Jessica brought out her own book and took out a magic wand.
"Whoa... A real magic wand..." Atticus said.
"This is my training wand, I can do magic with it, but it's not as powerful as a professional wand." Jessica instructed.
"Cool." Atticus smiled.
"You should get one sometime..." Jessica smiled as she took out her wand. "Hmm... What to do? Oh, how about something simple?"
Atticus shrugged with a small smile back.
Jessica soon waved her wand over a book. "Wingardium Leviosa."
The book soon lifted and levitated over from that.
"Ooh." Atticus beamed.
"I went to a special school for sometime..." Jessica smiled bashfully.
"Hogwarts?" Atticus smirked.
"WizTech." Jessica smirked back.
"Ooh." Atticus beamed.
"Maybe you'll go someday." Jessica smiled back.
Atticus took a look at the book. "'The Discovery of Magic'?"
"It has a lot of information on magic and all kinds of witchcraft." Jessica told her brother.
"Nice." Atticus said.
"This is our copy," Jessica smiled. "Mom and Dad's friend Edward Spellman handed it to us and I think you're ready for it."
"Really?" Atticus smiled back.
"I'd like to think so," Jessica nodded happily. "Anyway, your turn; repeat the same spell I did to levitate that book."
"What was it again?" Atticus asked.
"Wingardium Leviosa." Jessica said, but slowly so he would get it.
Atticus nodded and soon tried it. "Wingardium... Lasagna! ...Oh, no, wait..."
Random lasagna appeared and fell on his sister's head. Jessica looked mildly annoyed.
"Sorry." Atticus said.
"It's okay... It happens to the best of us." Jessica replied.
"Let me try that again." Atticus said.
"Please do," Jessica said. "How long can it take?"
Some time had passed and Atticus still struggled a bit, but finally...
"Wingardium Leviosa." Atticus finally said.
And where he was soon able to levitate a book up in the air.
Jessica soon fell asleep before waking up and seeing that. "Hey, you got it!"
"About time too." Atticus smiled.
"Like I said, it takes practice." Jessica smiled back.
"True." Atticus nodded.
Jessica soon took a break by eating some of the lasagna Atticus had magicked up by accident. After some time, she finally finished it.
"Was it at least delicious?" Atticus asked.
"Yes, thank you!" Jessica smiled.
"No problem." Atticus smiled back.
Jessica smiled as she hugged Atticus. Lena saw the siblings bonding, but bowed her head as she thought about someone she lost from a long time ago, thanks to something her Aunt Magica did, but the others would find out about that later.
"So what spell is next?" Atticus smiled at his older sister.
"Hmm... Maybe something simple..." Jessica said before taking out an apple. "Perhaps you could turn this apple into an orange."
"That sounds easy." Atticus smiled.
"I thought it might be a refresher from what we just did." Jessica smiled back.
Atticus soon concentrated while staring at the fruit to change it, and after a short time, he soon used his magic on the apple to change it. It seemed to turn into other foods before finally becoming an orange.
"Well done!" Jessica smiled.
"Whew, finally." Atticus smiled back.
"You'll get there soon enough." Jessica comforted.
"Thanks." Atticus smiled.
Jessica smiled back before they tried a few more magic spells together, and Atticus was slowly, but surely, getting better every time, which of course was a good thing.
Before everyone knew it, they were leaving Duckburg for a little while to explore. At first, it was for The Temple of the Golden Cricket, but then they were going somewhere else. Cherry fell asleep to some music on the way over as it was quite a long way away from Duckburg.
"The Temple of the Golden Cricket," Scrooge told the kids as he laid out a map on a table beside them as they listened to him, except for maybe Louie. "Every 50 years, at sundown, the golden cricket emerges singing its ethereal song. Some say the song holds the answer to life's greatest mysteries."
"That sounds amazing." Mo smiled.
"It really does." Jessica added.
"Many answers could be answered for ya," Scrooge smiled to the kids. "How did we get here? What's our purpose in the universe?"
"Wait, is that a neon hot dog?" Louie soon asked as he looked out the window.
This caused most of the others to rush over to the window Louie was looking out of. They in fact saw a neon hot dog sign which made them all look quite excited and amazed, even a bit hungry.
"Yes, yes, the city of Macaw is very exciting to look at, but you'll only find empty distractions there." Scrooge told the young ones.
"He's right, kids." Jessica added.
"I can't believe Uncle Gladstone is here!" Louie beamed.
"He's so charming." Huey added.
"And funny." Dewey smiled.
