Ch. 8- The Girl Who Controls the Wind
"YOU ATE THE KAZE KAZE NO MI?!?" Shanks screamed.
Victoria slowly nodded and began to cry, "I'm so sorry. I didn't think it would do anything and it was an accident. I pulled it out of my bag and looked at it for a little while because I didn't know what it was doing in my bag. Then my little brother jumped onto my back and scared me so bad that the fruit was sort of hurled into my open mouth and I accidentally took a bite. It tasted really good, so I just finished it thinking that it wouldn't do anything. I thought you could just buy or find it anywhere."
"Well, this is just great. You ate a valuable fruit that is hard to find." Shanks groaned.
"Well, get it out of her." Johnny argued.
"I can't get it out of her! She ate the fruit and once somebody eats it, they lose the power to swim and they will never get rid of the fruit!" Shanks shouted.
"It's called 'digestion'. It should be out of her soon." Elie said from next to Kurt.
"Elie, now its time for you to learn something new about health. This fruit can't be completely digested. It stays in the body along with the powers to control the wind." Shanks admitted.
"Well, on the plus side, Victoria now has the power to fight with wind." Maura said. "Go ahead and try something out, Victoria. You got this power, you might as well use it."
"No! Don't you dare! You'll end up doing something stupid!" Shanks ordered. He turned to Victoria again with an angry look on his face, "I can't believe you! You are supposed to be the normal one in this class who never does anything stupid like eating something you know nothing about!"
"Hey! It's called an accident! She didn't mean to eat it!" Maura argued.
"You stay out of this unless you want to get into any more trouble than you're already in! Accidents are sometimes inexcusable! Maybe that's something your last teachers or even your own families should have taught you! That last part goes to everyone else in this classroom, even the ones that didn't come to the ship yesterday." By now Shanks was unable to control the tone of his voice and had no idea how loud he was getting, "I am so pissed off with all of you right now that I am actually very tempted to beat all your asses until they are black and blue like Kurt and Elie's faces! I don't care who you are or even if you didn't go on the trip yesterday!"
His rage was getting stronger and stronger. He was now close to shouting at the group in front of him. So far, only Kurt, Elie, and Larry looked unphased at the loud voice. Lynn, Johnny, and Kyler only looked slightly phased at the yelling. Maura and Victoria, on the other hand, looked scared to hell. Shanks' plan was working even though he didn't know that it was. Most of his students were getting scared at his voice and sooner or later, they would not be the little hellraisers they were when he first saw them.
"Dude…your face is matching your hair." Larry said to Shanks. "It looks cool."
"Aren't you supposed to be out of this school already?" Shanks asked with no emotion in his already angry voice.
"That's the plan. I'm only going to be here for another month or so." Larry answered.
"The end of the school year is in three and a half months. Of course you're going to be out of here." Maura answered. The faint smell of smoke was coming from behind her ear. Something was hidden behind her ear and Shanks knew what it was.
"Maura, how old are you?" the man asked the girl.
"Fifteen. Why?" Maura asked.
Shanks did not answer her, but instead grabbed a bucket from the closet and left the room. He headed down the hall to the top floor bathroom and filled the bucket two thirds of the way full with water. Once finished with the filling, he headed back to the classroom. The door was still open like he had left it, but no longer were Kurt, Elie, Maura, and Kyler crowded around Johnny and his lap top. Kurt and Elie were standing around Kurt's desk while Maura and Kyler were standing by Kyler's. Shanks gave no warning as he poured the bucket of water over the top of Maura's head.
Maura let out a little cough as the water dripped from her red hair and down her face, some of it entering her nostrils and her mouth. She looked down at her soaked clothes. Her jeans were partially soaked as were her thin blue tennis shoes. Her green T-shirt was stuck tightly to her skin. She moved her bangs from her eyes as she looked at Shanks angrily, "You…"
"Dude, what the hell?!" Kyler asked in defense of his girlfriend.
Shanks placed the bucket down and stuck his hand behind Maura's ear. When he brought his hand back three seconds later and in between his thumb and main finger was a soaked cigarette. "It seems that Ben has taught you a way to hide your cigarettes, but it won't work on me. A fifteen-year-old shouldn't be smoking and I'll be damned if I will allow someone of a young age smoking while I'm around."
"You are a complete bastard…" a pissed off Maura said to Shanks.
