Chapter 10 – The poking
"You sure that you didn't chant and performed the hand gestures for the spell?" Laura wanted to know more about what happened to the boy last evening just minutes after her departure from his home right after having dinner there.
"Yes aunt La-a, I'm not lying" Answered Arston honestly.
"Can you try it again please"
"umm.. is it going to hurt again?" Asked Arston doubtfully while rubbing the area, five cm above his navel.
"it won't, I promise" Laura assured the doubtful boy in front of her.
"if it hurts again, I will immediately heal you, so there's nothing to be worried" added Laura after a thought and smiled.
"Yeah right, but I have to experience the gruesome pain first for a few seconds probably more before you finish chant your spell, if only the situation is not involving the pain, your pretty face and loving smile will surely calm me down, yet right now, your smile is like a grin for my soon arrive torcher dear aunt Laura" he grumbled silently inside his mind.
"okay,… aunt La-A" he actually said after a sigh.
"Why am I feeling like sending this boy to his execution block? And what's that sigh for?" Wondered Laura while looking at Arston who's closing his eyes slowly.
Arston starts to draw the hand gestures again inside the black space after closing his eyes. He first draws the index finger along with the resighting of it's meaning in his mind, followed by the next two. However, there's no such burning sensation at his stomach area.
Laura saw the boy's hand slowly glowing in dim milky glow at first, after a short moment it got brighter and brighter, just like what she used to see whenever she casted the spell herself. She stares at the scene before her blankly, she was bewildered by unconceivable fact that a boy whose age not even at two years old casted a spell which she managed to perform on the age of thirteen, moreover, it took a her a month of her time to learn it. Nevertheless, the fact still upon her and not moving anywhere.
Laura then took the fork from the still dazed Amanda and made a small cut at the tip of her index finger. She proceeded on taking the still shut eyes boy's hand and place it on her cut finger. The cut was healed, which also going to have the exact result if she'd performed it herself.
"VINA!!!!" Laura screamed for the mother of the creature in front of her
After the sound of shattering eating utensil and some hastened footsteps later, the woman who Laura searching for, appeared from the kitchen.
"what's the commotion all about? Did someone break in?" Irvina questioned her friend while scanning the surroundings for intruders. Yet all she saw was her two dazed and confused daughters, her son who still has his eyes close like in a meditation state, and an angry Laura walking towards her.
"You…. you must teach me what you taught your son! Don't keep that grimoire to yourself you perverted woman!" exclaimed Laura while shaking the now confused Irvina's shoulders.
"if the grimoire that you're referring to is a small book with some drawings and the names of those objects, then I don't mind you learn it along with Arston" Replied Irvina while her near waist long red hair got dishevelled by the shaking of the crazed friend.
"You perverted liar! How could you do this to me!" the screaming Laura keep shaking the woman's shoulder while her eyes starting to get watery from the agony of being deceived by her friend.
"I'm not lying! Nor I'm a pervert! It's you who still being a virgin in the age of twenty-four!" Irvina shotted back and landed a verbal blow to her accuser.
"I…! I…! it's 's you who got too kinky and giddy for your first time saving someone from a robbery! And… and… left me alone to suffer!" Yelled Laura in her defence from the returned accusation.
"Okay, okay miss virgin… you win… you win… I yield… Please stop the shaking, otherwise I might lose my lunch earlier" Irvina surrendered to the redden face friend of her, she wasn't sure if her friend's red hue on her face comes from the misunderstanding or the teasing, probably both.
Amidst the ranting of their aunt Laura and their mom, the three children were having something in their respective hands. For the two females, they're busy watching their little brother on his meditation like state curiously after the confusion and astonishment, while the boy that they're watching was in his own world.
"This couldn't be right, if the light comes from the sky or heaven like aunt Laura described, then why am I feeling the light just being control by my previously burning thingy, does it mean the incantation and hand gestures are just a crutching pole? Which not necessary anymore for me to perform even in my mind if I already gotten used to the casting?" Arston speculated in his mind without noticing he already started on accepting his new identity as a not yet two years old little boy.
