A/n: Well I think this story will be coming to an end soon . . . sad I
know! But hey I may be starting the sequel for Never leave you and I might
do a sequel to Rooted in Darkness as well!
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I talk to on msn – Tasha, Ryley, Tina, Emily, Cit and Kat (I love you
guys!)
Okay please read and review! And I'll love you forever!
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It was maybe a month or two after that when Belwicket had come over from Ireland; they had bought a huge 16-bedroomed mansion out in Taunton where all of them lived together, of course Hunter Moira and I stayed in our own home and the old Kithic members stayed where they are as well.
I had finally been initiated as a High Priestess and finally led my mother's coven Belwicket.
In Belwicket we had all of the members of Kithic, Hunter, Sky, Moira, Bree, Robbie, Morgan, Alisa, Charlie, Killian, Colin, Tobias, Matt, Jenna, Jason, Raven, Alex, Sharon, Ethan, Georgia, Will, Lisa and myself plus the members of Belwicket, Katrina her son Colm, Ian, Keady, Lacey, Tess, Vita, Lizzie, Michelle, Christa, Fillipa, Susan, Craig, Michael and Jonathon, so together the new Belwicket had 37 members, it was quite a large group,
"Let's bring it down," I said towards the end of our weekly circle, but as we did the room filled with a thick black cloud.
"Oh god! It's happening again!" one of the Irish members cried.
Ealltuinn must have come to town, I thought, for two months Belwicket felt safe, but now we have been found.
Everybody started coughing and choking.
"Mom?" I heard Moira cry
I stood tall with my wand in one hand and my athame in the other, and it took me a while but I managed to dispel the cloud.
"Morgan? What do we do, Ealltuinn has found us again," Katrina asked
"We're going to stop them, they maybe a dark powerful force, but they are nothing compared to the power we have, I felt where they were coming from"
The whole coven left the circle room of the mansion and filed out into their cars and they all followed Hunter, Killian and Sky in my car, we had told the Moira and the rest of the younger members to stay home.
When we approached the old Methodist cemetery we saw Ealltuinn bringing down a circle.
We all got out of our cars and faced Ealltuinn, "What do you want with Belwicket?" I demanded
All of them just smiled, "Which one of you is Lilith Delaney?" I asked
A tall proud looking woman stepped forward, "I am" she smiled, "and I take it that you are the great Morgan Niall"
"That's right"
"Why are you so bothered about destroying Belwicket?" Hunter asked
"Because you have an extremely powerful woodbane among you" she looked at me, "a good woodbane I might add, and a 37 member coven is rare, despite many of you are non-witches and children, but its a powerful coven nevertheless, you a threat to dark woodbanes everywhere, not to mention an embarrassment."
"You think you can destroy us?" I challenged
"I have no doubt about it," she replied cockily
"You would have done it already"
"Not necessarily" she said evenly
All of us Belwicket members stood tall side by side, hand in hand.
"They work in the dark instead of the light
Their power is evil instead of bright
They ignore the laws and live by their own
Gather their evil, send it back to its home" We chanted
Basically it was a spell to speed up the threefold law, so all the evil they did as a coven will return on them times three, hopefully.
"Morgan don't be foolish, a simple spell like that won't work against us, we blocked it"
I felt a surge of annoyance, so it would take a bit more than a threefold spell, I told myself, you are Morgan Niall of Belwicket, you are your parents daughter, both your mother and father were powerful woodbanes, you could crush this coven to the ground.
"Leave us alone!" I growled
"Ooh, Morgan that hurt . . . its not an original threat but it does the trick . . . I'm shaking in my boots" she snapped sarcastically
"You don't know who your dealing with," I said in a low voice so unlike my own,
"Another classic, you're getting good at this Morgan, well done,"
She was seriously pissing me off, if she kept doing it I think I could take the coven myself, it was my rage that sparked my power a few carefully chosen words will do it.
"At least I don't need to destroy a coven because I feel threatened"
Her jaw tightened, "Its not your coven I want Morgan, its you, you make this coven what it is, you're the only threat I see here"
"Well why did you go after Belwicket before I went back to it?"
"Belwicket is a good woodbane coven, good woodbanes are an embarrassment to their clan, they're ruining our reputation, they need to be stopped"
"Its you that give woodbanes a bad name, its why other clans look down on us, you're all pathetic" I told them matter-of-factly
But now it wasn't me who grew angry . . . it was Lilith. "Pathetic are we? I'll show you who's pathetic"
She murmured a spell, which sent a dark green mist over to us . . . Hunter, Sky and Killian and I had the quick wits and experience and blocked ourselves from it, but the other members – especially the non-witches, hadn't any experience in battles like this and the mist knocked them all out.
