The Witch Queen of Avalon
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 16
"Do you two have any idea how much trouble you're in?" Chief Tilkin roared at his youngest children Aysel and Kian. "Deserting your post? Conspiring with the enemy?"
"But Sasporilla Bucket is not our enemy father." Aysel protested.
"Silence!" The old faery fire chieftain yelled red in the cheeks.
"Perhaps it's you who should be silent Tilkin," Sasporilla Bucket huffed, "and listen to your children for once. They seem to be the wisest ones in the room."
"How dare you!" Tilkin roared drawing his flaming blade as a thick mist formed in the dungeon.
"No need for raised voices." The small voice of Gooseberry laughed as she road Flossy forth out of the mist. "After all a raised voice may be mistaken for anger and that the 200 or so faery dragons, who are right now with the great beast at the edge of your forest, may hear and bring him right here! To the heart of your kingdom! Destroying everything in his wake!"
"No!" Sasporilla pleaded. "Please Gooseberry, I don't want a Blue to harm anyone or any thing for me. I'm sure we can work this out peacefully."
"Do you see father?" Aysel asked.
"Sasporilla Bucket isn't a bad person father!" Kian insisted.
"She is our friend." Aysel smiled gently pushing down her fathers sword hand.
"And we should let her go." Kian smiled.
"Children you just don't understand." Fire Chief Tilkin said saddly. "The Witch Queen will inflict much greater damage on us for letting her go."
"Most of the Witch Queen's power", Sasporilla said, "like all dictators that have come before her, is in your fear of her."
"You don't fear her?" Tilkin snorted with derision and disbelief.
"I have stood against her many times." Sasporilla said holding her head high. "I will continue to stand against her until I stop her."
"Very brave." Tilkin said. "but I can't risk our tribe on you."
"Luckily," Gooseberry sighed, "Your daughter taught me something about the fire faery higherarchy. There is one person higher than FIRE CHIEF in your tribe."
"You wouldn't?" Tilkin growled.
"Why have I been summoned?", a dusky skinned faery in a flamed silk dress flew in. "Why have I, Silken the Fire Priestess, been summoned?"
"Mother!" Aysel and Kian smiled.
"My dearest." Fore chief Tilkin bowed to the Fire Priestess. "What brings you to the dungeons?"
"The concerns of this matter bring me Tilkin!" The Fire Priestess scowled fluttering up to her mate and glowering in his face. "Why are you holding the Queen of the Worker Elves prisoner?"
"To protect us from the Witch Queen's wrath." Tilkin insisted, just a bit ashamed. "And to keep the beast at bay."
"I give you the day to day running of these trivial matters," the Fire Priestess Growled, "because frankly small things like politics and other day to day events bore me. Now I was in my Fire chamber preparing things for the burning day when I was interrupted to come deal with this!"
"But snookumz." Fire chief Tilkin said.
Stretching out tendrils of fire from her hair the fire priestess grabbed the key ring from Tilkin and unlocked Sasporilla's cell.
"Ms.Bucket." Fire Priestess Silken smiled. "I apologize for my husbands short sightedness."
"The Witch Queen has a way of using fear to blind and control people." Sasporilla said as Flossy flew in to her and nuzzled against her cheek. "Hello Flossy! I've missed you too!"
"I hope you will hold us no malice great Queen of Worker Elves?" Silken begged.
"I'm not angry." Sassy smiled. "Quite frankly I needed the rest. However it's time for my friend and I to move on. I just need to figure out how to move him past your forest without harming it?"
"That's why I brought 200 faery dragons." Gooseberry said.
"I thought you said it was because they could hear a great distance?" Fire Chief Tilkin asked.
"Then I'd only need one wouldn't I?" Gooseberry smiled slyly.
"You fooled me!" Tilkin screamed slamming down his fist angrily.
"Yes." Gooseberry laughed. "I'm a faery. It's what I do. No if you'll let me explain...?"
"Please." Silken insisted.
"At my command the 200 faery dragons will cast a mist that will transport Blue safely from the forests edge where he is to a large clear area on the other side of the golden orchard. He's just waiting for word as to what he is to do."
"How will he know?" Kian asked.
"Once Flossy takes Sassy out of here to the Golden orchard," Gooseberry said, "I'll go tell the others to bring Blue."
