Making your decision, you ran out from behind Julie's magical shield before she could stop you and fired a weak lightning bolt between uncle John and mom. You were only as powerful as a witch your age, maybe a little more as you had been trained to resist and fight against magic. Still, you were no match for a fully trained witch but the situation demanded you be bold and interfere.
"You two are fighting like a pair of three year olds!" you raged. "Keep it up and you'll trigger the failsafe, making you real three year olds, and we'll all have a mess on our hands!"
"This is not your place, Mat." scolded mom. "Your uncle John and I..."
"Are fighting over my powers!" you interrupted, annoyed. "True, John gave me the lab and the book but it was my choice to study it!" you thought for a moment, then smiled. "Besides, if I was not permitted to have this power, you would have stopped me the second you sensed the ignition of my pseudo magic.... this was test, wasn't it?"
Mom and John smiled. "He got it right off the bat, sis." said John. "His sisters will have their hands full with him."
"Congratulations, Mat." said Mom, giving you a quick hug. "Yes, this was a test to see if you would step in to prevent a rift in the family. The council has deemed you worthy to the title of pseudo witch but, don't fool yourself, more tests will come and they will be harder each time."
"Just like the tests all witches must take." you said, guessing correctly.
Mom nodded. "Where John had to literally fight to become accepted by the council as a pseudo witch, they chose you to have this power." she said. "Though these tests will be more harsh than those given to true witches, you will have it much easier than your uncle did."
"Well, where do we go from here?" you asked.
John grinned in a way that you knew he was going to cause you trouble. "You passed the test but..."
"But what?" you asked, taking a step back.
"You still need to build some resistance to magic." said mom.
Before you could react, Julie, who had lowered her shield, hit you with a spell at mom's silent command and you immediately felt yourself changing. "Mom!" you screamed, alarmed. "This is not fair!"
"Had you kept your guard up, you would have sensed the attack coming, Mat." countered John, smiling. "I learned that lesson the hard way too."
You looked down at yourself and realized, to your horror, that you were becoming...
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