'Vivi you have had three plates already, don't you think that you should slow down.' Arthur said before taking a sip of his coffee.
'Says you.' Vivi replied before shoving a fork full of food into her mouth, Arthur frowned at her before looking down on at the two already empty cups of coffee.
'Never mind then.' Arthur mumbled, Vivi smiled in trumpet.
'Both of you should slow down, you two eat enough to make me sick and I don't even think that is physically possible.' Lewis commented, as he sat down next to Arthur with a new plate of food for Vivi. He slid it over to her as she finished of the current plate of food, she didn't finish it all off. She left some pieces of bacon on the plate before she placed the plate under the table for Mystery, then she moved on to the plate full of pancakes.
'So since you two woke us up this morning.' Vivi said slowly. 'Then I guess you have a plan, that is going to work better then mine.'
'What was your plan?' Arthur asked, finishing off his final coffee. Vivi pause and had a small smile. 'You didn't have one did you.'
'And that's why their plan will be better then mine.' Vivi said cheerfully.
'Well Mystery was saying that he was going to us a spell to show them what they are.' Lewis explained. Vivi's eyes widened.
'Oh, are you actually going to do magic.' Vivi said bouncing in her seat. Mystery's snout poked out next to Vivi, he looked around for anyone watching.
'No, I can't in this form. I am restricted.' Mystery whispered. 'I was thinking about teaching it to you, you have always had a knack for runes and you mostly understand magic books. So…' Mystery let her connect the dots. Then she squealed and giggled in her spot, the few people that where in the dinner turned there heads to look at her. Arthur covered his ears as Mystery hide himself back under the table, Lewis' hand shot forward to cover her mouth. He then turned to the waiter that appeared next to them with an apologetic smile, the waiter was more confused then mad but she was still there and Lewis took his chance for them to leave.
'Sorry about her, can we get this to go and we will pay now.' Lewis said before taking his hand away from Vivi's mouth, she was grinning like a little kid on Halloween. When the waiter left, he frowned before looking at his hand. 'Did you just lick my hand?' He asked before picking up a napkin from the table, Vivi stuck out her tongue as Arthur picked up the plate from the floor.
'I will go pay for it so that we can leave.' Arthur said with a sigh as be waited for Lewis to move out of the way so that he could get out. When Arthur came back, he came back with a Styrofoam container. Vivi put her left overs in quickly before she bounded out of the dinner, the three others had to walk quickly to keep up.
'I guarantee that she will be pestering you to teach her more often then you telling her that she has a lesson, she will want a lesson at every moment.' Arthur told Mystery, who only frowned.
'I don't think that she is going to be that bad and besides, I have always want to teach her. I just wasn't talking around her.' Mystery said. Vivi made her way back to the boys, the food container tight in a hug.
'So when are we going to start.' She asked, hoping on the spot. Mystery sighed and Arthur smiled from his spot.
'We will start when we we get back to the house, we have the whole afternoon for me to teach you the spell.' Mystery said once they had gotten away from people, it wasn't that far to the van and soon enough Arthur drove them back up the hill to the clients house.
'So tell me again, why we didn't just get the free food from Lucy?' Arthur asked once he parked the on the other side of the street from the house, Vivi already had pulled out a notebook and a pen, and sat down waiting for Mystery to start.
'I told you.' Arthur said once he turned around with Lewis, Lewis picked up the mythical beast in dog form and dumped him into the back. Lewis then turned back to Arthur once her started to explain magic talk to Vivi.
'Well to tell you the truth, I would like it if people didn't realise that I was dead and she already thought that I was off in some way by wearing the glasses indoors.' Lewis said before taking the said glasses off and hooked them onto his vest.
'I guess...' Arthur said slowly and turned away to avoid looking at his eyes. Lewis flipped down the sun visor that was in front of him and revealed the mirror, Arthur turned back to watch him trying to concentrate.
'What are you doing?' Arthur asked. Lewis' hair flared up before turning back to him.
'Since Vivi is back there learning some magic, I was going to teach myself to turn my eyes back to normal.' Lewis explained. Arthur watched him for a little while longer before, he lost hope for Lewis to be able to do it and he crawled over the seats. Mystery and Vivi didn't even glance over as Arthur sat himself on the ground next to his tool box, Arthur disconnect his arm and placed it on the ground. He heard Lewis curse from the front, Mystery then growled before turning his head to him.
