Allen

She knocked the daylights out of me, and I mean that literally. The punch itself didn't hurt, but flying through the wall and landing on my back and head did. My body felt cold and rigid after her punch. The orange glow felt like I was encased in ice. I didn't even understand why she did it. Maybe the figure possessed her and took control of her body.

Whatever the reason, I painfully tried to get to my feet. My shoulder might have been dislocated, but that was the least of my worries. In addition to the fire, the whole house was shaking and starting to glow a bright white. I took a step forward, and my legs buckled. My left ankle was broken. It would probably be a minute or so before I could walk.

But I had to get back in the house! Donna was in pain, and Sam was possessed, so I had to do something! I tried to turn into my wolf form, but it was too slow. I really only needed my wolf mind and instincts, because I can ignore the pain when I'm in that state. I took another step forward, and another. I can do this, I thought. I walked forward, and the next thing I knew, everything exploded.

Wood, bricks, and glass flew everywhere. My arms got cut up, a brick hit me in my left knee, a small slab of wood for stuck in my side. I dropped to the ground carefully, trying not to make the pain worse. I laid on my back and for into the fetal position. There was nothing to hide under, because the entire neighborhood had disappeared.

I kept cowering until I heard nothing else hit the ground. When everything stopped, I looked at my injuries. My head throbbed, but wasn't bleeding. My ankle, and knee, had healed. The only thing that hadn't healed was my side, because the piece of wood was still in it.

I stopped being skittish and pulled it out. It felt gross, and made my flesh crawl, but it wasn't painful. The wound was already healing before my eyes. Without these werewolf powers, I'd be dog chow right now.

As I got up and looked around, I saw no trace of the neighborhood being here, aside from the street I was standing on. Where the houses used to be was pretty, perfect grass, the type you'd see on golf courses. I didn't even see any debris from the explosion.

Oh no. "Sam!" I screamed. I turned around to where the big house used to be and saw a red bubble. There were two figures inside of it, and one was on its knees. I ran as fast as I could and when I got near... I couldn't see inside. The red bubble acted like lightning, and it had orange and yellow flares flashing all around too. All I could see was the silhouettes inside. It didn't look safe to touch, but my arm had already been scorched tonight, I doubted this could be any worse.

At the moment my hand made contact, it fizzled away. One of them jumped at the sight of me, and back backwards. Samantha was the one sitting down. I took my eyes off her for a second and looked at the other figure, who was not Donna. It was a little girl, maybe ten, or eleven years old. There were tears all over her face, and she was shaking.

"Hey, wait. I won't hurt you. Come here." I held out my arms, trying to comfort her. She waited a few seconds, but she finally walked over and embraced me. I rubbed her back softly. She put her head on my chest, and I could already feel it getting wet. She was crying again. "Shh, it's okay, you'll be okay." I had no idea where this girl came from, I didn't even know she was in the house.

I looked at Sam, who had just as many tears on her face as the little girl. "Are you okay Sam? I didn't know you had two sisters."

Sam composed herself and stood up.

"I don't. Apparently, she's my niece."

"Oh. But I thought you said your sister could never get a man, could never find love?"

"She couldn't, because of the curse. That means this girl must be adop-"

I snapped my fingers angrily at her, trying to get her to shut up. I know a couple of children that played at the park who were adopted. They did not like that word. Sam understood, because her eyes widened and she shut up immediately.

Sam tapped the girls shoulder, and by the little girl looked up at her. "What's your name, sweetie?" Sam asked in a baby like tone.

The little girl wiped her face and said, "Sam. My name is Sam." Sam and I both looked up and stared at each other for a second. Then, she looked back down to the girl and smiled.

"You what's funny? That's my name too! I'm Sam, it's short for Samantha." She held out her hand for a handshake. Little Sam smiled and shook it.

"Mines is short for Samirah." She said. She seemed to be feeling better. Sam tried asking a riskier question. "Um, who taught you how to use magic?" She prodded.

The smile on Samirah face melted. "My mama."  She replied, and moved closer back to me.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." Sam's eyes filled with tears, and she didn't finish her sentence.

Samirah looked back at Sam while she was crying. She looked up at me, and I nodded my head towards Sam. She let go of me and hugged Sam tightly. Sam hugged her back, and they stayed that way for a couple of minutes.

Out of respect, I chose not to interrupt.

"She's been teaching me magic for the last few months," Samirah said, breaking the silence. "She said one day, I'll be own my own again, and I need to be ready."

Sam wiped the new tears off of Samirah's face. "Really? She didn't say anything about me?"

Samirah nodded. She said you would protect me... When you needed to."

Sam's looked confused, and I gotta a weird feeling in the back of my head. It seemed like she was lying, but I doubted it. Why would she lie when she just lost her mother?

