James with Ava and Mara stood close beside him as they watched Angus attempt to maintain launching up into the sky. It was mid day and smoke from outdoor grill went up from behind them. The scent of sizzling smoke sausage and hamburgers were on the grill.
Angus maintained his height for a for ten minutes until he had to stop and fall to the ground laughing in sweat covering his body.
"I'm damn tired. I need an energy boost. Give me some sugar." He said.
James and Mara looked toward Ava. She looked pensive and then after several silent minutes walked over toward Angus and got down on her knees to give him a quick kiss on the lips. Angus grabbed her and started planting kisses on her face as she giggled and tried to beat him away.
James rolled his eyes looking away to walk back toward a picnic table. Mara fell into step along side him and sat down close to his side. Mara wrapped both her arms around him one of his arms and smiled up at him when he
looked at her. James shook his head at her. "What are you up to Minx?"
"I love you." Mara said.
James looked over his shoulder. "Harry. Is the food ready?"
"I'm coming. I'm coming!" Harry said as he hurried to fix up two plates with food.
Harry was wearing a red apron and placed two plates with two smoked sausages, beans and chips. "The butter beer is in a cooler by your feet. Help yourself."
James dug into his meal quietly and leaned down to his feet to snatch out two bottle of butter beer and handed one over to Mara while he popped the lid of one bottle with a quick move using the edge of the table as bottle opener caught the lid and threw it to a waste bin near by.
Mara stared at him as he took a drink from his bottle. James frowned at her. "What?"
She handed over to him the bottle. "Open this for me?" She asked him.
James narrowed his gaze on her but took the bottle and performed the same move again and handed her back the bottle. She was staring at him. "What?"
She started to say something but he got to his feet moving away from table. James wand was in his hand as he moved away and pushed Mara back when she tried to grab him. "Get in the house Mara. Now!"
"James someone is watching don't say to much you honey." Ava said.
James shook his head. "It's not just that. Someone is here. Get Mara inside the house. They've come to challenge dad and take the sword. Get her in the house NOW!"
Ava grabbed Mara's arm and dragged her inside. Angus was up with his sword in hand. Harry took a position to James other side.
"Can't even get in a good meal for the day. Where they come from son?"
James shook his head. "Don't know yet. We've also got somebody watching us from a couple of days from now. I thought the land is ward dad. How the hell they keep getting into our spot?"
"Good question. I'm thinking your going have to give me hand in doing something to improve the wards or spell engineering for protection spells on our land." He said.
"Where are they coming from James. You got better eyes then old farts like us. Just use your instinct." Harry said and put his hand on James' shoulder.
James scowled and started shaking his head but then he stopped and turned his head up toward the sky. He pointed up with his wand to the cloudy sky. "There. Three of them in total. They've come to-"
A dark wave of electrical energy and smoke blasted into his chest. The killing curse spell hit the shield of energy connected. A loud bang sounded out and the ground shook.
Angus was pushed back and launched off his feet into the air. He went flying and landed on his back spitting out blood. James started to go toward him but Harry pulled him back as another blast of spells rained down on ground around them but James and Harry remained standing.
"Let your father handle it mate. He can handle it." Harry said.
James looked at Harry and froze at the sight of blood coming down the side of his mouth but an expression of hard resolve was on his face.
"Alright assholes." Angus said on a grunt as he came to his feet. "Let's go!"
Angus rolled to his feet as a spells rained down on him as the sword. The sword glowed in his hand as he waved a hand over it and flipped it over and then pointed touched his jacket and he bounded into the air racing up toward the area the spells started to ran down on them from in the sky and then disappeared a second later thunder and gold and black lightning started clash against other in the sky.
"James how good are you on a broom?" Harry asked letting go his shoulder.
"Just give me thunderbolt 2055 and I can race you to the top."
"Right answer." Harry said and with a flick of his wand on the ground two brooms appeared. Harry merely reached for his broom and it jumped up from the ground and got on top it and took off.
James held out his hand. "Up!"
The broom came to his hand and he got on it and raced up toward the sky. Harry and James raced quickly up toward the sky to see Angus dueling two wizards in the sky while the third wizard was nowhere in sight. The wizards blasted at Angus while he guarded his body with magical shield of light and wards.
It seemed like they were standing on clouds battling it out. Harry shook his head. "What is this?"
James shook his head not and started to speak but he was hit with a spell to the back knocking him off his broom. He started to fall fast but he caught hold of his broom as it came to him and locked his focus on the wizard that had unseat him before he was knocked off his broom again.
"James!" Harry yelled at him.
James jumped into apparition and grabbed a hold of the wizard and started wrestling with him and punching the wizard in the face and turned and throw him down on the ground harm knocking the wind out him before he apparition behind one of the wizard.
"Expulso!" James spoke.
The wizard fell away before he disappeared. The other wizard turned aiming spell at James and froze before he disappeared.
James looked around and around standing in place looking for any more enemies and then relaxed as Angus walked over toward on the clouds while Harry still on his broom floated up toward him. He frowned and started to look down but Angus waved away his hand. "No. Don't do that?"
James frowned focusing on Angus. "What happened?"
Angus shook his head. "Not sure entirely. You and your mother would have a better idea of it. I came up here and the clash of powers and the sword seemed to create something of a kind charm in the clouds. Don't know how long it's going to last. But it's something interesting. Kinda reminds of magic in the forgotten forest."
James frowned and crunched down to feel the grey stony ground under their feet.
"Wait! What are you doing? Don't focus on the clouds or you'll fall through." Angus warned.
James waved away his concern. "If this is your magic then I can stand on it and believe in it." He said calmly and studied the floor. "It's an interesting bit of magic. It feels like. Like I'm standing in the lost temple but it's weird like I'm also standing in the center of the lost temple at the same time. Wicked." He tapped his knuckles against grey stone.
"Yeah. It's the same type of stony floor as lost temple training ground. Reveallo Visualo Psych." He said speaking a spell and saw magical spell in the ground. "It's the same warding words you use for the house. Pretty wicked dad. Can I see the sword."
Angus handed the sword over to James. James took the sword and touched the tip of the blade to the grey stone and the sword hummed. He smiled and handed the sword back to Angus. "This is wild bro. Dad you crafted a new lost temple above the ranch. This is crazy."
"How is that possible?" Angus asked.
James chuckled shaking his head. "The hell I know. Hmm. I think. Yeah. I know this is the place you've just started putting down the stones for something big dad."
"It might be something amazing but I don't trust it." Harry said while still sitting on his broom close to them.
James looked at him. He looked at the broom that was moving through the stone. He wondered about that then shrugged and went back to studying the stone and rubbing a finger at the stone. "This is really wild. I got to get my Mom, up here to look at this stuff. She's going to have a wild time."
"Your not worried at all about standing on a damn clouds in the damn sky?!"
James shrugged. "Says the wizard that's nearly over hundred years old but looks like he's thirty and sitting on a broom in the sky. I thought nothing would surprise you by now Grandpa Harry."
Harry snorted in laughter.