The Three Rules of Magic
By Aldric
Copyright 2015 by Aldric Pietar@spamex.com,
all rights reserved
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The Three Rules of Magic part 1
Sofia studied the three kids in the shop. Two
of
them, a boy and a girl, were keeping her brother busy demonstrating how
a few
of the cheap magic tricks worked while the third, another girl was
alone in the
back, constantly scanning the store and watching to see if anyone was
watching
her. Girls in general had little interest in magic. To have two of them
in the
shop at the same time meant that one of them was planning to steal
something. Sofia
knew from experience that girl in the back was the thief. And she knew
how to
watch without being seen watching.
The shop belonged to their grandfather. He
could
work all of the magic items for sale in the store plus a whole lot
more. He had
tried stage magic, but although his ability was flawless he just didn’t
have
the stage presence necessary to be successful. So he and his wife
opened
“Greco’s Magic” forty-five years ago. Skilled stage magicians still
came to him
for help with complicated tricks, or to have him help with equipment,
and he
made far more money from that then he did from sales in the store.
He had been training Sofia on running the store
since she was 11 and now, 4 years later, she was doing her best to
teach one of
her brothers. Their grandfather was 72 years old and when school was
out he
liked for them to take care of the store for a few hours so that he
could relax.
He was a remarkable man who had immigrated to America when he was 9,
just
before his magic came to him. Not tricks, not stage illusions, but real
magic.
His wife died shortly after giving birth to a
daughter, Bianca Greco. Bianca did not believe in real magic, even when
he
showed her simple things he could do. But she studied business and was
the
logical choice to take over the business end of the store. And although
she
never married she produced three wonderful grandchildren for him—Sofia,
who was
15 and also had the gift of real magic and a love of stage magic;
Antonio, who
was 13 and had been practicing magic for almost a year now. And Luca,
who was
12 and had shown no talent for anything except making Antonio angry.
The girl slipped one of the more expensive
gifts
into the back of her shirt. She must have signaled to her friends in a
way that
Sofia didn’t see because they suddenly lost interest in what Antonio
was
showing them and hurried to the door. Not that she needed it, but the
silent
alarm gave them warning that store material was going out the door
unpaid.
“I need you to stay and watch the store,” Sofia
said to Antonio. “I’ll see if I can convince her to come back and
return what
she stole. Maybe even pay for it.” In the old days, that was how it
often
happened with kids and their grandfather insisted on giving thieves,
especially
kids, a chance to make it right.
“I want to go,” Antonio said. “She won’t bring
it back unless she’s made to. And I know her from school. Maybe I can
convince
her.”
Sofia thought for a second before she realized
that this was probably the girl Antonio once had a crush on. Luca had
been
teased him about it for a week, and the girl matched the description
Luca had
given. But like most crushes, it must have passed on because it had
been over a
month since Antonio had sat dreamily thinking about her, or since Luca
teased
him. “Okay, go. But no magic. You know the rules.”
Antonio knew the kids who had been in the
store.
Trevor Adams and Kati Simpson were both in the same grade as his
brother. They
had been the two pretending to be interested in how the tricks he was
demonstrating work. Heather Barkly was in the back, and a good thing
too. He
doubted he could have done the tricks properly if she’d been at the
counter. She
was the same age as him, and he liked her. A lot. But she made it clear
that
she did not like him. When an older kid picked on him, she was the one
who
laughed first and encouraged the kid to do more to him. That made his
blood
boil and his feelings for her quickly went from love to hate.
He hurried out the door to follow the kids
before they got away. The gift of real magic was strong, but one of the
first
things grandfather had taught him when his magic came on was the three
rules: 1-Never
use magic on a non-wizard; 2-Don’t use your magic on yourself; and
3-Never use
all your power, keep some in reserve.
He knew exactly how he was going to punish the
thief. He knew the magic rules, and he was absolutely positive that
none of the
three kids were wizards. After all, true wizards were very rare and the
chance
that another would be in the same school as him was very unlikely.
Heather
Barkly had stolen from the shop. It was a $125 item. And he was about
to make
her very sorry she had ever laughed at him.
Antonio doubted the rules were really rules.
After
all, he’d been using magic on his brother for a year now, and Luca was
certainly no wizard. But he had to be careful and make sure his
grandfather
didn’t find out he was using magic to torment Luca, so he kept it
small.
Antonio had thought for weeks about what he
wanted to do when the opportunity presented itself. He had practiced
various
ideas on his brother while Luca slept. He had turned Luca’s pajamas
invisible,
but he had to concentrate to maintain the spell or they became visible
again.
Then one day he saw Sofia move a box from a
high
shelf to a table by magic. He practiced it for weeks until he could
teleport
first small items a short distance, then larger, and then greater
distances. He
then tried teleporting Luca’s pajamas off him, but because he had to
keep track
of two items of clothing and the distance and the spell, it failed.
But he didn’t give up, and a few weeks ago he
had an idea. Concentrating on several items of clothing was at best
difficult
if not impossible, but what if he ignored the clothing and just
teleported the
person? An opportunity to try it and embarrass his brother at the same
time
came up the next night.
Luca had a sleepover at another’s boy’s house.
Very
early in the morning he snuck in and teleported Luca to the couch
downstairs. His
brother disappeared but his pajamas stayed behind. He went down to the
couch
and sure enough, Luca was naked. He used a little more magic to put
Luca into a
deeper sleep and left the house while maintaining his concentration. As
long as
he maintained his concentration, Luca would not wake up until he let
him, and
he maintained the spell until his magic was exhausted, a violation of
rule #3.
