"WHAT?" Lani shrieked. No way. There was no way that her mother, who claimed to love her, had asked one of Lani's worst muggle enemies to ride her precious horse.

"Victoria is a very good ride-"

"Victoria, is a very good sneaky, coniving, bragging little.. little... UGH,"Lani was about to call her a 'little witch', then quickly realized that she was, in fact, the witch.

"I'm going to ride now," Lani huffed before storming out of the kitchen to the barns. If she'd stayed and listened to her mother she'd have heard what she'd said.

Lani rode the big Chestnut-colored thoroughbred for an hour, before returning to the barn. But upon returning to the barn, Lani was astonished to see Dreamer standing in the cross ties, waiting to be tacked up. Suddenly Victoria came into view. Lani glared at her.

"Hello, Elana!", Victoria said in a sugary fake voice. Lani wondered why for a moment, then saw her mother had just passed the barns at that moment. As her mother passed, Victoria's pale face and blue eyes glinted devilishly as she scowled.

"So," Victoria said, patting Dream as if he was her horse, Lani was disguested. "I guess your mother finally got tired of having a brainless twit wandering around her stables. I knew it would have to happen some time."

"Shut up," Lani said, trying as hard as she could not to lose her temper.

"Awwww, did that hurt poor Elana's feelings?" Victoria said in a terrible baby voice.

"I said, SHUT UP! Lani yelled, Dreamer's head shot up at the sudden noise, and he snorted uneasily. "Sorry, boy." She muttered to the horse.

Victoria picked up her saddle, but before thrusting it onto the horses back, she said. "Oh, and I guess your mother's finally learned to keep bad riders off such promising horses, as well. I'm Dreamer's official rider for the time being. You know, seeing as I can actually control him and make him look good, as you never succeeded in doing. Though I guess nothing more should be expected with someone with such poor training and low intellect," Victoria sneered.

That was it. Lani had finally lost it. The saddle which Victoria had been holding suddenly exploded into microscopic pieces. Victoria stared at her saddle in mingled shock, terror, and anger. She then stalked off towards Dreamer, who'd broken one of his cross ties in fear at the sound of the explosion.

"Excuse me. I am not your groom, nor am I your servant. You will pick up this... mess of a saddle, which, if I may say so my self was very crappy indeed in the first place. Now... how did that happen?" She said. But she had said not one word of truth in those sentences. One, she knew that Victoria's saddle was very expensive indeed. She also knew exactly what had happened to the saddle. She'd lost her temper and her magic escaped her, causing the explosion.

Oh, well. She deserved it, Lani thought smugly, giving Dreamer a reassuring pat before heading up to the house to report what she'd done to dear Victoria.

***

Lani walked into the house, looking for her mother, but she passed the living room first. James was sitting there, intently watching the T.V set, which was on some other country's channel, speaking in a funny language. As Lani drew closer to the television, she recognized the language as Chinese and walked up to her brother, trying not to laugh.

"Er... James?"

The boy turned around and gave her a funny look.

He then said something strange, that sounded oddly like 'Knee high"

"Nihaw?" Lani questioned, repeating the word as best she could. James laughed and handed her a sheet of paper. It was ingredients to a potion.

It was a potion to make you speak and understand a foreign language. But you could only speak that language after taking the potion. You had to say the name of the language as you poured the potion into the vile. And the spell could only be taken off by another potion, which the ingredients on the back were for.

Lani immediately understood, her brother could temporarily only speak Chinese. She laughed, temporarily forgetting her anger and stress from earlier. Their step-mum finally walked in, confused by the way they were communicating by signals rather than language.

"What is this?" Their mother asked, confused at the entire situation, which Lani quickly explained, including her fight with Victoria (which was not, by far, unusual. In fact, it was one of the tiniest fights they'd ever gotten in.)

James raised an eyebrow in a questioning manner when Lani explained about her fight, because of their mum's reaction. She was stern and really didn't believe that such a 'wonderful girl' would say a thing like that.

Lani somehow managed to coax James to take the other potion so they could communicate again, which he did. Then he asked, "What happened?"

Lani explained it to him, and then asked where he found the potion and why he even wanted it. He explained that he found loads of it with their father's belongings and figured their dad wouldn't mind if he borrowed just a bit. He then searched the channels until he found a foreign language one. He said that the Chinese muggles are going to wage war against the British muggles, but they didn't particularly care, for they weren't muggles, and even the most powerful guns were no match for their magic.

"I found something else cool as well," He said excitedly. Then said "Hold on a second." Okay, Lani thought. ahh, whatever.

Suddenly she felt something she didn't like in her head and then someone said

Hello.

huh? who is this?

James! He started laughing.

Alright, this is scary, what is this?

It's something that brothers and sisters can do with each other... like think speak. isn't it cool?

"Er.... sure? Well, I mean- I guess. It's a little bit like invading my personal space, but I suppose It can be useful if you leave me alone most of the time.

Will do.

Lani felt the other consciousness leave her own and she was aware of the fact that she'd been standing for a long time and her legs were beginning to hurt.

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Okie-doke. You'll learn much more about Victoria later. I'm not getting many reviews, so I'm gonna try something new out for a chapter, I'm going to wait until I get 60 reviews (In total, so 14 more reviews) Before I post the next chapter. That's not too evil, right? I just love to know if people are reading my story and what they think of it!