

I love our defence against dark magic lessons. We realised a while ago that we needed to learn how to protect ourselves against dark magic. The town witches wanted to learn as well. So now we have playtime. I mean now we have serious lessons on how to stop dark magic, thanks to Sal, Justice and Callum.

I’m not sure we still need them, as pretty much the whole town is protected by the protection rune we handed out when we had issues with the Bannisters, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Adhan, Alfred and Clarence are sat in the seating area, along with a few other partners, watching over us.

I shake my head. “You’d think by now they would trust us, wouldn’t you?”

Justice laughs. “I wouldn’t trust me.”

Sal snorts. “We do, plus you know you’re protected from pretty much everything. We can throw our darkest spells at you and you can just bat them away. Also, none of us have any fear of you going dark again. We’ve seen how dark your magic can go and still keep to this side.”

“Plus, you were under a spell, which you know can’t happen again,” Titus points out.

Justice nods. “That’s true.”

A while ago when Justice’s biological family started messing with us, they used a demon and the original Witchfinder General to put a spell on Justice and pull him back to the dark side of magic.

While he was recovering, we threw every protection spell we could make up and find in books or on the internet at him. I’m pretty sure he is now completely indestructible, the same as Alfred, who had been in wolf form lying next to Justice, his wolf head resting on Justice and making the protection go into him as well.

We’re not sure if Justice’s magic pushed the protection into Alfred or if we made it settle inside him as well. But whatever way it happened it stopped Alfred from being burned at the stake, which we were all more than thankful for.

“So, ready to play with magic?” Nix asks, grinning at us.

“You mean like this?” Justice says and throws his hand out.

Most of the floor falls away and in its place are stepping stones with lava flowing around them.

“Sweet,” Temp says, grinning. He looks at one of the witches. “Sally, shall we play stepping stones?”

Sally laughs. “I think I’ll let you guys handle this one first.”

“Party pooper,” Cassie says. “Come on Temp, we’ve got this,” and with that, he jumps on the first stepping stone.

As soon as he steps on it lava shoots up, blocking the next one. The same happens when Temp steps on the stone closest to him.

“Use your magic,” Sal tells them.

“You really think the dark witches or demons are gonna make a lava flow?” Cassie asks, sending some magic out.

“Nope, we’re just having fun,” Justice says, grinning. “But you never know. Also, watch out for the dragon.”

The next moment a lava dragon comes flying out of the ground.

“This is awesome,” I say as we watch Temp and Cassie battle the dragon. Some of the town witches join in to help them. “Come on Nix, let’s play,” I say, dragging him into the fight.

We spend ages battling the dragon while trying to get across the stepping stones. All of us working together to try and bring the dragon down and get safely across the stones.

Halfway through, Justice, Sal and Callum join in working from the other end trying to stop us, sending dark spells our way. So we have to contend with lava, the dragon and dark spells.

I see Adhan and Alfred walk close to us.

“Time to think about wrapping this up folks, you’ve been playing for hours,” Adhan calls.

“But we’re winning,” Temp says, throwing a water ball towards Callum.

Callum bats it away, but straight into Adhan's face. The ball explodes on impact and Adhan is doused in water.

Alfred laughs and jumps out of the way, so he doesn’t get wet.

“Sorry,” Callum calls out, laughing his head off.

Adhan wipes a hand down his face. “I’d believe that if you hadn’t laughed,” Adhan replies.

I see Justice wave his hand and the illusion vanishes, the floor is back to being mats and the lava dragon gone.

I’m still laughing as I walk towards Adhan. “Do you want me to dry you off?”

“That would be nice, sweetheart,” he replies.

“See, if you had trusted us enough, you would have been housebuilding and not getting wet,” I tell him, clicking my fingers and drying him off.

“Addy still would have got wet,” Cam says grinning as he walks over to join us. “We’ve just all arrived to pick you up.”

“But we were winning,” Sion complained.

“Were you though?” Sal asks. “None of you reached the halfway point.”

“I’m so glad you true witches offered to have these lessons. I can’t remember when I had so much fun with magic,” one of the witches said. “I’ve always loved playing with magic, but you all make it entertaining.”

“I’m glad we could help,” I say, smiling her way.

“See you next week,” the witch says, walking away.

We say bye to the other witches and follow them outside with Adhan closing and locking the bunker behind us.

The last time we were here, we created a spell that would add our protection around the bunker door every time it closed, so we don’t need to protect it each time we leave.

“How did you get on at the house?” Nix asks the brothers generally.

“We got the first secret hiding hole completed, but there is still lots to do,” Cam replied.

“Do any of the town folk help with the house?” Sal asks.

“No,” Adhan replies. “It’s just us, that way it can be a surprise for everyone else. Let’s head home, shall we?”