Chapter Four, in which frogs attempt to divert
attention;
ulterior motives are revealed; magical objects of value
are retrieved; and certain criminals are heartily flabbergasted.
Once Nadia and Morgan were back to their normal selves,
Megan told them about the unbearably irritating unicorn. They all agreed that
they should surprise attack the thief’s house and Megan and Morgan should sneak
in and retrieve the stone while Nadia distracted anyone who was inside.
“How should
I distract him, though?” Nadia asked.
“Use your imagination, Nadia. Turn into a flying magical
hippopotamus that hiccups on command or something.” Morgan insisted. Nadia
gaped at Morgan, wondering how she had thought of something so bizarre. “Why
would I want to do that? Hiccupping hurts; wouldn’t it be better if I could
belch or sneeze or something?” Megan sighed and put her head down. This
is never going to work if I have to put up with these two imbeciles. Megan was really worrying about carrying out their
plan, now. But they continued on anyway, toward the house next to the tree that
the unicorn told Megan about. After minutes of exhausting travel, they finally
reached the house. It was small, really small, like
not-even-big-enough-for-a-half-dwarf small. The unicorn must have been wrong
when he said that this guy was human. As they were standing outside the house,
an abnormally small half-elf stepped out, carrying a platter of freshly baked
cookies.
“Would you like to try some of my famous oatmeal cookies, my
ladies?” he asked politely, too politely.
“Who do you work for?!” Megan demanded immediately, grabbing
the little man by the collar of his shirt. “No one is that polite and
courteous. So I’ll say it again: who do you work for?!”
“The thief. I work for the thief,” he squeaked, “he hired me
to trick you into eating these poison cookies. He said that you were looking
for a stone. He has it, though. He keeps it in his home. He lives in the tree.
Please don’t hurt me!” Megan set the pathetic little guy down, realizing that
she had accidentally left second-degree burns on the skin of his neck. Ouch,
that would take a while to heal. Poor guy. Megan actually pitied him.
Megan and the other two girls didn’t wait for anyone to tell them to start up
the tree. Nadia shifted into a koala bear to make climbing easier, but
unfortunately Megan and Morgan were stuck relying on just their human forms.
“Okay, when we get up there, Nadia, you distract him, while
Morgan and I sneak in to grab the stone. Same plan as before, just in a tree.”
Megan declared. The koala bear nodded its head; she had heard. Once they
reached the top, Nadia transformed into a giant frog, Megan’s hands turned
pink, and Morgan pretended that she knew kung fu.
Nadia, in giant frog form, made a great distraction, and
Megan had no trouble getting inside. But once she was in the tree house, she
stood in shock. For in front of her, lounging on an enormous couch was the
unicorn. He unleashed a devious cackle, his eyes now glowing an evil shade of
purple. This wasn’t going to work out well; Megan could just feel it.
“You may have gotten past the cookie maker, but you’ll never
find the stone! I have hidden it so well, that even I may never find it again.”
He then set free another spell of hideous, evil laughter. Morgan then let out a
cry from behind the enormous davenport.
“I found it! It was in a bowl labeled ‘magical stones’” She
held up her stone in the air, victoriously. The unicorn just frowned, sadly,
disappointed with himself.
Chapter Five, in which happy endings occur
THE END.
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