A/N: Just got this idea this morning actually XD Anyway, since Every Witch Way is supposed to be the American version of Grachi, and since Jax Novoa (in my opinion) is supposed to be a mix of Mia Novoa and Axel (who are characters on Grachi), I found it fitting to name the kids that :)
"AXEL!"
Axel laughed at his sister's scream.
"When I get my hands on you-!" She threatened, reaching out her arms, to which her brother avoided by taking a step back. He used a spell to glue her feet to the floor, the sudden stop making the chip bowl crash to the floor and send chips everywhere. And they were the last ones in the bag too!
She growled, and began to move her right hand to cast a spell to set her free. As soon as she did, she cast another one and grinned at the outcome.
"Hey!" Her brother squirmed in the straightjacket.
Mia laughed and pointed to herself with her thumb. "I learned that one from Mom. And she was right, it is funny!"
"I can't even move my arms! Get me out, Mia!" The nine year old ordered.
The fourteen year old giggled and shrugged. "No can do!"
"MIA!"
"What's going on in here?!" An Australian accented voice demanded.
Their father stepped into the kitchen, surveying the scene, quickly followed by their mother.
To Mia, it seemed that she won the parental lottery. Both of them had attractive features, which of course they managed to pass down to their children. Mia inherited her father's black hair, while her brother got their mother's brown. They both had brown eyes, so she wasn't sure if she had her father's or her mother's. Mia had a slighter darker skin tone, not quite like her mother, but close. Her brother just had a slight tan, like their father. Not to mention their parents were magical beings (wizard and a witch) and their mother was the Chosen One.
"Mia, why did you put your brother in a straightjacket?" Jax asked, barely suppressing the amused grin.
"Mom taught it to me." Mia defended herself.
Jax looked over at his wife with wide eyes, surpised that she'd teach her daughter that devious spell, to which she gave a sheepish grin. "I told her that story, I didn't think she'd actually remember the spell."
Instantly his cheeks burned, remembering the embarrasment of having to walk all the way home in that straightjacket all those years ago. Since then, he never dared to prank Emma.
"Mia, get Axel out of that now." Emma Novoa gently-yet still having the authoritive mother voice-told her.
"But he glued my feet to the floor, making me spill the last of my chips!" She shouted.
This time Emma rose an eyebrow at her husband, now it was his turn to give the apologetic grin. "I told him the story of when I glued Andi's feet to the floor. But, I actually made sure he remembered the spell. You never know when it could come in handy!"
Emma rolled her eyes, activating her magic to let her son out of the constrictive item.
"Thanks Mom." Axel smiled, then glared at his older sister.
"I think it's time we have a talk about not pranking your sibling." Emma's tone hardened.
"Your mother's right." Jax added. Then discreetly, he grinned and winked at his son, causing the boy to smirk.
"Mia, let's go upstairs." Emma let her daughter lead the way to her bedroom.
Jax glanced behind him to make sure they were gone. When the coast was clear, he high-fived his son. "That was good!" He congradulated.
Axel smiled. "Thanks, Dad!"
"However, the only thing I ask is that you two don't pull tricks on each other all the time," he glanced at the chip-wonderland, "especially if they're carrying food."
Axel kept the smile on his face, truly thankful for the awesome Dad he had. He didn't let him or his sister run wild, but he let them have fun. And when it was 'too much' fun, their responsible mother balanced it out. The young wizard honestly thought a better match couldn't have been made, though he wouldn't voice thoughts like that aloud.
He nodded. "Okay."
Meanwhile, Emma sat next to Mia on her bed.
"Those were the last chips, and he ruined them!" She grumbled.
Emma sighed. "I know, but we can always buy another bag. Also, you shouldn't put people in straightjackets."
"But you did!"
Emma released a breath. "That was only because of the Fool Moon..." Suddenly she took on a devious grin. "Plus your father totally deserved it."
"Well I think Axel deserved it."
"In your opinion, maybe he did. But please don't do it again."
Mia slumped her shoulders. "Okay, fine. I won't do it again."
The older witch smiled. "That's a good girl. However, I don't want you two doing spells on each other as much. I know it's supposedly fun sometimes, but don't do it as much. I don't want you two to be nicknamed the T2."
"The T2?" She questioned.
Emma looked down. "Before me and your father got together, I dated another boy. He had three younger siblings, who loved to pull pranks. They were nicknamed the Terrible Three, or the T3."
Mia tilted her head. "What was his name?"
