A Story of Magic and Miscommunication

Chapter 25

Virgil's POV

My heart continued to pound in my chest as I stared at the Starbucks wielding witch. Thomas stepped protectively in front of me, glaring at Remy and slightly glowing a faint rainbow color.

Remy just raised an eyebrow at Thomas as if to say, 'Really?'. At that moment, Roman stepped out of the bathroom, turning to look at us.

"Reggie!" he exclaimed, walking over to him. "I haven't seen you around Virgil in ages! What are you doing here?" Remy rolled his eyes at Roman for using the wrong name.

"This isn't any of your business, Roman." Roman paused, looking between Remy and me, his smile disappearing as he saw my distressed state.

"Well, you're in my house and are harassing my bo- my friend, so I think that makes it my business," Roman retorted, standing in front of me and a bit to my left, effectively walking through Thomas, who sunk out and reappeared next to me.

"Stay out of it, ignis pythonissam(Fire Witch)," Remy growled, straightening his posture. Roman's eyes widened.

"How did you- What?" Roman spluttered, confused and a little suspicious. Remy smirked and shrugged, taking a sip from his Starbucks. I decided to speak up.

"Remus told me." Roman whirled around to face me.

"He did what?!?  We aren't supposed to reveal ourselves to humans!" Roman carded a hand through his hair.

"Who said we're human?" Remy asked. Roman took a step back, appraising Remy in a new light.

An apparent realization hit him. "Wait; we?" He faced me again, squinting at me. "You're not human?" I shook my head."Prove it." I sighed but closed my eyes, summoning a ball of purple lightning. It floated above my palm, bobbing up and down gently.

"I still haven't gotten used to that," Thomas admitted, poking the magic and then yelping when he got shocked. I attempted to stifle a laugh, but both me and Remy failed, snorting and chuckling respectively.

"What's so funny?" Roman asked, looking bewildered.

"Uh..." I stammered, not really knowing how to respond. Thomas made eye contact with Remy, who nodded. Thomas closed his eyes and strained, and he began glowing rainbow, brighter than before. I heard a pop and Roman stumbled backwards, landing on his ass as he stared at Thomas. Wait, what? Thomas extended a hand.

"Nice to finally introduce myself, Roman. The name's Thomas." Roman just gaped at Thomas.

"Th-Thomas, how are you doing that?" I asked cautiously.

"Wait, you know this ghost?" Roman questioned at the same time Remy said

"He went fully corporeal." I chose to focus on Roman's question.

"Yeah, he's my brother." Thomas and I did a complex handshake before giving each other a hug.

"I thought you were an only child." Thomas scowled at Roman.

"Not all family is through blood, dipshit," I told him.

"So... you're a spiritus pythonissam(Spirit Witch)?" I nodded. "That's so cool! They are so rare! Like, one in one hundred witches, right?" I recoiled, shocked. I looked at Remy for confirmation, who shrugged. Thomas stumbled, swaying slightly as his aura flickered.

Remy's eyes tracked the motion and he glared at Thomas over his sunglasses. "Go incorporeal," Remy commanded. "Now." Thomas shook his head, but the effect was lessened by him fainting into my lap, going incorporeal soon after. Remy just rolled his eyes.

"Obice praevaricator," I mumbled, using my magic to interact with Thomas. I wish I could use nonverbal spells for smaller things, like Remy does, but according to Talyn and Joan, it takes a lot of practice to do spells without verbal commands, and that's just for minor spells. Things like complex incantations or harder spells are almost impossible to do silently. I brushed Thomas' hair away from his face, my fingertips glowing purple where I touched him.

"So, now that that's settled, can we talk?" Remy asked. I sighed, nodding.

"Patton and Logan will be here any minute, let's go in the other room." I nodded to Roman as I left, giving silent permission to start movie night without me. This might take awhile.