Chapter 8
Roxie hit Kelly and knocked her into the wall opposite them. She smiled. "You really think you can fight me? After my sister died, I got all her power."
"OK, now I'm lost," Kelly said.
"My sister died about 100 years ago and I, being a Gypsy, succumbed to full-out magic," Roxie explained, "And now I get to take out the Acme heroes!"
"Nice try," said Kelly, "But I don't think this little plan is gonna work out."
"Oh, really? Check out your necklace."
Kelly looked down at her necklace, which had fallen from her clothes when she'd been thrown into the wall.
"Mine."
Kelly looked back at Roxie.
"Enchanted. I get to get back at Wolfie boy, attack his girlfriend until the Loonakids are out of the picture, and if there's a little chaos along the way, then everybody wins!"
"Allow me to just say: you are psychotic!"
Roxie scoffed.
"What could Austin have possibly done to you?"
"You don't get it, do you?" She ran over there and punched Kelly again. "Do you have any idea who he is? What he's done?"
Kelly looked back at Roxie. "Didn't really come up through your little head games."
Roxie smirked. "At least I get the honor of telling the other bad guys…" She grabbed Kelly's throat, starting to choke her. "…that I'm the one who ruined the Loonakids and killed their psychic."
"Not today!" Roxie whirled around to see Sarah scream at her, knocking her back into the wall and ignoring her own pain.
Kelly went over there. "How'd you guys know where I was?"
"Well, Austin told us," Sarah said as Austin and the others came in, "but it was kind of obvious. I mean, the bad guy's always in an abandoned building."
Kelly groaned. "I know, right? It's like they have no sense or taste or anything!"
"Uh, talk about this later!" Jack said, "Fight now!"
"Oh, and, uh…" Kelly sensed Roxie coming up behind her and zapped her without looking. "…is it OK if I come back on the team?"
Sarah smiled. "There's always room for family."
Roxie started to get up from the floor. "Alright. Enough with the punching bag. I'm the one controlling the necklace's enchantment, I can do whatever I want."
"Yeah, except for the fact that I'm not wearing it," Kelly said, turning to face her and reveal that she wasn't wearing the necklace at the moment, "You might wanna look before you leap."
Roxie lifted her foot to see that she'd crushed the necklace. "Oh, nuts."
"And we might wanna run," said Daniella.
"Way ahead of you," said Kelly, rushing out. The others quickly followed. 5…4…3…2…1… As soon as they were all out of the building, the magic from the necklace lingered around it and made the whole thing explode. "Boy, am I glad we weren't still in there!"
Sarah smiled and pulled something out of her pocket. "I think you may be needing this back." She gave Kelly back the watch containing her uniform.
Kelly smiled and took it back. "Some birthday present, huh?'
"Allow me to apologize for that," said Sophie.
Kelly and Sarah giggled.
After a little while, Austin left and the team went back to the tower.
"We're lucky Austin came along to help, aren't we?" Sophie asked Tech, "Otherwise, Kelly might be dead."
"I don't like him," Tech said.
"What?"
"There's just something about him that makes me not trust him."
Wendy, meanwhile, was scolding Jack. "And you're returning everything you stole and you're grounded for the next week. Be thankful you only did it under force of that Gypsy's spell or it'd be at least 2 weeks."
"And you're getting me a new sweater!" Sarah added.
"I get it!" Jack yelled.
"Oh!" Daniella realized, "I almost forgot!" She started hurrying through her bag. "Your birthday presents!" She pulled out 5…sticks.
"Seriously?" asked Sarah.
Daniella smiled at her. "They're your wands."
"Seriously?"
Daniella handed them to the 6 of them. "OK, just…wave 'em." Ryan did so…and the couch bashed into Slam, knocking him into the wall. "Uh, no, that's not…" She switched Ryan's and Michael's wands and then Sarah's with Kelly's and Robert's with Jack's. "OK, now try it." Kelly flicked her wand and it sparked, letting off a stream of fireworks. "Yay! I did it!"
"Wow," said Wendy, "Looks like the pregnant Witch has still got it. Now I know why you were harvesting sticks over the past 5 weeks."
"And then laminating them in potion ingredients and touching them with my magic," Daniella corrected.
Jack looked at his wand and laid it on the table.
"What's wrong?" asked Michael (who was now back to normal since the necklace had been snatched), "You don't appreciate the gift of practically being named a full-out Warlock?"
"It's not that," Jack corrected, "I'm just not that into touching something dipped it Troll boogers."
The other 5 looked at their own wands and copied his actions.
(Drew Seeley's "You Can Do Magic" plays in background)
Still, everything worked out…well, all except for Tech and Austin as you now know. Of course, Tech wasn't able to stop Kelly and Austin from dating but that's later in the story. So…later!
Hey
Oh-oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh
Magic
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh-oh-oh-oh
I never believed in things
That I couldn't see
I said "If I can't feel it
Then how can it be?"
No, no magic
Could happen to me
And then I saw you
And I
Couldn't believe it
You took my heart
I
Couldn't retrieve it
Said to myself
"What's it all about?"
And now I know that you feel doubt
You can do magic
You can have anything
That you desire
Magic
And you know
You're the one who can put out the fire
You know real well
When you cast your spell
You will get your way
When you hypnotize
With your eyes
A heart of stone
Will turn to clay
And when the rain
Is beating upon
The windowpane
When the night
Gets so cold
When I can't sleep
Again
You come to me
I hold you tight
And the rain disappears
Well, who would believe it?
With a word, you dry my tears
You can do magic
You can have anything
That you desire
Magic
And you know
You're the one who can put out the fire
You know real well
When you cast your spell
You will get your way
When you hypnotize
With your eyes
A heart of stone
Will turn to clay
Do-do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do
You can do magic
You can have anything
That you desire
Magic
And you know
You're the one who can put out the fire
You know real well
When you cast your spell
You will get your way
When you hypnotize
With your eyes
A heart of stone
Will turn to clay
You can do magic
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do
Can do magic
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do
You can do magic
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do
You can do magic
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do
You can do magic…
TO BE CONTINUED…
Yay! I finished it! Well, welcome to the new season. More romance in this one, believe me. If you haven't spotted all the couples I already plotted out, keep an eye out for the future references. I bet you're in agony over trying to figure out what connection Austin has with the Gypsies 100 years ago. Well, keep reading to find out! MWA HA HA HA HA! Later!