Chapter 18

Demona and Macbeth

The inside of Phoenix was warm. I hadn't had a chance to really take it in before. It was like being surrounded by thick blankets. Toasty. Then I was spit out, landing in some bushes. I brushed myself off and got up. The air smelled cleaner. Living above the smog didn't get rid of it. I followed the sidewalk out of the park.

I was in a neighborhood soon after. The one story houses looked familiar. Across the street, there was a yard with a garden. It wasn't lit very well, but I knew my handiwork when I saw it, red and pink pansies next to the blue flower I could never remember the name of.

I crossed the street and looked in the window. The TV was on some late night show. Mom looked at the bills and got out my overnight bag. She went back to the kitchen and brought the vodka with her.

The walls shook as Demona and Macbeth stormed into the house. Demona held my mom at gunpoint. Macbeth disappeared and carried my younger self out of my room. She shouted at them, begged them.

"MOM! I'M OK!" I pounded on the window. My fist didn't break the glass. They watched her with glazed eyes. I renewed my efforts tenfold, magic amplifying every hit.

Then it was over.

They left the way they came. I looked over the fence as Demona casted a teleportation spell and I followed them. We were in Central Park. Macbeth set me down under the tree I had just woken up under less than an hour ago. They walked away and the Weird Sisters appeared.

"I don't understand why we had to use Macbeth and Demona. She is Avalon's princess." The blond one asked.

"Her power is waning, she's becoming mortal. We cannot interfere with mortal lives." The black haired one told her.

"It is too early for her to enter the game." The white haired one said and they made a ring around the tree.

"Sleep young child until the time is right. Hidden from sight, go to the castle high by moonlight." They chanted and my younger self turned invisible.

"Come, we have been gone too long. Our cousins cannot be left alone." The black haired one said and they teleported back to Avalon.

The Phoenix took me away.