The ultimate witch

The game

As the week winding down to the Sunday and we all gathered in the parlor to pull the next cards Roman chimed in walking into the room “if we're pulling cards to know about the future I want in. I stopped doing that ritual when I was a little kid 'cause it got a little too real for me but everything within the last couple weeks has seemed a little too real for me. Also Alex wants in as well. We are both here guys mates and we should be here for you guys no matter what we pull.” that's when he opened the door to let Alex inside we all stood around the table pulling cards seeing where the cards landed this week. Alex and Roman already knew that Antoinette was the one who started the fire at the school they didn't blame her. All she wanted was love her whole life and her other two sisters were the ones who got their mates not her it seemed as if she was jinxed to live her life alone.

I was the first one to pull a card my card was the king of swords, meaning we needed to solve immediate problems and drive strategy. the only immediate problem I could think of was Antoinette but how would we find her mate? Alex was the second one to pull a card his card was the two of cups, there was going to be a love commitment or engagement or marriage staring around the room who was going to get into a love commitment engagement or marriage? Was father planning an arranged marriage.

The next person to pull was Comet they pulled the four of wands, another card that indicates romance commitment and putting down roots? What exactly was going to be happening this next week? The next person who pulled was Roman and he got the tower which indicated the collapse of an idea or a lifestyle a particular dream or future venture. Was a future venture not to be worried about anymore? Was everything coming to a head with the black magic people?

The next person to pull was Rosalie she got the 10 of pentacles it shows the wealth of generation inheritance or other capital due. Was mother planning on leaving us something? Was something being planned to leave to us? And then last and Antoinette pulled the four of swords it brings for for rest after a difficult and stressful period it's time to let old wounds heal. Whatever was planned for us for the next week seems to be planned very strategically.

The following morning went as this father called us into the parlor only us girls saying he had news for us mostly for Antoinette he sat us all down glancing among us girls. “so I have news for you girls and you guys might not take a liking to it. But as my search has wind down for anything that could be good for this it's come to my attention that Antoinette I might have met your mate. He's a guy that works for me on my team and his magic matches yours. If you would like to meet him he came with me to visit you guys this time.” we all glance among each other wondering who this strange person is. Antoinette nods her head it had been years since she was told that she would never have a mate. Her powers were too great and she was too strong. She always wondered if someone out there would match her. “and if you guys are open to it we would like to have an arranged marriage between you two bringing both of the nephlim children together.”

This definitely caught antoinette's attention he was also a nephlim that means he was also part Angel and part demon. She nodded her head she wanted to do it if not to bring the kingdoms together even if Harry's magic didn't touch hers completely. She spoke up friendly “only if his magic matches mine. And only if he can stay on this realm with me.” she said nodding her head taking a deep breath our father agreed to those terms. He went out to go get him and in walked a redhead green eyed boy he seemed shy at first but I wouldn't be lying if one he marked in the whole world seemed to move in his way and it seemed to stop. Antoinette seemed to notice as well it was as if he had taken her breath away. Was this true love? After a few hours of putting them through the mating rituals they seem to be each other's mates.

they were crawled up next to the fire looking towards it when they next heard something from father “the arranged marriage will go on. You will be staying here to protect my girls. In anything they need.” some of the people who have gathered at the house seemed to be off putted by my father they were staying out later tonight. But by morning we would understand why they were staying out later tonight there was word about the school that all the head masters and all the headmistresses had passed away in the fire. All my aunts and uncles were gone. That was about the time that we had gotten a letter from my mother saying that we were the ones to take over the school next we would be taking over the school and there would be no arguing about it.

I had gathered everyone around and had told them that we would be taking over the school and that there would be a shift in head masters and headmistresses. There's still seems something very airy about it though something very cold and distant something very not there as if someone was still alive in the halls when we had gathered back at the school the school was still being rebuilt but we were there to oversee the rebuilt of it. It was our duty as headmistresses to watch everything be rebuilt to watch everything be built up from the ground again we went through lockers we went through the old masters and mistresses desk it was different something was cold and distant in this rebuilt. The halls were going to be made of gravel and stone the pillars were going to be made of stone the grand hall seems so much quieter.

Everything seemed to be falling into place though was this everyone plan to begin with for us to take over if so there must be evil within us like Antoinette has said someone was evil but didn't know it. There is a difference sense of feeling around this an unknown. A very cold and dark unknown. As we went through the letters that my uncles were getting and as we went through the books that were on their walls dark magics a sadness overcame some of us all the errors to our line were gone. One of my uncles never had kids the other one couldn't have kids. The only two people in my mom's line that had kids with her and her sister, her sister only left behind a son and a daughter but they were both human. Her sister hid what she did for a living. So it came to that whole house surprise when we knocked on the door and told them that their mother wasn't coming back. That she worked at the school that we went to and there was a fire that she had passed away in the fire. There is a sorrow in this moment as if something had snapped inside my cousins. Something big but you could see it in their eyes only.

