Rainy Hill - ANITA HORVAT (ebooks children's books free TXT) 📗

Rainy Hill was standing in her blue bedroom, the bedroom filled with glass statues and dolls, looking outside of the window at a pretty lilac garden, when a strange tall woman appeared from the street corner.
The woman was dressed strangly in colorful long dress
with neckless and paper-feathers around her neck. Woman's eyes were dark and filled with acuteness and magic. Her hair was like fire and ice at the same time. She was looking for something in the near of the lilac garden and she was angry at the nearby tree.
Rainy shook as she saw this strange woman and said to herself:-This woman must be a witch!-and fastly closes the window.
Rainy is a young teenager, a tall girl with long plane brown hair and blue wise eyes that wished only one thing, to pass history test on Friday. Well, that school subject is devastating for her. She hated it ever so long and cannot stand it because the history teacher was, mustn't say but I will say it, her old mum's friend David Tress. And as he knew every detail about her he expected that she knows history cause her mother runs a school library.
But Rainy didn't like books.
She red only one book-her diary.
In that diary Rainy wrote good news about Taketown, a place she called home.
Taketown was a small town with one store and post office. Everybody knew everybody here. And Rainy liked it that way.
She lived with her mother in Rose gard 56 Street near a big old cherry tree. Her neighbour was a boy named Buckley. A talk-talk friend only ten years old and with very intersting goal in his life-to see bird Fairt, a magic bird that was evidently kept in a school hall, away from pupils, in a cage. Rainy and Buckley knew each other for century. They were friends for life and they shared all their secrets. Rainy knew that Buckley had lost his father in a air plane crash some years ago and that his mum Olivia had trouble with that lost but Rainy was always for him there. Always. And Buckley cried on her shoulder. And Buckley saw in Rainy his old sister. Rainy was never alone. She had her dreams and hopes. She wanted to be an adventurer like her father Frederin.
Rainy's father was always travelling. She loved him. He send her postcards. Every week a new country! What a life and super stuff! Today it was from Egypt. Wonderful.
Rainy laid on the bed and wrote in her diary about Egypt as sun came from the window to distract her. Suddenly a little flower was on the window and stayed there. Waiting. Like it was waiting for her. She was just reading about town legends and witches. A flower was their thing. Witches wrote on flowers.
Rainy jumped to the window and opened it. She took the flower in her palm and made a frighten face.-Well. What is this? A note on a flower?-she looked it carefuly.-"There will be a rain after moonlight and the rain will make you tremble. Gardenia"


Rainy looked for hours on the flower starting to think she didn't sleep enough tonight and was hallucinating.
And the words were still there, what was that? A rain will make her tremble? Why? She likes rain, her name is Rainy Hill. Who was Gardenia? Are there witches in Taketown? No! Rainy didn't belive in witches but wasn't the flower the proof that there were really witches near her house?
But never the less she took the phone and rang Buckley because he was a good scientist that red books.
-Hello!-Rainy said with shook voice.
-Hello! Oh, it is you, Rainy I was just thinking about you.-said Buckley silently.-You're strange, what's up?
-Well, Buckley I found something. Listen, can I come over? Really!
-My mother makes a cake. You know what that means.-Buckley smiled and added.-She has guests. You know.
-Terrible -said Rainy.-I know that she is a terrible cook.You want to come over? I really need to talk with you.
-Yes so what do you need?
-Your opinion. On witches.-Rainy stared at the blue flower with words on it.
-Rainy? What have you done?
-Something is happening in Taketown, Buckley. Something magical. Something strange. Did you see a witch today? In our street? Near my garden. I tell you. It was a woman. I think her name is Gardenia and she was looking for a message on the flower that I have now.
-No.-Buckley smiled.-What a story!
-She was coming from the corner and then a flower came to me with a message. A message that it is connected with rain and moonlight.
-A flower with a message? What is that, Rainy? Your dream?-Buckley smiled loudly.-You're still reading local legends? It is strange ...
-Yes isn't it strange, Buckley? But you belive me?
- Of course. Come over. I need to see the flower and make some notes about it and please take care of Flavio when you come here, he is in no good mood today. That dog never sleeps. And Mom's cake make him nervous.
-I will be careful. Coming over in five minutes.-But as Rainy said that, blue magical flower flew through the open window.-Oh, no!


