Chapter 11
Quest
"Hey, Lovino," Francine called, looking very natural as she walked over. In fact, she was following a carefully scripted plan.
"F*** off, Fran-swoh."
"I need your help," Francine continued matter-of-factly.
"Tch. Why should I help you? Why do you need me, anyway? Go ask someone else."
"Uh, no. Your help. Not anyone else's."
Lovino raised an eyebrow.
"Listen, because I do not particularly like saying this. I need your help, you specifically. I'm sorry. I'll leave you alone; I'll get my friends to leave you out of their pranks. You just have to help me."
"What do you need specifically?" Lovino asked.
"I need your magic."
+break+
"Let me guess: you need my help with some icy spell that you discovered."
"Hey, that's pretty close!" Vlad encouraged.
"Shut it, Vladimir. It's a bit more serious than that," Arthur warned. "You're going to have to trust me to do a memory counter-spell on you. Do you know the effects?"
"Memory counter-spell? I have no memories altered."
"Trust me," Arthur begged.
"All right. Only because I know it will not harm. I'm changing my wards to let the one spell in."
Arthur began to chant, waving a wand he produced out of his backpack. When the spell was over, Lukas flinched and threw his arm out to steady himself.
"Oh my god," he breathed.
"All right there, Luke?" Vladimir asked.
"Don't you dare call me Luke, batman," Lukas spat.
"I'm not really a vampire!" Vlad complained.
"I'm assuming you're going to need all the help you can get," Lukas started, to see Vladimir and Arthur nodding furiously. "My brother has some sort of magic. I could make him come."
"Please do," Arthur agreed.
+break+
"Gilbert?" Matthew asked, as Julchen settled across from him at his table.
"Matthew. Hi. So, stuff's happening and it involves you. I'ma tell you everything. It's gonna sound nuts. I already sound nuts. But you should be used to nuts, with your magic, right? Just listen and hopefully I make sense.
"There was a spell placed on three girls, turning them into guys. The entire school was placed under a secondary spell. That spell was so everyone would remember them as guys. It was a memory spell. It was really strong. If you want to know how strong, look at me. I was one of those girls.
"My name is Julchen. Most people have remembered the name. However, no-one's remembered anything else. The spell is really strong.
"That's where you come in. Arthur, Vlad, or someone can perform the spell on you. Then, all you magic users get together and perform the spell." Julchen stopped, looked at Matthew, and added, "Sound legit?"
"Julchen...what a pretty name. I feel like I know that name."
"Yeah. Once you get the memory spell, I'm sure you'll figure it out quick, birdie. So, trust me?"
"Yeah."
+break+
Vladimir and Lukas quickly performed the spell on Matthew and Romano.
"It's a good thing you know him so well," Francine whispered to Cheyenne. She had managed to get through the meeting with credibility.
"I am his girlfriend."
Their subject matter was talking loudly at that moment. "Wait, you said you did the spell already! So why do they still look like guys?"
"Patrick put an illusion on them so no-one at school asked questions."
Romano glared at Cheyenne for a moment, then nodded, apparently satisfied.
"All right," Arthur announced. "I'll be back up to strength in a week. This same day next week, are you free to meet me after school?"
"Yes," they all chorused.
"All right then. Remember to act like you were before the memory counter-spell."
They nodded and parted ways.
++line break in which a week passes++
"You have a nice house," Vlad commented, walking through Arthur's mansion.
"Thank you."
They arrived at the magic room, and Arthur handed the book to Lukas. "Hey, while I look for my brothers, can you find the spell?"
"Sure," Lukas muttered.
Arthur walked downstairs. "Will, Patrick, Eo?"
Patrick stuck his head out of his room. "Eoin and I were working on homework."
"I need you guys for a spell."
"All right."
William, meanwhile, walked out of his own room. "I'm here, Artie."
Arthur huffed. "You guys... nicknames..." He stomped upstairs, not looking back to see if his brothers were following him. They were.
Arthur, William, Eoin, and Patrick arrived in the room. Collected in the room were the Bad Touch Trio, the four Kirkland brothers, Vladimir, Lovino, Matthew, Lukas, and Lukas's little brother Emil.
"Hi Emil."
"Hi Emil."
"Bonjour Emil."
"Hola Emil."
"Hallo-"
"Hi everyone," Emil interrupted forcefully, apparently sharing his brother's introverted attitude.
"How are we going to do this?" Lukas asked.
"Most of us will just chant the spell, right?" Arthur answered. "And Eoin can just do his magic boosting thing."
"All right," everyone replied, taking their places leaning against walls or cross-legged on the floor.
Arthur once again conducted the chant, after making sure everyone had a copy of the spell to read.
As soon as he finished, the door crashed open. William immediately stood to face Alistair.
"What is going on here?" Alistair asked, eyebrows raised.
"Memory counter-spell."
"Lemme see it."
Will handed the paper to Alistair, who read over it.
"All right then," and he was gone.
William turned back to them and shrugged.
"Well, it worked," Arthur commented. "Patrick, can you please take the illusion off?"
Patrick held his hand out, and a dot of green flew towards the girls. It returned to him with a big green orb of magic, and the illusion was gone.
The Bad Touch Trio cheered and hugged one another. "We're free!"
"Won't it weird everyone out, that they all randomly got their memories rearranged?" Emil asked.
"That's the power of the human brain, little brother," Lukas explained. "They'll think it was a dream."
"Seriously?"
"There's something in other people's brains, that if they don't get an explanation for the magic, they just kind of forget it. It's odd but useful."
"Huh."
By now, everyone had started to walk away, back to their houses. Francine, Cheyenne, and Julchen walked back to Francine's house so Francine's mother could give Cheyenne a ride back. Julchen was able to walk.
"See ya tomorrow, Francy-pants!"
"Bye, Jules!"
"Bye!"
End.
So I know I've been doing a bad job keeping up with my schedule. I've decided to post all the chapters right out.
~Em