Unlocking the Magic

CHAPTER TWO-Gracie-6/14

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How, what? Ava! How do I work this thing? Oh! Never mind. Um. Hi. I'm Gracie, it's my turn to tell the story I guess. After Lilli broke the girl's wrist things things got intense. And like Ava said, following the guys was kinda dumb, especially when you're trapped in a car, with blood thirsty vampires attacking, but any ways. I will do my best to tell this story as it happened, don't get mad at me if it doesn't work. I never was a good story teller. I'm getting side tracked again. I'm just going to start telling this now. We were still in the truck, and Lilli had just broke a girls wrist.

Stevie and Taylor screamed. My twin, Macy, was laughing. I slapped her in the arm, "Macy! It's not funny, we're in danger!" Stevie and Taylor's screaming alerted the other group that there was people hiding in the car. A guy turned and hissed, Davis grabbed the back of his head and slammed it into the car window, smearing blood all over it when he fell to the ground, and cracking the glass. Ava screamed as someone walked around the truck and opened the door on the opposite side. He grabbed her ankle, making her scream even louder. Kim screamed and grabbed Ava's arm. As she did, a vine grew and wrapped itself around the mans waist. Suddenly he flew backwards, the vine throwing him across the parking lot.

Another person appeared at the door. He grabbed Ava's and Kim's ankles, and pulled them out quickly. They screamed and hit the ground with a thud. Stevie screamed and jumped out of the truck. She put her hands up to tackle the man, but water sprayed out of her finger tips. All the sudden a pure white wolf tackled the man, and when he bit him the water all over him froze solid. The wolf got up and jumped over the truck. Macy screamed, and the girl grabbing her got shot with lightning for her hands. She fell to the ground with a scorch mark across her chest. Jim and Davis were fighting back to back, with the same swords.

Kim and Ava ran around to the other side of the truck and hid behind Barry brandishing a huge spear. "Barry look out!" Ava yelled when she saw someone sprinting towards Barry. Another Barry appeared beside him, and the real Barry seemingly disappeared. The fake Barry sprinted away from us and ran through a car. His pursuer tried to follow. Key word, tried. "Taylor!" I screamed and yanked her out of the truck, just as another attacker climbed into it. The car suddenly burst into flames as I touched the door. Taylor screamed and threw her hands in the air, a baby squirrel jumped onto her hand. More and more squirrels started appearing around her. Eventually there was a vortex of squirrels around Taylor that took down anything that tried to hurt her.

Sam and Augustus were fighting side by side, Sam with a saber Augustus with only his hands. Augustus picked up one of the attackers and threw him towards Sam and he impaled him in the stomach as he flew through the air. Jim and Davis were spinning circles around each other fighting in perfect sync, and the white wolf and Lilli were running and attacking together. Max and Barry were trying to keep the attackers away from us. Max threw the last attacker into a ditch. The white wolf changed into Dixon. The boys stopped and looked around, and saw us watching them. "Oh shit." Dixon mumbled.

"Swear jar!" Jim yelled.

"Dammit!" Dixon said quietly. "Dammit!" He yelled a little louder.

"Three swear jars! Ha!" Jim and Davis yelled at the same time.

"Erherm."  Lilli motioned with her head towards us.

"Oh right." Davis sighed. "Can you guys come to our house?"

We all nodded. He nodded back,  "Ok. Lilli. Do you know how to get there?" He asked her.

Lilli nodded, "I'll drive. Kim can follow in her van." Kim nodded and walked to her car. I climbed in the back seat along with Macy, and Stevie in the front seat. Before she started driving she texted her dad telling him where she was going and then pulled out of the parking lot behind Lilli. The drive took a half hour. Kim looked a little worried the whole time. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"Huh? Oh. It's just I hope no one was hurt. Besides the monster dudes that attacked us." She said absentmindedly. The drive fell into silence again. Stevie turned on the radio. The first song on was Animals by Maroon Five. Stevie reached back over and turned the radio off again. I gave her a questioning look, "The video is weird, and about wolves. Too similar to what just happened."

"Are we just going to accept the fact that that just happened?" Kim said loudly. "I've been reading that stuff since I could read, and have been writing it since I could write. Stuff like that doesn't exist." Everyone got quiet. She looked around at all of us. "Trust me. I've wanted that stuff to happen since I was little. But it doesn't happen like that. We're not characters in a book. This is real life. Magic doesn't exist."

"But Kim. You always say that magic is just science we can't understand. Plus what about Mumbo Jumbo?" Macy asked.

"Mumbo Jumbo doesn't exist. Neither do werewolves or vampires or fairies. None of it." Kim finished speaking just as we pulled into the driveway of Jim and Davis' house. Lilli was waiting out side of the house with Taylor and Ava. Sam was waiting out side with them. They walked into the house and sat on their couch.

Davis started talking first, "You're probably wondering what that was." No one said any thing. "Alright. I'll just keep talking. We don't work at a trash place."

"What a surprise." Kim mumbled. Jim rolled his eyes.

Davis looked at her. "Any ways. We're from Nassir. Or Mumbo Jumbo as you know it as, thanks to Kim." She stared at him in response, her eyes wide.