"Get off me!" I screamed, struggling against the bindings, the course wire cutting into my skin.

"SHUT UP!" He hit me again. I felt his cold, hard knuckles hit the back of my head and found myself being forced more into the undergrowth of the forest floor.

Mum, I called silently. Mum, please help.

Why didn't I listen to her? I yelled at myself, beating my mind as he beat my body, physically and mentally exhausted. She knew. I should have listened!

Suddenly, a bright white light shone across the forest. A ripe wind blew up, and I felt him thrown over my head onto the floor. I barely heard his swearing. There was a buzzing in my ears, loud and powerful as anything I had ever heard.

There she stood.

Floating, maybe fifteen inches above the ground, she hovered, and drifted to us. There was a power and a controlled rage in her eyes that I had never dreamed of seeing.

She stood, looking down at him. The buzzing in my eyes died down, but the wind raged all the more.

"Please." He whispered, and, turning my neck, I could see the fear in his eyes. "Please, no."

A deathly silence and stillness filled the clearing for a minute.

Then she moved her arm.

The fire whipped over my head, and I heard him scream as he fell in agony. My heart seemed to break, and I clenched my eyes shut, trying to get away from it. Away from the death.

Then she was beside me.

She was still hovering inches above the ground as she bent. With a simple flick of the finger, the wire was gone. With another, I was upright.

I looked at the body on the ground.

"I'm sorry Cal." I whispered as a single tear fell down my cheek.

"Moria, come." Mum whispered.

There were still the power rings raging around her, and, as I walked in her wake, I took one last glance at the person who had convinced me to commit all the evils in this world; to desert my family, to leave my love, to run from my coven. Most of all, to lie to my mother, and to tell my father he was not that.

His eyes stared back at me, and finally, I recognized the evil in them.

This is the end. Now we reach the beginning.