Emmeline was certainly excited to celebrate her best friend's birthday. But she was not eager about the sheer amount of work that went into it.

Of course, Lois planning everything didn't really help because she was going crazy trying to make everything perfect.

Lois, Chloe, and Emmeline headed up to the apartment space in the Talon to see if they could find Lana.

"Hello?" Chloe called as they opened the door.

"Oh, you are home," Lois said when they saw Lana at the counter. "I've been calling, but no one answered."

The three girls looked at the strange array of objects situated on the counter. Several lit candles sat among multiple jars of liquids of varying colors. There was also a mortar and pestle in the bunch.

Lana walked over to them. "Well, I've been kind of preoccupied. Science project."

"From what century?" Chloe asked.

"It's a whole retro thing. I'm trying to recreate some of the stuff they did back in the 1600's."

"Oh."

Lana looked at Chloe and Emmeline for a moment. "I really think you two are going to like it."

"Oh, I left my phone in your car," Lois said to Chloe. "Do you mind?"

"Oh, no, no worries," Chloe answered. "This whole smell of science is making me crave an aromatic latte anyway, so I'll just meet you both downstairs with your cell phone." She turned and waved to Lana. "Bye."

"Bye," Lana smiled.

"Thanks!" Lois called. Once Chloe was out of the room, she angrily whirled around to face Lana. "What's the matter with you? You and Emmeline were supposed to take Chloe shopping so that I could finish everything with the party."

"Right. Must've slipped my mind."

"Well, get some traction. Little Miss Reporter there? She can smell a ruse a mile away."

"I'm actually kind of surprised she hasn't figured it out yet," Emmeline said.

Lois turned to face the door. "I'm going to need some serious help to keep her from ferreting out whatever it is we're planning tonight."

Lana reached up and plucked out a strand of Lois's hair.

"Ow!" Lois exclaimed as she turned to face the girl.

Lana looked at the hair. "Oh, no, no. That's no good."

"Well, yeah, not since you pulled it out!"

"It was gray."

"I don't have gray hair."

Lana raised her eyebrows at her.

Lois paused and nervously looked up at her bangs. "I'm just gonna use your bathroom for a second."

Lois quickly took off for the bathroom.

"Any reason for the hair pull?" Emmeline asked.

Lana looked at her for a moment. "Scrapbook," she finally said. "For Chloe's birthday."

"Are you okay? You're acting kind of weird."

"I'm perfect."

"Okay, well, since you seem busy here, I guess I'll take Chloe shopping. Good luck with the…science project."

She exited the apartment before Lana could grab one of her hairs.


That night before the party, Lana requested to see Lois, Chloe, and Emmeline out in the woods behind the barn where the party was being held.

Lois quickly plowed ahead while Chloe and Emmeline took their time.

"Why do you think Lana wanted us out here?" Chloe asked.

"Beats me," Emmeline answered. "She's been acting weird all day."

"I mean, it's not that weird for her to do a science project exploring another time period."

"Yeah, but it's not just that. Her whole attitude was different."

"I think you're looking too much into it."

"I have a tendency to do that."

But if the whole Lionel/Clark switch was anything to go by, it was usually a good thing she did.

The closer they got, they could hear Lana and Lois conversing with one another.

"I thought it'd be nice to get together with my girls before the party," Lana said.

Chloe and Emmeline finally joined them, but the last statement had not escaped Chloe's notice.

"What party?" she asked.

Lois looked at Lana hardly. "Way to ruin the surprise."

"Oh, you mean the party that you've been planning for the last month?"

"I told you she figured it out," Emmeline said.

"You know about that?" Lois asked.

"Oh, hello. Investigative reporter," Chloe laughed. "Nothing gets past me. Except why we're playing wood nymph when there's a party waiting for me with my name on it."

"Then we'd better hurry," Lana smiled. She took out four glasses from a picnic basket and handed one to each of them. "A toast, in honor of this special night."

Lois smiled a little. "All right. This is getting better."

Lana filled each of their glasses with a drink from, strangely enough, a flask.

"Um, what is this?" Emmeline asked.

"Oh, don't worry," Lana smiled. "It's non-alcoholic. I'm not asking you to break the law for me." She smirked as she finished filling their glasses. "No matter how much time passes, old friends are never forgotten."

Chloe smiled. "I'll drink to that."

"Cheers."

"Cheers," the three girls responded.

They all clinked glasses and drank the liquid. All of them except Lana.

