Chapter Two
BOOM! "RYAN AND JOHNNY! WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT MESSING AROUND WITH THE STOVE?!" I slowly opened my eyes to the sound of shouting. Amy was in her pile of stuffed animals, awake and giggling. I gave her a half-hearted grin, as I didn't trust Ryan and Johnny not to try to blow me up again. Only, sometime during the night Amy and her hoard had migrated to my bed. "What are you doing in my bed?" I asked.
"I wanted to make sure that you didn't leave in the middle of the night." She said seriously. I just shook my head and crawled out of my bed.
We both got up and headed to the kitchen where all of the noise was coming from. The stove was in one piece, but I had a feeling that it was thanks to Luis, who was tucking away his wand, not looking up from the newspaper in his hands. Johnny and Ryan were sitting at the table, looking unrepentant, perhaps even a little smug as Jennifer tried to glare them to death. Amy went and sat at the table, and Jen reassumed trying to cook eggs for breakfast.
"Do you need any help?" I offered as I stood by her as she tried to turn on the flame. The stove kept clicking, but would not turn on. "No, I'll be fine as soon as I get this stupid **** stove to work!" Jen growled in frustration. "Here, let me." I pointed my finger under the pan and a small flame shot out, lighting the stove. "Hey, that's handy. Thanks Alice."
I left Jen to it, and sat at the table between Amy and Luis, Ryan and Johnny across from me and Amy. "Do that again! With the flames!" Johnny said excitedly. Looking unsure, I conjured flames that danced around my fingers. "That's so cool! Can you feel the heat? Does it burn you? Dude, think of all the possibilities!" Johnny crowed.
"No exploiting Alice for her powers," Luis said. "At least, not until she agrees to stay with us That is if she does." He added when their faces fell. They turned to me, hopeful expressions on their faces.
After the meal, Ryan and Johnny grabbed me and Amy and dragged us to their room. Inside was every arms dealer, collector, inventor, and military personal's dream. Along one wall were stacks of ammo of every kind known to man, including some that they obviously created themselves. On the wall above their beds were the weapons that went with all the ammo. Handheld weapons such as knives, darts, grenades, throwing knives and stars lined the sides of their beds. The room had to been magically enlarged even more because they had a complete lab filled with bubbling potions of all sorts. "Holy crap!" I said, looking around the room with large eyes. "Welcome to our humble abode. This is where we get to have blowing things up!" Ryan said.
"Ohhh! You made it!" Amy screeched, running to a table. She picked up a pair of black and purple fans, snapping them open and closed. "Remember, those ones have the razor edges." Ryan warned. "Yeah, yeah. These are sharp ones." Amy said, paying more attention to the fans she was tossing around. She turned to Johnny and exclaimed, "Give me your best!"
"I accept!" He shouted before running over to the potions and weapons. Ryan stood next to me while we watched the two battle. Luis came in and joined the mock battle, joining the side of Johnny, which cause Amy to shout 'favoritism!'. "You know, we won't really kill you. We are both really careful when we are trying out new things. When we want someone dead, they don't stand a chance against us. So don't ever worry bout us hurting you. Heck, look at Amy. Johnny isn't giving her everything he has because she is still learning how to fight with those fans. In fact Luis was the one who insisted that she learn how to defend herself." Ryan explained. He was right; Johnny had turned against Luis and was pounding him much harder than he was Amy. "Why does she need to defended herself?" I asked.
"Because she is the youngest and we won't always be there to protect her. We ahh… unfortunately, have people who would be very interested in turning us in, both muggle and magical. And Amy usually stays back and directs us during a scuffle. She is always the least protected."
"I'm sorry, but I can't see why you would follow…Amy's lead in a fight. No offense." I said, a confused look on my face. "Its because I can predict your every move." Amy called out.
"Word of advice, never play chess with her." Ryan laughed. "But besides being the resident crazy art nut she is, she is the best strategist around. With her, we never lose." He explained. I stayed on the sidelines as Ryan and eventually Jen joined in the fight. After watching them awhile, I chucked as I blew a spark of fire at Ryan's butt. It sparked and he leaped up, shouting in pain. He turned to me and glared. "Oh, now its on! War on the new girl!" He shouted. Everyone turned their fire against me and I shrieked and threw up my shields. I started to throw the elements around me. Amy managed to hit me with some paint that she was throwing. It hardened and make it impossible for me to move my left arm. After a while, I realized that I was laughing as hard as everyone else. I paused, relevating in this feeling I was feeling. It had been ages since I had this much fun.
