Page 43 of Cadenbury Town Does Halloween

“Two,” Justice says.

“Throw,” I say, flinging my magic out.

I see Justice do the same and the dark magic shatters.

“Nice,” Justice says. “That should do the trick.”

I make an apple hit Justice, it splats on his chest before sliding down his jumper and hitting the ground.

I snort out a laugh before I yell, as I’m hit with a barrage of apples. I hold my arms up to cover my face as Justice laughs like a loon.

“Sorry Pops, but it had to be done,” he says, still laughing at me.

I lower my arms and shake my head at him. “So mean.”

“But fun,” he replies.

I call forth a lot of bats and have them swarming around him. I laugh as he tries to bat them away. I finally take pity on him and call them off. “Now that was fun.”

Justice laughs.

I look to the waterfall and see two people dressed as merfolk, laughing and splashing their tails. I look and see there are already coins in the bottom. I wave to them, and we carry on walking.

“What I want to know is, how is this dark magic getting in? I mean the town is protected. This space is protected.”

Justice stops and looks at me. “No idea, but we can try and find out.”

We carry on walking and I’m suddenly hit with the perfect idea.

“I see you plotting something. What are you planning?” Justice asks, looking cautious.

“I was thinking how amazing it would be if we all dressed as proper witches and cackled around a cauldron. We could make a warming soup or something,” I tell him.

“We don’t need to dress like proper witches, we are proper witches,” he points out.

“Alright then, Halloween witches. It will be fun,” I say, loving the idea more and more.

“For whom? Pretty sure you’d be the only one wanting to dress up.”

I suddenly burst out laughing. “Titus can dress up as the Scarlet Witch, Temp as Winifred, they already have the outfits. I need to find outfits for the rest of us.”

I see Justice on his phone and glare at him. “You didn’t!?”

My phone starts pinging with messages and I pull it out to have a look. Sure enough, Justice sent a message in our witches' chat about the costumes.

Cassie and Sion are the only two so far who are up for it, the others are a big fat no. I bet I could get Ebby and Sly to agree.

We walk further through the forest. Wolf Kean and Jude are running around and having fun playing. They run around and between us.

“Having fun?” Justice asks them.

They both stop a little away from us and nod.

He clicks his fingers, and a stick appears in his hand, he throws it into the trees. “Fetch,” he says grinning at them.

The brothers glare at him and start running for him.

Justice laughs and runs off through the trees, the brothers chasing him.