"No one harmed. No damage. No problems." The Fire Priestess Silken smiled. "Wonderful! You have my blessing to be on your way!"
"Thank you." Sasporilla said. "I just want to say special thanks to Aysel and Kian. You didn't give up trying to help me. Thank you."
The two young fire faery guards hugged the pink haired witch and waved good-bye as she disappeared into a cloud of pink faery dragon mist.
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It was not unusual to see a large bullfrog sitting on a rock on the edges of the Fae forest on a bright warm sunny day. However to see one dressed in white robes playing his walking stick like flute was indeed most unusual! The fierce warrior Fae, The Amzia of the crystal canyons peered through the rocks looking at the frog in wonder.
"Well you don't see that every day do you?" Mitsi said.
"Shut it." Pipsi whispered harshly striking him on the helmet with his spear. "That must be a friend of the faery dragons. We'll capture him and..."
"Kill him!" The bunch cheered!
"No!" Pipsi insisted.
"Torture him!" The soldiers cheered.
"No!" Pipsi huffed.
"We'll lock him up and starve him for seven days until he begs for your wife’s cooking?" Mitsi asked.
"Watch it!" Pipsi scowled. "No! We'll capture him and hold him for random. Demanding the dragons and faeries unconditionally surrender their lands to us."
"Oh brilliant sir!" Mitsi said. "Then we give him back when they surrender?"
"No you doink!" Pipsi scoffed hitting him in the helmet once again with the spear tip. "We kill them all!"
Pipsi laughed maniacally as the other Amzia warrior Fae laughed with him uncomfortably. With a wave of his hand he silenced them and peered back out beyond the rocks. On the count of the three we charge.
“1”
“2”
“3”
“CHARGE!!!!!” The fierce warrior Fae, The Amzia of the crystal canyons charged from behind the rocks and started running at the old bullfrog dressed in white robes. Their spears pressed forward, the most fierce look possible on their faces as warrior cries filled the air. Air which suddenly turned pink. A quickly ever thickening pink mist which meant....
"The Faery dragons are...." Pipsi started an order but was rendered unable to speak when he saw a gigantic crystal beast appear in the mist before him.
"RETREAT!!!” Pipsi command as the faery dragons appeared in the mist fluttering around the great beast.
Amongst the confusion of the fierce warrior Fae, The Amzia of the crystal canyons retreating & the great ice phoenix appearing on the edge and the Golden orchards of the Fae forest, no one noticed the sound centaur hoof beats disappearing quickly out of the pink mist and off into the Fae forest.
The calming lilt of the flute drew Blue's attention to the rock where the Bullfrog sat. The great beast leaned down his head and smiled. The notes struck a sympathetic resonance within his silicon structure and made his face glow in rainbow colours.
The old Bullfrog stopped playing, reached up and touched Blue's beak, giving him a good boy pat.
"Hello Blue." The Frogai Lama smiled. "I'm a friend of Sasporilla's. Is it alright if I sit with you for a while?"
"Yes." Blue said. "I'm worried about my friend. I haven't seen her in days."
"Be assured that she is well and is safe now." The Frogai Lama smiled. "The friends she is with now have something very important they must do with her. Did they tell you?"
"Yes." Blue nodded.
"Then you know she is only about a mile from you in the glade of the Faery dragons, in the golden orchard. When she is done she will rejoin you and we will get you going on your way."
"Yes." The giant ice phoenix reared and snorted in approval.
"Just about a mile from you in the glade of the Faery dragons in the golden orchard?" Magnus the outcast centaur smiled peering out from behind a tree. "Thank you for the tip."
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The pink mists seemed more like a maze than a vail to Sasporilla. Her out stretched hands found firm wooden obstacles in her way shifting her left and right until she finally stepped forth out into the clearing of the Golden grove. Pink Faery dragons swarmed around her as she stepped toward Gooseberry and Flossy that stood along the rim if a waist high pedestal. A silver plate sat atop it and on the plate was a freshly picked golden cherry.
"Welcome Sasporilla Bucket Queen of the Worker Elves," Gooseberry smiled, "and honoured friend of the Fae."
"You Sasporilla Bucket give so much of yourself." smiled Flossy fluttering her wings, ". You risked so much just to save my life, now it is time that the Fae give something back too you."
"You owe me nothing my friends." Sasporilla smiled humbly.