'Lewis, if you are going to get frustrated and flare up, come to the back and ask Arthur if you succeed.' Mystery said before Lewis went through the seats instead of going over them. Once he was safely hidden in the back space, Mystery turned back to Vivi and continued his little lecture. Lewis sat himself in front of Arthur as he slowly took his arm apart, Lewis forgot about his eyes and instead decided to watch Arthur work.
Even one handed, Arthur was as skilful with mechanics as he had been when he had two. Lewis was impressed as he always was, even if he had no clue as to what Arthur was doing. Arthur paused before looking up at Lewis.
'Weren't you trying to do something?' He asked.
'Na, I think this is more interesting.' Lewis replied with a smile. Arthur frowned but returned to working on his arm. 'What are you doing anyway?' Lewis asked after a while, Arthur paused again.
'Well the simplest way I could explain would be that I am taking it partly apart and putting it back together, cleaning what ever needs to be cleaned and then adjust what ever needs to be adjusted.' Arthur said before looking back at his arm and continued once again. There was a while glow coming from the other side of the van, both of the boys gaze left the arm and they turned to see Vivi's hand glowing. Vivi was close to bouncing where she sat, but seemed to have gained some self control. Mystery was smiling where he sat next to an open book, looking at her with a smile. The glow soon faded and Vivi looked exhausted, but she was still smiling.
'You are powerful enough for you to use the spell once.' Mystery commented and Vivi nodded in understanding. Mystery then turned his head slightly to look at Arthur. 'Do you want to learn Arthur, I am sure with time you would be able to learn.' Arthur was already shaking his head.
'No thank you. I am happy with what I got, and I don't think I would have the patience or the nerve for it.' Arthur said twirling the screwdriver that he had in his hand.
'Very well, but if you ever want to I will be here.' Mystery said before turning back to Vivi. Arthur swapped out the screwdriver to a tool that Lewis couldn't identify, the arm slow became separate parts around Arthur as several different tools where used. Once Arthur was done taking apart his arm, he pulled out a white cloth and started to clean some of the parts. Lewis looked into the tool box to find another white cloth, he watched as Arthur frowned in frustration.
'Do you want some help?' Lewis asked and he saw that Arthur was about to say no, but then he nodded.
'This is the part that I hate, its hard to clean something with only on hand and it gets even harder if you don't clean in in a long time. So I have to do this often enough.' Arthur said, once Lewis started to help. 'But once I build a back up that I can keep in the van, then life becomes that a little more easier.' Lewis was able to clean parts three times fast then Arthur could and they soon had finished, Arthur whistled as he looked over the parts.
'I think this is the cleanest I will ever see these.' He said before starting to put his arm back together, Lewis laid down and glanced over to see what Vivi and Mystery where doing. There conversation coming at him in snippets, then then Vivi mumbled something in another language and Lewis already knew that he had been forced into his ghostly appearance. He cried out in alarm as the girl and dog looked at him.
'You mispronounced the ending, but once you fix that it will work on whoever you focus on. Lewis won't be affected if you focus on your target, you just sent it out around you as a wave.' Mystery explained. Vivi looked exhausted once again and she nodded once again. 'You are going to go to have a nap and save your energy, when it comes down to using the spell it shouldn't matter that Lewis will be nearby.' Vivi didn't say anything else as she just curled up on top of her make shift bed from the night before, Lewis finally managed to make himself look like one of the living (except for his eyes.) and he frowned at Mystery.
'Somehow I fell like I will be the target of her spells more then one time, can you make sure I am warned before something like that happens again.' Lewis asked. Mystery looked at Mystery with a serious look before nodding.
'But I can only watch her when she is learning from me, if she starts learning from books then I can't really stop her.' He said with a grin, Lewis only sighed before looking over at Vivi.
'I feel like this will become a problem in the future.'
'Oh I know that this is going to become a problem for us.' Arthur said with a sigh, the ghost and the dog looked at one another before sighing as well. Then came the warning growl from Vivi and all three of them shut up.