Luca came home shortly after that. Tear tracks
stained his cheeks. As soon as their mom asked him why he was home so
early he
said, “The asshole did something to me last night!”
“Luca, I’ve told you before about language,”
their mom said. “Tell me what happened.”
“I woke up naked on the couch,” he said and his
chin began quivering again as he fought to keep from crying. “He did it
to me. And
that’s not the worse part—Parker’s three sisters found me. They saw me
NAKED!”
“Luca, how could your brother do such a thing
to
you?”
“He used his magic on me.” Luca said, eyeing
his
brother who was trying to picture his brother waking up naked in front
of an 8,
11, and 14 year old girl.
“We’ve discussed this several times,” their
mother said. “There is no such thing as magic. What your grandfather
does is
tricks, sleight of hand, not magic. He sells things that once practiced
enough
look to others like magic. I think that you must have been sleep
walking.”
It was the same story every time Luca blamed
him
for something bad that happened to him. And the best part was that most
of the
time he was right. But as a non-wizard there was nothing he could do to
stop
him.
Later that day he confronted him. “You’ve been
magicing me and I’m tired of it,” he said firmly. “I could tell
grandfather,
but instead I’m going to teach you a lesson.” He stared hard at Antonio
for a
few seconds and then said, “Next time you try to use your magic on me
you’ll be
sorry.”
But Luca didn’t have the ability to do magic.
He
was just pretending. Or trying to scare him. Antonio wasn’t worried.
He ran after the three kids, and now he could
see them just ahead. He focused on Heather and teleported her forward
three
feet in front of where she had been walking. Only she didn’t teleport.
He did. He
didn’t understand. You can’t use magic on yourself, and besides, he had
been
focused on Heather. But then he noticed that he felt a breeze. He knew,
but had
to look down to believe it. He had teleported, but his clothes had not.
“Hey you guys,” Someone yelled at the three
kids. “Turn around and look at this!” All three turned and saw Antonio
standing
there totally naked. It took a few seconds before Antonio got over the
shock to
react. He turned and looked for his clothes, but they weren’t there.
But Luca
was, and he was laughing his head off.
“You—you did this,” he yelled at Luca. But Luca
couldn’t have. He didn’t have any magic. And besides, even Antonio had
no idea
how to make someone’s magic backfire. It had to be the rules. He had
tried to
cast a spell on a non-wizard.
“That’s not all I’m going to do to you,” Luca
said. “Now, just turn and let my friends have a good look at you and
I’ll tell
you where your clothes are.”
Antonio didn’t need to turn, Heather, Kati, and
Trevor were already next to him.
“Well, I’m glad to see that I made the right
choice about you Antonio,” Heather said. “I’d never go out with someone
who had
a dick as small as yours. Here, I don’t really need this. You can have
it
back.” She handed him the item she had stolen from the store.
His clothes were nowhere in sight. He had to
think. He decided the heck with the rules, he was going to get himself
out of
there. He teleported himself a block away. But it didn’t work, and the
spell
exhausted him much more than he expected. He had very little energy
left and he
could feel that slipping away. Then he remembered rule #2--Don’t use
magic on
yourself.
Luca was right there next to him too, and he
was
doing something, but Antonio didn’t know what. Except that it was
leaving him
light headed and he could feel his magic slipping away from him.
Heather was
talking, still making fun of him, but couldn’t think, couldn’t move,
couldn’t
do anything. And then it was gone.
“There, now I’ve got it,” Luca said. “All your
power. I have your power and I’ll bet you don’t even know what that
means.”
Luca turned and started walking away. He was
right, Antonio didn’t know what he meant. But he felt different. Empty.
For the
first time in a year, he felt—totally without magic! Antonio pushed his
way
past the three kids and looked again for his clothes. “Where are they?”
he
shouted at Luca. “Where’s my clothes?”
“You can stop looking, I put them in your
room,”
Luca said without turning. “Three blocks home naked. Have a nice trip.”
Antonio tried running, but he felt weak, as if
he’d already run ten miles. He remembered when he first started
practicing
magic feeling like this when he used too many spells. And rest was the
only way
to recover. He made it one block before he had to slow down and walk.
Luca was gone, Antonio hadn’t even seen where
he
went. He was just gone. Antonio could still hear the laughter from the
three
kids behind him, but at least they hadn’t followed him.
A couple of boys from around the neighborhood
saw
him. A naked teen walking down the sidewalk needed checking out, even
if it was
a boy. He was older than they were, but they were on bikes and made
sure to
stay out of his reach. After a few jokes and comments they rode away
laughing.
When he got home Luca was on the front steps
with two of his friends.
“What the hell?” he asked.
“Don’t play dumb, you did this. And I’m going
to
get you back.” Antonio pushed past the three boys and went into the
house, only
to be faced with Sofia.
“I see you got the stolen item back. But why
did
you trade your clothes for it?” she asked. It didn’t make sense.
Antonio was
very modest, he almost never left his room unless he was fully dressed.
She
hadn’t seen him in underwear or pajamas since he was little, and the
only time
she saw him without a shirt was when they went to the beach and even
then he
seemed uncomfortable.
Antonio had forgotten he was even carrying it.
He
pushed it into his sister’s arms and tried to go around her to get to
his room.
“Antonio, why did you teleport your clothes to
the shop?” she asked.
“I didn’t. Luca did. Let me past.”
“Luca has been right here since you left. And
he
has no magic. So what’s really going on?” Antonio ignored her and ran
to his
room. “After you’re dressed we need to talk,” she said to his back.
