Wizardly Twelve

Summary: Alex has just turned 12 and just developed her magical abilities. She does not know she's actually a wizard until her 12th birthday, because that's when wizards' powers are formed.

A/N: This story is set 2 years before the time the first season of Wizards of Waverly Place was set in. Before this story, Alex had no idea she was a wizard and had always thought she was just a normal girl. Bear this in mind. She has just entered middle school so she's not as rebellious as she is in the show. But she's still Alex after all, so... Enjoy...

Chapter 1

Alex walks down the stairs leading to the substation looking more tired than usual. "Justin! What time is it?" "It's already 12pm, sleepyhead..."

"It's 12pm only? But that's like 3 hours earlier than the usual time I wake up. Ugh..." Jerry was the nearest person to her that she felt should bother to remember her birthday, unlike Justin who never even bothered to remember when her birthday was. Alex then walks up to Jerry "Dad, do you know what today's date is?" She shoves her phone in his face after launching the calendar application on her phone.

"Now do you remember what date it is?"

"No, not really. What's so special about August 10th?"

"Let me give you a clue. Me. Birthday. Today."

"Wait... How old are you now? 10? 11?"

"Gosh... You don't even remember how old I am?"

Jerry just stares at her.

"I'm 12, dad... You really need a maths tutor or something."

"Your 12 already?" Jerry immediately drags Alex into the Waverly SubStation kitchen.

"Dad, why are we going into the freezer?" Alex gave him that weird 'are you going crazy' look.

"Whoa... Since when did we have this room in here?"

It was Alex's first time in the lair and she was amazed by all the weird stuff there was in the room that she had never seen anywhere else before, and to her it just seemed way too out of this world.

"Just remember this. Only you, Justin and me know about this room. You're not allowed to tell Max or your mum or anyone else about this."

"Wait. Why can't I tell Max or mum about this? This place is amazing..."

"You'll understand why yourself later. Now just be good, wait here and don't touch anything."

Jerry then leaves the room to go and find Justin.

"Wait. Dad!"

Alex was in a strange place alone. She sat on a random couch and got bored after about 5 seconds of sitting on the couch, being good and not touching anything that could potentially harm herself, her future, or her family.

"Be good and don't touch anything? When has that ever happened? Pfft..."

Alex then picks up a very thick book she finds in the lair with at least a few thousand pages containing millions of words and picks up a brown stick with wooden patterns on it, making Alex think it was a drumstick. She grabbed the stick and held it in her hand, not actually knowing that it was a wand. She then opens the book to a random page and says the first two words she sees on the page to herself. "Transportium Nextorbitorium".

The next thing she knew, she was on Pluto. "What did I just do?" She stared at the glowing 'stick' that she was holding with her freezing hands. The thought that came to her mind before reality caught up to her "Am I some kind of Magician or fairy or something?" And when reality actually caught up to her, she totally stopped thinking about who she actually was besides just being a human. "This is way worse than the lair. Why's it so cold? Oh right it's Pluto... Where's my winter coat when you need it? Better get back before dad returns to the lair. Sure don't want to be grounded on my birthday. Maybe if I say those three words again I'll be able to return to the lair. Now what were those two words again? Oh yeah... Transportium Nextorbitorium."

Alex quickly closed the spell book she opened and placed the stick next to the book, where she found it, before she had 'poofed' to Pluto. She sat back at the same spot she was sitting at previously, and was wondering how she actually managed to teleport to Pluto and was even able to breathe there. The only logical explanation she could think of at that time was that Justin was playing a prank on her to get back at her for something she did to him previously. Shortly after, Jerry returned to the lair with Justin following behind him. "Daddy's boy" could be Alex's next insult against Justin for all she knew. Justin than grabbed his wand which Alex had places next to the spell book, where Justin had placed it previously and stuffed it into his back pocket where he always keeps it. Alex was about to question her dad on how she had magically poofed to Pluto, when her dad suddenly said "Come on Alex, we're going."

"Going where? There's no place else in this room to go to, unless you want to go back to making your sandwiches outside. And if you're actually crazy enough to work when your off-duty, we're walking in the wrong direction. You know, I'm smarter than you think I am." Jerry was about to reply, but Justin was trying to be smart and prove to his dad that he knows everything and said "We're going to go and register your ID. Something like that..."

"Who gets an ID when they turn 12? And where are we supposed to..." "You'll see... Just wait..."

Alex just followed Jerry and Justin while they opened a glass door that she previously thought was just another weird looking wall in the weird room she had just been introduced to 5 minutes ago. When they managed to open it, Alex followed them by stepping into another world.