All right, someone's going to get blown up! Let's do this!

"Wait!"

What, Adam?!

"She's kinda pretty….Can we keep her?"

….Seriously?

"Yes."

Fine. Hey, Douglas? Do you know how to turn off the minefield just long enough to get her in here?

"Can't we just blow her up?"

Apparently not.

So, while Adam and Douglas get that solved –

"Hey, everybody? Mia and I are not going to get together!"

Hellcat, give me the microphone!

"No! Everyone, listen to me! Do not ship 'Hellia.' She has a boyfriend. xD"

Give me that!

Anyways, thank you, my readers and reviewers. And, to the person who is trying really hard to kick the door in, that sucker is steel. You should come back with a battering ram.

Mia-Teresa-Davenport: "I call people 'Hon'' like you call them 'Dude.' It's just slang."

AllAmericanSlurp: "You may not have more of my ears! Contrary to popular belief, it really hurt when Oly bit my ear off."

Shinxshinx1595: "Is that a challenge?"

Gg180000: "I wanna fangirl over things!"

No, Chase. War first, fangirling later.

DisneyXDGirl: "Yes."

DarkestKing: "I feel like this is a trap."

You think everything is a trap, Douglas. :3 We'd love to move into your castle. Thank you.

RissA15: "Oh, send another pretty fangirl for me!"

Chase, why would you need them to send another one? You have Oly.

Anyways, this chapter is kind of short, and it's not that great, but here it is.

Don't worry; the next chapter will be better. Anyways, who wants to kick this off? Miss Tasha?

"Zara doesn't own Lab Rats or anything you recognize. If you don't recognize it, it's probably hers."

"'… No, Douglas. That's bad. Stop it. Do you want me to get both Tashas?'

'"Zara already has me doing a scene with Tasha today. O_o I'm good."'

'…Fine. Make him suffer, Zara :3…'"

Mia-Teresa-Davenport and Summoner Douglas

"It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody."

Abdallah II of Jordan

Chapter Thirteen – Magic Hour

Adam

As it turned out, Adam had a serious knack for magic.

He had no idea why Leo was having such a hard time with it. All he had to do was focus totally on one thing and say a series of words to make it work.

Maybe Adam had an advantage? He tended not to think about more than one thing at a time. If he did, he would think of more. And then, even more as he followed tangent thoughts. It would go on and on until he was either forgot his original thought or became so focused on finding what the ending of the thought patterns were that he zoned out completely. Everyone seemed to think that he let his mind go blank when that happened, but he didn't. He was just...well, thinking thoughts.

So, as mentioned, he tended to focus on one thing at a time. And, when doing magic, that was a big, big factor in things going right. Because the words were only catalysts to make the energy work. For example, if one wanted to start a fire, one had to focus on what they would be burning. The words said wouldn't determine what or how it would burn; just start it. Translated, the words translated as some variation of "burn," "heat," and "fire." But never anything more specific than that. If someone happened to think of something else when they were starting said fire, the wrong thing would burn.

Tricky, yes?

That was Leo's whole problem: He couldn't focus on one thing for more than a few seconds.

Speaking of Leo, he was trying to make a small ball of light in his hands. Ysthry was perched on the cyber desk, shaking her head in frustration. Yahn, however, was sitting on Leo's shoulder, transferring energy to Leo and giving advice. The problem wasn't in the words and generating light. He could make little beams, but it was all uncontrolled. It flashed a bit before sputtering out.

Leo sighed. "I'm never going to get this."

"Takes a long time to master magic."

Adam looked over his shoulder to see Douglas and Chase watching from the entrance.

Leo glared at Douglas, who had been the speaker. "How long did it take you to learn this?"

Douglas shrugged and stepped into the Lab while Yahn and Chase glared at each other warily, Chase keeping Douglas between himself and the protective imp. "I could do it almost immediately," Douglas answered. "But that's only because I'd been doing other kinds of magic since I was a kid. I could already focus well."

Leo sighed. "So years, then?"

Douglas shook his head. "No. Just really, really intense studying on concentration."

Without breaking eye-contact with Yahn, Chase frowned. "And how would one do that? Stare at a wall?"

"Exactly." Douglas pointed at the wall. "Pick a little spot and stare at it. Don't think about anything but that little spot. If your mind wanders, acknowledge the thought before focusing on that little spot."

Leo stared at Douglas incredulously. "You want me to stare at a speck on the wall?"

"Until you can easily concentrate on it for about a minute straight," Douglas confirmed. "That would suffice for easy spells. Should take you a few hours. Get staring."

Leo looked skeptical, but he walked to the wall anyway, pulling a chair with him and sitting before staring intently at something. Yahn grew bored in seconds and leapt off of Leo's shoulder to land on the floor before he scurried to Adam. As Yahn climbed into Adam's lap - eyeing Chase carefully - Douglas nodded at him. "What about you?"

