The Witch Queen of Avalon
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 17
It was a beautiful morning on the edge of the Fae forest. The sun was shining and the morning dew sparkled on the leaves and grass that sparsely intermingled with the pebbles, which lead into the rocks beyond. Always aware that they had eyes on them, the Frogai Lama and Blue, sat unworried by any malevolent presence skulking in the rocks.
Amongst the faery dragons frolicking sparsely at the shadowy edge of the Fae wood appeared a Faery dragon like no other Blue had seen. Its pink scales sparkled with a pearlesence unlike the others. Its wings were like a fine large lace of pink woven light. Its mane was more than a small shock of pink, but a glorious flowing full head of pink hair that flowed down its back and cascaded through the air.
The beautiful Faery dragon fluttered over before Blue and the Frogai Lama and hovered just above the ground. With a small puff of pink mist from her mist she shifted and revealed herself to be Sasporilla Bucket.
It had been to long since Sasporilla Bucket enjoyed the comforting embrace of a friend. She wasted no time running up to Blue who dipped his big frozen crystalline beak to accept her wide hug. Blue was cool to the touch but not overly cold as one would expect from a giant phoenix made of ice crystal. It was however the best thing Sasporilla Bucket had felt in what seemed like an eternity. The Love of a true friend.
She pulled away and looked over at the Frogai Lama, who gave a polite wave and smile.
"My friend," Sasporilla said, "from here to Avalon city is still many days from here. My being held prisoner and learning how to use my Animagus powers put you far off your schedule my friend. You should be breaching the city walls this morning and making your great leap into space! I am going to ask you to, with the help of the other faery dragons, are going to use the pink myst to transport to a safe spot just outside the city. A spot where you can get a good running start and jump up. However, I'm asking that you please wait until I send word that it's time to do so."
"Sasporilla Bucket," Blue grumbled in his throat, "what is your plan that I must wait?"
"Blue my friend I don't want you to be the main focus of the royal guards wrath today." Sassy smiled. "I've sent out word to many allies that we are in need of help today. Trust me, we'll be fine."
It amazed Blue just how many pink faery dragons came out from between the trees of the grove. They swarmed them and in a single puff filled the air with enough pink myst to cover them completely. Thin inside of the pink myst seemed to sparkle a bit like a rainbow, as the sun did in Blues crystalline ice body. The faery dragons fluttered in formation around them like a giant tornado. Suddenly the myst separated and they were in a field a few miles outside the great walls of Avalon city.
"Welcome!" Professor Splatterpalette smiled as she ran up and hugged Sasporilla. "I'm so happy to see you. You gave me a heart attack when I thought you'd blown yourself to bits!"
"I'm sorry Professor." Sasporilla said. "Turns out I had a greater purpose to serve before I took care of our evil friend. Is everything ready?"
"Yes!" Professor Splatterpalette smiled. "We got your messages. Everything and everyone’s in place, except..."
Through the edge of the Elven wood at the edge of the fields far side marched a large army of high born elves in full battle armour carrying only the finest magical weapons. The High Elf King road on rare silver unicorn and galloped quickly ahead. He came to a halt before Sasporilla Bucket and stepped down.
"I apologize for our late arrival." The king said sorrowfully." We had opposition in the Elvenwood."
"From the Witch Queen?" Professor Splatterpalette asked.
"Yes." The Elf King answered. "Her living tree ghouls. Nasty creatures. hundreds of them. We took miner losses."
"I'm sorry you took any losses at all my friend." Sassy said hanging her head. "They would be alive today if not for me."
"No!" The Elf king said placing his hand on the young witches shoulder. "They would be alive today if not for Baba Yaga! You are giving us the chance to our world of this evil once and for all! Don't you blame yourself for her evils!"
"Thank you." Sasporilla smiled raising her head turning her gaze towards the city. "Now I must go and face the Witch Queen. A large group of soldiers will stay to guard you Blue."
"I'm not afraid." Blue said stretching out his massive wings and bellowing a great Icy skreel making everyone cover their ears.
"If the witch Queen hadn't known we were here before she certainly does now.!" The Elf King chided.
"I was counting it." Sassy smiled and folded up in a mist of pink reforming as a pink faery dragon. With a sly smile she fluttered off on the breeze towards the city.
"Right then Dame Splatterpalette," the Elf King said raising his sword in knightly salute as she returned his salute by doing so with her wand. "We had best get to our posts."
"Indeed." Professor Splatterpalette smiled with impish glee and disaporated away.
"First battalion with me!" The Elf king commanded. "Second through tenth stay here. Fire Fae stand ready. Faery dragons prepare for transport on her signal!"
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Standing before the cameras were two familiar faces that morning.
"And that wraps up an exciting morning of junior wizard owlry trials here at the legendary Avalon Angel's Spharx stadium. So for AVN SPORTS I'm James MacNare," The dapper young dusky announcer smiled.
"And I'm Morgana Moonshadow." The older announcer smiled. " Stay tuned for highlights from the Quidditch world cup preliminaries coming up next on AVN! "
The pair of Announcers smiled until the cameras light went off.
"Children’s owl trial?" Morgana Moonshadow grumbled as she stomped away.
"It could be worse." James MacNare smiled.
"How could it be worse?" Morgana turned and asked.
"We could be assigned to covering toddler magic accidents for 'OH THOSE LIL ONES!' " MacNare smirked.
With a shocked breath that comes with realization Morgana Moonshadow laughed and said. "You got me there. I just feel as though we are being punished. Ever since the Witch Queen fiasco."
"I've had that same feeling," James NacNare said, "but in some way... deep down inside... I still feel like it isn't over."
"What do you mean?" Morgana Moonshadow frowned.
"He refuses to leave." MacNare said pointing into the stands at the Frogai Lama, who had just purchased a fresh popcorn and drink.
The Frogai Lama waved politely. As the clean up crew removed the owl perches and swept up the wood chips from the arena floor, no one really saw the larger than normal pink faery dragon flutter in through the open stadium gates and land on the stadium floor. With a small puff of pink myst the Fae dragon folded out upon itself becoming a young witch with Pink hair.
In one quick motion she drew her wand and pointed into sky ward calling the spell, "IMAGINARI PERSINUM!
A long string of pink magical energy shot from the wand of Sasporilla Bucket and formed an exact likeness of her one hundred feet high above the stadium, with pink sparks shooting forth in all directions.
The jaws of the two AVN commentators dropped open as people started apperating into seats within the stadium.
The Frogai Lama stands and leads the newly formed crowd in thunderous applause.
"Turn on that camera!" Morgana insisted quickly fixing her hair and grabbing her co-host. "We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to bring you unfolding events at Avalon Angel's Spharx stadium. The girl we all thought dead, the witch queen contender with pink hair, Sasporilla Bucket has returned! She seems alive and well and determined to still face down her opponent."
"BABA YAGA!" Sasporilla angrily, her voice carrying for miles amplified through her spell. "I'VE RETURNED TO FACE YOU! YOUR CURSED SEPTER DIDN'T KILL ME. YOUR MONSTERS, GOONS AND TRAPS COULDN'T STOP ME. SO HERE I AM YOU EVIL WITCH. FACE ME!"
