The ultimate witch

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Waking up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat it had to be 70 degrees in the house it was another night terror. One that haunted my dream was many years ago I was being chased in the woods it started as snakes being chased in the woods from them it would always lead me to this pond always lead me to a pond that filled my head with imagination with dreams. This time it was hunters of my kind who was hunting me chasing me to that pond chasing me into the netherworld it was weird being chased away from my hometown. Nonetheless it was just the dream being chased down a rabbit hole me and my sisters have seeked refuge in this house the Manor have seeked many nights in this place. It was a nice little getaway home it was bigger than our house back home then again there was four of us and the manner was big.

I got up from the bed making my way too the window cell looking out over the woods that the Manor sat on it was different the woods tonight there was a cool breeze in them a week earlier you would have never known that they almost lit a blaze. A week earlier you would have never known that I almost lost the boy that I love. Everything was happening so fast everything pacing us to this moment this moment in time. You see my sisters and me we worshipped the land the air the fire and the water although other than that we were as normal as anyone could be. We were just four sisters in this house that our grandmother had gifted us. Our grandmother was also a witch she had worshipped Gaia for many years.

As the days turned into nights and as we gathered around the table for a little tarot reading to see how our new future would be we all stood there with our mother beside us our mother had long red hair in his smile that invited anyone in. Show almost made it seem as if she was normal almost made it seem as if this world was meant for us no one would know our dark secret our secret passenger. No one would know that once we drew these four cards that's how our life would lead for the next week. And with earth fire and wind we set out to see our lives for the next week.

But seeing is not only believing that's why you are gathered here tonight to invite you in to allow you to see into our world. To allow you a little glimpse into this world we call the Anderson house and how everything is set in stone by just these little cards. just to see how our lives play out I stand here next to mother and pulling out my card with a little smile on my face I have long black hair it is curly, and I have blue eyes piercing blue eyes to be exact the type that could see through the future. My sister to the left of me has blonde hair and Opal eyes she has the light Hazel tint to them that sometimes turn Gray. My sister to the left of her has brown hair and brown eyes although her eyes don't matter much, she hasn't been able to see since she was five years old. My sister to the left of her has red hair and blue eyes she has the gift of the healing touch.

Now most of us I didn't go through what are gifts were mostly because we will get to them later but my sister with the healing touch due to my boyfriend almost dying last week was the reason that he is still alive she was able to revive him with her touch. And most of us also have more than one gift but she only has one she has homed in on that gift most of her life because she only wants to be able to heal people to be able to bring things back to life, she's able to do it with most plants and most human based people. It is the exact gift that will ruin her one day for not having another gift along with it. She loves that she's able to heal people though so no one could tell her differently no one could tell her that she should home in on her other gifts. Our mother also has the healing touch and most of us got our gifts from our mother. Our mother is a sibling of five all head mistresses and masters of the school of witchcraft. The school we currently attend so that we could bring out our gifts.

Our mother although is the headmaster of this school she currently resides most of her time on the other side of this playing field she loves spending her time with things that are unique and unusual. As we pull the cards and look down on them one by one our heads go around the room looking for answers. These weren't the answers we were looking for this week. I myself had pulled the fool. My sister Antoinette had pulled death. Antoinette is the redhead. My sister Comet had pulled the lovers she is the blind one. And last but not least my sister Rosalie had pulled the tower it seemed like we were going to have a busy week ahead of us. Needless to say, Antoinette would not be able to save her own death. Or whosever death she had pulled.

After a few hours soul searching we had all wandered back into the parlor glancing around at each other I was the first one to make a statement “I don’t know what lays before us this week but it’s going to be an interesting week my sisters.” I say going to sit on a chair crossing my legs and placing my hands on my lap.

Antoinette glances around the room taking a deep breath before she talks “do you think this has to do with what happened last week? Saving the mortal? Do you think someone in the magic realm is going to need us but we’re not going to be able to do anything?” Antoinette nervously picks up a glass of water it was shaking in her hands she puts it to her lips and sips it.

Comet glances around the room raising her shoulder although she can’t see that she is raising her shoulder she knows the layout of the room she knows where everything is placed. “Predicting the future and predicting what is going to happen this next week is tricky I think it does have to do with the magic realm, but I doubt it has anything to do with saving someone I think some dark forces are at hand. Someone’s been messing with very dark forces in the magic realm, and we can’t fix any of it. I may be able to see the future and see what’s going to happen. I might not be able to see everyone in this room and where stuff is placed in how you guys look right now but I’ve seen this all play out this conversation many times. And I think by the end of the week one of us might be gone. And that is a scary thought for me sisters a very scary thought for me.”