"Perhaps you feel that way Sassy," Gooseberry said, "but the truth is we know something about you that you don't."
"What?" Sasporilla asked.
"You didn't die from the juice of the golden cherry." Flossy fluttered.
"Bloody luckily!" Sassy huffed. "If I'd eaten a full one I'd have probably died."
"No." Gooseberry said flying over before her. "One drop of golden cherry juice should kill any wizard or witch!!!"
"Then how did I survive?" Sasporilla asked.
"The same reason your fathers protection spell turned your hair pink." Flossy giggled. "You are a Faery dragon Animagus!!!"
"What?" Sassy gasped. "No! I never... I can't be?"
"You are." Gooseberry smiled. "However like all animagi you need a trigger item that starts your ability to change! With cat animagi it's usually fish. With dog animagi it's often stale biscuits. Though honestly it can be just about anything with them."
"However with you," Flossy flew around the pedestal, "faery dragon animagi have to actually eat of the golden cherry as we do. If you survive, you gain such wondrous abilities!"
"If I survive?" Sasporilla puffed. "That doesn't instill me with much confidence nor motivation!"
"Take it easy kid." Gooseberry smiled. "We know you'll do fine. You've already survived the juice of the cherry. You'll be ok. Trust me."
Sasporilla had no reason to doubt the faeries that were her friends. If this were true perhaps she could transform, as the animagus do, into a faery dragon and cast a pink mist to take her and Blue to Avalon city.
Sassy stepped forward with slight hesitation and trepidation. She reached for the small golden piece of fruit. She picked it up by its small thin stem and hung it before her eyes. There was a glow about it. Something magical that almost called to her deep inside. A voice that tapped at some primal urge to eat it.
Sasporilla bit into the cherry. Its flesh was ripe and sweet on her tongue. Like no cherry she'd had before. This was not the taste she remembered from before. There was something that urged her to finish it quickly. As the last trickle of golden cherry Juice rolled down the back of her tongue, Sasporilla Bucket's eyes rolled back in her skull.
Sasporilla felt as if she was floating as a euphoric wave came over her. Pulling her back as she fell inward, into a deep pink mist that she exhaled from somewhere deep inside and Sassy began to transform. Her skin rippled in waves of pink scales as she shrunk down the size of the smallest of pillar cats!
Thunderous hoof beats surprised the faery dragons as a centaur charged in to the grove from the quiet tree line and snatched the newly formed Sasporilla Pillarcat up in his hand, placing a blade to her tiny pink scaled throat.
"I finally have you." Magnus Redhoof gloated. "You're helpless in my hands and there's nothing you or friends can do to save you."
The other faery dragons dare not threaten to move on him for he had the girl in a very precarious predicament. Sasporilla's little pillarcat lower lip quivered, as her eyes looked big and sad. Then her cheeks puffed up and her tongue stuck out and she spat a huge wad of pink vomit into Magnus's open wide smiling mouth.
"Kahkkkk!!!!" Magnus Redhoof coughed and dropped the young animagus as she shifted form again and turned into her final form of a pink faery dragon.
Sassy could feel the wings on her back, new and light, start to flap and lift her off the ground. The other faery dragons pointed and cheered when they caught sight of her. A new pink faery dragon in the grove flying like an old pro as she flew straight for the distressed centaur.
Three painful sparks in the hand from Gooseberry made Redhoof drop his blade. A swarming of Faery dragons disoriented him enough to bring him to kneel before Sasporilla who transformed back.
"Magnus Redhoof." Sasporilla Bucket said. "I banished you to this forest because of your scheming and your evil. It seems no matter where you go you intend to cause trouble."
"No matter where you send me," Magnus growled, "it won't save you or the world from my vengeance on you."
"Such vitriol towards me Magnus," Sasporilla asked, "why?"
"You were an outsider!" Magnus snorted and stomped. "I was biggest! I was bravest! I passed all the trials and stood in line to be lead my people! And who do they choose? YOU! A MAGI! They would choose a little girl witch over ME!!!"
"Perhaps you should ask yourself why Magnus Redhoof?" Sasporilla hissed. "Think of everything you've done to undermine and harm your people? Why? Just so you could get ahead? Or to seek revenge on those who would not support you! They deemed you unworthy and demanded your death! I chose to spare you and let you run free here. Perhaps start a new life in a place where no one knows your past. Remake yourself for the better. However you chose another path, the path you know too well, scornful vengeance."