"And you're a little smart-ass bitch. Get used to it." Shanks responded to Maura. He turned to the rest of the class and said, "Now, if you all don't want me to do something else to piss you off, I'd suggest you all sit in your own seats…NOW!!!" He said the "NOW!!!" part louder than the rest of the sentence, causing the ones that weren't sitting to sit quickly in fear of what was happening.
"Johnny, turn off that lap top." Shanks ordered. "And Lynn, get off that communicator."
"It's called a cell phone." Lynn argued.
"I don't care. Turn it off." Shanks ordered in a voice that clearly said that he didn't give a damn what the device was called, he just wanted it off. The voice worked because both Lynn and Johnny turned off their devices.
Shanks walked to his desk and stood in front of it. "Okay, I took the time to forget about that damn Harry Potter book so we can read something a little bit more interesting. I grabbed two books from the library so pick whichever one you want. You have a choice between Where the Red Fern Grows and Howl's Moving Castle. Any of you ever read one of them?"
Victoria timidly raised her hand, "I've read both of them. They're both good books, but the second is the more interesting one."
"Good, then it's settled. Our new book is going to be Howl's Moving Castle not only because it probably really is the more interesting book, but the title is shorter. However, before we do that, it's time that I got around to teaching you something about physics. Maura, come here." Shanks ordered. Maura only gave him a hateful glare as the water rolled down her body. "Fine. If you don't, then I guess I could easily go to your brother and his wife and have them deal with you again." That got her.
As Maura walked up to Shanks, a metal plate from inside the class closet was placed into her hands. She was confused at what was placed in her hands and became even more confused when Shanks moved her hands up towards her chest so that the small plate was covering the heart of the smoker.
"And we're supposed to be doing what exactly?" Maura asked sarcastically.
"Just shut up and stand still and for the love of God, do not move." Shanks told her, whipping out his handgun and placing a bullet inside. Instantly, the others had an idea of what he was going to be doing.
"You're not going to shoot her are you?!" Victoria shouted in defense of her best friend.
"Of course not." Shanks answered. A breath of relief from Kyler and Victoria. "I'm going to shoot the metal plate in her hands."
"WHAT?!?" Victoria screamed, "Didn't you notice how small that plate is?!"
"She's going to die." Kurt added, indicating at Maura.
"She will not." Shanks simply answered.
"Yes she will. There's no way any bullet will let her get away alive even if it hits that plate." Kurt argued with the man.
"Maura won't even get injured." Shanks explained.
"She'd better not!" Kyler shouted.
"Yeah. I got work tonight." Maura added to her boyfriend's shout.
"Don't worry, Maura Beth. You'll be fine. Now stand still and don't move." Shanks raised his handgun at the metal plate in Maura's hands. "Any last words, Maura Beth?"
Maura nodded and put a ticked off look on her face, "Yeah. Don't call me Maura Beth, just call me Maura. Also, if I die, I'm coming back to haunt the hell out of you."
Shanks smirked at Maura and replied, "That's a risk I'm willing to take." He backed away from Maura until both him and the girl were six feet apart. The gun was aimed and after taking a deep breath, the trigger was pulled.
The bullet from Shanks' gun ripped through the air and hit the middle of the metal plate, in between the thin fingers of Maura Anders. The force from the bullet was strong, so strong that the girl was pushed back several feet and onto her behind, but not before her back hit the corner of Larry's desk. The bullet was, thankfully, not strong enough to kill her.
"Maura!" Victoria screamed. She ran to her best friend with Elie and Kyler behind her. Victoria let out a sigh of relief as Maura was helped onto her feet by herself and Kyler. She was even more relieved when Elie placed a hand on Maura's back and said, "No broken bones. She's okay."
"Why the hell did you shoot her?!" Kyler asked, staring at the man with invisible flames in his brown eyes.
"Yeah, Bastard." Maura added, "Why didn't you shoot Lynn? She doesn't work like I do."
"Because Lynn would have moved and if I killed or injured her, I probably would have gotten fired." Shanks explained.
"Oh boo-hoo." Maura answered, throwing the metal plate pierced with the bullet to her right.
"Ow! That hurt, you bitch!" Lynn screeched as the metal plate Maura threw hit her head.
