Chapter Ten
Childhood
“Hey maddie, Maddie!” Sarah played “Look at Ruby’s wand, come look!”
“I don’t want to, I want see if I can get another dream thing!” Madeline whispered. “I have to be quiet I think, shh.”
She sat in the grass with a blue and white-frilled dress, sitting quietly. She put her little hands in her lap and closed her eyes, squeezing them.
“Give it up Maddie, Mom says you’ll get it soon enough.” Rose retorted
“Shh!” Madeline vocalized, still quiet in concentration.
Rose’s red locks fell to her shoulders and she walked away in a tattling stride.
“Mama,” Rose yelled. “Tell maddie To stop trying like you said!”
Madeline opened her eyes and stood up, 3 feet and all.
“No!” Madeline cried “Don’t tell!”
“To late to late,” Rose taunted
“Now, girls.” Helen, their mother said. “Let’s not fight, And don’t taunt Madeline for not being able to use her powers yet.”
“I knew you would say that.” Rose teased, looking shyly at Madeline as if to taunt her right under her
mother’s nose.
“Mom!” Madeline Whined “She did it again!”
“Hey, I said stop it.” Helen warned. “You know that Mommy is sick, right? I would appreciate your help.”
“Okay, were sorry.” They apologized
“Come look at Ruby’s new wand!” Sarah shouted again
Giving up, they walked to where Ruby was at, playing with her new, jet black wand. She laughed an innocent laugh and she waved it in the air, making golden sparks fly out of the end.
“Isn’t it cool?” Ruby Giggled
“Mine’s cooler.” Madeline reassured, lifting up her light blue one.
“Really?” Ruby Glared. “Well if yours is so much cooler, can it do this?”
She raised it straight in the air and yelled, “Greenio transformio!” The end of her wand glowed green. She walked slowly, her eyes narrowed on the tip, She went to a tree and tapped it’s trunk.
It began to crack and fall towards Ruby and the Canaby sisters. They all screamed.
“Oh!” Helen shrieked, lifting out her hands.
She started to wiggle her fingers rapidly and shouted, “Levitatu Maximus!” A yellow pair of large hands shot from her hands and grasp the tree in mid fall. Helen’s hands were in a grasping motion and then she lifted them up, lifting the yellow ones. An electrifying sound crackled through them and she threw
the tree with a grunt, away from them.
She looked at the children in anger, her eyes flamed in terror. Ruby cowered on the ground in shock, beginning to cry.
“Ruby,” Helen shouted. “What did I tell you about using magic? What did I tell you all about using magic?”
She started to walk to where they were cowering. Madeline was standing up and she wanted to run, but didn’t. Rose stood wide eyed, afraid of her mother’s wrath. Sarah, who had some control over her powers, surrounded herself in an orb of weak green light. Ruby was petrified, she didn’t mean for it to happen.
“I-I’m sorry Aunt Helen, I didn’t mean too.” Ruby cried. “Are you going to send me away?”
“No Ruby, I would never do that,” Helen reassured. “You’ll always be safe here. I just need you, all of you, to listen to me. I’m not long for this world and I need to be strong for you guys.”
“Are you going to take my wand?” Ruby questioned.
“No, I won’t take your wand.” Helen said “But…”
She motioned the girls to gather in a circle and sit.
“You guys have been using your powers very un-responsibly, you don’t listen to me, and so I will have to take them until you can.” Helen Said
“No! They shouted.
“Mama please,” Madeline begged.
“There is no use in pleading.” Helen said “Now gather around”
“Sarah!” Madeline yelled “Surround us in your light!”
Helen looked at Sarah with wide eyes. She started to move for them and they screamed.
Sarah surrounded them in her force field and they looked at the seemingly Green world around them. Their mother was shouting and telling Sarah to put it down. Sarah didn’t dare release her power, she was afraid of what her mother would do.
“Fine, have it your way.” Helen smiled. “Shatia Maximas”
Her fist glowed a metallic silver and she warned the children once more. She then put her fist in the air and blasted it against Sarah’s force field, shattering it.
She said another spell, “Tininio” And clear ropes shot from her hand. The ropes tied themselves to their hands and bind them. They fell to the ground, their legs bound too.
“What am I going to do with you guys, you’re too mischievous. You girls are out of control, you’re always into something! Frank, Get out here!” Helen shouted.
He appeared in a puff of blue smoke right next to Helen, scaring her.
“You have to stop that!” Helen gasp.
The girls giggled.
“Take their powers away.” Helen said.
“Why?” Frank questioned.
Helen told him of the tree and how it almost crushed them, how they are too mischievous and unworthy of them.
