Just Like Magic (UNEDITED)

Chapter Eight

As the realization the Pierce was standing on my doorstep, I suddenly became very aware of the fact that I didn't have a shirt on. A brief period of awkward silence passed before he decided to say something.

"Felix," he greeted me, fighting to keep steady eye contact.

"Do you need something?" Bella inquired from behind me.

He cleared his throat,"Oh, I-I just came over to give your backpack," only then he noticed he was holding my blue school bag in his hand, which I quietly accepted as he handed to me,"you left it at my house yesterday. I was thinking that you would need it."

I zipped open the backpack, letting out a breath of relief as I found the book, intact and nuzzled in its depths next to cheerleading brochures, my wand, and a flyer to see the school's production of Grease, which I had promptly stowed away when I was handed it due to the fact that the majority of the theatre club smoked weed during rehearsals. Closing the backpack, I flashed him a smile and held the backpack to my chest in order to cover my bra, thanking him and his mother for letting me stay at their home.

After what seemed like months I shut the door behind me, turning around to a smirking Bella.

Well, that's one way to get over your hangover.

***

I teleported myself to Rosemont Highschool that morning at 9:00, about two hours after the first bell. At first, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Then, things slowly started revealing themselves.

First, it was the board that stood just outside of the school parking lot. Gone were the abundant number of graffiti markings. Instead, it was cleaned and nearly shone, proudly reading 'William Adams Rosemont Highschool; Home of the Knights founded 1973."

Then was the American flag fluttering in the wind, raised grandly at the top of the flag pole for probably the first time in over a decade. The parking lot, not only filled with the messily parked second-hand cars of teenagers, but with neatly parked, gleaming vehicles, and no couple snogging each other in sight.

But perhaps what was the eeriest of all was what was on the inside of the school; nothing. And when I say nothing, I meant no topless girls pressed against lockers, no papers strewn across the floor, no clocks knocked down from ceilings, and no student cliques. There were no students at all actually. The school was as silent as a graveyard.

I walked down the halls, almost terrified by the sudden change of atmosphere from the usual crowded and rowdy hallways. For a second, I thought that there must have been no school that day. There couldn't have been. But the parking lot outside was full, the flag was raised, and the front doors had given way as I entered the school. Something was horribly wrong.

"Hello," I called out," is anyone there?" That was my first mistake.

At first there was no response.

Then there was the loud sound I new very well. The loud click-clack of high heels. Then the footsteps got louder, and then they stopped. I didn't turn around.

"Felix. Felix Grimes." My heart raced as I turned around to see a short woman dressed in grey slacks and blazer. With a wiry frame and a string of pearls, a pixie-like nose, silver hair, and fox-like blue eyes, a woman stood before me.

A small smirk expanded to a grin over her face until it consumed hir features, "Forgive me, I meant Felix Fauna Grimm."

And then my heart stopped racing. Instead it turned to ice. My full name. My Fae name. How could she know that?

And then I noticed her eyes. Those vivid Indigo eyes that seemed to shift from bright-blue to indigo to purple everytime I blinked.

I stepped forward.

That wasn't blue. That was purple. Now it was a bright magenta color. Now back to indigo. Humans couldn't do that. Humans couldn't even have purple eyes, let alone switch the color from pink to purple to blue. But one of the first charms I learnt to do in Kindergarten was an eye enchantment charm.

One that could switch the color of your eye at will.

In a flash, my wand materialized in my hand, and with another flick of my wrist and the muttering of a jinx under my breath, the victim was under my control.

I nearly yelled the curse and with a fluid wrist movement, the woman's entire body was violentely thrown against a row of lockers, the impact denting the metal. Yet even with the body suspeneded above the ground and being pressed against the lockers by my powers, she forced her head forward, her sinister smile still greeting my now shaking body.

"Lovely to meet you again," the woman spoke. Now that I was paying close attention, I realized she had an accent. The accent of which people who populated the Tropilis, the capitol had. The accent I never had because my parents grew up near the countryside, and I had up until I had to go to go to school. The creamy flow of words, and glossy 'l' sounds and 'a' sounds. The accent I was bullied for not having.

This was what pushed me to walk towards the levitated figure, wand raised in defense, " Who are you."

"The National Defense Organization of Fae. TNDOF. Your Queen is speaking."

My body shaking in anger, "TNDOF. You couldn't have come up with a better acronym for your title? You certainly have time for it since my family has been doing the actually DEFENDING OF FAE!" I screamed the last part,"What do you want?"

"It's best to be quite Miss Grimm. Class is in session. We simply wish to check up on our best agent."

"You wanted to check on me?" my blood was boiling," you couldn't have sent me help? A lead on what to do? I am a citizen of yours! Your agents are enjoying pastries while I'm here slaving away -"

Queen Seraphina wasted no time in cutting me off,"A citizen that is very experienced for this job based off of family history. Our teams are working very hard to assist you on your mission. And Miss Grimm?" her sickeningly sweet tone rolled off of my eard,"if I remember correctly, you have your weapon and powers to equip you. Unless you wish to complete your job without thos ammenities?" The question hung in the air, and all of a sudden I wondered what the true extent of her power ended. If she could still hurt me even if I was in a different universe.

"And as a show of gratitude for your service, Miss Grimm; your mother has been accomodated to some special services-"

"Don't touch her!" my voice crack in fear as something inside of me broke, "Don't touch her." I whispered softly.

"We are giving her our full attention," I could hear the smugness in her voice, " And-"

I snapped, swishing my wand and whispering another hex under my breath when Seraphina interrupted me,"I would advise against that Miss Grimm, any harm that will come to this human vessel we are speaking to you through will cause the humans to turn against you very quickly."

At this I dropped my wand, letting the human vessel fall to the floor, "I knew that you would choos wisely Felix," the Queen purred.

I took a deep breath, and I swung my fist right across the woman's face. The body fell to the ground and the violet eyes dimmed to a murky brown as the Queen released the body and the human returned into control.

"See you soon Miss Grimm," the Queen signed off as the power of Seraphina left the body and the human inside the body stirred. The comment sent me into a blurry rage, causing me to send a blind flurry of punches as I beat the absolute daylights of the body.

When I realized that the human had fully returned and passed out on the ground, I paused, regaining control of myself and then being startled by the squeak of sneakers at the end of the hallway.

Pierce stared at me from the end of the hallway.