Moments later Daniel watched as Magellan pulled out a small dagger and jabbed his own wrist.Then he turned to Daniel.

"Come here..Don't fear me." 

Daniel walked up to the cauldron and stuck out his hand.

"Other hand."  The vampire stated.

He switched hands and closed his eyes. He couldn't believe that he was willingly getting stabbed by a vampire. Only in Goblin's Hollow, he thought.

He opened one eye, then the other and watched as smoke had risen from the cauldron, then blood fused with the fairy dust as Magellan spoke an ancient dialect that he didn't understand.

"Now what do we do?" The warlock asked.

"Follow me to her chambers. She needs to drink this before it goes cold." 

"What if it's too chilly?" He inquired.

"It will freeze her soul." He said, then the three of them dashed up the stairs. 

Daniel knocked on her chamber door. 

She coughed for a long moment before answering it.

"Come in," She sputtered.

Daniel opened the door, looking at her. The empress looked pitiful. Sunken in skin, bags under her eyes. She was a pale shade of zombie grey.

"Hi there he said", keeping the fear out of his voice.

"Hey, good Magellan made it."  She said in a weakened tone of voice.

"Yes. I have a potion for you, down it like hot whiskey," He instructed her.

"What kind of potion?" 

"A healing potion," He said glaring at her.

"You're not going to turn me into a vampire so I won't die, are you?" She asked glaring at him.

"No, I'd never do that. Drink it now or you'll die." He told her in a harsh tone.

She did as he said and downed the awful stuff. It had a strong metallic taste to it. "Oh now that was just disgusting," She told them.

"How do we know if it worked?" The warlock asked him.

"It takes a few days to run it's course." Salem interrupted.

"What was the potion?" She asked.

"Don't freak out." Magellan told her.

"What did you give me?" She demanded to know.

"It's an immortal potion. It cures everything but you cannot ever ever die." He said.

"It was this potion, turn you into a vampire or let you die." Magellan said to her.

"Of the choices, I'd have picked the potion over the other two." She said to them.