Chapter 11. The Return.
Serenity arrived on time at the Kaiba Mansion to baby-sit Mokuba again. Joey had been okay, and had woken up in a few seconds, but had the bruises to show for it. She told Mokuba about it, and he stared at her, gobsmacked.
"How?"
"I don't know Mokuba."
"And you say Piper, Paige and Phoebe visited you."
"Yeah. I think they tried to talk to your brother too but he didn't take it too well."
"D,you think I could do that?"
"Dunno. Probably."
"Wow!"
"Don't get excited. Now get ready for bed."
"Okay Ren."
She walked downstairs to get her pay from Kaiba. He walked through the door to see her standing by the stairs. He dug around in his pocket for some money.
"How, and why did you do that?" she asked. No answer. "He's lucky to be alive!" she said. Still no answer. She scowled and thought of something else to ask him, but he suddenly stopped searching through his pocket, and raised a hand to his head. He walked towards the living room and sat down, his head in his hands.
"Kaiba, are you okay?" she asked concernedly… no answer. "Kaiba?" she asked again.
"Something's going to happen." He said, from his position in the chair, "Whenever I feel like this, I get attacked within minutes." Normally he would have never told her this, but his headache was such that he disregarded his pride.
"By who? How do you know?" He didn't answer the 'by who?' bit,
"I get a headache, worse than a migraine. It's like a voice is screaming in my head but I can't understand what it's saying." She listened intently, he continued; "Then I feel lots of dread, and then I feel wide awake, and then something happens." He mumbled. She could feel something like that too, but it wasn't as bad with her as Kaiba had described it. She was saying something to him, but her voice was growing distant, and he couldn't hear her properly anymore.
He closed his eyes, and suddenly, he remembered. Everything he'd lost those years ago. He remembered vanquishing demons, orbing, healing, and reading the Book of Shadows. It felt like a lost part of his mind had returned to him. He marveled at this sensation, but began to lose it when he sensed a demon fade in. Serenity whispered;
"Oh my God, Kaiba!" and shook his arm. The demon now had a fireball in his hand, and waited for a response from Kaiba. He stood up to face the demon, who threw the fireball. He ducked and it hit the wall behind him. Kaiba flicked his wrists and spread his fingers, sending a fatal assault at the demon. It hit him dead on and the demon burst into flames and vanquished. But as the former had appeared, so did another, who threw yet another fireball. He held up his had and said;
"Fireball." in a demanding tone. It became a cascade of blue lights and changed its direction, flying back towards the demon. It became fire again just before it hit him, and he yelled in pain as he was destroyed. It was silent for a few seconds, both of them were too gobsmacked to speak. Kaiba looked down at his hands again, before looking at Serenity, who just said;
"I thought you didn't believe in magic."
"I didn't." he replied.
Kaiba called a limo and took Serenity home. To start with neither of them spoke, he didn't particularly want to talk to the mutt's sister, but she decided it was time to break the silence.
"Piper Paige and Phoebe told me that you couldn't control your powers," She said quietly, "what happened?"
"I remembered. Everything I was forced to forget came back in the few seconds before, including control."
"They told me. They've been doing their homework about you."
"I know. What did they tell you?"
"That I had powers…"
"Like what?"
"I quote: Empathy, Premonition, Levitation, Partial Shapeshifting and Telepathy."
Kaiba nodded at this. "So, you have full control now then?" she asked,
"I hope so. But the key to controlling Particular Manipulation is knowing how to control your temper." He said, surprising himself that he could recall this information.
"Oh." She said quietly. Could Kaiba do that? Such questions were philosophical. "I'll get out here this time, I don't need Joey yelling again." She said, "See ya Kaiba!" she wasn't expecting an answer, but he excelled himself;
"Bye." Not exactly cheerful, but it was an improvement, she thought, and walked into the house to find her brother, listening to the limo driving away.
Once again, I find myself completing another chapter. Hope you liked it lol!