"I got it Shannon! It happened!" Benny yelled to me as he held a ball of dark magic with silver lightning crackling throughout it. "It just happened, when I remembered how you managed some matter in your hands to show us, I just copied the movement and, bam, it's there!" He seemed so excited and accomplished that he got the magic to click. I clapped for him as I looked over to his brother, Luke, and Jade. They were looking bummed out that they couldn't do anything like Benny, Kade, or I could.
"Zane, try holding the magic in your hands, Benny you're going to have to let it roll off your hands in a way." I told the twins. Zane got up and walked to his brother timidly. He held his hand out waiting for Benny to hand the magic over. When Benny finally let the magic move from his hands, Zane flinched when it landed.
"It's colder than I thought it would be, which is strange considering there is literal lighting inside it." He laughed before realizing what's happening. "Wait, what about our parents, what's happening to them?"
"Um, so there are two things that happen during a time loop, okay? The first is that magical beings and their directly related siblings, like you, Zane and Benny, will just be stuck repeating the set time over and over until it's been stopped and life resumes. The second is that regular humans, like your parents, will be able to continue their lives on as if this isn't happening. So what's happening for them is just an altered reality, they think you are with them and are continuing your normal lives." I explained. "For Luke and Jade, you technically are also reliving the day over and over with the rest of us and have no altered reality that's happening for you. Yes, you have a 'clone' in your parents reality but you are here, literally and not figuratively. If I'm remembering from school correctly, that means your soulmate has magic." Luke held his breath when I mentioned soulmates because he's an openly gay man. He probably thinks soulmate means being in a straight relationship, when it does not.
"So, you mentioned your wand earlier, and I've been wondering if we all got one?" Kade asked timidly. I only nodded in response which made his face light up in excitement for his upcoming wand. "Where do we get them?" He added, making me shake my head softly. I looked up towards Luke, who had admiration gleam in his hazel stained eyes for Kade. I had always suspected it was Kade that Luke fantasized about when he told me he first had a crush.
"You don't just 'get them', you have to make one yourself. Of course, you don't necessarily need a wand because you, specifically you Kade, don't need a wand to revive something, though you can make one to learn lethal magic. For Benny, you saw how you don't need a wand to form magic in your hands, but to do lethal magic, some of the darkest magic we learn, you do need a wand." I explained quickly, getting my wand out and finding a butterfly fluttering past us. "If you want an example, watch this butterfly." I breathed in before whipping my wand towards the butterfly's body, which fell dead onto the paved ground of the tunnel. "Finis!" I whispered harshly. The orange colour I always imagined death looked like, sparked from the tip of the wooden stick I carried.
"Can I try reviving it?" Kade asked, I simply nodded. He rushed over to the tiny body of the butterfly. He pressed the ground next to its body, meditating, willing it's life to go back into its host.
He gasped when he succeeded. The butterflies emerald green wings fluttered softly before it flew away as if nothing happened to it. "Congratulations Kade. You can perform necromancy." We all smiled at him. Luke's hands were the first to clap, leading the rest of us to clap lightly along.
"Shoot. We have to hurry. We don't have much time left. Come on, come on." I panicked slightly, looking at my watch.
The group of us headed down the road towards Layne's house. It was a beautiful house, shame it was to get destroyed in our fight.
When Layne had finally saw us she laughed.
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Minuscule Effort
Fantasy"A witch being trapped in a time warp through alternate universes trying to find her way back to reality" Fifty years ago, wizards and witches were a thriving community, but as little as ten years ago the numbers were almost zero. There was close to...