Emma sighed, it seemed she was doing a lot of that. "Daniel Miller." She chuckled. I couldn't believe I thought I loved him.
"You loved him?! But what about Dad?!" Mia demanded, panicking. She couldn't believe that her mother loved someone other than her father, even if it was a long time ago.
"I didn't realize I said that out loud." She chuckled. "But yes, at one point I thought I loved him." Emma studied her daughter, wondering if it was time to finally tell her the story of how she and Jax met, and what happened all throughout that time.
"Mia, do you want to hear a story?"
She nodded excitedly. She loved hearing the stories her parents told her.
Emma began. "When I was becoming a freshman, your grandpa made us move to Miami. At that time, I had no idea that I was a witch. I assumed I was a normal human, like anybody else. On my first day moving in I met Andi Cruz, my future best friend. Also on that day, I saw Daniel for the first time."
Mia didn't even blink, anxiously awaiting for more of the story.
"When I saw him, it felt like my stomach was filled with butterflies. Then, magically, butterflies appeared out of nowhere. Turns out he was allergic to them, so he began to sneeze a bunch of times." She giggled at the memory.
"Anyway, I noticed some strange things were happening. For example, when I went to open the fridge, it opened by itself. When I went to turn on a lamp, it turned on by itself. I was scared, but Grandpa calmed me down, assuring me it was nothing.
"Then it was the first day of school, when I met Maddie Van Pelt...you might know her now as Maddie Rueda. She was the queen bee at Iridium High, the Head Panther, that was her clique. She was also my enemy."
Mia gasped at this. She was best friends with Emily Rueda, and she thought her mother was so nice. What her mother just told her is hard to believe.
"She was mean, at least until she started dating Diego, but that's sophomore year. Anyway, me and Maddie always fought over Daniel. He dated her off and on repeatedly, and finally he broke up with her for the last time. She thought I was in her way, so we became enemies. Turns out, she was a witch too, and wanted the Hexoren. We always did spells on each other...once she even turned a classroom upside down with me, Andi, and our other friend Tony in it."
"Ooh! Can you tell me that one?!" Mia cried out.
Emma narrowed her eyes at her. "No. It's a mean, not to mention crazy, spell. Someone could find out that you have powers...and like I said, it's too mean."
Mia pouted while her mother continued.
"Then there was this evil principal I had to deal with, she wanted to steal my powers and she turned people into frogs! But, with the help of all my friends, including Maddie, we defeated her. Soon after, at a dance, Daniel sang a song to me. We kissed and that's when we started dating."
The younger witch's eyes widened, before she took on a confused look. "Wait, where's Dad while all that was happening?"
"He didn't come to school until sophomore year, and then that's where things got more crazy." She smiled.
"Tell me!" The raven-haired teen urged.
Emma laughed. "I already told you I would. So, the first day of the new year started off good. Me and Andi walked to school, as usual. Also as usual, my eyes lighted up when I saw Daniel. He waved to me, and right as I was about to wave back, a loud engine sounded. All of a sudden, this boy on a double-torque dirt bike comes riding in, getting dust everywhere. After that I ignored him, and hugged my boyfriend. I even got some dust off of his shoulder when he wasn't looking, because..."
"Because?" She prodded.
"Because when me and Maddie defeated the principal, we lost our powers. Only temporarily. I got mine back in a few days while Maddie...well you might want to ask her for the story on how she got hers. I didn't tell Daniel about my powers, because he didn't want me to have them. He thought it was for the best if I didn't have them."
"Wait, that means he didn't accept you for who you were! He didn't like you being a witch!" Mia exclaimed.
Emma nodded. "You're absolutely correct. But I thought I was in love with him, I didn't want to lose him. So I kept my powers a secret.
"Anyway, when I was only in school for a couple minutes, I was called down by my Dad, who became the new principal after the old one...had a bit of a meltdown."
Mia laughed lightly.
"So, when I went down, I was met by my father, and a boy I've never seen before. I thought he was cute, which was completely forbidden, since I was dating Daniel. He kept his eyes on me the whole time, which made me a little nervous."
"Aww, he liked you from the start!" Mia gushed, while Emma's cheeks turned a soft pink.
"I suppose he did. Anyway, I learned that his name was Jax Novoa, and that I was to show him around. For some reason, I felt that I didn't want to mess up when around him. So I tried to get out of it, because I've never been to some places in the school before. I didn't want to get him lost and think I was stupid. But your grandpa said that I'd do just fine, and that's when your father spoke his first words to me. 'Yeah, I'm sure you'll do just fine.'"
