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I slowly followed Caleb and the others down to this rather well hidden room, in the decrepit old building. I could feel Bridgette shiver behind me, and I knew that she felt uncomfortable. She never really did creepy well. Everyone was here, and I was surprised at the anxiety that hammered against my chest. With a wave of Caleb's hand, the dark room was suddenly dimly lit by millions of candles, their flames dancing around, casting a light on the shadows of this old room. On one wall was a large bookcase that I was itching to explore. The boys all sat down, along with Kate and Sarah, I still wasn't sure why they were here. Taking a hint, the girls and I sat down too. There was an uncomfortable silence that was looming around us. Finally Caleb, who was obviously the leader, cleared his throat and tried to break the silence.
"So, who are you?"
Bridgette grinned, "If we told you, we'd have to kill you." She joked. The rest of us cracked a grin, but Caleb's face stayed as stony as ever.
"What he means is, what are you guys, because it's kind of obvious your more than just humans?" Pogue said, backing his friend up.
"Well what are you guys? Because I could say the same thing." Missy said cheekily.
Caleb sighed, and told us everything, about their powers, the consequences, what happened with Chase, everything. Through the entire thing, I couldn't help but stare in amazement at these boys. They were so young and yet they've been through so much. I could notice Missy glancing over at Tyler, and I wondered what was going on there. Finally, Caleb was done with his speech, and looked at us expectantly.
"Well, our powers are exactly like yours," I paused to look at their stunned faces, and then scoffed, "What, you didn't think you were the only ones, did you?" Obviously they did. "There are witches all over the place, in fact I'm surprised you didn't expect more. If you had the Power, then there was bound to be others." They went over my logic, and shook their heads in disbelief at their stupidity. "There are families of magic in every country, each of their powers differing slightly from the last. My family was the Irish branch, Missy's was the Mexican, and Bridgette's was the Swedish. You guys are obviously the English branch. Anyways, the difference between you're powers and ours is that since we haven't lost touch with our ancestor's history, we've learned how to control the aging. Also, each branch has a specialty. I'm not sure what your's is but mine is elemental magic, Bridgette's is healing, and Missy's is being able to connect with the spirit world." I broke off, looking around to see if there were any questions.
"So you have the Power along with the Specialty?" Caleb asked. I nodded in affirmation.
"So how do you control the aging?" Reid asked.
"Meditation mostly, what you need to do is indicate where you're power is in you're sub-conscience and isolate it. If you separate it from the rest of you're mind it's less likely to take over. Therefor, breaking the addiction and the aging, for you guys, I recommend meditating at least an hour before you go to bed, after you ascend, you'll need to do it before and after you sleep" I explained. They all nodded, and Sarah spoke up.
"What about the demon that attacked you in the halls, what was that about?" Missy and Bridgette turned sharply towards me, I hadn't actually told them about it, yet. Oops.
"That is what's confusing me, I don't have any enemies, and there would be no reason for it, but the wolf demon is solely used to steal Specialty magics." I trailed off.
"You were attacked too?" Bridgette and Missy asked in unison.
"So wait, we all were?" I asked, "That doesn't make sense, who would want that much power? It would ware the body down really quickly. Nobody has ever been that greedy."
"Chase." The boys all said in agreement.
"Why? How does he even know we have powers?" Bridgette asked.
"He's probably felt you use." Tyler said.
"He can feel us use?" Missy asked, confused.
"Wait, I've read about a situation like this... That's probably your specialty magic! Not only can you feel people use, you can measure other witch's magic, and you can mimic other's powers." I said frowning.
"But Chase doesn't know that, none of you did until now." Missy said, putting together some of the pieces for me.
"And that's why he used the demon, because every Covenant has a book of spells that could tell you how to conjure one. That's also why he wants more power, because he didn't know that too much power could kill him." I said, realization dawning on me.
"We're going to have to pay more attention, then." Pogue said, obviously worried.
"No one should be able to use unless they're in danger, and we'll have to monitor when the power's used, that way we can tell when he's using." Caleb said in a serious tone.
"Well now that this is all cleared up, let's go have some fun. But no using." Bridgette said, ever the optimist.
We all left the room, the candles all going out sizzling as they did so. I followed my friends up the stairs, after I closed the old mahogany door with a slight creak, feeling a sense of foreboding chilling my bones.
A/N: I want to thank every one who is reviewing, and the next chapter should be up shortly. I just wanted to get this part out of the way. I couldn't think of any other ways to make it longer, all of my ideas just seemed a little unnecessary, and I decided to just leave it here and put them in the next chapter, so the next one will probably be really long.