Everything is not always as it seems

Once and for all

Today (outfit 36) was our magic exam day. This was either gonna end very good or very bad. I knew my brother Justin was gonna do just fine, Max might not do very well and I wasn't sure how Alex was gonna do. And it could go either way with me and my friends. Since we had to practice magic behind Prof. Crumb's back. And as of right now he still thinks we're there because of my clone.

Alex's problem wasn't she didn't understand or didn't the spells right it was the she wasn't concentrating and only cold remember so many spells. I knew the ones that I knew and I did well during lessons. But I'm also not supposed to be here. So when it came to take the test I was sure that I knew them as much of them as I knew. But I could only learn so much on me own and be self taught without an instructor for the first 14 years.

When the exam was over, and Crumb's came to come pick up our exams. Me and my friends hid away. And when he was gone we came out of hiding. One of the things we had to do was turn a guinea pig into a dove. My friends succeeded, however Jack had turned his white with frost covering it as the bird shivered and the frost fell off. My brothers both succeeded, and Alex wasn't focusing and turned hers into a brick even though she did the spell correctly. My turn. I closed my eyes and crossed my fingers, prepping myself with my wand to do the spell.

The guinea pig is not a dove with wings should fill its slot. The magic bounced off my wand and into the cage where the guinea pig and brick were and I closed my eyes not wanting to find out what was gonna happen. Farrah sweetheart open your eyes my dad encourage me. I looked through my fingers. I - I did it. Well yes you made the dove appear and fixed Alex's mistake but Farrah wave your hand in front of the bird's face. I did. It's not responding. You closed your eyes and so with your fear of not succeeding and having your eyes closed when you did the spell that dove is blind.

What's the matter with you? I'm not supposed to be here. What do you mean you're not supposed to be here? Dad Crumb's took her away from us remember? Alex gave her that necklace not be effected by dark magic. My brother Justin said. So what? So she left clones of her and friends in her place back at Wiztech when she left again. If he comes here and sees that she's still here, that they're all still here she could get her powers revoked. He continued. No he'll do something much, much worse. He'll take my friends away from me and leave me to suffer on my own, and without my powers. I cried.

He's not gonna take you Farrah. Yeah your brother is right, we won't let him. Nothing bad is gonna happen to you. He's coming! Quick we need to hide somewhere. Let's go to my room. Quick! We zap away to my room, and he arrives shortly after to collect our exams. Except mine and my friends, we took them with us. There was no way he cold know we took that exam, he would've known we were there for sure.

A few days later we came back some day after school and report cards came. Cool report cards are here. Why are you suddenly so excited for them to be here? You sure seem pretty confident on if you did well or not. Oh what's it to you, you didn't turn your exam in? She teased. Not that I could. I can't turn anything in I'm not supposed to be learning any magic. A wizard not learning magic? When your warren is Prof. Crumbs who believed you would do evil in the world so to prevent that from happening he takes you from your family and makes you stay at a school for wizards so that he can keep an eye on you and not let you go to classes so that you can't learn anything because if I were to learn how to use my powers without fail perfectly or just outright fail in general there's that possibility for me to become evil and he doesn't want me to become evil because I have the potential to be more powerful than him apparently and he doesn't want my power to fall into the wrong hands.

Ok, alright I get the idea. And I don't want that to happen to you. Alex tells me putting a hand on my shoulder. Ok Max your up go ahead. Makes has a C which makes him average, and Alex gets an F as her overall score but she can't let our parents find out or she's in big trouble. But the report card needs to have a parent sign it and be sent back, and he wouldn't go away, she tried everything to get rid of it, but because its made of magic it can't be destroyed.

Our brother Justin would've gotten all As had he not gotten a B- in his spell rhyming. When our parents showed up and Alex's report card was out in the open she panicked and turned our parents into guinea pigs. I asked her why she did that she said she needed more time. To do what? To panic I'm sorry IDK. Here its ok, we'll just put them in cage and keep them safe. For safe keeping. Good idea. What's a good idea? Um, Max bought himself an exercise ball to walk on water.

That is a cool idea. But what's with the hamsters? Not hamsters their guinea pigs, we're practicing dad's spell. Well fine but where are our parents? They're at a sandwich shop convention. My emails worked. Yeah sure great that's wonderful, but um they will be in my room. Please don't let them out. No worries why would we want to? Max what's on your mind right now? What? Oh I wanna race those guinea pigs with my hamster ball. No Max.