She waited an hour but he didn’t come out of
his
room. She decided to go to him. His door was locked, but that was no
problem
for her unless he used magic to lock it, but she didn’t detect any
magic. She
quickly unlocked the door and entered. Antonio was sound asleep, still
naked,
his clothes right where she had put them after they suddenly appeared
in the
store. She was concerned about him, but decided to let him sleep. She
engaged
the lock on his door before leaving and closed the door behind her.
“How come he came home naked,” Luca asked. He
was standing just outside the door.
“I don’t know,” she said. “He said you did it.
Is
there something you’re not telling me?”
“No! I don’t know anything about this, or
magic,
or anything else.” Luca ran off to his own room, but Sofia was sure
that he was
lying.
Dinner was much quieter than normal. Luca and
Antonio were both silent, which was better than their normal constant
arguing. After
dinner, their mom asked them what was wrong.
“Nothing!” Luca said. “I didn’t do anything. I
don’t have magic.”
“Of course you don’t have magic,” she said.
“There’s
no such thing.” Luca got up and left without asking permission, and she
decided
to let him go. He’d tell her what was wrong when he was ready, he
always did. He
was her baby.
She turned to Antonio. “I finished your costume
for the play tomorrow. I made the changes you asked me to make. It’s on
the
back of the couch.”
“Changes? I didn’t ask for any changes.”
Antonio
looked totally confused.
“Of course you did, when you got home this
afternoon. The changes were easy and it only took a few minutes.”
Now Sofia knew something very strange and wrong
was taking place, for she had been with Antonio since he got home. And
if mom
had seen him come home naked there was no way she would have ignored
that.
“Whatever,” Antonio said. “Can I be excused?”
“Yes. Pick up your costume and put it with your
school stuff so you don’t forget to take it tomorrow. Your grandfather
will
watch the store after school so we’ll all be there to watch you.”
“It’s just a small role mom, you don’t need to
come. I don’t even speak. I’m basically just an extra.” I’m really
tired, I’m
going to do my homework and go to bed early.”
As he left, Sofia thought how odd that
was—Antonio never went to bed unless ordered to. And even then he would
read or
practice magic instead of sleeping. It was as though he had used all of
his
magic up. But he knew better, she’d taught him herself.
The auditorium was packed. About half the
school
population was there plus family members of the most of the cast. It
was
actually well performed. Antonio didn’t come on until the third act,
and he was
a prisoner to be executed. His costume, like most of the cast, was a
toga. But
it was loose on him and the very short, coming to just mid-thigh. It
had
surprised Sofia that he even agreed to be in the play once he found out
what
the costume was, but he wanted to be in the play enough to overcome his
modesty. But he would never have asked his mother to change his toga to
be
shorter than it already was.
There were ten prisoners in all, and they were
in the front on Stage Left. When ordered, they raised their hands above
their
heads, and for a second Sofia thought she saw her brother’s dick
hanging just
below the bottom of his toga. Then the strangest thing happened.
A breeze came up out of nowhere and lifted the
togas on five of the prisoners, centered on Antonio. For the other
four, it was
no big deal, the toga was long and tight enough that it didn’t matter
much. And
besides, they had shorts on under the toga. But Antonio’s toga flew up
over his
body and started to wrap around his hands and the pole behind him. And
Antonio
had nothing on under the toga.
She could see him struggling to get free as
everyone in the audience was getting a look at his naked body, but the
toga was
wrapped tight around the post, pinning his arms above his head. And the
spot
light was centered right on him. Sofia looked around and saw that a
number of
students now had cell phones out to record it, and dozens of parents
had been
using cameras to record their kids in the play but were now recording
this
strange event.
Everyone was focused on Antonio, so Sofia
decided to use magic to uncoil the toga, only to find that it wasn’t
natural,
someone else was using magic to control the breeze and the toga.
Sofia looked at Luca, who was right next to
him,
but Luca had his hands across his eyes and was saying, “No Tres, don’t
do it,
don’t do it.”
She had to concentrate very hard to overcome
the
magic being used on the toga and was worried about using too much of
her power.
Whoever was doing it was much stronger than she was, but wasn’t using
all of
his power on maintaining the spell. She realized he was also using some
to keep
the spotlight focused on her brother.
“Look at all the cell phones and cameras,” she
heard in her head. “The memories that will last forever.” And then the
magic
stopped and just as quickly as it started Antonio’s toga was released
and fell
back over his body. He ran offstage.
Sofia looked around, trying to see if anyone
was
concentrating on her. And then she saw Luca sitting three rows behind
her,
smiling at her. Luca was also sitting right next to her. The one in the
back
was a fake, she could sense powerful magic in him. She wanted to break
through,
to see who it really was, but she had spent too much magic helping her
brother
and couldn’t risk using more until she rested.
“Come,” her mother said to her as she grabbed
her arm. “We’ve got to go and find Antonio and take him home. Bring
Luca.” She
didn’t resist. As they reached the end of the row she saw Luca look
back and
then suddenly look away. But she couldn’t have a conversation now in a
crowded
theater.
The director was trying to get her play
resumed,
and didn’t even slow the Greco family as they ran behind the curtain.
They
found Antonio in the changing room just as he was pulling on his
boxers. He was
crying.
“Why did you do that,” his mom demanded. “You
asked me to make the changes, and then you wore nothing under it. Why?”
“I didn’t mom, it wasn’t me. Luca did it.” He
turned his back on his family as he pulled his pants on.
“Come on, you can put your shirt on as we
leave,” she said, pulling Antonio away from his locker. “We’re going
home.” Antonio
broke free from her grip long enough to get his shirt on. Then he
grabbed Luca
and started shaking him. “I’m going to get you for this,” he shouted.
“You’re
going to wish you had never been born.”
“Come, it isn’t Luca who did it,” Sofia
whispered to him. “But we can’t discuss it in from of mom.”
