A/N Hey, I have only one reviewer? Surely that's not nice! But thanks anyway Ally! And in answer to your question you shall have to read on! I'm sorry it's been a while since my last update but I was doing other stories, but mainly it's because I have had major writer's block on this story, and really I still do, but I shall struggle through!


That night Keaira went to bed early, saying she was tired, but really she needed to think. They were all none the wiser about what had happened. They had settled on the idea that it was probably an accident, but she didn't think anyone really believed that. She didn't, especially after what Sarah had said.

She combed her long black hair out, looking at herself in the mirror and searching for an answer. She needed to speak to Sarah, she knew more than she was letting on. But how could she without Kai being there? For some reason she felt she should do this alone, she loved Kai, but they were together a lot of the time, and knew everything about each other. Besides this was his cousin, and yes Keaira was suspecting her of holding back information that could hurt them, or even the whole coven.

Suddenly a glint of something shining caught her eye in the mirror, it looked like a... chalice. But when she turned around it wasn't there. She dismissed it as a trick of the light, but when she turned back it was still there. Then she blinked and it was gone.

"I must be too tired, the circle must have wiped me more than I realised," She whispered to herself trying to convince herself. She climbed into bed but couldn't sleep, not while she didn't know what had happen.

She headed over to her altar, and stroked her pentacle that her birth-mother had given to her, then she lifted her Athame, given to her by Kai on her 18th birthday. It had obviously been cleansed numerous times, from the spell placed on it by Sorano, Sarah's mother. The Athamehad blue and purple stones, set into the handle. The silver blade was lightly engraved with runes, some she knew, Uruz, the Germanic rune for strength, Berkana for growth, Algiz for protection to name a few. And on the other side was of course the words, To my muirn beatha dan, that showed the Athame had been handed down through generations of Kai's birth family.

She smiled, then got a white pillar candle, and lit it with her mind. Like her adoptive mother Morgan, one of her elements was fire, but she was in a rare group that had two elements, which both worked equally for her. Even more unusual, her two elements were fire and water, two opposites.

She sat cross legged in front of the candle, holding the Athame, she hadn't bothered to create a circle, as she was simply scrying. She thought that this maybe dangerous, but by that time she was already gazing into the flame, pointing her Athame like a wand to give her vision more strength.

Show me who interfered with our circle. The flame remained blank,

Show me who tried to harm us. Again the flame was blank,

Show me what happened. This time a picture began forming, she saw Leah casting the circle, and them all holding hands. Then they began to spin, and a glow began to form around them, but it was murky, like fog. Keaira leaned into the vision, and saw in the middle of the circle the chalice she had seen in her mirror, shining brightly. Then the vision winked out, she sat back, and saw the candle had also blown out. She looked up and saw her father standing above her.

"Downstairs, now!" He said firmly, hiding his anger.

She trailed down with him following her, she sat in the kitchen, at the table and she heard whispered voices out in the hall.

"What were you doing Keaira?" Hunter began as he sat down at the table with her. Morgan was making tea, "Why were you scrying, when that happened tonight, do you not know that it might be dangerous? And without even a simple circle of protection! And you lied to your mother and I,"

"I... I'm sorry dad, but I couldn't sleep, I did go to bed, but I really couldn't sleep, until I knew..."

"And don't you think your mother, Bree, Robbie and I can scry properly? You saw us tonight, we all tried with every different element."

Keaira blushed, "I thought, maybe you weren't asking the right questions,"

"Well why didn't you just tell us what questions you thought we should ask!" Hunter sighed, Keaira knew he was pretty worried, to get this worked up. "So did you see anything?"

"At first, no... but then, I asked to see what happened, and I saw us, doing our circle, but there was a misty glow around us, and in the centre was a shining chalice... the same chalice that I saw in the mirror tonight, when I was brushing my hair for bed."

"What? Why didn't you tell us?" Morgan said, coming over with the tea. Hunter took a sip and Keaira could see him visibly calming.

"I thought it was a trick of the light, I looked behind me, and it wasn't there, but when I turned round it was still in the mirror, until I blinked, and it vanished. Obviously I think it wasn't a trick of the light now."

"What did it look like?"

"It was silver, and it had a pattern around the bottom and the rim, I think there were runes on it as well,"

"Was there anything distinctive about it?"

"There was..." She thought hard, "Stones, set into the pattern at the top! They were small, but they were green, dark green, with I think red spots... I think they were bloodstone!" She exclaimed, and she could see now that it definitely was, almost as if she had zoomed in on her memories.

Morgan and Hunter glanced at each other. Hunter stood up, and went downstairs to the circle room. He came back holding something wrapped in black velvet, good for purifying. He pulled the cloth off.

"Is this it?" Keaira gasped as she recognised the Chalice from both her visions.


A/N I know this isn't very long, but with writer's block it has taken me ages to write this much! Also I thought this was quite a good cliffhanger! You know, why do Morgan and Hunter have this chalice? Dun dun dun, review to find out! (As then I will write more!)