Invisible Magic Part 1

The house swayed precariously in the aftermath of the earthquake; was it really an earthquake after all or was it something darker? Whatever it was, it left the whole country in shock and frightened because the United Kingdom didn't really have earthquakes.

However, the house was an old cottage house; quite a large house, very secluded in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a cornfield with a very big river nearby. No major roads or small country roads around it; you can only just make it out in the distance by the cliff roads, other than that you couldn't really get to it unless you knew how.

At least you knew you won't be disturbed by anyone; people think it's just an abounded old cottage, that's what it was meant to look like from the distance but actually, it's not. It was lived in by none other than the man himself Tom Kennedy; along with a fire breathing dragon, and an almost crazy lady, but to be fair Pfftten is the one causing her more grief than Tom. However, they all get on very well; you may think "why is a strapping young man like Tom living in an old house with a crazy old lady and fire breathing animal called Pfftten?" I can tell you Tom likes their company, but due to his needs of being on the autism spectrum and medication for another condition I can't reveal just yet, they had both proved their worth to him. Tom, on the other hand, despite the fact that he has special needs, believe me you haven't seen how clever he is and how well he can control it.

Tom does his fair share of winding Mrs. A. Ingram up, especially when he sends Pfftten off on little runs for him; just to make things safer for him to leave the house undetected. To be honest, Mrs. Ingram understands the rules of this as she had worked with the Kennedy family for years. Mrs. Ingram is 85 years old, quite feisty for her height at 5ft tall, with brown eyes and grey hair. She can be light-hearted and positive but can be awkward and is scared of mice. That's when all of her personalities just disappear completely; no one can blame her. When Tom sends Pfftten on errands, at the end of the day she has to concede because he does work for Tom after all, and helps her out as well. To be fair recently Tom hasn't been his normal self, so Pfftten hasn't been going anywhere or not too far, in case Tom took a turn for the worse.

One day, Tom needed Pfftten to go and collect something from an old teacher of. his Mr. Classic. Mrs. Ingram and Pfftten knew he was running out of his medication as they always checked how much he had left before he went to bed. It doesn't bother him that they do that because he knows he wouldn't tell them unless it was too late; that's when all hell breaks loose, to the point that Kennedy’s entire department would descend on the place. That wasn't the first time he'd done that to be honest and it wouldn't be the last.

Pfftten had just left when someone from the department came just in case something did happen; they know when he gets low on the medication that he needs, if either Mrs. Ingram or Pfftten remembers to inform them first before hand. Either way, no one wins.

As they were waiting, Tom and one of the department people who was there worked on something that was bothering Tom quite a lot. The invisible magic that caused the whole county to have an earthquake could not be explained. Two hours later Pfftten was still not back yet; "he should be here by now" thought Tom as he looked at the clock on the mantelpiece in his office, "unless the clock stopped, of course."