Page 45 of Cadenbury Town Does Halloween

Temp bursts out laughing when he sees the zombies on treadmills. “Nice, I wish I’d thought of that.”

I feel the air shimmer and Adhan shifts. I click my fingers and clothe him.

“Thanks, babe,” I say, taking his hand. “You came just in time.”

“I was talking with Ebby, Sly and Temp when they felt your magic’s call. Temp went off to help Justice and we came this way.”

Elliot comes walking through the trees, laughing as he passes the zombies. “You should keep them on the treadmills. I take it, this was your idea Sly?”

Sly nodded. “Yep.”

“This is so going on the website,” Temp says happily.

“Did you battle vampires as well?” I ask him and Justice.

The smile falls off Temp’s face. “You had vampires as well?”

I laugh. “Yep, and Shamus helped, he got the walkers to follow him to safety.”

“He’s drowning his sorrows with my mother at the moment. He was caught,” Elliot tells us, shaking his head.

“Oh dear,” I say.

“I got side-tracked today, I need to catch up with Molly and Cleo and see what was decided,” Adhan says

While he is talking, I drop his hand and walk towards the zombies. I know we stopped the vampires, but would they really have hurt anyone? I wonder if the zombies would really eat anyone, or are they just holograms?

I walk to the nearest one and stop at his side. I poke it with my finger and my finger goes through it. I try and touch it with my hand and my hand goes through it as well. I turn to look at the others. “I think the zombies are still holograms.”

I start walking back to the others when I feel something slam into me from behind and with a startled yelp I fall to the ground, something heavy on top of me.

I see Adhan quickly shift and he and his brothers run towards me.

I feel a hand on my shoulder, the other hand yanks my head to the side and I feel something biting into my neck.

There is magic heading my way, but Adhan reaches me first and jumps, and whatever was pinning me down is now gone. I hear a tearing sound and growls.

“Everyone down,” Sly yells, and I watch those I can see drop to the ground as Sly sends his magic out. I hear a boom and look towards the zombies and they have all gone.

I flop my head down onto the ground and groan before I move my hand to my neck. I lift my head and look at my hand, it’s covered in blood.

Suddenly Adhan is kneeling beside me, helping me sit up. Someone clicks their fingers and Adhan is again clothed. I lean into his side.

Justice and Temp drop down next to me. Ebby, Sly and Elliot are kneeling close. Kean and Jude still in wolf form, are standing guard.

“Please tell me a zombie didn’t just chomp me,” I say generally.

“Yeah, it did, Pops. We need to get you back to the manor and sorted out,” Justice said, looking at the bite mark. He clicks his fingers and covers my bite with a pad and uses tape to secure it in place.

“How could a hologram chomp me?” I ask. “My hand went through him.”

“Dark magic. When I destroyed the zombies, I broke all other dark magic left in this forest,” Sly tells us.

Adhan looks at him. “Thank you. Can you stand sweetheart?” Adhan asks me gently.

“I can,” I say moving and Ebby and Sly help me up.

“Shall we go to Winchester?” Ebby says grinning.