Bab 15: Holidays Are Fun
After three short hours from arriving back to kingscross station Justin, Natalia, Lukas and the three children were now on a plane like muggles and heading off to New York.
Louis was beyond excited, so much so that he was moving constantly in his plane seat barely able to contain his excitement.
Justin was faring no better than his son, considering the fact that he was rambling continuously about all the things he could see in the country he's only been visited once.
" Louis! Aren't you as excited about seeing and exploring the unknown as I am?! Can you imagine all the possibilities awaiting us in the staes? " He asks his son while his eyes sparkle in delight.
As the family members rolled their eyes at the father and son's behaviour deciding to let them be at the moment.
Richard's eye caught a peculiar sight in the clouds outside his window seat. There, in the clouds a dark blue colour was spotted, contrasting greatly with the fluffy white clouds.
It seemed the object of the colour seemed to have thought it could blend in with the scenery, it clearly did not think things through.
Watching closer, the figure started to become clearer as it moved through the clouds.
The two continuously moving forms from both sides of the figure had turned out to be wings, while the body figure was what appeared to be of a horse.
Not seeming to believe his eyes, Richard poked at Annie who sat next to him while reading a book on sword fighting.
Frustrated at Richard for interrupting her Annie turned her head towards her cousin - ready to scold him, only to stop when her eyes caught the flying figure outside the window.
" My eyes aren't tricking me are they? " Richard asks not able to believe what has seeing, " I'm afraid they aren't Richie. " Annie replies flabbergasted at the magnificent creature outside.
A pegasus was in the clouds flying next to the plane in which the Princeton family were currently taking to America.
Louis now noticing that his cousins were intrigued by what was outside the window, became curious and decided to take a look. Once his eyes landed on the pegasus, no one was going to stop him from meeting it.
" Louis! No! Get back here, we're in a plane for Merlin's sake! " Natalia whisper yells the moment she caught her son taking off from his seat. Justin quickly following the second he saw the pegasus too.
" Justin! No! You're supposed to act like a responsible adult in situations like these! Why did marry him? " Natalia questions herself as she follows after the two while the rest of the family snicker quietly in their seats.
Louis had hidden himself in the luggage compartment and opened a
hole in the aeroplane and made sure there was a barrier to keep the air pressure out.
Prepping himself with a simple flight spell, he readies himself to jump. That was until a hand was placed on his shoulder, halting his movements abruptly.
Not expecting the sudden human contact, Louis let a out a shrill screech as he turns around to look at who had caught him.
" Dad! You nearly gave me a heart attack! " He exhaled in relief seeing the cheeky smile his father gave. " You didn't think I'd let you go alone and meet the Pegasus without me, did you? " He rhetorically says he preps himself with his own flight spell.
Now both father and son were ready to head out of the plane. But on the verge of jumping, seven words were spoke that froze them in place.
" And where do you think you're going? " Slowly turning around, they were met face to face with a flaming Natalia.
" To meet the pegasus? " Justin answers sounding like a question. " Please mum? It's the only time we can actually see it! Please! " Louis begs not wanting to lose this chance.
Knowing nothing would deter the two from their goal, Natalia heaved a heavy sigh with a shake of her head, and points to the hole on the ground " Ten minutes then you come back. " Happy with her answer, they jump out of the hole and fly off to where the pegasus was.
Shaking her head, Natalia heads back to the passenger aisles to keep an eye on the two as she sips her cup of tea.
" Man, wish I could go and have fun with the pegasus. " Annie whines, watching the two outside the plane have their fun. " You sure about that? " Richard asks skeptically with a raise brow.
Thinking over it again, Annie decided it would be best if she didn't go out and have fun with the pegasus.
' There ard things beyond our understandings that have yet to be experienced after all. Better to be safe than sorry. ' She thought going back to her book she had brought about the history of sword fighting.
• • •
The plane had at last landed in the late morning after the excruciatingly long flight. The Princetons alighted the plane with creaks In their backs and sour looks on their faces, all except two.
" I can't believe the two of you. Immediately after you become friends with the pegasus, MORE turned up! " She throws her arms into the air.
