Chosen, A New Chapter 3
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Happy to have her power of telekinesis back after a whole year of being powerless, Billie sat on her bed while telekinetically making pieces of paper flying around her head like airplanes. It surprised her that after a year, she still had such control over her powers. It seemed like using powers was like riding a bike, something you'll never forget once you've learned it.
It felt really good to have her powers back again. Now that she had them again, she realized how much she had missed them and how much she had missed being a witch. She once again had the power to save people and do good with magic, something she had loved to do the moment she had first found out she was a witch.
There was a knock on the door and Billie got up, meanwhile the paper planes crashed on the floor. When Billie opened the door, Mikelle and Duncan came in. The whitelighter and witch had gone out to find a map of the campus for the locating spell.
"We got a map of the campus grounds." Duncan said while holding it up.
"So if this new witch really is going to school here, we should be able to find her with the spell." Mikelle added.
"Great, now we just have to wait for Paige to get back with the spell." Billie said.
"Right." Duncan replied.
"So what do you know about this witch?" Billie asked Mikelle.
"Apparently she's a latent witch, just like you." Mikelle replied. "She's only just come into her powers. She basically has no idea what's going on."
"Must be hard to find out so late." Duncan said. "I mean, I've known magic my whole life. Can't imagine finding out something this big after all those years."
"You get used to it pretty easily." Billie said, remembering discovering her own powers for the first time. While initially freaked out, once she discovered the truth, she loved it. "But then again, that might be just me."
"So what about this destiny you and Paige keep talking about?" Duncan asked Mikelle.
"It's simple." Mikelle said. "With the Charmed Ones retired, there is a new force of good needed. All of you are destined to be a part of it."
"Will we have to seek out other witches?" Billie asked.
"In time, maybe." Mikelle replied. 'For now, the three of you are chosen. Once you're been united, a magical bond will be formed between you, giving you enhanced powers in unity."
"Like the power of three?" Duncan asked confused.
"Yeah, something like that, but not exactly. The power of three is one of a kind." Mikelle explained. "You should think of it like a coven."
"A coven?" Billie remarked. "That sounds a little too hippie, nature loving to me. Like running around naked in the woods doing rituals and stuff."
"Wait, we're not gonna do that, are we?" Duncan asked a little freaked.
"Please, that sort of stuff is for the wannabes." Mikelle said. "A real coven is a gathering of witches, sharing their power in a collective."
A blue light filled the small dorm room and with a swirl of orbs, Paige reappeared holding a piece of paper. Since the spell was originally a creation of Phoebe, Billie assumed the spell was probably located in the book of Shadows in the manor.
"Okay, I got the spell." Paige said. "Let's hurry and find this witch before another innocent dies."
"Great, I'll rewrite the spell so it will reveal all magical energy on campus." Billie said.
Billie took the piece of paper from Paige and sat back down on her bed to rewrite it. Meanwhile Paige and Mikelle cleared the desk while Duncan rolled out the campus map. After a few minutes Billie had adjusted the spell and gathered everyone around the desk. Paige handed Billie some powder needed for the spell.
"Okay, here goes nothing." Billie said and started chanting the spell.
"On this map, I conjure thee,
show me what I wish to see,
reveal the magic in this place,
let it show its true face."
As soon as she was done chanting, Billie poured the white powder over the map. Immediately four strong green lights started burning.
"Hey look, that's us." Duncan said with a smile.
For a while nothing else happened, but then a very small weak green light suddenly appeared on the map as well. Billie tracked it down to another dorm building across campus. So the new witch really was a student here at school and she was about to get the surprise of her life.
"Found her." Billie said.
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Violet was abruptly woken up by a knock on her door and sat up. She looked at her alarm clock and saw she had been sleeping for a few hours. She didn't even remember falling asleep. Luckily she didn't have any nightmares about what she had seen in her visions, if that is what they really were. She got up and walked to the door, when the opened it she saw two young women standing in front of her. The first was a pretty blonde girl who looked like a student here, just like Violet herself. The other was a girl with dyed black hair and a punk look.
"Hi." The blonde girl said. "Are you Violet?" She probably got her name off the sign by the door.
"Yes, I am." Violet said. "Who are you?"
"I'm Billie, this is Mikelle." The blonde girl said. "Can we come in, we need to talk to you."
Violet hesitated for a moment. She didn't know who these strange women were or why they wanted to talk to her. Maybe it had something to do with what she had seen. Though she was scared, part of her was also curious about what was going on, and whatever killed the professor and kidnapped those girls needed to be stopped. Violet had a feeling the police weren't going to be able to solve it.
"Sure, I guess." Violet said as she let them in. "What is this about?"
"We need to know if something strange has happened to you lately." Billie said.
"What? I don't know what you're talking about." Violet said nervously.
"You don't have to be scared, Violet. We're here to help you." Mikelle replied.
"Look, it's nothing. Probably my imagination going haywire." Violet quickly said. "I have an overactive imagination, and I'm sure what I saw wasn't real, I'm sure of it. I mean, it couldn't be, could it?"
"Why don't you tell us what you saw?" Billie asked kindly.
