"Darion felt sick, the contents of his stomach were in his throat, he felt like it wouldn't stay there for long. "Baby breathe, its an Apparate spell, your body was just teleported from your school to home." Darions legs shake, he blinks rapidly recognizing his mothers voice "Did you say home?" Darion's arms reach out for something to grab onto. His hands land on something hard, a table or desk. "Mo- Mom is that you?" Swiping his hand on the table he rolls across something. His eyes water and begin to clear up blinking more and more, looking at his hand he notices the piece of cereal that Sasha dropped while shoveling food into her mouth. His vision clearing up from sheer will as the adrenaline. "Does he not apparate to that akanasiphiwo school? Honestly Eliana, does he know any real magic. I see he's still using a wand." Darion reaches into his pocket to take out his fathers wand, but when he pulls it from his pocket it leaves his hand as if he threw it. "Well then, this was your fathers, the only one in our family to take on the white man's restriction of magic" The old woman's voice rang through Darions head, restriction of magic, white man's magic. Darion forces himself to stand up straight, he tries to utter the words to defend his father but the only thing that came up was dinner from last night. He holds it down, looking up as Sasha is clutched onto his mother and the old woman stands next to his mother, holding his fathers wand. "Accio wand" Darion holds out his hand expecting the wand to fly from the old woman's hand, he keeps waiting. Eliana walks up to him and places her hands on both arms propping him up from falling over.
"Eliana explains to her son the history of their family. Eliana explains that Darions Father was a first generation American, that's why he adopted the wand. He went to Livermorny for his final year. He came to America by himself. He wanted something more, he applied to be an Auror for the US magical counsel but was denied because of where he's from. Eliana sat Darion down and told him the abridged version of how she and his father met. The old lady identified as Darions grandma looks away when Eliana starts to talk about how they met. Eliana was a grifter using magic that her mother and father taught her to get petty change twenty, fifty, one hundred dollars here and there on the streets of cincinnati. She used Accio on Darions father and he noticed, caught up to her and Aparated them to the top of the PNC building. Eliana explained that she was hooked on him from then on, he wanted the most charming or the smoothest talker, but his magic was solid and she was a hustler. They aparated to the river front and he walked away. Eliana waited on the same street for the next two days and when he walked by she used Accio on his belt and walked away making sure to be noticed. He followed her and they talked, they always considered this to be their first date. They talked for several hours until the conversation turned from their lives to what kind of magic they did. The next day they met and talked more, for the next month they met on that same street and walked downtown Toledo. During the day they would hang out after he left his job and at night they would practice wandless magic, Eliana got to a point where she stopped using her want completely. He taught her about Uagadou were he went to school before moving to the U.S. She taught him about the streets and how she's survived this long. Darions father invited her to live with him in his small apartment, she agreed. He convinced her to get a real job so they could live legitimately and she convinced him to have a family. " The story of your making is beautiful Darion but you need to know why I am here" Grandma interrupts putting the wand in a bag that seem to appear from under her Long flowing Daishiki. "Yes Umama, i'm getting to that. After your father died we were supposed to bring him back to Cameroon where he's from. You have an inheritance and a free scholarship to go to Uagadou" Eliana held his face. "I was joking, I don't want to leave my school, my friends, you can teach me magic grandma can visit whenever she wants and teach me what she knows." Darion protests standing up, the back of his knees sliding the chair back. "Im afraid you don't have a choice my little Baba, your mother has already agreed." Grandma steps up, she glides her hand across the sky and smiles.
"All of their bags float from the back of the house to the front and folded neatly, Darions chest sits there with a band over the top of it, holding it closed. "Baby I'm so sorry but we don't really have a choice at the moment. This is an opportunity that we would never get otherwise". Eliana sits back and holds Sasha as she sobs 'I - don- want to l-l-leav" soaking her mothers shirt. Darion stands shaking looking at his mother then looking at his grandmother. "I hate you. You told a nice story to get me to agree and in the end you want to use my dads death just for some money." Grandma walks up to Darion and smacks him in the face. "Accio WAND!" Darion puts his hands to his side and yells. "Accio WAND!" Darion yells again, a whimper at the end of his screaming. Grandma aparates away, the spot where her body seemed to implode on itself, a ring floats there slowly spinning in place revealing the lion sigil. Darion goes to grab his things and sees that they are gone. Darion flips the couch over almost hitting the television then storms out of the house. Eliana just holds Sasha still sobbing.