"And I will not stop because you will not kill me. It isn't in you Sasporilla Bucket." Magnus Redhoof laughed. "So I will hunt you down. You and everyone you love."
"Perhaps you're right." Sasporilla sighed as she turned her back on the sneaky centaur and walked away. "I guess the best I can do is continue to defend myself..."
The faery dragons gasped as the centaur drew his bow with lightning speed and let fly a poison arrow at Sassy's head. Gooseberry barely got out the first 'Sa' Sasporilla before the arrow struck its target. Some how Sasporilla stood where Magnus had been and Magnus stood where Sasporilla had been? The arrow sticking out of his chest, buried deep in his heart.
The fast acting poison stretched its green tentacles through his expanding veins as he fell to the ground in agony!
"How?" The centaur asked foaming at the mouth.
"As you said I wouldn't stoop to killing you Magnus Redhoof." Sasporilla sighed shaking her head. "But if you were dead set on killing someone today, figured it might as well be yourself. Perhaps I should have let the centaurs execute you."
Her words fell on deaf ears. Perhaps the problem was with Magnus Redhoof was all words had fallen on deaf ears all his life. Maybe if he had tried, just once to listen a little harder, he'd have had a better life.
"Sasporilla," Gooseberry smiled, "you cunning child you pulled a swap places spell!"
"Handy little trick!" Sassy smiled. "But not as cool as being an animagus!!!"
Sasporilla folded up in a mist of pink and reformed as a pink faery dragon.
"You've got the hang of it quick enough!" Flossy smiled looping in the air.
"She's a natural." Gooseberry said.
"I'll likely have a lot to learn!" Sasporilla said. "and little time to learn it before Blue and I MUST be on our way!"
"We are prepared to teach you everything you need!" Flossy said excitedly.
"And we have a plan about getting you the rest of your way a bit faster!" Gooseberry smiled.
"I'm in!" Sasporilla smiled brightly as the Faery dragons cheered!
"Let's get started!" Gooseberry commanded! And so the Animagus training of Sasporilla Bucket at the hands of the Pink Faery Dragons in the Mystic Golden grove of the golden cherry trees began.
"Do you two have any idea how much trouble you're in?" Chief Tilkin roared at his youngest children Aysel and Kian. "Deserting your post? Conspiring with the enemy?"
"But Sasporilla Bucket is not our enemy father." Aysel protested.
"Silence!" The old faery fire chieftain yelled red in the cheeks.
"Perhaps it's you who should be silent Tilkin," Sasporilla Bucket huffed, "and listen to your children for once. They seem to be the wisest ones in the room."
"How dare you!" Tilkin roared drawing his flaming blade as a thick mist formed in the dungeon.
"No need for raised voices." The small voice of Gooseberry laughed as she road Flossy forth out of the mist. "After all a raised voice may be mistaken for anger and that the 200 or so faery dragons, who are right now with the great beast at the edge of your forest, may hear and bring him right here! To the heart of your kingdom! Destroying everything in his wake!"
"No!" Sasporilla pleaded. "Please Gooseberry, I don't want a Blue to harm anyone or any thing for me. I'm sure we can work this out peacefully."
"Do you see father?" Aysel asked.
"Sasporilla Bucket isn't a bad person father!" Kian insisted.
"She is our friend." Aysel smiled gently pushing down her fathers sword hand.
"And we should let her go." Kian smiled.
"Children you just don't understand." Fire Chief Tilkin said saddly. "The Witch Queen will inflict much greater damage on us for letting her go."
"Most of the Witch Queen's power", Sasporilla said, "like all dictators that have come before her, is in your fear of her."
"You don't fear her?" Tilkin snorted with derision and disbelief.
"I have stood against her many times." Sasporilla said holding her head high. "I will continue to stand against her until I stop her."
"Very brave." Tilkin said. "but I can't risk our tribe on you."
"Luckily," Gooseberry sighed, "Your daughter taught me something about the fire faery higherarchy. There is one person higher than FIRE CHIEF in your tribe."
"You wouldn't?" Tilkin growled.
"Why have I been summoned?", a dusky skinned faery in a flamed silk dress flew in. "Why have I, Silken the Fire Priestess, been summoned?"
"Mother!" Aysel and Kian smiled.