Mia smiled.
"I showed him around, taking him to all the places that I knew of. We made small talk, and became quick friends. At the end of the tour, however, he met two of the Panthers; Katie and Sophie, who wanted to become really good friends with him. Well, at least Sophie did anyway."
Mia tilted her head. "Wait, so Dad was.."
Emma nodded. "Yep, he was the school's newest heartthrob. Daniel had that position before him. The only reason everyone knew his name so quickly was because of Gigi Rueda, who was known as Miss Information. She had a blog that alerted everyone of the new things happening. So of course she posted about Jax."
"Hey, is that the same Gigi that writes for the New York Times?!"
Emma again nodded. "That's the one. Now, back to the story. During the day, the T3 pranked my Dad by filling the water fountain with chocolate pudding, which Hex wanted to know about." She didn't have to explain about the Hex, her daughter has it. "I talked to him a little, since Andi put him in my locker. Then, Jax came up behind me, wondering if I talked to all my books. I started stuttering and made an excuse. Next, he asked to take me home."
"That's so sweet! Was it fun? It had to be fun to ride home on a dirtbike!" Mia squealed.
Her mother smiled. "I never said that I said 'yes'."
"You didn't?! Why not?!"
"Because I was dating Daniel, I wanted to be loyal to him. I couldn't let another boy take me home, even though deep down I wanted to say yes, which honestly scared me. I started stuttering an excuse to not go with him, to which he just smiled at the whole time. I grabbed my stuff, then bolted out of there.
"The next day, I found the Witches' Council on my doorstep-"
"The Witches' Council?! What did you do?"
She narrowed her eyes at her. "I was going to get to that. Lily, my guardian, warned me that a witch, especially the Chosen One, can't date a human boy. I said that the Council was going to have to say it to me themselves, and that's just what they ended up doing. However, I resisted, determined to not let Daniel go. And speaking of Daniel, he began to get suspicious, I had to try my hardest to make sure he didn't know my powers were back."
"I think you should've dumped him."
Emma laughed. "Now, I wish I did. It would've saved me a lot of stress in the longrun. Anyway, soon after that in school Ramona, one of the Council members, disappeared. Which meant that they had to get a new one; Lily. When Lily went to go train, Desdemona, another Council member, became my temporary guardian. Meanwhile, Jax wanted to try out for the Sharks, the swim team, and...he tricked me."
"Tricked you how?"
"He did a spell to make it look like his text came from Daniel's phone, telling me to meet him in the science lab. I went, expecting to see him, when I found Jax instead. He accidently got goo all over me, then told me he was a wizard and that he knew I was a witch."
"He got goo all over you?" She started to laugh.
Emma rolled her eyes. "Yeah, he did. And I still don't 'have a good laugh' about it, even though your father does."
"Anyway, I got in trouble for the mess, because Jax teleported out of there. Although, he didn't know I couldn't teleport. Well, I could, but every time I always landed in the school pool."
Mia chuckled.
"Yep. After I got cleaned up with the help of a spell, I was forced to clean up the science lab. However, as soon as I stepped in, Jax was already there, helping by mopping. He used his powers to control the mop without touching it, but I scolded him to not do that, someone could've seen. I was touched by his gesture though." She smiled, a faraway look in her eye.
"Uh, Mom? The story?"
"Oh, right! So we talked, and he learned that Daniel was a human, to which he immediately asked why I'd ever date a human. I didn't answer. Then at home, Daniel asked me if my powers were back, I said no again.
"But, there was something bigger going on. The Fool Moon appeared, and it made Desdemona turn evil. I learned later that she was responsible for Ramona's disappearance. She wanted my powers taken away, so she was doing everything possible to try to keep me and Daniel together, even though Agamemnon and Lily kept warning me to break up with him."
"Then, an incident happened. A pretty big one. One day Jax teleported to my house, scaring me. We were in the living room, and he was showing off some spells. The last one was making a bunch of bunnies appear. I got rid of them with a spell of my own, not wanting anyone to see, when Daniel came in. He saw me, so Jax erased his memory by a few seconds.
"He kept doing it, because he kept implying to Daniel that I had my powers back. Finally, I just decided to erase his memory myself, but Jax 'helped out' too, so his memory was completely gone. At first I was going to ask Lily for help, but he couldn't get in trouble with the Council again. Instead I settled with getting the Hex and trying to find the reversal spell. Jax ended up watching Daniel for the day...which I later learned wasn't a good idea. He made Daniel think he was German, and dressed him up like a geek. In the end, Desdemona gave me the reversal spell, which I used, even though Lily suggested that it might be best he didn't have his memory. He wouldn't know about magic and wouldn't have remembered dating me. But it just felt cruel to me to leave his memory wiped."
