Chapter 1: The first meeting

Now, the first time Kelly and Amelia met was technically the day they were born. The nice old lady had a doctor's office off her home and helped two women have babies: Regina Blackwell and Meredith Carpenter. Regina had twins, Morrigan and Amelia, while Meredith had Kelly.

However, the sweet woman had the start of Alzheimer's, so she forgot that Regina had twin girls and Meredith had a son, so she gave the son to Regina and gave Amelia to Meredith.

It took maybe an hour after getting home for both mothers to realize the baby error, and met up in the grove between their houses as they were technically neighbors in the woods of Manhattan, and swapped babies back.

Most would think that was the end of that, but in the brief moment Kelly and Amelia touched hands, their destinies intertwined forever.

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The second time they met was more reasonable. Mona was talking Amelia and Morrigan into the woods to practice their magic, when Amelia ran off, bored. She and Kelly were both four by this point.

She eventually heard crying and found a boy who seemed really familiar. He had dark hair and bright blue eyes, but he was wearing a torn shirt and shorts, and had cuts and bruises on his body.

"Hey…are you okay?" The boy looked up, startled,

"Y-Yeah…you startled me." Amelia sat down with him,

"Where is you Mother?" The boy shrugged,

"She and Father invited the bad man over, so Mother told me to get lost and not come back for a while."

"Bad man?"

"A man that gives Mother and Father this thing called cocaine." He replied, shaking a little, "They act all crazy and hurt me sometimes." Amelia hugged him,

"How about you stay with my family for a little bit!" She held out her hand, "I'm Amelia. Mia for short."

"I'm Kelly." Amelia took his hand and ran to her sisters. Mona crossed her arm grumpily,

"Picking up stray puppies again?" Amelia held her ground against her sister,

"We're keeping him." Mona groaned,

"Let's go talk to Mother."

They went back to the manor. On the outside, it was run down and had moss along it. But the door was a portal to a stunning, gigantic castle.

Regina was working on some spell or another with Mara. They both turned and narrowed their eyes,

"Who is the boy?" Regina asked coldly. Kelly hid behind Amelia, even though he was a little taller than her. Morrigan was the one who explained, because even though she was four, she was already the rebel of the group,

"Mia found him. His parents are addicts, so we want to take him." Regina glared, bending down and grabbing Kelly's arm,

"Who are your parents?"

"M-Meredith and R-Richard Carpenter." Kelly looked really scared. Regina frowned,

"Do you have any magical heritage?" The young boy cocked his head,

"Magic? Like wizards and superheroes? I wish. But I don't think so. Father told me that stuff isn't real." And then Regina looked happy,

"You can stay with us, Kelly. I don't have any rooms, so does the broom closet work?" The rooms were massive, so broom closet meant a bedroom on the smaller side. Kelly nodded and the witch matron snapped her fingers, and he had a room,

"Thank you, Ma'am."

The Blackwell cared for him after that. His parents died in a car crash a year later, so Regina just raised him as her own.

He and Amelia were also inseparable, and were apparently in the same preschool class. Kelly, Amelia and Morrigan was the main trio.

But this isn't the story of ages five to ten, this is the story of their superhero careers and lives after that.

And that started with a cave.

Amelia and Kelly, now ten, were running through the woods.

"Can't catch me!" Kelly chased after his blonde friend, playing tag. Summer break had finally come! Three months until the two started middle school.

"Mia! You're slipping again!" Slipping meant she was using her powers. But Kelly didn't have powers, so that made it unfair.

"Sorry!" She jumped over a log and he followed, before smirking and climbing up a tree and running across the branches, jumping down and crashing into her.

"Got ya!"

"No fair, Kels!" She complained. Kelly smirked,

"It's not cheating. There was never a rule against going in the trees. For the love, you're the witch of flight." Each witch had a theme that matched their affinity. Amelia could fly, she just didn't very often.

"True enough." She got up, brushing down her purple shorts. Then she frowned, "I feel something…"

"You do?" Kelly looked around, "I don't see anything, other than that creepy cave." He gestured to the cave they had found a few weeks prior. Neither was brave enough to go in though, because they were smart. Amelia turned with a wicked grin,

"Wanna go in?"

"No." Amelia rolled her eyes,

"Kels… it's perfectly fine."

"This plan involves me, so I get to say no. NO!"

"Kelly—"

"Let me introduce you to my good friend, NO."

"For the love of the triple goddess, Kelly, it's fine."

Kelly put a finger up, as one would to prove a point, "No is a magical word. Here's how it goes. You say 'Kelly, I have an insane, suicidal plan, would you like to help me?' and I say 'why, no.'"

"Don't be such a baby." She crossed her arms, before grabbing his wrist and pulling him into the cave.

"MIA! I DON'T WANNA DIE!"

"Don't be so uptight. Look, it's fine." Kelly looked around,

"Oh. I thought Mara would have cursed it or something. This is fine." Mara did tend to curse the creepy and dark things so none of the others would go in, and like eight sisters had died to her traps. Kelly grinned,

"Now that we know Mara didn't do anything, let's explore!"

So the two friends explored, and realized this cave was like an underground fortress. Amelia used her own magic to mark this cave hers. In the Blackwell family, finder's keepers.

"We could make this like our own little lair!" Amelia giggled, "Like superheroes!" Kelly nodded,

"Hey Mia, I found a door." Amelia turned and saw a stone wall with a swirling symbol on it. There was an empty hole as well. Kelly frowned, "I think the hole is a keyhole. Look, there are two!" One hole was shaped like a bird, the other like a lion.

Amelia gasped, looking down at the bracelets she and Kelly had. Morrigan had made them, saying she'd had a vision that those were gonna be important. Mor was a seer, so they believed her.

They placed the respective charms in the hole and the spiral began to glow, before sinking into the floor, revealing a room full of books and gems. In the center of the room was two small boxes, one with a lion and the other with the bird. Kelly grabbed the lion and Amelia grabbed the blue.

"Okay…on the count of three, we'll open them at the same time." Kelly nodded, "One…two…three!" They opened the two boxes and there were two blinding lights, one in gold and the other in pale blue, and two things appeared.

The first thing looked like a tiny lion cub, with golden eyes and gold fur, no bigger than ten centimeters. The second looked like a baby blue jay.

"Woah!" Kelly poked the lion one, "It's like a fairy!" The creature woke up,

"Fae, kwami, not fairy. Close though." It brightened, "I'm Pikko! Your kwami!" Amelia looked to hers,

"So…you're a kwami too?" The bird nodded.

"I'm Jaay. We grant superpowers in exchange for food." Kelly grinned like a child on Christmas,

"Awesome! How does that work?" Pikko sat in the palm of his hand,

"You put on the cuff—or Amulet in Jaay's case—and say 'Pikko, transform me!'. Some wielders make it something fancy and that becomes normal, but I prefer the simple one."

"Mine is "Jaay, let's fly!" Jaay said. Amelia slipped on the amulet and Kelly put on the cuff.

"Ready Kels?" Kelly looked at the cuff,

"Ready as I'll ever be." He looked to the Lion-themed creature, "Pikko, transform me!"

"Jaay, let's fly!"

A/N: Chapter 1 is done, shorter, but they will get longer. This is the prequel that ends when Zoe is roughly five, but there are multiple time jumps. And I have many many witches to design, so review with ideas.

Rules for the witches:

Name starts with "M" (Amelia being the exception)

Has an affinity