Antonio let his brother go and followed them
out
to the car. The ride home was made in silence. The only thing said was
by their
mother. “I am so ashamed of you. Doing that, letting everyone see you
naked. And
you don’t even have much to show off.”
When they got home she said she was going to
bed
and the rest of them should do the same. Sofia told Luca and Antonio to
come
with her.
They went outside, on the opposite side of the
house from where their mom’s bedroom was and away from the store where
their
grandfather had his apartment.
“Okay Luca, who was that sitting behind us,”
she
asked. He just looked away from her.
“I saw him and he looked like you, but it was
magic, and powerful magic at that. And you saw him too, only you knew
who it
was. So talk, or I’ll have to tell grandfather.
“No, don’t tell him,” both Luca and Antonio
said
at the same time.
“Why do you care if you didn’t have anything to
do with it?” Antonio asked his brother.
“I did, kind of,” Luca said. “But I never
wanted
it to be like that.”
“Talk,” Sofia said. “What is going on?”
“Antonio had been picking on me, just like I
told
you and mom, but you didn’t believe me. He pantsed me a bunch of times
in the
hallway. He made me trip. Stupid stuff like that. I kept waiting for my
magic
to come on so that I could get him back. And it did, about two months
ago.”
“You’ve got your magic?” Sofia asked.
“Not anymore.” Luca started crying now. “I was
practicing, but I was too weak to do anything to Antonio. One of my
friends saw
me, and I had to tell him the truth.” Sofia started to say something
but he
continued. “Don’t worry, Trevor won’t say anything, he promised.”
“Trevor knew you had magic?” Antonio asked. “He
was one of the kids who stole from the shop yesterday.”
“Really? I thought I could trust him, but I
guess not. Anyway, a few weeks later a new kid came to me and said he
had seen
what my brother had done to me and asked why I didn’t use my magic to
get back
at him. I told him there was no such thing as magic, but he said he had
the
gift and could sense that Antonio and me did too. And he did it, he
used magic
to prove it to me. He said he’d train me. So I figured I’d get the hand
of it
faster with a teacher than on my own and we started working together.
Only one
day he had me try several spells in a row until I was tired, and he
told me to
use magic to recover my strength. He told me what to do and I tried it
on
myself, only I just kept getting more and more tired and now I don’t
have any
magic at all anymore.”
“He took your powers,” Sofia said. “He never
taught you the three rules of magic. When you use a spell on yourself
it won’t
work but it keeps trying until you are nearly out of power. That made
you weak
and defenseless and he stole your magic.”
“I was even more stupid than him,” Antonio
said.
“He didn’t know the rules, but I did. But I was so angry at him, or
what I
thought was him, that I forgot. I tried to teleport myself home. And
then he
took my powers too. Please don’t tell grandfather. He said he’d take my
powers
away if I ever violated the rules.”
“And yet you used magic on your brother before
he had his powers,” Sofia sad. “That’s almost as bad as using it on a
non-wizard.”
“Yeah, I guess. I wasn’t thinking of it that
way. Besides, I wasn’t sure the rules were really rules. I thought it
was just
something you or grandfather made up to make sure I didn’t show anyone
that I
had magic.” He saw the look of incredible surprise on his sister and
said,
“After all, when I used them on Luca nothing happened.”
“Did they use more energy than normal?” she
asked. He hung his head. “You were stupid. The rules are real, and you
had the
proof right there every time you violated them. You deserve…” But she
stopped. “No,
you don’t deserve this. Grandfather would have taken them away. But he
wouldn’t
use magic on you to punish you further.”
She turned to Luca. “So who is this kid who
took
your powers?”
“I don’t know, he said his name was Tres.
That’s
all I know.”
That’s an odd name. In Spanish it means
‘three.’
Why would he use that?” Antonio asked.
“I don’t know, but we’ll look into it,” Sofia
said. “But there is still part of the story missing. He must have known
that
you were going on use a spell on that girl. But how?”
“Me again,” Luca sad. He wouldn’t look at
either
his sister or his brother as he talked. “Antonio talks in his sleep.
Sometimes
I can hear him. And I knew he was mad at Heather Barkly because he
liked her
but she just made fun of him. And he was practicing spells. At first,
when he
tried them on me, I thought they were meant for me. But he didn’t do
them in
public, just when I was sleeping. So I put two and two together and
figured he
meant them for her. Then when he teleported me I knew what he planned.
I might
have said something to Trevor.”
“But just because he has my powers, how did he
remove my shorts and boxers?” Antonia asked. “I know I had them on
under the
toga.”
“Just like I knew I had underwear on one day
when you dropped my shorts in the hallway, only I didn’t. So I was seen
naked
in school too. That’s the day I swore I was going to get revenge on
you.”
“Every time I did something to you I stayed
around to watch,” Antonio admitted. “After all, it was because I was
mad at you
for something. And I never made you naked. Every time you had
underpants on.”
“Was that before or after this Tres took your
powers?” Sofia asked.
“After. But why does that matter?”
“If you have someone’s powers, you can control
them. You can make them say or do things that they don’t remember. I’ll
bet
this Tres made you both decide not to wear underpants but left you
believing
you did. That’s why rule number 3 is so important—always leave a
reserve of
magic. It is nearly impossible to take someone’s powers if they still
have
magic left. You’d have to be as powerful as grandfather to do it. But
if your
powers are drained, it is easy. I could do it.”
“You left me drained a few times when you were
teaching me,” Antonio asked. “Did you ever…”
“No! I would never. It is a very rude act.
Evil.
