Chapter Three
Alex had gone down into the layer shortly after her conversation with her father. She expected her idiot brothers to be there doing something random and weird and of course they did not let her down.
"So could I use this freezing spell to freeze my pants? That would be cool," Max spoke.
"No, Max. This spell is used for freezing time not pants," Justin said awkwardly.
Alex rolled her eyes as she walked closer to the two who sat around the center table with a large and thick spell book open in front of them. She ignored them and removed the book without a word or care.
"Hey, we were using that," Max spoke out.
"Honestly, I'll make much better use of it than you," Alex admitted.
"Hey, Alex. Dad said that only I can use his book when he's not teaching," Justin added as he stood and confronted her.
"What are you going to do? Tell me? Believe me, you have even bigger problems to worry about than me taking dad's spell book," Alex bluffed.
Justin grew worried. "What do you mean?"
"Oh you know exactly what I mean."
Justin's eyes widened. "What did you do?"
Alex only grinned.
"Alex!" Justin hollered. "You did something in my room didn't you!"
Alex giggled as she sat down on the rocking chair, listening to Justin stomp up to his room crazily.
"What are you looking for anyway?" Max wondered.
"Something about Sorcerers and how to find them," Alex replied.
"Why do you care about that? You should be using that freezing spell to freeze you pants!"
Alex watched him as his smile turned into a slow and continuous nod.
"You know, sometimes I wonder if you're even human."
Max surprisingly didn't take her comment offensively. He only stood with his same smile upon his face. "You will never know."
Alex chuckled as he walked out. She shook her head and turned back to her book.
That's when Harper decided to join in and interrupt as she always does.
"Oh hey Alex, what are you doing?"
By then, Alex's eyes were stapled to the page she had reached in the spell book.
"Alex?"
"That's it!"
Harper watched her friend as she shut the heavy book and placed it back onto the center table.
"Harper, I need you to cover for me."
"Again? But you're family trusts me, I don't want to ruin that relationship with more lies," Harper complained.
"Please Harper; I have to do something in the Wizard World. It won't take long, just, tell them I went for pizza! Yeah, that'll do it."
"What?"
But Harper had been too late. Alex had already gone with her wand through the Wizard Portal.
"Yes, can I help you?" Spoke a man behind a counter in the center of the portal where the shining white light inside showered the area.
"Yes, I'm looking for someone. Maybe you can help me," Alex replied.
"Of course I can. What do they look like?"
"She has long blonde hair and green eyes. She was wearing skinny black pants and a tight yellow shirt," Alex began.
The man sighed. "Yeah, that narrows it down."
"I don't know her name."
"Is there anything else you can tell me?" He asked. While he spoke he did not lift his head from the paper in which he was writing. That's what annoyed Alex the most. She could think of only one way to get his attention.
"She's a Sorcerer."
Of course that caused the man's reaction to be stunned. He looked up at her in confusion and anger. "And can you tell me why you are looking for a Sorcerer?"
"Do get revenge. She, uh, put a spell on me, and I wanted to, you know, get back at her." Alex lied.
The man sighed. "Okay, here's what I'll do. Normally I am forbidden from helping a Wizard find a Sorcerer but in your case I'll make an exception."
Alex smiled as he reached into his desk drawer and pulled out a large document that seemed heavier than her father's spell book. Once she had it in her grasp she felt like she would fall through the floor.
"Now, this document has almost every Sorcerer in the world on it. But you'd better look fast cause it changes all the time," the man explained.
"Okay thank you so much," Alex replied as she headed back through the portal.
"Alex! We've got trouble," Harper began. "You're parents expect you to be bringing home some pizza."
Alex sighed annoyingly as she removed her wand from her book and flicked it towards the table.
Instantly, a box of pizza lay heated.
"Aw man, you know I don't like pepperoni," Harper added.
"Harper! Can you forget about the pizza, for one second? I have to tell you something," Alex began. "I need you to tell my parents that I'll be sleeping over your house for a few days."
"What? Why?"
"I have to do something and I'm not sure how long I'll be."
"But-"
"Please Harper. Do this. For me."
Harper sighed. "Alright. But don't expect me to take the blame for you if they find out."
Alex smiled as she walked over and hugged her best friend. She then backed away and waved her wand, creating a brown cloak out of no where.
"What's that?"
"Oh, this is an Invisibility Cloak. I stole it from Harry Potter. You know, that Wizard from Hogwarts?"
Harper just stood there silently with a confused look on her face.
Alex wrapped herself in the cloak and carried the large document and her wand through the portal, disappearing completely.