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Ian POV:

We pulled up on our driveway. I opened the front door for Ameria. We stepped in the house and I went straight to my room and closed my door. 

What day I had, could my birthday get any worse. I opened my closet and got out my record player and the disk out of my desk drawer. The disk had tape on it labelled "Dad" on the front. 

I sighed and closed my eyes for a few seconds.  I opened the player and slid the disk inside. There was a click, and right then, the disk started playing.

As the disk started to play, I could hear my parents voices. 

"Will, your never gonna get that thing working" I heard my mom say from the recording.

"I think I've got it" I heard my dad reply

"I'm gonna watch from over here for when it blows up"

"Hello? Hello?"

"I'll bet good money you can't get it to work"

"Oh, is that right?"

"Yep"

"But you're doing a good job of making it look like you know what you're doing"

"Well, I'm trying to"

"Did you check if it had batteries?" My mom giggled

"Uhhh no" my dad replied

"Of course you didn't"

"I know"

"So, is it really working?"

"Let's find out"

" Okay. Bye." 

The recording finished and the disk popped out. I placed it back in and took a deep breath. 

"Will, you're not going to get that thing working"

"I think I've got it"

"I'm gonna watch from over here, for when it blows up"

"Hi, Dad" I say slowly 

"Hello? Hello?"

"It's me, Ian"

"Oh, is that right?"

"Yeah. Did you have a good day?"

"Well, I'm trying to"

"Yeah. Me, too."

"Although, I could clearly use some help"

"I sure do wish I could spend the day with you sometime"

"I know"

"Well, there are so many things we could do"

"It'll bet it'd be really fun"

"Let's find out"

"Yeah. I mean, I'd love to. We could, uh..."

"Okay. Bye"

" Yeah. Bye."

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Ameria POV: 

I started walking up the stairs to see if Ian was ok, but when he opened his door and came out I was already about half way up the stairs. I stopped walking up.

"Oh Ameria hey, sorry I was doing something" he said walking down the stairs. I walked down with him and we sat the couch as he got some string and a needle from a plastic box. 

Earlier that morning a bit of his dads jumper had ripped and it made a massive hole on the side of one sleeve.

He started to stitch. When I heard Ian's Mom "Laurel" yell

"Oh my..."

"Barley, keep your soldiers off my land or our kingdoms will go to war!"

"Sorry, Mom!" Barley yelled out to Laurel as she kicked his soldiers into his room.

"Oh, this is the world's longest gap year" She sighed as walked toward where Ian and I were sitting. 

She sat down on the other side of where Ian was sitting. 

"Honey, I was gonna do that" Laurel sighed as touched Ian's hand

"It's okay" Ian replied with a small smile

"Wow! You must have been taught by some kind of sewing master" Laurel chuckled 

"Yeah. A very humble sewing master" Ian said as he nudged his mom's shoulder.

Suddenly Ian stopped and brushed his thumb over a part of the sweatshirt where it had the word 

"Lightfoot" Embroidered on the top with blue string. 

He looked at his mom with deep sad eyes. "What was dad like when he was my age?"

"Was he super confident?" 

"Oh, no" Mom giggled

"It took him a while to find out who he was"

"I wish I'd met him" Ian sighed with sadness

"Oh, me, too"

There was silence for a few seconds

"But, hey, you know, when your dad got sick, he fought so hard"

"Because he wanted to meet you more than anything" Laurel explained to Ian, trying to make him feel better. It sorta worked.

Laurel's eyes widened and she gave off a weak smile

"You know what? I have something for you"

"I was gonna wait until after cake, but I think you've waited long enough"

Ian and I stood up from the couch.

"What is it?" Ian questioned, Barley had entered the room, to see what we were talking about.

"It's a gift from your dad" Laurel says walking out of room and starts walking upstairs.

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Ian POV: 

We walk up the stairs as my mom places a ladder down and walks up and pulls a hatch from the ceiling down. She pulled out a big long covered object. It looked like a long covered tree stick.

"What is it?" Me and Barley asked at the same time holding it in our hands. 

"He just said to give you this when you were both over 16"

"Well I can't be here, I'm 15" Ameria said, she was leaning on the side of the staircase. It was obviously she wanted to know what it was,  just like Barley and I did.

"I have no idea what it is, and Ameria dear your fine, Wilden won't mind and besides your basically part of the family" Mom said with a  smile. 

Barley and I took the object into my room and placed it on the bed.  From the excitement Barley and I quickly uncovered the mysterious object.

" No way! It's a wizard staff!" Barley exclaimed

Ameria gasped in fascination. 

