From the top of the chicken coop, Levi poured the contents of the potion down on top of Lady Luck’s head.
She looked up and gasped, but a gust of wind came that blew the liquid away from her before it could land on her. She looked out from behind her arms and sneered. “Luck is on my side.”
From the end of the alley, Anna extended both of her hands out toward Lady Luck. A supernatural gust of wind emanated from Anna and Lady Luck fell back onto the ground again.
“Levi, jump!” With another swing of her hands, Anna created a gust of wind that helped guide Levi down to the ground from the top of the chicken coop. However, her magic also released the latch keeping the chicken coop closed. The door swung open and the chickens wandered out one-by-one.
Lady Luck got back to her feet. “You got lucky, witch.” She held up her hand toward Anna and twisted it.
Immediately, Anna hunched over and reached for her belly. Evelyn put her arm around her shoulders to steady her. “What is it? What’s wrong?”
“My baby,” Anna cried out. “She’s doing something to my baby!”
“Let’s see what happens when your good luck is gone,” Lady Luck said.
“Levi, do you have more of that potion?” Frankie asked as he raced toward Lady Luck from the other end of the alley.
“Yeah, I have a bunch in my pocket.” Levi fished them out and started running toward Frankie, but tripped on a pothole. The vials of potions bounced on the ground, cracking the glass on the rocks and leaking the contents all over. “Damn.”
Lady Luck laughed. “Oh, that’s a shame!”
Undeterred, Frankie scooped up the spilled potion from the ground with his power and sent it straight at Lady Luck, while she continued to laugh at Levi.
As the potion soared through the air, Frankie expected to see Lady Luck’s humor come to an abrupt end when she was splattered with the magical mixture. At the last second, however, a chicken jumped up and took the hit from the potion.
Lady Luck looked to the chicken, then looked to Frankie. “Once again, luck is on my side.”
Frankie and Lady Luck’s stare was broken as an egg came soaring through the air and smashed against her face. She opened her mouth in shock and turned to Levi, who stood at the chicken coop and launched egg after egg at her, although most landed around her.
“How dare you?” she declared.
Levi swung another one at her and she jumped out of the way.
With her distracted, Frankie jogged toward the end of the alley so he could check up on Anna.
“Are you okay?”
She nodded and stood up, although her face was still contorted in pain. “Yeah, I think it’s just the baby kicking.”
“Are you sure?” Frankie asked.
“No. I don’t want the stress of all of this—or my bad luck—to have any harmful effects on the baby.”
“Aw,” Evelyn cooed. “We’ll protect you.” She squeezed Anna around the shoulders.
“Yeah,” Frankie added. “Besides, if something were to happen to the baby, I would be the first to know. And I’m fine, so you have nothing to worry about.”
Anna nodded and forced a smile. “So let’s stop her so we can get out of here.”
“I thought of something,” Evelyn said.
Frankie cast a look back at Lady Luck and Levi. He still managed to fend her off with the eggs from the coop. But the eggs would likely run out sooner than later. He needed to get back to him.
“Can it wait?” Frankie asked.
“No—just hear me out,” Evelyn said. “Lady Luck said she’s also known as Fortuna or Tyche, right? Those are mythological names. In those myths, it’s told that she was blindfolded so she could bestow her good and bad luck randomly, no matter the status, creed, or wellbeing of the receiver.”
“Okay, well, she’s clearly not blindfolded now. So am I supposed to convince her to put it back on? How’s that going to stop her from taking it off?”
“I’m thinking maybe it was removed somehow and she liked being the one who decided who had luck and who didn’t.” Evelyn reached down and ripped off the bottom hem of her dress, which had already been torn. “Here. Try to blindfold her with this. Use your power.”
Frankie nodded. “I’ll give it a try.”
Slowly, he wandered back to where Lady Luck and Levi were still dueling. He tried to stay behind her, so as not to tip her off. Levi, however, gave him away when he looked beyond her, directly at him.
Lady Luck turned. Frankie tossed the cloth in the air and then directed it toward Lady Luck’s eyes with his magic. She swatted it out of the air and it fell to the ground.
Frankie dove to the ground to retrieve it, but before he could get there, one of the chickens rushed over and began tearing the fabric to shreds.
As Lady Luck approached the spot where the fabric had fallen, she smiled. “Don’t you see it by now? You’ll never be able to stop me. I’m the goddess of chance.”