As the three girls drank everything in their glasses, the wind picked up around them. Lois blinked heavily before passing out on the ground as Chloe and Emmeline threw their heads back and began gasping heavily.

When they stood upright again, they looked around them in confusion.

Lana/Isobel smiled and looked at Chloe. "Madeline."

Chloe/Madeline smiled back at her.

Lana/Isobel looked over at Emmeline. "Briana. Welcome to the 21st century."

"How did we come to be here?" Chloe/Madeline asked excitedly.

"The last spell I cast before Wilkins condemned me to the pyre. My blood entwined with the symbol in the book which called to my heir. And when she touched it, I gained possession of her body and brought you back."

"I'm gorgeous!" Emmeline/Briana laughed. She happily touched Emmeline's breasts. "Look at these!"

"Yes, they're very nice," Lana/Isobel said shortly.

Chloe/Madeline sighed happily. "Ah, the woods of France. I'd know them anywhere."

"We're in Kansas, Madeline."

"Where?" Emmeline/Briana asked.

"The Americas. I am unsure as to why I was resurrected here. It was not of my intention, but…"

"The book!" Chloe/Madeline exclaimed. "Do you have it?"

Lana/Isobel smiled and looked over the picnic basket. Sitting in it was her bright red spell book. "It is ours once again. And with it, our magics. Now we may continue our quest for the stones of—"

"Oh, uh, is that the same quest that got us burned at the stake?" Chloe/Madeline interrupted.

"That was not pleasant," Emmeline/Briana added.

"A small toll to travel the road of ultimate power," Lana/Isobel told them. "You have your hosts' memories. Use them to navigate this world and help us to seize the power."

Emmeline/Briana looked over at an unconscious Lois. "And what of her?"

"Fear not. She shall remain asleep so long as we possess these bodies."

The three witches left the woods and headed to the party…but not before getting into something a little more their style.

Lana/Isobel slid open the barn door to reveal that they were all wearing very tight, low-cut black dresses and knee-high black boots.

"Surprise!" everyone exclaimed happily.

Clark furrowed his eyebrows when he saw what they were wearing.

"We don't have time for this," Lana/Isobel said impatiently.

"Time is the only thing we do have," Chloe/Madeline laughed. "Isn't that what you said right before the angry mob set us on fire?"

"You're really not gonna let that go, are you?"

Clark went over to Emmeline and pulled her aside. He tried not to stare at her. It wasn't the first time he had seen her like this since she had worn similar clothing when affected by the Nicodemus flower. However, she had become a bit more…developed since then.

"The guy from Princeton's gonna be here any minute. Why are you so late? And where's Lois?"

"I took the scenic route," Emmeline/Briana told him. She eyed him up and down. "Love the view."

Clark looked at her in disbelief. "Please tell me you haven't been around any flowers lately."

Emmeline/Briana merely smiled at him.

She left his side and went over to the other girls.

Chloe/Madeline happily ate some of the food set out. "The food is so good in this century!"

"And the men actually bathe," Lana/Isobel added.

Emmeline/Briana looked at a guy who passed by her. "And their bodies are so hard!"

Lana/Isobel started making her way towards the door. "But we have definitely had better celebrations. This is appalling."

"We could change that," Chloe/Madeline told her.

The witch smirked a little. "Well, it has been 400 years. Perhaps a little fun before we continue our quest."

The three of them turned and pointed their hands at the guests inside the barn. Pink energy formed at their fingertips.

"Liberate bestia!" Lana/Isobel exclaimed.

And thus began a party that no one was going to want to remember.

Several attendees stripped down to their bras, underwear, and/or boxers. Including Clark.

The three witches enjoyed every minute of the wild party they had started, dancing seductively with several of the guys.

Unfortunately, a representative from Princeton arrived to interview Clark…and found him wearing just boxers and dancing wildly with Lana/Isobel and Chloe/Madeline.

Not the impression Clark had been hoping to make.


The next night, Lana/Isobel left a message for Clark to be at his barn at midnight.

He arrived earlier than expected, hoping to find out what on earth was happening to Lana and why she had attacked Jason earlier.

"You're early," Lana/Isobel smirked as the three witches stood at the top of the steps to the loft. "You're not planning something devious, are you, Clark?"

"What did you do to Lex and Jason?" Clark demanded.

"Nothing compared to what we're going to do to you."

Emmeline/Briana raised her hand. "Surgite!"

A large wooden wheel slammed into Clark's chest and sent him flying backwards. He stood up unharmed.

The three witches quickly came down the stairs.