Shanks did not yell at any of the two girls. In fact, he enjoyed what had happened between Maura and Lynn. "That, kids, signifies force and velocity. The bullet I fired at Maura was going at such a high velocity that if she wasn't protected by the plate, the force would have been so strong that she would have been seriously injured or even killed. Lynn, however, was not protected and was only slightly injured due to the fact that Maura threw the plate with weak velocity."
"You're an asshole." Maura muttered. "But at least the bitch deserved what she got."
That got Lynn angry…again. Because of that last sentence that Maura said about her, Lynn got around to flying insults at Maura. That spelled trouble. Shanks knew that even though he hardly knew both girls. He knew enough to know that Maura would retaliate soon if he didn't do something to stop her. He was too late. Both girls began screaming at each other and not more than a minute later, things—mostly pencils, pens, and make-up from Lynn—began flying.
Most of the classmates were able to dodge the items being thrown and although most tried, the throwing would not let up. Victoria was the only one that was unable to dodge Lynn's items. At first, a few ricocheted off her skin and clothes, but when books started to get thrown, that was when she began to get scared.
Victoria could not exactly explain what happened next. All she remembered was that she ate the fruit that gave her the power to control wind and she wanted to use that to protect herself even though she was ordered not to. Before she knew it, a little wind barrier protected her against the books that were being thrown. Strangely enough, that actually stopped the throwing.
"Rumo lnyb Victoria." Johnny shouted at the girl with the tornado barrier.
The barrier did not last long, probably about forty seconds at the most. Thankfully, it was not a strong barrier, only a little one that also happened to cast a little breeze in the room, ruffling loose papers laying on the floors and desks. That did no, however, mean that Shanks was not angry with what Victoria had done even if she did not mean to cast the barrier.
"Hey! I told you not to do anything with your new powers!" Shanks screamed at the eater of the Kaze Kaze no Mi.
Victoria cringed at the voice coming from the man that was supposed to be teaching her class things. It wasn't really her fault that she used the powers. She honestly thought he was kidding around when he said that she had the power to control the wind. Besides, she wasn't anything special so why would she even have powers in the first place? She didn't even know what she was doing when she did her barrier. "I-I'm sorry. I didn't even know what I was doing. It just happened." She managed to get out.
"It just happened? That's the best excuse you could come up with? I thought you would have been smarter than that, Victoria. I thought that you were the one little bastard in this room that actually had the sense to listen to something I said. I guess I was wrong." Shanks said without thinking about what he had said to the timid girl. His attention was changed as soon as he saw Kyler raise his hand. "What is it?!"
"Dude, are you related to Gordon Ramsey or something?" Kyler asked.
"Who?"
"Gordon Ramsey. You know, the guy from Hell's Kitchen. You're kinda acting like him."
"I don't know who this Gordon Ramsey is, so no I'm not related to him. Now stop asking stupid questions."
Victoria cringed again as she heard her teacher yelling again like the man Kyler was talking about. She hated listening to Gordon Ramsey yelling and screaming at his poor victims if they weren't quick enough with something or if they weren't perfect with what they created and had to start all over again. "Mr. Shanks!" she called. Shanks' attention was once again upon her. "I'm really sorry about what I did. I promise that I'll never ever do that again if you'll just stop screaming at us!"
Shanks walked over to Victoria and looked deep into her violet eyes. The emotion that was expressed with them admitted that she was telling the truth and wouldn't do it again. "Fine." He told her. Shanks turned to the others and said in a voice slightly softer than the one he used to yell at the other kids, "The rest of you little bastards better thank her. I could go on like this all day with you all."
The others in the room, save for Lynn, gave out a muffled, "Thank you, Victoria."
Shanks smiled at the rest, "Good. Now those of you not sitting, sit in your seats. It's time for us to be doing some reading." The ones not sitting sat in their assigned seats. Shanks walked back to his desk and picked up Howl's Moving Castle. "Okay, this is how it's going to work. I only have one copy of this book and I'm not going to be reading the whole thing out loud, so I'm going to give the book to each of you to pass around and read a few pages. I also want you all to pay attention because I will be asking questions at the end of our little reading-thing and there will be a homework assignment graded by me. Those of you that refuse to do what I tell you will be punished."
"Well, you can't punish me. If you do, my parents will go to the school and you'll be fired." Lynn boasted.
