Sofia's POV

I woke up and sat up. It took me a minute to figure out what happened. I left my room quickly and I opened the door to my brother's. He sat bolt upright and almost got me with the fire he produced. I dodged it and quickly got some water out of Lucas' bedside cup and put out the fireball before it lit the house on fire.

"Calm down, hotshot, it's just me." I said to Lucas as I sat down. He looked relieved and then confused and disorientated.

"What happened?" Lucas asked.

Just then, the door opened and my mom and dad were in the doorframe. We were in trouble now.

"You want to tell us how you became DHIs or how Lucas has powers?" my dad asked.

I looked at Lucas, who seemed to understand my question immediately. I took a deep breath.

"About Lucas having powers…" I said slowly, "I, um,"

My mom nudged my dad. They understood what I was trying to tell them. My mom came into the room and stood in front of me.

"Show me." She said.

I gulped, but I looked towards Lucas' water cup. I raised my hand and thought about the water connecting through me and it lifting up. My dad looked slightly scared but he seemed to accept it.

"Are you going to send us away?" I asked.

My parents looked startled but my mom answered my question with relief.

"No, baby, of course not."

I was relieved and so was Lucas. They saw it in our faces.

"I'm so sorry we didn't tell you. But, this was exactly why. They are now after you, Lucas. And they will find out about you too, Sofia. Maleficent is back and she wants you." My mom said.

"Amanda." My dad said. "Brad is going to see the camera's tapes. We need to explain it to him before he thinks we let them do this." He looked directly at me, "How did you crossover?"

I told him all of it. He looked stunned when I had finished. Almost, mad at us or himself.

"You programmed yourself? In just a few hours? Alex must be smarter than Philby to get you up and running that fast. It took us months!" my dad said.

"Philby programmed us in a few hours!" my mom said.

"That was just you and Jess. Alex did all five of them." My dad said.

"I'll call Brad. So, do we tell him about them?" asked my mom.

"In person, tomorrow, after they get out of school. Get some sleep, you two."

With that, they left the room. I looked over to my brother who was staring at the ceiling.

"Now, what?" I asked him. He sat up and looked at me.

"We have to protect everyone, and not get caught." He said.

I nodded.

The next day, I went along with school as normal. Then, it was lunch. This was the first time we would see one of our friends since Lucas revealed his powers. I can't say I wasn't nervous. We've known each other since we were born and now they know that one of their best friends has abilities that we've never told them about.

I got there first. Alex was sitting at our table, his head down. He was on his laptop, as usual, probably doing next month's homework. I sat down next to him.

"Hey" I said.

He looked up at me. "You knew. We've known each other our whole lives and you two never said anything." He said.

"What was I supposed to say? 'Hey, by the way, Lucas and I have supernatural powers that could be considered a threat by the government.' Yeah, real conversation starter." I said, my sarcastic side coming out when I was angry. A few feet away, the water fountain burst up with water. I turned away, knowing why it was pushing all it's water out. Alex looked at me.

"You have powers, too." He said.

Just then, Lucas walked in the room I felt eyes watching him from somewhere. I looked around. Then, I spotted them: Noah Luowski and his group of bullies. I noticed something strange about them. They all had the same color eyes, a vivid green. Lucas sat down across from us. Alex looked at him, then me.

"You both have been keeping this a secret since you were born?" he asked.

"No, we got them when we were like 8. We decided it was better not to tell anyone. We thought we were the only ones. Now it turns out a group of them attacked Disneyland and then that our mom has powers."

"I'm sorry." He said suddenly.

"What?" I asked, caught off guard.

"I was mad at the both of you. We have been best friends since we were born. I guess I was upset that you didn't tell me this, but it was stupid of me. It would have been a huge risk to take. You were just protecting yourselves. I get it. If I had your powers, I wouldn't want someone to expose me." He said. "And I can't get over the fact that you saved my life last night. Lucas, if you hadn't stopped that fireball, we would be dead."

He half-smiled at Lucas before continuing. "My dad said we have a meeting with Brad today. He was pretty upset but my mom calmed him down. You're going to have to explain this to Emma and Eli. I do have one question." He said.

"Only one?" Lucas asked smiling.

"Okay, two. Number one: Why did you faint after using them? Can't you control them?" he asked.

"I overexerted myself. I wasn't ready for an attack. It took a lot of energy to redirect it. If I was ready for it, I could have done it with ease." Lucas said to Alex. Alex nodded, understanding.

"Number two: Do you have any more surprises for me?" he asked.

"Well…" I said. Alex's eyebrows raised into his ginger hair. Lucas helped me explain. He put his arm in front of Alex and pinched it.

"Ow!" I said, grabbing my arm.

Alex looked from me to my brother. Understanding dawned on his face as he watched me lightly backhand my brother, half-playfully and half-angrily. Before he could elaborate on our empathy, Noah Luowski came up behind us with his goons. Two of them put their hands on both of Lucas' shoulders, it felt very strong and very painful. I glared at Luowski, but under the table I grabbed Alex's hand and squeezed it, trying to indicate how hard they were gripping Lucas, but I don't think he got the message.

"Sofia, Lucas, Alex, what's up?" Luowski asked, but in an odd menacingly-nice way.

"What do you want, Luowski?" I said, quite tired of his demeanor. Normally, I wouldn't have felt that strongly, but when you looked at what we had been through in the last night, you would have gotten tired of stupid high school drama too. As soon as I spoke, his face twisted into an odd sort of smile.

"Just to tell you, that you have no chance in your quest." He said.

I could tell Lucas was getting angrier. His face turned a bright orange-red color. I glanced at Alex and saw he had noticed Lucas' change in color, as well.

"What quest?" Alex asked him. If looks could kill, Alex and Luowski were way past dead.

"Oh, you know, 'saving' the kingdom. I'm just here to tell you that you might as well stop trying."

I looked into his odd green colored eyes. Now that I got a good look at them, they didn't look like contacts.

"Those are contacts, right Noah?" I asked him, trying to make my voice sound sweet.

His eyes glinted malevolently as he walked away. I looked at Lucas who was slowly returning to his pale white skin color as opposed to the red it had been turning.

"You are hurting my hand." He said.

"What?" I asked. Then I realized that Alex and I were still holding hands, pretty tightly. We realized at the same time and let go, looking away sheepishly. Lucas had a slight grin on his face, with his eyebrows raised.

"Well," Alex broke the silence, "I think we need to ask this Brad character and our parents what we are up against. And if the villains can get kids from the real world to work with them."

"Woah," I said, "You think Luowski is some spy?"

"I do." He said back.

Just then, the bell rang. We all looked at each other.

"We need to do exactly what they don't want us to do. We need to keep my powers a secret and Lucas out of harm's way. Deal?" I asked them. They nodded and we headed out to our next class.