I was hungry all the time now. It was hard to find enough food in an already hungry town. I felt bad about taking their food, but they could get more much easier than me. The police were already looking for the thief in the night, accusing anyone who was not in their place. Considering that I had no proper place to be, I was always being watched and followed. I was positive that they had already contacted the system. Looking up at the cloudy sky, I knew it was time to move on again.
In that moment that I was lost in my thoughts, my shields faltered for a moment and they managed to pin me to the ground. "Do you surrender?" Jen asked.
"I surrender! I surrender!" I laughed. They got up off me. Amy disenchanted the paint clinging to me and everyone else why Luis, Ryan, Johnny cleaned the room back up. Once everything as back in order, Amy kept the fans and left the room. We followed her out of the room.
We ended up lounging around on the couches and chairs, catching our breath. While we sat there, a loud hoot came before an owl flew into the tent, dropping three letter on my lap. Hedwig perched on the back of my chair. "Thanks Hedwig." I said, looking at the letters. One from Harry, Ron, and Hermione each. "You have an owl?" Luis asked, surprised.
"Huh? Oh, no. This is my friend Harry's. We write each other all the time. Sometimes I get letters from his two friends as well. They talk about what happens to them at Hogwarts." I explained, holding the letters up.
"What house or houses are they?" Luis asked.
"All three are in Gryffindor. In my first letter to Ron and Hermione, I apologized to them for having to deal with everything Harry was going through. I swear, that boy has a death wish at times!" I joked.
"Wait… Harry, as in Harry Potter?" Luis asked slowly. I nodded. "Yeah. We have been best friends ever since a bully at our old school tried to pick on both of us at the same time." I explained.
"Wait. Did I just hear that you best friends with the Harry Potter?" Jen asked, perking up. I sighed and went to tell them about how Harry and I became best friends so many years ago.
I hated going to school. This one would be my fifth one this month. It didn't impress me; there was the same old brick building that students of all ages entered and hung about the entrances. I was currently with a family that already had too many foster kids to worry about another one like me. One of the main reasons why I hated school now stood in front of me. He was much taller than me, but that was an unsaid requirement of all bullies. But this one seemed to be smarter than the other ones I had dealt with before in the past. Which was saying something since they were all dumb as rocks. Ducking my head, I tried to walk past him. But he grabbed my hair and yanked me to a painful stop.
"You listen well. I'm Danny and you're gonna listen to me. You see that scrawny boy over there? You stay away from him no matter what. See what happens if you don't." He sneered before shoving me into a puddle. The other students around laughed and the teachers turned a blind eye as they walked past to their classroom. I felt tears prick my eyes. Then the exact boy who Danny warned me against came over and held out his hand. "I'm Harry Potter." He said introducing himself. I studied him for a moment before taking his hand and letting him help me up. To my surprise, my clothes weren't wet. We looked at each other with wide eyes. "That's why everyone avoids me and Danny picks on me; weird things always happens around me." Harry explained.
"Me too!" I exclaimed. Before either one of us could say anything more, the bell rang and we were ushered to our classroom. During lunch I found Harry alone in the back of the canteen. I sat down next to him. Danny saw and he glared at us. I glared right back. The thing about bullies was that I was never really afraid of them. What I was afraid about was them was their power over everyone, including the teachers.
After I finished telling everyone about how Harry and I became friends, Jen and Amy had finished making dinner and everyone started grabbing food. Amy sat down next to me and handed me a plate of food. "Here. Its always a fight to get the food first. Though, it doesn't hurt to have the cook save you a plate." She giggled. I smiled and thanked her.
That night as I stared up at the tent ceiling, listening to Amy sleeping, thought about the day. I had more fun in one day than I had in my entire life! I tuned my head and looked at Amy sleeping peacefully surrounded by her hoard. I had the feeling that we would be great friends. I fell asleep with a smile on my face, my decision already made.
Holy crap this was a long chapter! Sorry bout not updating! It kept being pushed back. But here it is! So... what do you think? Did I do a good job of introducing the others more? Again, any questions about anything, characters, plot, ect ect, don't feel afarid to PM me and/or Alice.
This chapter is deticated to: StoryTagger2 for being the first reviwer! We are at 233 hits already! Woo! You know what to do!
StoryTagger2: yes, Alice is an elementrist (?) but she can control all the elements. As for Amy, I have no idea what that is, but I'll go with it. Can you guess what the others' specialies are?
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