“Girls, listen to your mother.” Frank, their father, Ruby’s uncle said. “She needs you to behave, and if you can’t then…”
“Just take them!” Helen said
The girls lay on the ground, still bound with rope.
“No, dad, don’t!” Sarah pleaded
Please Uncle Frank, Don’t take them, I don’t even know what mine is yet!” Ruby cried
“Sorry girls.” Frank Said.
He waved his hand over them and absorbed their little powers in his hand, all shining different colors.
He closed his hand and they vanished.
The ropes that tied them up, vanished and they stood up in shock that their father had actually did it. They ran to his leg and pleaded for him to give them back.
“You guys don’t even know how to use them correctly, However now that I have them, I can teach you.
When you are ready for it, I will give them back to you.” Frank said
“Okay.” Madeline agreed, only because she didn’t know how to use hers yet.
“Oh,” Helen said, putting her palm to her forehead. “I don’t feel well.”
“Here, sit down, I’ll summon a healer.” Frank said
“No, I’m sick of the little potions that let me go for one more day, Just…” Helen tried to say.
Helen fainted and fell, but Frank caught her.
“Girls, go in the house and get me a healing potion,” Frank panted. “Hurry!”
The Canaby sisters and Ruby ran into the house as fast as their little feet could take them. They knew where to go, this was no rare experience. Helen had been sick for almost a year and the Canaby sisters knew that she was dying. She wouldn’t tell them why or how, just that she was sick.
Frank just tried to hide his pain by not saying much or spending time around them. He didn’t want to show that he was sad, angry, or dying a little more inside each day.
Madeline ran up the creaky, wooden steps that she would be running down ten years in the future. She darted right down a corridor that was lavished in white crystals and purple drapes. The walls showed pictures of Ruby’s parents, who were now dead, and pictures of the family as a whole.
She ran into her parent’s bedroom, magic potions and candles lay on tables and books flooded the shelves. Madeline grabbed the vial that read : Healing, and ran back down the hallway, nearly knocking her sisters and Ruby over.
She ran down the stairs and outside, the sun glaring in her eyes.
She yelled, “Here it is, here it is!”
She handed it to her father who then drained the remaining ounce or so down Helen’s throat. blue smoke rose from her mouth and dissipated in the sky. Helen regained consciousness and, from the weakness, fainted again.
“We must get a Healer, now,” Frank shouted. “Hurry!”
Madeline started crying, “Is mommy going to die?”
“No, and here, take your powers back.” Frank panted, carrying his wife in the house.
He held out his hand and said, “Return!”
The little balls of color swirled into the sky and came down into the Canaby sisters and Ruby. Frank didn’t know that they would pass-out from this, but they did, glowing.
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When they woke up they saw Frank in the grass, hovering over their mother, crying.
“Is mama…?” Madeline said
“She’s gone, she’s gone,” He cried.
Madeline started crying to, Sarah, Rose, and Ruby followed.
Helen’s body glowed and her spirit rose from it. Her spirit looked just like her, but golden. She looked around and said, “My girls, do not cry, I am free. Frank, look after the girls and be safe. I love you.”
With those final words, she ascended into the sky, golden sparkles following her.
Ruby gasp, “It was all my fault, if I hadn’t been bad, She might still be alive!”
No Ruby, you are a good girl, She has been sick for months now, you know that.”
The rest of the night was filled with tears and regrets. Each one of the girls cried themselves to sleep in their shared beds. Ruby was with Madeline and Sarah with Rose. Frank, however, stayed awake.
Ruby woke up and saw the full moon out of the big, dusty window in the room. She looked at the ceiling and then to her cousins. She thought, I must go, they won’t love me anymore, how could they?
She slowly slipped out of bed and stepped onto the cold floor. She packed some bags and shrank them with a shrinking spell she learned and opened the window. A cold gust of wind entered the window and she quickly closed it, waking Madeline.
“Ruby, where are you going?” Madeline whispered.
“I have to go, I must.” Ruby said.
“You don’t, you don’t have to go.” Madeline said.
“Yes I do.” Ruby said. “I…”
“Where would you go?”
“I-I don’t know, but I can’t stay here.”
“Its freezing outside, You’ll die!”
“Maddie, I’ll miss you, tell Sarah and Rose I said bye.”
“No!” Madeline yelled.
Frank heard the noise and came in the room.
“Dad, Ruby is going to leave!” Madeline panted
“No Ruby, you stay here.” Frank loudly whispered
“No, I don’t.” She said
She thrust her hand to the ground and her body shook, mustering all the power she could. A small white portal opened on the ground, illuminating the room and making wind swirl all around. She jumped into the portal and Madeline tried to stop her, she was too late.
Madeline stood in the dark room shocked at what just happened, she loved Ruby, they all did.
The next ten years flew by, everything changed.
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