Chapter 3
A/N: Sorry I took so long to update... Again. School started and now I am extremely busy. Okay, about the chapter part, well this chapter is kind of like Alex's first screw up once she got her powers. 1st day of magic and she gets Justin is in trouble. I'm not going to explain the details or else you won't have to read the story anymore. FYI this chapter is the longest chapter of all 3 chapters so far in this series, with about 1800 words. I did research on when ellen airs in NY cause I don't live there, and I don't know if it shows in the morning, in the afternoon or in the evening. So anyways, enjoy the chapter.
Alex stepped out of the wizard world and back into the lair with Jerry and Justin tagging behind.
"How do you seem to know your way around the wizard world so fast? Your powers just developed today."
"Dad. We took four hours to get back home with me leading us back."
Jerry looks at his watch and gasps in shock.
"We're late! I'm supposed to take your mum out to the Statue of Liberty tonight! Oh no!"
Jerry left the room hurriedly. Once Alex was sure that Jerry had already left the lair, she took out a screwdriver from her back pocket.
"It's not 8 yet. It's only 5."
"Wait. You don't need a screwdriver to adjust the time."
"I know. I didn't JUST adjust the time. Now his watch has missing features."
"Nice move, Alex. He's going to have a heart attack trying to run around and find Mum."
"Don't worry about it Justin. We all know that he has a few extra pounds, which may lead to a heart attack, but he's 20 years from being 60 so you don't have to worry too much." (to herself) "Yeah I'll go with that. It makes me feel more relieved"
"I don't trust you. I'm going to go find dad."
Justin runs out of the room and enters the substation.
"I can't find your mum."
"Dad. It's okay. It's only 5. Mum's probably running some errands now. She'll be back soon."
"But Alex said..."
"Never trust that girl."
"But my watch."
"Tampered with."
"This cost me like $100. Wait where'd the screen that tells you the date go?"
"Alex did say that she took out some parts so some features are gone."
"Ugh. Okay come on. Let's go. Time for wizard lessons."
Jerry and Justin walk back into the lair and find Alex sitting on one of the couches reading the wizard spells book.
"Someone seems passionate to figure out what she can do with her powers. Besides breaking my watch!"
"We all know who you're talking about, Justin. And I used a screwdriver. I don't have to use my powers for that. Wait till I actually do."
Justin ignored Alex and walked over to his seat behind the table and sat down. Jerry started to pass notes to Justin and Alex. Alex basically did not bother to read the notes and went back to looking at her spell book, until she was rudely interrupted by Jerry.
"Today's lesson is about flashing to another place. Justin already knows this spell, but Alex doesn't. This is the first ever spell that me and Justin learnt when we first got our powers."
"Ooh. I can flash a calculator into my head and cheat on my math test."
"You don't have to do that. You can already use calculators in math test."
"But this way I don't have to type in the numbers. I can just think of the numbers I want to add and I get the answer. See Justin, I'm always thinking of the easiest way. This just proves that I'm smart."
"No it doesn't. It just proves your lazy. And devious." Justin got a little creeped out at the thought of his sister being devious and turned his attention back to Jerry before he got even more creeped out by his sister's weird character.
"Are you guys done? Cause I really want to end the lesson before 6 so I can have enough time to dress up and everything." Jerry sees that look in Alex's eyes when she's about to make fun of his weight.
"Don't even think of it Alex."
"Shoot. That was such a good opportunity."
Jerry grabbed a stick and pointed the stick at the chalkboard.
"Say out this spell Alex. It's the flash something/someone to some place spell."
"Flash something/someone to some place spell?"
"Yes. Don't make fun of it. This is how spells are. Just say the name of the person or object you want to flash to some other place, and then the place you want to flash it to, then say 'flash (the name of the object) to where I want (it) to go, help me save on transport dough.' Just say that."
"Tiger Beat July 2010 issue, Russo lair, flash the magazine to where I want it to go, help me save on transport dough." Suddenly the July issue of Tiger Beat flashes onto the table in front of Alex.
