Chapter #7 Preparing for Battle

Garrett's point of view

I looked up at the third floor. Where Sally's room was. I don't know what happened up there because I couldn't get up to the third floor. But it I could tell it wasn't good when my friends and the old Ghostbusters came back downstairs.

"Is Sally alright?" I asked. "What happened up there?"

"Dennis Phillips was really a ghost in disguse." Kylie explained. "He trapped her in the attic but she managed to trap him."

Wow, she's the take charge type. Stepie was like that. The only one who came up to the surface to ask for our help. Wait, why I'm thinking about her right now? Is it because of Sally?

"Where is she now?"

"She's in her room." Egon said. "Aparentlly, the fog that arrived eariler had a high amount of negative energy in it. It only I brought a PKE meter up."

"How can you tell it was negative energy?" I asked.

"Sally almost passed out as the fog rolled in." Peter answered. "Ray and Roland brought her to her room. She looked paler then normal."

"Being a Witch, she's sensitive to the supernatural." Egon said. "The main reason why her readings have strange spiking."

"I thought you said there were high readings from that necklace she wears." Janine said.

"What?" I wondered. "What about her necklace. Is it cursed?"

"It's not curse per se." Egon explained. "It's filled with positive energy and it's been giving Sally the abillties she has, like being able to transform into what she calls her sorcery form. I would try to analyze it but Sally wouldn't let me have it. And when I touch it, it gave me a shock."

He extented out his hand to show a small first degree burn. I stared at it in shock. Whoa, is that necklace that powerful? Should Sally keep it if it's filled with that much energy?

"Why does she have it anyway?" I asked.

"She wouldn't tell us." Winston replied. ""She said it wasn't for us to know."

"And it's still not for you to know."

We all looked up to see Sally, dressed in that outfit she wore when she left to the Parsons house a few weeks ago, standing on the third floor with Ray and Roland standing beside her. Sally? No it's Sasha Snow now. She doesn't want us to use her real name when she's in that outfit or sorcery form as she calls it. What did I miss up there?

Sally's point of view

I stared at the rest of the Ghostbusters, who stared back at me from the ground. I knew they were talking about me once I set foot out of my room. Feeling a lot better then I did back in the attic. I was a little mad about Egon telling them about my choker. It reminded me of when he ask me to have it and I turned him down a few weeks ago. I was told months ago when I first summoned Dorothea from the Spirit World not to give my choker to anyone for any reason. When I told Egon that, he didn't listen and kept asking for it. That made me so mad I yelled at him to leave me alone and the window next to us shattered into smaller pieces. Which I had to pay to replace. I hate it when people don't take no for an answer. It's one of my main turn offs.

"Still after my choker, I see." I said, trying to hide my anger.

"I'm not after it, Sasha." Egon said. "I just wanted to analyze it to see what it really is."

"I'll tell you what it really is." I snapped. "It's my personal property and no one is allow to have it for any reason what so ever. Not even you."

"All right, all right." Egon said, holding up his hands to show he was innocent. "You made it clear when I got shocked and the window broke."

"Good." I said ignoring the confused looks on everyones faces.
I jumped onto the balcony and hovered down to the ground floor.

"You know you could take the stairs." Peter told me as I landed beside Garrett.

"I know." I said. "Where's Daniel and Edaurdo?"

"They're guarding that ghost you trapped." Winston said. "Sal...uh Sasha, he said you were the most powerful Witch on the island. What was he talking about?"

"I don't know." I replied honestly. "I'm still in training. To tell the truth, I don't know what I'm fully capable of doing yet."

"You don't know about your powers?" Garrett asked.

"Not all of them." I told him. "Only that I can feel them growing stronger as time goes by."

"Well. now that we got that cleared up. How do we can we stop Pellenore?"

"What are talking about?" Garrett asked. "We just go out and blast her."

"Kylie's right." I said. "We can't go outside or we'll all be affected by Pellenore's mind-controling mist like everyone else."

"Mind-controling mist?" Garrett asked.

I looked down at him. I could tell he was hiding his concern.

"It's alright, it won't affect us as long as we stay in the house." I told him. "I know a way to keep us from being affected but I need time to make it."

"Take all the time you need." Egon said.

"And we'll help you." Ray said as he and Roland come down the stairs.

"Aww! What is this again, Sasha?" Garrett asked he inhaled the smell of the contents in the small pouches I gave him to close and fit with a small cord.

"It's a formula to ward off negative energy and bad spells." I explained. "Try not to inhale it directly, it'll burn the inside of your nose."

He mouthed yeah, yeah, yeah, as he returned to looping a cord around a pouch.

"Where did you get this formula?" Raymond asked.

"I got it from one of my Wicca books." I answered. "I've use it a lot. It's a Scottish formula."

"Hey, are you three done in there." Edaurdo asked. "Kylie and I want to get the equipment from the garage."

"We still got a few more pouches to make." Raymond told him.

"You can take these two." I said, taking the two finished pouches from Garrett and giving them to Edaurdo. "Don't open them."

"Or smell them." Garrett added. "They reek worse then my sweat socks."

Edaurdo made a face and took the pouches before leaving. I watched as he gave one to Kylie and the two put them around their necks before heading to the door.

"You think we'll stop Pellenore?" Garrett asked me.

I stopped and looked him. My heart filled with worry.

"I'm not sure, Garrett." I said. "This is the first time I'm unsure about a battle against a ghost or a creature of the night. Pellenore is one the creators of Spirit Isle. I'm not sure of I could stop someone like that on my own."

"But you're not on your own." Raymond said. "You have us by your side."

"True, but it was always on my own that I fought evil. No one accompanied me to battle before."

"You're a lone warrior?"

"Something like that."

"You're not going to be alone this time, Sasha." Garrett said. "Ray's right, you have us."

I smiled a little. "Thanks, Garrett. Lets finish these pouches and go and find Pellenore."