Zara was walking through the halls, catching the eyes of every single guy she passed, to go home and find a spell or potion she could use on Sarah.

"Hey, Natalia!" she heard Ethan call. But Zara didn't stop to talk to him. She needed to get rid of Sarah as fast as possible. "Natalia!" he called again.

Ethan ran after her and touched her arm.

His eyes turned to a milky white as he received a vision about her.

Flash.

A woman he didn't know with wild hair was tied to a pyre and was burning at a stake as she screamed curses at her audience.

Flash.

Natalia was reading a book in the library.

Flash.

The woman from the stake merged with Natalia's figure.

Flash.

Sarah was screaming and then she blacked out into an endless sleep.

Flash.

"Let go of me!" Zara cried as she yanked her arm out of Ethan's grasp. "Just leave me alone." She started off down the hallway once more as Ethan tried to put together what he just saw.

"Ethan?"

Benny appeared beside his best friend, watching Zara walk down the hall.

"Benny, I think we're in trouble."

"Why? Did they finally catch you for hacking into the school's mainframe? Dude, I told you that was a bad idea! Did you really need to find out about our grades that bad?"

"No, it's not that. I just had a vision. Wait, what are you talking about? The only reason I hacked into it was because you were the one begging me."

"What…?"

"No, something's wrong with Natalia."

"Wrong? You mean the best thing ever has happened to Natalia. I mean, look at her. She's even hotter than before!"

"Yeah, but I think something really bad has happened to her. I think she's, like, possessed."

"Possessed? Oh, no, like Sarah-possessed?" Benny said, as both of them remembered Sarah being possessed by a demon from a spirit board and ensuing chaos on the house and Ethan's life.

"No, I saw a woman burning at a stake and she was screaming Latin or something. Then I saw her and Natalia…I don't know…merge together," Ethan answered.

"Well, if she was burning at the stake and saying Latin, my guess is she was probably a witch."

"Ugh, like Stephanie?"

"No, worse. She was a witch from hundreds of years ago. Witch powers were different then and way more powerful. So, how the heck did she get into Natalia?"

"She was reading some book in the library, probably for her paper."

"Don't tell me. We have to find the book, figure it out, and save the day?"

"Yeah, but there's something else. I think that witch wants to do something to Sarah. Like, something really bad."


Zara briskly walked home as fast as she could. Even though the whole witches-ride-broomsticks-thing was cliché and inaccurate, she couldn't help but wish she had one since it would get her home a lot faster.

Once confined to the safety of her room, she waved her hands and a spell book appeared in front of her. She smiled and held the book close to her.

"It's been a long time," she said quietly, as if the book was her pet. She flipped it open and scanned for the potion she would need in order to get rid of Sarah.

"Oh, here we go," she mused. She flipped to the page that read, Imbibo of Dolor. It was a potion that inflicted so much pain on the victim, it eventually ended in death, even for vampires. She took a look at the ingredients required and found them easy to procure.

She spent the next few hours whipping up her materials and then mixing them all together. Sarah didn't know what she was in for.

Her work was cut short when a shot of pain swept through her.

"Fighting back, are we?" she growled at the girl she had taken over. "I don't think so. This is my time. Back then, I was burned alive for what I did. But now, everything belongs to me!"

She swept her hand over her body and the girl silenced.

"That's better. Now, do not interrupt me again."

Zara went back to her work on the potion. Once she finally finished mixing all the ingredients, she said a spell over the liquid, and then poured the elixir into a bottle that she would give to Sarah at school the next day. After all, Sarah didn't suspect a thing. As far as she knew, this was still Natalia, not Zara. And Sarah trusted Natalia. And that was all she needed.


Ethan and Benny went straight to the library after Ethan received his vision about Natalia. He was forced to tell Benny everything, and Benny was not happy to learn about the kiss. But Ethan reminded him that it was a witch who kissed him, not the Natalia he was in love with.

That was strange for Benny to hear. He had never actually been in love with someone. But he knew Natalia was different from every girl he'd ever met. And he did love her. He just hoped she felt the same way about him.

"How are we even going to know exactly what book she was reading from?" Benny asked once they were in the library.

"I saw it in my vision," Ethan answered as he started scanning the shelves. After he had looked at nearly every shelf, he finally found the one he had seen from his vision. "Benny!" he called in a whisper.

Benny walked over and the two of them started to look at the book's pages, trying to see which one would explain what was happening to Natalia.

"Hey, wait," Benny said as Ethan was turning the page. "Here's something."

"'Many women were burned in the trials as alleged witches, though little proof was given.'," Ethan read.

"Harsh," Benny commented.

"'One of the women named Zara yelled out what everyone assumed was an incantation, which just led them to believe that they were right in burning her.' Then it tells us what she was screaming at the audience."

"I think that's Latin."

"What does it mean?"

"Hold on." Benny took out his phone and Google'd the words. "It looks like it's a kind of promise."

"What does it mean?" Ethan repeated.

"It means 'When my heir is found, I shall return.'"

They stood there confused for a second before Ethan said, "Let's see if we can find Natalia's family tree."

Ethan and Benny headed back to Benny's house, since he had the more magical stuff. Ethan pulled out his laptop from his backpack and searched for Natalia's family history while Benny tried to find a way to counteract whatever was going on with Natalia.

"Okay," Ethan finally said. "It took three hours, but I was finally able to trace Natalia's family tree all the way back to the 1600's. And here's Zara, plain as day. Natalia is Zara's heir, which must mean that's why she was possessed by Zara. Natalia must've read the incantation out loud."

"I think I found a way to get Zara out of Natalia," Benny said as he held up his own spell book.

"Why don't we just do what we did when Sarah was possessed?"

"Aw, gee, I don't know, because we ended up letting Jesse out of the cubile animus, he threatened to take Sarah, and then he BIT YOU!"

"Point taken."

"This spell will get rid of Zara and her spirit forever."

"And it won't hurt Natalia?"

"Well, it'll hurt getting Zara out, but she won't die."

"I guess it's all we can do."

"I have to work on getting this down though. I can't afford to mess up this spell. If I do, I could seriously hurt Natalia."

"Well, hurry up, because we haven't got much time. Zara's going to do something to Sarah really soon."

"Don't worry. Both of our girls will be just fine."