Sasporilla looked around the eerily silent stadium at the excited but trepidacious faces of those who stood in wait with her. Some stood against the evil Witch Queen Baba Yaga. Few stood with her. Most stood where it was safest to do so. Sasporilla held no ill-will against anyone’s choice. She always found people had a way of being outted and judged for the truth of their actions in the end. Her only concern was...
A terrible twisted horn blew in the city air. An evil warped cry of Royal horns that announced the Witch Queen’s arrival.
Sasporilla had expected the Royal guard to apparate in. Much to her surprise they marched in through the south gate in full Royal Golden Armour. Their swords sheathed but wands held at attention as they marched in formation two by two. As they approached, they separated, and marched to the stadium walls where they stood shoulder to shoulder at attention.
A black myst wafted in through the south gate. It's darkness was a true inky impenetrable black that no light got through. It seemed to move forward like living tendrils of black smoke. The blackness shot forward suddenly. Reaching for Sasporilla Bucket like an inky black claw.
"Shadow Demon!" The Frogai Lama gasped!
"LUMOS BULLITUS!" Sasporilla cast, surrounding herself in a bubble of bright white light.
The darkness bounced of with a wail as if burned and shot strait into the air above the stadium. The Witch Queen’s black shadow demon had been wounded and retreated above spinning round and round in the sky above the stadium unsure of what to do next.
Eight gigantic black widow Acromantula crawled through the south gate tethered side by side. A terrifying team to pull the Witch Queen's Royal golden carriage. A stream of magical energy shot forth from the carriage and struck the black whirling mass above the stadium. The great shadow demon broke into many tendrils and headed towards each Royal Guardsman.
"Now!" Sasporilla commanded.
Worker elves appeared two by two in front of each guards man, blocking them with a finger snaps and light shield spells which encompassed and destroyed the beast of darkness, protecting the Witch Queen's guard. The crowd erupted with a rousing cheer! Along the upper rim of the stadium High Elves appeared brandishing weapons of light and magic. If the rest of her plan was going off without a hitch, Sasporilla's army of Elves, Fae magi of Avalon and of the Lost city, should be securing the castle and the rest of Avalon as she gave taking down this tyrant her best shot. She could here the words of her uncle Nick in the back of her mind "Good luck kiddo. You can do it I just know if any one can, you can." By the same token she could also hear Lyra. "Just show here that wide butt of yours and while she's laughing strike her down!"
The lull in the crowd’s cheer focused Sasporilla's attention. The Acromantula had stopped and the top of the Golden Royal Carriage was opening to the eerie tinkle of a slightly out of tune, warped music box.
Rickety gnarled sticks wrapped in dried vines with withered leaves poked out of the top of the carriage, five, ten, then twenty feet high before they bent with a loud crack and fell to an angle as others grew out in there place. The sticks separated showing themselves to be like the creepy wooden appendages of a giant daddy long legs. They all reached inside the Golden Royal Carriage and attached to something, and Sasporilla Bucket knew just who that was.
"What's wrong?" Sassy yelled. "Scared to come out and face me?"
The rickety wooden daddy long legs lifted the wooden form of the evil Witch Queen from her carriage. She basqued in the horror of the crowd as she turned her stone casting gaze at them, only to find the worker elves were busy snapping magical mirrored sunglasses on members of the audience.
Sasporilla pointed the wand at her neck casting, "SONORUS!"
"Please leave the glasses on everyone!" Sassy begged the crowd. "They will protect you from Baba Yaga's gorgon effects!"
"You will address me as the WITCH...QUEEN." Baba Yaga hissed setting herself down less than thirty feet from the young pink haired witch. The long wooden legs pulled back into the wood of her body with loud cracks and snaps.
"Well, well, well." The Witch Queen chuckled. "Sasporilla Bucket. The boil on my back-side that just will not go away. Guards, this young woman was rejected by the scepter and lost the tournament. She holds no claim to the royal throne. Seize her!"
Much to the Witch Queen's surprise there was little movement. There was at the best, hesitant looks from one Royal Guards man to another inquiring what the other was going to do.
"On the contrary Baba Yaga! It is you who hold no real claim to that throne. You've stolen it from the rightful Witch Queens for far to long! You are no more of a monarch than the butterfly of the same name! Today you stand accused of the crimes of sedition and high treason before your subjects. How do you plea?"
"Oh I am guilty Sasporilla Bucket." The most evil of witches Baba Yaga said drawing her wand. "I am the only Witch Queen this world has known and I will be the only Witch Queen all the world will ever know!!! There is nothing you or anyone else can do about that!!!"
"No Baba Yaga." Sasporilla said raising her wand in a dueling salute. "I will stand against you today and fight. If I die, someone else will stand against you tomorrow. Then the next day and the next until your reign of tyranny is over."
"Quaint." Baba Yaga sneered as she attacked, "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
"TUTELAMORTE!" Sasporilla cast, forming a great shield versus the death spell, much to the Witch Queen's surprise. "METEORUM!"
Sassy cast back as three shooting stars seem to fall from the heavens and crashes into where the Witch Queen stood with a great fiery explosion!
As the smoke and flame cleared Baba Yaga stood inside a protective dome seething with anger. It seemed, the fight was truly on.
Spells flashed back and forth between the combatants in a furious duel.
"INCARCEROUS" vs "EXPELLIARMUS!"
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS" vs. "PROTEGO!"
"LEVICORPUS" vs. "RELASHIO!"
"INFLAMARE!" hit Sasporilla with little effect.
"STUPIFY!" was shaken off by the Witch Queen like so much of a mosquito bite.
Lightning flashed from Baba Yaga's wand.
"FUNDATUS!" Sasporilla cast a long iron bar which shot forth into the stadiums turf and attracted the lighting, grounding it.
A wild wave of the Witch Queens wands produced a green mist that filled the gap on the stadium floor between the two combatants. Sasporilla watched as the mist solidified around her feet into a sea of serpents! The Witch Queen laughed!
Sasporilla Bucket kicked and stomped as the snakes crossed lines of fire, circles of cold, winds that blew them back a few feet, but they just slithered forward striking against the firm leather of her boots. Much to the Witch Queens amusement. Then she remembered a spell. Obscure but none the less... "VIPERA EVENESCA MAXIMA!!!"
A wave of yellow flame washed out across the sea of snakes which flashed out in a puff of black smoke.
"Time to play offence." Sasporilla muttered. A small spell from my friends at the pole... "MISULIK!"
A storm of ice whipped up and rushed at the Baba Yaga freezing the old witch in solid ice. In no way did Sassy believe the ice would hold her, but it gave her a chance to catch her breath.
The cracking in the ice started low at first but then grew louder and faster until the block shattered from the sticks and vines that pushed out from the Baba Yaga. They grew and grew until they topped up above the stadium. They wove together and intertwined forming a dome sealing off the top of the stadium walls. They grew down the outside of the stadium and sealed it all the doors, windows and gates.
"Haaaa hahahahaaaaaa!" The Witch Queen cackled. "Now there is no escape for ANY OF YOU!!!! You all came to witness my demise? I will instead take my entertainment in all of yours!"