"Oh look. Selena Gomez is on the front page. That's awesome."
"Alex. I know you can flash any object back home, but if you don't pay for it, that's stealing."
"So?"
"Stealing is wrong Alex. Stealing is wrong!"
"I know. That's why I do it. Pfft... I am your daughter dad. Don't you know me at all?"
Jerry ignores Alex and suddenly remembers that it might already be 6pm.
"Hey Justin."
"Yeah?"
"What time is it?"
Justin looks at his watch and replies "It's 6.15pm already. You probably should go and get ready for your date with mum."
"Right. Okay then we'll end today's wizard lesson here. Oh wait. Before I go, I need to tell you something important about the spell. It works only one-way when a wizard uses it on ANOTHER wizard. Okay... Bye."
Jerry leaves the lair and gets ready for the date with Theresa.
"Hey Justin, how would you like to suddenly appear in Kenya?"
"What?"
"Justin, Kenya, flash him to where I want him to go, so I can help him save on his transport dough."
Alex figured that that would be a good way to get back at Justin and she only wanted it to be a joke. She knew that he could easily get back to the lair if he used his wand. Justin was the type of wizard who would always carry his wand around and Alex knew that, so she wasn't so worried. Alex went out of the lair and back to her room to go onto the internet like she does every Thursday to watch random comedies on Youtube.
Jerry and Theresa were just about to leave when they realized that they had not seen Justin in a while. They went up to Alex's room and asked her about it, since she was the most suspicious whenever bad things happened. They went into her room, finding her laughing at the screen. Apparently she was watching that day's episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres show", which apparently she missed because she was in wizard lessons when it aired at 4pm on WNBC.
"Where's Justin?"
Alex knew that this would be a long conversation as Justin was her parents' favorite and they would be very concern about him.
"Mum, why do you think I have anything to do with his disappearance?"
"Cause you're usually the one who makes people disappear all of a sudden."
"You can just go on your date with dad. You don't have to worry about anything. Justin... Er... He told me to tell you guys that he was going over to Zeke's house to do a project."
"Well okay then. Call us once his home. We'll be back around midnight."
Jerry and Theresa leaves Alex's room and head to the Statue of Liberty. It's weird how the Russo family had visited other wonders of the world, but not the Statue of Liberty.
Alex was starting to get worried. Justin was smart, he knew how to flash back home after Alex pulled a prank on him. Something had gone wrong. She was thinking of all the possibilities of what had gone wrong in her head.
"I either did the spell wrongly, or the spell was originally wrong and he had vanished from this world forever."
With that thought in her head, she ran down to the lair to check the spell books to see if there was a way to reverse the spell.
Alex walked into the lair trying to stay as calm as she could. She was glad that Max decided to go to bed early so she did not have to worry about him accidentally discovering the lair, or that he was living among a family of wizards. She flipped through the pages in the spell books trying to find the 'flash something/someone to some place' spell. When she had found it, she brought it to the table where she was seating just now during wizard lessons and placed the book on the table and read the segment on that spell to see if there was a way to save Justin. She thought of what Justin would be going through. Kenya was so different from New York. Justin was a nerd and Alex was afraid that Justin could not protect himself. He was only 13. How is a 13 year old boy supposed to get back to New York? She was thinking that maybe she could just say something like "Justin, Russo Lair, flash him to where I want him to go, so I can help him save on transport dough" or something like that. She was about to cast the spell, and then she saw the footnote. 'This spell may not be used to bring a wizard back to the original place he/she was in unless it is done so by the wizard themselves.' She was hoping that Justin was enjoying himself in a hot tub or something and he would come home when he was done. That's when her hope was shattered. She saw Justin's wand left on the table, in front of the seat where he sat during wizard lessons. Justin had actually left his wand in the lair after he used it to do the "Commakus Pancakus" spell as Jerry was hungry after the 4 hour walk and he was lazy to go out and get a sandwich and he could not do magic as well, and Justin decided to be good and help his father, but he forgot to put his wand back into his pocket afterwards.
"Uh-oh."
