Chapter 1

The household was silent and all you could hear was the distant snoring in Mr Abbots' bedroom. At about midnight, when the clock struck twelve, a misty vapour entered each of the Abbots' bedroom's. It crawled through each of their mouths and their breathing became uneasy. Then, in the corner of the room, a curse could be heard. It went something like this;

All this,

filthy household

will be cursed,

when full moon approaches,

they will turn into adventurers,

until the next full moon comes,

Early morning approached and the Abbots were up, bright and early. Mrs Abbots' feet squeaked across the landing. "Come down Emma, Mary, Tom, Sara, Sally and Anabella!" Varies shouts came down to the main hall and trailed to the kitchen. Sally and Sara (the kitchen maids) came across the grand stair case first, chatting excitedly together. "Never ever will I do that again!" Sara protested. They giggled. Mrs Abbot spoke to them telling them they were going on their first ever holiday. They squealed excitedly and ran to tell the others. What a wonderful holiday they would have with no mischief whatsoever. Not even an adventure. Or maybe there could be?

Sally and Sara pushed great tufts of twin like blonde hair out of their lady like faces and flattened their knee like frocks as they climbed up to Tom's room. Tom looked around and swivelled on his toes and carried the message to Annabella's room.

Annabella squealed, "Ha as if I ever would!". Annabella was the oldest of her sisters by 4 minutes. She may have been the oldest but behaved like the youngest raising her voice and storming into a flaming hot temper. Bang! She threw down the cover of 'Of Calm and relaxing ways to freedom.' As the long lost clock went for a walk everyone soon knew about the holiday. But Annabella still was flaming with anger. As the news spread, Anabella slowly started to calm down and eventually fell asleep.