A/N : So, yeh, sorry i havent posted in soooo long, but ive been busy with skwl stuff, n well, hope you enjoy the next chappie, keep reviewing :D

She had finally found what she was looking for, six BOS's, eight Diet cokes, and two pop tarts later.

The entry she found was from a great grandmother, many "greats" ago.

She leaned closer, opened the page she had found, and studied it carefully.

Today, I was finally old enough to inherit my mothers pendant. Aunt Maria gave me it, and told me that when she and my mother were younger, and I was just a baby, my mother took this pendant from a dead mans neck. I was immediately intrigued, so I asked more questions, and I could see her getting more flustered. Finally she gave in, and told me the whole story, it goes like this.

When my mother was about 25, she met a man. Not just a man. A witch. Of the same clan too, Woodbane. He was 45, an old man practically, yet she fell head over heels in love with him. He knew this of course, and who know,s maybe he really did fall in love with her. Anyway, a month after they met, I was conceived, on a dark and stormy night, according to my aunt, but she may have made this up, how did she know what the weather was like ? Anyway, during her pregnancy, things went quite well, that is, my mother and Learen worked together making beautiful magik, good magik. But Learen was the more adventurous, always wanting to do more than my mother saw was right, or good. She ignored it, ignored all the signs, blinded by love, she even ignored the fact that he stayed away for days and nights at a time, she ignored the normal affair signs too. Magikal and non-magikal, all signs were regarded as nothing. You see my mother wanted Learen to be a good father for me. So, the night of my birth came, and my mother was alone in her small cottage at the side of the woods near Widdowsvale. Her waters broke, and she rushed to the bedroom, got everything she needed for me being born. Towels etc. She sent with message after witch message to Learen, begging him to come, yet he didnt. I was born at 11:15 exactly, my mother wrapped me up in a blanket and hugged me close, till I fell asleep. Too exhausted to try with Learen anymore, she fell asleep.

Learen spent that night with Eeva.

Eeva Strath, as I hear, was an evil Woodbane coven High Priestess. The coven was called Sarrabeth.

The next day, when Learen came home, my mother and him argued, he was shocked to see me lying in the little crib beside the bed. He said to my mother, " Ugh, she looks nothing like me, where is the pretty baby girl looks ? She has coarse dark brown hair and a little-larger-than-normal nose !" At this, he turned away fro the crib, regarding my mother indifferently. They argued after that, and my mother realised that Learen was no more than a worthless old man, and she threw him out, and told him never to come back.

But, that night, Learen did come back. While me and my mother silently slept, he snatched me from my crib, and smuggled me out.

And know what he did next ? He sold me ! To no other than Eeva Strath.

When my mother awoke the next day to find me missing, she was frantic. Then it occured to her that Learen could have done it. She sent him witch messages, and he replied, told her what he did, laughingly.

She knew, from gossip, where Eeva hung out, round the methodist cemetry.

So, thats where she headed.

When she got there, I was crying, lying on top of a tomb. Eeva sent spells after my mother, did all she could, but in the end, it was my mother that won.

It turns out that Eeva was using me as a sacrifice, a new born baby, is very potent, and the spirits will do almost anything for the spirit of a baby, the enmergy, and life, new and suplle, can sustain them, forever.

Eeva was trading me for power off the spirits.

It never worked my moither got there quick enough. And she also found out that Eeva had been using Learen to get to my mother and me. She had seduced and persuaded Learen to join the dark side, and he had been reporting to her for months.

My mother killed Eeva, and then she went to search for Learen after leaving me with my Aunt Maria.

She cast out her senses, and it lead her to the clearing in the woods near our cottage.

She stood in the clearing and called his name.

He came out from behind a tree smirking.

" I thought you would have been dust by now, Eeva is very powerful", he said, eyes gllittering.

" Maybe, but I was too strong Learen, I thought maybe youd have known by now. She's dead. I killed her. Gone." said my mother quietly, rage emmanating from her entire body.

Fear struck his eyes.

" No " he whispered shaking his head eyes wide.

" Yes" whispered my mother, stepping towards him.

After that they fought, and my mother won, again.

I guess it was the fact of losing him, but she broke down, and cried. And then, she gave powers she borrowed back to the stone in the clearing.

She also took the pendant from Learens neck. It was a pressent from Eeva, an evil talisman. And my mother cleansed it, and broek the curse, she harvested good and love and light in it, so it will forever be a talsiman of good.

After that, my mother deteriorated, some say it was the spells and curses lingering form Eeva, or the strain of two battles, but shortley after my third birthday, my mother died, leaving me in my Aunts care.

And today, my 15th birthday, my Aunt gave me my mothers pendant. I shall pass it on to my daughter, and hers to hers, forever.

Mariella.

Morgan sat dumbstruck.

" Wow."

A/N : Hey, thanx to middnightblossom, ta for the compliment, glad you like the story..

And a big thanx to Bradhadair-71, thanx for reviewing every chappie, I hope you liked this one, im hoping it put the peices together a little, ive only got a vague idea where this story is going.

cheers !