The town was nothing major. This town was the same as all the ones before it, after it, and next to. That was the way normal people's towns were. Sure, sometimes this town or that had a fancy this or a fancy that. One town would have some sort of museum, one would have a big playground, maybe one was at a coastline but they were all the same, all exactly the same. They all used some stupid labor force by magical creatures at one point or another. Another unfair treatment of something from the spiral. This took away…take away... well, eventually this would take away everything! All the towns were the same.

Just because at first glance they looked different, did not mean they were.
And this was what Delaney had been thinking as she walked down the paved sidewalk that covered up a secret world, a hidden world. The world of Wizard City, the spiral. The world that had once been abused and then hidden oh so long ago. Delaney grit her teeth together glaring at every person that passed her on the sidewalk. Her eye caught on a particular boy crossing the street looking a cheery as all the others in this horrible place. This horrible reminder of when the spiral and magic wasn't a secret.

She walked across the street as well skillfully following him, he barely noticed other than a strange girl in odd clothing was going in the same direction as him. Of course if it wasn't so close to Halloween the boy would have found this an eery sign telling him to run. She wore clothes he had never seen before but were very basic clothes to most people in the spiral. A black pink trimmed elegant hat, guardian's outfit and elegant shoes. In her hand she held an extremely strong wand that had been stitched to look like a small red and gold wand.

The boy's name was Ronan, he had long silver hair and purple eyes which usually made him stick out in a crowd. He wondered if the girl going in the same direction as him was the same. She had light blue turquoise looking hair that was tied up in a ponytail, for all he knew it could be part of her elaborate costume but he wasn't completely sure. Her eyes were a red tinted gold and she looked very pale.

He sat down on the faded red bench he'd sat on since he since a young boy. The paint was extremely faded and lots of things were carved into it but big block letters on one of the termite chewed arm rests were strange words that seemed to go together in such a perfect way Ronan loved them. GhostFlame. It was probably something silly, related to some stupid urban myth that had always driven Ronan insane but Ronan really did love the way those words fit together. One day he'd write himself a story about a character that had something to do with "GhostFlame". He sighed as it began to rain softly. The girl that had been going in the same direction as him sat next to him on the bench.
"My name is Delaney" the girl said taking extra care to scoot to the far end of the bench so she wasn't touching Ronan at all
"My name is Ronan" Ronan replied trying not to notice the look of hate and curiosity in Delaney's eyes
"Ronan, I think you've got an extremely bright future" Delaney notes after a while
"Hmm?" Ronan races and eyebrow "And how do you know this?"
"Your aura" Delaney replies picking at her nail

Ronan had an extremely confusing conversation with the strange blue haired girl trying not to notice how strange everything she said was.
"So your dressed up for Halloween?" Ronan asks
Delaney nods slightly, this of course was a lie but she still couldn't expose anything to Ronan...Not yet. He had the proper aura for a wizard but he obviously didn't know a thing about wizardry.
I thought all the wizards on Earth were dead Delaney thought he curiosity peaking Is it possible...one...one was missed?
"Nice meeting you" Ronan says nicely as the bus creaks to a stop causing everybody inside to fly an inch off their seat
"Nice meeting you" Delaney echoes, she watches Ronan pay the bus driver and get on the bus then he's gone.

Delaney feels an odd emptiness in the pit of her stomach as she waits for her friends Reed and Ellie to come pick her up and take her back through the spiral portal.
"Bye Ronan" Delaney mutters running her finger down the armrest where he had been moments ago, the next wizardry prodigy
Then she notices something extremely odd.
"N-No" Delaney's pupils dilate with fear "N-No! It c-can't be!"

Ronan sighs getting off of the bus in front of a rickety looking brick building. One of the first story windows was cracked beyond repair and everything just looked ready to fall apart. The bus driver gave Ronan a look of pity as the boy got off the bus. This always annoyed Ronan the stupid annoying pity. He dug his fingernails into his wrists which felt unusually nice despite the pain, it helped him ignore the rest of the pity looks he was getting.

Ronan walks through the door and almost right away his younger "siblings" approach him tears stinging the eyes of the youngest Bailey. The rest are old enough that they have lost all their tears long ago and no longer have the ability to cry.
"What's happened?" he asks
The 5 younger children gape their mouths opening and closing like fish for a few moments before the eldest under Ronan, Brahm manages to say "Ronan, we need your help"
"What's the matter?" Ronan asks his protective side suddenly appearing "What's the matter?"
"Ronan they want to send Caitlin away" Bailey sobs clutching Ronan's leg
Ronan clenches his teeth together. He lived in a foster home and had lived in this same one since his parent's mysterious murder 10 years ago. He didn't have anybody other than his horrible foster parents Angelica and Irvin and his 5 younger siblings. Angelica and Irvin were horrible people to say the least. Ronan didn't know how they managed to foster so many children. Caitlin started to sob as well, her blond curls covering her eyes. Caitlin has been very sick, Ronan knew Angelica and Irvin have just been begging for a reason to give her away and this sickness was a reason.

Ronan wanted to cry as well but he doesn't. Bailey, Caitlin, Brahm and his other 2 brothers Rogan and Oran need him to remain strong for them.
"I won't let them take you Cait'" Ronan promises his adoptive younger sibling even though he knows if his foster parents decide to send her away he couldn't stop them
"We won't let them!" Rogan agrees
"Nope!" Oran shouts
They're all a huddling hugging mass of orphans and children that weren't wanted before we know it.

When they're all grown up what am I going to be? I'll have nothing left to do, I won't be a father figure, big brother, anymore... Ronan pushed the thought out of my head ignoring the nagging feeling pulling at the back of my stomach telling me that I had to remember something, something important. Ronan shut his eyes for a moment feeling a bit dizzy he finally says to his siblings "I will not let them take Caitlin away from us"

Bailey looks up at him with her big innocent sapphire blue eyes sparkling with the innocence of an 8 year old "Promise?"
"Promise" Ronan replies