The Magic of Three

Chapter 19

Lucy had her next class with Juvia and the two girls sat their desks side by side, listening intently to the words of their history teacher Mrs. Kendall.

"In the 1600's, the puritans were very fearful of any culture or behavior outside their own that they didn't understand or recognize." Mrs. Kendall explained. "And because advanced science had not been discovered yet, they would assume that anything strange or unusual had to be the work of the devil."

"Like Juvia." The heard the venomous snicker of Sorano Agria, who's desk was right in front of the two cousins. She was Minerva's right hand woman and arguably the muscle to Minerva's master mind. Rude, ill-tempered, and occasionally violent. Although some would say that Sorano would only act this way to please Minerva and stay in the popular crowd.

Juvia sighed under her breath when she heard the insult, Lucy shot her a glare from behind.

"Very soon fear gave way to mass hysteria and plenty of innocent people were accused of being associated with the devil. Most common bro g women accused of being witches." Mrs. Kendall continued having not heard Sorano's comment. "In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the character Abigail Williams took advantage of this hysteria in order to remove the wife of her former lover Johnathan Proctor, now while this part in particular is fictional, many real life accusers had the same motive. Using the fear of the people to their advantage by crying witchcraft and devil worship on people whom they viewed as an obstacle."

"Too bad we can't use that to get rid of freaks like Juvia." Sorano whispered to her friend.

Lucy shot Sorano another glare and this time she suddenly felt as if someone had pricked her with a needle.

"Ow!" She screamed.

"Miss Agria." Mrs. Kendall said turning from the chalkboard to look at her. "Is there something that you'd like to share with the class?"

"No but something stuck me." She said. "Like a needle or a thorn."

She checked her hand and the teacher did the same, but they saw nothing. Then Sorano felt something pull her hair hard.

"Ow!"

"What is it?" Mrs. Kendall asked.

"Somebody pulled my hair!" Sorano turned to look at Juvia hatefully. "She did it!"

"No I didn't." Juvia said.

"Yes you did!"

"Sorano I was standing in front of you the whole time and I didn't see Juvia move an inch. She couldn't have pulled your hair." Mrs. Kendall said.

And after that, Sorano felt a bite on her leg.

"Ow! Something bit me!" She cried.

"Sorano if this is a joke, I don't find it particularly amusing." Mrs. Kendall said losing her patience.

"I'm not joking! Something but my leg!"

"Impossible, there's nothing under your desk. Now enough of this."

"But Mrs. Kendall- Ahhh!"

That time she felt a prick, a pull, and a bite at the same time and it was when Juvia finally caught sight of Lucy twitching her ears with a devious smirk on her face.

"Stop that." Juvia whispered to her.

"I didn't do anything." Lucy denied.

But Juvia knew better. Anna had told her all about how witches can do a little magic just by moving a part of their body. For Erza it was wiggling her nose, for Juvia it was batting her eyes, and for Lucy it was twitching her ears, and they were twitching up a storm right now.