You don’t just get the person’s powers, you get their thoughts, their
beliefs. Once
Tres got your power he knew immediately how modest you were so that was
the way
he attacked you.” Sofia looked at Luca. “And once he had yours he knew
how
pissed you were at Antonio. He made you think Antonio had crossed the
line.”
“So tomorrow we’ve got to find out who this
Tres
is. You,” she pointed to Luca, “Talk to Trevor. He knows. And you,” now
she
pointed at Antonio, “Stay calm. He’s going to strike again, but what he
did
yesterday must have drained him a lot. Those were big spells and he did
two or
three at once, which is really hard. So I think you’re safe at school,
but be
careful.
“There is no way I’m going to school tomorrow
after what happened tonight,” Antonio said. “Everybody saw me naked.
I’ll be
ridiculed all day. If mom makes me go I’ll cut out and hide for the
day. Maybe
a whole week. In fact, I may never go to school again.”
“I can give you a fever tomorrow so that mom
will let you stay home, but eventually you have to go back to school.”
“So it’s okay for you to use magic on a
non-wizard but it got me into trouble?” Antonio asked.
“You are still a wizard, you’ve just had your
powers taken. You’re an open target for any wizard out there.
Fortunately,
there aren’t many of us. That is why we have to find out who this Tres
is so
that I can try and figure out how to deal with him.”
They didn’t talk again until after dinner the
next day. “Trevor said he doesn’t know anyone named Tres, but I know
he’s
lying,” Luca said. “Is there a way you could use magic to discover the
truth?”
“First, he’s not a wizard, and second, it is a
very difficult spell. If he were a wizard it would be easier to take
his powers
then to make him tell the truth.”
“I’m not so sure he isn’t a wizard. When he saw
me using magic he knew exactly what it was. Even when I tried to tell
him it
was just a trick he knew. I’ve been kind of suspicious about him since
then.”
“If he’s a wizard, couldn’t you detect the
magic
in him?” Antonio asked.
“It’s a spell. If he isn’t a wizard, then I’d
be
violating the second rule,” Sofia said. She looked at Luca. “What do
you know
about him? What’s his last name?”
“Grey, Trevor Grey. But he’s adopted, so the
Grey’s aren’t his birth parents. He doesn’t know who they are, or at
least he
told me he didn’t.”
“So that doesn’t help,” Antonio said. “Did you
find anything out about Tres?”
I found a couple of kids who met him.
Apparently
he just started recently. The kids who knew the name thought he was
strange. And
nobody had a name other than Tres.” She saw the look of desperation on
Antonio’s face. “But tonight I’m going to use magic to do something I’m
fundamentally opposed to and that grandfather would be very angry with
me if he
knew. I’m going to use magic to disable the locks and alarm system at
the
school and go to the records room.”
“Don’t forget the security cameras,” Luca said.
“Can
we help? Keep watch or something?”
“If you had powers you could be a big help. But
no, both of you stay here. I’m going to go disguised and hope that I
get away
with it. Besides, if there’s no alarm and no evidence that someone
entered the
school there wouldn’t be any reason for them to look at the camera
recordings.”
It was actually easier than she thought it
would
be. She quickly found the record for a new student. Dale Wentworth III.
And the
Wentworth family had produced several wizards in Europe, all of them
evil and
crude. And he was listed as a temporary student under the care of the
Grey
family. Trevor’s adoptive parents. It was coming together. The file
even had a
picture of him. She noted his locker assignment so it would easy to
find him.
Knowing where his locker was made it simple,
and
she waited there until he arrived. “Tres, I presume,” she said to him.
“Or
should I say Dale Wentworth the Third?”
“Sofia Greco,” he said. “You made good time
figuring out who I was. How can I be of service to you?”
“You know what I want,” she said. “Give my
brothers their powers back.”
“We can discuss that, but right now I have to
get to class. And unless I did my homework wrong, this isn’t your
school. You
need to get to the high school. I can get you there faster if you want.”
“Try it and you’ll see how fast powers grow as
you get older,” she said.
“Ah but I have the powers of two other
wizards,”
he said with a silky voice. “But we’ll do it your way. Meet me after
school and
we’ll discuss terms and conditions.”
They agreed on a place and time and Sofia
hurried of to her school. That afternoon he was at the spot waiting for
her. He
wasn’t alone, there was a boy who looked about Luca’s age with him.
“This is Trevor Grey I’m guessing?” she said.
“Actually, Trevor Wentworth,” Tres said. He was
taken from our family as a baby but we’re working out arrangements to
bring him
home. And yes, he’s a wizard, just coming into his powers. But you
aren’t here
about him, you want to discuss Luca and Antonio and their powers.”
“Just give them back. You won’t be able to
control them once you return to Europe, it’s too far away.”
“Ah, yes, but unfortunately Trevor won’t be
able
to come home for a while. You know, courts and things. And he has been
begging
me to let him have Luca’s powers. If we can’t come to an arrangement
before I
leave I just might give him control of both of them.”
“I could take them by force,” she said.
“Oh, aren’t you a feisty one,” he said. Then
his
voice changed, became less smooth and more unpleasant. “You could try.
But
you’d be battling not just me, but Trevor too. And your brother’s
powers. Think
what would happen if you were to lose.”
He was right. It would have been dangerous if
it
were just the two of them. But if Trevor really had come into power it
would
take a miracle or at least a mistake on their part for her to win.
“Okay, I
didn’t mean that. What do you want?”
“How about if your brothers walk naked through
the park, holding hands and singing songs,” he said, turning his silky
voice
back on. “And you join them.”
“That isn’t going to happen.”