 "Dad was a wizard, What?" I was confused just as much as Mom was

"Hold on, your dad was an *accountant" Mom said pacing around the room

*(Accountant, Accountants are responsible for analyzing, interpreting and reporting on financial matters)

"I mean, he got interested in a lot of strange things" Mom continued 

"When he got sick, but..."

Barley started looked around and found an envelope. "There's a letter" Barley said opening the flap at the back.

It said: 

𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝙸𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙱𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚢,

𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚐𝚘, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛.

𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚍𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜, 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚕𝚕, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌.

"𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚗 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍.

"𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛.

"𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚜𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚋𝚢.

"𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚏𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢,

"𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎'𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞.

"𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘 𝙸 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚕𝚕, 𝚜𝚘 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏

"𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚘𝚢𝚜 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎."

"Visitation Spell." Ameria explained pointed at one of piece of paper stapled at the back.

"I don't believe this!  This spell brings him back"

"For one whole day, Dad will be back." Barley explained excitedly 

"What?  Back? Like back to life?" I say

"That's not possible!"

"It is with this!" Barley chuckles 

Mom picked up the piece of old paper with the spell on it.

"Oh, Will, you wonderful nut. What is this?" 

Ameria looked around were the staff was and said

"Now, a spell this powerful needs an assist element" 

Barley's eyes widened. "Ameria I never knew you knew anything bout wizardry" 

"Yeah" I say, but Ameria shrugs 

Turns out Ameria was right, there was a something  inside the packet. It was round and it was glowing a orangey red type of colour.  I could tell Ameria was admired by the item but she also looked worried/nervous for some weird reason. 

"Woah, Dad had a Phoenix Gem, Dude!" Barley holding it high in the air. 

"Wow! There's only a few of those left" Ameria says stepping closer looking more and more closer at the Gem. 

"Exactly right" Barley said patting Ameria on the back. 

"Hold on! Is this dangerous?" I ask as my voice breaks at the end of my sentence

 "We're about to find out!" Barley says placing the crystal at the top of the staff and stepped back. 

He places one hand at the top of the staff and....

"Ow!!" He yelped

"What?!!" Mom, Ameria and I say quickly

"Splinter" He replies pulling the splinter out of his finger tip. 

We all sigh in relief. 

Soon Barley started to say the spells incantation.

"𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚎 𝚐𝚎𝚝, 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑"

"𝚃𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠'𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚝, 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑."

Nothing happened. "Hold on. I was just grippin' it wrong." 

He started again and repeated. 

"𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚎 𝚐𝚎𝚝, 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑"

"𝚃𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠'𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚝, 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑."

Still nothing happened. For around 20 minutes it was constant repeating of the spell. Mom got up from where she was sitting and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Barley, I'm sorry you guys don't have your dad here"

"but this shows just how much he wanted to see you both"

"So much that he'd try anything, that's still a pretty special gift"

"Yeah" I sighed disappointed.

The one chance I could get to see dad, I couldn't get

Barley and Mom walked out of my room,  but Mom stopped before she walked out off view. 

"Hey, wanna come with me to pick up your cake?"

I shake my head, "That's okay. Thanks, Mom" I say with a smile

Ameria sits on my bed and takes out one of her textbooks out of her bag. It said "Science" on the front cover. But Ameria always had said that she hated science. I was confused for a moment but didn't think much of it.

I walked  over to my desk and slumped down in my chair. I hold the slip of paper that had the spell written on it and sighed.

I started to say the lines:

"𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚎 𝚐𝚎𝚝, 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑"

"𝚃𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠'𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚝, 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑."

 Suddenly the staff started to shake and the Phoenix Gem blast light blue magic onto the ground. Ameria looked up from her book and gasped. 

"Ian!" She yells coming over to help me control the staff. She held onto my hand to try and help me not loose control. 

Soon Barley came up-stairs to see what we were up too. 

"Hey, man, what are you doing in here?"

"Holy Tooth of Zadar! How did you two...?" 

He says as shocked as ever before. "I don't know Barley! Ian just said the words and this happened" 

Ameria let go off the staff for a second. I had almost lost control for a moment as the staff was moving around so much. 

Ameria and Barley saw that I was having trouble keeping control of the staff. But the magic struck Barley and flicked him off. 

"Barley!" I yell looking at my brother. 

"Its ok I'm fine!" Barley says leaping up. 

I looked at Ameria, praying that the magic wouldn't do the same thing to her. But when I looked at her, her face was completely focused on the spell and nothing else. 

Soon the magic formed a set of feet and legs but nothing else. The magic stopped and Ameria and I crashed to the ground. Luckily no-one was hurt. The three of us stared at the set of legs and feet. 

