Conjuring Dragons by Chante Francis (tools of titans ebook .TXT) 📖

"Oh yeah!” Veronica says before a large gulp of her tea, “Well, we kind of don't know where to start..."

"Why don't you tell us how he got so insubstantial?" Rebecca suggests.

"Actually. Why don't you start at the beginning? From the first time you met him onwards. Tell us the important facts of your relationship with the boy." Gregory advises us with an encouraging grunt.

Carter speaks up for the first time, "What's his name?"

"Chad Thomason." Taking things from there, I start, "We met him when we were 7."

"I fell in love with him and we started going out when I was 11." I feel Carter tense up next to me as Veronica releases that tidbit of info. “We dated for somewhere around two years… worst decision of my life.” Carter relaxes.

"When we were 13 we got our powers for the first time. At first we were terrified and thought the foster family we were with at the time had done something to us. We avoided eating at home for days, thinking it was in the food…"

Veronica cuts in, "Our powers came in so strong and uncontrollable that not only were we a danger to everyone around us, but we were also dangerous to ourselves."

Before Veronica and I could go off on another story, Rebecca cut us off and kept us on track. She repeated her earlier sentence, "How did he get incorporeal? I apologize, but I don’t really see why you guys getting your powers for the first time ties into this."

Veronica and I start fidgeting with our fingers and the hem of our shirts. "I get the feeling he's the way he is because of something you girls did, I also get the feeling that your powers play a very large part in this story." My father accuses with slight amusement in his eyes.

"Why don’t you tell us about the day he became the creature he is now?" Gregory encourages, to keep us talking. We finish off our cups and grab the pitcher for more, finding that the liquid really is helping us to speak freely.

"Sorry. We've just never told anyone about this before." I say staring down into my cup before taking a long drink from it.

"We're still getting used to all this supernatural stuff."

"We never had anyone to talk to about it. We had to teach ourselves how to control our powers and all that." Veronica says sadly, "We still slip up sometimes, and that just goes to show you that we don’t have full control yet."

"It’s alright girls. We'll be happy to help you with all that after we hear more about this Chad Thomason character." Gregory breaks in.

"Oh! You're right. I totally forgot. Uh, where were we? You know, we remember every detail from that day. I mean it really wasn’t a day we could forget like the first time we ever snuck into a bar, got drunk and almost got raped by a few unsavory types." I drink more iced tea from my cup. "Anyways, I got mad one day. The absolute worst of things had set me off..."

"The sunlight streamed through her bedroom window and woke her up." Veronica says shaking her head. "Like I said our hormones were completely out of control with the added pressure of our powers. We were like ticking time bombs ready to blow at anyone who pissed us off."

"As I was saying,” Blushing hard, I tried to erase my sister’s words, “I got mad, and after taking my shower, went downstairs like normal. Our foster parents at that time started yelling at me immediately. I had stayed out past my curfew the night before, and I had completely forgotten about my chores apparently. They wouldn’t stop yelling, and my mood just kept getting worse and worse until I blew up the microwave. As soon as they turned around to check it out and save their hot pockets, I left home and went to relax at the park. Alone."

"Important fact at the time!" Veronica says perkily. "There was a rapist in the neighborhood, so all the women and children were hidden behind locked doors." She nods her head proudly at remembering that bit of info from long ago. She reaches for the pitcher, but my mother pulls the jug away.

"I think you've had enough." Carter says frowning while pulling her arm back to her side. She turns to him and pouts her bottom lip out, causing him to get indecisive. Eventually he nods to my mom to refill her cup and she squeals while doing an awkward happy dance on Carter's lap.

"Yea," I drag it out looking inside my cup. "So, I was just sitting on the swing kicking at the grass when someone covered my eyes and started breathing in my ear." I shivered, "Guess who?' He whispered before biting my ear. He trailed his hands down from my eyes across my body before dropping them to my hips and rubbing my inner thighs." I finished off my cup and got another refill from the large pitcher.

"It didn't feel right letting Jypsie storm out of the house unprotected when there was a rapist on the loose so I left the house chasing after her. I mean what kind of sister would I be if I just left her to fend for herself against the scourge of innocence?" Veronica declares standing up. Carter pulls her back down into his lap and she breaks out into a fit of giggles.

"I laughed and told him, 'Chad, you know that if my sister saw you she'd kill you right?' He laughed and sat next to me on the other seat. He pushed the seat backwards so he could see me before he answered, 'I don’t think she would. She loves me too much." Veronica growls when I finish, probably trying to imitate her mate.