Shanks' smile did not leave his face. "That's a risk I'm willing to take. Lynn, you may not know this but I'm not going to be leaving any time soon. I'm the only one that is willing to sit with you guys, so you're stuck with me and there's no way I'm going to be fired." It wasn't a lie. On the day Maura and Lynn fought in the cafeteria, while Sarah was explaining the thing with Lynn's parents practically running the school, he found out that nobody else would take the job but him.
The book was opened up to page one with the man's fingers on his one hand and the title of the first chapter was read out loud by him: In Which Sophie Talks to Hats. He read about two pages before stopping and handing the book to the closest one of his students: Elie. She only stared at him as the book was placed in her small hands. "Come on, Elie. I don't want to have to tell your father about you not obeying me in class." Shanks told her. That got her start.
"…So when a few months after that, a tall black castle suddenly appeared on the hills above Market Chipping…." Elie read aloud with a strange high pitch in her voice, showing her terror for what the man told her he would do if she had not obeyed him.
After ten minutes and two page turns, the book was removed from Elie's hands and handed to Kurt, who was sitting behind her. Like Elie had done earlier, the boy just stared at Shanks as the book was placed in his muscular hands. "Read." Shanks ordered. "Or I will tell your mother about this and I'm sure she'll give you the same punishment that Elie's father would give her if I told him." Also, like Elie, that got Kurt to start.
"The bootboy brought back a scribbled note from Lettie…." Kurt read emotionlessly, showing that he personally didn't give a damn about what was going on in the book. That didn't bother Shanks, though because he didn't care either. As long as the little hellraisers were obeying him, nothing else mattered.
Another ten minutes and two page turns passed before the book was removed from Kurt's hands and placed into Maura's. Maura did not need to be told to read by Shanks. She did it willingly although the reason for that was unknown. "Sophie talked to hats more and more as weeks went by. There was no one else much to talk to…."
Another ten minutes and two pages turns went by before the book was passed back to Kyler. At first the boy looked dumbly at the book in front of him. He did not look like he didn't care for reading like Kurt and Elie had, but he did look like he was having problems with something.
"Go ahead, Kyler. Read." Shanks ordered.
Kyler took a deep breath and started, "His sleeves tr…tra…" That's as far as he got before he turned the book towards Johnny and pointed at the word he did not complete.
"Trailed." Johnny told him.
"Trailed longer than any in the Square, all…uh…" Kyler continued.
"Scalloped." Victoria said.
"Scalloped edges and…" Kyler continued.
"Silver insets." Johnny and Victoria told him.
Like Maura, Elie, and Kurt, Kyler turned the pages in the book twice. Unfortunately, due to the fact that every few words Kyler had to ask Johnny, Victoria, and sometimes even Maura, how to pronounce the many he couldn't, he did not read for ten minutes. It took more like thirty-five minutes before the book was passed onto Larry.
"She was wearing Lettie's second-best blue dress, a wonderful blue that suited her perfectly…." Larry read slowly yet clearly. He turned two pages and read for seventeen minutes before Shanks took the book from him and handed it back to Johnny.
"She thought and thought, most of the following week, and all that happened was that she became confused and disoriented…." Johnny read with absolutely no difficulty and no hesitation. Of course, that did not mean that he did not sound upset about having to read out loud. Personally, the only things he liked reading were video game guides and books on computer hacking. Everything else did not interest him in the least.
Shanks forced Johnny to stop after he turned three pages and twelve minutes passed and for that, Johnny was grateful. That would be the end of him reading something that did not interest him for the rest of the day. The book was again passed to the next person and that one person was the girl who chose this book in the first place: Victoria.
"She thought about her situation, quite calmly. Everything seemed to have gone calm and remote…." Victoria read with a pleasing tone in her voice. She made sure that everyone heard her and with each dialogue that was spoken, whether the character speaking was a man or an old woman, she made the absolute perfect pitch. It seemed that all the characters she spoke as and described were coming alive with every word and sentence she spoke.
Shanks did not want her to stop, but after seeing her flip through three pages in the same time Johnny had, he decided that it was time for her to give the book to the girl sitting behind her: Lynn, so that the little brat would have a chance to read no matter how badly she didn't want to.
Lynn growled, "I can't believe you're making me do this. I'll make sure you pay for this."
"Just read, Lynn." Shanks ordered tiredly, "We're all waiting for you."
Lynn muttered something unknown, but then continued to read in a bored voice, "She collapsed onto a stone by the wayside, wondering what she would do now…." She turned one page and read for nine, almost ten, minutes before stopping. She then said, "That's the end of the chapter."
