Improvisus (probably not updating again)

Chapter 16

“Unhappy spell?” I raised my eyebrows.

“Whatever Candace!”

“Nat, help me up.” Nat grabbed my hands and helped me up. The second I left the ground I felt a flare of pain in my abdomen which made me wince pretty badly, and wished I hadn’t, because Nat got a concerned look on her face.

“Are you alright? Do you need to sit down?”

“I’m fine. I’m up now, and sitting’s not going to help. I’ll be fine. We have to go bury Chad now. We can’t just leave his body here.”

I took a step toward Chad’s body and winced again. I turned my head to see if Nat and Brent were coming, and I felt a stronger flare of pain in my neck. I almost cried out in pain, but held it in. I didn’t know why my neck and stomach hurt so badly. They shouldn’t have because the Epnicar’s nails only took some skin off, which would hurt, but it wasn’t the type of pain that would occur from the loose of skin.

“Natalie, Candace, we have a problem.” Brent said. I turned to face him and made sure I didn’t move my neck any more than I had to.

“What is it, Brent?”

“Well, Chad’s kind of gone.”

“Kind of gone? How can someone be kind of gone?” I demanded.

“I don’t know, but Chad is gone. His body is not where it was before.” I whirled around and gasped in pain, which caused more pain. Nat gave me a look, but didn’t say anything.

As soon as I could focus on where Chad’s body had been, I realized it was gone.

“There’s no way that Chad can be gone. He was dead, but then again so were you,” Nat said to me. “But he was deader than you!” Nat sounded almost crazy to me. She had a wild look in her eyes which almost scared me.

Then a thought occurred to me. “I think that the Voice, took him. The one who controls magic.”

“The voice? Like the show?” Nat asked.

“No, of course not the show! What do you think, Nat?”

“What in the world is the voice then?”

“The voice. I don’t really know.”

“That was beyond helpful, Candace!”

“It doesn’t matter who the voice is. We have a bigger problem. We need another magician now, and we don’t have one.” We technically did, in the trunk of our car, but I didn’t want to take Brooke along.

“I bet if we explained the circumstances to Brooke she would understand! She would probably come along with us again.” Brent said happily.

I sighed and then winced again, but I didn’t see any other option. I didn’t want to get another magician right after Chad, and Brooke was our only choice. “Fine, Nat and I will drive to her house and see what we can do. Brent, you go in and get food.”

“I can’t, you have to have your boarding passes or security tickets to get to the food court, and I want to go and convince Brooke to come too.”

“No, Brent you stay here. I need you to look for the earliest flight to Cairo. Today price doesn’t matter, we just need to get there. We need a direct flight if we can, but if a connecting flight gets there way earlier, then get a connecting flight.”

Brent didn’t say anything and just glared at me, but I glared right back. I knew I would eventually wear him down.

“Please Brent?” Nat asked. She was way better than me at being nice to Brent so she normally handled the situations when we wanted Brent to do something for us.