Unfortunate Souls

Ch 1: Fragile Balance

The magical world is made up of balances. For every witch that is there to save an innocent there is a demon there to kill them. For every good there is a bad, for every loss there is a gain and for every sacrifice there is a gift. The very magical world ran on balance.

Good and evil were destined to keep on fighting for the rest of time never truly winning over the other. For without one how could the other exist? Chris knew this better than anyone else. He had learned early on that his whole existence was set into motion due to magic's attempt to create balance. You see the delicate balance that the world ran on had been thrown off track when a witch married a whitlighter and gave birth to a being too powerful. There was no one there to balance the fight. Good would finally win and the balance would be ruined.

So two years later as the being known as Wyatt grew in strength and was saved from turning evil. His reflecting star was born. Magic had no other choice than to give birth to Wyatt's equal in the same family due to the fact that there were no other people in the world who could give rise to such a powerful source of magic.

Chris knew that magic wasn't perfect though it had made a few mistakes along the way. This was proven by the fact that the other Chris had had to come to the past. See even though Chris was Wyatt's balance he still wasn't strong enough to beat Wyatt he could only keep him in check so he couldn't completely save or destroy the world.

It had taken magic a few times but it had finally gotten it right.

Chris was late for school because Wyatt had once again forgotten to set an alarm so here he was sitting in a car that was racing down the street towards the school.

"Dammit Wyatt you're going to get us killed." Chris yelled as Wyatt swerved the car to miss a woman who was crossing the street.

"Ahhh I didn't think you'd care if I died." Wyatt said as he pulled up to the school. Chris scowled at him and opened the door as the car came to a stop. Chris grabbed his backpack and said "I don't but then I'd have to listen mom and dad whine about their poor little golden boy was now resting six feet under."

Wyatt laughed and said "Ah you know you would miss my sexy face." Wyatt turned and started walking to the school. Chris laughed and responded "I think I would live."

Wyatt threw a pathetic pout and said "You wouldn't even miss my ass?" before Chris could respond he was rudely shoved into Wyatt. Wyatt barely had time to stop them from falling to the floor. Wyatt looked up to see Adrian Phillips the head quarter back walking away as he yelled out "Watch where you're going fagots."

Wyatt helped Chris up and watched as his eyes seemed to become brighter, almost glowing. "Chris don't he's not worth it." Wyatt let his hand rub the tension out of Chris's back.

Chris scowled at the disappearing back of the quarterback and said "Fine but some day you won't be around to save that prick."

Wyatt let the threat slide by knowing that even though Chris tended to be on the dark side he would stop his violent acts if he asked him to.

"Chris just forget about it. So we'll meet back here after school?"

"Sure." Chris responded and was about to turn away when Wyatt said "Hey if we get home fast enough we'll be able to spend some time together before mom and dad get home." Chris turned around and gave him a brilliant smile before he continued on his way.

Chris hated PE with a fiery passion. It wasn't because Chris was a geeky nerd because he really wasn't; it was because he had the same class as Adrian Phillips. It also didn't help that the coach that ran the class also hated him. Today for some stupid reason the class had to climb up a rope. At first Chris had wanted to laugh thinking that this only happened in movie and TV shows, but that was before he noticed that the teacher was actually serious.

Chris wasn't that worried about making it to the top. He would just use his powers to help him. Even though Chris only had two powers besides orbing he was still a match for Wyatt, even though he had a list of powers that could take up a page of paper.

Chris had gotten the family power of telekinesis which in its own right was a powerful power. This power was not what made Chris someone to not take lightly it was his other power that sent fear into everyone even his own parents. The only person he knew that had never shown any fear towards Chris was Wyatt. See Chris's second power was the ability to alter reality. He could use it to change the very laws of physics. He could use it to create a storm, stop time and even rewind it. There were some limits though he couldn't change or get rid of a basic principle of the universe.

As Chris walked up towards the rope he used his powers to lessen the strength of gravity around himself. When the coach told him to go. Chris started to pull himself up the rope. Even thought the task was now way easier than it should have been it was still hard enough that Chris didn't have to do much acting to make it look like he was struggling. He reached the top in just a minute. Chris slowly climbed down and sat back down at the back of the group of sitting students.

"Watch how a real man does it." Adrian said to Chris as he walked up to the rope. Chris shot a look filled with hate to the Jock. The scowl remained on his face until a smile so chilling that it would send anyone crying for their mommy overcame his face. Chris had waiting for this moment for a long time. Adrian had finally made him mad where Wyatt couldn't stop him from doing something really wicked.

Chris watched as Adrian easily climbed to the top of the rope. In typical dumb jock fashion Adrian turned toward the students and waved at them. No one notice how Chris' green eyes grew brighter. Suddenly Adrian lost his grip and plummeted to the floor. The stunned silence was broken by a pathetic moan of pain. Chaos broke out as everyone started panicking trying to help the poor man. Chris was the only one that remained seated. He slowly got up and started heading towards the locker room. Chris laughed when he was out of ear shot and said "Yep, that's definitely how a real man climbs a rope."

Chris was leaning against Wyatt's car waiting for him to arrive. School had ended five minutes ago and Wyatt was still not here, he was cutting into their happy time and Chris was not happy. Chris sighed and was looking at the floor when he saw a shadow appear over him. Looking up he saw Wyatt looking at him with a frown.

"Hey Wy what's wrong?"

"Chris did you hear what happened to Adrian?" Wyatt asked. When Chris didn't answer Wyatt continued, "Apparently he lost his grip and fell from the top of the rope."

"Really that's horrible." Chris said in mock shock.

"Chris did you have anything to do with this?" Wyatt asked.

"What do you mean?" Chris asked trying to pull off an innocent look.

"Did you use your powers to make him fall?" Wyatt asked getting a little frustrated at Chris for dodging his question.

"No." Chris said, but at the disbelieve that was on Wyatt's face continued, "Okay maybe I increased the gravity around Adrian." At the look of disappointment that crossed Wyatt's face Chris felt a sudden stab of pain that tore at his heart.

"Don't be mad Wyatt it wasn't that bad." Chris said trying to make that look of disappointment disappear.

"How is it not bad Adrian broke his wrist!!" Wyatt said.

"Hey it could have been worse I even had to change the angle that he was falling at, if I hadn't he would have broken his back." Chris said. At this Wyatt looked a little less mad. Wyatt sighed and opened up the car door and sat down. Chris hurried over to his side and sat down.

"What am I going to do with you Chris?" Wyatt asked with a little exasperation in his voice. Chris gave him a sweet smile and said "Love me." At this Wyatt smiled before he suppressed it and said "Shut up, I'm still mad at you. "

Chris sat back with a smile knowing that Wyatt would soon forgive him and then everything would be right with the world. Chris knew that he should have felt bad for hurting Adrian, but he also knew that 

he was a bit on the evil side. It should have worried him that he was starting to think that he was evil but he knew that as long as Wyatt was there acting like his conscious he would never truly go evil, at least not in the go out and kill innocents way at least.