"What did that gas do to them?" I asked
"It's a poison apple spell, do they all have hansom princes?" she laughed, I knew she was being sarcastic, it was probably just a knock out, and they were probably in some deep slumber.
"No more shall they know true power . . . no more shall they wake a witch . . . no more shall they be one of us . . ." Although this was an improper spell, Hunter was trying to strip their powers without putting them in the circle, unfortunately it was proving unsuccessful.
"Mr Niall, stop your embarrassing yourself" Lilith laughed
"No he isn't" I said, I begun to chant the spell that had first come to me twenty years ago while I was facing Selene Belltower, I was wrapping them up in magick, in a magickal prison.
"NO!" Lilith cried,
I then managed to bind all 17 members of Ealltuinn, we drew a circle around them, then Sky and Killian woke all the coven members using a spell and we asked all the blood witches to help us . . . we we're to strip Ealltuinn's powers all 17 off them at once . . . it was going to take a lot.
In the circle was Hunter, Sky, Killian, Alisa, Charlie, Will, Lisa, Katrina, Colm, Keady, Michelle, Christa, Fillipa, Susan, Craig, Michael and myself, the 17 of us to strip the 17 of them.
"Ealltuinn you have been called here today because of the darkness you practise, your powers are to be stripped here tonight under the authority of the New Charter and by the Belwicket," Hunter said, he then went round the circle asking us all if we agreed this is what we wanted, we all agreed.
It took some doing, it had never been done before, but it worked, but it took maybe 5 hours at least.
When we were done the members of Ealltuinn we're left on the floor all lost and powerless.
"I thought you could stop me," I said looking down at Lilith on the floor who was a mess.
"Don't worry, this isn't the end," she laughed,
"It never is," I said heading back to my car.
The non-witches of Belwicket must have returned to the mansion to look after the children as they had all left with their cars.
When Hunter climbed into the passenger seat of the car and Sky and Killian piled into the back Hunter took my hand and gave it a squeeze.
"What about Ealltuinn?" I asked him
"I sent a message to the Charter, they won't be going far in the state they're in, the Charter won't belong the nearest agents are in New York City"
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That night when I was laying in bed I thought about what Hunter had said to me when he had first brought me back, "We're going to make things how they were, I promise"
It was then I realised, this is how things are, and how they will always be, I'm never safe, I'll always be a target for the darkness, not just because of my power but because of who I am . . . I am my fathers daughter.
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It was maybe a month or two after that when Belwicket had come over from Ireland; they had bought a huge 16-bedroomed mansion out in Taunton where all of them lived together, of course Hunter Moira and I stayed in our own home and the old Kithic members stayed where they are as well.
I had finally been initiated as a High Priestess and finally led my mother's coven Belwicket.
In Belwicket we had all of the members of Kithic, Hunter, Sky, Moira, Bree, Robbie, Morgan, Alisa, Charlie, Killian, Colin, Tobias, Matt, Jenna, Jason, Raven, Alex, Sharon, Ethan, Georgia, Will, Lisa and myself plus the members of Belwicket, Katrina her son Colm, Ian, Keady, Lacey, Tess, Vita, Lizzie, Michelle, Christa, Fillipa, Susan, Craig, Michael and Jonathon, so together the new Belwicket had 37 members, it was quite a large group,
"Let's bring it down," I said towards the end of our weekly circle, but as we did the room filled with a thick black cloud.
"Oh god! It's happening again!" one of the Irish members cried.
Ealltuinn must have come to town, I thought, for two months Belwicket felt safe, but now we have been found.
Everybody started coughing and choking.
"Mom?" I heard Moira cry
I stood tall with my wand in one hand and my athame in the other, and it took me a while but I managed to dispel the cloud.
"Morgan? What do we do, Ealltuinn has found us again," Katrina asked
"We're going to stop them, they maybe a dark powerful force, but they are nothing compared to the power we have, I felt where they were coming from"
The whole coven left the circle room of the mansion and filed out into their cars and they all followed Hunter, Killian and Sky in my car, we had told the Moira and the rest of the younger members to stay home.
When we approached the old Methodist cemetery we saw Ealltuinn bringing down a circle.
We all got out of our cars and faced Ealltuinn, "What do you want with Belwicket?" I demanded
All of them just smiled, "Which one of you is Lilith Delaney?" I asked
A tall proud looking woman stepped forward, "I am" she smiled, "and I take it that you are the great Morgan Niall"
"That's right"
"Why are you so bothered about destroying Belwicket?" Hunter asked
"Because you have an extremely powerful woodbane among you" she looked at me, "a good woodbane I might add, and a 37 member coven is rare, despite many of you are non-witches and children, but its a powerful coven nevertheless, you a threat to dark woodbanes everywhere, not to mention an embarrassment."