"I really don't want to talk about it." Violet said, not wanting to think about it anymore.
"If you tell us, we can stop it." Mikelle said.
"Alright, I guess." Violet said. "Maybe I'm just crazy, but I'm sure saw the professor being killed. It was weird, like I was there, but not really. It just stood there and she was suffocating."
"What did this thing look like?" Billie asked.
"It was big, like a tall man and it had white skin, but his eyes were black." Violet explained.
"How did it kill the professor?" Billie asked.
"I don't know." Violet said trembling. "it just held out its hand and the professor was surrounded by energy and it was like it was chocking her."
Billie looked at her suspiciously, like she was thinking about something. Maybe she knew what was going on. Violet wondered if she believed her, or if she thought she was crazy. It sure sounded crazy, but she had definitely seen it.
"What's wrong, Billie?" Mikelle asked. "Do you know what kind of demon we're dealing with?"
"Wait, What? Demon?" Violet called out, wondering if she heard correctly.
"I don't know, I might know, but I'm not sure." Billie said, ignoring Violet for a moment.
"Look, I need to know what is going on here." Violet said loudly and slightly panicky. "I am freaking out over here. Why am I seeing these horrible things?"
"I'll tell you, but you might want to sit down first." Mikelle said.
"No, I'm good." Violet said, though she doubted it herself.
"Okay." Mikelle said. "The thing you have been seeing, these visions? They're actually premonitions. You have a power that allows you to see the past, presents and future."
"Premonitions?" Violet asked confused. "You mean like being psychic? I don't understand. Why do I have this power? How did I get it?"
"Well, you were given this power because you are a witch." Mikelle replied.
A witch. Violet didn't know if this person was being serious or not or if she should laugh. Judging from the look on Mikelle and Billie's faces, however, they were serious. But there was no such thing as magic or witches or whatever, it was impossible, right?
"I think I do need to sit down." Violet said softly and she stumbled to a chair and sat down. She felt like was going into a shock.
"Are you okay?" Billie asked.
"I don't know." Violet said. "You just told me I'm a witch. I don't even know if that is a good or a bad thing. Sounds like a bad thing."
"It's a good thing." Billie assured her. "It's a witch's nature to be good, not evil."
"I am not even sure I believe all of this." Violet said. "Magic doesn't exist, right?"
"Yes, it does." Mikelle said. "You are a witch, which means you were born with magical powers. Except your magic didn't manifest until now."
"Is anybody in your family a witch?" Billie asked. "In my case, my parents were mortals, but my grandmother was a witch. She passed down her magic to me."
"No, I'm adopted." Violet said. "My adoptive parents are normal."
Violet suddenly realized she knew nothing about her birth parents. She had always considered her adoptive parents as her family, and had never even asked about where she had come from. She wondered if her parents knew anything about this, maybe they had been lying to her this whole time.
"So are you witches as well?" Violet asked.
"Yes, I am." Billie said.
"I'm not." Mikelle said. "I'm a whitelighter. We're a race of guardian angels who guide witches. I am your whitelighter actually."
"You're an angel?" Violet asked. "Of course you are. Why am I even surprised? I should have known angels were real as well, since witches are. What about vampires and werewolves?"
"Vampires yes, but they are very rare." Mikelle replied. "Werewolves, I' not sure actually."
"Look Violet, I know this is a lot to take in all at once and I promise we will explain it all too you, but we need to stop this demon before he kills anyone else." Billie pleaded.
Violet knew Billie was right, whatever was going on, that thing definitely needed to be stopped. She then realized she had not told the others about the little girl she saw getting kidnapped.
"Oh god." Violet said. "The demon or whatever, I had another vision of him kidnapping a little girl, two of them in fact."
"Are you sure it was the same one?" Billie asked.
"Yes, I'm sure." Violet said.
"Then I'm pretty sure I know what kind of demon we're dealing with." Billie said. "But I need to run it by Paige just to be sure. Mikelle, can you orb us back to my dorm. We really need to hurry."
"Sure." Mikelle said.
Mikelle walked over to Billie and took her hand, she then extended her hand to Violet as well.
"Are you coming? We need you for this." Mikelle said.
Violet wondered once again if she had lost her mind, but somehow she felt like she needed to go with them. Like it was supposed to happen. As scared and confused as she was, she knew she could not let the same thing happen to those girls as it did to the professor. She stood and up reached out her hand to Mikelle. When they touched, Violet suddenly felt herself being taken away by a million tiny blue lights.
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When Billie got back to her dorm with the others in a swirl of orbs, she found Paige and Duncan waiting for them there. As soon as they materialized, Violet stumbled back, clearly freaked out about the orbing. It took a little while to get used to after all.
"What happened? How did you do that?" Violet called out.
"Like I said, magic." Mikelle said shrugging.
"Paige, Duncan, this is Violet." Billie said introducing the young witch.
"Violet, nice to meet you." Paige said.
"Are you a witch as well, or a whitelighter?" Violet asked.
"Funny question." Paige said with a smile. "A bit of both actually, but that's a long story."
"Hi, I'm Duncan." Duncan said.
"Hi. I'm Violet, but most people just call me Vi or whatever." Violet said. "So what are you, like a warlock or wizard or something?"