"He's like the luckiest guy in the world!" Cherry told the others.
"Yeah, but being lucky all the time tends to be boring." Atticus said.
"You would say that..." Cherry mumbled slightly.
Donald looked a little grumpy though as they talked about Gladstone. Atticus soon brought out a list of things Donald had to endure with Gladstone as his cousin.
"You made a list?" Cherry asked.
"Ahem..." Atticus cleared his throat. "A bus drove by, splashing Donald in the face while Gladstone found $20 on the street... Donald's cereal was bad while Gladstone found another $20... Donald found the money first only to get ambushed by bank robbers and Gladstone came out on top, making it into the newspaper-"
"Gladstone's the worst," Donald grumbled. "Just the worst!"
"Well, at least Donald didn't get arrested, right?" Mo smiled nervously at Atticus.
Atticus soon showed her the newspaper from the day that the bank robbery happened.
"Ooh..." Mo winced. "How unfortunate."
Donald rolled his eyes from that.
"Gladstone Gander is a complete layabout," Scrooge complained. "I don't know why we're responding to his call."
"It was a call for help." Webby reminded.
"And like Uncle Donald says, 'Family always helps family'." Huey quoted.
"Why did I say that?" Donald complained.
"Plus, he's easily our coolest uncle." Louie smirked.
"Hey!" Donald glared.
"Sorry, coolest non-trillionaire uncle." Louie then said, gesturing to Scrooge.
Donald smiled at first, but he frowned as he was still insulted.
"Hey! Donald's kinda cool." Atticus defended.
"Kinda..." Cherry chuckled dryly.
Suddenly, the plane was going straight down, wading a bit in the water.
"We're all gonna die!" Donald panicked, strapping himself down in his seat. "I've wasted my life!"
Fortunately, the plane wasn't sinking. The others soon looked at Donald who chuckled sheepishly to them from his outburst.
The plane soon docked on the shore and they ended up to the House of the Lucky Fortune.
"We leave for the temple in an hour," Scrooge stated. "Launchpad, I won't wait another 50 years to hear that cricket sing."
"Sure thing, Mr. McD, I was just gonna swing over and visit an old girlfriend from these parts; see, she's had some problems with the local crime family-" Launchpad started.
"Yes, fine, whatever. One hour." Scrooge interrupted, going off after his family.
Launchpad watched him go and soon stared in determination. "I'm coming for you, Ziyi."
They soon came into the house to look for Gladstone.
"Touch... Touch... Touch..." A boy who seemed really big for his age muttered as he touched everything on the wall.
"Will you stop that?!" The other boy asked him. "I don't wanna get kicked out."
"...Touch." The boy said, booping his nose.
"Ugh! Why?!" The other boy complained.
The others soon came in and looked around.
The bigger boy leaned over the smaller boy with a smile, shoving him down with his hands. "I think we got company!"
"Great..." The smaller boy muttered before teleporting somehow out of the way and ended up on the floor next to him. "Maybe you'd like to befriend them."
"Yeah, I guess I could make some new friends." The bigger boy said.
The smaller boy rolled his eyes playfully until he looked at Cherry and gasped to her. The other boy looked with him and gasped in the same way. Cherry looked around with the others, unaware that the boys looked at her like they were in love with her. The smaller boy and bigger boy both looked like they had heart-shaped eyes as they looked at Cherry. The others soon walked in.
"Well, here we are." Atticus smiled.
"I think we have company." Mo said, seeing the boys.
"They seem to be following Cherry." Louie said.
Cherry took a look around until the bigger boy seemed to sniff her hair and she turned around with a nervous smile. "Please don't smell my hair..."
"Yeah, that's a little creepy." Mo said.
"Sorry... Hi..." The boy smiled to her.
"...Bye." Cherry said, walking off from him.
The other boy soon appeared in front of her, seeming to come from nowhere. "I must apologize for my friend... You see, he needs a helping hand in the Social Skills Department." he then grinned to her innocently.
"Uh, no problem; also, how did you just appear out of nowhere?" Cherry asked him.
"Um... I was right in front of you the whole time!" The smaller boy smiled.
"Good for you, kid..." Cherry rolled her eyes and soon walked off. "I have a family matter, so not to be rude, but buzz off, both of you!"
The boys watched her go before sighing in unison. "She's amazing~..." They then looked to each other before glaring and growling at each other.
"I think those two might have a crush on you, Cherry." Atticus smirked playfully at his best friend/sister figure.
"What?!" Cherry complained.
"That's what it looks like." Atticus smirked playfully.