"You think you can destroy us?" I challenged
"I have no doubt about it," she replied cockily
"You would have done it already"
"Not necessarily" she said evenly
All of us Belwicket members stood tall side by side, hand in hand.
"They work in the dark instead of the light
Their power is evil instead of bright
They ignore the laws and live by their own
Gather their evil, send it back to its home" We chanted
Basically it was a spell to speed up the threefold law, so all the evil they did as a coven will return on them times three, hopefully.
"Morgan don't be foolish, a simple spell like that won't work against us, we blocked it"
I felt a surge of annoyance, so it would take a bit more than a threefold spell, I told myself, you are Morgan Niall of Belwicket, you are your parents daughter, both your mother and father were powerful woodbanes, you could crush this coven to the ground.
"Leave us alone!" I growled
"Ooh, Morgan that hurt . . . its not an original threat but it does the trick . . . I'm shaking in my boots" she snapped sarcastically
"You don't know who your dealing with," I said in a low voice so unlike my own,
"Another classic, you're getting good at this Morgan, well done,"
She was seriously pissing me off, if she kept doing it I think I could take the coven myself, it was my rage that sparked my power a few carefully chosen words will do it.
"At least I don't need to destroy a coven because I feel threatened"
Her jaw tightened, "Its not your coven I want Morgan, its you, you make this coven what it is, you're the only threat I see here"
"Well why did you go after Belwicket before I went back to it?"
"Belwicket is a good woodbane coven, good woodbanes are an embarrassment to their clan, they're ruining our reputation, they need to be stopped"
"Its you that give woodbanes a bad name, its why other clans look down on us, you're all pathetic" I told them matter-of-factly
But now it wasn't me who grew angry . . . it was Lilith. "Pathetic are we? I'll show you who's pathetic"
She murmured a spell, which sent a dark green mist over to us . . . Hunter, Sky and Killian and I had the quick wits and experience and blocked ourselves from it, but the other members – especially the non-witches, hadn't any experience in battles like this and the mist knocked them all out.
"What did that gas do to them?" I asked
"It's a poison apple spell, do they all have hansom princes?" she laughed, I knew she was being sarcastic, it was probably just a knock out, and they were probably in some deep slumber.
"No more shall they know true power . . . no more shall they wake a witch . . . no more shall they be one of us . . ." Although this was an improper spell, Hunter was trying to strip their powers without putting them in the circle, unfortunately it was proving unsuccessful.
"Mr Niall, stop your embarrassing yourself" Lilith laughed
"No he isn't" I said, I begun to chant the spell that had first come to me twenty years ago while I was facing Selene Belltower, I was wrapping them up in magick, in a magickal prison.
"NO!" Lilith cried,
I then managed to bind all 17 members of Ealltuinn, we drew a circle around them, then Sky and Killian woke all the coven members using a spell and we asked all the blood witches to help us . . . we we're to strip Ealltuinn's powers all 17 off them at once . . . it was going to take a lot.
In the circle was Hunter, Sky, Killian, Alisa, Charlie, Will, Lisa, Katrina, Colm, Keady, Michelle, Christa, Fillipa, Susan, Craig, Michael and myself, the 17 of us to strip the 17 of them.
"Ealltuinn you have been called here today because of the darkness you practise, your powers are to be stripped here tonight under the authority of the New Charter and by the Belwicket," Hunter said, he then went round the circle asking us all if we agreed this is what we wanted, we all agreed.
It took some doing, it had never been done before, but it worked, but it took maybe 5 hours at least.
When we were done the members of Ealltuinn we're left on the floor all lost and powerless.
"I thought you could stop me," I said looking down at Lilith on the floor who was a mess.
"Don't worry, this isn't the end," she laughed,
"It never is," I said heading back to my car.
The non-witches of Belwicket must have returned to the mansion to look after the children as they had all left with their cars.
When Hunter climbed into the passenger seat of the car and Sky and Killian piled into the back Hunter took my hand and gave it a squeeze.
"What about Ealltuinn?" I asked him
"I sent a message to the Charter, they won't be going far in the state they're in, the Charter won't belong the nearest agents are in New York City"
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That night when I was laying in bed I thought about what Hunter had said to me when he had first brought me back, "We're going to make things how they were, I promise"
It was then I realised, this is how things are, and how they will always be, I'm never safe, I'll always be a target for the darkness, not just because of my power but because of who I am . . . I am my fathers daughter.