Rosalie glances around the room taking it all in before she talks, she takes a deep breath in nods her head raising her shoulder this was all her mind could think of saying before she said anything. “I think it has to do with our uncle he’s been diving into black magic for a while now. He tried to recruit me a while back, but I refuse to let him tarnish our family name. I didn’t want to be brought in to black magic, but I think he brought some of the other family members into it. I don’t think I’d be the only one that he would try to bring it into it. All I know is come morning we have to do a lot of searching around our school seeing that school is in session come morning.”

It was a lot to take in a lot of stuff was happening in our family a lot of stuff that I didn’t know about. And the fact that comments was saying that someone was going to die in our family group by the end of the week was nerve wracking. I took a deep breath and we all headed back into our rooms to go to bed. The Manor seems smaller that night it seemed to be going all around us the errors of the ways of the past. The eeriness of the future I just needed one small moment with him to see if everything would be alright but come morning, I couldn’t see him again for the school year. I would be sent away they’d say I’d be sent away overseas, but it was really to the magic realm to study home in our gifts.

There was a war brewing inside the walls of the school when we walked in that morning. Good versus evil and it was knocking on our door already. We were all already assigned our houses air fire wind and earth I was an earth sign. Antoinette was a fire sign. Comet was an air sign. And Rosalie was a wind signed. We all huddled into our small rooms in our dorms for this foreseeable future. It was nice seeing that my room hadn’t changed it was still the same still the same outline of everything last year.

I walked down the stairs to the rooms where the warriors were kept, they were the fighters of the old wars they were sons who fought in the old wars and daughters who of the men who fought in the old wars. They were mostly kept in the training rooms and trained until they blood. But I was friends with most of them and I was wondering if I could get them to talk about anything that happened over the summer. As I walked into the room he stood there, and I was shocked in my place. We stared at each other for a long time.

His black hair and piercing blue eyes as if they were piercing through me, I took a deep breath glancing towards him raising my shoulder. It couldn’t be, could it? My mind had to be playing games my sister’s powers couldn’t be that good. She can’t bring back warlocks or witches. But he stood right there with his hair in his eyes piercing at me. My boyfriend was a warlock? I had kept this side of me so secretive. I had kept this side of me locked up for years from him.

I didn’t even hear the person come in behind me until they said something “so I see you met our newest recruit” Jackson old friend said I almost jumped. Jackson was these 6 feet 2 built of stone type of man he was almost too handsome for anyone to bear. I turned around and looked at Jackson with a smile on my face. “yeah, I met him” I say with a nod of my head.

“Yeah, me and Trinity go way back don’t we trin?” my boyfriend said I glanced back towards him still in a maze that he was still here. Have we both been hiding things from each other? “Yeah, we do go way back.” I say then look at Jackson with a smile on my face kind of one of those smiles where it says please leave there’s unfinished business here and he kind of just walked out the door.

“What are you doing here solstice?” I say turning around and glancing towards him arching my eyebrow take hand deep breath and raising my shoulder “I guess we both have a lot of secrets. My grandpa fought for those school years ago. My mom was a witch she passed away before I even knew you. Last week when your sister brought me back to life it made me realize what you guys were and I couldn’t be thankful enough because it made me realize that I didn’t have to hide it from you.”

“So, we were just hiding the same thing from each other? Were you just trying to live a normal life so that we could be together?” I say glancing into his piercing blue eyes and raise my shoulder taking a deep breath. “I was trying to have a normal life with you while harboring the magic inside me the magic got too much for me.” I turned on my heel away from him heading towards the door there was something I needed to tell my sister. If she could bring back someone from the dead that I also had magic inside them she needed to know this. Maybe this week wasn’t over with already?

As I found my sister in her room trying to bring back a plant from the dead, she left here over the summer I glanced towards her “I come bearing good news.” I say glancing towards her and nodding my head raising my shoulder and taking a deep breath in. “what’s your good news” says Antoinette. “You can bring back someone who harbors magic inside them solstice has magic inside him.” I say and nod my head.

“Then I come bearing bad news” Antoinette says glancing towards me “I can’t bring anything back to life anymore my power is gone.” And that’s how we started the new year the new school year with Antoinette not having any of her power anymore. In questioning my boyfriend was he taking her power? Did he take her power? Was he on the wrong side of this battle?

As a week went by and all the sisters were in high alert for the war, they also recruited Jackson into their team Jackson wasn't taking anything for good news. He didn't want to start a war with the headmasters, but he also didn't want to sit back and sit idly by if they were going to start practicing black magic. They hadn't let solstice in on their plan because they didn't know if solstice was on their team or not. All the sisters were in very much highlight someone had passed away in the last week they dropped them back to life though due to Rosalie had also been practicing Antoinette power, but Rosalie knew how to home in the power they had brought that person onto their team. Their name was Roman he was a fighter like Jackson is but Roman came from a long line of fighters his dad was a fighter his grandpa was a fighter and so was his great grandfather. Roman had short black hair and piercing green eyes.

