Chapter 4: From Witch to Warlock
"Everyone, out of the house!" Millie yelled.Everyone scrambled to action.They ran through the living room, into the dining room, and then into a sun room and out a back door found in there. Millie went out the front door to confront Annie. "Annie, stop!"
"What's wrong, Millie?" Annie asked. "Angry that you're not the strongest witch on the block anymore?"
"No, I'm angry that you're abusing your power." Annie formed a fireball in her hand. "There are Wiccan laws against that."
"Well, guess what, Millie," Annie said. "I'm not Wiccan!" She threw the fireball, which narrowly missed Millie. It did, however, manage to singe her clothing.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Exactly what I said. Just because I said a dumb spell out of a book, doesn't mean I change my religion at all."
"You don't need to change your religion, Annie. Religion is what you make it to be. It is set up by your own personal beliefs and is whatever you want. You can blend Wicca and Christianity together to form whatever it may be. It doesn't need to be a set thing. All that matters is that you believe in it."
"Whatever," Annie said, throwing another fireball. Millie jumped out of the way and landed in the dirt.
"Annie, please, stop. This isn't you."
"This is me, Millie. Always has been." She formed another fireball.
"The power is corrupting you."
"The power is making me feel better than I ever had before."
"But you're breaking the Wiccan law."
"I am the law!" She threw a fireball. Millie used her power to fling it in another direction.
"That's not you talking, it's the power."
"I'm sick of talking, Millie. Time to get this over with." She used a stream of fire and sent it at Millie. Sabrina came running from the other side of the house just in timeand formed a force field to separate Millie from the fire. She then used a low power beam of light and shot it at Annie, knocking her unconscious.
"Come on, let's take her," Millie said. Sabrina grabbed her and orbed her in the house. Millie walked in and saw Robert trying to put out the fire. She noticed the barn's fire going out, so she assumed that Charles, David, and Jordan were in there.
"What now?" Sabrina asked.
"Take her in the Altar Room." The both picked her up and tried to take her in, but they were instantly blasted backwards.
"What happened?" Sabrina asked, rubbing her head, which was now aching from being instantly confronted with the wall.
"Oh no," Millie said. "Annie's not good anymore. She can't get into the Altar Room because of the evil in her."
"She's evil because of a power?"
"I think that the spell changed her into something else than just someone with a new power." Annie started stirring, but no one took notice.
"What do you mean?" Sabrina asked, as Annie stood up. Millie looked at her in horror.
"I think she's a warlock." As Millie said that, Annie blinked away.
"We have to work quickly to turn her back," Millie said. "Robert, go check with the Elders. If my suspicions are right, we don't have much time." He orbed away without any further ado.
"How can we turn her back?" Jordan asked.
"And how can a witch spell turn someone into a warlock?" David asked.
"We have to get her to relinquish her new power before she can use it for evil. And the spell turned her into a warlock because she used it for personal gain. She didn't need the new power to save an innocent or stop a demon, she did it for herself. Personal gain can lead to bad punishments, such as changing into a warlock"
"How can we find her?" Charles asked.
"Get one of her possessions," Millie said. "Anything that belongs to her."Jordan hurried upstairs and grabbed one of her shirts from her room and carried it back downstairs.
"Here, will this do?" she said, handing it to Millie.
"Perfect," her mother answered.
"What do we do with that?" David asked.
"We can use it to scry with," Millie said. "Now that she's not a witch, we can use this to find her instead."
"How's that?" Jordan asked.
"Well, come here and I'll teach you all." They all walked over to the table in the Altar Room. On it was a ceremonial bowl, a scrying crystal, a white candle, and Annie's shirt. "First, light the candle." Charles lit the candle. "Set fire to the shirt and place it in the bowl." Jordan used the candle to light it on fire and put it in the bowl. "Now, use the candle wax and let it drip onto the scrying crystal." David did so. "Now normal scrying." She used the crystal and let it circle a map before finally falling on a spot in New York City.
"Find it?" Sabrina asked.
"Yeah," David said. They all walked out to the vehicles so that they had a more secretive way of getting there, rather than orbing and becoming exposed.
"You have to change her before she kills anyone," Robert said, orbing back.
"I thought so," Millie said. "Thank you, Robert. Can you sense her?" Robert closed his eyes and focused on her location, but couldn't find it.
"No," he said. "The evil's consumed her. You have to hurry."
"Stay here," Millie said. "She may come back. Be careful though, who knows what she'll do. She almost killed me. She could kill anybody."
"She can't kill me, I'm already dead."
"Sabrina, you and Jordan orb there," Millie said. "Try to hold her off the best you can. Make sure she doesn't kill anybody. We may not have much time." Sabrina and Jordan orbed over. Millie went back into the house and came back with something a few moments later.
"What's that?" Charles asked. She held up a vanquishing potion to show him.
"If all else fails, we may need this."
"We can't kill her, she's one of us."
"Not anymore she isn't."