There is something broken in this day something trying to save us and trying to get out into the world. Is it wind it down we wondered if this was what it meant that mother was leaving us this whole in the ruins. Phoenix is rise from the ruins would be rise against them or for them. It was a harsh feeling that we had to call everyone and tell them that we'd be taking over the skull especially since some of them weren't on our team. It was a different feeling altogether that some of our students would end up hating us that someone of our students didn't very much like us at this moment that we might be walking into that school with bullseyes on our back. What is this are immediate problems and drive to strategy? Could we weave at the bad students and protect the good students now?

The next day was the engagement he had planned it all out to the tee he had taken her horseback riding and asked her underneath the old Willow tree it was a very nice surprise for her it was also a very joyous moment. And tonight had finally found the guy that would love her forever including her flaws they'd always be together no matter what if one of their fires died out they could always lean on each other to light it back up. since he works with my father he would never die or dissipate he could never be forgotten or too far away. Just one phone call and he'd be there. They were very romantic about the whole thing even though they got married in the courthouse they wanted it to be official right away they had been looking for each other for years they didn't want to waste anymore time. So with that they got married and they started planning their lives together.

The next following day me and Alex ended up getting together as well it was just something in the wedding and something in the air that made us finally become official. Something that made us want to start our lives together and we didn't know any better than to do it in the human world he had told my sisters that he was going to asked me to be his official girlfriend it was kind of cute as if he had never dated someone before. I was soon to find out that he had actually never dated someone before he didn't want to date someone who's magic didn't match his magics and it made sense for him. Although we were always in each other's heads reading each other's thoughts. He never seemed too far away and he always seemed to be right there right next to me.

On that Saturday the students started gathering around the school school was going to start being in session again and the construction was done everything was rebuilt it had looked like the fire had never happened. As if a week ago we weren't standing outside in shambles of the old building and the sorrow wasn't there anymore. As if a week ago we weren't trying to decide where everyone would be staying and where everyone life should be built around. We all stood there opening up the gates going back to our dorm rooms going back to our rooms says headmistresses. It was our own little slice of heaven it was as if it was built for us. Other than our boyfriends sleeping in our room and moving their stuff out of their dorms and putting it with our headmistresses rooms nothing seemed to be out of sorts the only thing was that rosalie didn't have someone and with all of our men rallying around us rosalie seemed to be fine with everything she seemed to be quiet and reserved. She seemed to be thinking a lot more than letting any of us inside of her head. In fact when Alex tried poking around her head as we were all talking one night on the back balcony.

“stay out of my head if you don't want me poking your head.” rosalie said inside her head towards Alex glaring towards him as if she was guarded about something. There is something going on with her but none of us had been able to pinpoint it yet. I took a deep breath nodding my head communicating with Alex through our minds. “so she wants you to stay out of her head? What do you think she's hiding?” I said through my thoughts towards him “I won't never know what she's trying to hide if she wants me to stay away from it she can tell what I'm trying to go inside of her head.” he said through his thoughts weak lands back and forth at each other me putting my elbow on the kitchen counter. It was a very awkward time in the house.

“maybe she just doesn't want you to realize something that she had done?” set a very earlly not one of us voice inside of our heads. It sounded like Roman but Roman wasn't here that night. So we set out to find Roman after the place settled down that night walking over to Comet room and knocking on the door “come on inside guys we are wondering when you guys would catch on up with us.” Comet said. We walked into the room thinking it might be an ambush but they both laid there on the bed glancing off toward the ceiling I wondered if they were both in the stars like me and Alex the first night we shared together.

“we clearly heard roman's voice inside our heads earlier tonight and we were wondering what that was all about because Roman was not there?” I say walking over towards the window cell and sitting down on the bench. “Romans always listening into everyone's minds whenever they're here he's a mind reader in fact we have someone the best conversations through each other's minds.” comet said glancing towards us and nodding her head with a smile on her face. “she is up to something guys I don't know what it is she can't tell when I'm reading her mind some people have an imprint when they read other people's minds but I've practiced since I was little and I don't have that imprint you must have that imprint Alex. I haven't been able to dig much further into what it is that she's doing but I know it isn't good.” Roman says nodding his head he sat up on bed. Comet follows him and sits upon bed as well. They glance around the room nodding their heads as if they're trying to agree with our inside thoughts me and Alex are only thinking about black magic.