"He is a natural," Yahn answered for him.

Douglas and Chase both raised their eyebrows, shooting him a doubtful look.

A bit annoyed that they didn't think he could do it - and because he had an itch under his cast and couldn't reach it - Adam nudged Yahn. Seeming to get the message, Yahn somehow sent a major wave of energy through Adam's entire body. With his skin tingling - much like when one's arm goes numb after one sleeps on it wrong - Adam took a second to review what words he would need before he focused wholly on Chase and Douglas. With nothing else in his mind's eye, he hissed out a few words. The excess energy vanished in a surge, leaving Adam with an almost hollow feeling as both Chase and Douglas cried out in surprise and fury, now drenched as a massive amount of water appeared from thin air over their heads and dropped on them.

Ysthry started laughing from her perch on the desk as Chase shook himself - almost like a dog - and beat his wings a few times, sending droplets of water everywhere. Douglas glared at Adam, his expression the very symbol of rage as he ran his fingers through his now-flattened hair. "You messed up my hair, asshole!"

Adam shrugged casually. They shouldn't have doubted him.

Chase shivered a bit, hugging himself. "By the way, that was cold."

"At least we know who's rigging the fence," Douglas muttered, still trying to get his hair to stand up again. "By the way, Leo: When you're done over there, Hellcat and I want to talk to you about something. No rush. We still have a few days."

Leo gave a thumbs up without turning away from the wall.

Douglas finally gave up on fixing his hair with a heavy sigh. "Well, as awesome as it is that you can do magic, don't do that again."

"No promises," Adam responded, grinning when both Douglas and Chase glared at him. He liked being better at something he had just learned than anybody else. Well, except Douglas, but he didn't really count. And seeing the expressions on Chase's and Douglas' faces when Adam proved them wrong was an excellent bonus prize.

Ah, happiness: It was in the little things.

Douglas opened his mouth to say something – likely it wouldn't be very appropriate – but he was interrupted by the elevator opening and Tasha stepping out, holding Oly by the tail. "Keep her out of the kitchen!" Tasha snapped, handing Oly to Chase as she glared at Douglas. "She took all of the forks and knives from the drawer and stuck them into the ceiling." She held up her forearm, showing off a bandage. "One fell and cut me! Keep your imp under control or get rid of her!"

"It's how I say that I like someone," Oly protested, obviously lying to get out of trouble.

"It's how she says that she likes someone," Douglas defended, gesturing at Oly.

Adam frowned. The fact that Douglas liked to mess with Tasha was strange to him. He never found a reason to mess with her. Whatever problem Douglas had with her was far beyond his understanding.

"Keep her out of the kitchen!" Tasha repeated. "Or I'll flatten her like your hair."

Douglas was silent for a second, glaring at her. Then, he spread his arms wide. "Hey, Tasha: Give me a hug."

Tasha backed up. "No, thanks."

Douglas smirked and started walking towards her, dripping water all over the floor. "Come on –"

"You stay away from me," Tasha hissed, backing towards the elevator.

"Oh, but Tasha –"

She reached the elevator and started pressing the button rapidly. "Douglas, I'm warning you –"

"Show your brother-in-law some love!" Douglas, arms still wide, followed Tasha into the elevator as the door opened.

"Douglas –"

The doors closed, cutting off her words.

Chase stared at the elevator doors for a second before dropping Oly into the watery puddle on the floor. "Why in the hell would you do something that could hurt somebody?!"

Oly shook herself off. "It amused me," she huffed. "It's not like you've been doing anything fun lately. Speaking of, when are you and Yahn going to beat the crap out of each other?"

"They're not," Adam cut in. Their petty rivalry had gone on long enough. He patted Yahn's head. "Yahn, Hellcat's not going to hurt anybody. You don't need to guard against him."

Yahn shot Chase a look before nodding. "If you do anything, Half-Breed, you'll wake up to a horrible, horrible –"

"And you'll get a foot up your ass," Chase hissed, pinning his ears. "Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to find a towel."He then grinned, his fangs reminding Adam of a vampire. "Too bad you decided to do that. You have to clean it up."

Oly laughed as she climbed up onto Chase's shoulder as he turned and started down the tunnel. "Joke's on you, punk!"

Adam frowned. Maybe he hadn't quite thought his demonstration through.

Oh well. At least they weren't doubting him anymore.

So…Adam's good at magic.

What else does he have going for him?

Actually, the Charmer and magic thing is probably about it.

Anyways, next chapter will be more entertaining. Hopefully. At least, it will be less filler. It will have more of an action plan. This was essentially to establish that Adam was good at magic.

So, until then, feel free to review. Or don't. I don't really care.

Also, if anybody's seen Simon's Cat, how much like Hellcat, Oly, Yahn or Ysthry is that cat?! xD It's so cute!

Oh, and enjoy.

*Bows and exits*