"Okay... Tell me what you can do. What are you capable of? How strong are you?"

She was excited to tell her, because her eyes lit up. I can do all the things that she taught me, and I'm even stronger now because she gave me her powers." Sam looked at the girl's hands.

What are we going to do? I wondered. The curse is gone and Sam's powerless. Where do we go from here?

"Don't you guys have a home? Can't we go there?" She asked me. That freaked me out. Either she read my mind or she was just as tired of standing in the middle of nowhere at night as I was.

"Oh my gosh, I've been so distracted." Sam said. "How are we going to get home?" I asked her. She pointed at me. "You. I hit you for a reason Al. You have all of my powers now."

It took a minute for that to sink in. "Wait... What?" She rolled her eyes, and Samirah giggled.

"Me and... my sister," she said carefully. "Had the same idea. Give our powers away before the curse could take them. That's why it was so pissed. That's why, instead of just burning down, the house exploded and disappeared. It felt like we both cheated our way out of our punishment.

"But I don't understand. I don't feel different, and I don't know a single spell." She covered Samirah's eyes and kissed me. "What part of I'll teach you did you not understand? I've been helping you this whole time. You've mastered your wolf form, and you've already been exposed to a lot of magic, inside and out.

I'm turn you into a being no one has ever seen before." She crouched down so Samirah could get on her back. "Do I get to keep my face, or do I have to wear long fake eyelashes like you?"

"Ha ha, you think you're so funny, but I don't need magic to aim below the belt.

I made a mental not to joke about her eyelashes again.

"Hold my hands. I may not have magic, but a telepathy link should be easy for us, since we've already... connected." I did exactly what she told me, and closed my eyes.

"Imagine your house."

"Got it."

"What are you going to do when you get there?"

"I'm going to sleep, then, after I make sure you both are okay, I'm going to keep long

Looking for my roommate, Jacob."

"I'm so sorry! I forgot I promised to help you."

"It's okay. Without your powers, what could you do anyways?"

Samirah butted in. "You didn't have to be so mean." She complained.

"Shhh," I lectured her. "We're trying to get home.

What spell do I cast?" Her hands for sweaty.

"I actually didn't learn much from spell books," She confessed. But the greatest reach levels were they don't need to say a word to invoke it's power, so I just skipped the middle man and didn't use the book at all."

"So you're a fraud?" I stated bluntly.

"No! I just... Allen, say the name of your address so we can go home."

I said the name, and our surroundings got blurry.

"One more thing! Make sure you close your eyes!"

She was way too late. My eyes stayed open. Everything moved so fast it was sickening. It was like going down really fast on a high roller coaster, and all of a sudden your bar flies up, and you get launched out of the roller coaster.

All of our surroundings stretched out, and in my house the ceiling was moving with every breath I took, and every step I take. We had landed in the living room, and I dropped to the couch on purpose and tried to fall asleep. Samirah said down next to me, and she was snoring hard after 15 seconds.

"Damn, I wish I could fall asleep that quick." I said out loud.

"Allen, you still have work to do." I whined like a child.

"You need to fix that wall and the windows that are destroyed, and you need to set up some defense magic to stop things like that from happening"

She was right, but how did she know that in the first place? The wall was obvious, it was right behind the couch, easy to notice. But the windows were on the second floor, and they were facing the backyard, so there was no way she would've known.

"Tell me how you found out about the damage." I said. There was a long pause.

"Damage? What damage?" She was trying to play stupid.

"The ones you just talked about."

"Oh." She laughed. "I know about it because of the telepathy link."

I had that weird feeling she was lying, just like earlier with Samirah. I decided to drop it for now.

"How do I do all of that?"

"I told you. Use your imagination. Make things happen. Create what you think needs to be created."

That gave me an idea.

"So I can be like Green Lantern?"

"Yea... Sure" I could feel her judging me just by the way she said it.

I closed my eyes and imagined the wall was fixed. I imagined everything flying back into place.

I heard a couple of rumbling sounds and then Sam's squeal of delight. "Great! Now put up a barrier."

I tried to create a big blue forcefield that shocked people. I put turrets outside, with motion sensors and land mines.

Sam didn't have magic anymore. At least, that's what she told me. But she was still able to sense magical energy.

"A little overkill, but good job."

I felt proud of myself, even though I hadn't seen what I'd done yet.

"Now, imagine me in some pretty pink lingerie that's lacy with-"

"What's wrong with you?" I whisper shouted.

"I don't have any clothes here!" She whispered back. I waved her off.

"Take Samirah upstairs to my room with you. I'll sleep here, and tomorrow we can go get new clothes. We both looked down at Samirah's sleeping face.

"Yea, I guess that's a good idea."