Mirian looked down at her hands, turned to the shaken group, smiled and said:
"I memorized the spells well!"
The witch kept looking at the box in Emily's hands. The girl was holding it tightly. Agatha had her hands to her mouth still looking at the fallen soldiers. James regretted throwing his sword at the wall. The group backed off as Mirian approached them slowly.
"You better give me this box, Emily. I've waited a long time for this, and you won't be able to stop me. Do you want to end up like them?", said Mirian pointing to the dead soldiers.
"Come and get it", Emily said bravely.
"What are you doing?", asked the princess.
"You spent too many flowers on these spells you made, didn't you?", shouted Emily to the witch, who stopped advancing. "That witch the soldiers saw is a fake and must have consumed a lot of flowers. And also these rays and camouflage... If you wanted to finish us off, you would have done it already, since you don't spare any effort to get what you want".
"That annoying voice of yours... Let me show you something", Mirian said nervously, preparing to cast a spell.
"Behind me!", the princess said, positioning herself in front of them.
Mirian whispered a spell, but only small sparks of lightning appeared on her fingertips. The woman was perplexed.
"Arrest her James! Don't let her say a word", said Emily to the prince who ran to Mirian.
The prince moved forward, but when he was close to Mirian, he fell to the ground to the astonishment of Emily and Agatha.
"James!", shouted the princess.
"Lucky for me, I don't need many flowers to do certain spells", said the old woman.
Then a thick smoke enveloped the two girls. Agatha continued to stand, saw Emily, unconscious, fall to the ground with the box scattering the flowers.
The princess ran and knelt down to gather the black flowers back into the box. Her heart was racing. She didn't know whether to run to her friend or to her beloved further ahead or even what she would do to deal with the witch. Then she thought of her father, Lilian and the army. What happened to them? Why weren't they coming? Suddenly she heard Mirian's voice in the distance:
"Wretch... I want to see you not be affected by this!", said the furious old woman, taking the sword from James that was stuck in the wall near the entrance to the room.
Mirian went toward the fainted prince furiously pressing the sword into her hands. Agatha looked around. She saw no way out of the situation. Then she looked at the box in her hand and only had time to think: "I'm sorry, mother. Then she took a kernel of a flower from the box and brought it to her mouth.
"N... No...", Emily faintly tried to say almost waking up.
However, Agatha stopped abruptly when she saw that the witch was standing still. She was looking everywhere in the room. Agatha looked too and saw the walls of the room crumbling from the ceiling. Suddenly all the walls were gone and the house no longer existed. Only the furniture remained there.
"You?", said Mirian, seeing the king and Lilian still recovering, leaning on his shoulder.
To be continued...
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The Frog Collector
FantasyPrincess Agatha is about to live the most intense days of her life. It all starts with a answer she will give to Prince James. But when she goes to the usual place where she will give that answer, he's not there. She waits, but tired decides to look...