“so she could have been the one that got mother killed?” I say sitting at the end of the bed glancing down towards my lap what could've made her so cold that she'd get her mother killed? What could she be hiding that that's so big? Alex protectively wraps his arms around me as if at any moment I was going to fall apart and break A frail little girl I hold on to him protectively taking a deep breath and raising my shoulder glancing up towards him. I almost wanna break right here and right now cry into his chest how could a rosalie be so selfish and take away our mom from the world I know if it was safe right now mom would come back but it's not safe yet. “so far from what I've picked up on she's planning on killing all of you. She's planning on restoring the school back into its old glory when Alex is family was the head masters of it.” Roman said taking a small breath

“so we're all just sitting ducks here for her too choose which one of us to pick off the next week?” I say glancing around the room choking up the words as I say them. “we have something that she doesn't have we have a lot of power with us right now. All of us have our mates and with that we could two drawings of the tarot cards without her to figure out and strategize what we do without her.” Alex says and he was right about one thing we do have more power in numbers right now. Especially since Antoinette and me have our mates now me and her are the most powerful ones in the family. I glanced up towards him and nodded my head in agreement we could strategize without her she wouldn't be one step ahead of us then like she's always been.

The fire must have thrown her off completely gotten her off her a game. The fire must have thrown her through a complete loop because it was a complete accident knocking off the head masters and headmistresses from the playing ground. Being able to forget that we still are able to own the school without them and that only leaves one person playing with dark magic which is her and her minions. Whoever they are though we just had white magic people in our house seeking refuge with her under our roof as well. It was a sour time inside my head for the next 24 hours debating what to do debating what she was doing. It was as if it was a mind game inside my mind one of many that would be played. One of many that would outline the rest of the time staying under the school roof. There will always be someone who is evil but can you turn an evil person to the right side? Can you turn an evil person to the light side of magic? As we all gathered earlier that evening and filled in Antoinette with what was going on Antoinette felt as much as I felt the first night.

She broke down crying In casper's arms Casper was her husband now and he was there to protect her no matter what. She would cry for about an hour and then stand there staring and blank out the balcony. “if we're going to do this we're going to need backup and we're going to need to meet we're somewhere she can't get at us. We're going to need to meet in mothers old Den room.” we all nodded in agreement she would never step foot in there if she was the actual killer. It would light up like a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve with her magic all around if she stepped foot in there. “another thing we're going to need is backup from our father.” she said glancing towards Casper and she took a deep breath he nodded his head “I'll send for the army they all look like they're trying to be students she wouldn't know any of the wiser.”

Now this I don't agree with my father's army does practice black magic so they would be easy for her to turn but they might be on our side due to my mother. So even if they sign up for her black magic stuff that she's trying to get out there they'd end up reporting back to us. They would end up reporting back to us right? “have them sign up as students of the school I'll pass them through they could work with Jackson and Roman as being the guards so they'd be fighting every day but they also have normal day to day classes she wouldn't think any of the wiser if more of the old timers were sending in their younger crowd for the guard.”

I said not in my head taking a deep breath “if this is all going to work and we're going to pull this off we're going to need some backup here though as of tomorrow.” Comet said “I can still see the future in the future looks very dire right now for all of us she's not afraid to hurt me anymore because I'm not a weak link she's not afraid to hurt any of us anymore.” she said and nodded her head taking a deep breath freezing her shoulder. She glanced around the room taking everyone in I believe that Roman is probably breeding our minds but I know my mind is just focused on how could rosalie do this how could she break and kill our mom.

As the next day came and went into the night time we all gathered in my mom's den room we all decided to pull our next tarot cards Casper included. I got the three of swords reversed in reverse the key issue is how you cope with loss, so how I am coping with my mom is the issue? Or how I am coping with the loss of my uncles and aunts is the issue? Alex got the nine of pentacles this card means that many people will be sinking the pleasure of someone company in this group of people.

Antoinette got the nine of swords reversed feelings have thrown you into a den of despair this is to revive hope and accept help which is many of the things that she is going through right now. Casper got two of swords it's important time to pause and consider your options take a logical look at your situation then make the best decision you can. It might have to do with throwing rosalie out with the wolves right now. Comet got 7 of swords the hard work is paying off you are not quite where you want to be but a true commitment to yourself and your home and your career is beginning to show. And Roman got the star a new start and wonderful new energy and opportunities surround you.

