CHAPTER 12:

2003, somewhere in San Francisco.

When Joey woke up she looked at her alarm clock and say it was only 6 am. She had slept for less than 5 hours and still she felt more awake than she'd been for the last few weeks. No bad dreams, no constant waking up, she had a dreamless sleep and felt great. She stretched herself out and walked out of the bed.

She opened the curtains and saw the book of shadows laying on her work desk. She wasn't finished looking in it yet, not nearly. So she sat down and laid it on her lap. Opening it where she left of only a few hours ago. At the same time she wanted to try her powers again and she concentrated on the pencil. It easily flew in the air. She smiled when she saw it and wondered what else she could lift up.

She stood up, laying the book of shadows aside and tried to let some of her schoolbooks fly. They did and Joey didn't feel a thing about it. 'Maybe I can lift things with this power I normally can't lift', she thought as she turned to her bed. This was a little harder she had to concentrate real hard to make it lift a few inch in the air. When she let go of it she did it too fast and the bed made a huge noise when it fell on the floor again.

Joey checked her watch and saw it was still way too early for everyone to wake up. 'Lets just hope no-one heard that', she thought. 'Okay back to more quiet things'. She took the book of shadows with her in the bed and read some more in it. Suddenly she came to a page which didn't had a vanquishing spell like the others, but a spell that could burn things.

'That's cool', she thought as she read it. She walked to a vase with flowers in the window-sill and read the spell out loud:

"Flowers that bring desire,
make them turn into fire."

The second she spoke the last word the flowers inflamed and turned into ashes. "Wow", she said as she quickly flipped through the book trying to find more of those spells.

She found a spell that was supposed to undo what she just had done. 'No way', she thought, but casted it anyway, just to be sure.

"The spell was cast,
don't make it last,
reverse it now,
don't ask me how."

The flowers rose from the ashes and it looked like nothing had happened to them. 'This is so cool', she thought. 'I never let go of this book again'.

She was still reading as she heard a knock on the door. "Yes", she said. It was Wendy. "Hi girl", she said, "I already thought I heard a noise. Everything alright? Are you a little recovered from what happened last night?"

Joey smiled. "Yeah I am, wanna see what I can do?", she asked. She didn't wait for an answer and showed Wendy some of the spells she learned by heart and she showed how well she already controlled her telekinetic power.

Wendy smiled as she saw how fast Joey made progress with her telekinetic power. She was glad the girl wasn't afraid of these powers and that she used them. 'She will need them soon', she thought sad. 'It has started, they are already after her, she need to get her other powers soon'.

When Joey was done Wendy said: "Very good girl, I am glad you learn so fast". She took a seat on Joey's bed and tapped with her hand on a place next to herself on the bed. "Sit down with me", she said and Joey did. "There are a few things you need to know. Well actually there's a lot, but these things are most important now. First the power with which you let things fly is called telekinesis and it's not the only power you'll receive."

Joey looked surprised and happy at the same time. "Really?", she asked. "Yes really. You are a two blessed child, my dear. Both your mom and dad are very powerful. So prepare yourself for what's gonna come. Unfortunately I can't help you with that, because everyone's powers are different, so I don't know what yours will be."

She sighed before she went on with the hard part. "The next thing you need to know isn't that good news. You said you were harassed yesterday, right? Well that was only the beginning. Like I said before, your family is very special and every bad guy wants the powers, or at least one of them. From the moment your powers were awoken, when you got your strange dreams, you're in danger."

"So I just use my powers", Joey said. "It's not that easy my child, it's not that easy.", Wendy said as she looked at Joey. "The little magic show you just showed me is great, but I have to forbid you to use your powers if it isn't to practice, which from now one will be with my guidance or to protect yourself. I am truly sorry, but it's for your own good. You're not ready yet."

"What", Joey said mad. "First you tell me that I am a witch with powers and you show me the book with spells and then you say I can't use the power or the spells? Why show me in the first place?" Joey stood up from the bed and walked to the window. She leant against the wall besides it and crossed her arms, waiting for an answer.

"It's not time yet", Wendy said. "First you need to get your powers under control, all of them. Else you only put yourself in danger. Whenever you use your powers the bad guys can sense that, they will come after you, like yesterday. You don't want that do you? At least not when you can't protect yourself yet."

Joey shrugged, "I guess". Wendy did had a point. She saw the woman stand up and walking to the door. "Now get ready for the game today", Wendy said as she walked through the doors. "Even though you're now a witch, the kids still want you to help them."

Joey watched Wendy walking away and thought of what to do next. She really didn't want to wait with using her powers until she had them all. She waved her hand and the door closed. She waved her hand again and made up her bed. 'This is so cool', she thought as she smiled not knowing that with every time she used her power demons were already tracing her down.