"MASSOCCISSIO!" The Witch Queen cast waving her wand over her head. A green flame of mass death swept across the field out from her and headed to the stadium stands.
"FINITE INCANTATEM!" Sasporilla cast slamming her wand into the ground as deaths flames separated around her. The nullification spell only going so far.
The Worker elves stepped out and stood before the Royal guards and snapped their fingers with a smirk. The green flames extinguished with a rush of playful wind... followed up by a low rumbling sound of flatulence. Much to the amusement of the house elves.
Some in the crowd started to giggle, then to laugh. Even Sasporilla couldn't help but snicker. Baba Yaga stood frozen her eyes darting. She was the only thing she feared... a laughing stock!
"NO!" The Witch Queen screamed, casting "ARANIA EXUMAI!"
The Acromantula were thrown from where they stood at the front of the Royal Carriage into Sasporilla Bucket. Sasporilla stumbled back. Baba Yaga beamed! This was her chance, not just to hurt the pink haired witch but to humiliate her!
"BOMBARDA MAXIMA!" The Witch Queen blasted the ground at Sassy's feet blowing her into the air and her team of Acromantula to bits.
"ASCENDIO!" The Witch Queen lifted her higher until she smashed Sasporilla into the dome of wood. Sassy's body fell limp from the ceiling as the crowd screamed.
"ARESTO MOMENTUM." Baba Yaga laughed as she stopped her pink haired opponents fall feet above the ground.
"LEVICORPUS!" Hung Sasporilla upside down before the evil old witch by her ankles.
"IMMOBULOUS!" Baba Yaga cast. Sasporilla Bucket was once again her prisoner.
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The home of Karry and Zac was alive with people from all over Hogsmeade who crowded in to view the AVN footage of Sasporilla Bucket vs. The Witch Queen of Avalon. Karry played hostess fetching drinks and snacks with her mom Kolline who had graciously apparated in to lend a hand, while Zac and her dad Alexander held court on the livingroom couch.
It was the screaming in the stands and the collective gasp in the living room that brought Karry running. What she saw made her ears buzz like someone had cast "Muffilato". All blood drained from her face. The platter of butter beers she had prepared slipped from her grasp and toppled to the floor with a great crash. The baby started to cry. "Sasporilla Bucket was in trouble." James MacNare said as they showed the young pink haired witch hanging upside down in mid air, the Witch Queen dancing gleeful around her casting "CRUCIO!"
Sasporilla's body twitched and jerked as she hung there bleeding and broken. Helpless.
"Why does'n some'n help'er?" Hagrid shouted at the TV!
Zac stood and ran to Karry who collapsed in tears in his arms.
"She'll be ok Karry." Zac tried to reassure his wife and best friend. "She always has a plan, remember?"
"What if it's all gone south Zac?" Karry wailed.
"If it has..." Zac said trepadaciously, "then I'd hope someone there'd be brave enough to step in."
"CRUCIO or the Cruciotus curse that the Witch Queen is using on her combatant is one of the three forbidden, unforgivable curses." Morgana Moonshadow frowned. "By openly torturing this young woman she is breaking International Wizarding law on two worlds!"
"Oh no!" The Witch Queen said feigning surprise. "I don't want my torture to break any laws. Better make it humane then and end her suffering quickly."
"IMPERIO" Baba Yaga said smooth and low, "Tell them all who the rightful Witch Queen is and your suffering will all be over little girl."
Through laboured breaths Sasporilla spoke. "Hickory dickey dock. Go and wind a clock!"
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" The Witch Queen cast.
The whole stadium gasped as the green blast of magical energy struck the body of Sasporilla Bucket, but she just giggled as her body dissolved like sand!!!
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" James MacNare began.
"It seems as though the Sasporilla Bucket in the Witch Queens clutches was..." Morgan Moonshadow continued.
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"A decoy!" The Frogai Lama gave a standing ovation on his seat. "BRAVO!"
The Witch Queen shook furiously as she looked around noticing a very conspicuous tall wooden wardrobe leaning off kilter in what was left of her Acromantula.
Baba Yaga gnashed her teeth as she seethed with hatred floating towards the wardrobe.
With a wave a swish and flick of her wand she stood the old cabinet up straight. Readying her wand for combat she pulled at the door!
"Locked!" Baba Yaga laughed. "Tricky. Trick, tricky, tricky smart girl, but so easy to beat. ALOHAMORA!"
The cabinet remained locked.
"Tricky." The old Witch Queen seemed impressed. "You know a lot of spells for one so young. Well I know many, many more pup! CISTEM APERIO!"
There was an audible 'CLICK' as the cabinets lock popped open.
"Hahaaaaha!" The Witch Queen Cackled until the door shot straight out at her! A solid block of wood six feet thick, striking her hard in the torso at what must of been a hundred kilometers an hour! The block knocked her back and into the stadium wall
The crowd cheered as Sasporilla Bucket climbed out of the wardrobe and stood triumphantly on the field of battle.
"Surprise!" Sassy smiled holding up her wand.
Sasporilla apparated from where she stood to the edge of the block of wood pinning the Witch Queen.
"WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!" Sasporilla cast the block aside only to reveal an empty shadow. A silhouette of what must have been where the Witch Queen hit. Sasporilla looked around the old witch was here, some where. Waiting in a shadow. Waiting to strike.... waiting in a shadow? Sasporilla turned her attention quickly back to the shadowy silhouette. The Witch Queens face smiled out at her.
"BOO!" The Witch Queen Cackled Startling the young Pink Haired Witch. "EVERTE STATUM!"
Knocking Sasporilla back several feet Sassy dug in and took up a defensive stance. Standing opposite each other on the field of battle Sasporilla raised her wand in a dueling salute, and for the first time out of respect, so did the Witch Queen Baba Yaga.
"This is not your typical duel," Morgana Moonshadow said into her microphone.
"No Morgan," James MacNare said excitedly "This... is... a... WAR!"
Spells flashed back and forth between them. Blasts of energy. Waves of fire and ice. Walls of water, shards of glass, a rain of steel blades and a sandwich? Sasporilla had always had trouble with the Muffliato spell! She accidentally cast "MUFFULETTA!" A very tasty sandwich from New Orleans but not the effect of muffling her opponents hearing she was going for.
Both the Baba Yaga and Sasporilla bucket paced before each other exhausted. Keeping a fair distance and catching their breath.
"You," The Witch Queen huffed, "I Greatly underestimated you. INFERNIA!"
"PROTEGO!" Sasporilla puffed as she cast away the fire spell to one side. "ARANEUM!"
"REDUCTO!" disintegrated Sasporilla's web spell long before it hit the Witch Queen.
"This is pointless child!" Baba Yaga puffed. "We are evenly matched at best."
"So are you giving up?" Sasporilla asked? "Willing to stand trial before the people in court for your crimes?"
"Let us surmise, for just a moment," the Witch Queen said holding out her hands questioningly, "that I do?"
"Then you give me your wand," Sasporilla said holding out her hand, "and come with us quietly. I promise you will be treated gently and fairly."
