Chapter 44: The Witch - ling.
I turned around to see my three month old daughter floating in mid-air, giggling as five strawberries danced in front of her. Literally they were dancing.
The strawberries had arms and legs and they were all waltzing in a circle except for one which was doing ballet in the middle of the circle. Goku plucked her down out of the air and the strawberries fell to the floor shortly after that. Ami looked down at them and her lower lip quivered. Uh-oh. . .
Ami began crying loudly and the house shook terribly. We all screamed a bit and fell over as the house shook. Nothing broke or anything though. . .it was odd. The house stopped shaking after a little bit as I made the strawberries dance with my powers. She cooed and watched them dance again happily.
"Goku. . .she has her powers now." I said.
"Your magic powers?" He questioned.
"Yes. . .And it might get dangerous. After all, babies see a lot of colors. . .and anything she sees, she could imitate very easily. So just be careful. She don't know no better." I said.
"Why didn't Goken do this when he was a baby?" Goku asked."Do what, Daddy?" Goken said, walking into the room.
"He didn't get his powers yet. . .it's more common in women. After all. . .Female Witches are the only ones able to pass the magic gene." I explained.
"Oh. . ." Goku said."What you talking about Mommy?" Goken asked."Oh nothing. . .C'mon we need to go get your supplies." I said with a smile.
"Yay!" He cried out.
He was extremely excited. He bolted upstairs with excitement, got ready and we left shortly after that.
A couple of weeks later it was the beginning of September, time to go back to school. I woke Goken up at seven in the morning. He was a bit grumpy but excited. Goku and I were going to go in for a little while since it was his first day. Plus I figured there would be some paperwork involved.
"Are we taking the ship or the nimbus?" Goku asked.
"Nimbus." I said, pulling a small knit cap over Ami's ears.
"Can we go now, Mommy?!" Goken asked.
"Yeah. . .let's go." I said.
We left shortly after that. We rode the nimbus to the nearest town to a small elementary school. Kids of all ages were going in there. Goku and I took Goken in the classroom he was supposed to be in. There was several small tables in the room with small chairs and a marker board. Kids were sitting at the tables with their backpacks, molding clay or finger painting. I smiled. They were all so cute. Goken looked around a bit nervous. There was also a whole table of adults filling out paperwork. . .I'd be sitting there in a few minutes. . .I knew that for sure.
A tall, young woman approached us.
"Hello, I'm Ms. Teagarden and what's your name?" She asked, kneeling down to look at Goken. Goken backed away a bit.
I kneeled down next to him. "Honey, it's okay, tell her your name okay?" I said to try and ease his anxiety.
"Otay. . .My name is Goken." he said timidly.
"Nice to meet you Goken." The teacher said with a bright smile. "Is this your family?"
Goken nodded. "Uh huh. . .This is My Daddy, my Mommy, and my baby sister. . Ami." He said, pointing to each of us.
She smiled and scribbled something on her clipboard. She looked up at me and Goku and shook our hands."Nice to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Son. It's a pleasure to have your son in my class." she said. I smiled at her and Ami hid her face in my chest from her. I had a few shy children I guess. . .
"So Goken, why don't you go play with some play-doh for a little bit?" The teacher questioned, looking at Goken.
"Okay! Can I have the blue?" Goken asked her.
She laughed a little bit and handed him a container of blue play-doh.
"Go on and make something amazing." She said.
Goken went off to a table, dragging his book bag behind him. I nudged Goku.
"Go sit with him. . .I'll fill out the paper work." I said."Okay. . .but what if I break the itty-bitty chair?" Goku asked.
"You ain't gonna break the dang chair. . .look. . .there's people twice as big as you here sitting in those little chairs. So just go okay?" I said to him.
He nodded and went and sat in a little tiny chair next to Goken.
The teacher handed me some papers and I sat at a round table with many men and women sitting at it filling out papers. A lot of them were in business suits and they were going through the papers as fast as they could, while others sat and took their time. I sat the papers on the table and began filling them out.
Some of the adults were talking to each other. . .it seemed more like bragging though.
"Well my son told me he wanted to be a scientist and find the cure for cancer and he's only 5! He can also speak fluent Italian." One woman said in a snooty voice.
"Oh yeah, well my daughter knows all the presidents and major officials of the world as of right now." another one said in a snobby way.
I gritted my teeth. These people were making me angry. Oh my son wants to do this! My daughter wants to do that! Well you know what?! Their four and five years old and they only know most of this because you forced it on them! Their still partially developing a vocabulary! So shut your pie holes!
Good grief, even I didn't brag that much about Goken. Yeah, I'd brag on him about knowing the alphabet and how to write it and all that but sheesh. . .these women were just obsessed!
My little bubble was popped when I noticed that the teacher was looking at me weird and Ami was playing in my hair. I looked down and noticed I'd written something in big letters.
I wrote "Quit bragging about your damn kids."
"Mrs. Son. . .are you okay? Do you need to step out for a moment?" Ms. Teagarden asked me.
I began erasing the message, quickly and I nodded. "Nah. . .I'm fine."
I finished the paper work and I noticed Ami grunting like she wanted something. She was also holding her arms out.
I looked at her. "You want Daddy?" I asked. That was usually the case.
The next thing I saw was a little doll floating in mid air, moving towards Ami. She smiled as it came to her. Oh no! What if someone sees?
I made the doll freeze in mid air and go back and sit it where it was so Ami couldn't move it. She kept grunting, the cold air kept flowing, but my magic was stronger. I'd been doing it longer than her.
Her lower lip quivered as she realized she couldn't pick it up. Uh oh. . .
She let out a wail, crying and the whole school shook. Everyone in the classroom screamed. Little kids were crying and everything.
"EARTHQUAKE!!!" Some of the adults said.
"EVERYONE UNDER THE TABLES!!! GET UNDER SOMETHING STURDY!" The teacher shouted. I crawled under the tiny table, and calmed Ami down as quickly as I could. The quicker she calmed down the sooner the shaking would stop. I finally calmed her down by giving her a dolly that was hers. She looked at the doll and smiled and hugged it. The shaking stopped almost immediately. She hugged her doll and she was happy. Thank god. Everyone got up. No one was injured except one man's leg was asleep. I laughed anxiously with relief. Goku came up and looked at me and Ami.
"What happened?" Goku whispered.
"Ami. . .saw a doll. She tried to make it float into her arms and I made it stop and sit back down and she got upset." I whispered to Goku.
"Wow. . ." he said.
Ami continued to hug her doll and she stayed happy. Shortly after that they sent us all home fearing there would be an after shock. So we went home.