Shanks was about to tell her to continue onto the third chapter, but never quite got the chance. The bell for lunch rang. Lynn threw the book off to the side and the eight classmates ran like hell out of the top floor classroom and down to the cafeteria for lunch.
The man let out a disappointed sigh as he picked up the discarded book off the ground. He got the rest of his students to do what he ordered, but they were still being difficult. On the plus side, though, at least it seemed like they were getting better although he needed a little bit more work with Lynn, Kyler, and Maura.
Before leaving for the cafeteria, Shanks placed Howl's Moving Castle back on his desk and grabbed Where the Red Fern Grows. The second book would be returned to the library as the class would not be reading it.
The library was on the way to the cafeteria, so that would be the first stop before he went to get something to eat. Wendy, the assistant librarian was not there when he returned the book, but the main librarian, a woman in her 40s, was there and took the book back gratefully. Shanks smiled at her and headed to the cafeteria.
Johnny, Victoria, Maura, Kyler, Elie, Kurt, and Lynn were seated in the same spots they were in the other day. They were even doing the same things they were doing the day before, talking, giggling, and eating. Their food, however, was not the same as it was two days ago. Instead, on their paper plates were a few triangle shaped foods with what looked like deep fried potatoes.
"So, what's for lunch?" Shanks asked as he walked over to Brenda the lunch lady.
"Pizza and fries. So, which pizza toppings do you want? We got cheese, pepperoni, and supreme." Brenda answered.
Shanks had to think for a moment. He'd never heard of pizza and fries before, but he liked the sound of pepperoni, so that's what he decided to choose. "Pepperoni." He answered.
Brenda smiled and handed him a little box, for which he thanked her for and left the cafeteria and headed back towards the teacher's lounge.
There were still a few empty seats at the table in the lounge so Shanks took the closest one to the end, the chair in between Manson and Sarah. In his box were two medium sized triangle shaped foods that the other kids were eating topped with melted cheese, tomato sauce, and little pepperoni slices. Also in the box was a little bag of the deep-fried potatoes, the fries and a container of cranberry juice.
Shanks ate slowly not only to savor the delicious yet salty pizza and fries, but to see if another fight would come in the lounge or the office between Lynn and Maura.
Sarah seemed to know the fighting reason for why Shanks was eating so slowly, so she explained calmly, "Don't worry. Lynn and Maura won't be coming in here fighting. Maura already has detention for another two days, so she wouldn't do anything to add on more days."
She was correct. In the twenty minutes Shanks spent eating in the teacher's lounge, not one fight between any student in the school came. It was a peaceful lunch that was not ruined. He explained to Manson and Sarah what he had done with the reading and apparently, they both found it hilarious for reasons unknown to Shanks. He considered explaining to them about Victoria and what she'd done eating the Kaze Kaze no Mi, but stopped himself. His class already thought of him as being crazy when he explained it to them, so how would the principal and vice principal be any different?
There was still plenty of time left over by the time Shanks was finished with his meal, twenty minutes at the most, so he chose to take a little walk before heading back to class. A good walk around the large high school seemed like a good idea. In fact, a few other students thought the same as they were walking around, laughing and giggling amongst each other. Some of the students he came across even smiled at him as they walked by. Now, why can't the hellraisers be like that? Shanks wondered as he continued walking with a cool breeze beating against his face.
Suddenly, he heard two familiar voices.
"So, your parents said that it was okay for me to sleep over tomorrow?"
"Sure. They like you. Just don't bring your cigarettes."
"You know I won't, Victoria. I never bring my cigarettes to your house. I don't even smoke around your family…except for that one time your dad caught me during that student/parent/teacher conference."
"I know, but still…"
The two original voices were interrupted by three others that weren't familiar to them at all.
"Well well well, what have we got here? A lost little bar girl with her farm girl friend?" a very deep male voice taunted.
"Yeah, you two aren't allowed on this part of the school." A slightly lighter male voice added with a laugh.
"We're allowed to be anywhere on this school whenever we please. You guys don't own this school." The first familiar voice snapped.
"Wrong, Maura. Our parents along with the Perrys are funding this school, so we do own it." The final voice, a high pitched female said.
"Yeah, so turn around and go back to where you belong before we make you." The first male voice said.
