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The Fast and Furious: The Swimming Edition (voice: jcarter_news)

(The voice starts off with a very nervous tone from Jamie’s voice as he begins the conversation from the mens locker room at the swimming pool area in Kaisou University. He hasn’t gotten into the showers just yet for he has been shaken by what happened with him in the pool.

He has no idea how it did happened but he soon notices the minute he dives into the water, his already great swimming ability has gotten slightly faster than usual and it had to happen weeks into a major swim meet his team is going to compete in.)

Um, hey guys, I just noticed something pretty weird has happened to me right now. Don’t know how it happened so fast, but I just discovered that my swimming has gotten a bit faster than most of my teammates, twice as fast as they do. I don’t recall swimming this absurdly fast before besides pushing myself too far on a couple of times but now I absolutely do.

Oh gee, and it had to happen just weeks before a major swim meet we’re going to participate in. I don’t know how to explain this to anybody, including the Coach, without sounding like I’m making stuff. Please send in any help for a very confused swimmer like me.

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Tell them you're sick and skip it. Hate to say it, but there's no way you'll get that under control that fast.

[There was a reason Danny avoided extracurricular sports.]

Um, do you think that will work? I haven’t tried the I’m sick pass for a long time. Maybe that could work out.

And the weirdest thing to come out of this, I don’t think that they bat an eye out of suspicion when they saw me swimming so fast in the pool earlier.

You're in college, right? Not like anyone's going to be coming over to take your temperature.

Eh, people do that. For whatever reason normal people just don't see any weirdness from the spirit realm. They just make up something that looks more normal. My parents still haven't noticed that I spent all of last summer randomly turning invisible and falling through solid objects.

Yes, yes I am. Oh wow. That sounds pretty reassuring. Hopefully it will work out well for me soon.

(Maybe he could use that as an excuse to look into the incoming full moon transformations even more.)

So your parents haven’t noticed you phasing through stuff or turning invisible? Maybe that could explain my family not noticing me trying to hide my water magic for the longest time.

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Nope. Or any of the other weirdness from the past year. [Did Danny sometimes wish that his parents paid a little more attention? Yes. But he couldn't deny that it was very convenient for avoiding questions.]

Yeah, they probably think they're seeing something else. I've even gone flying in front of people before, and they just talk like they're seeing some kind of rare large bird.

Hm… Come to think of it, I’m starting to notice that most normal people in the city are becoming more weirder everyday the longer I’m on the app.

So do you think that no one is going to look at me weirdly if I begin to conjure water or spells with a wand I got from last month?

Try it and see. The only time anyone from the city has seen anything close to what really happens was last October when the veil got weird.

Yeah, sometimes trying to hide magic for a long time can drive a magic user crazy. Maybe I should give it a try this weekend and see what happens next. Wait, lat October saw the veil got very weird?

Play sick. Something that you shouldn't be in the water for... food poisoning maybe?

Oh yeah, right. Faking food poisoning so I can’t swim on the meet. Haven’t tried that before but I have remembered some of my classmates in high school discussing about using illness as a way to skip school in the past. Might want to try to do that and see if it would work.

I think it might be the best way... It won't work more than once or twice, but it's a short break so we can figure out why this is happening.

Do you have any ideas?

All I can think of at the moment is that I have a tendency to push myself way too hard at times.

Being the eldest child in the family can be tough: my parents didn’t want me to do overdo it and they just want me to be a good big brother to my younger brother and sisters but I tend to go way too overboard on that a lot. They can worry about me stressing out and juggling many things sometimes.

(He hasn’t mentioned to Ann about neither his teammates or Coach blinking an eye when they first saw him swimming this fast just yet.)

Huh.

Could this place be turning stress into something that makes you swim faster? Seems strange to me...

It could be the case. Maybe all that stress I’m going through made it possible for my swimming to go this fast.

Maybe. Stress does strange things to the body anyway.

Did you make sure you didn't put engines on your ankles first? ;)

Oh yes. I certainly did. I did check to see that I didn't put engines onto my ankles before swim practice earlier.

[ Oof, if that doesn't hit close to home. Even if the reason she's had to quit the swim team was for a different reason. ]

You could just say that something came up on the day of the meet. Like a family emergency or something.

I had something similar happen to me, though not quite like that. But it was bad enough that I ended up having to quit the swim team.

Oh gee, I’m very sorry that you had to quit the swim team early on. The feelings are pretty understandable. Maybe I can come up with a good cover up excuse as why my swimming has changed so drastically like what you just suggested.

I haven’t finalized it just yet but I could consider using the family emergency one.

Yeah. After a while it didn't feel right competing, you know? It felt like I was cheating, and that wasn't fair to everyone else. But it was hard to explain why I was leaving suddenly no one could really see the problem.

I hope it works out for you, though.

I am also feeling the same way too. I do feel guilty over the change in speed and I don’t want to come off as trying to cheat my way to win. Hopefully I can find a way to explain it without any problems.

Although weirdly enough the entire team and Coach didn’t seem to blink an eye when they saw me swimming ridiculously fast earlier.

Yeah. I hope you're able to find something that works so you won't have to quit.

Yeah changes like that aren't typically noticed by people who don't have some kind of connection to the Spirit World. That's why it can be hard to talk about.

Oh gee thanks. It is going to take a while for me to come up with a good workaround and explanation to the team but I do hope to find one that works well for me.

No kidding. I have previously experienced a similar change when I first gained water magic as a kid. Got weirded out by them at first and I had to hide my magic growing up but I did got around to getting used to them over time.

Oh, what's the matter?

[His tone is unmistakably taunting. After their last conversation, Moxxie has decided tormenting this guy would be hilarious.]

I thought if you had the skill, it doesn't matter what you turn into, you can do whatever you want as long as you believe in yourself, right?

(At this time, Jamie isn’t really sure if Moxxie is going to mock him to death over the morality of selling immortality peaches chat they had weeks ago or giving him some hope over the swimming speed he just gained. Right now this poor guy really wanted to die in the inside out of embarrassment.)

Um, yes I really do. But I don’t really want to make it look like I was using some sort of drug to cheat my way to victory. And so far, Coach and my teammates didn’t treat it as the weirdest thing they just witnessed in the pool.

[Moxxie lets out an irritated sigh, realizing this guy wasn't picking up on what he meant, although Moxxie's missed sarcasm enough times himself that he really doesn't have any room to talk.]

Yeah, that was my point. That was supposed to be sarcasm. Personally, I just think it's hilarious that after your 'turning into an imp that people think is a possum is no excuse, you can have any job you want if you've got talent' thing, now the weird spirit vein stuff is making you give up things you care about.

Oh gosh, is that bad? I initially thought that there are much worse things in life than the fear of being caught for practicing water magic being performed in front of the public in years.

Sure, there's worse things, but you're not going to get caught 'doing water magic'. They'll come up with whatever explanation makes sense to them. Like drugs. You'd be kicked off the team...although, maybe that's for the best. It's not like there's a point to competing when you already know you can't lose, right?

Well, I guess that you do have a point. I must have spent most of my life trying to hide my water magic for so long that I didn’t consider about other things turning upside down for me like possibly being kicked out of the swim team until now.

Oh yeah. Now that you have the app weird stuff will just keep popping up until it completely ruins your life. That's just how it is.

Oh dang. Now I have to brace for the worst to come. I have gotten a wand a few weeks back before the Zodiac race and I am still trying to learn how to use it. And what’s next, me knowing a bunch of random spells and sounding like I’m from another country?

Yep. Guess you're just stuck waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing as well, Sir. I just don’t know when that next shoe will drop on me.

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