He continued his speculation on to the practical step. The milky white glow on his hand before had long dimmed after Laura picked his glowing hand and placed it on her self-made cut. But there's now another glow on his hand which only took less than a second from a dim glow to the familiar white milky glow.
"Aww…. What did you do it for!?" Shrieked Anya to her younger sister who poked her arm with a fork lightly thus causing three small dots cut.
"Didn't aunt Laura do the same earlier? Questioned the dark brown haired 6 years old girl to her yelling sister.
"She did it on her own finger, why didn't you do the same!?" screamed the little version of Irvina while rubbing her now slightly bleeding three dots.
"Well… what done is done, why don't you grab Arston's glowing hand and place it on your cuts? Instead of shouting at your innocent little sister" shrugged Amanda and pointed her finger at the still glowing hand of Arston.
"If you're an innocent little girl, then I'm the arch angel" Remarked The grumping Anya to her grinning sister while walking to Arston side to heal her cut.
Precisely that happened to Laura self-made cut earlier, Anya's bleeding three dots also got healed. She rubbed the now healed and smooth fair arm then glared to the now running sister of her towards their mom.
"Mom!! Mom!!! Arston made his hand glow again and this time is even faster, Anya tested it but now she wanted to test it on me!!" Said the now scared little girl hugging her still interrogated mom, saving her in the process from her interrogator.
"Whaaa…t wa…. S i….t De… ar?" Replied the still dizzied Irvina to her daughter yelling.
Laura who heard the little Amanda pled for help stop the questioning and rushed to Arston's side again who now has a grin on his face.
"Can you do it again dear? Please.." begged the excited Laura.
"Umm… okay.."
Arston recast the basic healing with his new founded method which cause Laura's eyes went rounded wide.
"How did you do it? Laura was about to shook the little boy like she did to his perverted mom, thankfully she recalled that the kid sitting in front of her still just that, a kid. She thus wanted to ask him again but the boy fell asleep again.
Laura checks the boys temperature again, to her relieve, it's normal. She then gives a sigh which meaning is a mix between disappointment and relieve. She carried the now sleeping boy into his mom bedroom again.
Laura also realizes that the boy must be exhausted from casting three spells regardless the tier of the spell. It's still a massive achievement for a not even two years old kid. She decided to just wait until he's old enough to explain his method. For now, she's just going to try what the little boy told her earlier.
Two days later, Lenfort finally come back from his shops. Irvina greeted her husband with a skipping step.
"Welcome home honey!, guess what our son managed to do 2 days ago"
The man in his late twenty's with 188 cm (6.05 foot) tall and leaned stature, a messy dark brown hair which somehow look neat on him and black eyes on his gentle feature, played along with his wife's teasing.
"Owh? What did he manage to do? Did he cast a spell like you did back then while saving my sorry a/s?" while returning the embrace but his wife didn't reply.
"ho… how did you know? "stuttered Irvina to her husband guess.
"hahaha… Owh you…. did you acquire some acting skill while I'm gone? Joked Lenfort.
"I'm not acting… you know very well I'm quite bad at it in fact, it's better to just show you, hehe" Irvina pulled his doubtful husband's hand to the dining room where their son is sitting and reading a book that she brought.
"Sweety… could you please show your doubtful father here that mommy is not lying to him" pled Irvina to his confused son.
"Umm… okay mom…" affirmed Arston since he already heard her mom sharp shrieking.
He casted the basic spell again and his father just stood there like a statue with an opened jaw. He then flinched a bit due to the slight stinging sensation on his finger tip.
"Sorry daddy… I couldn't find any other target for my revenge, and you seam perfect for it in many ways.. hehehe" answered Irvina's younger version to Lenfort's even more confused look.
Anya then took her dad slightly bleeding fingertip closer to Arston, which soon got healed by his glowing hand.
Lenfort was speechless and just silently watch his son for a few good minutes. But soon awoken by another closing fork heading towards his other fingertip.