We all figured that the full meant what happened with me and solstice that I was the fool, or he was the fool for coming to the school and showing that we couldn't trust him the tower meant what happened between Antoinette and her power that she didn't have any more powers. The death was the death of Roman. So, as we all gathered to pull another set a terret cards we all glanced around my room nodding at each other not sure what the next week had in store for us we took a deep breath hopefully it was something good. Not something bad.

As I stood there with the lovers reversed in my hand, I knew what it meant then me and solstice were going to break up. Rosalie stood there with another tower in her hand and Antoinette stood there with the goddess in her hand, no that we normally think of her mother as the goddess when we pull her it was a strange feeling that something might happen to our mother. Comet stood there with the fool in her hands it didn't seem like anyone was going to die this week we were lucky about that, but it seemed like the luck was still reversed not on our side. We had to keep watch out for our mother. Where do you keep watching out for who was around us as well? Maybe we couldn't loop in so many people all at once someone could turn on us and someone couldn't be on our team maybe. Roman and Jackson seemed trustworthy though.

Today was Monday we were going to go meet up with our mother to discuss things that was going on in our lives things that we all heard about and things that were going on but as I walked past one of the rooms, I saw a solstice with another girl in it. He seemed to be all over her. Maybe he was cheating? Maybe he wasn't the good guy like I thought he was? Maybe I should discuss this with him at a later time. The girls seemed really happy about him it seemed to be in love with him. It seemed difficult for me to get through those thoughts as we were all sitting around my mother that afternoon. Antoinette was the first one to speak.

“there's a war going on in the school mom a war going on between what's good and evil. Black magic versus white magic and you're caught in the crosshairs this week we want you to be safe. But with my magic down and with our sisters having their own stuff going on we need you to lock yourself away for right now. This might be what they want you to do we don't know for sure, but we need you to be safe.” Antoinette said glancing towards our mother and nodding her head she took a deep breath and raised her shoulder she sucked in the last few words although not audible you could tell that she was scared that her mom would end up dead.

“Well daughters if they're looking for a war it's a war that they're going to get.” our mother said nodding her head and with that she ended up confessing everything knowing that her brother was bringing in black magic and that some of her sisters and her were teaming up against him to stop it. So, we could find solace in the sisters. I took a deep breath and not in my head at least mother was in blind to what was going on. At least we could find something that made her seem like they had one this round. I glanced towards her and gave her a hug. Raising my shoulder thinking for a few seconds then said, “what if we do a magic trick of the eye made make it seem like they had killed you when in reality they had killed someone else or something else?”

Rosalie chimed in then “it would be tricky but not impossible it's just a glimmer a little fire trick of the eye and those who are skilled at it can be able to do it.” we all glanced towards Antoinette who would need a lot of practice to be able to do this sort of thing mother is also practiced in all the elements she would be able to do this sort of thing as well. “it's a basic thing to be able to do but I'm not that practiced in it. I would need mother's help.” Antoinette said nodding her head and taking a deep breath she raised her shoulder and smiled softly.

“so that's what we'll do a glimmer a little fire trick of the eye girls.” mother said nodding her head “and maybe with this it will bring back Antoinette’s magic.” she said to follow up the first statement nodding her head and taking a deep breath she brought her drink to her lips and sips it she was drinking tea that afternoon we were all drinking tea. As the night winded down in our conversation winded down into more of a neutral topic we all broke our off into pairs to head home I broke off with Antoinette and we both started walking back to our dorm almost with an eerie silence over us period until Antoinette finally asked.

“what's going on with your sister?” she said glancing towards me and nodded her head “is something bothering you seem to be the most quiet at mothers tonight?” she said as we kept walking and then followed it up with “I'm not trying to pry but if anything is wrong I am here for you.” the issue was I knew all my sisters were there for me but it was hard for me to think about that solstice was in love with another woman. That's so this might be cheating on me, and everything might go to hell in a handbasket. Everything might be changing now. Things were definitely going to get a little different.

“I saw solstice with a different woman he seemed happy, and they both seemed in love I don't know if it was a glimmer or anything I don't know if they are drinking love potions now in magic 101 but it was different, he seemed happy he seemed to be really into her. Maybe this is the lovers in reverse maybe we are supposed to break up due to that woman, but it just hurt a little bit more. He seemed more into her than he seemed into me in a long time. Everything seemed to hurt a lot more.” I said as I made it to my dorm room and went inside for the night this was something we could deal with at a later time. Everything had to be perfect for this week almost too perfect.