Baba Yaga looked at the ground for a hard moment and held out her hand, wand drooped in it. Sasporilla nodded and walked forward hand out to grasp it when Baba Yaga looked up with that hateful look in her eye and that evil smile on her face. "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
The look of surprise, then terror, then peace as the Witch Queen fell to the ground dead in the place where Sasporilla Bucket had been standing just the snap of elfish finger magic before. Sasporilla stood transposed to where the Witch Queen had been holding up her hand her fingers still freshly snapped.
"THE WITCH QUEEN IS DEAD!" Cheered someone in the crowd "LONG LIVE THE WITCH QUEEN!"
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This is AVN BREAKING NEWS...
A picture of Sasporilla Bucket standing over the dead body of the deceased Baba Yaga filled the screen behind the announcer.
"This is Cassandra Brumswallow filling in for the ailing Vincent Hoovenclefft taking you live to Avalon's Angel's Spharx stadium, where moments ago the heir to the Royal throne of Avalon beat the former Witch Queen in a duel to the death, Morgana?"
The cameras switched to Morgana Moonshadow who was looking up. " Yes Thank you Cassandra. As you can see the dome of sticks and vines cast by the Baba Yaga is retreating!"
Sasporilla knew why. The magic that the evil old witch used was indeed powerful. Her wand was made from the wood of the tree of life the same as Sasporilla. However unlike Sassy, Baba Yaga's evil warped and infested the wood and in turn it warped and infested her, making the Witch Queen as much a monster outside as she was inside.
The wood and vines drew back from the stadium and into the corpse of the old witch causing her to twist and writhe. Then the wood and bark withdrew itself from old Baba Yaga herself, leaving nothing more then the fragile corpse of a pale old witch in black robes, with rotted teeth.
Sasporilla took the wand and put it in her robes. As MacNare and Moonshadow approached.
"Ms.Bucket, Ms.Bucket?"; They asked with microphones out stretched. "Have you any quotes for your subjects?"
"Yes." Sasporilla said walking away into a pink myst, "It's time you started preparing yourselves for real democracy and freedom!"
It was only a flash, the change between faery dragon, the travel in to the deep pink myst to the Avalon' Majesty station and changing back into her pink haired self. Sasporilla was still getting used to being an animagus but she was getting the hang of it.
People in the terminal stopped and stared.
"Good morning everyone." Sasporilla smiled and waved as she walked past and out a service door onto a limb of the tree of life.
"I've come to keep my promise!" Sasporilla said loudly as she placed the wands near the trees giant limb. The wands grew forward into the wood of the tree and spiraled together, disappearing forever into the tree of life.
"You're home." Sasporilla smiled. "Where you belong, safe and sound."
Sasporilla turned to leave.
"Just a moment Sasporilla Bucket." The voice of Edda the guardian of Yggdrasil said.
Sasporilla turned around smiling. "I'm happy to see you Edda. I wasn't sure you would come out just to see me off."
"You are rare Sasporilla Bucket." Edda smiled putting her hand on Sassy's shoulder, "a magi that kept their promise to return the wood you borrowed? No one has ever done this before. Ever. All has had to be retrieved. You not only brought your own back but that of another. Your extremely rare."
"Thank you." Sasporilla blushed. "My mother taught me to always keep my promises."
"It is because you are such an honourable woman," the guardian of Yggdrasil smiled handing Sassy a small blue jeweled box jewel, "we have decided to give you this gift."
"Thank you!" Sasporilla said sliding open the top to reveal a small sliver of wood inside. "Is this a piece of Yggdrasil?"
"Yes." Edda said. "Not as powerful as a full wand made of the tree of life but place it on the wood of your wand and it will weave itself in. We know you will keep it secret and safe."
"I promise you I will." Sasporilla said, waving to Edda as Sassy placed the jeweled box into her Jacket, transformed to a faery dragon and fluttered off into the pink myst.
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Blue spit out the last of the Doxy army when the pink myst appeared and Sasporilla Bucket walked out of it. All of Avalon's worst evil creature that had allied themselves to the Witch Queen as a allied force this day, the Doxy's, the slime trolls, the swamp harpies, but the worst of the lot were Avalonian Steel Dragon's. Rare as they had been, Sasporilla feared they may now be extinct.
Royal Guard sat captured with few counted amongst the dead. Thankfully there were very few magi casualties but unfortunately there were far to many amongst creatures and Fae.
Laying on a stone, near each other were Gooseberry and Flossy. Both had been killed by the great blasts of a steel dragon. It was unclear who was reaching for whom, intending to try and rescue the other, perhaps with their dying breath but without question, for tiny, Fae both fought like lions and died heroes!
Sasporilla walked over to Blue. "It's time my friend. The sun is high in the noon day sky. You must be going. I'm going to miss you."
"I will miss you too... Sassy." Blue attempted a beaky smile.
Sasporilla pulled her broom from her bag. Mounting it she kicked off and took off into the air, circling around Blues sparkling crystal head. As she leveled off and hovered beside him she smiled and asked, "Ready?"
"READY!" Blue skreeled and started to run forward flapping his large crystalline ice wings.
With a mighty jump Blue took off into the air. Sasporilla pulled up her Erumpant right along side him. The current of his mighty wings would blow her far off in the skies if she dare fall behind. In moments they were over Avalon city.
A pink myst, as many that opened all across the city, opened near majesty station. From it poured many fire faeries and Dame Splatterpalette. People panicked fearing invasion by evil Fae now that the Witch Queen was dead.
"Don't be affraid!" Professor Splatterpalette reassured the good citizens of Avalon city. "These Fae are not here to harm, nor invade, nor enslave you. NO, but at the bequest of your new WITCH QUEEN SASPORILLA BUCKET! To assist the great beast in getting over the city and away with out damage to properties or peoples!"
The Fire Fae, lead by the Fire Priestess, the Fire Chief and accompanied by his fineset soldiers, especially Kian and Aysel turned their hands towards the sky. Rings of flame pulsed in their palms. Waves of super heated thermal air wafted upwards creating great lift for Blue to soar upon. Wings outstretched Blue caught the thermal and began to glide up in a circle above the great tree Yggdrasil.
The people at Majesty station looked up watching the great beast as it soared high above. The tree of life held this name for one great on known reason. It was part of a great cycle that all were witnessing.
A single bud appeared on a small branch near a very unassuming leaf on Yggdrasil. From it grew a single Golden Acorn. The branch bent down, down, so far down that one would have thought it would snap, but instead it sprung back up like a finely made spring and shot the Golden acorn high into the air. High enough that it carried just in front of the beak of the great beast Blue.
"Oh that looks good!" He said snapping it up and swallowing the tiny morsel whole as he continued to glide on thermals happily with his friend Sasporilla.
The Golden acorn found it's way down the gullet and into the stomach of the great beast. He felt strong and ready.
"It is time Sasporilla Bucket." Blue said. "I must away!"
"Fly my friend!" Sasporilla yelled as Blue shot off into the sky. "Good bye Blue. I love you and I'll miss you!"
"As I love you my friend." Blue's voice boomed back. "But do not miss me. Our heart will always touch."
Blue's mighty wings flapped and carried him out of the atmosphere and into space. The acorn inside of him told him what direction to go and where to find the lifeless body he would land on where he would plant the seed he now carried. A new tree of life would bring life and magic to a New World across the stars.
