Kasey and Evan were eating breakfast with their grandpa when Evan jumped out of his skin.
"Have fun at the party last night?" Durgaso asked.
"Y-Yeah." Evan said with forced calmness.
"Well next time you do it grounded won't even begin to cover what will happen to you." Durgaso said.
"But I had fun and I don't want to live here for all of my life." Evan said. "I wanna go out and have friends. Find love."
"Love is worth nothing!" Durgaso roared.
Evan flinched at how loud his grandpa's voice went but he still said, "Maybe not to you, but I believe in it."
"You are a fool if you think love exists and if you don't stop talking then I will have to punish you."
"Then punish me."
"Evan, shut up." Kasey said.
"You'd be wise to listen to your sister." Durgaso said.
"No." Evan said.
"Fine!" Durgaso yelled.
He took a satchel that was hanging on a wall and reached into it. When he pulled out his hand a three-foot, spiraling piece of Onix was in it.
"Turbando!" Durgaso said.
The chair Evan was sitting in's wood wrapped around Evan's torso and held his arms down. The chair hovered from the ground and Durgaso stood up.
"What are you doing to him?" Kasey asked.
"If you have any sense then you'll run away before this gets ugly." Durgaso said as he and the chair went out of the room.
Durgaso made the chair throw Evan onto the floor in the second story hall and the floorboards moved like waves in water that dragged Evan to a gray door.
"Once you are in here, you won't eat, drink or sleep. You'll sit and have terrible visions plague your mind." Durgaso said. "But you have to learn respect."
"Haah!" Kasey yelled.
A butcher knife was planted in Durgaso's arm and Kasey ran to help her brother up as the magic being used on him abruptly stopped.
"Jump out of the window." Kasey said.
Kasey and Evan jumped out of the window and landed on the ground with several broken bones and ran north.
"We need to get to the big mountain." Kasey said.
"I'm on it." Evan said.
Evan and Kasey ran and even as they saw blasts of neon green light go past them they didn't stop. Kasey felt the ground shift beneath her and she fell."
"Run, Evan." Kasey said. "I'll catch up."
Evan hesitated but he ran away. Durgaso caught up to Kasey and leaned down toward her.
"What a shame I have to kill you." Durgaso said. "Like I did your parents."
"You're the wizard?" Kasey breathed.
"Yes, I am." Durgaso said.
Durgaso held his hand out but he fell down. Evan was holding a large tree branch and he had apparently knocked Durgaso down.
"Let's go." Evan said.
"Yeah." Kasey said.
Kasey and Evan got to the big mountain and they saw the paths leading to the realm of darkness and the realm of light. Durgaso was behind them again and he was red with anger. You could practically see smoke coming from his ears.
"Split up!" Kasey ordered.
"But I need you." Evan said.
"No time!" Kasey yelled.
Before Evan could protest Kasey ran down the trail to the realm of light. Evan looked down the path and ran to the realm of darkness.