"I actually agree with that, Mom."
Emma smiled at her. "A couple nights later, Jax once again teleported into my room, thereby scaring me again. That's when he pulled the prank, and when I put a straightjacket on him for revenge." She laughed at the memory, along with Mia.
"The next day, was the day that Andi finally got her locker back, because Jax made them magically switch, so he was right next to me. But like I said, Andi got it back, which meant his was, in his wording, 'waaaaayyyyy on the other side of the school.'" Emma did the full imitation, even pointing behind her, making Mia laugh even more.
"Later on, the Sharks beat the Dolphins, a team from a rival school. At The Seven, while Daniel was busy doing an interview with Gigi, Jax walked over to me and sat down, since he was a Shark. I was glad, I hated being alone. We talked, and I learned that he didn't use magic at all, since he used it to beat Daniel at the Shark tryouts. He came in an eighth of a second behind him at the competition, then saying he doesn't need magic to beat him."
I always win in the end. You'll see. The words still made her heart pound.
"Later, the Witches Council came to me at my house. Agamemnon told me I had until the Fool Moon to give up Daniel, or my powers would be taken away. As a way to quicken the breakup, he cast punishment spells on me. One made me reply with 'ohhhhh yeaaaaaahhhhh' to everything Daniel said-"
Mia started laughing. "Oh man, what else happened?"
She smirked. "Another one was that whenever someone said 'shark' I'd start dancing. Andi and Jax had a bit of fun with that one. And the last one was whenever I'd see Daniel, I'd scream. Finally, after an embarassing day, Jax reversed the spell with help from the Hex and Andi."
"One day at school, Jax told me that the Fool Moon was affecting him, in a bad way. I told him to tell me, I wanted to help since he reversed the Council's spells. He said he couldn't tell during school, so he asked me to ditch with him. I agreed only if we could be back by last period."
Mia grinned.
"We ended up going to the beach, and there he set up a picnic."
"Awwww!"
Emma smirked again. "Well, it would've been nice, if he hadn't tricked me into ditching with him, and then getting into a food fight."
"You guys had a food fight?" To Mia, it seemed her Mom would never do anything like that.
"He started it! He got cake in my face!"
"Okay, let's get back to the story!"
She laughed. "Alright. I had an amazing time though, it was the most fun I've had in a long time. But at school, I ended up getting detention for skipping, while Jax didn't. Turns out, he used a cloning spell to get away with it."
"That's awesome! I wanna know the spell!"
"No way. The spell is illegal, and the Council will take your powers if they find out that you did it."
"That's the thing! They won't find out!"
Her gaze hardened. "No, Mia. Drop it."
Her daughter pouted, so Emma decided to go on.
"Then, perhaps the worst thing to happen occured. He came to my house, and told me the cloning spell. Daniel had an anniversary dinner the next night planned, while my father had a math convention. So, I cloned myself so I could go to the dinner while the other me went to the convention."
"That's so unfair! I wanna do it!"
"Trust me, you don't. The clone isn't even technically a clone. It's just a piece of your personality. And when I cloned myself, my evil side came out; Evil Emma. She ended up skipping the convention with Jax by making another clone; Nerdy Emma, while Jax brought out Jax Jr. After a night out, my first clone kissed your father."
"She did what?! Oh my God, was he mad when he found out?!"
Emma nodded sadly at the bad memory. "You better believe he was. The disappointment was written on his face, and I said something that pretty much poured salt on the wound. I said 'of course it wasn't me!' like there was no chance of me being with him. In retaliation, he didn't give me the reversal spell. I admit, I was hurt when he didn't help me, he always helped me before. But this time he didn't. In fact, he said he liked the clone more than me."
Mia's eyes widened. "He said that?" She whispered. "That's horrible!"
"He did like her, but not as much as me. He was just extremely hurt at the time. Anyway, since I didn't have the spell, things got out of control. There were four of me running around my house! While Andi and me were looking for the reversal spell in the Hex, Daniel chose that time to walk in. He saw all the clones, and after a discussion about my powers returning, he broke up with me. I was devastated, but managed to get rid of the clones."
"At school, Jax asked me to bring her back, after I exposed the plan of getting rid of me-"
"Wait, Dad wanted to get rid of you?!"