It was a beautiful morning on the edge of the Fae forest. The sun was shining and the morning dew sparkled on the leaves and grass that sparsely intermingled with the pebbles, which lead into the rocks beyond. Always aware that they had eyes on them, the Frogai Lama and Blue, sat unworried by any malevolent presence skulking in the rocks.
Amongst the faery dragons frolicking sparsely at the shadowy edge of the Fae wood appeared a Faery dragon like no other Blue had seen. Its pink scales sparkled with a pearlesence unlike the others. Its wings were like a fine large lace of pink woven light. Its mane was more than a small shock of pink, but a glorious flowing full head of pink hair that flowed down its back and cascaded through the air.
The beautiful Faery dragon fluttered over before Blue and the Frogai Lama and hovered just above the ground. With a small puff of pink mist from her mist she shifted and revealed herself to be Sasporilla Bucket.
It had been to long since Sasporilla Bucket enjoyed the comforting embrace of a friend. She wasted no time running up to Blue who dipped his big frozen crystalline beak to accept her wide hug. Blue was cool to the touch but not overly cold as one would expect from a giant phoenix made of ice crystal. It was however the best thing Sasporilla Bucket had felt in what seemed like an eternity. The Love of a true friend.
She pulled away and looked over at the Frogai Lama, who gave a polite wave and smile.
"My friend," Sasporilla said, "from here to Avalon city is still many days from here. My being held prisoner and learning how to use my Animagus powers put you far off your schedule my friend. You should be breaching the city walls this morning and making your great leap into space! I am going to ask you to, with the help of the other faery dragons, are going to use the pink myst to transport to a safe spot just outside the city. A spot where you can get a good running start and jump up. However, I'm asking that you please wait until I send word that it's time to do so."
"Sasporilla Bucket," Blue grumbled in his throat, "what is your plan that I must wait?"
"Blue my friend I don't want you to be the main focus of the royal guards wrath today." Sassy smiled. "I've sent out word to many allies that we are in need of help today. Trust me, we'll be fine."
It amazed Blue just how many pink faery dragons came out from between the trees of the grove. They swarmed them and in a single puff filled the air with enough pink myst to cover them completely. Thin inside of the pink myst seemed to sparkle a bit like a rainbow, as the sun did in Blues crystalline ice body. The faery dragons fluttered in formation around them like a giant tornado. Suddenly the myst separated and they were in a field a few miles outside the great walls of Avalon city.
"Welcome!" Professor Splatterpalette smiled as she ran up and hugged Sasporilla. "I'm so happy to see you. You gave me a heart attack when I thought you'd blown yourself to bits!"
"I'm sorry Professor." Sasporilla said. "Turns out I had a greater purpose to serve before I took care of our evil friend. Is everything ready?"
"Yes!" Professor Splatterpalette smiled. "We got your messages. Everything and everyone’s in place, except..."
Through the edge of the Elven wood at the edge of the fields far side marched a large army of high born elves in full battle armour carrying only the finest magical weapons. The High Elf King road on rare silver unicorn and galloped quickly ahead. He came to a halt before Sasporilla Bucket and stepped down.
"I apologize for our late arrival." The king said sorrowfully." We had opposition in the Elvenwood."
"From the Witch Queen?" Professor Splatterpalette asked.
"Yes." The Elf King answered. "Her living tree ghouls. Nasty creatures. hundreds of them. We took miner losses."
"I'm sorry you took any losses at all my friend." Sassy said hanging her head. "They would be alive today if not for me."
"No!" The Elf king said placing his hand on the young witches shoulder. "They would be alive today if not for Baba Yaga! You are giving us the chance to our world of this evil once and for all! Don't you blame yourself for her evils!"
"Thank you." Sasporilla smiled raising her head turning her gaze towards the city. "Now I must go and face the Witch Queen. A large group of soldiers will stay to guard you Blue."
"I'm not afraid." Blue said stretching out his massive wings and bellowing a great Icy skreel making everyone cover their ears.
"If the witch Queen hadn't known we were here before she certainly does now.!" The Elf King chided.
"I was counting it." Sassy smiled and folded up in a mist of pink reforming as a pink faery dragon. With a sly smile she fluttered off on the breeze towards the city.
"Right then Dame Splatterpalette," the Elf King said raising his sword in knightly salute as she returned his salute by doing so with her wand. "We had best get to our posts."
"Indeed." Professor Splatterpalette smiled with impish glee and disaporated away.
"First battalion with me!" The Elf king commanded. "Second through tenth stay here. Fire Fae stand ready. Faery dragons prepare for transport on her signal!"
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Standing before the cameras were two familiar faces that morning.
"And that wraps up an exciting morning of junior wizard owlry trials here at the legendary Avalon Angel's Spharx stadium. So for AVN SPORTS I'm James MacNare," The dapper young dusky announcer smiled.
"And I'm Morgana Moonshadow." The older announcer smiled. " Stay tuned for highlights from the Quidditch world cup preliminaries coming up next on AVN! "
The pair of Announcers smiled until the cameras light went off.
"Children’s owl trial?" Morgana Moonshadow grumbled as she stomped away.
"It could be worse." James MacNare smiled.
"How could it be worse?" Morgana turned and asked.
"We could be assigned to covering toddler magic accidents for 'OH THOSE LIL ONES!' " MacNare smirked.
With a shocked breath that comes with realization Morgana Moonshadow laughed and said. "You got me there. I just feel as though we are being punished. Ever since the Witch Queen fiasco."
"I've had that same feeling," James NacNare said, "but in some way... deep down inside... I still feel like it isn't over."
"What do you mean?" Morgana Moonshadow frowned.
"He refuses to leave." MacNare said pointing into the stands at the Frogai Lama, who had just purchased a fresh popcorn and drink.
The Frogai Lama waved politely. As the clean up crew removed the owl perches and swept up the wood chips from the arena floor, no one really saw the larger than normal pink faery dragon flutter in through the open stadium gates and land on the stadium floor. With a small puff of pink myst the Fae dragon folded out upon itself becoming a young witch with Pink hair.
In one quick motion she drew her wand and pointed into sky ward calling the spell, "IMAGINARI PERSINUM!
A long string of pink magical energy shot from the wand of Sasporilla Bucket and formed an exact likeness of her one hundred feet high above the stadium, with pink sparks shooting forth in all directions.
The jaws of the two AVN commentators dropped open as people started apperating into seats within the stadium.
The Frogai Lama stands and leads the newly formed crowd in thunderous applause.
"Turn on that camera!" Morgana insisted quickly fixing her hair and grabbing her co-host. "We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to bring you unfolding events at Avalon Angel's Spharx stadium. The girl we all thought dead, the witch queen contender with pink hair, Sasporilla Bucket has returned! She seems alive and well and determined to still face down her opponent."
"BABA YAGA!" Sasporilla angrily, her voice carrying for miles amplified through her spell. "I'VE RETURNED TO FACE YOU! YOUR CURSED SEPTER DIDN'T KILL ME. YOUR MONSTERS, GOONS AND TRAPS COULDN'T STOP ME. SO HERE I AM YOU EVIL WITCH. FACE ME!"
