Forever and Always - Kaitlin Chenoa Humphries (books for 7th graders .TXT) 📗

these ingredients. You need to go get them for me.”
“Are you kidding? Mucus of a stone troll? That is gross! Have you lost your mind?” cried Ciara, “and tell me how am I supposed to get this stuff if I have no hands!”
“I’ll send my apprentice with you. He can help you collect and hold the stuff that you can’t”
“And how is he supposed to do that?”
“He can shrink the stuff to his size so he can carry it.”
She called in her apprentice his name is Kurama. He has wild light blue hair and green eyes that you could stare in forever. He has slight muscles and a friendly smile.
“He’s so cute.” Cried Ciara
I think not! Thought Sam. He glared at the fairy his eyes burning holes into him.
“What you looking at dog?” sneered Kurama
Sam growled at Kurama making him fall back in surprise.
“Sam stop that what did he do to you?” cried Ciara, “Marianna what are we going to hold these ingredients in?”
“For the legs of a centipede, the mucus of a stone troll, and the hair of a werewolf, and the blood of a vampire you will need four vials to hold each. For the fire of a dragon, you will need to get an orb from the water nymphs. For the feather of a phoenix…well you will not need anything to hold that. In addition, for the tear of a unicorn you must get a dwarf to give you a sliver vial. To start you off here are the four vials you will need.”
“I am sorry but I must go and stay with Alaina to make sure Eric doesn’t try anything.” Said Samuel. He trotted out of the house and on towards the castle
So now Ciara, Sam, and Kurama set off their first objective the legs of a centipede.
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Alaina sat in her room waiting to be called for dinner. She has already tried to open the door but it was locked. She heard a key being placed in the lock. She jumped up when the door open and found Eric in the doorway. Alaina saw something different about him as he advanced. Eric grabbed Alaina and kissed her on the lips. Alaina struggled and squealed. When Eric stopped Alaina cried out, “you’re a disgusting perverted freak!”
Eric growled and lunged. He grabbed Alaina waist with one hand and pushed her head to one side with the other. “If you can’t work with me while conscious than you will have to deal with being unconscious.”
“And not know what you’re doing with me? No way!” cried Alaina trying to get out of his strong grip.
Eric laughed. He sank his fangs into her neck and started to suck.
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Samuel ran through the hole in the wall and up the stairs towards Alainas’ room. He found the door wide open which was not good. He snuck up to the door and looked in to see Eric sinking his fangs into Alaina’s neck. Samuel saw Alainas’ eyes grow wide then fog. He screeched and lunged his claws striking home on Eric back. Eric cried out in pain releasing Alaina’s neck. Alaina slumped to the floor moaning for she was not unconscious but if Samuel had waited longer than she would have been. Eric growled as he grabbed Samuel and threw him off his back. Eric’s eyes grew red as he lunged at Samuel. However, Samuel was quick on his paws and jumped out of the way. Eric ran into the wall. Alaina moaned and staggered to her feet only to be knocked back down by Eric who was once more after Samuel. Alainas’ mind began to clear and finally she began to notice what was happening. Samuel hopped into Alaina’s arms and snuggled against her acting as though he were scared. Alaina got up her legs slightly wobbling.
“Stop scaring Samuel!” she cried at Eric.
Eric looked at her and his red eyes disappeared. “Look at what the cat did to me! And I wasn’t doing anything” He turned to show her his back.
Alaina scolded Samuel and turned to Eric totally forgetting about what happened to Ciara. She ordered Eric to take off his shirt so she could get at the wound. Samuel meowed in protest, Alaina what are you doing? He is evil! He tried to hurt you remember! Alaina looked at Samuel with questioning eyes, oh darn! Humans cannot understand animals! He yowled. Alaina took Eric to a tub of water where she took a rag and washed his wound. Then she took an old dress of hers and ripped long strands from it to wrap the wound. She wrapped them around his back and chest making sure to cover every ounce of the wound. When she was done Eric turned to her.
“Thank you.” He said. Then he kissed her and Samuel hissed jumping between him and Alaina. Eric looked at Samuel then left the room.
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Ciara, Sam, and Kurama traveled through the forest looking everywhere for a centipede.
“For a bug it is sure hard to find.” Whined Ciara
They traveled for a while until they came upon a girl. “My god!” cried Ciara; “she has hands in place of her feet!”
“Look who’s talking canine!” sneered the girl.
“Sorry…” apologized Ciara
“So what brings two talking dogs and an overly dressed fairy to my neck of the woods?”
“Overly dressed?” cried Kurama angrily
Before Kurama could say anything else, Ciara interrupted, “we are looking for a centipede to take its legs.”
“Why do you need centipede legs?”
“To get me back to normal and to save my sister.”
“What do I get if I help you?”
“How about the satisfaction of helping someone in trouble.”
The girl glares at Ciara. “Have you lost your mind?”
“Huh? Well what do you want?”
“Well I want normal human feet.”
“I guess we could do that. Maybe Marianna could do something.”
“Well in that case follow me. But you better keep your promise.”
Ciara turned to Sam and whispered, “Can Marianna actually do that?”
“I hope so,” replied Sam
They followed the girl to a rotting tree. The girl pulled back the bark and hundreds of centipedes poured out of it. She picked one up and started picking its legs off. Kurama gave her the vial, which she placed the legs in. then the vile shrank back to fairy size and Kurama place it back in his belt.
“By the way what’s your name?” asked Sam
“my name is Pricilla.” Said the girl
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Alaina sat in her room thinking of what to do now. Samuel sat by her. He yawned and jumped off the bed. Samuel trotted out of the room and down to the Garden. There he met with the fairy queen who lived in the garden.
“I need a favor.” Said Samuel
“ Do you want that wish we had suggested?” asked the fairy queen.
Samuel nodded and the fairy queen chanted a spell and the next thing that happened Samuel was a human. He still had both his tail and his cat ears. Samuel smiled and looked at his hands. He left and ran into the castle and up to Alaina’s room. When Samuel went into her room Alaina jumped up in surprise.
“Who are you?” she asked.
“It’s me Samuel made human by the fairy queen herself!” cried Samuel happily.
Alaina looked him up and down then smiled.
“Well I’d say you look pretty good as a human.” She said
Finding the Ingrediants