The next day was Tuesday and a fog had rolled into the school everyone was in classes by the time I had woken up I rolled out of bed and switched my clothes really fast walking down the hallway to my first class. I walked into the doorway and knocked down the door hoping that the teacher would allow me inside the teacher allowed me inside and pointed me to my desk area I'd be sitting next to the new person I smiled and waved towards him they said his name was Alex. Such a normal name for someone of his statue his great grandfather was the founder of this place although his family had been chased out many years ago from headmaster and headmistress, he was quite the eye pleaser he was tan he had outlines of where he worked out and muscles, he wore a bandana on his head and mostly all black clothes. His family had definitely changed their ways from way back when.

I slid into the seat next too him and looked through the book of our schooling for this school year, but my eyes wondered back towards my partner could I trust him? Could I not trust him? She took a deep breath and raised her shoulder. I wondered for a few seconds what this meant the teacher pairing us for the for the following future? Does that mean his magic could match mine? I looked back towards the book and the teacher said turned towards page 101. I took a deep breath and turned the page.

the page was about bringing dead things back too life and what to do and what not to do. I sneaked into my chair the topic at hand what has been with my family is now the topic with my teacher, could this mean anything? We’d be practicing with plants first and be practicing with partners and our magic too share magic together. We all went and grabbed our plants and puts it on our table I took a deep breath and glanced towards the plant I raised my shoulder and thought for a few seconds glancing towards Alex.

as everyone went around the room bringing there plant back too life we placed our hands together on the plant and glanced towards the plant and raised her shoulder I glanced towards the plant and we brought the plant together and the plants around us. It was amazing and frightening we harbored the same amount of power equally together and the same amount of power scared me if we’d end up on different teams. I glanced towards him and nodded my head I arched my eyebrow and took a deep breath. Even if it does scare me, I might have just met my match.

I glance towards him and smile “we make a good team.” I say and sit back down nodding my head “that we do miss Trinity.” He said nodding his head and smiled softly he glanced around and sat back down and arched his eyebrow “we could make an even better team out of the classroom.” He said winking I think he’s flirting with me and that’s hard too not agree with him right now, but I am still taken. Even if my side is more towards taking down the evil side with his help after class we decided to meet up and go over the criteria for the class. Having an awkward run in with the girl that I saw with solstice yesterday trying to fake being happy Alex could see right through it. He pulled me aside and asked what was going on.

“What exactly is going on? You seemed perturbed by that woman.” tears started rushing down my face as if I had a mask on this entire time. Glancing towards him moving my hand to my eyes and wiping my tears away taking a deep breath and arching my eyebrow nodding my head taking a deep breath “I'm pretty sure my boyfriend is cheating on me with that girl. Life has been hard since he started coming to this school it's only getting harder.” I said through muffled tears “I'm sorry this is all sprung on you. I didn't think she would be here in the cafeteria when we were going over our stuff.” I said wiping my tears again shaking my head.

“well there's really only one thing you could do is confront your boyfriend about it ask him what's going on between the two of them maybe after figuring out what's going on between the two of them we could figure out why our magics match up so good?” he said and it looked right into his eyes there was no hidden agenda he seemed to be his true form something that I longed for the longest time something that I wanted to see inside of him or inside of anyone. I nod my head, but this was something that I needed to do on my own time figure out my stuff with him with solstice.

As the day turned in tomorrow and as I had my nightmare again being chased through the woods, I woke up in a cold sweat something wasn't adding up new people appearing in my life. My magic being able to find its mate for once. Something wasn't adding up in my mind there was something dark brewing beneath the stairwell a secret cult? But you could hear footsteps coming up the stairs people will be following back into their rooms. It was half past midnight what were people doing out this late at night? What were people doing out of their dorms this late nothing good could come from this. Today was the day that my mother had to die we had to make it look real too. We had to mourn her.

Something about this didn't fit right with me that she would be gone for so long before she could reappear that she would be dying at the hands of her own brother. That she would be dying at all just seemed very hurtful. She would disappear into the night without a trace. And her body would be laying there cold as a dead doornail on the bed. We all rushed into her room wondering what happened where did we go wrong with the glimmer? Antoinette didn't say anything she just stood their tears rushing down her face. I didn't say anything at first in fear that we were being listened to. But that afternoon we all filed out to the garden room.

“What exactly went wrong? Why is mom dead?” I say finally breaking the silence I took a deep breath placing my hands on one of the flowerpots making the thing come back to life I've been practicing in my spare time. “Nothing exactly went wrong but their powers were too great for us.” Antoinette said glancing around at all of us “it was like as if someone had told them what we were going to do and that's someone is someone in this room. We can't trust any one of us whether we did it consciously or whether we did not do it consciously someone did it.” Antoinette said following up her statement and nodded her head she glanced around it all her sisters. She took a deep breath “not the less mother is gone we have lost this war.” Rosalie said.