Sasporilla looked around the eerily silent stadium at the excited but trepidacious faces of those who stood in wait with her. Some stood against the evil Witch Queen Baba Yaga. Few stood with her. Most stood where it was safest to do so. Sasporilla held no ill-will against anyone’s choice. She always found people had a way of being outted and judged for the truth of their actions in the end. Her only concern was...
A terrible twisted horn blew in the city air. An evil warped cry of Royal horns that announced the Witch Queen’s arrival.
Sasporilla had expected the Royal guard to apparate in. Much to her surprise they marched in through the south gate in full Royal Golden Armour. Their swords sheathed but wands held at attention as they marched in formation two by two. As they approached, they separated, and marched to the stadium walls where they stood shoulder to shoulder at attention.
A black myst wafted in through the south gate. It's darkness was a true inky impenetrable black that no light got through. It seemed to move forward like living tendrils of black smoke. The blackness shot forward suddenly. Reaching for Sasporilla Bucket like an inky black claw.
"Shadow Demon!" The Frogai Lama gasped!
"LUMOS BULLITUS!" Sasporilla cast, surrounding herself in a bubble of bright white light.
The darkness bounced of with a wail as if burned and shot strait into the air above the stadium. The Witch Queen’s black shadow demon had been wounded and retreated above spinning round and round in the sky above the stadium unsure of what to do next.
Eight gigantic black widow Acromantula crawled through the south gate tethered side by side. A terrifying team to pull the Witch Queen's Royal golden carriage. A stream of magical energy shot forth from the carriage and struck the black whirling mass above the stadium. The great shadow demon broke into many tendrils and headed towards each Royal Guardsman.
"Now!" Sasporilla commanded.
Worker elves appeared two by two in front of each guards man, blocking them with a finger snaps and light shield spells which encompassed and destroyed the beast of darkness, protecting the Witch Queen's guard. The crowd erupted with a rousing cheer! Along the upper rim of the stadium High Elves appeared brandishing weapons of light and magic. If the rest of her plan was going off without a hitch, Sasporilla's army of Elves, Fae magi of Avalon and of the Lost city, should be securing the castle and the rest of Avalon as she gave taking down this tyrant her best shot. She could here the words of her uncle Nick in the back of her mind "Good luck kiddo. You can do it I just know if any one can, you can." By the same token she could also hear Lyra. "Just show here that wide butt of yours and while she's laughing strike her down!"
The lull in the crowd’s cheer focused Sasporilla's attention. The Acromantula had stopped and the top of the Golden Royal Carriage was opening to the eerie tinkle of a slightly out of tune, warped music box.
Rickety gnarled sticks wrapped in dried vines with withered leaves poked out of the top of the carriage, five, ten, then twenty feet high before they bent with a loud crack and fell to an angle as others grew out in there place. The sticks separated showing themselves to be like the creepy wooden appendages of a giant daddy long legs. They all reached inside the Golden Royal Carriage and attached to something, and Sasporilla Bucket knew just who that was.
"What's wrong?" Sassy yelled. "Scared to come out and face me?"
The rickety wooden daddy long legs lifted the wooden form of the evil Witch Queen from her carriage. She basqued in the horror of the crowd as she turned her stone casting gaze at them, only to find the worker elves were busy snapping magical mirrored sunglasses on members of the audience.
Sasporilla pointed the wand at her neck casting, "SONORUS!"
"Please leave the glasses on everyone!" Sassy begged the crowd. "They will protect you from Baba Yaga's gorgon effects!"
"You will address me as the WITCH...QUEEN." Baba Yaga hissed setting herself down less than thirty feet from the young pink haired witch. The long wooden legs pulled back into the wood of her body with loud cracks and snaps.
"Well, well, well." The Witch Queen chuckled. "Sasporilla Bucket. The boil on my back-side that just will not go away. Guards, this young woman was rejected by the scepter and lost the tournament. She holds no claim to the royal throne. Seize her!"
Much to the Witch Queen's surprise there was little movement. There was at the best, hesitant looks from one Royal Guards man to another inquiring what the other was going to do.
"On the contrary Baba Yaga! It is you who hold no real claim to that throne. You've stolen it from the rightful Witch Queens for far to long! You are no more of a monarch than the butterfly of the same name! Today you stand accused of the crimes of sedition and high treason before your subjects. How do you plea?"
"Oh I am guilty Sasporilla Bucket." The most evil of witches Baba Yaga said drawing her wand. "I am the only Witch Queen this world has known and I will be the only Witch Queen all the world will ever know!!! There is nothing you or anyone else can do about that!!!"
"No Baba Yaga." Sasporilla said raising her wand in a dueling salute. "I will stand against you today and fight. If I die, someone else will stand against you tomorrow. Then the next day and the next until your reign of tyranny is over."
"Quaint." Baba Yaga sneered as she attacked, "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
"TUTELAMORTE!" Sasporilla cast, forming a great shield versus the death spell, much to the Witch Queen's surprise. "METEORUM!"
Sassy cast back as three shooting stars seem to fall from the heavens and crashes into where the Witch Queen stood with a great fiery explosion!
As the smoke and flame cleared Baba Yaga stood inside a protective dome seething with anger. It seemed, the fight was truly on.
Spells flashed back and forth between the combatants in a furious duel.
"INCARCEROUS" vs "EXPELLIARMUS!"
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS" vs. "PROTEGO!"
"LEVICORPUS" vs. "RELASHIO!"
"INFLAMARE!" hit Sasporilla with little effect.
"STUPIFY!" was shaken off by the Witch Queen like so much of a mosquito bite.
Lightning flashed from Baba Yaga's wand.
"FUNDATUS!" Sasporilla cast a long iron bar which shot forth into the stadiums turf and attracted the lighting, grounding it.
A wild wave of the Witch Queens wands produced a green mist that filled the gap on the stadium floor between the two combatants. Sasporilla watched as the mist solidified around her feet into a sea of serpents! The Witch Queen laughed!
Sasporilla Bucket kicked and stomped as the snakes crossed lines of fire, circles of cold, winds that blew them back a few feet, but they just slithered forward striking against the firm leather of her boots. Much to the Witch Queens amusement. Then she remembered a spell. Obscure but none the less... "VIPERA EVENESCA MAXIMA!!!"
A wave of yellow flame washed out across the sea of snakes which flashed out in a puff of black smoke.
"Time to play offence." Sasporilla muttered. A small spell from my friends at the pole... "MISULIK!"
A storm of ice whipped up and rushed at the Baba Yaga freezing the old witch in solid ice. In no way did Sassy believe the ice would hold her, but it gave her a chance to catch her breath.
The cracking in the ice started low at first but then grew louder and faster until the block shattered from the sticks and vines that pushed out from the Baba Yaga. They grew and grew until they topped up above the stadium. They wove together and intertwined forming a dome sealing off the top of the stadium walls. They grew down the outside of the stadium and sealed it all the doors, windows and gates.
"Haaaa hahahahaaaaaa!" The Witch Queen cackled. "Now there is no escape for ANY OF YOU!!!! You all came to witness my demise? I will instead take my entertainment in all of yours!"
"MASSOCCISSIO!" The Witch Queen cast waving her wand over her head. A green flame of mass death swept across the field out from her and headed to the stadium stands.