"My dearest." Fore chief Tilkin bowed to the Fire Priestess. "What brings you to the dungeons?"
"The concerns of this matter bring me Tilkin!" The Fire Priestess scowled fluttering up to her mate and glowering in his face. "Why are you holding the Queen of the Worker Elves prisoner?"
"To protect us from the Witch Queen's wrath." Tilkin insisted, just a bit ashamed. "And to keep the beast at bay."
"I give you the day to day running of these trivial matters," the Fire Priestess Growled, "because frankly small things like politics and other day to day events bore me. Now I was in my Fire chamber preparing things for the burning day when I was interrupted to come deal with this!"
"But snookumz." Fire chief Tilkin said.
Stretching out tendrils of fire from her hair the fire priestess grabbed the key ring from Tilkin and unlocked Sasporilla's cell.
"Ms.Bucket." Fire Priestess Silken smiled. "I apologize for my husbands short sightedness."
"The Witch Queen has a way of using fear to blind and control people." Sasporilla said as Flossy flew in to her and nuzzled against her cheek. "Hello Flossy! I've missed you too!"
"I hope you will hold us no malice great Queen of Worker Elves?" Silken begged.
"I'm not angry." Sassy smiled. "Quite frankly I needed the rest. However it's time for my friend and I to move on. I just need to figure out how to move him past your forest without harming it?"
"That's why I brought 200 faery dragons." Gooseberry said.
"I thought you said it was because they could hear a great distance?" Fire Chief Tilkin asked.
"Then I'd only need one wouldn't I?" Gooseberry smiled slyly.
"You fooled me!" Tilkin screamed slamming down his fist angrily.
"Yes." Gooseberry laughed. "I'm a faery. It's what I do. No if you'll let me explain...?"
"Please." Silken insisted.
"At my command the 200 faery dragons will cast a mist that will transport Blue safely from the forests edge where he is to a large clear area on the other side of the golden orchard. He's just waiting for word as to what he is to do."
"How will he know?" Kian asked.
"Once Flossy takes Sassy out of here to the Golden orchard," Gooseberry said, "I'll go tell the others to bring Blue."
"No one harmed. No damage. No problems." The Fire Priestess Silken smiled. "Wonderful! You have my blessing to be on your way!"
"Thank you." Sasporilla said. "I just want to say special thanks to Aysel and Kian. You didn't give up trying to help me. Thank you."
The two young fire faery guards hugged the pink haired witch and waved good-bye as she disappeared into a cloud of pink faery dragon mist.
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It was not unusual to see a large bullfrog sitting on a rock on the edges of the Fae forest on a bright warm sunny day. However to see one dressed in white robes playing his walking stick like flute was indeed most unusual! The fierce warrior Fae, The Amzia of the crystal canyons peered through the rocks looking at the frog in wonder.
"Well you don't see that every day do you?" Mitsi said.
"Shut it." Pipsi whispered harshly striking him on the helmet with his spear. "That must be a friend of the faery dragons. We'll capture him and..."
"Kill him!" The bunch cheered!
"No!" Pipsi insisted.
"Torture him!" The soldiers cheered.
"No!" Pipsi huffed.
"We'll lock him up and starve him for seven days until he begs for your wife’s cooking?" Mitsi asked.
"Watch it!" Pipsi scowled. "No! We'll capture him and hold him for random. Demanding the dragons and faeries unconditionally surrender their lands to us."
"Oh brilliant sir!" Mitsi said. "Then we give him back when they surrender?"
"No you doink!" Pipsi scoffed hitting him in the helmet once again with the spear tip. "We kill them all!"
Pipsi laughed maniacally as the other Amzia warrior Fae laughed with him uncomfortably. With a wave of his hand he silenced them and peered back out beyond the rocks. On the count of the three we charge.
“1”
“2”
“3”
“CHARGE!!!!!” The fierce warrior Fae, The Amzia of the crystal canyons charged from behind the rocks and started running at the old bullfrog dressed in white robes. Their spears pressed forward, the most fierce look possible on their faces as warrior cries filled the air. Air which suddenly turned pink. A quickly ever thickening pink mist which meant....
"The Faery dragons are...." Pipsi started an order but was rendered unable to speak when he saw a gigantic crystal beast appear in the mist before him.
"RETREAT!!!” Pipsi command as the faery dragons appeared in the mist fluttering around the great beast.