“Oh, it might. At least for your brothers. I
can
make them do it. But if I have to expend that much energy I won’t be in
a mood
to give them their precious powers back. So you’d have to join them and
make
them do it so I don’t have to expend any magic on them.”
“This is not going anywhere, so I’ll be back.
But
I won’t be alone.”
“Oh, I’m shaking in my boots,” he said. “I’ll
be
sure and tell my parents. They are both here too. So bring your
grandfather. I’m
sure my parents would love to meet him.”
Now it really was getting dangerous. She wasn’t
sure what to do.
“But I can see that idea doesn’t appeal to you
either,” Tres said. “So how about this. You come and do a private
showing, just
me and Trevor. One hour with us, doing whatever we want. In exchange,
I’ll give
your brother’s powers to Trevor. Once I’m gone it should be easy for
you to get
them back from him. But in the meantime, he has a lot of things he
wants them
to do. And he’s got a sicker mind by far than I do.”
She saw Trevor’s eyes light up as Tres made his
offer. She wondered what excited him the most-seeing her naked or
getting the
powers. It was dangerous, but not as dangerous as a wizard war
involving two
families.
“I see you’re at least considering it,” Tres
said. “Do you know how to erase recordings of an event from all cameras
at
once? I do. Take my offer and I’ll teach you. Then every recording made
of poor
Antonio naked on the stage will suddenly disappear.”
“I won’t do whatever you want,” she said. “For
example, I won’t have sex with you.”
“Oh, such a pity. But I submit. However, you
don’t have to worry about having babies if we have oral sex. And you
really
don’t need to worry about Trevor here, he isn’t capable of fathering
children
yet. To young I guess. Or maybe he just isn’t into girls.”
“Shut up about that!” Trevor said. “Especially
in front of her.”
“But what’s the use of having her naked if we
don’t get some personal enjoyment from it?” Tres said to Trevor. “And
to do
that, she’s going to know you have thus far missed the puberty train.”
Trevor blushed. “And then I get their powers?”
he asked.
“I have given her three choices, one where they
get their powers back, one where we have a wizard war, and one where
you get
their powers. It is up to her to select one.” Tres looked at Sofia.
“And if he
gets the powers, I will protect him until I leave. You will not get
them from
him while I’m around. So which option do you choose?”
“We’ll
see you in the park Saturday at 10 A.M.,” she said. And she truly hoped
that a
friend she had called at lunchtime had the solution she said she did.
The Three Rules Of Magic, Part 2
Sofia called her brothers to the shop right
after her grandfather left. The shop was empty, but she was expecting
her
friend to show up at any time.
Antonio and Luca got there first. She explained
the three options the Tres had offered.
“Obviously none of them are acceptable,”
Antonio
said. “You aren’t going to show up in front of them naked and there is
no way
Trevor is going to get control of me or Luca. So what did you tell him?”
“I told him we would meet him in the park
Saturday morning.”
“No way,” Luca said. “I’m not walking through
the park naked singing songs and holding hands with Antonio. Not even
to get my
powers back.”
“Think about it Luca,” his brother said.
“People
have already seen you naked.”
“Not like you. Everybody has seen you naked.
There’s
videos of it all over the place. But only a few kids in the hall saw me
naked. I’m
not going to do it.”
“What if there was a way we could fight them?”
Sofia said. But she was worried, her friend should have been here by
now.
“How?” Antonio asked. “It isn’t us, it’s you,
and you can’t beat both of them and you know it.”
The bell on the front door rang and they all
turned as two girls and three boys entered.
“Harper, I’m so glad you came,” Sofia said.
“Sorry we’re late, Bennett wasn’t on board with
my plan, but I convinced him.”
“Yeah, like three-to-one was really fair,” the
oldest of the boys said.
“Boys, this is Harper Mackay, a friend of
mine,”
Sofia said to her brothers. “She and her brothers and sisters go to a
private
school and they don’t socialize much around here, so you probably don’t
know
any of them. Harper, these are my brothers Antonio and Luca.”
“And this is Tess and her twin brother Bennett,
I think they’re the same age as you Antonio,” Harper said. “And behind
them are
River and Rory. Rory’s twelve and River is ten. River won’t be helping
as his
powers haven’t come on yet, but the others are all on board.”
“Help us how?” Luca said. “Wait a minute, you
said his powers haven’t come on
yet. What
exactly does that mean?”
“We’re all wizards,” Harper said. “Well, expect
for River, but we have high hopes for him.”
“So you’re going to help us fight?” Antonio
asked.
“Not exactly,” Sofia said. “They know the
Wentworth family and they don’t want them to know they were involved.
Until
these guys came along, the Mackay’s had all but run out of magic. Now
suddenly
they’ve got four new wizards and hope River will make it five.”
“So how are they going to help?” Luca asked.
“We are going to give our powers to you,”
Harper
said. “Of course, only until you win. We want them back.”
“And we will never attempt to control them in
any way,” Sofia added, speaking to her brothers.
“And you guys are okay with this?” Antonio
asked. “Because I know how it feels, and it isn’t pleasant.”
“They forced me,” Bennett said.
“That isn’t fair,” Antonio said. “I was tricked
because I was stupid. Forcing him to give them up against his will is
worse.”
“We need him Antonio,” Sofia said.
“Only if he agrees,” Antonio said. “Without
being forced or tricked into agreeing.”
“How does it feel,” Bennett asked him. “Did it
hurt when they were taken?”
“It didn’t hurt, but I felt weak, sick, and
light-headed. I still feel like I’ve lost something. I miss my powers a
lot now
that I don’t have them. And so will you.”
“How were you tricked?”
Antonio explained the whole story, even how he
had used his magic on Luca when Luca had no ability to defend against
him.
