!Chapter 3!

Spud had a good day, and a bad day, all in one day, but that day was yesterday. Fu-dog had taught him how to make basic self-defense potions incase something went wrong until he could defend himself better from magical entities, which was ok. All he had managed to learn that day in the way of spells was to order the water to take simple shapes, like a heart, a simple flower, and so on. But he did have a good time, trading jokes with Jake, and learning about the Magical World from Lao Shi, those were the good parts.

The bad parts were that Lao Shi had explained that sometimes, becoming a wizard wasn't heireditary, so he wasn't even sure he could tell his parents, which stunk on it's own level. Jake had told him in part about the Hunt's Clan, just something about a couple of humans who try to hunt magical creatures, or something like that, saying that he should just avoid them for now. He'd also broken his yo-yo.

But now he was on his way to school, holding the book, 'Magic' while skateboarding, waiting until he passed Trixie's house to put it away. He was in the middle of a section about demons, evil human-like(and some, very UN-human-like) creatures that mainly seemed to target humans that were TOO good, breaking up a group and going after them individually. One Spud would definitely have to look out for.

Once he was getting close to Trixie's house, he stopped, put the book away and then continued on.

"Hey, Trix." He greeted, casually.

"Hey Spud," Said Trixie, starting up her ride, and catching up to glide next to Spud, "What was that book you were readin'?"

"What book?" Asked Spud, hoping to play the 'innocent idiot' card.

After a long stare, "Nevermind," And it usually worked.

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Spud and his friends had just entered her sight, this should make it easy enough for herself. She initiated the start of her plan.

She went forward and intended to bump into the cap-wearing wizard, but he suddenly stopped, showing Trixie his broken yo-yo and commenting on how he was going to have to get a new one now.

Which meant she bumped into Jake instead.

"Oomph!" accompanied by "mmph!" escaped their lips as they fell to the floor, dropping her books, Rose hurried to pick them up, as did Jake.

"I'm soooo sorry, Rose!" Jake apologized profusely, "That was all my fault, really!" He said, quickly gathering the books and handing them to Rose, and then put out his hand, to help her up, which she took, and they were both up, Spud and Trixie watching from a safe distance.

"Oh, it's alright," She asked, although internally she was sort of frustrated her first attempt to get to Spud didn't work, "We were both kind of not looking where we were going. Look, I gotta go, I'll see you around, kay? Bye." And she left.

Trixie walked up to one side of Jake, Spud on the other, "I think she likes you, Jakie!" Said Trixie, draping an arm over his shoulder, Spud seemed oddly quiet, watching Rose leave.

"You think?" Asked Jake.

"Oh yeah, definitely, if you noticed, she was going the other way when we came in, but then she just turned around just to bump into you!" Trixie said.

Spud snapped out of whatever bad feeling he was having and turned to the other two, "Well, maybe she just forgot something this way and it was an accident?" He asked, having a smile on his face, "Either way, I'm not sure she's the right girl to get involved with."

Jake frowned, "What do you mean?"

"I don't know, I just get a weird feeling around her, that's all."

"Hmmph," Jake grunted, continuing onto class, obviously not trusting Spud's jugdement completely, "Well, we gotta get to class anyway, c'mon guys."

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Author's note: Sorry, it's short, I mean, really sorry, but I've got writer's block. I intended to have the fight with the Hunt's Girl versus Jake and Spud, but I'm still working on that, so I can't exactly do it yet. Anyway, hope you enjoy it!