Amongst the confusion of the fierce warrior Fae, The Amzia of the crystal canyons retreating & the great ice phoenix appearing on the edge and the Golden orchards of the Fae forest, no one noticed the sound centaur hoof beats disappearing quickly out of the pink mist and off into the Fae forest.
The calming lilt of the flute drew Blue's attention to the rock where the Bullfrog sat. The great beast leaned down his head and smiled. The notes struck a sympathetic resonance within his silicon structure and made his face glow in rainbow colours.
The old Bullfrog stopped playing, reached up and touched Blue's beak, giving him a good boy pat.
"Hello Blue." The Frogai Lama smiled. "I'm a friend of Sasporilla's. Is it alright if I sit with you for a while?"
"Yes." Blue said. "I'm worried about my friend. I haven't seen her in days."
"Be assured that she is well and is safe now." The Frogai Lama smiled. "The friends she is with now have something very important they must do with her. Did they tell you?"
"Yes." Blue nodded.
"Then you know she is only about a mile from you in the glade of the Faery dragons, in the golden orchard. When she is done she will rejoin you and we will get you going on your way."
"Yes." The giant ice phoenix reared and snorted in approval.
"Just about a mile from you in the glade of the Faery dragons in the golden orchard?" Magnus the outcast centaur smiled peering out from behind a tree. "Thank you for the tip."
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The pink mists seemed more like a maze than a vail to Sasporilla. Her out stretched hands found firm wooden obstacles in her way shifting her left and right until she finally stepped forth out into the clearing of the Golden grove. Pink Faery dragons swarmed around her as she stepped toward Gooseberry and Flossy that stood along the rim if a waist high pedestal. A silver plate sat atop it and on the plate was a freshly picked golden cherry.
"Welcome Sasporilla Bucket Queen of the Worker Elves," Gooseberry smiled, "and honoured friend of the Fae."
"You Sasporilla Bucket give so much of yourself." smiled Flossy fluttering her wings, ". You risked so much just to save my life, now it is time that the Fae give something back too you."
"You owe me nothing my friends." Sasporilla smiled humbly.
"Perhaps you feel that way Sassy," Gooseberry said, "but the truth is we know something about you that you don't."
"What?" Sasporilla asked.
"You didn't die from the juice of the golden cherry." Flossy fluttered.
"Bloody luckily!" Sassy huffed. "If I'd eaten a full one I'd have probably died."
"No." Gooseberry said flying over before her. "One drop of golden cherry juice should kill any wizard or witch!!!"
"Then how did I survive?" Sasporilla asked.
"The same reason your fathers protection spell turned your hair pink." Flossy giggled. "You are a Faery dragon Animagus!!!"
"What?" Sassy gasped. "No! I never... I can't be?"
"You are." Gooseberry smiled. "However like all animagi you need a trigger item that starts your ability to change! With cat animagi it's usually fish. With dog animagi it's often stale biscuits. Though honestly it can be just about anything with them."
"However with you," Flossy flew around the pedestal, "faery dragon animagi have to actually eat of the golden cherry as we do. If you survive, you gain such wondrous abilities!"
"If I survive?" Sasporilla puffed. "That doesn't instill me with much confidence nor motivation!"
"Take it easy kid." Gooseberry smiled. "We know you'll do fine. You've already survived the juice of the cherry. You'll be ok. Trust me."
Sasporilla had no reason to doubt the faeries that were her friends. If this were true perhaps she could transform, as the animagus do, into a faery dragon and cast a pink mist to take her and Blue to Avalon city.
Sassy stepped forward with slight hesitation and trepidation. She reached for the small golden piece of fruit. She picked it up by its small thin stem and hung it before her eyes. There was a glow about it. Something magical that almost called to her deep inside. A voice that tapped at some primal urge to eat it.
Sasporilla bit into the cherry. Its flesh was ripe and sweet on her tongue. Like no cherry she'd had before. This was not the taste she remembered from before. There was something that urged her to finish it quickly. As the last trickle of golden cherry Juice rolled down the back of her tongue, Sasporilla Bucket's eyes rolled back in her skull.
Sasporilla felt as if she was floating as a euphoric wave came over her. Pulling her back as she fell inward, into a deep pink mist that she exhaled from somewhere deep inside and Sassy began to transform. Her skin rippled in waves of pink scales as she shrunk down the size of the smallest of pillar cats!