" How does that even happen? You two are like magnets for the strange and mysterious! " Natalia states turning to face the father and son duo who had the time of their lives thousands of kilometers in the air.
" I did invite you to join us when they arrived, but you rejected me. " Justin retorts, sticking his tongue out like a three years old.
Not wanting to deal with her husband anymore, Natalia faces Lukas whom had fallen asleep twenty minutes into the flight and continued to sleep whole way " Tea? or Coffee? " She asks making sure he was awake enough to answer properly.
" Tea with sugar, and coffee - preferably black. I'll need both if I'm to function properly. " He informs stifling a yawn as he stretches his stiff neck.
Nodding her head, Natalia heads to the nearest coffee shop to purchase beverages for everyone to attempt to stave off the jet lag.
Once everyone had their desired drinks and thanked Natalia for purchasing them, they headed off to their hotel nearby.
Louis who had been pleasantly surprised with how the holiday had been going so far, was absorbing every inch of anything and everything his eyes landed on.
But he was too absorbed in what he was seeing, that he missed the right turn he was supposed to take and ended up straying from his family.
• • •
" Hold up. Where's Louie? " Lukas asks when he notices one of the kids were missing. Natalia and Justin who had been checking in with the front desk for their rooms were - Thankfully - too far from range to hear what he had just said.
Richard and Annie who were still a tad bit jet leg and were swaying like the undead, instantly perk up at the mention of their cousin and where his whereabouts were.
Slowly they look behind them, to afraid of what they might find when they turned around too fast. Eyes widen when they notice that they were the only ones present, no Louis in sight.
" We're so screwed. " Richard mumbles eyes wide.
Not wanting for his funeral to be so soon, Lukas was quicker than lightning and dragged the two kids with him leading out the doors of the hotel, leaving their baggage - and Louis' as well, thankfully - and acting as casual as they could with their panicking state.
" Lukas? Where are you taking the kids? And where's Louis? " Justin asks his sibling as Lukas steps out the doors,
" O-Oh! Me and the kids are going to take a small walk around the place. You won't mind right? Great! See you later! " Lukas hastily answers, though the panic in his voice was evident.
Not wanting to bother with what his brother was doing with the kids, Justin shrugs his shoulders and continues on with what he was doing.
" We're dead the moment aunt Nat and uncle Justin realise Louie got lost! " Annie mutters to the two for they all know how scary the two can get if something bad ever happened to Louis.
" He goes on adventures with his father and by himself, but those are to remote areas with no muggles or humans around. The last time something bad happened to him..... " Lukas trails off his sentence to horrified to finish it, even the thought of what they did sends shivers down his spine.
" Can we save the story time for later? We gotta find Louie before we're ALL dead! " Richard exclaims brisk walking near the point of running.
Louis was having a swell time. He had found a park relatively empty even though it was In the middle of the day.
There was even a fairly sized lake in the centre of the park where the magic pulses seemed to be strongest, it was what brought him to the park in the first place.
Peering into the water, the young Princeton catches sight of a shimmer. " Hm I wonder what it could be? " He wonders as he casts a water repellent spell and an underwater breathing spell wandlessly and proceeds to dive into the waters of the lake to get a closer look.
' How peculiar, it seems to be a pen, but why would a pen pulsing with magic be here? Underwater and not rusted? And from what I've seen, it should have been quite some time since it fell in. Yet this metallic pen is still in pristine condition. How strange. '
Pondering on it for a while longer, Louis finally decides to just take the pen back up to the surface with him. ' I'll become a prune if I stay any longer, I should see what I can do to improve the water repellent spell. '
Once he broke out of the water and was back on the ground, Louis sat there and pondered about what he just discovered. Though that only lasted for a short time when his attention was grabbed by a familiar looking creature in one of the alleys of the crowded city.
" Huh? What's that doing here? It's to far from it's natural habitat based on my knowledge. " Walking towards the alley to find out what had happened to the creature and why it was here, Louis had completely forgot his frantic family members searching for him at this point.
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