“If you had my powers, would you promise to
give
them back?”
“Absolutely. I promise. As soon as I can.
Except…”
“Except what?” Harper asked.
“Except I don’t have the slightest idea how to
do that. Give or take someone’s powers.”
“Oh, that part is easy, I’ll teach you. It
requires almost no energy at all, and any wizard can give up powers.
It’s
taking them that is harder. And that’s why you need Bennett. Even with
him,
you’ll probably have to battle them until their powers are weakened
enough for
you to take them. And at the same time you have to hold enough of your
power
back to be able to do it. Without Bennett, I won’t put Rory or my
sister’s at
risk.”
Bennett stared at the ground for a few minutes
before lifting his head and looking at Antonio. “Tell your brother
you’re sorry
for what you did and promise to never do it again, or at least make it
fair. Rory
and I spell each other all the time. It makes both of us better
wizards. But I
make it fair, and when he wins I accept the forfeit for losing.”
“What’s that?” Luca asked.
“It varies, depending on what type of battle we
set up,” Bennett said. He blushed as he thought about it. “Losing the
big ones
is the worst, but knowing that makes us both work harder to get better.”
“If what my sister told me is true, if you give
me your powers I’ll know anyway. She said I get your thoughts and
beliefs.” Antonio
sighed, knowing that Bennett was going to back down now that he knew
the truth.
“Is that true?” Bennett asked his sister. She
nodded her head. “Do you promise to keep it secret? Maybe even play?
You and
Luca against me and Rory?”
“Yeah, I do,” Antonio said. He looked at Luca.
“I don’t even know what you guys are talking
about, but yeah, me to. I’ll keep your secrets.”
“Then I’ll do it,” Bennett said. He saw that
Antonio was about to say something and beat him to it. “Don’t ask me if
I’m
sure or I might change my mind.” He looked at Harper and said, “Show me
how,
right now. If I start to think about it I’ll probably chicken out.”
It took him less than two minutes to learn and
he immediately transferred his powers to Antonio. He had to sit down
once he
was done. Antonio sat next to him. “I promise again, I’ll give them
back as
soon as I’m done.” He sat there for a second before saying, “Hey,
you’re a lot
more powerful than me. And that thing with Rory, that’s uh, never mind.
I won’t
tell anyone.”
Rory went next and transferred his powers to
Luca, who also said that Rory was stronger than he was. And when he
looked for
the ‘secret’ he just smiled.
“I’m going to take Harper’s powers,” Sofia
said.
“But Tess, if you don’t mind I want you to give your powers to Luca. He
hardly
knows any spells or defensive moves and more power will allow him to
last
longer. And he’ll surprise them the most if he’s stronger than they are
ready
for. Are you okay with giving your powers to a boy?”
“Will he know stuff, like, uh, how I look and
stuff?” she asked.
“I don’t know, I’ve never given or taken
anyone’s powers,” Harper said. “But I’ve never heard anyone mention it.”
Antonio thought about it for a few seconds and
soon he was able to see what Bennett saw when he looked in a mirror
before a
bath. “Yeah, he will,” Antonio said. “And I’ll be the first to admit
that
Bennett is not only stronger than me, he’s uh, bigger too. You know.”
“Everyone is bigger than you are.” Luca said.
“And
since Rory has seen River naked, I can tell you that even River is
bigger than
you.” Everybody, including Antonio, laughed. Antonio and River both
blushed,
but the laughter was real, not faked.
“If you give your powers to me, I promise that
when we’re done I’ll give you my powers. Then you’ll be able to see as
much of
me as I see of you.”
“It would be a lot easier if I could just see
you naked without trading powers all over the place,” Tess said, but
she moved
over to Luca and said, “But I’ll trust you either way.” She transferred
her
powers.
“Okay, before Harper gives me her powers she’s
going to teach us some spells that we probably don’t know,” Sofia said.
“Especially
you two,” she added while looking at her brothers. “You guys,
especially you
Luca, don’t know many spells. I only taught a few to Antonio and made
him
practice them to make him stronger. So she’s going to teach a few basic
ones. I
want you to learn and practice them, but don’t get too weak. We all
need to be
at full strength again by Saturday morning. Remember, we can’t just
win. If
Tres gets away before we get you’re powers back this will all be for
nothing. And
he won’t fall for a trick like this again. So we have to be quick and
accurate.”
In addition to practicing spells, they
rehearsed
their battle plan. When Saturday came, they didn’t feel ready, but it
was time
to go and do battle. When they got to the park they saw it was packed
with kids.
“I sure hope this works,” Luca said as he saw
several kids from his grade eyeing him, hoping to see him naked.
“I really didn’t think you’d be brave enough to
show up,” Tres said. “But now that you’re here, why delay? Everyone is
waiting,
so strip and give them the show they want.”
“Sorry, but there’s been a slight change in
plans,” Sofia said. “We’re not here to frolic naked, we’re here to
battle you.”
“I thought as much,” Tres said. “I hope you
brought your best because I’m ready for you. But not here with everyone
watching. Let’s go to the rest room and lock the door behind us. Just
you three
and me and Trevor.”
He was right, they couldn’t have a wizard war
with all these non-wizards around watching, so they followed him. A few
kids
tried to follow but were quickly pushed out by Tres. And there were two
boys at
the urinal, but when they saw Sofia they quickly finished and left.
Once the
last non-wizard left Tres locked the door and then used magic on the
lock.
“Just to make it fair, why don’t you also use
your lock spell on top of mine,” he said to her. He was surprised when
she did.
He thought about how easy this was going to be. While her back was
still turned
he began firing spells at her, catching her off guard and weakening her.
