A/N Well I know I just started this story, but I got some lovely reviews so I thought I'd update for you! Thanks Ally, I'm glad your going to keep reading even though I took so long to update! And lots of thanks to bloodysk8t3r, who is just so nice! Thanks for saying I'm so talented, I'm totally blushing here! You're so nice! But please don't steal my skills, because I need them for this story, I'm not sure what skills your talking about as I don't think I'm that good a writer, but hey! Also I'm just about to read your story! Oh and did you read the Pentacle? Which is the first one of this series.
Anyway, here's the next chapter!
The next day was Saturday, the day of the circle, and Keaira woke up early. Last night had been non-eventful, but in a nice way. When you've gone through all that she had, you begin to love the nights where you can just be with your family, Keaira knew she did anyway.
She woke and showered quickly, determined to get all her studying out of the way before lunch, so she could spend the rest of the day preparing for the circle with Kai. She sat at her desk in her room and read all the chapters she needed to for that week. She had never been a big studier, but she knew that if she wanted to sit her exams at Ostara, or even Yule, she needed to study extra hard! She took a look around her room, it was both familiar and un-familiar, it had been her room all her life, except for 3 and ½ years, when she had been kidnapped by her birth father. She had been back in it a couple of months, and she kept noticing small things that she had forgotten about it.
It was painted blue, with silver stars here and there. Her single bed was near the corner, under the window, at the head of the bed (and actually in the corner) was a table, with her alarm clock and other "important" things on. She had a plain wardrobe and desk on the opposite wall, the same side as the door, which led out to the hall. The floor was wood, but had a big blue rug over it. She also had a door leading to the bathroom that her and her sister used to share, now that Moira had moved out it was her own.
"Keaira honey, Kai's here" Her father shouted up, "You better come down, you know what your mum's like!"
Keaira smiled, her mother had been raised in a catholic family, and had never been allowed boys in her room, she had kept this rule with her own daughters. Keaira quickly tidied up her books, grabbed her bag that she kept her tools in, and ran downstairs. The bag was beautiful, it was made of lots of different coloured and textured materials, and was totally one of a kind.
"Morning Beautiful!" Kai said, as she came into the hall a the bottom of the stairs, she bounded over to him, grinning stupidly, but she didn't care as he had the same look on his face. He bent down and kissed her gently on the cheek, when he saw her puzzled look her whispered "Your parents are in the kitchen!"
"Oh," Keaira laughed, "Mum, Dad, we're going to Kai's to get ready for the circle, ok? Is it still ok we have it here?"
Morgan came into the hall, looking sleepy, "Sure, use the basement ok? We'll be out at the Belwicket circle? Have fun, oh say hi to your parents from me? Are they coming to Belwicket's circle?"
"I think so," Kai said, "I'll ask them if you like,"
"No, that's fine, if they are we'll see them," Morgan smiled, "I'll get you some food in, ok?"
"Thanks Mum," Keaira kissed her mum on the cheek, "Bye," her and Kai headed out the door, "Bye Dad!"
"Bye Honey" she heard the reply from somewhere in the cottage,
Keaira and Kai walked along the street in a comfortable silence, until they reached his car. Keaira didn't have a car yet, as she hadn't passed her test, but Kai was 19 and had passed a while ago.
"Your parents are kind for letting us use their circle room," He said as they began to drive off to his house,
"Your parents let us use their house too! In fact we use most people's house's in the coven!" Their coven had followed the trend of Morgan, Hunter, Bree and Robbie's old coven and it moved the location of its circle's each week, although they were mainly at Keaira's, or Kai's.
"True," He frowned a little and concentrated on the road,
"What's up? You look a little... worried or something?"
"Oh its nothing, just I've been trying to find my own house, I am 19 after all! But I can't find anywhere,"
"I'll help," Keaira said cheerfully, especially at the thought of having their own place to go where they wouldn't be interrupted
Another hour or two later they were arguing, a pretty normal thing in their fiery relationship,
"We can't expect Sarah to lead the circle, she's too weak from the accident!" Keaira shouted,
"She's fine, and we would help!"
"She told me she just wants to watch, and join in gradually, see what we've been doing while she was away,"
"Well, she doesn't know what would be best for her!"
"Do you even know how stupid you sound! Of course she does, we have to respect her wishes!"
"Fine!" Kai shouted as he stormed off to the other side of the garden where they were working, and taking advantage of the nice day, rare for an autumn in Ireland. Keaira sat down with a sigh, they were constantly arguing, and with anyone else it might have upset her, but with Kai it was quite fun. And she knew he felt the same way because he came back smiling,
"Sorry, I'm an idiot and I know it, you know better!"
"Too true," Said Keaira, playing hurt,
"Stop acting and kiss me, then we better get on with organising this circle, has to be good, can't let Sarah know we've been slacking off ey," He said wiggling his eyebrows.
Later that night the coven of Birkita was gathering in Keaira's living room. They were just waiting on Tom and Melissa now.
"Sorry we're late guys, traffic trouble," Tom said, grinning as always,
"Oh these busy country roads," Yasmin said sarcastically and they laughed at Tom and Melissa's poor excuse,
"Lets go down stairs shall we?" They all trekked down the stairs to Keaira's family's circle room, it was large enough to fit Belwicket, a coven of around 25-30 people (depending on the day) so Birkita fit easily. It had a plain wooden floor board, that had faint marks of previous circles on it, and nearly all the walls were covered in shelves which were full of books and other useful items, like crystals.
"Ok, who would like to draw the circle? Leah?" Kai said, and handed the chalk to their youngest member,
She quietly drew a neat circle and waited until everyone had stepped in and then she closed it,
"Blessed Goddess, We call upon your mighty spirit to please come into our circle now. Infuse it with your blessings cloak us in your mantle of fertile power, come unite us in the rite of Invocation," She said, repeating the most used invocation of their coven.
"Thanks Leah, ok everyone join hands," Keaira said, taking the hands of Simon and Ali, Kai was on the other side, and Sarah was 2 places to his left, they always tried to spread the blood witches out evenly. They began to walk around the circle, chanting the power call in Gaelic, only Keaira could speakGaelic fully, but the others all knew the chant. They began to speed up, until everything was blurry and the only certain thing was the amount of power that was growing, growing. It felt beautiful. They kept spinning, longer than usual. The power was now thick in the room, it was almost suffocating. There was something wrong, they were going too fast, there was too much power. Keaira stopped chanting and broke her hold of the others, she stopped dead, causing the others to crash into her. But the power did begin to fade a little.
"Everyone ground themselves, now!" Kai shouted, above the buzz that seemed to be in the air. They all sat on the ground, and the power was definitely fading, some lay down and that helped even further. Soon the power was gone, and Keaira felt she could breathe again.
"Ok, is everyone alright?" Sarah said,
"Yes, what happened?" Greg said, rubbing his arms as if he was cold.
"I don't know, there was an awful lot of power, but if everyone's ok, I don't think it was anything to worry about," Kai smiled his easy smile, but Keaira knew he was actually a little worried, "Well, interesting first circle back for Sarah right?" Everyone laughed, but it was a nervous laugh. Keaira quickly opened the circle and led them all upstairs where she offered food, but most just wanted to go home. When they had all left, except her, Sarah, Kai and Leah (who was waiting for a ride home) she pulled Kai aside,
"What was that all about?"
A/N Well hope you liked this chapter, please review! Also, sorry if there is anything factually wrong, like about Gaelic, it is a language right? And the invocation is adapted from one I found, so I think that's right! Anyway, hope you don't mind either way, I just wanted to put more magick in this story, there wasn't enough in the other ones!