As I glanced around the room of my classroom the next day I took inventory of who was there who was on my dad's team. All the new members of the school. They all seem like nice people they all seemed like people you'd wanna get to know it seemed difficult to wrap my mind around. They all seem like they came from homes where their parents were together 24/7 nothing like my house. It broke me inside to teach these type of people things they already knew things that they shouldn't be taught at such a young age. Although they were probably taught them by my father although they were probably taught them at such a younger age. It was as if they were all gathered around to see the collapse of this school.

As I graded them on bringing things back to life and bringing life back into the room. Something my teacher had taught me earlier this year with Alex something I've never forget finding my mate and finding them inside of me. It was different the people that are paired together they seem to work counteractive they didn't seem to work together maybe someone else was better at pairing people together other than me. Rosalie seemed like nothing bothered her that day everything was going according to plan. Antoinette seemed to be able to pair her people with good people go to counterparts for them it was as if my mind was elsewhere as if my mind was fading into the blackness of what the school is.

It was hard for me to think of what this school was going to become rosalie took over the school in all black magic school maybe there was a way for us to coincide with each other maybe there was a way for us to live with each other? Half the school teaches black magic half the school teaches white magic? Maybe we didn't have to end our sister? Dealing with the loss of my mother I realized that I never cried about it I just bottled it all up much like how Antoinette bottled up all her feelings and shout out a raging fire of hell. It was harder for me to think about what was going to happen to the school if anything was going to happen to the school. Harder for the good guys to win rosalie was kicked out of the meetings secretly and secretly they were held without her. For every counterstrike she did we didn't know other counter strike against her. My mind seemed elsewhere as homecoming was rearing its ugly head.

Homecoming was usually something to celebrate different schools different magic schools would gather at our magic school hosting a one night dance for everyone to celebrate and dance together. It seemed like something soulless right now something yeah that they would say happened in a dark age it broke us. I often wonder what rosalie would be doing for the homecoming maybe a counter strike? Would she try to attack us when everyone was here it would be when we were at our weakest. Which she tried to do that during then she probably often thought that when we started the fire they were at their weakest. It was hard to think about what went on in roselands mind trying to figure out what we should do as counter active.

As the next day came I ended up crying to Alex about my mother for the first time I cried for what seemed like 5 hours what was really just an hour and a half. I didn't wanna start a fire like Antoinette did but I did wanna get over the grieving process. I wanted to get over it so bad that eventually it didn't hurt anymore and eventually I could move on from it. I sat there on the bud wiping my eyes in trying to see straight eventually nothing could hurt me right? Eventually I'd feel better. Everything came and went as if it was supposed to homecoming came and went the fireworks that went over to the school during homecoming. That's when we got the news that we've been waiting for that night one of the guys from my Dad's Army came to my mother's dead instead they're glancing around the room and then eventually looked towards us.

“she's planning an all out takeover of the school. Some of the people closest to you that you trust you shouldn't trust. Some of the people closest to the people who you used to trust they shouldn't trust. After you guys did a glimmer on your mother your uncle did a glimmer of magic switching some peoples magics to make it look like some people were each other's mates. So far the only people in this room that we know are for sure each others mates are Casper and Antoinette.” I was taken aback by this whose magics did he switch? Was this all for someone the people on the dark side to be paired with some of the people on the right side? Was I lying with the enemy? Good thing it was only us girls in here tonight and Casper was the only person we could actually trust right now due to my father was the one who made it Antoinette and Casper. I nodded my head and sat on the chair glancing off towards the ceiling.

I felt like I was breaking completely breaking down I didn't know what to do I didn't know how I was going to deal with this. If it was a glimmer who was my actual mate? Who is the mate I was looking for so deeply and so passionately that was actually the person who Alex was using for his magic? And they said people who used to be close to us does that mean solstice I had written him off because he was so in love. It was hard to connect all the dots I had to get solstice away from everyone and try to UN glimmer him Antoinette was up to it because solstice was the only person that my mother actually thought of like his son. We stood there thinking for a few seconds as solstice left the classroom we brought him to my mother stand standing there taking a deep breath. I gathered my thoughts nodding my head raising my shoulder glancing among the room.

“I know you don't know much about magic but we think you were clambered into believing that your mate is someone else and I was also glimmered into believing that my mate is someone else so that the good guys and the bad guys were paired together.” I said glancing towards him in raising my shoulder I glanced towards the floor and shake my head sucking in my bottom lip I arched my eyebrow glancing towards him it's as if a weird expression crossed his face “what do we do if we were actually clamored do we keep going on this path with the our other people?” I nod my head “there's not a night that goes by that I don't think of you and think of us and think about how I ended things Trinity if this helps I do anything for you.” I nod my head in Pour the elixir that Antoinette made for us.