Ciara, Sam, Kurama, and Pricilla all traveled farther into the forest to look for their next ingredient, the mucus of a stone troll. They traveled for a while than came upon a clearing. In the middle of the clearing was an apple tree. However, there were two enormous rocks blocking their way. Ciara began to climb the rocks with the others close behind. When they were part way up one of the rocks, it shuddered and then a rocky head appeared. An enormous hand shot up and grabbed the four companions in one sweep. Then the second rock stood up and Pricilla shrieked.
“Stone troll!”
All at once, the stone trolls began arguing. Kurama snuck from between the fingers of the beast and flew toward its mouth. He took out a vial and caught some drool that dripped from the beasts’ mouth. He quickly recapped the vial and flew back to his companions. The beasts took the companions toward the apple tree where they noticed a cage. The beasts put them in the cage. As dumb as trolls were commonly known to be, the group was lucky to realize the cage had not been locked. It was said that trolls had the brain about the size of an elephants, quite small in actuality. The trolls then began to fight for the group, arguing who would eat who, what pieces would be better. A silly argument the travelers’ though considering the trolls were so huge they could eat them in one bite. The companions snuck out of the cage and quickly grabbed a few apples before darting off into the cover of the trees. Now all they had left were to get the blood of a vampire.

They had been traveling for a while and soon they grew tired as it grew darker.
“UGH! I think my legs have turned to jell-o!” whined Pricilla, as they trudged through the forest.
“What do we have here?” whispered a deep voice.
Ciara and the others suddenly turned around and there now in front of them stood a guy in a black cap, “A dog, a Handerther, a fairy, and…”he stared at Ciara for a moment, “a very beautiful woman….” He stated as he suddenly appeared at her side, “my you are…”he looked at her again and then burst out laughing, “you’re a dog! You must be cursed to have fooled me!”
Sam growled at him unhappily, “hey! Back off! We very much dislike vampires and if you think your gonna get any food out of us you think wrong!” he stepped in front of Ciara baring his fangs.
The vampire took a step back chuckling at Sam, “you must have me wrong good sir. I do not act like the other vampires. I am a vegetarian though I must sometimes drink the blood of a bat or two but nothing else.”
Sam started to laugh not caring at all why, “a vegetarian vampire how ridiculous,” He stopped and howled in pain. Turning he noticed his tail to be bleeding slightly, the obvious bite marks of Ciara upon it as she stepped forward.
“What he meant to say my good sir is how really wonderful that is and that we wish to ask you a favor.” She smiled sweetly at the vampire.
“What, may I ask, that favor being, and I will let you know now before you tell me, if you want any favor granted you must adhere to my request.”