Clark faced the three of them. "I don't know what's going on, but this needs to stop before it gets out of hand."

"So you're more than just fast," Lana/Isobel smiled. "Well, that'll make this a whole lot more exciting."

Chloe/Madeline took a step forward. She held her hands out before bringing them together. "Incede!"

Several farm tools rose up and began flying towards Clark. He used his heat vision to shoot all of them away from him.

The three witches lost their smiles.

"I don't want to hurt anyone," Clark said to them.

"Your magics are impressive," Lana/Isobel said sharply.

"Magic?"

"But so are mine. Evertere!" Clark rose up into the air and began shaking in pain. "We have traveled through the ages to complete our quest, outwitting death itself! We will not be outdone by some farm boy with a few tricks!"

Lana/Isobel lowered her hand, and Clark fell to the floor, blood and bruises on various parts of his face.

Chloe/Madeline and Emmeline/Briana quickly knelt down next to him, pinning his arms to the ground.

"He's not what he seems, Isobel," Chloe/Madeline told her.

"I can feel his power," Emmeline/Briana added.

Lana/Isobel took a step forward. "Then perhaps we should rid him of it."

Clark desperately looked up at Emmeline. "Emmeline. You gotta help. I know you're in there."

Emmeline's eyes briefly switched color. "Clark?"

Clark nodded. "Listen to me. You gotta help me."

The color of her eyes changed again. Her head rolled to the right and cracked.

The girl looked over at Lana/Isobel. "How did she do that?"

Lana/Isobel looked at her distressfully. "Their relationship must be deeper than we thought." She glared down at Clark. "You must be very close with this girl for you to temporarily bring her out of my spell."

She angrily ripped open his shirt. She put her hands to his bare chest and began chanting in Latin. Beams of light emitted from his body and sailed out of the barn.

Clark passed out from the exertion the whole process had on him.

Lana/Isobel stood up. "It is done. His powers are gone."


Clark opened his eyes and found that his hands had been chained above him. His whole body hurt, and he could feel fresh blood dripping down his chin and cheeks.

"He awakens," Emmeline/Briana remarked.

"What have you done to me?" Clark asked weakly.

"We made sure you were no longer a threat…sorcerer," Chloe/Madeline smirked.

"I'm not a sorcerer."

"You're not? You sure?"

"No," Lana/Isobel said quietly. "He's something else. Something special. I could sense it when the magics were ripped from your body. I can taste it on you. The three stones of power. You know of them, don't you?"

"I've never heard of them," Clark muttered.

Chloe/Madeline and Emmeline/Briana walked up to Clark and seductively ran their hands across his bare chest.

"You've done more than hear of them," Chloe/Madeline said. "You've touched them."

"We can feel it," Emmeline/Briana added.

"There's more," Lana/Isobel remarked. "You know where one of them is hidden."

Chloe/Madeline smiled at him just like Chloe normally would. "Tell us where it is, Clark."

"Please tell us," Emmeline/Briana said sweetly.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Clark told them.

Chloe/Madeline sank her fingernails into his skin hard enough to draw blood. "Let me cut it out of you."

Clark screamed in pain as she dragged her nails down his chest.

"No!" Lana/Isobel yelled.

Chloe/Madeline quickly pulled her hand away from Clark.

"There are easier ways to get what we want."

Chloe/Madeline backed away from him, licking the blood off her fingers.

Clark looked over at Emmeline/Briana. "Emmeline, I know you can hear me. You have to fight. You can do it!"

The girl's eyes changed color again. "Clark!" she exclaimed.

She started towards him when her eyes changed back and her neck cracked.

"How is she doing this to me, Isobel?" Emmeline/Briana demanded of Lana/Isobel. "She's trying to take back control of me!"

"You are stronger than she is," Lana/Isobel told her harshly. "Fight it."

If there was one thing Briana knew not to do, it was make Isobel mad. But she didn't know how the girl she was possessing was able to fight back so well. Why wasn't the girl Madeline was possessing doing the same thing?

Lana/Isobel slowly began making her way over to Clark. "This body I inhabit. You have desires for it, don't you? Well, it desires you too, Clark. Very, very much." She softly kissed him on the lips. "Demonstra."

She kissed him again and pink mist came from Clark's mouth.

"The cave…" Clark's voice whispered from the mist.

Lana/Isobel smirked at him. "Thank you, Clark. You've been very helpful." She held up her hand. "Abige!"

In a bright pink flash, the three witches vanished before his eyes.


