Coven

Mr. Creepy

That night after mom and I made it home I told her about the talk that I had with Elisi earlier that day and she agreed with all the new powers that keep showing up that I could possibly be the Cosanto'ir. As we were talking Elisi shows up in front of us."Awe what a perfect time for me to pop in my beautiful daughter and granddaughter in the same room for once,"

"Hello, mom," My mom replies. "So you think my daughter is the Cosanto'ir do you,"

"Yes, I do, more now that she had some more powers show up,"

"How do you know that Elisi we weren't home when it happened," I exclaim.

"No you weren't, I kind of tagged along to your boyfriend's house with you, and I agree with you about Caylan, she's not to be trusted," She advises.

"You tagged along really you can do that," I am stunned at the thought that Elisi can come and go as she pleases.

"Yes dear I can," She laughs. "You watch too many ghost shows,"

"Anyway," Mom interrupts. "You think that Caylan can be the witch hunter,"

"Yes I do and I also think that our girl here is the Protector," Elisi states.

"Ok so how do I find out if I really am this Protector," I ask look from mom to Elisi waiting on one of them to answer my question.

After a few moments, Elisi says. "We're not really sure we haven't had a protector in ages, so we need to look back through our family's books,"

"Well, I guess we better get started then," I suggest.

I follow mom and Elisi upstairs to the attic where mom uncovers a chest that is in the corner of the room then proceeds to unlock it but not with a key but with just a swipe of her hand over the lock. When she opens the chest up I see all of my ancestors' books of shadows. There must have been hundreds or even thousands of them. I just realized that we had a lot of work ahead of us. So I pull out a couple of them and find myself a halfway comfy spot to sit down to read while mom does the same but watching Elisi levitate one of the books in front of her and make the pages turn on their own was just crazy. After what seemed like forever Elisi shouts. "I think I found it!" Mom and I automatically jumped up to see what she had found. Mom grabbed the book that was floating and sat it down so we could read it better. It turns out that my great, great, great, etc. Grandmother Margaret Corey who was hanged as a witch in the Salem Witch Trials was actually the daughter of a Cosanto'ir she goes on to say that her mom would practice her magic every day to keep her powers strong also that her mother used to tell her stories about her travels to help other witches in their time of need and that she stopped traveling but she didn't stop helping other witches when they were in trouble until she died of old age. I looked over at mom then up at my Elisi. "So I just got to use my powers more, that's easy enough," I smile.

"Spells and potions aren't what she was talking about Kiera, she meant tapping into all of your powers and learning how to control them along with learning how to call upon them when you need to learn how to control that lovely fiery temper of yours," Mom explains.

"Hey, I don't have a bad temper," I pout.

"Yea you do remember just a few hours ago when Caylan got to you? What happened,"

"I got sparkly," I mumble.

We put the books back into the chest and put everything back like it was then headed downstairs. "Well, I'll let you ladies talk and call me if you need me." With that Elisi disappears. After a cup of hot chocolate I tell mom good night then head up to bed it doesn't take me long to fall asleep. The next thing I know my phone is going off  as I reach for my phone I notice that it's Cassie calling me ."Hello," I answer sleepily.

"OMG, how can you sleep at a time like this," Cassie screams in my ear so loud I have to pull my phone away from my ear.

"A time like what? What's going on Cassie,"

"That creepy man that you were asking about yesterday was in my yard this morning,"

"Oh, no did he hurt you," 

"Well no I just saw him out my window, but come on Kiera what is your, mom, doing about catching this guy,"

"I'm not sure but I know that they were trying to find fingerprints on the note that was left. I don't know if they found any,"

"Just please tell her that he showed up here ok," Then she just hangs up on me.

"Great," I mumble as I climb out of me and walk over to look out my own window which has become a habit of mine since I saw Mr. Creepy in my front yard. After that, I stumble downstairs still half asleep, and head to get my morning jolt on. "Morning," Mom says as I jump what seems like a mile high."Oh sorry didn't mean to scare you just going to ask how you slept,"

"You couldn't hide that giggle any better," I yawn.

