Chapter eight:
"What a long day." Ray states as he stretches his arms above his head. He, Ryan, Michael and Gavin are heading to town for a little bit now that school is done for today. "But." He lowers his arms to his sides and glances to Ryan. "Ryan is getting better with his familiar form."
"It's not really a big difference." Ryan admits.
"But it's progress right?" Ray elbows his familiars arm.
Ryan smiles back at him. "Yeah. I guess it is."
"That's good." Michael agrees smiling.
"Anyone else wanna grab a bite to eat?" Gavin questions the group.
"Why not." Ryan agrees with a slight shrug. "What's a good place for good food?" He questions.
"There's a place just up ahead." Gavin takes the lead and they head off to find something to eat. "Here it is!" He gestures to the cage he stops in front of.
The others look to it.
Magic girl Cafe.
The words are written in pink with a dark grey background though the part below the sign are white. It has a typical Cafe look to it.
"The witch that owns the place specializes in cooking magic! The familiar is also good at making drinks!" Gavin explains.
"Well let's try it then shall we?" Ray takes the lead and they head to the entrance heading inside.
"Table for four?" A kind looking red head asks. Her straight hair going down to just past her shoulders. Her yellow eyes shine with kindness and she is wearing a waitresses outfit.
"Correct." Gavin confirms.
"Alright." The waitress grabs four menus. "Right this way." She leads the way to their table and they settle in their seats as she places the menus on the table. "I am Tia and I will be your waitress today." She greets. "I'll let you take a look at the menus." She heads off picking up some dishes from a table giving the four time to pick what they want.
"So do you think you'll let Ray ride you sometime Ryan?" Gavin asks.
"Maybe after I can control my familiar form." Ryan admits.
"Well better than what you can so far?" Ray adds questioningly.
Ryan smiles softly at his witch. "Yeah."
"Hey maybe one day the four of us could go for a fly sometime." Michael suggests.
"That sounds like a good idea." Ryan nods and Ray makes a sound of agreement.
They begin talking about some magic but pause to order what they want when Tia comes for their orders. They resume their conversation once done. They continue this conversation even after the food is here but they try to not talk with their mouths full. They leave after splitting the bill.
"Well I've got some homework to finish." Ray suggests with a slight yawn and stretch.
"I'll join you." Ryan offers.
"You two have fun." Michael tells them with a slight wave. "Me and Gavin were gonna go for a little fly."
"You two love flying." Ray points out smiling.
Michael chuckles. "I think if Ryan lets you one day you'll understand. It's really amazing especially when you share a strong bond. Though we mostly do this as like a victory fly."
"I guess we'll see maybe one day." Ray says. "Well have fun."
"We will." Michael confirms and the other two leave. He turns to his familiar. "You wanna do broom flying or familiar flying?" He checks with his familiar.
"I wanna do a little familiar flying before we truly take our break." Gavin admits.
"Okay." Michael nods.
Gavin transforms making sure Michael can be able to ride him. He lowers himself and Michael climbs on. He stands up once Michael is on.
"Lets do this." Michael says smirking.
Gavin spreads his wings and flaps taking to the sky. He is quickly soaring high in the air.
Michael smiles all too familiar with the speed.
Gavin slows to a cruise as they fly over town looking around at the scenic view.
"I love flying." Michael admits leaning against Gavin. "Especially with you."
Gavin screeches in agreement and flaps his wings once to move a little faster to get himself going. He has to make sure that they stay in the air and he lets himself slow down again but keeps track of how he's doing.
They keep looking around as they watch, the best they can, people going about their daily lives.
It's relaxing.
Suddenly a black geyser seems to come out of nowhere shooting in front of Gavin.
Gavin screeches leaning back and flapping his wings to come to a stop so as to not crash into it.
Michael holds on at the sudden stop then relaxes as Gavin settles. "Are you okay?" He asks peering around to Gavin's face as best as he can as Gavin hovers using his wings to keep himself in the air.
Gavin glances to him as best as possible and nods making Michael sigh in relief.
They turn back to the geyser that looks solid now.
"Is it an oil leak?" Michael wonders out loud. "But then why is it solid?"
Suddenly it seems to fade from existence making them gasp in surprise.
"Something isn't right at all." Michael realizes glancing down in thought then gasps and looks to Gavin. "Get out of here Gav! Now!"
Gavin screeches and starts going trying to quickly gain speed. He is rising in speed quickly but suddenly before he can get too fast some sort of black kind of flat tentacle reaches out grabbing his leg. He screeches as he comes to a stop and flaps his wings trying to get it off. He is about to reach for it with his other foot to hopefully dig his talons into it to break it when another grabs his other foot.
Before they know it Gavin is grabbed around his neck, body and more are heading for his wings.
"Gavin!" Michael calls and pulls out his wand. "Hold on!" He thrusts it in the direction of the parts of the things not touching Gavin in which he fires a beam at the darkness cutting them in half destroying them. "Go! Go! Go!" He orders.
Gavin quickly recovers and begins flying away fast.
Michael glances back only to see more speeding their way. He sends a beam from his wand out and hits them making them vanish.
They soon gain enough speed to get away.
"Are you okay?" Michael inquires worriedly and Gavin gives a slight screech in response. He takes it as that Gavin is okay enough to continue going at the very least.
Gavin continues flying a little tense that they might be attacked again.
"Once we're sure that we got away then we can head back to school and report what happened!" Michael states watching for more attacks since he knows that there could be more heading their way.
Gavin screeches in response and continues flying as fast as he can.
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"Hmph. You won now but we'll see who ends up winning in the end." A chuckle as the person figure smirks. "And you'll see what true real magic is all about." There's a poof of smoke and the person figure is gone as it clears.