Chapter Two

After finding out about the Sorcerer she was unable to stop her from flashing away. She wanted to go out looking for her but didn't know where to start. She didn't have any information on her kind and didn't know how to locate them. She could only find one person who could possibly tell her about them.

"Dad can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what is it?"

Alex's dad had been watching TV in the living room while her mother was at the store and her two brothers, Justin and Max, were in the layer doing what ever those two do. Alex hoped she could get this out quickly before she was interrupted.

"Can you tell me what you know about Sorcerers?"

Jerry's eye brows lowered in confusion. "Why do you want to know about that all of a sudden?"

"I was looking through some old Wizard books and saw it and it got me thinking," she lied.

Jerry looked down, still thinking hard. "I don't have any books on Sorcerers."

"Yes you do, it's that, really thick, leather one. The one in the attic where no one ever goes."

"Hmm," Jerry mumbled.

"Oh! Will you just tell me what you know!"

"Uh, well, I don't know much since their not from our world."

"What do you mean?" Alex wondered.

"I mean, they don't belong in the Wizard world. Sorcerers are from a whole other universe apart from ours. They travel here sometimes by magic, obviously, but no one ever sees them."

"Why not?"

"Well because they are very careful with their magic. They don't show it very often and are responsible enough to control what ever power they contain. And if they are forced to use magic in a tough situation, they are smart enough to make sure no one remembers it," Jerry explained.

"And what if someone did remember?" Alex continued with questions.

"Well they would probably have to disappear."

"What? Why?"

"Honey, Sorcerers are not like Wizards. Wizards are taught by their parents and Head Masters. If they are not fit to wield their powers then they are taken away from them. The strongest of the family is able to keep their powers so only one Wizard is allowed in one family. And since we mainly live in the mortal world, sometimes we become attracted to mortals. But Sorcerers' on the other hand never come here. They marry only from their kind and every member of the family can keep their powers. Even the most dangerous of people."

"But why don't they come here? It's not hard to hide their magic; we do it all the time."

"Yes, but its hard for them to train themselves to contain such power since they are so used to using it in their world. If a Sorcerer did come here then they must be pretty powerful to hide their magic so efficiently," Jerry said, taking a sip of his coke which had been resting on the coffee table while they spoke.

Alex had become silent, feeling like she had gotten every question she had out, yet feeling as though there was still so much to know about Sorcerers. "How can you find them?"

Jerry shook his head. "You cannot locate other creatures from other worlds, it's just not done."

"But they're just as magical as us that should mean something."

"It doesn't matter. Our Wizard portal can't teleport us to other worlds. In only leads to the Wizard World which Sorcerers do not linger."

"Why not?" Alex wondered.

"Because Wizards and Sorcerers are enemies."

"What! Why?"

"That, I do not know. It was said a long time ago that we were once friends, until something awful happened. The books leading to that discovery were burned because we Wizards didn't want to remember them anymore. They are betrayers, Alex. Don't associate yourself with them. They cannot be trusted." Jerry explained.

"But why! What did they possibly do that was so wrong!"

Jerry leaned in closer and lowered his voice. "They dragged one of our kind back to their world and turned them into one of them."

"What?" Alex wondered why she too had begun whispering.

"It was said that they were lovers once; and he dragged her to his world against her own free will. It was against The Rules that we had created to do such crimes. And above that, to make her into one of them sealed the hatred between our kinds."

Alex was surprisingly silent.

"That new spell was created, which was something we were trying to prevent."

"What spell?"

"The spell to transform from a Wizard into a Sorcerer."

"How do you know all this?" Alex questioned.

"When one becomes a full Wizard, we are told of the truth behind The Secrets. But this knowledge was never meant to be passed down until a new Wizard has been made in this family. Can I trust you to keep this secret between us?"

Alex slowly nodded as she stood and walked away.