"Ugh..." Cherry groaned.
They were soon in the elevator together.
"Why did I wear green?" Louie complained to himself. "He always sees me in green."
"You always wear green, Dork." Cherry said.
"Like you always wear black and blue?!" Louie retorted.
"You're green like the little snot you are!" Cherry glared.
"Take it easy..." Donald told them.
"Yeah, take it easy." Atticus added.
Cherry and Louie stuck their tongues out at each other like bickering siblings.
"Yeah, if Gladstone's so great, then why did he call us for-" Scrooge added with deadpan, until...
"Help! No! Don't!" Gladstone's voice cried out as the elevator doors soon opened.
They soon rushed off to rescue Gladstone from danger. However, it turns out that Gladstone was being given a massage by a panda bear.
"Don't stop until you get that last kink out, Pei Pei." Gladstone told the bear as he got a massage with his back cracking, but he enjoyed it.
"The worst." Donald grumbled.
"Loose as a goose and ready to gander," Gladstone smiled as he walked over before brightening up to his company. "Kids! Uncle Scrooge. D-Money. I was so relaxed I didn't hear you come in. Pei Pei here is a miracle worker. Anyway, welcome to Macaw. Help yourself to everything."
"Ooh, don't mind if we do." Cherry said.
They soon flooded in to go and have some fun together. Dewey played with some spears before accidentally dropping them on the floor.
"Whoa, look at how high we are." Mo smiled out the window.
Webby put her head to the window with a giggle. "Try this! It feels like you're falling, but you're not!"
"Uh... I dunno..." Cherry said, a bit nervously as she had a fear of heights.
"You don't have to look out the window, Cherry." Atticus told her.
"Okay, take a look for me." Cherry told him.
The others soon went to look out the window, laughing as Webby had a point about how it felt. The two boys soon came in themselves.
"All right, Lionel, we're here... Do you see her?" The bigger boy smiled hopefully.
"Oh, God..." Cherry grumbled.
"Yeah, there she is." Lionel told him.
The two boys looked over. Cherry yelped as she ran from them in a panic and tried to hide before they could see her.
"I think we might be freaking her out, Thor." Lionel said.
"She just needs a hug." Thor smiled to his friend.
"I'm not so sure." Lionel told him.
Cherry poked her head out.
"Hey, where'd those kids come from?" Atticus asked.
"Those would be my visitors," Gladstone said. "Lionel Schwartz and Thornton Moltenscar."
"I told you I like to be referred to as Thor." Thor pouted to Gladstone.
"Right... Sorry... Thor," Gladstone said to him. "Oh, well, you know who you are."
"Hey, man," Lionel smirked to Atticus. "How ya doin'?"
"Pretty good." Atticus said.
"Hmm... You seem like a strong one." Lionel said.
"I try." Atticus smiled.
Thor soon came out, standing over the two.
"Whoa!" Atticus yelped. "Ooh... You're a big guy..."
"Thanks." Thor smirked as he ruffled Atticus's hair roughly.
Atticus laughed a bit. "Oh! Take it easy, buddy!" he then said.
"I love making new friends!" Thor beamed.
"He's always been the affectionate one." Lionel said to Atticus.
"I can tell." Atticus smiled.
"So, you guys know Gladstone?" Thor asked Atticus.
"A bit, yeah," Gladstone said. "Our guardian Donald certainly does anyway."
"Guardian?" Thor asked. "Um, were you adopted or something?"
"Not that there's anything wrong with that!" Lionel said so Atticus wouldn't feel bad.
"It's not like that; me and Cherry are just staying with Donald and his nephews and his Uncle Scrooge." Atticus said.
"Oh... Okay..." Thor smiled. "I hang around my uncle sometimes whenever he's not busy."
"But in the meantime, we kinda work for Gladstone." Lionel added.
"Does it get rather boring see him be lucky all the time?" Atticus asked.
Thor and Lionel shrugged, but they didn't exactly say 'yes'.
"Pretty boring..." Thor said before letting out a snoring sound to be funny.
"Close enough," Atticus said. "Anyways, he called and told us that he needed help."
"Oh, boy..." Thor rolled his eyes. "This should be good."
Atticus chuckled as Thor was kind of funny whenever he got deadpan like that.
"So, I thought you needed help." Scrooge said to Gladstone.
"Oh, I do need your help," Gladstone replied before showing his riches in an in-floor pool. "Spending all my winnings!"
"Lie!" Lionel shouted randomly as a lie detector.
