Chapter 2 (A/N: As you all probably know fanfiction is having issues with notifications. That's why it's been a while since I updated. But still leave a review)

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The Madrigals left their Casita, to see who the newcomers were. Lorenzo, Esteban, and Marcos rode into town on their horses, and caught the eyes of the citizens. Then they had their horses stop, and Lorenzo got off.

"Hola everyone." Lorenzo started.

"We are the Herrera Hermanos, wizards from far away."

He then pulled out his wand, and made caused fire to come out of it. Everyone was amazed, and then the Madrigals arrived.

"Hola, I am Alma Madrigal. Welcome to Encanto." Alma greeted.

"Hola, I am Lorenzo Herrera. And these are my brothers, Esteban and Marcos."

Mirabel looked at the brothers, and then Marcos caught her eye. He had to be the most handsome guy she'd ever seen.

"What brings you here?" Augustin asked.

Lorenzo and Esteban then began to explain.

"We come from a city far away, we've come to help our brother gain his full powers." explained Lorenzo.

"We heard that Encanto was a magical place. And we hoped it could help him." Esteban added.

Marcos smiled, he liked that his older brothers were looking out for him.

"Wow he has a nice smile." Mirabel thought.

"Well you're welcome to stay for as long as you need." Alma told them.

"Gracias." replied Lorenzo.

As they went off on their horses, Marcos caught sight of Mirabel. He smiled at her, and waved. Mirabel felt butterflies in her stomach and her heart flutter, and she waved and smiled back. She was suddenly snapped out of her thoughts by Camilo.

"Come on, Mirabel, we gotta go." he told her.

Mirabel then followed her family back to the Casita. As Marcos rode on his horse, he thought about the girl he saw.

"She's pretty." he thought.

That evening, everyone in Encanto gathered at the Casita for Antonio's gift ceremony.

"All right, Tonio it's your time now." Pepa told her son.

She was starting to get emotional, and rain cloud was forming.

"Pepa, you're gonna get him wet." Felix told her.

Camilo then shapeshifted into his father, and began imitating him.

"Hey, I don't sound like that." he told his son.

Then it was time for the ceremony to officially start. Among the people in the audience were Lorenzo, Esteban, and Marcos. While Marcos thought they were there to just observe the ceremony, but Lorenzo and Esteban wanted to know about the true powers of the candle.

Alma then began speaking.

"50 years ago, my family came to Encanto for a better life. It started out tragically, but then this candle provided us with a miracle. It gave our family wonderful gifts, that we've used to serve the people in village. And now it's time for our youngest member to receive his gift."

A flower curtain made by the help of Isabela lifted, and revealed Antonio. A spotlight shined on him, and Casita created a red carpet walkway for him. All eyes turned to Antonio, who looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

He then turned to Mirabel, who was standing in the background. He held out his hand to her. Mirabel looked taken aback, and began shaking her head "no". But Antonio looked at her with pleading eyes. She shook her head, but Antonio kept looking at her.

"I need you." he whispered to her.

Mirabel couldn't refuse him now, and so she slowly stepped out, took Antonio's hand, and walked him up to his new door.

"This is so exciting." whispered a woman in the audience.

"I hope the boy gets a gift." added a man.

Hearing that made Lorenzo and Esteban confused.

"What do you mean? I thought all the Madrigals had gifts?" Lorenzo asked him.

"Actually, Mirabel doesn't have a gift."

"Que?" Esteban wondered.

"For some reason Mirabel didn't get a gift when she turned five."

Lorenzo and Esteban looked at each other curiously.

Back with Mirabel, as she walked with Antonio she had flashbacks of her gift ceremony. She remembered how confused and scared she was when her door disappeared, and how everything changed for the worst for her after that.

When they got to the top, Antonio then reached out for the doorknob. Everyone held their breath as he did, and when he touched the knob, the door glowed brighter and it appeared with Antonio's picture and name on it.

Antonio opened the door, and a toucan flew out to him, and landed on his arm. The toucan squawked, and then Antonio gasped.

"I understand you." he told it.

It turned out that Antonio's gift was talking to animals. The whole family went into his new room, and saw that it was like a jungle with many different animals. Everyone was extremely happy, and quickly surrounded Antonio.

While Mirabel was glad Antonio got his gift, she couldn't help but feel a twinge of sadness. And to make matters worse, someone came up with a camera and snapped a family picture. Only he didn't tell Mirabel to get in the picture, nor did her family urge her to come in.

So Mirabel quietly slipped out of the room, and went downstairs.

In the audience, Marcos excused himself to find the bathroom. As he walked around, he ran into Mirabel.

"Oh, com promiso." he told her.

"It's fine, and it's you again. Marcos isn't it?" Mirabel asked.

"Si, and you're...?"

"Mirabel."

"Well Mirabel, would you mind showing me where the bathroom is?"

She smiled, and slightly blushed.

"Sure, come on."

And she led him to the bathroom.

After he did his business, the two teens decided to go outside to escape the crowd.

"So I heard your cousin got the gift of talking to animals." Marcos told her.

"Yes, I'm really happy for him." Mirabel replied.

Marcos noticed the twinge of sadness in Mirabel's voice.

"You don't sound happy."

"It just...brings back some hard memories. You see, I don't have a special gift like my family does."

"That's rough. It's sort of like my problem."

"Oh that's right. You don't have your full powers."

"It can be hard. Like my brothers can make fire, lightning, and even fireworks appear with their wands. But me..."

Marcos pulled out his wand, said some magic words, and waved it. But instead of fire, lightning, or fireworks, bubbles came out of his wand.

"See?"

"Well, the bubbles are nice too." Mirabel told him.

"I suppose but I'd still like to be able to do some real magic."

Mirabel brushed some strands of hair out of her face and behind her ear.

"Guess we're both in the same situation." she replied.

Then the two found themselves just standing there looking at each other, and smiled. Little did they know, Lorenzo and Esteban were watching them.

"Hermano, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" whispered Lorenzo.

"Si, Lorenzo." Esteban replied.

The two realized that their key to the candle was standing right in front of them.

That's chapter 2, plz review