AN: I am sorry if I haven't posted anything for some time now, I have been extremely busy with college homework, most of it being in my Reading 087 class. I swear they want you to drown in homework. How am I doing so far with this story? If there is anything you want to see give me a heads up and I'll see if I like it. Just remember this is a story about Wicca and Witchcraft, this is how I preseve things if I were a witch. Thank you for your reviews, I enjoy them.
The hotel room was quiet, except for the snoring that came from Matt. After Matt came to catch up with me we stayed up till Matt passed out on my second bed. I was standing at my window looking out at the clear night sky; it was the right time to watch the full moon. With a cup of tea in hand I sighed and remembered back on the days I had with the WWF, and with my beloved teacher. I remembered one week that Mr. Levy had fallen ill and I was the only one to see to it that he got better. When modern medicine wouldn't relieve his flu he asked of me to do something about it.
I had gone out to a Pagan shop and a supermarket to get what I needed for a recipe that I read out of a book called Monkey Sweat. This was to help ease the infection that was raging a war in Mr. Levy but I had also gotten supplies for the healing ritual I had put together the day before. Already, Mr. Levy was getting a little bit better but it wasn't enough; he was due back to work in three days otherwise he would be suspended without pay till he was better.
"Here, drink this." I handed the glass of Monkey Sweat out to my teacher. "This ought to help with some of your headaches."
Mr. Levy groaned and opened one eye. "If it's poison give it to me intravenously, I'll die faster."
I shook my head. "Come on Mr. Levy, you need this job. This will clear all the bad stuff from your body and I'll reassure you that I have a ritual set up tonight for you."
Both brown eyes looked at me. "So you're going to try to cure me?"
"Nothing else is helping and you asked me to help you."
"When?"
"This morning when you were hunched over the toilet for twenty minutes puking your brains out." Setting the glass on the nightstand I helped Mr. Levy sit up. "I also bought you some chicken noodle soup, nothing too extravagant for your stomach to handle."
"I want steak." He groaned looking at me. "Don't you have a date?"
The look I gave my teacher told him that I was not going to leave his side. "Greg will have to understand that you're my guardian and that you come first when you're sick."
Somehow I got a smile out of him. "Thanks Moon Child. So what is this crap?"
"Monkey Sweat. Here try some."
Mr. Levy cringed, the taste wasn't that very good and he nearly threw it up if I hadn't shoved a spoonful of soup in his mouth. Rubbing back his hair I proceeded to sing a soothing song to him as I fed him the soup.
Her breath is the windHer tears are the rain
She is here to wash away your pain
His hair is the trees
His horns are the power
He is here at this very hour
They come in the day
They come in the night
They are here during your fight
They sing of happiness
They sing of wealth
They sing of the health that fills your heart.
I sit here with you, on bedside table
To sing you the song of what they are able
I see them here in the form of sun and wind
They stand here wishing you get well again
It was just a simple song that I had just made up. There were other songs I could have sung but that one just popped up from nowhere. After singing the song twice I hummed it when Mr. Levy's eyes started to droop. Taking the bowl to the little kitchenette in the hotel room I went back to tuck him in.
"What are you going to do for me?"
"You're going to drink the rest of this and sleep while I go over the spell for tonight. Just rest and I'll be sure to study for the test you set up for me."
"Don't slack off, Moon Child."
"I won't." I kissed his forehead. "Sleep tight and I'll wake you tonight. Hey that rhymed."
Mr. Levy laughed as I pulled the covers up to his chin. "You're better than my mother."
I sat down on my bed and took out my Book of Shadows, the simple binder that kept my spells and rituals and other things. The spell I wanted to do was something that I had seen my High Priestess perform on a sick boy with a serious case of the pneumonia and I had written it down to the T of what she did. After rechecking to see if I had my herbs, oils and candles I had decided to do it in the bathtub since I could do it out in the ocean.
As the moon started to shine through the curtains I smiled as I stood up with my little portable altar in my hands. I had just got done praying to Quan Yin, the Chinese goddess of mercy, to aid me in my spell that I was about ready to cast. I had a jar of sun charged scented water earlier and had charged it with my energy to heal Mr. Levy.
"Mr. Levy, wake up." I said shaking his shoulder while inching my face close to his. "You've been asleep all day. It's time for the spell."
Now I wasn't really sure how he would take it but I was standing wearing my traditional robe that I used for circle casting. He had only ever seen my do minor spells but this time I was decked out in my Witch Gown, an old witch costume I wore for Halloween one time. He looked at me and instantly tried to sit up.
"Come to the floor, I have a spell for you."
My pentacle tapestry was laid out on the floor with candles of certain colors for the Quarters. I laid Mr. Levy down with his head at the top point and his hands and feet at the lower points of the star in a circle. I knelt beside of my teacher and ran my hand over his head, face, down his throat and over his broad chest. I tried putting healing energy in him and I wanted this to desperately work, I could see him back in the ring wrestling his heart out.
Standing up I called on the Quarter, the directions of East, South, West and ending with North. I had asked the spirits of those Quarters into the circle to protect us. Then I invoked a God and Goddess of health, ones that were of Irish Celtic origin, because that was what my heritage. After that I knelt down next to the little altar I had set up near Mr. Levy's head. Taking the jar in my hands I concentrated all my energy onto charging the water some more. I chanted:
By herb and sun
Wellness and him are one
Healing energies now have merged
Harmful energy now be purged
I chanted this till I felt my healing energy enter the jar of water. I envisioned myself anointing Mr. Levy briefly in my mind before dipping a cotton ball in the water and anointing his head with water.
"Clear his mind, clear his head of pain and suffering. Feel it with health and return his intelligence." Mr. Levy's lips quivered as he tried to hide his smile.
This went on as I covered all the places such as his throat, his shoulders, his chest, his stomach and all the way down to his toes reciting what we wanted for these places. After this was done I envisioned a healing blue light surrounding him in a sphere. I smiled and looked down at my teacher.
"Thank you for your guidance in this rite. Thank you goddess for your guidance and thank you god for your guidance." I proceeded to thank the Quarters and close the circle. "Come on, one more glass of Monkey Sweat and you can go back to sleep."
"Whatever you say. That crap is nasty."
It was a bit easier for me to get Mr. Levy up and in bed, I had to almost force him to drink and after much persuading I got his to drink half of the glass of Monkey Sweat.
A smile formed on my face at the memory. Turning around I looked at Matt, who was still snoring away. I knew that he had missed me but the one person I had really missed was my old teacher. Would I ever see him again? Would I become what I had hoped to be early on in my wrestling career? What would my life be like from now on?
"Goddess, I pray to you on your fullness tonight, that I find my place in this world and become what I need to be. Though I wish I could see Mr. Levy again and tell him how much I love him."
With that I walked back over to the bed I was using for the night I turned back the covers and slid in. Before I fell asleep I looked over at Matt and smiled.
"If you weren't seeing someone I would really like to have had a relationship with you many times. But still, I wish I could see the one that I love." Turning over I closed my eyes and proceeded to sleep.