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Italian

Irish

Chapter 12

Chiro and the rest of the team stood with Captain Shuggazoom at the large doorway to the Alchemist's old libratory. Chiro was just a bundle of excitement. Sprx had compared this to giving a little child ten chocolate bars. He now says he thinks it was an understatement.

"So what are we looking for?" the excited rave haired boy asked.

"We are looking for a pure white book," Captain Shuggazoom replied. He turned to Antauri and spoke, "I've never seen the child like this; he is usually more serious and earth bound than to get all jumpy like this."

"Well," Antauri said back with a smirk, "you've never seen him where he didn't have to be serious. This is the Chiro we see every day." Antauri chuckled. "Then again, he is pretty excited about this."

"Who can blame the kid?" Sprx joined into the conversation. "The kid is figuring out his birth powers. Who wouldn't be excited?"

"Chiro, don't run too far ahead!" Nova called. Antauri looked up to see the child looking around the room way ahead of the group.

"I will go catch up with him," Antauri murmured to Captain Shuggazoom. The elderly man only nodded and watched as Antauri did as he said he would do.

"Chiro," Antauri spoke as he reached the young black head. "Have you found anything?"

"I-I think so, but I can't be sure if it's…" but Chiro trailed off as he started to open the latch to an all glass case with a completely white book inside.

"Hold on, Chiro." Antauri turned to Captain Shuggazoom. "We found it-Chiro I said hold on."

"It's ok Antauri," Captain Shuggazoom said with a wave. "Let the boy look at it. There isn't any harm."

Good thing too, because Chiro already had the book in his hands. He couldn't have stopped reaching for it before even if he had wanted to; but now that he had it n his hands he couldn't help but open it. Inside were pages and pages of Italian writing full of magic and spells. Chiro read the first paragraph with Antauri trying to read behind his shoulder as the rest of the monkey team walked to them.

"Oh, wow," Chiro said. He wore a smile. "This actually says there is a difference between witches and sorcerers. Most witches may use their powers for evil, while many sorcerers use their powers for good. Rarely is it the opposite."

"Really?" Sprx asked. "Let me read." Sprx took the book from Chiro and the boy laughed as Sprx made a funny face at the words. "What the crap? What kind of language is this?"

"Italian," Chiro said taking the book back. Sprx blinked at his empty hands and then playfully glared at Chiro.

"Yes, I never knew why my old friend, the Alchemist liked the language until late into the friendship," Captain Shuggazoom spoke.

"It was because he was Italian, wasn't it?" Otto asked.

"Why yes, it was."

"Wow," Chiro muttered looking back into the book. Antauri put his hand onto Chiro's shoulder.

"Maybe you can look at that later," Antauri said. Chiro looked at him with a little glint of disappointment in his eyes, but he nodded.

"Why do you need these? Oh and how do you know Italian?" Captain Shuggazoom asked.

"W-well," Chiro said. "We've figured out that…I'm a light sorcerer." He gave Captain S. a nervous smile. "I also know…that the Alchemist is my…grandfather." Chiro heavily exhaled when he had finally finished.

"Y-you're; you're Gioia's son?" Captain S. asked quietly. Chiro nodded slowly. "How is the little lady?" Captain S. asked with a smirk.

"I-I don't know-I never meet her." Chiro clutched the book to his chest. "I was raised in an abusive orphanage. I learned Italian as my first language, but didn't know I was Italian until just recently."

"Oh, my," Captain S. said. "Well, if you don't want to get into that story, you don't have to."

Chiro sighed in relief and Antauri squeezed his shoulder.

"Well," Captain S. continued, "you are going to need more than that book if you are a light sorcerer." Captain S. walked over to a large certain and pulled it open. The certain moved to the right and showed a whole collection of books. One was all purple; another was all green. There was a book for every element of sorcery.

"Oh, wow," Chiro said in surprise.

"Yep, you'll have to read all of these to master your element." Captain Shuggazoom smiled.

"Cool," Chiro said with excitement. He raced over to the books and looked over to Antauri as if asking for permission. Antauri nodded with a smile, and Chiro started to carefully pick up each book. He placed them in his arms, and Antauri noticed he looked a lot like a school boy with that many books. Antauri chuckled at this thought and smiled even more when Chiro ran over to the team.

"Do you want to take a quick look at those books?" Captain S. asked with a smirk. Chiro nodded eagerly and opened the green book.

"Wow," Chiro said. "This book's written in German."

"I see you inherited the skill of understanding multiple languages from your mother and grandfather," Captain S. said with a chuckle.

"Really; I did?" Chiro asked in surprise.

"Yep, you're also like a spitting image of Lady Gioia." Captain S. laughed. "She would have me call her that when she would finally talk me into playing with her dolls."

Chiro looked over at Antauri. Antauri's heart swelled when he felt that connection with Chiro: It was like Chiro wanted Antauri to pleased with him. Antauri smiled and saw a light dance in Chiro's eye.

"So, let's see…" Chiro muttered as e looked into the blue book. "This one is French. Oh and this yellow one is Spanish. Purple is Austrian…" Chiro seemed to get more and more excited with each book. "The black one is in Greek; and lastly…wait a minute." Chiro looked down and saw a pink book. "What's this?"

"Oh, pink means you are a garden sorcerer," Captain S. said. "You know flowers and stuff."