"That’s when I walked into hearing range, I heard Chad say 'loves me too much', and figured he and Jypsie were talking. We had always been good friends, but they had become closer while Chad and I dated, I guess I just never knew how close huh?" Veronica says turning to me with an upturned eyebrow, which causes me to roll my eyes. "I kept quiet thinking that I would jump out and scare them." She pours yet another cup, almost spilling some on to the floor.

"I looked at Chad, 'Chad you can't do this. You’re dating Veronica, she’s my sister and I would never do anything to hurt her.' I told him. He just looked at me, raking his vision over my body instead of looking me in the eyes, 'I can't help myself. You’re both just so delectable. Twins are supposed to be able to share everything right? Why can’t you two share me? I don't mind.' Then he reached out and grabbed me, I was in shock because he's usually so sweet and not this forward. He kissed me that day. Kissed me so hard I almost fell out of my swing." I say nodding at the memory like an idiot.

"I was standing in perfect view of them. If they had just turned they would have seen me." Veronica mumbles. "I stood there frozen feeling my heart break and sink out through my toes." She mutters while wiggling her toes and giggling.

"I got even angrier and shoved him off. I watched as he fell on his ass with a smirk on his face. I barely noticed as someone else walked into the park from the other entrance by the forest. The chick had a gun and wasn't afraid to aim it at me."

"I was already right behind them at this point so I reached forward for Jypsie's hand, but Chad caught my arm first."

"He looked at the woman and said, 'Hey baby. What took you so long? I texted like 30 minutes ago.' The girl got even closer and placed the end of the barrel to my forehead 'Please, It was more like 20 minutes.' She grabbed me by the waist and pulled me into her."

"Chad scoffed and said 'I texted the minute I saw her babe.' Then Jypsie asked, 'what the hell is going on? Chad who is this?' 'Yea who am I?' the lady laughed before sticking her tongue down his throat."

"They pulled apart and he licked Veronica's cheek 'this is the one I was talking about baby, but aren't they both beautiful?' The lady started stroking my cheek with the gun while Chad grabbed Veronica's face and forced her to kiss him." I say nodding again, "She kneed him in the balls with as much strength as she could, and he doubled over grabbing his bologna pony and berries. If I wasn't about to die, I probably would have laughed..."

"You did laugh. That’s why she slapped you."

"Oh yeah! And then you got mad and started walking towards her with your hair flying everywhere. Kind of like if there was a huge static storm."

"She raised the gun to me but I still kept going, I guess I thought it was fake or something. Even though I didn’t know her, I didn’t think she would actually shoot me. She did. The bullet went straight through the meaty stuff on my arm," Veronica raised her arm and started trying to flap it in demonstration of where she was talking about. The bullet went straight through.

"And I got pissed off, then-- Can I have more juice please?" The splash of the jugs contents as it fell into my cup, "Yummy."

Rebecca yells out frantically as she’s on her hands and knees, closer to us than before, "Then what?!"

"My powers started flowing freely and the sky filled with storm clouds."

"Electricity started hitting random areas of the park and the wind started picking up."

"V started a hurricane..." Veronica starts nodding and saying yep twice, "The playground equipment started lifting up and flying like vengeful birds."

"Like an idiot, the cold hearted bitch started shooting in random directions, but she wasn’t really hitting us. At first anyways... Then out of nowhere she shot Jyps in the leg!" I raise my leg and point at where I thought she had shot me, "There was a hole there before it closed up and my leg healed."

"So at this point we’re both furious. The storm got worse and then we killed them. Is there anymore juice left?" I watched Veronica get a refill as I finished my cup off again.

"If you killed him... what is he doing here? Looking at least half alive?" Gregory asks us wearily, "I've seen vindictive spirits before, and they have never looked like that. They were always sort of see through, transparent almost and covered in a dark aura. This boy has the aura, he has one of the darkest auras I’ve ever seen actually, and despite his departure, he seemed very solid to me."

“Well we got really scared, I mean we just killed two people.”

“So, as quickly as we could, while everyone else in the homes around us were focusing on the storm, Veronica and I dragged the dead bodies into the forest behind the park and started freaking out. By that time the adrenaline was gone and the pain had set in. Veronica used a little wind to go into the holes and pull the bullets out, nearly ripping my leg and her arm in two. Then I tried my hand at healing. Didn’t work like I would have hoped. I was able to stop the bleeding and shut the wound as if it’d been stitched. Hurt like hell, even after I tried to numb it. Exhausted we couldn’t come up with a good enough plan.”

“We ended up leaving them behind some bushes covered in foliage and running home to do some research.”

“When we got home, our entire foster family was gathered in the living room crowded around the old TV set watching the news.”

“The minute we walked into the room their attention snapped to us and we were immediately engulfed in numerous hugs.”

“Our foster parents chastised