"I think he thought that hanging with a clone of me was better than not hanging out with me at all. But I doubt that he would've really gotten rid of me. He asked if I could bring her back, I refused. So he asked if we could ditch school again and talk, thinking I still had some of 'E' in me. I was pretty mad, so I trapped him in a locker."
"He deserved that one."
Emma giggled. "Anyway, I was still hurt about the breakup. I kept trying to apologize, but Daniel just pushed me away. That made me feel even worse, so much so that I started seeing him everywhere. Whenever a person would talk to me, they'd take on Daniel's appearence. Desdemona took away that problem, but still made it clear that she wanted us back together. She was in charge of the school play, and said that I was Daniel's Juliet, since he was playing Romeo. The only reason that was, was because Jax...messed around with his magic."
"Oh yeah! Dad told me about that! He'd always get Daniel in trouble. It was kinda mean, but funny." Mia chuckled.
The corners of Emma's mouth turned up. "Then Jax, Diego, and Maddie all got in trouble for a food fight in the cafeteria, as punishment they had to help with the play. Jax took over the role for Tybalt, since Pablo got the chicken pox. Daniel and Jax had a swordfight, because Desdemona wanted to rehearse the scene when Romeo and Tybalt fight.
"I didn't stay to watch, I thought it was ridiculous that they were getting into their roles a little too much, and fighting with a piece of bread and salami."
"Bread and salami?"
"Desdemona had real swords, but my Dad made her get replacements. Andi and Diego went to the cafeteria and got bread and salami to use for the time being. So, after leaving, I went to my locker, as soon as I opened it I got sprayed by water guns, a prank from the T3. By accident, I turned myself into a bird. I don't know what happened during that time, but when I turned back, I was in Daniel's basement with him, Andi, Maddie, and your father, only he was tied up and passed out."
"Why did he pass out?"
She grinned. "I don't think I should tell..."
"Oh come on! Please?"
"Okay, fine. He...has a fear of feathers, and since I was a cockatoo..."
Mia gasped. "Nuh uh. No way. Dad's afraid of birds?!"
Emma started to laugh. "He claims only when they're inside, but if you look closely, he tenses up whenver we're outside and a bird flies by, or whenever someone says it. He can barely even speak the word himself."
Mia doubled over in laughter, her face was turning pink. "Oh God, that's hilarious!"
Emma shushed her. "Just don't tell him I told you. He isn't one to let something go easily."
Mia tried to sober up, only releasing a few snorts. "Okay, I won't tell."
"Back to the story. A few days later, a storm was supposed to hit Miami. A huge storm. I got a text from my Dad to meet him at the school, and when I got there, it was thundering and lightning like crazy. I was terrified, but then Jax showed up. I felt a little better knowing someone was with me. Soon, we got text messages alerting us of the severe storm. We tried to leave, but the door to the school flew open, letting a bunch of leaves and sticks in. He saved me from a large tree branch that came in. The plan to walk home was over, we hid in the principal's office until the storm blew over."
"Why didn't Dad just teleport you home? And you and him were in the school alone?"
"I learned that night that teleporting is extremely dangerous during a lightning storm. And yes, we were alone."
Mia rose an eyebrow in silent question. "I feel too awkward to ask..."
Emma furrowed her eyebrows and smiled. "No, nothing happened. Your father is a gentleman. Although, since we were trapped there, we did become closer. We even almost kissed, however the door blew open before we could. After a few hours, my Dad returned and saved us. I hugged Jax as a thank you.
"Then, the worst thing at the time happened. The Council found out about the clones, and were about to take our powers away. However, your father stepped in, saying that he created all the clones, and would do it again. I tried to tell him not to do that, but he was determined that I wouldn't lose my magic. I was let off the hook...but they took his powers."
She gasped. "He sacrificed his powers for you?!"
Emma nodded. "That's when I knew how much he cared about me. We kissed, and started dating. He later got in a fake swordfight with Daniel over me, I stopped it before anyone could possibly get hurt. He tried to get back together with me, even using Sophie as a tactic to make me jealous. It didn't work.
"More crazy things started happening, and before I knew it, me, your father, and all our friends were fighting against my evil clone that returned and Desdemona, who teamed up to destroy the Magic Realm and be the only two witches left. We defeated them.
"As a thank you, the Council gave Jax his powers back. We continued dating all throughout high school...and the rest is history." Emma finished, smiling.
"Wow...that was some story." Mia whispered. Truly, a better match couldn't have been made.
A/N: This was the longest I've ever written. I hope you liked it! :D
