Lucas hadn't gotten his wish. His mom had been so mad when he had gotten home the night before, but he was lucky he had been able to keep the jar hidden from her until he had walked up to his room.

Lucas looked at the ceiling thinking of the night before. Victor had actually brought a dead fish back to life! And not only that, he had made it invisible.

He felt a bit guilty for telling those three boys, but maybe they could become friends. If Victor found out he told them, he would be infuriated, but since those boys didn't believe the curse, they would befriend Victor and he wouldn't be so mad at him.

Lucas sat up in bed and turned to look at his bedside table that had the jar on it. He reached over and lifted it with one hand, while twisting off the top with the other.

"Hmmm….I should give you a name, shouldn't I?" he mumbled staring down into the seemingly empty water.

Despite seeing the large scary fish's shadow on the wall and it biting Bob last night, he wanted to touch it. He nervously reached a shaking finger down into the jar, and swished it cautiously around. He felt…nothing. Getting extremely worried, he shoved his whole hand down in the jar and desperately waited for his hand to grasp something.

There was nothing. The fish was gone! But how could that be? It had been there last night!

Victor would know! He had to get over to Victors house.

Lucas was a bit annoyed that he had to wait threw all his daily lessons before he could go over to Victor's house, but he was mostly worried. His heart pounded in his chest as he listened to his teacher drone on and on about history, science, literature…

When his lessons were over, he raced to his room to grab his coat and the jar which now contained no fish, and then hurried over to Victor's house.

"Victor!" he gasped when Victor stepped out of his house and closed the door.

"What is it?" Victor questioned with a worried look on his face, sensing this was bad.

"Something's wrong with my fish!" he cried, "It's not there anymore!"

"Maybe it hopped out," he said, his face becoming a lot less worried, "Did you have the lid on?"

Lucas looked down. He couldn't tell Victor he had told. But at least it hadn't been people who lived in the town…that would have cause a lot of problems for Victor, because even if he hadn't said Victor had risen it from the dead, they would already assume it. All because of that 'curse', which Lucas was starting to wonder if it actually was true after all…

"Yes! Ever since…," he said, trying to come up with a believable lie. "Since I left your house. I mean, it was there when I went to bed."

Victor looked away from him as he started thinking of a possible answer. Victor seemed to know as little about the situation as Lucas did.

Lucas shifted awkwardly in place a bit embarrassed about the silence. He searched his brain for a possibility to end the silence.

"I'm thinking," Lucas started, "that maybe they don't last. Maybe they're only there for a little bit and then they're gone."

Victor's eyes widened fearfully. He opened the door suddenly and entered the house, slamming the door without saying anything else.

Lucas stood on the porch in silence. He knew Victor probably wasn't going to come back out so he decided to go see Bob, Nassor, and Toshiaki.

What was he going to do if they told someone? If they told someone that lived in the town they would automatically believe them. If it was not then they probably would think they were just a couple of kids fooling around…

He really didn't want to get Victor in trouble. Victor would be kicked out of town if anyone knew. Maybe his whole family.

Though what if it was for the best? It was almost stupid to think the curse wasn't true. If bringing back Sparky from the dead wasn't enough proof, then nothing was.

But Victor was his friend. Victor wouldn't hurt anyone ever. So he may be cursed, but that didn't make him a bad person.

Lucas tore out of his thoughts and looked to see the three boys come into view. When they saw him, they immediately got up and walked over to him.

"That fish you showed us, was it real?" Toshiaki questioned. "I asked my mother and she said it was impossible."

"It was!" Lucas cried. How could he prove it to him if the fish was gone? "And it was dead too!"

Lucas gasped. He hadn't…he hadn't just told them…

"You brought a dead animal back to life?" Nassor asked amazed.

His heart beat furiously in his chest. He knew he shouldn't tell on Victor…but he couldn't say that he did it. If the rest of town found out…his mother.

"N-No. Victor did…With lightening, and boom, and ssss…"

"Impossible," Toshiaki stated.

They didn't believe him…he had to say something that would convince them he was telling the truth. He couldn't get his family kicked out of town and called 'cursed'.

"I swear! I mean, he brought back his dog," Lucas admitted sighing.

"He brought back his dog?" they asked.

Lucas only nodded guiltily. He had told. He hoped if Victor ever found out that he could forgive him. Maybe he could get the three to keep quite.

"Please," he begged, "Promise you won't tell anyone!"

The three exchanged glances and nodded.

"We promise," Nassor and Toshiaki said in unison. "This shall only be known by us four."

Lucas sighed in relief. A huge weight lifted from his shoulders knowing that they were going to keep quite. It was kind of like they were a team almost.

"And Victor," Lucas added.

"Only he knows how to do it?"

"Yes. I've seen him do it but I don't know how it works," he replied.

"We'll find out how," Toshiaki said thinking. "And then we'll try it out…"

"What?!"

They wouldn't…That would only cause more problems. And a huge risk of them all getting in a lot of trouble.

"You can't! It'll make things wors-"

"Either you help us or we'll find someone that will."

He sighed and stared at the stone ground.

"Fine…I'll help."