Chapter Ten – The Spell of Love

"Woo-hoo!" Jacob cheered as he swung back and forth, "Push harder!"

When Jacob came back, Dylan pushed forward.

"Hahaha!" Jacob laughed.

"Isn't this place fun?" Kait asked, swinging on the parallel swing.

"21st Century Breakdown! I once was lost but never was found. I think I'm loosing what's left of my mind…to the 20th century deadline!" Sang Dylan's phone alarm. *

"Well, looks like your partner should be getting off of work right about now." Dylan told Kait.

"Well she's not too far from here. It should only be a minute until she gets here…" Kait responded.

Jacob jumped off of his swing, "Oh yeah. I forgot about the battle."

Kait's smile disappeared, "At least we got to play for a little while…"

When Kait lifted her head back up, her face filled with excitement. She was looking across the park, at a girl who was walking towards them.

"She's here!" Kait jumped out of her swing and began running to the girl right when she hit the ground.

Jacob examined the human girl. Something was terribly familiar about her face…but he just couldn't put his finger on it. The girl and Kait arrived back near Dylan and Jacob.

"Hi. Are you guys ready for the battle?" She said in a sweet voice.

'Her voice, too!' Jacob thought to himself, 'I know this human…'

"Um…sure. I suppose we are!" Dylan said, pulling out Jacob's spellbook.

"Then let's go!" Kait said.

"Alright! Pymara!" Dylan called out.

Jacob blasted his spell at the other mamodo. She jumped and dodged the fire, twirling in the air as she did so.

"Heartal!" The human girl yelled.

Kait made a cute face, and blew a kiss a Jacob. From this kiss formed a big pink hear that flew straight at him!

"Zecloid!" Dylan yelled.

Jacob used his newest technique and raised his shield before the heart could get to him.

"Oh no! Don't you want my kisses?" Kait asked, hurt.

"No way!" Jacob was disgusted.

"Pymara!" Dylan called out the spell again.

This time, Jacob tried twirling his arms as he had done before, but Kait just spun into the air, avoiding his attack.

"How about the second spell, Sam?" Kait asked.

'Sam?!?!' Jacob realized who the girl was!

"Dylan!" Jacob called his partner, "I know who Kait's human is! She-"

"Jacob, look out!" Dylan screamed back.

Jacob turned around to see the human call out, "Hearteam!"

Kait began to glow a bright pink color. She opened her mouth and shot out a pink beam of energy! The ray flew into Jacob, but he didn't fall down or fly back at all!

"I…can't…nooove!" Jacob said through his teeth.

"Hehehe!" Kait giggled, "Hearteam paralyses you, silly!"

"That's not good…" Dylan uttered.

"Aim for the human boy! Heartal!"

Kait blew another kiss, sending her big pink heart at Dylan. It evaporated when it touched him.

"Huh?" He looked up, "Holy crap!" Dylan started running towards Kait's partner.

"Yes?" Said the girl, smiling and blinking her eyes.

"Your really pretty…" Dylan told her.

"Aww thanks!" The girl replied.

Suddenly, Jacob shook out of his immobilization.

"Dylan!" Jacob called, "It's that Samantha girl that worked in the ice cream shop!"

"That was really good ice cream you served me…" Dylan slurred.

"I know. Wanna go get some real food?" Samantha asked.

"Yeah! Let's go!" Dylan exclaimed.

The two began to walk out of the park together.

"What now?" Kait asked Jacob.

"I'm not gonna let my best friend get all lovey-dovey over some stupid girl!" Jacob said, running after his partner.

"Wait, I'll come with you!" Kait said, following Jacob.

Dylan and Samantha had found a nice Pizza place with an outdoor patio. The were sharing a cheese pizza. Jacob and Kait sat at the next table, spying on their humans.

"This is too weird. You must really hate your powers…" Jacob said to Kait.

"Well, it's kind of hard in battle when I can't burn a mamodo's spellbook with any of the spells I know. All I can do is make them freeze up or fall in love with Sam…" Kait said.

"Well, my friend Tanjit is a mamodo, and all he can do is blow wind around, but he can still burn people's books. Maybe you just need to learn some new spells is all…" Jacob explained.

"Yeah, but how am I supposed to make Sam believe in me more if all she ever does is make me make every cute guy with a mamodo she meets fall in love with her?" Kait looked down and started to tear up, "I just want her to pay a little more attention to me. But all she wants is a boyfriend."

"Hmm…I've got a plan. It may be a little risky, but we can try…" Jacob suggested.

"Oh, you mean you'll really help me? Thank you so much!" Kait yelped, hugging Jacob.

"Um…okay?" Jacob pushed her off, "Let's do this!"

"What do we do?" Kait asked.

"Get me something to write with!" Jacob commanded.

Kait returned with a pen she got from Samantha's purse.

Jacob scribbled something on a receipt that was left on the table. He then walked over to Dylan.

"Here's that poem you wrote for Sam!" Jacob lied, handing the paper to Dylan.

Dylan read the note, "Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Pymara."

Jacob lit up and shot a blast of fire at the ground next to the table he and Kait were at.

"Ow!" Kait screamed.

"Huh? Kait? What is it?" Sam said, standing up.

Kait was on the ground, faking severe pain.

"Oh no! Kait are you okay?" Sam picked her mamodo up.

"No! That boy you were with made his mamodo attack me! And you were too busy with him to help me!" Kait lied.

"What?" Sam turned around and glared at Dylan, "Why would you do something like that?"

"I didn't…I thought…What is it that I did?" Dylan said, confused.

"You'll be sorry, Dylan! We'll come back and we'll be more powerful! And we'll crush you two!" Sam said, and stormed off.

Kait looked over from Sam's shoulder and mouthed the words, "Thank you." Jacob just smiled back.

"What on earth just happened?" Dylan stood up, quickly.

"I made you say the spell, and I blasted the ground. Kait laid down and pretended to be hurt so Sam would get mad and storm off." Jacob explained, smiling still.

"Why would you do something like that.

"Well, first of all, you were getting a little weird…" Jacob started, "Second of all, Kait told me that Sam never pays any attention to her. This way, Sam will start being more careful and probably spend more time with her mamodo."

"Wow, man. That was really nice of you." Dylan smiled down at his mamodo, proud.

"Mamodos don't have to fight." Jacob said, remembering the dream he had had, "We can be friends, too."

* These are the lyrics to the song 21st Century Breakdown from Green Day's newest album of the same name. I do not own this song or it's lyrics.