As soon as Antonio and Luca saw it had started
they both closed in on Trevor. By prior agreement, they didn’t use any
spells. It
was a risk, but they wanted to be able to surprise him. To their
complete
surprise he didn’t hit them with a single spell.
Luca pretended to kick at Trevor’s groin while
the real attack was from Antonio, who was aiming a punch at Trevor’s
belly. They
expected him to have a shield in place and again were surprised. But
Trevor
fell for Luca’s fake and tried to protect his groin with his hands,
allowing
Antonio’s punch to hit him full in his solar plexus. Trevor dropped to
the
floor struggling to breath.
Luca studied him for a second before realizing
something important. “He doesn’t have any magic,” he said to Antonio.
“Tres
must have his powers.” The both looked at the battle between Tres and
Sofia and
saw that their sister was slowly losing.
“Start hitting him with easy spells, one after
another,” Antonio said. “But keep some in reserve.” But instead of
doing the
same, Antonio ran over to his sister and without hesitation gave her
Bennett’s
powers.
With a surge of new energy and help from Luca
the battle turned quickly. Trevor recovered enough to try and attack
Luca but
without spells Antonio had nothing to do but watch for it. He flattened
Trevor
again before he even caused Luca to slow down.
Sweat was pouring down Luca’s face from the
effort of casting so many spells. But he had the power of both Rory and
Tess,
and that was a lot of power. It ended quickly, with Sofia calling him
and
Antonio over. “Quick, he’s done. Take your powers back.”
Antonio had his own powers back within seconds
and took Tres’ power as well while Luca got his powers and Trevor’s. It
was
over.
“You two have a choice to make,” Sofia said.
“You
can leave here naked, holding hands and singing songs and when you’ve
made a
complete tour of the park you can have your powers back. Or, I’ll let
them
control you and you’ll do it anyway, only they can keep your powers.”
“Oh, my, that is a very big secret,” Luca said
as he looked at Trevor. “I never would have guessed. And what my sister
says
doesn’t matter anymore. You’re going to have your dream fulfilled. Get
naked
and get out there and don’t come back until I call you.”
Tres was still just standing there as Trevor
slowly stripped. “Antonio, he said he knew a spell that would erase all
recordings of a certain event. If that’s true, find it and delete the
recordings from your play.”
She saw Antonio close his eyes and
concentrated.
“There it is,” he said. “And if it works the recordings should be gone.”
“If he’s not naked and outside in 60 seconds,
delete that spell,” she said.
“I can do that? How?”
“It’s just the opposite of learning one,” she
said. “Take one of his bigger ones and try it.”
Again Antonio closed his eyes and after a few
seconds he said, “Hey, it works. Only I kind of wanted to keep that
spell.”
“If he’s forgotten it, then so have you,” she
said. “But when he goes outside everyone is going to be taking
pictures. If he
wants the ability to erase them he’d better hurry and get out there.”
Trevor was already naked. His dick was small
and
he had no visible hair. But small as it was, it was standing proudly at
attention. He looked at Luca, hoping for a reprieve.
“Don’t let that sad face of his fool you,” Luca
said. “This is actually something he fantasizes about sometimes. But I
want to
make him even happier. Is there a way to freeze his arms so he can’t
cover up?”
Luca asked. Sofia explained how and Luca did it. “Now get,” he said to
Trevor. “Find
out what it’s like when it’s not just a dream.”
Wanting to be able to delete any pictures of
him, Tres had completed stripping. He was also hard, but at least his
dick was
average for his age. “You too, get out there and don’t come back until
we call
you,” Sofia said. She used the same spell on his arms that she had
explained to
Luca.
“Are we really going to give them their powers
back?” Antonio asked. “Now that I can read his mind I see that Tres
never
planned to give ours back. He was going to give them to Trevor.”
“Well, there’s an idea,” Sofia said. “Don’t
give
Tres his powers, give both his and Trevor’s to Trevor. But can you
clearly tell
with spells are yours and which are his?”
“Yeah, no problem,” Antonio said.
“Then use all of his before they come back. It
will take Trevor a week or more to get that much power back at his age.
Even
longer if Luca does the same to Trevor’s spells.”
Both boys got busy firing spell after spell.
Antonio
had to stop and rest before he could delete them all and Luca could
barely
stand before he stopped. But they both proudly announced that they had
a
reserve.
They went outside and watched as Trevor and
Tres
were surrounded by the crowd of kids who were laughing and taking
pictures and
having a wonderful time. “It’s been long enough,” Sofia said. “Call
them over
and give Trevor their powers. But leave their arms frozen. The spell
will end
once we’re far enough away. Until then they can’t even get dressed.”
“Tres has a lot of spells, I couldn’t use them
all,” Antonio said.
“So what. It will still take Trevor time to
figure out how to undo the freeze spell. And if he uses his brain he’ll
realize
he can’t use it on himself. And I don’t think he trusts Tres enough to
give him
his powers back when he has no spells of his own left. So they won’t be
able to
get dressed until we’re out of spell range. And we can walk very
slowly.”
Sofia was right. Trevor did not give powers
back
to Tres, nor did he use the powers he kept from Tres to undo the freeze
spell
on him. The crowd was still enjoying the two of them and they left
their
clothes behind and ran to Trevor’s house.
The Greco clan went straight to the Mackay’s
house and, as promised, gave back their powers. Antonio had more
respect for
the three rules of magic now. He and Luca practiced together using the
rules
and methods that they learned from Bennett and Rory. And they also
practiced
against Bennett and Rory. Losing the big battles did suck, especially
when they
battled the other two boys. Oh, it was great when you won a big battle,
but
when you lost, ‘suck’ was taken literally.
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