"Darion sits on the steps looking out onto the neighborhood he's known his whole life "AFRICA!?" screaming out to the streets. He hears his moms ringtone on the inside of the house. He hears his mother answer how she normally does, Eliana Baba. A silence for more than a minute and then her reply. She was explaining Darions absence, then it sounded like she was pulling him out of school, she sounded hesitant then ended the call with an apology. Darion could hear her walking to the back of their apartment, then the front door opened. "Darion?" Sasha opened the door hesitantly, Darion started to yell but stopped and slumped onto the stairs. "Yea Sasha?" Darion turned his head to look at her. Her eyes were red and puffy but seeing her honey brown eyes always cheered him up. He opened up his arms and she threw open the door and embraced him. "Whats Africa like?" Sitting on his lap Sasha looks out onto the neighborhood. "I think thats racist, just because my last name is Baba. I don't know broke?" Darion laughed under his breath. "Thats racist" Sasha punches Darion in his chest. The two or them sit for a while until they look back to the sound of Eliana at the door letting them know that she had a surprise on the way, then walks back into the house. "Tell me something Sasha, I saw the cheetah at school before i got Aparated here, is that what you saw in all those visions? Sasha looks down for a moment then looks back up. "No, it was by a mountain somewhere" Sasha attempts to stand up on Darion's leg, he tries to keep it steady. "Damn gurl your 10 now, I cant hold you up like I used to" Sasha takes a small leap off Darions legs, almost falling and giggling as she runs up the stairs. "Ugh, get in the house" wiping off his legs and the distinct shoe marks left on his jeans. Darion leans back on his forearms. Cursing under his breath Darions hands clinched then released and he aims his hand at a can of Faygo sitting on the curb. "Accio bottle" Darion says under his breath. The bottle is kicked by a pair a black leather boots attached to a Police officer. Two officers, one of them Officer Briants a local Officer who lives down the block and his female partner Officer Nunez. "Aren't you supposed to be in school Darion, its not even halfway past first period" Darion puts his hand down and stands up. Kicking a pebble out of the way. "Well, im moving. My mom took me out of school so that we could head out, we're leaving today" Darion struggles to get out while looking down and tightening his jaw. Officer Briant a large muscular officer taps his partners shoulder and walks over to Darion. " Livermorny right, thats whats up little brother. That was the dream, why do you look so down?" The officer offers up a fist bump. Darion looks up, his eyes welling up with tears. "Yo man, it cant be that bad. You get to come home during breaks, summer,winter,halloween sometime. And its only a few hours away by plane." Officer Briant kneels down to meet Darions eyes. Briants strong face with square jaws and nose almost seem to soften when meeting his eyes. "Africa" Darion struggled to get the word out. Darion explained in incoherent detail about what was happening, skipping the part about the port key in the living room. "Damn man, Uagadou. I don't know anything about it. Listen, there are other small school, but youre going to one of the big ones, it services all of Africa, which seems a bit far fetched but its one of the big ones." Officer Briant stands up and pulls out his wand, looking back to make sure his partner was far enough down the street.
"He points his wand at Darion and moving down the center her line. Darions clothes change texture and color. The weaving tightens and loosens as the clothes go from his normal wear to the Suite that Terrence Jenkins wore to the premier of Creed II. Now with a canary yellow blazer and slacks with a black turtle neck. He remembered that Officer Briant had taken him to see the premier, after the movie Darion looked through social media and saw the photos from the Hollywood movie premier. Through all of the suits and outfits that he saw, the yellow blazer and pants with the black turtle-neck looked the best to him. He smiled as he stepped back and admired himself. Officer Briant put his wand back in his pocket and gave Darion a golf clap "Now youre ready for school. Multicorfors the spell to change your clothes, remember to have a clear mind of the clothes you want to change. Go handle business man, your family might need this more than you know." Officer Briant turns Darion around and walks away. Darion starts up the stairs and looks back briefly to see Officer Briant meet back up with the officer and look back at him and wink. Darion walks into the house straightening his suit and buttoning the top button. Darion opens the door to see Sasha and his mother sitting at the table smiling and coloring in an activity book that Darions mother had gotten from the dollar store, along with 15 other items for Sasha's birthday. "I'm sorry, i dont understand why we have to leave but i understand that we have to, for dad's sake or for my education. Either way i'm ready for school." Darion walks over to the middle of the room and puts his hand out. Sasha is the first one to run over and hug Darion. Darions mother gets up out of her seat and walks over grabbing her jacket off of the hook on the side of the wall. "It gets cold at night" Eliana hugs Darion tight and kisses him on the forehead. Darion grabs the floating ring. Darion goes to brace himself and his foot slides rolling over rocks and loose dirt. Opening his eyes Darion realizes that its way to bright to still be in his house. Darion rubs his eyes trying to get some kind of vision back.
"Darion's vision finally clears up only to see the valley he's standing in between two huge mountain faces, tall mountain topped in clouds, the bases short felt like grass. Darion steps infront of his mother as he sees a cheetah walking through the valley towards them. "Sasha, is this what you saw, my death." Feeling for his wand realizing that it was taken not an hour earlier. Sasha screams cowering into her mothers arms, Eliana looks calm but not letting Darion know. Darion picks up a rock and prepares to it at the slowly approaching cheetah. The cheetah stops and sits down cocking its head to the side. "Yaaa, get out of here, man black people dont deal with random cheetah encounters." Darion stomps and kicks dirt at the cheetah. Darion continues to yell until Eliana puts her hand on his shoulder. He looks for a moment, then quickly turning back towards the cheetah he sees a taller dark skinned woman walking towards him, confused he sees that the woman's skin has dark spots that seem to be disappearing and what appear to be whiskers receding into her face. She strides over yellow and red suite pants that seem to move with more airflow than is actually around. Her matching suit jacket is also moving with the wind. Her hair tied up and weaved around a yellow headband into a large afro top bun. " Isimemo sakho?" Darion stutters before Eliana speaks up. "His pocket" Darion looks back confused. Putting his hand on his suit pocket. The woman opens her hand and the stone from this morning that he woke up with floats out of his pocket into the woman's hand. "Welcome to Uagadou Darion Baba.