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The Unexpected – Chapter 10

Bill's POV

'GET UP, BOYS!' the spirit screamed.

I jolted up, jumping to my feet. Too bad I'm not a morning person and I wasn't really awake anyways. I stumbled and fell flat on my face, groaning against the morning sun.

'It's too early!' Tom moaned, using his pillow to shield his eyes.

'Stop whining and get up! We have a very important lesson today.' The spirit said, storming out of the room.

'Ugh! Fine…' we said, getting dressed grumpily.

'Damn it!' Tom cursed, trying to put on a shirt with one hand.

'I'll do it.' I said, helping him.

We marched out, feeling a little groggy.

'Alright, boys. First off, we'll start with a healing. Tom come here.' She said.

'What? I'm the lab rat?' Tom said, eyes wide.

'Your shoulder is dislocated and you are going to fix it. Now.' She said.

Tom walked toward her, cautiously. She stepped beside him and started going through how healings work. Apparently, it's pretty much imagination and magic.

'Place your hand on your shoulder and visualize your shoulder locking back into place. Will it to be and it will be. Extremely simple.' She stated as she stood back to watch Tom's performance.

Tom placed his hand on his dislocated shoulder and shut his eyes tight. After a few seconds a glow started to spread from his hand to his shoulder and as if by some unseen force, there was a loud crack as Tom's shoulder locked into its original position.

Tom screamed instantly, dropping to his knees in pain. I rushed over to my twin, helping him up.

'You didn't tell me it would hurt!' Tom yelled.

'Well if I told you, would you have done it? And it's expected to hurt, only tree spirits and elemental creatures can make it painless.' She said, cheerily.

'Okay, next matter, exercising!' she said.

'Oh no!' I groaned. I hate working out.

'Yeah!' Tom said.

'It's magical, by the way.' She added, walking to us.

'Yes!' I said.

'No!' Tom countered.

'Enough! Now remember what Bill did on the first practice? He built power in his hands. Today we are working with these.' She said, pointing to a couple of football sized brown balls.

'Make it levitate and build magic in or around it. It's quite high ranking so only when it reaches a high level of magic, will it burst in sparks. Begin.' She said

I held my hands out to the brown ball, making it float easily. I aimed and imagined a thread, a kind of link to make the magic flow easier. I focused and instead of shutting my eyes, I glared at the brown ball.

I gathered my magic, feeling it spark deep inside me like an excited puppy wanting to get out…so I let it out. I saw a huge ball of magic flowing on the line and into the ball. It expanded to twice its size. And so was Tom's.

I looked at my twin and he returned it, grinning.

'Race ya.' He said.

I turned back to my ball and started flowing magic as fast as I could. Soon, I could see the sides stretching unbelievably long. Then as I counted down expectantly…1, 2, 3! Boom! It burst…the same time Tom in a shower's did!

'Rematch!' I said.

'Unfortunately, I only had those two…and you ruined them…in record time. At least we know you two are definitely powerful enough to use the necklace.' She said.

'Now you already know how to use the necklace but there is a chant to it as well. Repeat and memorize.' She said as she began to recite the chant.

'To save one is to save all,
By my own magic I make,
This wish for the better of all,
So mote it be.'

And as I looked at Tom, I saw what he saw. Our eyes glowing in the light of our power.

Catharine's POV

Ayesha must have heard my screams. She had come crashing through the door and started with the ass kicking. I smiled at my sister's courage and protectiveness for me. The men advanced on her and I struggled against the rope around my wrists and ankles.

'Ayesha!' I called.

She paused to send a blast of sparks, releasing me from my bonds. In that short moment, a guard took advantage and came at her with the blade. Still on the ground, I shot out my hand, knocking the guy flat on his back while scrambling to my feet.

Ayesha took advantage too then, levitating him before slamming him into the wall. I started on the other two guards, knocking them so hard, they passed out. Grabbing the blade from the guard, my sister slashed his torso.

He screamed in absolute agony…

'You shouldn't have tortured my sister.' She said, turning to face me.

My smiled mirrored hers as I saw in her eyes what she saw in mine. Our eyes were glowing with the power of our magic.

'Let's run.' I said, she just nodded and so we did.

We ran out the door of the cell and out to the corridors. We ran as fast as our feet would take us, hopefully to freedom.