A year has passed. Ever since his death, I haven't had much control. The beast takes over for longer periods of time. I conceal myself in my castle now. I get rarely any human interaction. The only people that live here are my servants and my "helpers", Sophia, Lisa, Arielle, Hayley, and Jennalise. They will help me with the spell. 

Sophia, the serious one, has blood red hair with dark brown eyes. She's been around for about 5 months. I found her in the woods, on her death bed. I healed her then gave her a choice. Leave or stay, help, become immortal. She picked the better choice. She soon told me her secret, she's a banshee.

Lisa, the lovestruck one, has raven black hair and ocean blue eyes. She came to me shortly after I lost control. Lisa's a werewolf. She came to my castle and asked me to heal her mate. I gave her a choice. Leave and let him die or stay, help, become immortal, he lives and forgets everything about her. She picked the better choice.

Arielle. What can I say about her? She’s—to put it simply—a whore. Dirty blonde and blue eyed Arielle is a Mermaid Siren. So that explains why I explained her in that word. A couple weeks ago, she lured all of my servants that are men into the woods and killed them. I noticed the loss of servants so I went into the woods and found her in the ocean, drowning someone. I gave her a choice. Be killed by me or stay, help, become immortal. She picked the better choice.

Hayley isn’t here by choice. She’s here by curse. She’s a Kanima. We have the Kanima bond. I found her once when the beast took over. I killed a whole town, when I reached the jail, I killed everyone there and when I got to the last cell, I ripped the door open. Standing there, was a Kanima in mid-change. In legend, there’s a quote about Kanima’s: “The Kanima seeks a friend.” I am that friend. All I have to do is envision someone dead and the next day, they are dead.

Jennalise is the only one that has known me for my whole life. She’s my best friend. Our mothers were best friends, grandmothers, great grandmothers, our whole family. We are each other's protectors. I make her immortal, and she expands her shield to me. Her hair is a natural ombre—I don’t know how it’s possible—and bright green eyes.

I am Ava, the oldest and most powerful witch in existence. I’m over 3,000 years old. All of my life, I have looked 22 and I always will. I have brown hair and purple eyes. When the beast takes over, my eyes glow. I was originally a good witch, but all of these years have changed me. I know how to call upon the beast now.

In a few hours, we have to do the spell. We start by making the connection. 

We all cut our hands with a blade and drop the blood into the cauldron. We start with Sophia’s blood. “In Banshee a sanguine.” Sophia an I say as the blood drops into the cauldron. It is now time for Lisa’s blood. “Et in ea sanguis a lupinotuum.” Arielle’s blood. “Sanguis messe auget.” Hayley’s blood. “Quasi qui sanguinem Kanima.” Jannalise’s blood. “Quasi qui sanguinem Kitsune.” My blood. “Plurimum in strigam esse sanguis. Liquerat. Protege.” We are now connected.

Arielle and I walk outside while the other girls set up everything. Once we get into the middle of the forest, Arielle sings her song. “Volo autem vos clamito et vox mea ad me non dicam vos, scitis non elit. Si audieritis me, melior sine mora. Audi me cantus. Mel et non venias ludere? Uenerunt. Succumbat, et egredimini ad me. Iacta te in mare. Patefecit hic maneo armis. Veni ad me, deliciae. Veni intus. Etiam non prævalebunt adversus eam. Habeo tibi pollice circumfusa. Cum dedero te dulcissime oblivio. Uenerunt. Succumbat, et egredimini ad me. Iacta te in mare. Patefecit hic maneo armis. Veni ad me, deliciae. Veni intus. Da in. Me tradere. Mergas te. Tuae igitur opus est. Nihil est, nisi tempus habeo. Veni ad me, deliciae. Veni intus. Aliquam erat nautae, paululum stultus. Regulam auream attendant melius. Fac quod vis ut alii tibi faciant. Modo vos posse discedere. Sed non sic cum non sit. Vides, meus es, et semper erit. Dare non libero. Succumbat, et egredimini ad me. Iacta te in mare. Patefecit hic maneo armis. Veni ad me, deliciae. Veni intus. Da in. Me tradere. Mergas te. Tuae igitur opus est. Nihil est, nisi tempus habeo. Venite ad me delicias. Veni intus.” By the end, we have the 5 men we need.

We lead them into the dining room of the castle.  The table is long, with 5 chairs on each side and 1 on each end. I sit at the head with the girls to the right of me and the guys to the left.

The servants soon bring out the wine. The wine has a trace of the blood from the cauldron in it. I get my magical challis and the rest get wine glasses. I need the challis because I have to do the spell later.

Once everyone drank all of their wine, a gave the girls the signal. They put on their masks and take the guys to the spell room. I walk behind them. In the spell room, I sit on my chair. Arielle will have the first kill tonight. She has to take the first guys soul.

The first thing you have to do is visualize it. The mask let’s them see the color and where it’s located. She soon finds it—yellow and in the elbow. It starts glowing. Now she says the Latin word. “Tolle.” She pinches his elbow and takes it. It looks like a glowing, yellow ball. She puts it in the cauldron. The man disappears. I smirk.

Jennalise does the next one. It’s pink and in the ear. “Tolle.”

Sophia is after her. It’s purple and in the leg. “Tolle.”

Lisa. It’s white and in the forehead. “Tolle.”

Hayley. It’s blue and in the foot. “Tolle.”

I stand up and go to the cauldron. “Viventium animarum dedimus tibi. Quinquaginta annus est. Rogamus ut eum. Iram interfecti ab reduxit amorem.” All of the yellow, pink, purple, white, and blue candles lit up. I smiled. “It worked.”