"Oh? What are you going to do with us? Throw money at us and hope that we get scared and run away?" Maura asked with sarcasm in her voice.
"Maura, don't start." Victoria said, "I don't want to end up doing something stupid again."
"Fine, then we'll just keep continuing with our walk then." Maura said simply.
A few footsteps in the gravel were heard before the deepest voice said, "Maybe you two didn't hear us. You are on the wrong side of the school. Get back inside!"
No comeback was heard, just walking in the gravel. Finally, the second male voice shouted, "Get them!"
Shanks ran to the back of the school, where the voices were originally heard. Sure enough, there were Maura and Victoria. Unfortunately, rather than there being just three others like Shanks had heard, there was a small crowd filled with what looked like fifteen teenagers crowded around the girls. Rocks were being thrown, insults were being shouted, and fists were swinging…and those were by the fifteen others.
Maura was grabbing a hold of Victoria's hand and attempting to walk away from the crowd while Victoria obediently followed her. After ten seconds, it was shown that the fifteen were not about to let the girls walk away as they created a wall around the two girls, preventing them from leaving. It was at that time that Maura attempted to fight back. Victoria did not. In fact, she looked like she was holding back her powers or at least trying to. It did not look easy with the girls pulling on her long, dark hair and the boys throwing rocks at her. Both girls were out-numbered and she knew it.
Finally, Victoria couldn't hold it in anymore. She was getting beaten for an unfair reason and now it was time for the fifteen abusers to pay. "STOP!!!" Victoria screamed. A huge gust of wind exploded out of her and pushed the fifteen abusers and her best friend into the school building and the few random trees around the school.
The fighting stopped and the fifteen abusers stared at Victoria in disbelief, some in fear. What she had done was…unnatural and rather freakish. She manipulated the wind and caused them to fall into the building and the trees and if she could do it once, she would likely do it again.
"Retreat!" a boy dressed in baggy pants and a tight shirt shouted. The other fourteen abusers ran back into the building after him.
"Mr. Shanks, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to use my powers. I really didn't. It was an accident and I know I promised that I wouldn't do it again, but…please don't punish the rest of the class because of what I did." Victoria cried after she noticed that Shanks had been watching what she had done.
Shanks ignored her and walked to Maura, who was sitting against the back of the school building. "Are you okay, Maura?"
"Ow! Son of a bitch…yeah, I'm fine." Maura muttered as she got back onto her feet.
"Are you sure? Your cheek is bleeding." Shanks asked.
"WHAT?!?" Maura screamed. She reached into her back pocket and whipped out a little make-up mirror similar to what Lynn had. She looked into the mirror and saw that he was right. There was a small cut on her cheek, possibly from when one of the rocks hit her face and it was bleeding a little. "Shit!" Maura shouted before running back into the school with Victoria following her.
Shanks was upset again at Victoria for breaking her promise, but realized that this time it really wasn't her fault although she was going to have the hell of a time explaining this to people when they asked her about the wind attack she did. She could not get a strong hold of her emotions and therefore, could not control what she was doing and that was something that needed to be worked on.
The bell finally rang again and Shanks met up with his class back in the top floor classroom. "Okay, guys. We're going to be doing some physical assignments today…in other words, I'm going to be teaching you how to kick ass and control what you're doing." He announced to the eight of his students as soon as they started settling down.
"Victoria, come up to the front of the classroom." Shanks ordered. The timid girl quickly obeyed him. "You're stuck with the Kaze Kaze no Mi in your body and it's time I taught you how to use it. This lesson will not be easy and it will not be fun, but are you willing to take the chance to learn how to control your powers no matter how bad my lessons get?"
"Yes. I am." Victoria said with slight confidence in her voice.
Shanks smiled at her. It was time for the lesson to begin.
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A/N: Okay, that's chapter 8. I really tried hard on this chapter since I know little about what Devil Fruits really do, so I just said that Devil Fruits can be uncontrollable when the eater cannot control their emotions…actually, I think that probably is true because I'm pretty sure I've seen that happen in the anime of One Piece where some Devil Fruit eaters could not control their emotions and therefore could not control their powers. Howl's Moving Castle is really a book (it's also an anime, but the real book, not animanga/manga, came first and it's a whole lot better than the anime movie).
This is the translation for what Johnny said:
Rumo lnyb Victoria- Holy crap Victoria