Don't let anyone in or out of my room. Got it you guys? Where are you going? Alex and I are gonna go have some sisterly bonding. Sure that's a thing. But while we were gone Max hadn't heard a word we said and they let them out of the cage, and then lost the guinea pigs and had to replace them. So now mom and were missing, and report card hadn't been signed. This was gonna be bad for more than a lot of reasons. But course if Alex was to get in trouble for it I'd take the hit for it anyways. I was already gonna be in enough trouble as it was already.

However with our parents gone the only thing Alex gets an A in is lying. Prof. Crumbs tries to take away her powers. But as he does the spell I use my own spell to switch my necklace onto Alex so that he can't take her powers, so that when he starts saying you haven't acted with any responsibility, say goodbye to your magical ability. I jump in the way. Farrah Russo! How can you be in two places at once? No matter you are coming with me at once! And.... Say goodbye to your friends and family!

No wait! Please don't take her too, look you can take my powers, but please let my sister stay?! She can stay. Both: Yes! Until..... I will be back for her and her friends when I return back to talk with your parents about the report card and how long to suspend your powers. Both: No! But he was already gone. And we made my brother Justin do the spell on the real guinea pigs to make them human so that we can find mom and dad.

Once we did we were in Max's room and she was in big trouble and then Prof. Crumbs came back. Our dad told them not to fall into the wrong hands, and he said yes he agrees that he was stripping Alex of her powers forever. I cut in. Wait that's fine, but please you have to let me and my friends stay. No, your sister's powers are revoked and I have half a mind to revoke yours as well. And I should've done so a long time ago. And your friends will be no more, I have no reason to kill them, they haven't done anything wrong, but I can and will make them forget who you are.

Fine do what you want with me, but please leave my family out of this?! I tried to leave your family out of it, you're the one that gave them back their memories of you being part of the family. This is your own doing. He grabs my wrist, and my friends, but before he can escape with us and "Alex's" powers he turns into a guinea pig too. Because of what our brother did. He says that its not fair that I should get taken away, that there's probably not a single bad bone in my body since Alex probably has all of it, but that Justin needs Alex to keep her powers because when she messes up he has to fix her mess and it makes him a better wizard.

Actually I have a confession to make. I was ok with the fact that Alex was getting her powers taken away forever because.... Alex, you still have your powers. Then whose powers did he take? Mine, he took mine. No, that's impossible. The necklace would prevent that. What necklace? Our parents ask us. Alex gave me a necklace that would prevent dark magic from being cast on me, which includes me getting my powers taken away, but when he took her powers or "took her powers" I quickly swopped the necklace over Alex so that it wouldn't work on her and then I jumped in the way. He can take away my powers, because I'd do anything to protect my family.

Farrah no. Alex cried placing the necklace back on me. You didn't need to do that. I'd give up my powers 1,000 times just to make sure you were never taken from us again. I love you. And you Alex, all of you. That's why I did have to do what I did. My powers are gone, and I'm ok with that. And, and as long as Alex doesn't get her powers taken away, and nothing bad happens to her, then I will go back to Wiz Tech and be Crumb's prisoner until the day he dies.

You would do that for me? Of course I would, your my sister, your my twin. You're my best friend. And you're my best friend. We all cry and we hug. Ok, Justin turn him back into his human form. I'm ready to receive my punishment. No, I can't let him take you. You just got here. I'm not gonna let anything bad happen to you or your friends. You're my little sister and I love you, and your friends have grown on me. I like having them around. Justin do it now. Dad tells him. I did the spell I will take my punishment.

He changes him back. He is furious. Justin Russo I'm surprise at you! You're supposed to be a model student, however I heard all that was said through my guinea pig ears and what I heard was very heartfelt and moving and well Ms. Russo don't make me regret this but you get to stay, with the return of your powers and to keep your friends. Make good choices and for the 3 of your punishments I will see all 3 of you in my office at 8:00 bring a comb the 3 of you will be grooming my beard hair for the next two weeks. See you in the morning. Prof. Crumbs out suckers peace. Then he dabs flashing out in smoke.

Well in other words all is well that ends well. I hope I never give him a reason to do any of that to me, but we won this round. We're probably all grounded for life, but as long as everyone has their powers and I can stay and keep my friends my punishment could be to go spend two weeks with Hades but as long as I can come back after it wouldn't matter to me, as long as I'm home along side my family.