4: Surpassing
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AftertheWedding*
Our group returned to the stage, and this time they included me. They informed me that it was my turn to speak to the audience.
But I don't know what to say...
"Excuse me," I started, not knowing how to break the noise and chaos. In turn, they dropped whatever they were doing and listened intently. "Sorry to break into your amusements...but..."
My face became friendlier rather than scared, and called out to everyone, "ARE YOU GUYS HAVING FUN YET?"
They all cheered and clapped. I love you all! It feels so great to be liked by everyone.
Hmmm... What else can I say? I searched the place for Teacher Dorothy. When I spotted her and my parents, they all nodded, urging me to continue.
My stomach rumbled. Food! It's almost noon, and I bet they're all starving like me. Another one of my wild ideas popped in my head, and the thought of our preparation for the party flashed before me. Another risk, but I can't hold back any longer.
"So go on with what you're doing! I only want you all to know that food will be served to you in the most unique way, one that you haven't experienced before."
Again, they creased their foreheads, narrowed their eyes, or raised their eyebrows in bewilderment.
"Snap your fingers three times, say the name of the food you want to eat, snap them three times once more, and whatever you asked for will appear at once."
I called my friends to the center of the stage. Surprisingly, they understood that we had to ready ourselves for performing magic, and combined our powers in the air, sprinkling pixie dust with the multitude of colors everywhere. All of us shook hands and slapped high fives.
Riiya was the first one to try it. He followed my instructions and called out for an apple pie. It did appear, to all our surprise, with the most fancy icing and ice cream one can imagine.
"This is good!" he exclaimed, and licked the decorations much slower than he usually does. "The best apple pie I've ever eaten!"
Tears unexplainably welled up in my eyes as the audience also cheered. "I can't believe this. We've really outdone ourselves ever since we defeated Daimarou. I didn't know we still had such powers."
Cha-cha patted me on the shoulder. "Teacher Seravi must be proud of us now."
"Make that the whole Mochi-Mochi Mountain, the villagers, the monsters, our school, and my parents," I answered, sniffing, "I'm so proud of ourselves, Cha-cha!"
"I didn't know Riiya or Suzu had magic, too," Yakko commented, forgetting that all of us, including Teacher Seravi and Dorothy, contributed to the defeat of Daimarou through the love, courage, and hope we secretly possessed inside.
All of us congratulated and praised one another for the second time, the feeling of pride in ourselves passing through us once more. Nobody could protest, for this wasn't just an ordinary baby shower or grand celebration, in spite of the fact those kinds of events aren't average, either. We have proven to everyone present that the graduates of Urara Gakuen, or at least six of them, were able to make use of our abilities in magic to the fullest, which probably surprised all our teachers, too. Any magician our age would not have thought of all the booths and magic spells, and in case he did, he still wouldn't be able to conjure all the things we made, and I couldn't help being teary-eyed from that moment on.
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