"Oh, don't pay attention to him... He's just cranky..." Gladstone smirked.
"Why, you..." Lionel glared.
Donald and Scrooge gave Gladstone a look.
"Oh, lighten up," Gladstone told them before swimming around, spitting out some poker chips in Cherry's face as he came up with a joke by doing a poor imitation of Scrooge. "Hey, hey, guys, who am I? Haggis and top hats! Bless me bagpipes!"
"Oh, brother..." Atticus rolled his eyes.
The kids seemed to laugh at it on the other hand.
"This place is for no-account freeloaders looking to get something for nothing." Scrooge complained.
"Ah, that's true, Scroogey McBillions," Gladstone smirked. "And I am the best at getting something for nothing."
"Oh, he's got that right." Lionel rolled his eyes.
"Best uncle!" Louie beamed, jumping into the pool beside Gladstone.
"Thank you, Gladstone, for your inspiring message," Scrooge deadpanned before smiling to he kids. "If you'll excuse us, we have an improbably enchanted insect to inspect. To the temple!"
"Oh! Oh! That sounds a loooooooooot more cool!" Thor smiled.
"Please take us with you." Lionel begged Scrooge.
"Oh, but I want to stay," Louie pouted before coming up to Gladstone. "Show me everything. Especially the stuff you're not supposed to. Cherry, you wanna stay too?"
"No!" Cherry groaned. "The last thing I want is to be stuck with you on another misadventure. You really are the annoying pet monkey I wish I never got!"
"You can stay with Gladstone if you want." Thor told Louie.
"Sounds great to me!" Louie said.
"Come on, Berry-" Thor said.
"Cherry." The perky goth corrected.
"Close enough," Thor said, putting his arm around her. "Let's go see this temple, huh?"
"Please don't touch me." Cherry told him.
"You're funny." Thor smiled.
Cherry soon moved his arm and walked off in front of him quickly, feeling uncomfortable by him.
"What did I say?" Thor pouted.
"I'm sorry about her," Atticus said. "Cherry doesn't really like being touched."
"Oh..." Thor pouted as he looked to his hands.
"He can sometimes be sensitive." Lionel told Atticus.
"Really, big guy?" Atticus asked.
Thor nodded with a small smile. "You gonna make fun of my size? Everyone else does... Except maybe Lionel."
"Nope, I won't." Atticus told him.
"You don't think I'm some kind of freak?" Thor asked.
"Who called you a freak?" Atticus asked.
"Other kids..." Thor pouted. "They say I'm really stupid too."
"I keep telling you that you're not really stupid." Lionel told him.
"Thor, you seem like a cool guy," Atticus smiled. "I'd like to be your friend."
"Really?!" Thor beamed, going to hug him, but soon stopped.
"Oh, you can hug me, it's okay." Atticus said.
"Yay!" Thor beamed, hugging Atticus.
"Whoa!" Atticus yelped. "Wow, that's tight..."
"Yeah, Thor's strength is... Mm... How you say... Indescribable." Lionel told Atticus with an accent.
"I see that," Atticus said. "You ever play football?"
"Sometimes, yeah," Thor smiled before letting him go and he smirked. "Trust me, you don't wanna get tackled by me. I'm like a bear!"
"Just try me." Atticus smirked back.
Thor laughed, ruffling up his hair as they soon went off together. Louie soon began to join them.
"You coming, Louie?" Cherry asked. "Well, all right then."
"Smart decision." Atticus said.
"Just don't bug me." Cherry told Louie.
"I don't bug ya." Louie smirked.
"Yes, you do, and you know it!" Cherry glared at Louie.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. D-Squared, you came all the way out here," Gladstone said as he came over to them. "Let me show you guys around. It'll be good times."
'Oh, come on!' Atticus thought to himself.
Donald looked between Gladstone and Louie before sighing. "Fine... You can stay."
"I can?" Louie beamed.
"And I'm coming with you." Donald then said.
Louie soon groaned to that as Cherry laughed at him, making faces at the young duckling.
"And you're coming with." Donald told her.
"Huh?!" Cherry asked. "What did I do wrong?!"
"Come on, kids," Scrooge told the others. "Let them play Pai Gow with a bunch of biddies. We have a rip-roaring adventure awaiting us."
"Yeah!" The others cheered.
"Come on! Take meeee!" Cherry whined as the others went off without her.
Louie seemed to smirk while Cherry glared at him. Scrooge and the others soon arrived in the lobby.
"Come baaaack!" Cherry begged.
The others soon came out of the elevator and looked around the lobby.