Chapter 5: Two Thoughtless Plans
Millie walked back into the living room. She didn't tell them what she had just done. She wanted to take care of Betrix herself. She felt a deep feeling that there was unfinished business between the two of them.
"Where's David?" she asked, noticing that he was gone alone. The other three had remained in the living room, watching TV.
"He went outside," Jordan said.
"What did I just tell you guys?" Millie said. "No going alone!"
"I'll go find him," Charles said, standing up. Once outside, he saw David walking into the red barn across their gravel driveway. Charles followed him over and stepped inside. There was an area rug in the middle of the wooden floor of the barn. On the hayloft, there were two lawn chairs and a box, which was used as a mini table, in between them. There were a few old pieces of furniture scattered around on the ground floor. "What is this?" David spun around, startled.
"Oh, hey," he said. "This is our barn. Jordan and I changed it into our own special hangout place when we were ten. We've been using it since. We bring friends over and have parties down in the basement floor."
"Sounds great," Charles said.
"It is," David said. "We'll have to have one for you and Annie." He paused for a moment. "I'm assuming my mom sent you out after me." He sat down on a chair.
"Yeah," Charles said, sitting down on a couch.
"Such a worrywart. I wish she'd learn that I'm not a little kid anymore."
"She just cares for you, like any mother should. She's been through a lot. I'm sure she doesn't want to put you through that too."
"Yeah, I guess," David said. Before he could say anything else, he noticed a warlock blink in. "Warlock!" They both quickly sprung to action.
"Got a plan?" Charles asked. David looked around.
"One," he said, looking at a pitchfork "And it involves three of us." He cloned himself. The clone ran to fight the warlock.
"How can you control two of yourselves?" Charles asked.
"I don't," David said. "The other one just thinks like me and does what I would do." The real David picked up the pitchfork. "Charles, grab that rope hanging from the ceiling and tie it on the end of this." Charles took it and tied it around the pitchfork's handle. David held it to aim at the warlock. "Hope this works." He let go and the pitchfork swung forward and pierced the warlock's neck. He then burst into flames.
"Awesome," Charles said. Clone David then disappeared. "Let's get back in the house. I don't want to be surprised like that again." They ran back to the house and told the others what had happened.
"Well, good job," Annie said. Charles got a little red around the face at the appraisal from her. Jordan noticed this and rolled her eyes. Annie was so naïve to Charles' little crush. Robert then orbed back in.
"The Elders aren't sure which demon it is," Robert said. "They suggest you capture a demon and interrogate it."
"Ooh, what help," Millie said. "I'm going to go back to the Altar Room. Stay here, and stay together." She walked away again, leaving them wondering what she was doing. She went over to the Book and opened it. She flipped through until she finally found the spell she was looking for. The spell to transports one powers with their projective self. The only problem was that if her projective self was hit by a demonic attack, her real body would feel it. "I'll have to take the risk."
Far away from where I stand,
To get to where I want to be,
Take me to Betrix's Lair,
And bring my powers along with me
She fell to the ground, in a deep sleep, as her projective self and her powers traveled to Betrix's lair. He was standing there, ready for her. He smiled when she appeared in shimmering white lights.
"Ah, back so soon?"
"Killing you is never soon enough," she said. He formed a fireball and threw it at her. She blew it away with a gust of wind.
"You still got that old spark," he said. "But you can't keep deflecting fireballs forever. You'll get tired." She didn't want to admit to it, but she knew he was right.
"Mom!" Jordan yelled. She had walked into the Altar Room to find her on the floor, unconscious. "Help!" Soon, Charles, David, Robert, and Annie came running in. They all ran over to Millie.
"What happened?" David asked. "Evil can't enter this room. How could she have been harmed?"
"This is what happened," Robert said, looking down at the Book of Shadows, which was flipped to the page of the spell Millie used. "She knew which demon it was all along. She just wanted to fight it herself."
"Why would she want to do that?" David asked.
"Think about it," Robert said. "What death does she feel responsible for? Who committed that murder? Who does she want to kill at all costs to avenge this death?"
"Betrix," Jordan whispered. "We have to find her. She's going to get herself killed."
"Can we say the spell?" Charles asked.
"It's too dangerous for you guys to go into a demon's lair," Robert said. "You need to get the demon here. You can fight him on your own turf."
"But our mom is in trouble," Jordan said.
"I'll watch over her body," he said. "I'll heal her if she gets harmed."
"How do we get him here?" Annie asked.
"Summoning spell," Robert said, turning the Book to the page that had Betrix on it. They took the Book out to the living room. Robert stayed behind and watched Millie's body.
"We really shouldn't do this," Charles said. "We aren't ready to take on an upper level demon alone. We should get Sabrina."
"There's no time," Jordan insisted. "Now, we'll say the spell."
Reaching out through time and space,
Demon Betrix, hear our rhyme,
Come here now and to this place,
Where ever you be, whatever time
"No!" Betrix yelled, as he was starting to be summoned away against his will. Millie was tired and weak. He threw one last fireball that hit her in the stomach. She fell to the ground. Her projective self returned to her body.
Betrix appeared in front of the four, young witches. He looked at them with a smile on his face. No one spoke at first, but he ended the silence.
"So, you brought death to yourself instead of me needing to lure you to me," he said. "Great plan."