Clark headed to the caves by cutting through the woods.

He stopped suddenly when he saw Lois unconscious on the forest floor.

"Lois?"

He knelt down and shook her head. There was not even the slightest trace of movement. The only thing that told him she was even alive was the fact that her chest was moving up and down.

He gently picked her up and carried her back to the barn. It proved to be a little more difficult than usual since he was still weakened at the loss of his powers, but he successfully managed to get her up inside the loft.

Once Lois was safely on the couch, he resumed his trek down to the caves.


Lana/Isobel ran her hands over the symbols in the caves. "It begins to make sense. Why I was resurrected here in this time a thousand miles from my home. It was destiny." She walked over to one of the walls where she knew the stone was inside. "Can you feel it? Calling to us. The first stone of power lies behind this wall. And with it, our magic shall increase tenfold. And when we possess all the stones, we shall walk on earth as gods among men. Reach out and seize what was meant to be." She opened up her spell book and pointed to the wall. "Murus scinde!"

The wall opened and the caves were flooded with bright light.

The three witches began chanting in Latin as they walked inside the chamber.

In the middle of the room was an altar where the first stone rested.

Lana/Isobel smiled. "All of our suffering, all of our pain and persecution. It ends tonight."

"And our future begins," Emmeline/Briana said. "I will be thankful when I do not have to fight for possession of this body any longer."

"Take it, Isobel," Chloe/Madeline told her. "Lead us to glory."

"The first stone," Lana/Isobel smiled. "How I've dreamed of this moment. And at last, it has arrived."

She slowly reached for the stone, but the sound of a shotgun cocking stopped her.

"Not quite," Clark said.

Lana/Isobel smirked at him. "You shouldn't have come, Clark."

"Silly boy," Chloe/Madeline taunted.

"We owe you a debt for revealing this chamber to us. We were going to let you live."

Clark held up the shotgun. "I'm sorry, Lana, but I can't let you do this."

"You don't have a choice!" Emmeline/Briana yelled. She waved her hand at the gun and it went flying out of Clark's hands.

"Bear witness, Clark Kent, to the dawn of a new age!" Lana/Isobel announced.

She quickly grabbed the stone off the altar. Immediately, the stone began to shine brightly. She screamed and dropped it as it burned her hand.

Clark grabbed the stone as it fell from the altar. Blue beams of light entered his chest, and his wounds healed all at once.

Emmeline/Briana stared at him in confusion. "His powers are restored."

"How?" Chloe/Madeline asked.

"I'm not from around here," Clark stated.

"It doesn't matter," Lana/Isobel said firmly. "We took them from you once before. Do you really believe that this time will be any different?"

"I'm counting on it."

Clark shot beams of heat vision at the book in Lana/Isobel's arms. The book slowly began to burn.

Lana/Isobel's eyes widened. "NO!"

The whole chamber was engulfed in bright white light that expelled from the book.

Then everything went black.


Inside the loft, Lois sprang up on the couch.

She looked around her for a moment, trying to gain her bearings.

"How the heck did I get here?"


Clark was the first one to come to inside the caves. The girls quickly followed suit.

Emmeline sat up. "Why are we in the caves?"

Chloe looked at the dresses they had on. "And what are we wearing?"

Clark helped Lana off the ground. "Are you okay?"

"Clark, what happened?" she asked him.

"Well, let's just say that you haven't been yourself lately."

Emmeline got a good look at her dress and felt extremely self-conscious at just how low it dipped.

She quickly crossed her arms over her chest and didn't move them until she changed.


"I hear you threw quite the rager," Emmeline said as she entered the barn to find Clark still cleaning up everything.

Clark smiled a little at her. "Do you remember anything?"

"Not really. It's kind of like trying to remember a dream. I feel like I almost have it, but then just when I'm close to remembering, it's gone."

"Trust me, I doubt you want to remember what happened."

"Why? Did I do anything weird?"

"Judging from what you were wearing, you can probably answer that one yourself."

"I've seen some weird things in my time here in Smallville, but getting possessed by a 17th century witch definitely tops everything."

"You know…you were the only one who snapped out of it."

"I did?"

"Only for a few seconds, but yeah."

"Wow. I don't remember that, but I believe you. How did I come out of it?"

"Well, I…I kind of called for you. I told you to fight against her. And you did."

"I only snapped out of it when you called for me?"

"Yeah."

"Wow. I guess even this Isobel woman is no match for our friendship."

Clark looked at her thoughtfully. "Yeah."