"No, still a witch." Duncan replied. "Witches can be male or female. Warlocks are evil."
"Right." Violet said. "This is all way too much information."
"Paige, Violet told us about the demon she saw in her premonition." Billie said. "Tall, white skin, black eyes and kills through suffocation. He killed a philanthropist and kidnapped two young girls. Sound familiar?"
"He killed a do-gooder and kidnapped young kids?" Paige asked. "Sounds like a Grimlock, which is why he would kidnap the little girls, he needs their eyesight."
"Exactly what I was thinking." Billie said.
"I just wish I didn't have to see these awful things." Violet said.
"My sister has the same power." Paige said comforting. "She sometimes had a hard time dealing with the visions as well, but in the end they help us to stop the demons."
"I'm not sure I can handle this." Violet said shaken. "It's like it's happening to me every time."
"You can handle it, Violet." Paige said. "You were meant to have this power. You wouldn't have gotten it if you can't handle it."
"We need to stop the demon now." Billie said. "Grimlocks are vanquished with a potion ,right? So why don't Duncan and Mikelle go to Magic School to make the potion, while Paige, Violet and I try to find the little girls."
"Sounds like a good idea." Duncan said. "I'm sure Magic school has everything we need."
"Wait, I don't know where the little girls are." Violet said. "How are we supposed to find them?"
"You had a premonition, didn't you?" Billie asked. "There has to be something you can remember, a clue or something to help us find them."
"I don't know."Violet said. "It was dark and they were in a cage."
"Can you remember what you felt?" Paige asked.
"I remember feeling cold." Violet said while thinking. "And wet. And it smelled bad. "
"Like a sewer?" Billie asked.
"Yes, of course!" Violet called out. "How could I forget? I got my first premonition when touching one of the old sewage entrances that run under the school. He must be holding the girls there."
"Looks like we've got a place to search." Paige said.
"Wait, before we go, we need to activate your true potential." Mikelle said.
"What do you mean?" Duncan asked confused.
"You were all chosen to be a part of this." Mikelle explained. "Your destinies intertwine at this exact point. In order to fulfill your destinies and form a true force of good, you need to share your power."
"Like a coven." Billie said, remembering what Mikelle had told them earlier. "So how do we do that?"
"The power of a witch lies in his or her blood." Mikelle replied.
"Wait, so we have to do like a ritual involving our blood?" Billie said a little freaked.
"Just a drop, to form a magical connection between you." Mikelle said.
"What do you guys think?" Billie asked the others.
"I think it's a good idea. If this really is our destiny, we need to do this in order to get stronger." Duncan said.
"But I hate blood." Violet added a little nauseated.
"It is a step you will need to make if you intend to go through with accepting your destiny." Mikelle said. "Only when you're connected, you will be able to face what's to come."
"Okay, I guess we don't have a choice then." Billie said. "How does this work?"
"We will need an athame." Mikelle said. "Duncan?"
"Got it." Duncan said.
Duncan held up his arms and in an orange light, an athame appeared out of thin air. Violet stared at it with huge eyes.
"How did you do that?" Violet asked.
"It's my power, conjuring." Duncan explained. "I can create or summon whatever I want. Well, just small things mostly."
Mikelle took over the athame from Duncan and closed her eyes, suddenly she spoke in a weird clicking langue that didn't seem human. The athame in her hands became surrounded in a blue light. Meanwhile the others exchanged confused looks.
"What was that?" Billie asked.
"That was whitelighter langue, but I didn't understand it either." Paige said.
"I asked the Elders to bless the athame. Now we can proceed. Each of you will need to cut your hand with it." Mikelle said.
"This sounds a little cult-like." Violet said somewhat concerned. "And highly unsanitary."
"Ah, just be glad we don't have to dance naked in the forest." Billie said.
Mikelle handed the athame to Duncan, who quickly sliced his hand with the athame while pulling painful face. Next Mikelle handed it to Violet, who sliced her hand while squealing in a high pitch and looking the other way. Finally Mikelle handed the athame to Billie, who also used the athame to slice a small cut in the palm of her hand. It stung badly, but she had been through worse.
"Okay, now join hands." Mikelle said.
The three young witches came together and joined their hands. Mikelle then places her hand over theirs and closed her eyes. She then started chanting in a strange, ancient sounding langue. Suddenly the room seemed to shake and a blue light descended down from the ceiling, surrounding Billie, Duncan and Violet. When the light faded away, Mikelle opened her eyes and look at the new force of good.
"It's done."Mikelle said. "Your destinies are now intertwined."
She held out her hand and a golden light emitted from it, healing the cuts on the hands of the three young witches. Billie looked at the others and felt a strange feeling of connection. She could practically sense the others, like they were a part of her. She wondered if the sister felt this way as well with the power of three.
"Okay, I think I had about enough weird things happen to me today." Violet said.
"I sort-of agree." Duncan added. "And I'm used to magic."
"First things first, we have a Grimlock the vanquish." Billie said.
Billie wondered how this newfound connection would affect her life, but she knew it had made them all stronger. They were now connected, as witches but it also felt like family.
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