"Whoa! Feet!" Ameria exclaims 

"Hang on. I can help!" Barley says stepping closely to the bottom half of the figure.

"Barley, no! I yell and trying to stop him but Ameria grabbed my shoulder and stopped me.

"Dad?" Barley whispers slowly 

"He's just legs" Ameria protests 

"There's no top part,  I definitely remember Dad having a top part!" I yell

I was so confused on what was going on as well as being scared at the same time.

"𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘥???" I think 

"𝘖𝘩, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘐 𝘥𝘰? 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦"

"Uh... Hello?" 

"Dad you are in your house!" Barley yells trying to grab Dad's attention.

Dad falls over. "He cant hear us" I say

"What are you doing" I say looked at Barley leaning down at Dads feet and tapping his shoes. Dad backs up for a second. But Barley continues, to tap. 

When Barley was little, he used to tap on Dads feet for fun as a little game. So what I was guessing is that he was trying to communicate to dad it was him, since he couldn't hear us.

Soon dad moved his foot around to find Barley's foot. His foot touches Barleys and it stays there. 

"That's right, Dad. It's me, Barley" 

Dad keeps moving his foot around. He found mine 

"Yeah, that's Ian" Barley explains

"Hi, Dad" I say leaning down. 

He soon moves around again, he sensed someone else was in the  room. He places his foot next to Ameria. 

"Uh-hh whatt?" She looks confused.

"I'm not part of your family, I don't get it" 

"He must think your our mum." Barley says,  I laugh a little. Barley leant down and started tapping down on dads shoes again.

"Don't worry Ameria I'm telling dad that your not mom and that your Ian's best friend" 

Ameria and I chuckle. After Barley finished tapping on dads shoes. Me and Ameria were guessing that dad now knew who Ameria was. Even if he hadn't met Ameria. 

"I messed this whole thing up, now he's gonna be legs forever!" I say placing my hands on my head so annoyed that I had screwed it up the spell. 

"No, not forever. The spell only lasts one day"

"At sunset tomorrow, he'll disappear, and we'll never be able to bring him back again" Barley said standing next to me. 

I looked over at Ameria who had her science textbook out once again. 

"Okay, okay, okay. 24 hours" I say setting a 24 hour stop watch timer, so we could keep track of how much time we had left before dad disappeared.

 "That doesn't give us much time, but..." I was cut off by Barley. 

"Well, we'll just have to do the spell again" Barley shrugged

"You mean you have to" I pointed out

"A person can only do magic if they have the gift, and my little brother has the magic gift" Barley said excitedly as he picked me up and played with my hair.

"Okay! Okay!" I say being placed back on my two feet. 

"But wait!" Barley exclaims. He walks over to Ameria. 

She looked up. She saw Barley and I staring at her. "What?" she asks closing her book and places it to the side. 

"If only magic people can cast the spell, how come if the magic flicked me off but it didn't flick you off too?" Barley questioned. 

Barley's face lit up, without saying anything,  Barley rushed down stairs to his room. 

"To be honest, I have no idea why it didn't flick me off" Ameria says thinking in deep thought. 

"Hmmm" 

Barley comes back rushing into my room bumping himself in the doorway. Ameria suddenly snorts a the fact. 

"Here! This will tell us!" Barley says opening a book. I was guessing it was one of his stupid wizardry spell books or something like that. 

"Aha!" Barley says pointing to a paragraph. Ameria and I walked over to take a closer look. 

Barley started to read the paragraph out loud: 

𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 "𝚅𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚕𝚕"

𝙸𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎  𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜.

𝙰𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑

𝚘𝚛

𝙷𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚛𝚍, 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌.

"So that means..." Ameria started to say.

"YOU HAVE MAGIC POWERS!" Barley hugging Ameria very tightly. 

"Woah!" I say. 

Barley finally put Ameria down and she looked shocked. But she looked devastated. 

She turned to face away from us. Me and Barley looked at each other.

"Everything ok Ameria?" 

She turned back to face us. Her eyes widened. "Noo....wayy.." She says gasping

"What? What is it?!!!" I ask walking towards her.

She looked through her bag and grabbed out this big black book. She flicked through it and took out a slip of paper. It had a list of spells on it and a picture at the bottom of her parents before she and her brother were born.

"My parents....." She started 

"Were wizards!!!!" Barley smiled dancing around like an idiot. But she wasn't smiling back

Something else was wrong.

"They... lied to me" America muttered as tears run down her cheeks.

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H𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲,

𝐒𝐨 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 :)

𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞. 𝐌𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐲 + 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐨,

𝐈'𝐦 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧

𝐏𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫.

𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲!

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