"Nope, again sorry, She apologizes.

"Let's just say I would still be asleep but Cassie decided to call me instead of the police station,"

"Why? What happened,"

"Mr. Creepy showed up on her lawn this morning and it scared her,"

I pour myself a large cup of coffee with some of my favorite caramel creamers. I slowly start to wake up after I finish my cup but decide to have another. Mom and I decided to start on my training after we get dressed, a little while later Lilith and Dylan show up mom had decided to call her to help with my training, and also when she is at work I'll have someone to help me. We end up talking about Mr. Creepy as I have nicknamed him while they have me practicing my aim while I shoot purple witch fire at soda cans that are set up on the back fence. "We need to set some kind of trap to catch him," Lilith chimes in."But we also need to have everyone in the coven put a protection spell on their house along with the alarm so we know when anyone, not just the Witch Hunter, shows up," I declared.

"You're both right," Mom says. "Kiera can you and Dylan call everyone and tell them about the protection spell and the alarm spell that they need to put on their houses. While Lilith and I work on a plan to catch Mr. Creepy,"

Mom gave the order so Dylan and I got busy calling everyone to let them know what spells their Priestess says they need on their houses then join mom and Lilith back outside. A couple of hours later I start making the food for tonight's circle, Dylan even comes back inside to help me cook. This is going to be the first time in months that I'm getting to have my coven meeting at my house. Mom went and put a spell in the little clearing in the woods behind our house. Mom, Lilith, and Dylan help me get everything set up in the backyard and we even put little lights along the path to light the way to the clearing. There is still wood left from the fire we had the last time we held a meeting here. 

    Everyone started showing up around five that evening all except Caylan which was just fine with me. We started the circle after I closed it with the power chant. After the circle, we headed back down the path to my backyard where mom had done the finishing touches on the decorating. Before I open the gate to my backyard I'm stopped in my tracks I hear Caylan's thoughts clear in my mind she laughing about something then I hear it"I think burning down their High Priestesses house would liven things up a bit," She laughs. I wished I could see who she was talking to ugh!!  I looked over at Dylan who had opened the gate to let everyone in but was still waiting for me to come out of my thoughts. "Ok, what did you hear," He asks quietly. "I know the look by now so just tell me,"

"Where's your mom," I ask scanning the yard for Lilith.

"I don't know, maybe your mom will know where she is,"

We ran over to where my mom was sitting on the picnic table. "Hey, guys I heard it was another good circle," She says cheerfully.

"Mom where's Lilith," I blurted out, "She might be in danger,"

"She went home, why is she in danger," She asks as she gets off the table.

"Caylan is going to try and burn her house down and if she is in it she will be burnt alive!" I scream. The yard goes silent everyone had heard what I said about Caylan's plan to burn Lilith with her house. Mom grabs her cell phone from her back pocket and tries to call Lilith about the fifth ring she finally answered "Lilith don't go home."Mom orders."Kiera heard Caylan planning on burning your house down."

"I just pulled into the gas station by my house, I don't know if anyone is there," Lilith says. Then as she turns toward the direction of her house she sees a black figure running from the same direction. "It looks like they just left I just say someone in black running from that direction why don't you call your buddies at the station to catch him while I get the fire department we will need it documented," Mom agrees and calls the police station while Lilith calls the fire department. Since they caught it in time there was very little damage to the house, just some singed paint which Lilith took care of with the swipe of her hand. Mom said that the police were looking all night but could never find the person in black that Lilith had seen running from the direction of her house so they called off the search the next morning. So it was up to us to find out who this guy is before he hurts someone. Mom and Lilith hatch a plan to catch Mr.Creepy when he is in our yard but knowing when he will be here is the problem. I decided to call my coven to see if anyone else had seen him in their yards. I knew that he was in Cassie's yard yesterday. I would call Lilly first mom suggested. I just called to see if the Creepy man has shown up in your yard?" I ask her.

