Chapter Nine: Contemplations

Drake awoke with a pounding headache. But that was absurd – the Powers that Be did not get headaches!

But he had one that much was obvious.

Groaning, he pulled himself out of bed and walked down stairs to get an aspirin – maybe that would help with this silly human problem. It wasn't as though he could fix it with his powers as he normally would.

Drake sat down at the kitchen table, put his head in his hands. This wasn't going well. For some reason, the power that he had, like the Wizard's power, was vanishing. And what was more, he couldn't tell why!

And contrary to what he supposed was popular opinion, he wasn't the cause of the power level changes in the area. So what could be?

Something had to be done about it, and soon.

But first he had to figure out what the Wizards were doing, what they had discovered about the problem. Odds were, they didn't know much more than he did. But Wizards had done things that were against the odds before, that was certain…

It was time to put a use to his 'friend' Melanie.

a/n: I know it was short but you agree it was necessary, right? puppy dog eyes