Thunderous hoof beats surprised the faery dragons as a centaur charged in to the grove from the quiet tree line and snatched the newly formed Sasporilla Pillarcat up in his hand, placing a blade to her tiny pink scaled throat.
"I finally have you." Magnus Redhoof gloated. "You're helpless in my hands and there's nothing you or friends can do to save you."
The other faery dragons dare not threaten to move on him for he had the girl in a very precarious predicament. Sasporilla's little pillarcat lower lip quivered, as her eyes looked big and sad. Then her cheeks puffed up and her tongue stuck out and she spat a huge wad of pink vomit into Magnus's open wide smiling mouth.
"Kahkkkk!!!!" Magnus Redhoof coughed and dropped the young animagus as she shifted form again and turned into her final form of a pink faery dragon.
Sassy could feel the wings on her back, new and light, start to flap and lift her off the ground. The other faery dragons pointed and cheered when they caught sight of her. A new pink faery dragon in the grove flying like an old pro as she flew straight for the distressed centaur.
Three painful sparks in the hand from Gooseberry made Redhoof drop his blade. A swarming of Faery dragons disoriented him enough to bring him to kneel before Sasporilla who transformed back.
"Magnus Redhoof." Sasporilla Bucket said. "I banished you to this forest because of your scheming and your evil. It seems no matter where you go you intend to cause trouble."
"No matter where you send me," Magnus growled, "it won't save you or the world from my vengeance on you."
"Such vitriol towards me Magnus," Sasporilla asked, "why?"
"You were an outsider!" Magnus snorted and stomped. "I was biggest! I was bravest! I passed all the trials and stood in line to be lead my people! And who do they choose? YOU! A MAGI! They would choose a little girl witch over ME!!!"
"Perhaps you should ask yourself why Magnus Redhoof?" Sasporilla hissed. "Think of everything you've done to undermine and harm your people? Why? Just so you could get ahead? Or to seek revenge on those who would not support you! They deemed you unworthy and demanded your death! I chose to spare you and let you run free here. Perhaps start a new life in a place where no one knows your past. Remake yourself for the better. However you chose another path, the path you know too well, scornful vengeance."
"And I will not stop because you will not kill me. It isn't in you Sasporilla Bucket." Magnus Redhoof laughed. "So I will hunt you down. You and everyone you love."
"Perhaps you're right." Sasporilla sighed as she turned her back on the sneaky centaur and walked away. "I guess the best I can do is continue to defend myself..."
The faery dragons gasped as the centaur drew his bow with lightning speed and let fly a poison arrow at Sassy's head. Gooseberry barely got out the first 'Sa' Sasporilla before the arrow struck its target. Some how Sasporilla stood where Magnus had been and Magnus stood where Sasporilla had been? The arrow sticking out of his chest, buried deep in his heart.
The fast acting poison stretched its green tentacles through his expanding veins as he fell to the ground in agony!
"How?" The centaur asked foaming at the mouth.
"As you said I wouldn't stoop to killing you Magnus Redhoof." Sasporilla sighed shaking her head. "But if you were dead set on killing someone today, figured it might as well be yourself. Perhaps I should have let the centaurs execute you."
Her words fell on deaf ears. Perhaps the problem was with Magnus Redhoof was all words had fallen on deaf ears all his life. Maybe if he had tried, just once to listen a little harder, he'd have had a better life.
"Sasporilla," Gooseberry smiled, "you cunning child you pulled a swap places spell!"
"Handy little trick!" Sassy smiled. "But not as cool as being an animagus!!!"
Sasporilla folded up in a mist of pink and reformed as a pink faery dragon.
"You've got the hang of it quick enough!" Flossy smiled looping in the air.
"She's a natural." Gooseberry said.
"I'll likely have a lot to learn!" Sasporilla said. "and little time to learn it before Blue and I MUST be on our way!"
"We are prepared to teach you everything you need!" Flossy said excitedly.
"And we have a plan about getting you the rest of your way a bit faster!" Gooseberry smiled.
"I'm in!" Sasporilla smiled brightly as the Faery dragons cheered!
"Let's get started!" Gooseberry commanded! And so the Animagus training of Sasporilla Bucket at the hands of the Pink Faery Dragons in the Mystic Golden grove of the golden cherry trees began.
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