
Springing the Witch
For the first time ever, Miss-Teeq regretted she wasn’t a ‘feline’ familiar. Trying to conduct a rescue mission on four stubby little polecat legs was proving to be more difficult than she’d anticipated. Getting chased by a bulldog when she was running with a Christmas tree fairy was bad enough; not chomping down and biting off the fairy’s arm with her pointy little polecat teeth was nearly impossible, especially when she kept tripping over the fairy’s hot-pink skirts. She couldn’t help sniggering, emitting a polecat ‘chuff’. Mab loathed pink.
Miss-Teeq managed to lose the bulldog and reached the edge of a park as the sun was rising. She laid the fairy down under a tree and scrabbled through a hole in the roots where she’d left a box with the counter-spell to turn the fairy back into her witch companion, Mab. Life was proving lonely without her, and she really needed someone to clear the cottage floor of insect legs and wings, not to mention other unpleasant things that crawled in during the winter months.
Miss-Teeq carefully lifted the lid from the box and sprinkled the contents over the fairy. Light exploded and, suddenly, there was Mab, back to her normal witchy self.
Mab sat up, bleary eyed, and squinted in the warm morning light. Mab frowned. “Miss-Teeq, why is it snowing?”
“Snowing, mistress?”
Mab’s frown deepened to a scowl. “What mischief is this? It’s bad enough that they dressed me in a pink dress. Now they’ve turned the snow pink too!”
“Erm,” said Miss-Teeq, “Pink, mistress?”
Mab blinked and rubbed her eyes. “Wait a minute, that’s cherry blossom! You left me as a fairy for four months?”
Miss-Teeq pursed her polecat lips and wrinkled her nose until the tips of her right whiskers touched her left cheek and the tips of her left ones tickled her right cheek. “Hmm,” she said, “Actually…” she whimpered, “It was more like sixteen months.”
“Sixteen!” roared Mab.
“Well, it took a while to track down the counter-spell… Hepzibah, er jealous. Whizzbang you know. Then lockdown…” The glare from Mab silenced her.
“Nyx’s knickers!”
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleNote to new members: to help get a better context of this story, it may be worth checking one of my earlier stories, ‘Mab’s Christmas Nightmare’, submitted to the ‘Gems’ event before Christmas 🙂
Ha ha Carrie, I think I’m beginning to love the cantankerous Mab nearly as much as you! Although this time she has very good reason to be upset. A funny, vividly described story that had me grinning from beginning to end. Loved it!
Thanks Linda, yes I love Mab. She isn’t having much luck in the 21st Century. Life isn’t quite so easy for witches these days. It’s a good job that Miss-Teeq is a much more easy going familiar than her previous one. Cat would have probably just abandoned her to life as a tree-top fairy ?
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleCarrie, this is hilarious! I cannot blame Miss-Teeq for leaving Mab in that condition for sixteen months! Mab is not very pleasant to be around, but turns out to be quite useful in cleaning the cottage! I like how Miss-Teeq couldn’t resist telling her that it was sixteen months, not four! This is a great story.
Thank you Marianna. Unfortunately Miss-Teeq is so laid back that she spends most of her life between eating and sleeping and probably didn’t even notice Mab was missing for several months. Covid also put a spanner in the works, even polecat familiars had to take note of lockdown regulations, especially when trying to track down the current owners of a particular Christmas tree fairy. I feel very sorry for Mab at the… Read more »
I’m looking forward to her comeback! I really like your characters. They are brilliant!
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleI love the little enchanted world you have created, Carrie! Even the idea of lockdown is a great touch to such a wonderful story…. ?
Thank you for your kind comment Greene. It’s the characters fault. They come and pester me in the middle of the night ?
Hi Carrie, what mischievous and fun characters you have created, and they just adapt to fit in every situation. I love this story Carrie.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThank you so much for commenting Eric. These characters have become my virtual friends. They like to call on me for a play date at regular intervals and don’t let me sleep at night if I don’t tell their story ??
I enjoyed reading your story. From the protagonists name (Miss-Teeq) to her reaction to Mab’s retransformation the story made me smile, then chuckle out loud. Thank you for this story.
So glad you enjoyed it Susan. It’s fun revealing the stories of Mab, Whizzbang and their familiars in these little snippets
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleI love how you worked in the mention of cherry blossoms and the lockdown. The original misunderstanding about the pink snow is great!
Thanks Danielle , I’m sure poor Mab was somewhat disoriented after 16 months stuck in a box in the attic ?
Such fun, Carrie! I’m anticipating (and eagerly awaiting), many more Mab and Miss-Teeq stories to fit with future themes 🙂 Another great story and the perfect picture to accompany it!
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThank you so much Sandra, I’m looking forward to Mab and Miss-Teeq taking me along on some more adventures too; and Whizzbang and Miss-de-Mina! I really need to write a story where all four of them are together at some stage. Thanks for mentioning the picture, I had fun creating that one. I had to use two different photographs and use an awesome little app called Bazaart to create it. I usually… Read more »
Sanda is right, it was fun, Carrie. You draw a perfect picture to my mind about Mab and Miss-Teeq. I am excited to read more and more stories of them that fit the future theme.
Thanks, Lotchie. It’s nice having fun characters to write about. Sometimes it feels more like they’re writing their own stories inside my brain! ?
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleYou’re welcome, Carrie. I am very much excited for Mab and Miss-Teeq next adventure/story. I can’t wait.