"Oh," Chiro said in surprise. "Well, the red one is Irish, and the pink is in Dutch."

"You know how to read and speak all those languages?" Gibson asked.

"Yea, growing up in an orphanage around people who speak a different makes you pick up a few things." Chiro smirked.

"Well, how long are we going to stay here?" Nova asked.

"Yea," Otto jumped in. "It's a little creepy in here."

"Well," Captain S. said, combing his fingers through his shortened beard. "We have everything so… I guess its Chiro's call."

"Why is it always me?" Chiro asked. He crossed his arms and looked around with a pretend annoyed face.

"You are our leader," Antauri teased. Chiro stuck his tongue out playfully and pointed to the door. They started their way out the door and, when they walked through the door, Captain S. shut the door behind them.

"Hey kid, do you need some help with those?" Sprx asked. The team looked at Chiro and saw that he was struggling with all the books he held. Each person one the team took a book until the white book was the only two left were black and white.

"So," Chiro looked at Captain S., "the black isn't evil?"

"No, it's just called dark because the energy's color is black…or something like that. It isn't evil." Captain S. looked at Chiro curiously. "Many sorcerers are Christians; are you?"

"Yes," Chiro said strongly. Captain S. smiled and nodded at this and they started to walk to the robot.

(A few hours later)

Chiro was in his orange chair reading his white book while Gibson worked in his lab, Otto worked on his new invention, Antauri meditated, Nova practiced her fighting moves, and Sprx did…well whatever Sprx did.

Chiro was very much enjoying his new studies. He couldn't wait to try something out. All of a sudden he reached a sentence that was supposed to be a spell. It was a simple spell, one that levitated objects. He read it carefully and then turned to a random object. It happened to be a tennis ball someone had forgot to put up.

"Lift," Chiro said, concentrating on making the ball lift into the air. He's efforts weren't futile as the ball slowly lifted into the air.

Antauri knew Chiro was doing something strange, but didn't know what it was until he opened his eyes. He silenced a gasp as he saw the ball floating in the air and Chiro concentrating on it. Antauri was silent as he watched the child make it slowly move up and down; left to right; forwards and backwards. He didn't want to mess up the child at his practicing. Chiro slowly let the ball lay on the floor and exhaled. Antauri started clapping and Chiro jumped.

"Err…you saw that?" Chiro asked. Antauri mentally smiled at how cute it was when Chiro got all shy.

"Yes," Antauri smiled physically as Chiro laughed nervously.

"It wasn't that impressive…I just wanted to do something and I came across that simple trick." Chiro smiled and shrugged. Antauri had noticed he had come to call them tricks. He didn't know why, but he just came to the idea that that was just what he called them in his own words. Antauri stuck to that.

"Yes, but it was a simple step that will turn into bigger steps later on," Antauri said. Chiro smiled with innocence.

"I guess you're right, Antauri." And with that, he was back to his reading and Antauri was back to his meditating.

That night at dinner, Sprx was having trouble with the burner on the stove. He looked over at Chiro who was reading his red book.

"Hey, kid," Sprx spoke. Chiro looked up. "Can you help me with this burner, you know, so practice for your new powers?"

Chiro nodded and flipped to a curtain page in his book.

"Fire," Chiro said. Sprx didn't understand what Chiro said, but he looked at the burner and saw the fire had started up.

"That was cool, wasn't it, Team?" Sprx said with a smirk. Chiro looked to the opposite side of the room from the room to see the surprised and smiling team. Chiro laughed.

"Yea, it's wonderful. I mean, I have the powers of a lighter." Chiro laughed again and Sprx, Otto, Nova, Gibson, and Antauri were as well. Well, Gibson and Antauri were chuckling, but you get the picture. Chiro soon went back to reading his book.

"How many of those books have you read?" Nova asked.

"I haven't read a full one yet, but I've started three." Chiro shrugged. "A guy can only read as fast as he is physically able too."

"Is there some kind of spell to learn that stuff fast?" Sprx asked.

"Well, yea," Chiro put his bookmark back into his book and placed it on the table. "Honestly, though, I want to learn it more slowly."

"I think that would be wise," Antauri said going and sitting in the chair next to Chiro.

"Thanks, I kinda like to read anyway."

"Yea, right," Sprx said with a laugh. "That's a good one, kid. That's like saying you like learning."

"But…I do like learning," Chiro said innocently. The whole team besides Antauri and Gibson gasped, but Gibson was a little surprised. Antauri…not very surprised.

"Oh no, the kid has a fever!" Sprx raced towards Chiro and put his hand on the boy's forehead.

"I've…always liked learning, really." Chiro took Sprx's hand and moved it away from his forehead.

"Well, have you even tried to pay attention to my lesions?" Gibson asked with his arms crossed.

"Yea," Chiro replied. "But sometimes I just can't concentrate because of constant headaches and fatigue."

"Well," Gibson asked, "how do you take care of that?"

"Umm…pain medicine."

"I'll ask next time if you have a headache, give you some medicine, and then see if you pay attention."

"You don't believe me, do you Gibson?"

Chiro stood up from the table.

"Ok, I'll be right back," the raven haired boy said.

Annime: I'm done for now.

Chiro: Ok…?

Antauri: Please review.