The flower was flying to someone on the straight line in the air like a air plane made of paper. Outside Rainy saw a young tall dark haired man dressed in a lilac coloured cloak that grab the flower and ran.
-Wait!-Rainy cried.-That is mine!-and Rainy sprang through the room door going down the stairs and ran to the garden to see where the man went. But as she stood in the garden she saw three strangly dressed man with big hats watching the young man, the flower thief. The fight was ready to begin.
-My name is Astrider and I am the Keeper of gates, Hatshadows, you can't touch me. I am Astrider. I am a magician of the G-star.-said the flower thief grabbing the flower to destroy it.-The Protector.
-What?-Rainy listened.-What did he say?
-Wait!-said the man with big hat touching Astrider.-That flower belongs to our Master! Give it back!
-You musn't touch me!-Astrider said loudly and a light poured out of his sleeves down the street like a halve and that light caught the others with cords. Strong.
Hatshadows watched Astrider.
He glowed.
-What is this?-cried Hatshadow. The tall dark dressed man with big hat. The faces of Hatshadows were like trees, like bark.
Rainy tried to move from the garden but there was a force that stopped her from moving.
-No! Rainy, stay away!-cried Astrider.-They musn't see you, run! Run! You are not ready for this!
But it is too late, Hatshadows saw Rainy and smiled.-She is the chosen one? Astrider, you are good! You give us her!
-No!-cried Astrider and his blue eyes fill with rain and clouds. Suddenly the rain pours on them. Heavily rain.
Rainy stood on the rain and waited for something to loose her from force. She couldn't move, something glowing was stopping her to scream for help.
Astrider took her hand and looked her in the eyes.-Are you all right?
-Yes. But who are you? Who are they? What is happening?-Rainy was rouge. Astrider was pretty.
-I am not the one who must explain all this. I am the Protector. I am here because my teacher was in trouble. You are the chosen one, Rainy. Run! Run. I will protect you. Forever!-he kissed her hand and she smiled feeling her heart beating heavily.
-My teacher will find you. Run! I can't stop them no longer!-Astrider cried.
-No!-Hatshadows took they hat and turn toward Astrider.-Now, you are ours! Girl! Come over here! You are one of us! Evil!
-No! What is happening?-the glow stopped. Rainy was scared. Hatshadows were like giant. Terrible creatures with only one passion to destroy.
Rainy cried. She didn't know where to go looking at blue haired young man Astrider that was trying to protect her from evil. She trembled, she was frighten. What is this? How was I in this?
-Find Tirafta! He will explain!-Astrider said as he made a circle around Hatshadows and had put his hands over the tree of cherry.
And then Astrider screamed with pain, Hatshadow had wounded him with a sword from their hat and Hatshadows disappeared with Astrider in a cherry tree.
-NO!!! Astrider!!!!-cried Rainy on the rain.-What is this? What is this?-and she covers her face with her hands crying.
Hours passed. In the garden came dark. The sun was gone, the day went somewhere. Rainy's mum was still working in the library. But nobody in this town knew what had happend to Rainy. How she saw magic. How she saw Astrider going down. Pale.
-There you are.-suddenly Rainy heard Buckley's voice behind her.-Rainy!
-What?
-I am being waiting for you for whole five hours where were you?-Buckley ran his hand trough his blue hair. He was dressed in a sport clothes with a baseball hat.
-Buckley! I forgot...Sorry but you will never belive what happend.
-What?-Buckley sat near Rainy and watched her eyes. Flavio was near him, a terrier.
-A magician was here right in front of me. Some other hat giants too and they fought then Astrider was wounded...Kidnnaped.They took him. Hatshadows. Terrible!-Rainy was very scared and shook her eyes in discredit.
-You watch too many series. Movies!
-No. It was real. Here. In our street. Garden...
-Rainy. Slow down.
-It was real, his name is Astrider, he knows me. He protect me. He kissed my hand. So sweet.-Rainy blushed.
-Knows you? Who is he?
-Yes Buckley. Astrider is a magician.
-Too many series.-Buckley doubted.
-No. It was real. Like that witch. A witch! Yes she must know about him. Please, go with me to visit her. She lives here.
-To the witch? So, we knock on the door and say: "So, you are a witch. Do you know Astrider? He is a magician. A warlock. And we need your help to find him."
-Yes that's it.-Rainy jumped with joy.
-No. Count me out, Rainy. I have better things to do. Like doing homework. Have you learned history? Tommorow you have an exam.
-No. I didn't learn. I have better things to do. Find Astrider. Save him and town maybe.
-So, tommorow is an exam about our town, you surely know something about the town you grew up in?-Buckley smiled and took his dog to the cherry tree but Flavio growled.
-No. There went through here...
-Rainy? Even I know something. Like town witches. They lived here in seventeeth century and they were bad. They called themselves Blackcats, Gordina, Gardinia i Garftina were the badest. They burned the town...
-Yes that I know. It was 21. April 1654. Saturday during the moonlight on the Rainy Hill. Gardinia? Oh. That was the name on the flower I lost!
- Gardenia? Oh! Rainy...Rainy Hill?-says Buckley.-Like you, Rainy. And tommorow is Saturday 21. April. Moonlight. I red it on mobile.
-WHAT?! Buckley, are you sure? Moonlight? We must see somebody! This is terrible! Look...We must stop them. Are you in?
-Yes I am in, Rainy. Let's go to the witch. What ever happens I am with you.


-You know what that means, hello?-said Rainy when they didn't find the witch in Rose gard street.-It will be magic! Magic! The witches will wake up! On the hill, tommorow and we must stop them! Surely this witch is preparing for that, but there is one person that knows more about witches then we do. Only he is certainly at home.
-Who? World wide web?
-No, Buckley. Teacher David Tress, Mom's friend. History teacher, you know!