"FINITE INCANTATEM!" Sasporilla cast slamming her wand into the ground as deaths flames separated around her. The nullification spell only going so far.
The Worker elves stepped out and stood before the Royal guards and snapped their fingers with a smirk. The green flames extinguished with a rush of playful wind... followed up by a low rumbling sound of flatulence. Much to the amusement of the house elves.
Some in the crowd started to giggle, then to laugh. Even Sasporilla couldn't help but snicker. Baba Yaga stood frozen her eyes darting. She was the only thing she feared... a laughing stock!
"NO!" The Witch Queen screamed, casting "ARANIA EXUMAI!"
The Acromantula were thrown from where they stood at the front of the Royal Carriage into Sasporilla Bucket. Sasporilla stumbled back. Baba Yaga beamed! This was her chance, not just to hurt the pink haired witch but to humiliate her!
"BOMBARDA MAXIMA!" The Witch Queen blasted the ground at Sassy's feet blowing her into the air and her team of Acromantula to bits.
"ASCENDIO!" The Witch Queen lifted her higher until she smashed Sasporilla into the dome of wood. Sassy's body fell limp from the ceiling as the crowd screamed.
"ARESTO MOMENTUM." Baba Yaga laughed as she stopped her pink haired opponents fall feet above the ground.
"LEVICORPUS!" Hung Sasporilla upside down before the evil old witch by her ankles.
"IMMOBULOUS!" Baba Yaga cast. Sasporilla Bucket was once again her prisoner.
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The home of Karry and Zac was alive with people from all over Hogsmeade who crowded in to view the AVN footage of Sasporilla Bucket vs. The Witch Queen of Avalon. Karry played hostess fetching drinks and snacks with her mom Kolline who had graciously apparated in to lend a hand, while Zac and her dad Alexander held court on the livingroom couch.
It was the screaming in the stands and the collective gasp in the living room that brought Karry running. What she saw made her ears buzz like someone had cast "Muffilato". All blood drained from her face. The platter of butter beers she had prepared slipped from her grasp and toppled to the floor with a great crash. The baby started to cry. "Sasporilla Bucket was in trouble." James MacNare said as they showed the young pink haired witch hanging upside down in mid air, the Witch Queen dancing gleeful around her casting "CRUCIO!"
Sasporilla's body twitched and jerked as she hung there bleeding and broken. Helpless.
"Why does'n some'n help'er?" Hagrid shouted at the TV!
Zac stood and ran to Karry who collapsed in tears in his arms.
"She'll be ok Karry." Zac tried to reassure his wife and best friend. "She always has a plan, remember?"
"What if it's all gone south Zac?" Karry wailed.
"If it has..." Zac said trepadaciously, "then I'd hope someone there'd be brave enough to step in."
"CRUCIO or the Cruciotus curse that the Witch Queen is using on her combatant is one of the three forbidden, unforgivable curses." Morgana Moonshadow frowned. "By openly torturing this young woman she is breaking International Wizarding law on two worlds!"
"Oh no!" The Witch Queen said feigning surprise. "I don't want my torture to break any laws. Better make it humane then and end her suffering quickly."
"IMPERIO" Baba Yaga said smooth and low, "Tell them all who the rightful Witch Queen is and your suffering will all be over little girl."
Through laboured breaths Sasporilla spoke. "Hickory dickey dock. Go and wind a clock!"
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" The Witch Queen cast.
The whole stadium gasped as the green blast of magical energy struck the body of Sasporilla Bucket, but she just giggled as her body dissolved like sand!!!
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" James MacNare began.
"It seems as though the Sasporilla Bucket in the Witch Queens clutches was..." Morgan Moonshadow continued.
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"A decoy!" The Frogai Lama gave a standing ovation on his seat. "BRAVO!"
The Witch Queen shook furiously as she looked around noticing a very conspicuous tall wooden wardrobe leaning off kilter in what was left of her Acromantula.
Baba Yaga gnashed her teeth as she seethed with hatred floating towards the wardrobe.
With a wave a swish and flick of her wand she stood the old cabinet up straight. Readying her wand for combat she pulled at the door!
"Locked!" Baba Yaga laughed. "Tricky. Trick, tricky, tricky smart girl, but so easy to beat. ALOHAMORA!"
The cabinet remained locked.
"Tricky." The old Witch Queen seemed impressed. "You know a lot of spells for one so young. Well I know many, many more pup! CISTEM APERIO!"
There was an audible 'CLICK' as the cabinets lock popped open.
"Hahaaaaha!" The Witch Queen Cackled until the door shot straight out at her! A solid block of wood six feet thick, striking her hard in the torso at what must of been a hundred kilometers an hour! The block knocked her back and into the stadium wall
The crowd cheered as Sasporilla Bucket climbed out of the wardrobe and stood triumphantly on the field of battle.
"Surprise!" Sassy smiled holding up her wand.
Sasporilla apparated from where she stood to the edge of the block of wood pinning the Witch Queen.
"WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!" Sasporilla cast the block aside only to reveal an empty shadow. A silhouette of what must have been where the Witch Queen hit. Sasporilla looked around the old witch was here, some where. Waiting in a shadow. Waiting to strike.... waiting in a shadow? Sasporilla turned her attention quickly back to the shadowy silhouette. The Witch Queens face smiled out at her.
"BOO!" The Witch Queen Cackled Startling the young Pink Haired Witch. "EVERTE STATUM!"
Knocking Sasporilla back several feet Sassy dug in and took up a defensive stance. Standing opposite each other on the field of battle Sasporilla raised her wand in a dueling salute, and for the first time out of respect, so did the Witch Queen Baba Yaga.
"This is not your typical duel," Morgana Moonshadow said into her microphone.
"No Morgan," James MacNare said excitedly "This... is... a... WAR!"
Spells flashed back and forth between them. Blasts of energy. Waves of fire and ice. Walls of water, shards of glass, a rain of steel blades and a sandwich? Sasporilla had always had trouble with the Muffliato spell! She accidentally cast "MUFFULETTA!" A very tasty sandwich from New Orleans but not the effect of muffling her opponents hearing she was going for.
Both the Baba Yaga and Sasporilla bucket paced before each other exhausted. Keeping a fair distance and catching their breath.
"You," The Witch Queen huffed, "I Greatly underestimated you. INFERNIA!"
"PROTEGO!" Sasporilla puffed as she cast away the fire spell to one side. "ARANEUM!"
"REDUCTO!" disintegrated Sasporilla's web spell long before it hit the Witch Queen.
"This is pointless child!" Baba Yaga puffed. "We are evenly matched at best."
"So are you giving up?" Sasporilla asked? "Willing to stand trial before the people in court for your crimes?"
"Let us surmise, for just a moment," the Witch Queen said holding out her hands questioningly, "that I do?"
"Then you give me your wand," Sasporilla said holding out her hand, "and come with us quietly. I promise you will be treated gently and fairly."
Baba Yaga looked at the ground for a hard moment and held out her hand, wand drooped in it. Sasporilla nodded and walked forward hand out to grasp it when Baba Yaga looked up with that hateful look in her eye and that evil smile on her face. "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
The look of surprise, then terror, then peace as the Witch Queen fell to the ground dead in the place where Sasporilla Bucket had been standing just the snap of elfish finger magic before. Sasporilla stood transposed to where the Witch Queen had been holding up her hand her fingers still freshly snapped.
