Charlotte Warren
"I have so much to thank the three witches for, the strangers who came from the future to save my child. Both I and my beautiful little girl Melinda owe our lives to them. They were the three most powerful witches of all time and were brought to us on All Hallows Eve to save my child.
Melinda was prophesised to be born on that day, a magical baby, who would allow good magic to flourish in the new world. When I first heard the prophecy I was proud, but also a little scared. My child was to begin a line of powerful, good witches? However my friends and I weren't the only witches to hear of the prophecy. Ruth Cobb also heard it.
Ruth was a power hungry witch who used to belong to Eva's coven, like me. She wasn't always evil but the lure of power turned her and after hearing the prophecy she began to openly practice dark magic. She tried to turn the rest of us too but we held strong together and resisted her. We banished her from our coven but she wouldn't leave us alone. She began to send witch hunters after us, causing the deaths of many of the coven. We had to go into hiding.
I had thought that her only aim was to kill us all but when she sent the witch hunters after me they captured me and brought me to her. This was not long before my baby was due but I didn't realise the connection to the prophecy until she told me. She wanted my baby. She wanted my baby's power.
I had never known such despair when I heard this. I begged and pleaded with her not to harm my baby but she just laughed and said she didn't want to harm my child. Just to raise her. To bring her up to be evil.
However not all Ruth's followers were loyal to her. A witch hunter, Micah, despised Ruth and everything she stood for and agreed to help me. He sent word to Eva and the rest of the coven about Ruth's plans and they sent word back that they would help.
When I heard this my spirits were raised and I began to see some light again, but Ruth had another secret. A man from the future, from the same time as the three witches, had also travelled back in time. To change the future by ensuring that Ruth got my baby.
He knew about the witches though, that they were coming to save me. He used such strong magic to stop them that I thought no witch could get through to me. But I was wrong. These witches were the most powerful of all time and no-one could stop them.
I can still remember lying in that bed in Ruth's house, and seeing those witches walk in and say that Eva had sent them to save me and my child. I didn't trust them at first, I thought that they were just more of Ruth's followers but their good magic showed me the truth. They magically made the pain go away, and then got me out of the house, through all of Ruth's spells. The run through the woods is a bit of a blur though. I was in pain but I can remember watching two of the witches create a protective shield and scare the witch hunters away, while the other delivered my child.
The feeling felt when I first held Melinda in my arms was amazing. Earlier that day I had thought it was all over. That I would be dead and my child brought up to be evil. But these witches had stopped that from happening. I promised them that Melinda would know of the three powerful witches who came to bring her into this world.
I'm looking at her now. Melinda, my little girl, five years old now. She's already showing great potential for magic. But I still can't help wondering about the last thing the witches said, just before they were pulled into the vortex to take them home. That they thought we were related. I wonder if they belong to the line of good witches my daughter is prophesied to begin. I suppose only time will tell."