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Authors: melanie james
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“Okay! Relax.” Gertie opened the bag and poured a small amount of pink powder in the palm of her hand. “Now, concentrate. Try to shift.” Candy and her father doubled their earlier efforts. Gertie drew in a deep breath and blew the powder in their faces.
Once the two prisoners stopped coughing and gagging, they fell to the floor of the cage. “What? What was that stuff?” Candy’s voice was uncharacteristically meek.
The professor crawled close to the bars. “How long will it take?”
“Just relax. It’ll make it much easier to shift. Candy, did you know those circus bears are really werebears that can’t shift back? Those poor creatures told me they were cursed by your mother. It takes a lot to upset me. Isn’t that true, Kelly?”
“Oh, that’s certainly true. The only thing that makes
you
mad is cruelty to animals… and paranormals.”
The cage shook violently from the inhabitants convulsions. It only took minutes for the professor and his daughter to change into grizzly bears.
Our conversation was interrupted by a crack of thunder. A cloud of green smoke appeared and out of it stepped Randy with a witch I had never seen. She was a tall, thin, dark haired woman. She was dressed in black from head to toe. In one hand she held a wand and a bullwhip in the other.
Randy loved to act a part. “Hello everyone! Say hello to the legendary Ursula. She put a BOLOB out for missing paranormal circus bears, so I contacted her and told her a couple may have been captured.”
Morgan, Gertie, and I greeted her in harmony. “Hello, Ursula!”
“What’s a BOLOB?” Gertie asked.
“Be on the lookout for bears,” Randy replied.
“Great. More cheerful witches. This one, who calls himself Randy, tells me you’ve captured two of my missing bears.”
“Yep! Got two of ‘em right here in this cage.” I slapped my hand on the cage door.
“Hmm. You sure they’re mine? How would you really know?” Ursula seemed skeptical.
“Most definitely. Gertie can communicate with bears and she swears they shifted.”
“Is that right, Gertie?”
“Yes, ma’am. A bit disoriented, but they definitely were shifters, and now stuck in bear form.”
“Good. Thank you. I suppose you expect some type of reward now,” Ursula grumbled.
“No. No reward expected,” I answered.
“Hold on. There is
one
thing.” Randy whispered something in Ursula’s ear.
“Fair enough. Consider it done.” Ursula raised the whip and brought it down expertly. The long whip straightened out and made a distinctive sound of a gunshot. The green cloud returned and when it drifted away, Ursula, Candy, and the professor were gone.
I smiled at how well my last minute plan worked out. “You know, it really makes me feel good to reunite a family.”
Chapter Eleven
R
andy turned the corkscrew and gave it a tug until the cork popped free. He filled our glasses and looked up at the night sky. “It sure is nice up here. This old millhouse is the perfect retreat for us. We always end up on this stone patio.”
“So, how long will it be before Ursula figures out who her new werebears are?” Morgan asked.
“It’s just a temporary magic transformation, I’d say a few days, then it’ll hit them hard. They won’t remember anything about tonight. It will be like none of this ever happened.”
The porch lit up like it was hit by lightning. “Ezzy! How’d it go?”
“I’d say it was a success. The bears hopped into the spring and the magic of it dissolved Ursula’s spell. After all their years in captivity, they were finally able to shift back into humans. They started chatting right away, but we have no idea what the hell they’re saying, but when we mentioned Ursula’s name, they just scoffed. I suppose they know a witch can’t place a Class A Hex on the same person twice, so
they
have no fear of her.”
“So we’re done, right? It really all worked out, right?” I could barely believe myself.
“It seems so. Perfect Karma for each of them.”
“Now what do we do with these twelve werebears?”
“You have to transport them to the last place they were when you cast the spell, Romania. It puts some distance between us if anything should come up later.”
“Do you know where—” I started to ask.
“Speaking of the werebears, there they are now,” Randy interrupted, pointing to the trail that led to the spring.
“You may want to get your cameras ready because you are about to get a treat.”
Gertie gulped. “Sweet Jaysus! Now that’s something you don’t see every day.”
My giant bear lumbered into the yard, bathed in the magical blue-white glow of the full moon. He was surrounded by twelve naked men, each of them an absolute specimen of mouthwatering hotness.
“My calendar came to life!” Randy cheered. “Excuse me while I get a closer look.”
“Feast your eyes for a few,” Ezzy tapped her foot, “seconds. Okay, say goodbye to these sexy beasts.”
“Goodbye, sexy beasts!” Gertie cheerfully waved.
Ezzy spun her broom and mumbled. After the werebears flashed away to Romania, she came closer to me. “I’m glad I found my broom, riding a werebear in leather pants was more uncomfortable than I could have imagined. I need to get out of these and check some things out. I may have rubbed the skin right off of my ass and thighs. Argh! You don’t even want to know how everything else feels.” Ezzy went into the house and she called out, “Hey witch! Don’t call me, I’ll call you.”
I literally jumped in the air from the shock of hearing a gunshot. I turned around and saw Randy snapping a bullwhip. “So, that’s what you asked Ursula for? A bullwhip?”
“A
magic
bullwhip, otherwise known as a dragon’s tongue. Who knows when something as kick-ass as this might come in handy?” Randy cracked the whip again with even more enthusiasm. Tiny bolts of lightning shot out and streaked over the yard. “This... is… fucking… awesome! Imagine if we took it and our wands trick or treating around the block.”
“Don’t even think about it! I’ve had enough magically induced mayhem to last a while, thank you very much!” I prayed he was only joking.
“Ooh! Let me try,” Gertie begged.
“Randy, it’s shooting out everywhere! Put that thing away before you hurt someone,” I scolded.
“Yeah, that’s what
he
said,” Randy snarked back.
“Come on, Randy. Let me play with your whip,” Gertie whined.
“And
that’s
what he said also.”
Gabe came up the stairs and nudged me off to the side. He rolled his big head while I rubbed behind one of his ears. “I think you should get changed, if you know what I mean,” I whispered. More than ever I wanted to stay in Caldron Falls permanently. I knew I would be making a decision sooner rather than later. In my heart, I already knew the answer.
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