"Perfect timing." She said. "He just showed up for the first time this morning, Karley told me he was in her yard Friday night when she and her parents came home from the circle."

"Really so he has made his rounds that means Lilith will be tonight or tomorrow morning then me and mom again," I say mainly to myself. I thank her for the information and then hang up. I finish calling the rest of our coven to see if they had seen him in the past few days, but it turns out that only Karley and Lily were the only ones who had seen him. Lilith decides that we should set the trap at her house since he is most likely to come back to her house before anyone else's. Mom and I pack a bag apiece and follow Dylan and Lilith to their house, the whole time Dylan just has his cheesy grin on his face which I've come to know so well he just loves our sleepovers. 

 Our hunch was right Mr. Creepy showed up the next morning. Mom and Lilith had cast a spell the previous night where all he had to do was put just one foot over the property line and he wouldn't be able to move his legs. When the alarm had sounded warning us of his arrival we all jumped out of bed and ran downstairs but our moms being moms made Dylan and I stay inside while they questioned him about his involvement with Caylan. As we watch our mother's from the living room window Dylan looks over at me "You know I really enjoyed last night." He says with his big cheesy smile draped across his face.

"I did too," I tell him."But shush I'm trying to listen," Then I give him one of my best kisses and then turn my concentration back to our moms. I see mom getting her phone from her back pocket then turn around and put it back. Within a few moments I hear sirens then two police cruisers pulled into the yard thankfully they had undone the stun spell before the police arrived. We watch as they cuff the man then put him into the back seat of one of the cruisers. Mom and Lilith shake their hands then head inside the house. I look at mom as they open the door knowing I already heard everything Dylan is the only one who doesn't know what went on so Lilith just starts telling us what they found out. "We found out his name is Marcus and that a cute teenage girl had hired him to try and scare us. He also said that she told him that we were witches and that she was going to kill us all, that was why he left that note on your front door Kiera not to scare you but to warn us,"

"Ook so why did you have him arrested if he wasn't doing any harm," I question.

"Well, when I called and had his name checked out it showed that he was wanted for murder in another state, see he was frightened of us that he didn't want us to curse him," Mom explains with a stifled laugh.

"What about the fire at my house that he started? Is he going to be charged for that," Dylan asks.

"Dylan, he didn't set the fire that was Caylan, I realized that the person I saw was shorter than Marcus was," Lilith answers.

"So what are we going to do about Caylan," I had to ask.

"We're going to stop her before she kills someone," Mom answers.

Mom and I gather up our things and head back home but first, we stop and have some breakfast at our favorite little mom-and-pop restaurant. When we get back home I throw my things on my bed and head out back to start my training again. I continue my training day after day making my powers grow where I can send messages to anyone magical. The downside of this nifty little power is that I can't receive messages. Another one of my powers decided to pop up just when I needed it to, mom was making us dinner last night when the knife she was using to cut with slipped and cut her hand so bad she would have needed stitches but when I put my hand on it with a rag to apply pressure to her wound I was wishing that one of the powers I had was healing so I could heal my mom, and when I lifted the rag to apply a clean one her cut was gone as it had never happened. I've also been working on calling on the elements. I've made little tornadoes appear, holes in the ground, even made it rain just for a minute. I think I might be ready to take on Caylan, but I don't want to have to kill her, just stop her where she will leave us be. The next morning I finally got to sleep which was refreshing after everything that has been going on. As I make my way downstairs I hear mom's phone ring in the kitchen ."Hello?" I hear her say what I hear next sends chills down my spine. "I'm sorry what was that," Mom asks the person on the other end."Someone burnt down the police station! Was anyone hurt," She screams. "Ok thank you I'll be in soon," Then she turns to see me standing at the bottoms of the stairs with tears streaming down my face "She hurt innocent people just so she could get to Marcus," I stated. All mom could do was nod her head in agreement. We stood there and cried in each other's arms.