"THE WITCH QUEEN IS DEAD!" Cheered someone in the crowd "LONG LIVE THE WITCH QUEEN!"
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This is AVN BREAKING NEWS...
A picture of Sasporilla Bucket standing over the dead body of the deceased Baba Yaga filled the screen behind the announcer.
"This is Cassandra Brumswallow filling in for the ailing Vincent Hoovenclefft taking you live to Avalon's Angel's Spharx stadium, where moments ago the heir to the Royal throne of Avalon beat the former Witch Queen in a duel to the death, Morgana?"
The cameras switched to Morgana Moonshadow who was looking up. " Yes Thank you Cassandra. As you can see the dome of sticks and vines cast by the Baba Yaga is retreating!"
Sasporilla knew why. The magic that the evil old witch used was indeed powerful. Her wand was made from the wood of the tree of life the same as Sasporilla. However unlike Sassy, Baba Yaga's evil warped and infested the wood and in turn it warped and infested her, making the Witch Queen as much a monster outside as she was inside.
The wood and vines drew back from the stadium and into the corpse of the old witch causing her to twist and writhe. Then the wood and bark withdrew itself from old Baba Yaga herself, leaving nothing more then the fragile corpse of a pale old witch in black robes, with rotted teeth.
Sasporilla took the wand and put it in her robes. As MacNare and Moonshadow approached.
"Ms.Bucket, Ms.Bucket?"; They asked with microphones out stretched. "Have you any quotes for your subjects?"
"Yes." Sasporilla said walking away into a pink myst, "It's time you started preparing yourselves for real democracy and freedom!"
It was only a flash, the change between faery dragon, the travel in to the deep pink myst to the Avalon' Majesty station and changing back into her pink haired self. Sasporilla was still getting used to being an animagus but she was getting the hang of it.
People in the terminal stopped and stared.
"Good morning everyone." Sasporilla smiled and waved as she walked past and out a service door onto a limb of the tree of life.
"I've come to keep my promise!" Sasporilla said loudly as she placed the wands near the trees giant limb. The wands grew forward into the wood of the tree and spiraled together, disappearing forever into the tree of life.
"You're home." Sasporilla smiled. "Where you belong, safe and sound."
Sasporilla turned to leave.
"Just a moment Sasporilla Bucket." The voice of Edda the guardian of Yggdrasil said.
Sasporilla turned around smiling. "I'm happy to see you Edda. I wasn't sure you would come out just to see me off."
"You are rare Sasporilla Bucket." Edda smiled putting her hand on Sassy's shoulder, "a magi that kept their promise to return the wood you borrowed? No one has ever done this before. Ever. All has had to be retrieved. You not only brought your own back but that of another. Your extremely rare."
"Thank you." Sasporilla blushed. "My mother taught me to always keep my promises."
"It is because you are such an honourable woman," the guardian of Yggdrasil smiled handing Sassy a small blue jeweled box jewel, "we have decided to give you this gift."
"Thank you!" Sasporilla said sliding open the top to reveal a small sliver of wood inside. "Is this a piece of Yggdrasil?"
"Yes." Edda said. "Not as powerful as a full wand made of the tree of life but place it on the wood of your wand and it will weave itself in. We know you will keep it secret and safe."
"I promise you I will." Sasporilla said, waving to Edda as Sassy placed the jeweled box into her Jacket, transformed to a faery dragon and fluttered off into the pink myst.
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Blue spit out the last of the Doxy army when the pink myst appeared and Sasporilla Bucket walked out of it. All of Avalon's worst evil creature that had allied themselves to the Witch Queen as a allied force this day, the Doxy's, the slime trolls, the swamp harpies, but the worst of the lot were Avalonian Steel Dragon's. Rare as they had been, Sasporilla feared they may now be extinct.
Royal Guard sat captured with few counted amongst the dead. Thankfully there were very few magi casualties but unfortunately there were far to many amongst creatures and Fae.
Laying on a stone, near each other were Gooseberry and Flossy. Both had been killed by the great blasts of a steel dragon. It was unclear who was reaching for whom, intending to try and rescue the other, perhaps with their dying breath but without question, for tiny, Fae both fought like lions and died heroes!
Sasporilla walked over to Blue. "It's time my friend. The sun is high in the noon day sky. You must be going. I'm going to miss you."
"I will miss you too... Sassy." Blue attempted a beaky smile.
Sasporilla pulled her broom from her bag. Mounting it she kicked off and took off into the air, circling around Blues sparkling crystal head. As she leveled off and hovered beside him she smiled and asked, "Ready?"
"READY!" Blue skreeled and started to run forward flapping his large crystalline ice wings.
With a mighty jump Blue took off into the air. Sasporilla pulled up her Erumpant right along side him. The current of his mighty wings would blow her far off in the skies if she dare fall behind. In moments they were over Avalon city.
A pink myst, as many that opened all across the city, opened near majesty station. From it poured many fire faeries and Dame Splatterpalette. People panicked fearing invasion by evil Fae now that the Witch Queen was dead.
"Don't be affraid!" Professor Splatterpalette reassured the good citizens of Avalon city. "These Fae are not here to harm, nor invade, nor enslave you. NO, but at the bequest of your new WITCH QUEEN SASPORILLA BUCKET! To assist the great beast in getting over the city and away with out damage to properties or peoples!"
The Fire Fae, lead by the Fire Priestess, the Fire Chief and accompanied by his fineset soldiers, especially Kian and Aysel turned their hands towards the sky. Rings of flame pulsed in their palms. Waves of super heated thermal air wafted upwards creating great lift for Blue to soar upon. Wings outstretched Blue caught the thermal and began to glide up in a circle above the great tree Yggdrasil.
The people at Majesty station looked up watching the great beast as it soared high above. The tree of life held this name for one great on known reason. It was part of a great cycle that all were witnessing.
A single bud appeared on a small branch near a very unassuming leaf on Yggdrasil. From it grew a single Golden Acorn. The branch bent down, down, so far down that one would have thought it would snap, but instead it sprung back up like a finely made spring and shot the Golden acorn high into the air. High enough that it carried just in front of the beak of the great beast Blue.
"Oh that looks good!" He said snapping it up and swallowing the tiny morsel whole as he continued to glide on thermals happily with his friend Sasporilla.
The Golden acorn found it's way down the gullet and into the stomach of the great beast. He felt strong and ready.
"It is time Sasporilla Bucket." Blue said. "I must away!"
"Fly my friend!" Sasporilla yelled as Blue shot off into the sky. "Good bye Blue. I love you and I'll miss you!"
"As I love you my friend." Blue's voice boomed back. "But do not miss me. Our heart will always touch."
Blue's mighty wings flapped and carried him out of the atmosphere and into space. The acorn inside of him told him what direction to go and where to find the lifeless body he would land on where he would plant the seed he now carried. A new tree of life would bring life and magic to a New World across the stars.
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I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, donate to J.K.Rowling's charitable foundation LUMOS! Link below! ( https://www.wearelumos.org/ )